The ISTE standards for teachers, newly revised in 2008, offer a roadmap for professional development. Teachers need to be able to:
- Facilitate/inspire learning and creativity
- Develop digital learning experiences
- Model digital-age work and learning
- Promote/model digital citizenship
- Engage in professional growth/leadership
It's a tall order and CTAP is here to help! Let's work together and develop a plan for your school or district - a plan that uses your resources and ours to offer top-notch professional development for your staff. Change is in the air ... The time is now. Email me or call today at 408-653-6589.
IM Paula for Assistance
Have a quick question? Add me to your buddy list on Instant Messaging with the screen name phundley@me.com. Then when you see me online, send a question (via text or video). With AV chat, I can even drag and drop documents to you instantly right inside the chat window.
Give it a try today. Assistance is just a chat away.
Interactive Whiteboard Demo Event - Register Now!
If you're considering interactive whiteboards, this session is a must!
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: SmartTechnology, Promethean, Mimio, and eInstruction (formerly Interwrite).Come yourself or bring/send a small team. Click HERE to register for this event.
Leadership Foundation Institute - Last Call - Register Today!
January 27-29, 8:30am-3:30pm
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 build an action plan to redeliver content to your teachers and administrators.
Who would benefit from this Institute 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 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.
Technology Conferences Reminders
MacWorld
San Francisco, CA
January 5-9
MacWorld is happening right now. Computer Using Educators' (CUE) two-day strand for K-12 - "Educate" - runs today and tomorrow (Jan 7-8), from 11:00am-4:00pm. Topics include best practices for podcasting, multimedia, 21st Century literacy skills and more. 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. Click here for more information and to register.
NOTE: CUE's early bird discount has passed, but contact me for a 15% discount code. I can't post the code online but can distribute it via email and you can forward to your colleagues.
Silicon Valley CUE Technology Conference
Harker School, 500 Saratoga Ave, San Jose, CA
Saturday, February 28, 8 am - 3 pm
Join colleagues at this local CUE event which features concurrent sessions, hands-on workshops, exhibitors, and vendors. Early registration runs through 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
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 & Students:Selenium - Web research made easy
Selenium is an all-in-one research application. It brings together a web browser, PDF manager, outliner, word processor, and bibliography manager in ONE window. Selenium ensures that you'll never need to switch between several applications to conduct research on the Web - or try to get them to work together.
System Requirements: Mac OS 10.5+
Cost: Free trial, then $15.00 to buy
Download here
General Use: iCombiner
Merge various file formats into one PDF. iCombiner is a productivity tool that allows you to combine images, photos, scanned documents, and PDFs into a single file.
System Requirements: Mac OS 10.4+
Cost: Free trial, then $19.95 to buy
Download here
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