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Your Face on
MySpace?
 While many of us may
not fully understand the "ins" and "outs" and "how to's"
of MySpace.com and
Facebook.com,
there is little doubt that these social networking
internet services have come to permeate every aspect of
society. And so the issue becomes one of whether or not
we, as educators, should join our students and climb on
board this fast moving wagon. (more)... |
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Math for All
Ages Looking for new ideas and tips to
motivate students in the area of Math? Check out this
article and website about MATHCOUNTS, an
educational partnership that offers supplemental
curriculum materials free to middle school teachers for
enrichment, coaching and competition in the area of
math. To get some tips about using technology to teach
math to younger students, plan to attend the "Math in
the K-2 Classroom" offered at the newly relocated Buddy
Teaching and Learning Center on November 28. Click here
for workshop info.
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Math and Science Grant
Opportunity Indiana "high need schools"
may apply for Title II, Part B grants to implement
projects to serve one or more of the following areas:
Algebra Readiness, Pre-Advanced Placement and Advanced
Placement Programs in Math and/or Science, Biology I
Readiness, and Content Area Reading in Science. Grant
proposals are due on December 14, 2007 and grant award
announcements will be made on February 8, 2008. Download
guidelines and grant
proposal application. |
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Teacher Drive + Technology =
Success!  "I am thrilled to be
using the multimedia system. It is a simple, smart,
effective use of technology in the classroom. I can
quickly and easily switch from computer to document
camera to video, and be moving around the classroom
while I interact with students," says James McAdams,
Science teacher at Center Grove High School. Find out
more about his district's Multimedia Classroom project
by clicking on this link.
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HECC
Conference
Still time to register! The Hoosier
Educational Computers Coordinators Board (HECC) is very
excited to announce the theme and gift for the 2007
conference held November 29th-30th. "Technology
Integration, Get in the Game" will be the conference
focus and the tool given to each attendee will be a
PlayStation Portable (PSP). More... |
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TheWritingSite.org The
Writing Site is a free web resource for
educators developed by the Buddy Project, a non-profit
education initiative. It features an interactive
tutorial for holistic assessment of student writing
using the Indiana ISTEP+ rubrics. Submit a set of
original, student writing samples that can be used on
the site and receive a gift card. For more
information, download the submission form
from the Writing Site. |
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Star Office and Open Source
Training  Not much money but a
little bit of time for professional development? Or
maybe you have the software but don't know how to use
it. The Buddy Teaching and Learning Center offers these,
and many more, half and full day workshops!. Visit BTLC's website to
see our new offerings, with several new StarOffice and
Open Source workshops added to the mix. Join the
hundreds of satisfied customers who say, 'there is no
better place for high quality, affordable professional
development for technology-related
topics." |
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50+ Ways to Raise $$$ for
Technology Educators were asked to send
in their best ideas for helping students obtain their
own technology - and the result is that fifty of them
are here. Some are tried-and-true and some are unique.
Take a look at some of the great ideas and add yours in
the Comments box. From techLEARNING.com. |
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ICE
Conference  Indiana Computer
Educators (ICE) is a non-profit professional group whose
mission is assisting educators to enhance learning
through the use of technology. The ICE Conference is
the premiere educational technology conference in
Indiana and the fifth largest conference of its type in
the nation. At ICE members learn from each other and
national experts, see the latest technology from the
best exhibitors, network, and have
fun. |
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Congrats to 3 Indiana Technology
Educators! NSBA has named three Indiana
educators as part of its 2007 list of "20 to Watch." Jon
Carl of Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation,
Travis East of Nineveh Hensley Jackson United School
Corporation and Todd Whitlock of North Daviess Community
Schools made the list.
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| This newsletter is published by the Buddy
Project (Corporation for Educational Technology), in
collaboration with the Hoosier Educational Computer
Coordinators (HECC), Indiana Computer Educators (ICE),
and the Indiana Department of
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Send your ideas for stories, school project
write-ups, and/or suggestions to Rex Church, et cetera editor,
Rex Church. |
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Tech Word: wiki |
A wiki is a collaborative writing space on the web where
users can add and update information. Wiki comes from the
Hawaiian term, wiki wiki, which means very fast. Perhaps the
most widely recognized wiki is Wikipedia, an online
encyclopedia that now contains over 2 million articles1 in its
English language version. 1 (2007, October 20). Wikipedia:
About. Retrieved October 22, 2007, from Wikipedia Web site. |
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