Tom Murray's Profile

Tom Murray

Quakertown Community School District

Quakertown, PA

About Me

Tom Murray serves as the Director of Technology and Cyber Education for the Quakertown Community School District in Bucks County, Pa. A former middle school assistant and elementary school principal, Murray is passionate about proper technology infusion and differentiated professional development. He was the 2012 recipient of the Blended Schools Network Leadership Award and was featured in Tech & Learning Magazine’s Leadership Profile in December of 2012. Murray’s QCSD cyber and blended learning programs have been highlighted by Forbes.com, T.H.E. Journal, Project Red, the Innosight Institute, iNACOL, and on Digital Learning Day 2013, among others. Murray serves on the advisory board for THE Journal and has co-founded and moderates both #sbgchat and #edtechchat. Connect with him on Twitter @thomascmurray or at www.thomascmurray.com.

Contact Details

Email: tmurray@qcsd.org
Twitter: @@thomascmurray
Skype: murray839
Website: www.thomascmurray.com

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Schedule

Friday, Jan 27
1. Visual Narrative for Teachers 9:30am–12:30pm
  - Filmmaking for Teachers*
    
    Room 1069
    
    Work with students and faculty of SLA’s Rough Cut Productions to learn the technical and artistic techniques of communicating through video.
    
    This three-hour interactive workshop has a limit of 30 participants.
2. Welcome 10am–3pm
  - Spend the day at Science Leadership Academy. EduCon attendees have free admission to the Franklin Institute and other local Philadelphia institutions on Friday.
3. Friday Night Panel 6–8pm
  - Sustainability Panel
    
    Essential Questions:
    
    What does it mean to sustain innovation? How do people/organizations continue to grow? How do you avoid regression to the mean? How do you avoid mission drift? How do resources remain shared?
4. Reception 8–10pm
Saturday, Jan 28
1. Registration & Coffee 8:30–9:15am
2. Keynote 9:15–9:45am
  - Keynote
3. Conversation Session 1 10–11:30am
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4. Cross-Pollination Lunch 11:30am–1pm
  - Encienda Educon
    
    Join us for a session of “lightning presentations” delivered by EduCon participants. Each presenter will have five minutes to share an idea, broken down into twenty slides, which automatically advance every fifteen seconds.
    
    Submit A Proposal: http://bit.ly/encienda29
5. Conversation Session 2 1–2:30pm
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6. Conversation Session 3 3–4:30pm
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7. Making Connections 5–7pm
  - “Philly Classic” Dinner
8. Networking Social 7:30–11pm
Sunday, Jan 29
1. Coffee & Conversations 8:30–9am
2. Panel Discussion 9–10:30am
  - Sustainability in Education
    
    Join a panel of world-class educators discuss how the idea of sustainability in the context of education and educational movements.
3. Conversation Session 4 10:30am–12pm
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4. Cross-Pollination Lunch 12–12:30pm
5. Conversation Session 5 12:30–2pm
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6. Conversation Session 6 2:30–4pm
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