Discovery Streaming provides digital on-demand video in the form of full-length videos and short segments to support all aspects of the K-12 curriculum. Additionally, the service includes a library of over 20,000 images, as well as teacher support and lesson plans. Join your colleagues for this 'Day of Discovery' and tune in to all the online resources that Discovery Education offers. The day will include a keynote speaker and break-out sessions with hands-on experiences for you.An excellent day for those educators whose schools have contracted for the 2008-09 year, this full-day introduction also provides a great opportunity for interested educators to learn more about Discovery Streaming. Click here to register today - space is limited!
LFI Seminar Day Nov 17 - Registration Open
Leadership Foundation Institute members are invited to attend the first of three seminar days, tackling topics you requested. We're excited to spend the day focused on iPod and Web 2.0 tools and resources for the classroom. We'll have Apple rep Randy Phelps to guide us through best practices for iPods in the classroom, plus we’ll raffle off some pretty cool items (think iPods). Not to be missed! Also on tap: Google Tools, especially Docs, Sites, and Earth. Plus we’ll demo a few new Web 2.0 tools that your teachers will love!
Please join us:
Monday, November 17, 9:00am - 3:30pm
Hollister School District Office
2690 Cienega Road
Hollister, CA 95023
Click here to register.
Interactive Whiteboard Demo Day Coming in February
Conference vendor floors are full of them. Surrounding Districts may be purchasing them. You've heard the interactive whiteboard buzz, and now you wonder if your District should be investing in this relatively new technology. Need more information?
Join us for an Interactive Whiteboard Demo Day on Friday, February 13, 8:30am-12:30pm. Four top vendors will be here to demonstrate their products and take your questions. It's an old-fashioned "shoot out" between SmartTechnology, Promethean, Mimio, and eInstruction (formerly Interwrite). Come yourself or bring/send a small team. Please contact me if you would like to attend this informative session.Wave of the Future: 1-to-1 Devices
Trends point to all students having a mobile learning device at some point in the not so distant future. Do you have a 1-to-1 initiative at a school in your District? Please email or call me (408-453-6589). I would like to talk to you about it and use your experiences to assist other schools traveling down this path. Whether it's laptops, iPods, PDAs or other - let's talk!Congratulations to Evergreen & Santa Clara School Districts
Competitive EETT Grants (Enhancing Education Through Technology) have been awarded to Evergreen Elementary District and Santa Clara Unified School District. Evergreen will focus on middle school math and language arts achievement, with laptop carts and support materials. Santa Clara will focus on 6th grade struggling math students using the individualized computer program ALEKS. Congrats to both Districts - these are not easy grants to win!
Technology Conferences Reminders
California Educational Technology Professionals Association (CETPA)
Sacramento, CA
November 18-21
The K-12 educational community is increasingly dependent on the creativity and dedication of IT professionals. This year’s conference will showcase examples, strategies and technologies that IT and Educational Technology organizations can utilize to help create vital and dynamic learning and working environments. Click here for more information and to register.
California League of Middle Schools Technology Conference
Monterey, CA
December 4-7
Join K-12 teachers, administrators and technology leaders to discover how you can access and use a wide variety of simple free or low-cost online tools to boost your own professional development; connect yourself and your students with peers, authors and experts; and engage your students in learning experiences that are interest-driven, socially supported, and highly responsive to individual learning styles and skills.
Click here for more information and to register.
MacWorld
San Francisco, CA
January 5-9
In addition to the usual hands-on labs and extensive vendor floor, Computer Using Educators (CUE) teams up with MacWorld to offer a strand just for K-12. "Educate" runs two days, Jan 7-9 from 11:00am-4:00pm. Topics include best practices for podcasting, multimedia, 21st Century literacy skills and more. Total cost for the two days is $175. Also on Friday Jan 9, CUE hosts a K-12 Symposium day with a great line-up of speakers: Alan November, Rushton Hurley, Ted Lai, Carol Anne McGuire, Jerome Burg, and Leslie Fisher. Symposium price is only $99. Note: Both rates are early bird specials until December 1. Click here for more information and to register.
Silicon Valley CUE Technology Conference
Harker School, 500 Saratoga Ave, San Jose, CA
Saturday, February 28, 8 am - 3 pm
Join local colleagues at this annual CUE event which features concurrent sessions, hands-on workshops, exhibitors, and vendors. Early registration runs until February 14 and costs $30 for SV CUE members and $35 for non-members. Fees go up $10 after Feb 14.
Click here for more information and to register.
TechToolkit
For Teachers: Meet the Author Series
The Orange County Department of Education sponsors a series of video conferences with authors whose books are nominated for the 2008-09 California Young Reader Medal. Students can interact with the authors and learn more about their books and approach to writing. For a complete list of authors and registration, click here.
Administrators: Speak Up Survey
Project Tomorrow (formerly the Net Day folks) sponsors the annual Speak Up Survey that gives students, parents, teachers and administrators the opportunity to share viewpoints on key educational and technology issues. The summary findings are shared with national and state policy makers. Participating schools and Districts can access their local data free-of-charge. The survey is open now and will run through December 19, 2008. Speak Up is a great opportunity to see what your stakeholders are thinking about where you should be leading. To activate your school or District, click here.
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