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volume 2 number 4
November 2008
Dear Subscriber to ETC,
Please forward this newsletter and invite others to join this informative newsletter filled with upcoming events and current news!
ChaCha™ is a mobile search engine that can be used on your cell phone. But, unlike other search engines, responses from ChaCha come from real live people! If you can make a traditional cell phone call, or text message a question, ChaCha can give you an answer. And the service is absolutely free other than standard text messaging charges!
"Hot" is the word to describe this software suite which offers great interactive tools for student use on the web. Hot Potatoes™ allows the teacher to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill type exercises. The ability to integrate the Hot Potatoes into classroom Moodles™ or on a classroom webpage makes this a very useful tool to use with students of all ages. Read more about this resource.
Come to the Indiana Computer Educator's Conference January 27-29, 2009 in Indianapolis and be inspired by America's teacher, Ron Clark. Ron will be the Keynote speaker on Thursday during this two-day teaching conference with something for everyone in education. Read more about this event and how you can sign-up to attend.
Toshiba has partnered with NSTA (National Science Teachers of America) to offer ExploraVision Awards for K-12 students. Successful entries comprise a product that combines creative thinking with science tools to imagine the future in technology. Visit this site for more information, including a web seminar for teachers and a list of former winners.
How do I use Moodle™? Let me count the ways. Rossville Community Schools in Rossville, Indiana, have found a variety of innovative and exciting ways to use Moodle in and out of the classroom. For more information, read this article.
The Indiana K-8 Technology Benchmarks cultivate foundational skills that support teaching and learning in all subject areas. In designing the technology benchmarks, common threads were woven through the academic standards for each grade level - productivity, communication, and digital citizenship. In an effort to clarify meaning of some terms, a glossary for the benchmarks was developed.
Moodle™, whiteboard integration, grant writing, Flash™ for educators, Excel™, transferring ISTEP scores to Excel - these are just a few of the subjects addressed in the many workshops offered between now and the end of December. Visit our partner web site, Buddy Teaching & Learning Center, and sign-up for one of these workshops today! You can register online or by calling BTLC at (317) 856-2223.
Recently the second quarterly Write Connections newsletter was sent out. Download now the Lincoln Bicentennial and memoirs writing ideas, which were the focus for the K-2, 3-5, and 6-12 publications. Sign-up to receive email notification when the next quarterly newsletter is ready for download. This will be published in February with an environmental/ green writing theme.
In 2000, Corporation for Educational Technology, with the support of a grant from Lilly Endowment, created My Target. For the past eight years, it has been used by Indiana's educators as an online assessment tool to measure how much they know about technology and assess their abilities to use it effectively in the classroom. However, with the recent change of the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers and the cost it would take to upgrade this resource, My Target was taken offline October 31, 2008.
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.
Most computers come with an internal hard drive, where the operating system, application and document files are stored. A necessary device for anyone who needs extra storage space for their large audio and video files, an external hard drive is also useful to maintain a backup copy of a computer's internal drive. External drives typically connect to computers via USB or Firewire ports transferring data up to speeds of 800 Mbps (Megabits per second).
