Technology News for Today's K-20 Educator

From eSchool News:

History

eSchool News covers education technology in all its aspects–from legislation and litigation, to case studies, to purchasing practices and new products. First published in March of 1998, eSchool News is a monthly print and digital newspaper providing the news and information necessary to help K-20 decision-makers successfully use technology and the internet to transform North America’s schools and colleges and achieve their educational goals. The newspaper is read by more than 300,000 school leaders, and a companion web site—eSchool News Online (http://www.eschoolnews.com ) is visited by more than 500,000 unique visitors each month, including over 250,000 registered members.

Zotero: Great Research Tool

From CNET:
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work in the web browser itself.
Features include: automatic capture of citation information from Web pages; storage of PDFs, files, images, links, and whole Web pages; flexible notetaking with autosave, fast, as-you-type search through your materials; and playlist-like library organization, including saved searches (smart collections) and tags.

Give it a try.  Go to http://www.zotero.org/

EdmodoCon Registration Is Now Open

If you love Edmodo, you don't want to miss this great professional development opportunity.

"We are pleased to announce that registration for EdmodoCon 2011 is now open!Register now.  Wednesday, August 10, 2011.  10amET – 6pmET.

Please join us for a full-day of sessions, or pick and choose the sessions that interest you most. More details on each of the following sessions and the presenters will be released later this week."

To read more click on this link: http://bit.ly/r4llnG

Google's Wonder Wheel is Gone...for Now!

Unfortunately, this wonderful search tool is gone...at least for now.  To read more click on this link: http://bit.ly/pdMpD6

Wrapping Up Our July Training

It has been quite a journey but we have done well.  I have seen all of you grow in leaps and bounds moving from one module to another.  I appreciated the camaraderie among you.  Enjoy what is left of this summer break and may this coming school year be filled with a ton of technological fun.

Click here to follow this photo URL.

Wrapping Up Our May Training

Congratulations for finishing this intense training while wrapping up the school year and thank you for the feedback you gave us.  This resource is for you to continue your learning after the training.  Feel free to leave us comments or contact us. 
Have a great summer!

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Welcome to the May 2011 Gateway to Technology Training!

This is one of the main resources for this training.  Take time to familiarize yourself with it.  You will be asked to add your comments following our instruction for each module.
Best,
Grace

It's not over yet!

For all the students of our Spring Break class: a request.
As you start your own adventures using technology in the classroom, we would like to hear from you about what works and what doesn't work. How you used a specific tool to make a lesson plan more interesting, and how you get your students more interested in the subject matter you present.
Please leave us comments here on the edtech671 blog to give us feedback on the class, and how it has helped you acquaint your students with technology.
You were a great group, eager to learn, and we hope that we were able to get you started down a new road, a road of discovery. Please regale us with your exploits down the information superhighway, as your search for new technologies to use in the classroom bears fruit. Oh, and make sure you follow along with us as we come across new items to add to your tech toolbox!
Good Luck,
Grace and Robert

The sessions are over--but not the connections :)

You have worked so hard and, according to your comments and evaluations, learned a lot, too. It was such a pleasure to have you as our first group of participants.  As stated, this blog is going to be available to you and will be continuously updated with new resources. 
We encourage you to create your personal blog--just like this one--and start following us, just like Robert and Joanna have done.


Happy Easter!

Great Session!

We covered a lot of territory with spreadsheets--not to mentioned we tagged on mail merge, too! Nonetheless, you stayed focused till the end. Your reflections on our blog have been insightful and timely.  You are an awesome group!

Time to Play!

With so much information gathered from our first day of instruction, the best thing to do is to go back to those concepts and …play!

Come join us!

Gateway To Technology

GDOE

Come join us!

Learn how to create

 - newsletters for language arts

 - charts & graphs in science projects

Discover how to

 - change text to speech

 - create a class webpage in 5 mins.

 - search for free music and art

We offer small groups of instruction for 15 hours – beginning during the week of Spring Break: 16-21 Apr ’11.

To download this flyer click on this link: 
http://griffinguam.com/gateway_flyer_1.pdf

Gateway to Technology Program

This site serves as a resource and communication tool for educators who have signed up to take advantage of this technology grant.

Objectives for all 5-Course set Modules  by Dr. Jacqui Cyrus

The purpose of these modules is to enable teachers to:
• gain awareness of current technologies;

• gain comfort and facility to demonstrate an ability to use standard digital technology media;

• develop skills in the use of specialist media in order to produce classroom activities that incorporate technology.

Teachers Using Technology Video

Here's the link to access this video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJwcR_TXAOY