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volume 2 number 5
January 2009
Dear Subscriber to ETC,
Please forward this newsletter and invite others to join this informative newsletter filled with upcoming events and current news!
"How much energy does this make?" This is usually the first question students at Union City High School ask when they see the tall wind turbine tower outside the school's chemistry classroom. Learn about the many ways students, teachers and administrators of Randolph Eastern School Corporation are on the move to save energy in their school district.
Looking for resources to complement your efforts to go green at school? Considering implementing a green project based learning unit? Find websites for students, teacher resources, literature related to environmental studies, and much more.
All parents worry about their children when the kids are away from their care. Husbands and wives are often concerned about their spouses when they need to be out at odd hours. Now, parents, students, and educators can have another level of free, environmentally friendly security from their cell phones!
CET announces the availability of a mini-grant to support student success in the areas of physical education, social education, or academic achievement. Included in this grant are a Wii™ console, multiple hand-held controllers, a variety of educational games for the system, and one day of training for project teachers (to be held at the Buddy Teaching & Learning Center in Indianapolis).
Investigate these two opportunities to receive monies to enhance your school environmental projects.
Become inspired by reading how a classroom teacher applied for and received a multitude of grants from various sources over the past four years. His article provides web sites for locating grant opportunities and techniques for writing a successful grant application. Download Technology Grant News Success Story.
New workshops for 2009 are being added to the BTLC web site. You'll find Digital Storytelling, Google™ Earth and Maps, Open Source Software, Moodle™, and more! Visit our partner web site, Buddy Teaching & Learning Center, for the complete list and sign-up for one of these workshops today! You can register online or by calling BTLC at (317) 856-2223.
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.
This acronym stands for Universal Serial Bus, a standard type of connection used in today's laptops and other devices. Back in the late 1990's USB was introduced, and soon after, a popular storage device, the USB stick or "thumb drive" (about the size of a thumb) was launched. Now USB interfaces have become faster and the storage devices smaller (some about the size of a thumbnail) and in all sorts of shapes and colors. Most peripherals (printers, scanners, hard drives and digital cameras and even some cell phones) offer a way to connect to computers through a USB connection.
