Northeast Region

Join leaders in K-12 videoconferencing to learn structures and templates for student projects and collaborations. This class is team taught with VC colleagues in California, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Ohio, and across Texas. Guest speakers each day will share additional engaging uses of videoconferencing. Team up with another teacher to create a VC project for next year. Along the way, learn about and use other collaborative technologies such as blogs, wikis, Flickr, Google Docs, and Skype.

Details
Dates: June 16th-20th
Time: 8:00 am-3:00 pm
Cost: FREE-EduTech is waving the $280 fee per participant!
Location: Devils Lake School for Deaf in Devils Lake, ND
GT Credit: 2 Hours of Graduate Credit will be available through NDSU ($65 per credit)

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This online survey will help EduTech gain valuable feedback for videoconference programs used by K-12 schools during the 2007–2008 school year. Responses given will provide useful information about the various types of programming and content providers schools across the state are using and to improve planning and implementation.

To complete the online survey visit http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB227RRV9WVRD. Completion deadline is Wednesday, May 14th.

Survey results will be shared through EduTech's website and the various North Dakota education e-mail lists mid May.

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The Wii Fit is coming to a store near you. What is the Wii Fit? It is a part interactive scale and game board. The Wii Fit is going to revolutionize the way we exercise—or in most households in America—create the desire to exercise. According to statistics on this platform’s release in Japan, more than 1 million Wii Fits have been sold so far. In Europe the Wii Fit is selling faster than one could imagine a ‘toy’ could sell.

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I’m :0] (smiling) because of an article that was just posted on CNN describing how teenagers are showing an increase in use of emoticon’s in school assignments, instead of standard English.

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Recently smartboard updated their notebook software from version 9.5 to version 10, which is available for download for both the MAC and PC operating systems.

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