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volume 1 number 9
June 2008
Dear Subscriber to ETC,
Please forward this newsletter and invite others to join this informative newsletter filled with upcoming events and current news!
During the summer of 2008, the Indiana General Assembly will form a study committee to review and make recommendations on the availability of virtual learning for K-12 students in Indiana. Read more about this topic.
There are not many people who think of this topic on a regular basis. However, we have all heard horror stories of the impact of failing to think in these terms. Being a technology director in public education should come with an inherent need to consider the next person in line.
With the cost of everything we use going up, up, and up, have you found an interactive whiteboard is just not in the budget this year? Here are some suggested solutions which might suffice until the money becomes more attainable.
Does your school have a need for more computer stations? The state of Indiana makes "surplus" computers available to eligible educational entities. Currently, the surplus includes Pentium III and IV type computers. The Corporation for Educational Technology serves as a facilitator between those who qualify and the Indiana Department of Administration's State Surplus organization. Go to this article for more information and to download the request form.
The LIVE GREEN Teacher Grant, a Discovery Education program, challenges middle school teachers to develop innovative ideas for furthering environmental and energy sustainability. Teachers will identify an issue or problem, create a plan to address it, and integrate the topic into classroom teaching. For more information, or to apply, visit Discovery's web site.
Think ahead! Get ready for 2009 by checking out a variety of technology grants offered by municipalities, federal and state government, and corporations. Links to these sites can be found on this web page.
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.
Colors in technology are often referred to by these two acronyms. RGB stands for Red,
Green, Blue, and are the main colors of light that can be perceived by the human eye. CMYK stands for Cyan (blue), Magenta (pinkish red), Yellow and Black, and are the standard colors of ink used in today's printers. Mixtures of these colors can provide a wide variety of colors and shades. When editing colors in technology projects, use RGB colors for images to be viewed on screen, and CMYK selections when the project is to be printed.
