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volume 2 number 3
October 2008
Dear Subscriber to ETC,
Please forward this newsletter and invite others to join this informative newsletter filled with upcoming events and current news!
Where can you go to get the latest technology information and receive a gift that records that information for you? The 22nd annual HECC Conference is being held at Union Station in Indianapolis on November 13 and 14, 2008. The theme this year is Bringing Technology & Learning Alive. If you register for both days, you will receive a Live Scribe Pulse pen to help you remember what you've learned. What a deal! Read this article for more information how you can register and a link to a full list of activities.
Teachers seldom know if what they are doing in their classrooms will have a major impact on their students' lives. Wendy Mayo, a dynamic 4th grade teacher, loves to use technology with her 4th grade students at Paul I. Miller School #114 in Indianapolis. She knows first hand how important it is to pass along her love and enthusiasm for technology to her students. Learn how a funny looking box with a keyboard and a mouse influenced her life.
Think about being able to collaborate with 20 other classrooms around the state to record the daily temperature in a spreadsheet or to share students' opinions in a document immediately upon the completion of the presidential election. Google has made it not only possible, but easy to do in real-time. Find out how.
Recent federal legislation (IDEA, NCLB) has required educators to provide access to the general education curriculum for all learners. This can be a challenging task for today's educators as our classrooms have become increasingly more diverse. Educators must customize their teaching and curriculum to ensure that students with diverse learning needs have the opportunity to access, participate, and progress in the educational environment. The conference dates are November 10 & 11 and will focus on the issues faced by educators in meeting this challenge. Visit this article to read how you can attend!
Depending on the policies of the local school corporation, many students are now bringing cell phones into the classroom. Most of these cell phones, as well as many other technologies such as music players, have a Global Positioning System (GPS) feature. This feature enables parents, friends, and law enforcement agencies to track the location of the phone at all times. Does this sound like a good idea?
Indiana Computer Educators offers two great opportunities to share with others ways to use technology to improve student learning at the "Innovate, Collaborate, Educate" ICE 2009 Conference, on January 27, 28 & 29. Opportunities include:
Proposals are due October 31, 2008. (50% discount on 1-day conference registration).
ICE is also accepting nominations for 2009 Teacher of the Year and 2009 Technology Education Advocate of the Year. Nominations forms are available online and are due October 17, 2008.
The ICAM (Indiana Center for Accessible Materials) and PATINS Project is happening now. We need your help to provide students with digital access to curriculum materials this year. A statewide, unlimited license of Read:OutLoud, an accessible text reader, is ready for you to download at no cost to your district. This reading tool will open and read print instructional materials in specialized electronic formats. This memo provides information, benefits and technical specs. Contact your DRM (Digital Rights Manager) to build capacity quickly and be a part of this 21 century universal design for learning solution!
"Beginning in fall 2008 through March 15, 2009, middle school student teams from across the country will be challenged to create sustainable, reproducible environmental improvements in their local communities. Top prizes will include a chance to appear on Discovery Network's Planet Green, a share in thousands of dollars in cash prizes, a one-in-a-lifetime Discovery Adventure trip and more!" For details, visit this site.
Visit our partner web site, Buddy Teaching & Learning Center. We have a limited number of spots available in our Moodle and Adobe CS3 Dreamweaver and Flash sessions this month. We will only be able to offer each of the CS3 sessions once this Fall. We encourage you to register soon if you are interested or you may end up on the "wait list" and hoping that someone else can't make it. You can register online or by calling BTLC at (317) 856-2223.
Toyota Tapestry Grants are available for k-12 science teachers and include 50 large grants and 20 mini-grants totaling $550,000. Visit the plethora of detailed information explaining eligibility, proposal guidelines, and completion deadlines is available, along with copies of previous winning grant proposals. Submissions must be made by Jan.21, 2009.
Articles appearing in the ETC...and More! newsletter are published by the Buddy
Project
(Corporation for Educational Technology), in
collaboration with the Hoosier
Educational Computer
Coordinators (HECC),
Indiana Computer Educators (ICE),
the Indiana Department of
Education, and Promoting Achievement through Technology and INstruction for all Students (PATINS).
Send your ideas for stories, school project write-ups, and/or suggestions to Rex Church, et cetera editor, Rex Church.
In program applications such as those found in the Microsoft Office Suite(TM), a macro is a sequence of actions (commands or keystrokes) that is saved and recalled frequently through a simple key command or mouse-click. The term macro, meaning "large" is also used in photography to facilitate capturing an expanded or close-up image of something that is quite small.
