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 [...]
Archive for the ‘professional_development’ Category
Report from the Policy Front: What’s in Store for Ed Tech in 2008
Posted in EETT, educational_technology, necc2008, professional_development, tagged Add new tag, n08s453, necc, necc2008, policy on July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 google, wemta 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 [...]
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 new technology, web 2.9 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 [...]
Empowering Practice: Leveraging the Read/Write Web for Professional Growth
Posted in n07s167, necc2007, professional_development, web_2.0 on June 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Tuesday 8:30-11:30 Workshop Notes
Believes that teachers need to understand and use the tools before they will use in their classroom practice and change schools. Uncertain times for educators, some things our students are using that we don’t understand. Many in-classroom educators don’t use these tools in their classrooms. We need to create a personal learning [...]