Professional Development Conference

Jill Joline Myers, Law Enforcement and Justice Administration Department, and Leaunda Hemphill, Instructional Design and Technology Department, were invited presenters at the Professional Development Conference, “Focus on Excellence: Classroom Best Practices”  sponsored by the Regional Office of Education Peoria County.   The WIU faculty members conducted two breakout workshops. The first workshop dealt with  ”Digital Dirt: The Realities of Network Privacy in Online Communications” and the second workshop  highlighted their collaborative research on effects of social networking on schools and proactive strategies for developing digital citizenship.