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New Director Joins CTAP
Corey Gin joined SCCOE as the new director for CTAP, effective December 1. For the past seven years, he served as the Senior Instructional Developer for eCampus at San Jose State University. In this role, he was the lead instructional designer/content developer for eCampus. His responsibilities included implementing policy and processes as well as directing curriculum design for distributed education. He has a wealth of knowledge and expertise in web-based teaching and learning, classroom-based training, technology integration, mediated instruction and instructional design. Prior to the San Jose State position, he was an elementary teacher in the Berryessa School District.

Leadership Institute January 27-29 ~ Register Today!
The Leadership Foundation Institute offers three days of training for your District's key technology professionals. Participants explore curricular tools, web communication tools, content management systems - all while they analyze their own leadership styles and build an action plan for redelivering content to your teachers and administrators. This will be the fifth cohort group to attend the LFI, and we will meet in Hollister this year. (Previous cohorts have met at Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Monterey County Offices of Education.)

Who would benefit from this support in your District? We seek individuals who have a basic degree of technology skill, who are ready to incorporate technology into their professional development sessions, who have a strong focus on curriculum and instruction, and who have access to redeliver content to your teachers and administrators. LFI participants will be eligible for follow-up seminar days, as well as coaching for their individual needs.

Participants commit to attending a one-hour orientation, the three-day Institute , writing an action plan for delivering integrated technology professional develop to staff, and having a follow-up coaching consultation with a regional CTAP coordinator. Participants receive a $500 honorarium. Contact Diana Paradise or Paula Hundley for more information. Enroll here.


Interactive Whiteboard Demo Day Feb 13 - Register Today!
You've heard the interactive whiteboard buzz, and now you wonder if your District should be investing in this 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. Click HERE to register for this event. Space is limited.


Technology Conferences Reminders
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.

Annual CUE Conference
Palm Springs, CA
March 5-7
Computer-Using Educators, Inc. is a professional organization of educators that supports the use of technology in education. For almost 30 years, technology-using educators have been meeting at the CUE Conferences to advance student achievement at all levels of education and to address the use of Education Technology in instruction, administration, curriculum and management. This year's keynote speakers are Dr. Robert Marzano and Peter H. Reynolds. Click for more information and to register.

TechToolkit
For Teachers: Google Earth 4.3 with Ancient Rome 3D Layer
Fly through Ancient Rome - its streets and buildings. Click on the video below for a 2 minute preview. Pretty cool.



In launching this new "layer" in Earth, Google is sponsoring the Ancient Room 3D Curriculum Competition. The challenge is to rebuild your content with the new technology. The top 6 entries win: Macbook, LCD projector, digital camera, 3D navigation mouse, and a $500 gift card. Click here to read more and get started. Entries are due February 9, 2009.

For High School Students & Counselors:
Zinch.com ~ I am more than a test score
www.zinch.com
Zinch has opened the door of online interaction to college admissions. Through Zinch, high school students worldwide can now communicate and engage with admissions offices through a format that defines their generation: the web. Over 600 colleges and universities currently use Zinch to get to know prospective students. For their part, students create profiles and show just how much more they are than test scores!

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