Using Technology to Make Every Classroom an Art Classroom (April 22, 2009)

presented by Mark Gura http://iste.acrobat.com/p84153852/. (Please be patient; the first 30 or so seconds skip a bit. The rest of the recording is terrific!)

Contact Mark by email: markgura@optonline.net

The Teachers Podcast (Free PD – Mark Gura and Dr. Kathy King hosts)
www.teacherspodcast.org

Visual Arts Units for All Levels:http://www.iste.org/netart
African Study Box:http://www.slideshare.net/markgura/african-culture-sculpture
Food Chain PowerPoint animationhttp://www.slideshare.net/markgura/food-chain-1277806
Visual Art and Technology BLOG: http://visualartunits.blogspot.com/

Playing Games in Schools: Engaging Students with Interactive Entertainment (April 21, 2009)

presented by Dr. Atsusi “2c” Hirumi http://iste.acrobat.com/p76304976/.

2c invites you to email him at hirumi@mail.ucf.edu

Digital Photography for the K-5 Classroom

presented by Dr. Alice Christie. http://iste.acrobat.com/p70146421/ 

Please note that this archive is corrupted. The Adobe Connect Team has been working on fixing the problem (the audio and video tracks are more than two minutes off one another.)

UPDATE FROM ADOBE CONNECT SUPPORT April 29: "Unfortunately the issue that you have reported in this ticket cannot be fixed. Our engineering team tried to fix it but did not have any luck.I have requested our Tier 3 engineers to find out what could have caused this and how it can be stopped from happening again."

Best Practices in 1-to-1 Tablet PC Deployments in the K-12 Classroom (April 8, 2009)

presented by Dr. Dave Berque  http://iste.acrobat.com/p58651112/.

Software Demonstrated:
General Productivity:
Microsoft Word www.microsoft.com
Microsoft PowerPoint www.microsoft.com
PDF Annotator www.ograhl.com/en/pdfannotator/

Cross Discipline Interaction, Note-taking, and Monitoring
DyKnow www.dyknow.com

Discipline Specific Tools - Microsoft PowerToys (Free Downloads)
From:  www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/tabletpc.mspx
Physics Illustrator
Music Composition Tool
Writing Practice Tool

Conferences:
National Educational Computing Conference NECC June 28 – July 1, 2009, http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2009/
Do a “Program Search” for “Tablet” to find Tablet PC sample classes.

Workshop on the Impact of Pen-based Technology on Education
WIPTE, October 12-13, 2009, www.wipte.org

Cincinnati Country Day School Tablet PC Conferences
Various Dates, http://www.countryday.net/programs/technology_tablet.aspx

Books:
“Tablet PCs in K-12 Education,” an ISTE Publication
www.iste.org/tablet

BONUS ARCHIVE! So the Stimulus Passed--Now What? (April 2, 2009)

Recording: http://iste.acrobat.com/p67423522/

Resources from the webinar:

• PDF of the slides
• The Ed Tech Action Network at www.edtechactionnetwork.org
• Survey: http://tinyurl.com/ISTE-ARRA
• Washington Ed Tech Policy Summit: www.iste.org/summit09
• ISTE Advocacy Blog: www.iste-community.org/profile/hilarygoldmann
• www.ed.gov and www.recovery.org

FAQs, hot topics, etc.

• Preliminary estimates of Title I, Part A recovery allocations to each State and LEA
• www.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/news.html#ARRA
• Preliminary information about each State’s IDEA allocation
• www.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/Statetables/recovery.html
• SFSF Questions: State.fiscal.fund@ed.gov
• IDEA Questions: IDEArecoverycomments@ed.gov
• Title I Questions: oese@ed.gov
• Inspector General Questions: rich.rasa@ed.gov
• Independent Living and Vocational Rehabilitation Questions: RSARecoverActComments@ed.gov