Holiday Traditions Conference - Saint Francis University

The 2007 Holiday Traditions Conference will be held on Friday, December 14th!

Chat Room Instructions:

The chat room for the Holiday Traditions Conference is up and ready to go! Participants can use the chat room to ask Santa questions and to seek help with any technical troubleshooting. A representative from CERMUSA will monitor the chat rooms.

To join the chat, visit:

http://breeze.cermusa.francis.edu/HTChat and click on the "Click To Enter" button under the "Enter as a guest" login option. Then, simply enter your name followed by the name of your institution and join! There will be two chat windows, one for presenters who may have questions or technical issues during the event. The other chat window is for general chat and questions for Santa.

Schedule:

The schedule has been finalized! Click here to view!

Inclement Weather:

All presenters: If you find out that you are not going to be able to present due to a school weather closing or delay, please email as soon as possible after you learn about the closing so that the schedule can be adjusted. Thanks!

Technical support:

There will be an online chat session during the event for both presenters and viewers. The link to the chat will be posted here shortly before the event.
Technical support for those having difficulty either connecting to the videoconference or viewing the live stream can be reached via phone at (814) 472-2706 or (814) 472-3870.
Technical support via email is available at

Students from Saint Francis University's education department will be sharing stories that they wrote during the videoconference and have asked that participating schools download a copy of the stories for use during the event.

Saint Francis University/CERMUSA invites any and all schools and institutions to participate in this year's conference.

The conference uses videoconferencing to connect classrooms across the world so that they may present on and discuss any holiday traditions they are familiar with. All classes from kindergarten up to college are welcome to join and either give a presentation or just watch other presentations and ask questions.

Last year's event was a great success. We had approximately 20 schools connected on the videoconference and up to 26 locations viewing the live stream of the event. Check out the programs from last year and in 2005.

For more information, please contact Bob Griffin or Dana Friedman at (814) 472-3389.