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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There is an even easier way to use Atomic Learning…you can access it right from your desktop after loading a quick program. Please follow the information Atomic Learning released to set it up on desktops in your school:

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Check out this site that contains a podcast from ND students.

http://learninginhand.com/OurCity

Your school could do one about your city and the Our City site would host this for free!

Keep tuned into podcasts since EduTech plans on releasing a Podcasting/Blogging service next year!

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The email introduces E-Academy’s new webstore platform and features for the Microsoft Student Select program. I think everyone will be pleased with the new platform foremost because it eliminates assignment of codes for faculty and staff. For additional information on this new platform see E-Academy’s K12 Administrator ELMS Direct Manual located at http://www.edutech.nodak.edu/ under the announcement section.

If you’ve not yet taken advantage of this program try out the new platform by visiting http://edutech.nodak.e-academy.com

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Check out the following classes as they have been identified as "Featured" for ND Educators because of their educational value and the high interest level they have recieved.

Activboard in the Classroom

Smartboards in the Classroom

Podcasting Possibilities

Eduweb Training

What’s New in Office 2007?

Word 2007

Excel 2007

Powerpoint 2007

Outlook 2007

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North Dakota students and educators are invited to participate in the fifth
annual Megaconference Jr. global event scheduled for Thursday, February 21,
2008.

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Mark Your Calendars Now! Dates Have Been Confirmed for the 2008 Videoconference Teacher Institute

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Kuauhtemoc Rodriguez will be the Information Technology Specialist for the Northeast when he returns from the military where he is on active duty. Before his departure, he was the ITS for the Northwest region. You can continue to contact me until his return.

My role has changed within EduTech. I am now the Coordinator of Training Programs.

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I am making my way through the NorthEast Region doing site visits. Many of you have asked for similar information so I am putting these FAQ's in the extended entry below.

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Contact me to set up a connection with Australia and your students over video for next year! We have recently done three connections with Andrew Howard and they were well received. He has informed me that he is willing to do one a month next year. The content is wide open. He has many connections in Australia. One for sure can be animals of Australia and the cultural and environmental differences between there and where we live. Call, e-mail, or leave a comment for me so we can brainstorm some possibilities!

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Elementary students, who attend the School for the Deaf in Devils Lake, ND participated in an international video conference on May 7, 2007 with Canberra, Australia. NDSD teachers Kim Sherek and Denise Marback, along with their students participated in the videoconference.

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Click on the following link to listen to the podcasts that feature guests Darin King and Mike DeFoe with host John Gieser. These podcasts cover subjects such as podcasting, Skype and RSS feeds.

EduCast

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I attended the TIE Conference in Rapid City, South Dakota. One session I attended was entitled Web 2.0 Technologies-Blogs and Wikis. The presenters were Julie Mathiesen and Lennie Symes. They gave us hands on experiences with wikis and blogs. They also emphasized many reasons for encouraging teachers and students to blog and use wikis. The reasons they gave were creating communities, self expression, authentic experiences, improving literacy, and engaging students.

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http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/default.mspx

http://isafe.org

www.netsafe.org

http://www.netsmartz.org/

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Sixth graders from Devils Lake and Cavalier connected over interactive video today to discuss the Millennium Goals. They have been communicating about the goals over the moodle interface for three months with students from Ireland. The Millennium Goals are as follows:

1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
4. Reduce child mortality
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop a global partnership for development

For more information on the Millennium Goals visit:
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals

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Each day Valley Middle School students in Grand Forks turn the morning announcements into podcasts.

Click below to hear the podcasts from Valley Middle School.
http://www.grand-forks.k12.nd.us/education/school/school.php?sectionid=16

When I observed this process, the students handled every last detail from reading the announcements live to publishing the podcasts. This is a project that has real life purposes of communicating with parents and giving students the experience of utilizing technology.

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Cavalier students and teacher showcasing how they use ActivBoartds in the classroom

Rock Lake students and teachers showcasing their use of the Smartboard.

Devils Lake students and teacher communicating about their podcasts and international videoconferencing

Grand Forks students posing with Governor Hoeven

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The following is a description of schools in our region who will be represented in Bismarck at the Legislative Showcase on March 6th. These schools were chosen because of their cutting edge use of technology:

Devils Lake: Podcasts, iSight cameras, international videoconferencing

Cavalier: ActivBoard in the Math Curriculum

Grand Forks: Oral History DVD Projects (iBooks and iMovie)

Rock Lake: Smartboards across the curriculum

Pictures of the event to follow in future postings!

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Here is a great idea that came from Kerry Rysavy, Technology Coordinator at North Dakota School for the Deaf in Devils Lake. This allows for younger students to reach the board with ease.

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