"Wireless Broadband - The Solution

For Anytime/Anywhere Learning"

February 23-26, 2009

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of the Program and Schedule

February 25, 2009

Wednesday Morning

 Program & Schedule

Marriott Boca Raton Hotel

at Boca Center

Boca Raton, FL

          • 7:00am -  5:00pm Registration Open

          • 7:30am -  8:30am Breakfast

 Chair: Steve Gorski, President, Source for Learning, Inc.

Presenter:  Chris Packert of the RiverRidge Foundation in Bentonville, VA - Winner of the "2009 Wireless Education Competition"

To encourage the creation of innovative educational  applications of wireless broadband technology, NEBSA and the Source for Learning conducted the First Annual Wireless Education Competition. Entries were judged on the logic and clarity of instructional design, effective and innovative use of wireless  broadband, and the current or potential impact on the target audience.

          •  8:30am - 3:30pm Table Top Exhibits Open

          •  9:00am -10:15am Session

Where is the Transition Going - The Legal Perspective

Chair:  Todd Gray, NEBSA FCC Counsel, Attorney, Dow Lohnes, PLLC

Presenters:  Brandon Bullis, Director Spectrum Development, Clearwire Corporation;  Mary O'Connor, Attorney, Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP; Evan D. Carb, Attorney, Law Offices of Evan D. Carb

We are now past the FCC deadline for the initiation of proponent driven transitions to the new EBS band plan.  If your market is still not transitioned, you need to learn about the process for self-transition, which must be initiated by EBS licensees no later than April 19, 2009.  The process is complicated, so you need to find out what you must do to preserve your license.

          •10:15am -10:30am Break

          •10:30am -11:45am Session

Transition - The Licensee Perspective

Chair:  John Schwartz, President, Instructional Telecomm- unications Foundation

Presenters:  Louise Hewitt, Director, IIT On-Line, Illinois Institute of Technology;  Dr. Judith Garcia, Manager, "The Education Network", Palm Beach County School District;

Carl M. "Marty" Ronning, Assistant Director, DETS, University of Maryland College Park

Learn form the experience of three EBS managers what you can expect when your licensee's system is transition- ed and begins operation in the new digital environment.

          •12:00noon - 1:15pm Luncheon

Annual Membership Meeting

Chair:  Dr. Phyllis Schiffer-Simon, NEBSA President

Lynn Rejniak, NEBSA's Chair makes the Associations Annul Report and discussed the Association's Plans for 2009.