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Report from the Policy Front: What’s in Store for Ed Tech in 2008

Posted in EETT, educational_technology, necc2008, professional_development, tagged , , , , on July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Hilary Goldman and others
Some major things are happening this year. Especially politics. Major elections.
$262,000,000 amount of money for EETT last year–first year was $700,000,000.
NCLB, ATTAIN, HEA: ATTAIN is the proposed replacement for EETT. Want to make sure technology is in renewal of NCLB. HEA is supposed to be replaced last session, this will be up [...]

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Google SketchUp Basics

Posted in educational_technology, necc2008, workshop, tagged , , , on July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

John Hendron, Goochland County Public Schools with Bea Cantor
Check out his blog, http://johnhendron.net/ for video tutorials and other information. Try http://www.johnhendron.net/digest/google-sketchup/ for SketchUp in particular.
SketchUp was designed for architects. Google bought the company because of Google Earth–use the program to build buildings and place them in Google Earth. Have people build the buildings.
Takes about [...]

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WEMTA 10:45-11:45 The Global One Room Schoolhouse

Posted in educational_technology, professional_development, wemta on April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

David Jakes
What do we want learning and the classroom to look like? Huron County, Michigan still has 8 one-room schoolhouses that serve two square miles. Two of them are wireless. They are not isolated. What is the value of that connection? What is the value of having a permeable classroom? MatSu school district, Alaska has [...]

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WEMTA 9:15-10:15 ITLS Buffed & Polished for the 21st Century

Posted in DPI, educational_technology, technology_skills, wemta on April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Stuart Ciske & Stephen Sanders, DPI
Not really ready to go yet, will talk about plan to do so. The standards are legislative and a longer process than they thought it would be.
English & Math are close to recommendations for revised standards. Social Studies are started. Not much done on ITLS. Stuart has done some alignment [...]

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WEMTA 2008 21st Century Cartographers: Using Google Earth & Google Maps to Empower Student Learning

Posted in GPS, educational_technology, google earth, google_maps, professional_development, technology_skills, web_2.0, wemta, tagged , on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

David Jakes
Presentation materials
IT Coordinator in Downer’s Grove, IL.

Can every subject be studied within a geographical context?
How will you help your students make meaning of visual information?
How does this change teaching and learning? What’s possible?
What are the logistical and technical requirements? How does this all work?

A challenging technology. Everything is on the online resources. Feel free [...]

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WEMTA 2:30-3:30 Really Cool New Tool Trio Face-Off

Posted in educational_technology, professional_development, technology_skills, web_2.0, wemta, tagged , on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

David Jakes, John Pederson, Jennifer Wagner
Over 175 people for presentation.
They are UStreaming the presentation.
John Pederson stuff http://www.shiftedlearning.org/wiki/Cool_Tools
David Jakes stuff http://jakes.editme.com/CoolNewToolDuel
Check out this stuff when have time or even when don’t. Looks like some good stuff.
PicLens looks real interesting.
Flip Camera by John. Looks pretty good. Not great but not bad either for the price. Has built-in [...]

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WEMTA 8:00-9:00 Google Earth Session

Posted in educational_technology, google, google earth, wemta, tagged , , , on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Presenter Doug Hyde dhyde@mds.k12.wi.us
Using a Mac and has Parallels on desktop. Using Firefox.
Just started a group to share ideas for Google Earth and other types of geography stuff. All handouts are posted at the group.
groups.google.com/group/GlobalThinkingGE?hl=en
Collaborates with a social studies teacher in his school. Has done geocaching.
Can make it as simple or as hard as you [...]

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Using Wikis in the Classroom

Posted in educational_technology, n07s643, necc2007, web_2.0 on June 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »

12:00-1:00 Wednesday Session: Using Wikis in the Classroom
Presenters: Adam Frey, Founder, Wikispaces & Vicki Davis, Teacher, Westwood Schools, GA
The room is packed. There are people everywhere, many more than I would have anticipated at lunch on the last day of the conference.
Gave a brief overview of what a wiki is and how it [...]

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21st Century Learners Design Ultimate School of the Future Today

Posted in educational_technology, n07s692, necc2007, school_2.0 on June 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

8:30-9:30 Monday: 21st C Learners, School of the future.
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Project Tomorrow used to be NetDay.
Participating schools/districts can get back aggregated data.
Check out their web sites. They have useful reports we could cite in articles.
Most tech sophisticated students are the youngest ones today–important [...]

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Using GPS Units, Google Earth & Geocaching in K-12 Classrooms Workshops

Posted in GPS, educational_technology, geocaching, n07s191, necc2007 on June 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Monday 4:30 Using GPS Units, Google Earth, and Geocaching in K–12 Classrooms with Alice Christie ASU-West
We’re in a very nice iMac lab in the Omni hotel down the street from the Convention Center.
After introductions, watched geocaching enhanced podcast off her web site. Active, reflective and relevant student learning. Has an article link at end [...]

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