ASPIRA's 4th Annual Conference Announced

"The ASPIRA National Association and the Council for Opportunity in Education are proud to announce the 4th Annual Technology Tools for Management and Instruction Conference, on December 5-8, 2004."

"The conference will be held at the Wyndham El San Juan Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Over 800 collegiate and pre-collegiate TRIO professionals, Gear-Up professionals, school administrators, university personnel, K-12 teachers, and corporate and foundation representatives from the United States and Puerto Rico will gather to discuss how technology can be used to better serve the needs of low-income and ethnically diverse students."

"This year’s conference topics include:

* Arts, technology and student achivement;
* The future of technology in management and learning;
* Wireless technology for management and instruction;
* e-grants and e-reporting, everyone is requiring it, but how to do it?
* On-line databases applications and management;
* Where to get the funds to pay for technology."

"The program includes a full-day of pre-conference activities and three-days conference with computer laboratory workshops and over 50 concurrent sessions focusing on technology tools ranging from database management and budgeting, to utilizing multi-media presentation software and Web sites as instructional tools. "