Welcome to 2009-2010 eNews

In This Issue:

What's New?
Summer Work & Play with TfL Partnership
Support Networks & Workshops Move Online
eLearning Options Take Off with O•Zone
Technology Conferences

What's New?
Happy new school year! Hope your year is off to a successful start. We look forward to supporting your efforts to integrate technology into your classroom and instructional practice.

We begin the year with a new name and four focus areas. CTAP Region 5 is now officially renamed the Technology for Learning (TfL) Partnership. We remain a regional organization, supporting Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Benito and Monterey counties. We focus on four key areas:
• 21st Century Skills
• eLearning Initiatives
• Grants and Technology Planning
• Data-driven Dialogue and Planning

As always, our team is available to support your site or district, to work with teachers or administrators, to work face-to-face or online. We're here to serve you and hope you'll line up with requests!

Your Santa Clara County contacts remain:
Corey Gin, Director, corey_gin@sccoe.org
Diana Paradise, Coordinator, diana_paradise@sccoe.org
Paula Hundley, Coordinator, paula_hundley@sccoe.org

Summer Work & Play with TfL Partnership
Over 100 teachers and administrators attended the TfL Summer 2009 Technology Academies. Classes were offered here at SCCOE as well as Santa Cruz, Monterey, and Hollister. Much of the summer content will be available later this fall either online or by site or district request.

Web 2.0 for Administrators introduced site and district leaders to the national educational technology standards (for teachers, students, and administrators) and to tools for collaboration, surveys, data analysis, and cybersafety.

The 21st Century Classroom encouraged teachers to be "21st century learners" for a day as they explored a variety of ways to access and use information online. Then they applied their learning to the classroom setting. Information literacy and the Big6 research skills provided the framework for this two-day session.

iTELL (integrating Technology for English Language Learners) proved very successful with a focus on research-based practices to support language acquisition. With an eye to ELD and California content standards, each day of this three-day workshop focused on developing and integrating the four language domains of speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

If you would like to discuss bringing these topics to your site or district, contact Paula Hundley at paula_hundley@sccoe.org or 408-453-6589.

Support Networks & Workshops Move Online
ELL Connect (formerly iTELL) supports teachers who work extensively with English Language Learners. Though focused on educators who have completed the summer academy, any teacher or administrator may join this group. It meets online, the First Thursday of each month, 3:30-5:00 pm, starting in October. Click here to register for this ongoing drop-in series: Oct 1, Nov 5, Dec 3, Jan 7, Feb 4, Mar 4, Apr 1, and May 6.

21st Century Classroom supports teachers who are actively integrating technology resources into their classrooms and instructional practice. Though focused on educators who completed the summer academy, any teacher or administrator is welcome to join this group. It meets online, the Second Thursday of each month, 3:30-5:00 pm, starting in October. Click here to register for this ongoing drop-in series: Oct 8, Nov 12, Dec 10, Jan 14, Feb 11, Mar 11, Apr 8, and May 13.

Google Apps One-by-One provides a close look at using Google applications in the classroom. Each month focuses on a different application. This workshop meets online, the Third Thursday of each month, 3:30-5:00 pm, starting in October. Click here to register for this ongoing drop-in series: Oct 15, Nov 19, Dec 17, Jan 21, Feb 18, Mar 18, Apr 15, May 20.

Learning Options Take Off with O•Zone
Region 5 O•Zone is a comprehensive suite of online tools and resources developed through a collaborative partnership of Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara, & Santa Cruz County Offices of Education. The service has four major components:

• eClass serves as an online high school for core subjects and credit recovery
• eClassPro houses professional development for teachers and administrators
• MyMoodle provides online learning environments for teachers to supplement coursework
• MyEdZone serves as a regional portal to a vast array online curricular support tools

TfL Partnership provides professional development for O•Zone initiatives. For more information, contact Craig Blackburn at craig_blackburn@sccoe.org or 408-453-6524.

Technology Conferences
California Educational Technology Professionals Association
San Diego, Nov 17-20, 2009
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 registration.

K-12 Technology Conference, CA League of Middle/High Schools
San Diego, Dec 4-6, 2009
This year's theme is "Social, Global & Green." Societies and ecosystems around the globe are experiencing rapid change. "Parents and educators alike recognize that today's students will require new kinds of tools – and new kinds of ethics – to succeed as adults in the workplace and world. For schools, the free and low-cost technologies that students embrace outside of school provide powerful opportunities to boost student achievement at little or no cost ." Click here for more information and registration.

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