The campus community is invited to learn about the latest advances in educational technology at this year's edTeXpo on Tuesday, Oct. 5.

The daylong event will begin in Memorial Auditorium at 10 a.m. with "The Power of Internet 2 and How it is Being Used in Education," a lecture by Jennifer L. MacDougall, applications coordinator at MAGPI GigaPOP at the University of Pennsylvania. MacDougall will discuss instructional research uses of Internet 2 and digital videoconferencing across a high-speed network.

Following the lecture, participants are invited to the Annual Conference Technology/Vendor Exploritorium in the Student Center Ballrooms. The Exploritorium will feature national vendors who will demonstrate presentation technology including data projectors, smartboards, document cameras and other digital equipment as well as computer hardware and software, wireless devices and more.

At noon, David Pogue, CBS News technology contributor and personal-technology columnist for The New York Times will give a lecture, "The Digital Generation Comes of Age." The lecture will be video-streamed live into the Exploritorium.

Concurrent workshops will be held from 2 to 3 p.m.:
• File management and e-mail strategies, including archiving mail and organizing your mailbox

• How MSU is bringing technology to education

• Lecture123, eLearning applications that allow a faculty member to capture and publish to the Web a lecture presentation that includes voice, pen and slides

The day's events are free, but registration is required. For more information or to register online, go to www.montclair.edu/edtexpo or contact John O'Brien at 973-655-7435.