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volume 1 number 8
May 2008
Dear Subscriber to ETC,
Please forward this newsletter and invite others to join this informative newsletter filled with upcoming events and current news!
In December 2002, MSD of Decatur Township in Indianapolis, Indiana, opened a math and science exploration lab for kindergarten thru 4th grade students called the EdVenture Lab. New ways of teaching and learning have infused excitement, enthusiasm and energy into the classroom.
Would you like to get rid of some of the old technology you have lying around, and turn it into cash? Would you like to raise some money for your classroom or school so you can buy some much needed materials or supplies? Would you like to model good environmental citizenship by recycling outdated hardware? You may be surprised at the resources that are available.
Indiana's English as a Second Language (ESL) population is growing every year. According to the Indiana Department of Education, there were over 42,000 Limited English Proficient students enrolled in Indiana's public schools (IDOE, Indiana State Snapshot, Limited English Proficient, 2007). Are you prepared to teach ESL students? Check out this quarter's Write Connections (volume 3, number 4) which explores ESL issues from understanding English language learners' (ELLs) needs to modifying curriculum to accommodate your ESL students.
Did you participate in last month's survey regarding Technology Literacy in Indiana? Curious about how Et Cetera readers view Technology Literacy in Indiana? Check out the results of our survey.
Do your students have what it takes to be America's next generation of scientific pioneers? Then check out the 2008 Discovery Education/3M Young Scientist Challenge (YSC). Just create a one- to two-minute video about the science of space, and your little Einsteins can win a trip to Washington, D.C., to compete in the YSC finals. This year's competition has a category for teachers, too.
DEADLINE: June 15, 2008
TO ENTER: Teachers and grades 5-8 may submit a video entry at Discovery's web site.
Do you have fond memories of Hyperstudio™ or Kid Works™? Well, they are back. Bigger and better than ever! Both have been updated to include the latest in multimedia tools. Reacquaint yourself with a couple of old friends.
SMART Technologies is looking for your best back-to-school themed lesson activity created with Notebook™ collaborative learning software. The person who submits the best lesson activity will receive a SMART classroom package worth over $3,500, including a SMART Board™ 600i interactive whiteboard system and an annual subscription to the SMART Learning Marketplace, a subscription service with over one million digital resources.
To Enter: Visit "Back-to-School" contest and click on "Enter Now."
Join the Fun! Earn Credit! Announcing several new single day workshops as well as summer camps at the Buddy Technology Learning Center. Visit the BTLC homepage, then select the workshop that fits your needs and schedule. Or read this article that lists all of the workshops we are offering this summer. Here are just a few workshop titles that are being offered this summer:
Moodle™ resource handouts are freely available to the general public to download or use to support individual learning of Moodle course development skills and features. Some of these handouts have specific references to and will require having a user account on the BTLC Moodle server. You can receive an account and access to the BTLC Moodle Server by attending any of our Moodle™ sessions at the BTLC.
Many changes are in store for the Indiana Computer Educators' Conference in January, 2009. The conference will be held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, January 27, 28 & 29, 2009. Also, Workshops, Concurrent sessions, Success Showcase presentations, Mini-Lab activities and Exhibitors will be held on both Wednesday and Thursday this year. Watch for more details in the June Et Cetera newsletter.
Since many of the Et Cetera subscribers use their school email accounts and may not have access to the newsletter during the summer months, the June edition of Et Cetera will focus on technology coordinator-type issues, and will not be published during the month of July. However, we will resume our normal monthly schedule again in August. Of course, previous issues can always be found at Et Cetera's archive web page.
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.
Your digital footprint is the trail you leave in cyberspace through emails sent, blog postings, entries at SNS (Social networking sites), and other interactions with the Internet. It is like leaving virtual fingerprints for everything you do online. Think twice then "don't!" when considering any improper activities on the web since "digital dirt" is much more difficult to destroy than a paper trail. Job firings, political campaigns and even criminal trials have used digital footprints as evidence.
