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♦ After Apple’s iPhone mania, will Macworld this year seem sedate?
After the excitement and drama of last year’s Macworld, this year’s annual Apple lovefest is likely to seem a bit sedate. But that’s a good thing, say many longtime observers of the storied company, whose history has long been marked by dramatic highs and devastating lows. – Mercury News

♦ Microsoft Specialist To Address Both Plenary Sessions of Global Education Forum
Mike Lloyd, Schools Solutions Specialist at Microsoft’s Worldwide Education Group, is to address both plenary sessions at the Global Education Forum taking place at the Madinat Jumeirah Dubai on January 22nd-24th 2008. – Al Bawaba

♦ “Grammar Girl” to Keynote Live at 6th Annual Illinois Online Conference
The Illinois Online Conference for Teaching and Learning — a global online professional networking and learning event for educators now in its sixth year — announced today that award-winning podcaster “Grammar Girl” will open the conference with a live online keynote address. – Marketwire

♦ Science Education Brings Together Government and Corporate Leaders
Science education and its relationship to workforce development is the focus of a workshop and exhibition for federal, regional, state and local decision-makers with interests in high quality science education and the workforce “pipeline.” Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in cooperation with the National Governors Association (NGA), the workshop is being held Jan. 15-16, 2008, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. – National Science Foundation

♦ EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2008
Whether your focus is administrative services, information resources, teaching and learning, technology infrastructure, or management, you can benefit from attending the Seventh Annual EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, January 15–17, 2008. – EDUCAUSE

♦ Florida Education Technology Conference
FETC, a division of 1105 Media Inc., is one of the largest, most successful conferences in the United States devoted to educational technology. The conference program is designed so educators and administrators have an opportunity to learn how to integrate different technologies across the curriculum – from kindergarten to college – while being exposed to the latest hardware, software and successful strategies on student technology use. – Florida Education Technology Conference

♦ International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society 2008
The International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society conference will be held at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachussetts, USA from January 18 to 20. This Conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that address the complex and subtle relationships between technology, knowledge and society. Main speakers include some of the leading thinkers in these areas, as well as numerous paper, colloquium and workshop presentations. –  Cgpublisher