Ed Tech Leadership Conference: Day 2

Breakfast with Bruce Umpstead, MDE

State Superintendent Flanagan is on Twitter: www.twitter.com/SuptFlanagan
Dell is using Twitter to make money through viral marketing.
Bruce doesn’t Twitter because he doesn’t have an iPhone.
Bruce is jealous because he can’t get to the iPhone app store. He derisively refers to his Blackberry “brick”.
METS 2009 are in public draft on techplan.org
Need to empower [...]

Ed Tech Leadership Conference: Day 1

Presented by MACUL and MIEM at Holt High School
June 22-23, 2009
(etlc) Complete Program
Supplemental Materials
 General Reflections

Nice school. I came from the west and you’re going uphill. All of a sudden, bam, you see it. It looks like a wing from the Hogwart’s school, without the cupola’s. Very imposing and grand.
The data projectors are the same [...]

Technology Tips for Elementary Educators

Don’t let the title fool you
Mindy and I attended a session presented by Eboni White from Southfield. She had four categories for using technology in her classroom.
Get Organized

Lunch count: Set up an Excel spreadsheet and have the students fill in themselves as they enter.
Save the lunch data for graphing later.

Prepare tech materials like other subject [...]

The latest tech-savvy buzzwords

Two new technology buzzwords for you to use.
“Web 2.0″ – Ok, this one isn’t new but since no one seems to have the true definition, it’s like new. Think social networking like Facebook, Myspace along with “resources for collaboration, skill building, communication, critical thinking and creativity.” I bought an ISTE book called “web 2.0: new [...]

Soundzabound: Copyright safe music for pod-casting, videos and multimedia

Soundzabound is royalty free music for schools. They offer six volumes of copyright cleared music for schools that can be used and copied freely for student creations and teacher use. They have a wide range of styles. The cost per building is around $600. It’s something to think about because RPS wants to follow copyright [...]

Lexia Reading

Lexia has switched distributors and tech support. Their solution is now completely online and eliminates the headaches of supporting a great program with 1990s-like hostilities to networking. Ravenna and the ESU should look at replacing this ancient albatross with the new version.

Free elementary research site

www.facts4me.com
Login free from March 18 through Apr 3 as often as you want
username: 2009
password: macul

Airliner & Sympodium

When I speak of having a wireless interactive board I am talking about something like the Airliner wireless slate or Sympodium from Smart Technologies.

Polyvision Eno

The Eno is a new, wireless board that is really intriguing. The surface can be used just like a whiteboard, it’s magnetic and a screwdriver can’t scratch it. It just came out Jan. 1, 2009. It comes bundled with the RM EasiTeach software. The 4′X8′ board runs $2,000.
J. Dobbs & C. Mezeske were going to [...]

Statement Apparel can make anything with a logo

If anyone is looking for apparel or promotional marketing, these guys stopped me:
John Lilienthal 
Statement Apparel
8019 Grand River
Brighton, MI 48114
(888) 852-6662
www.statementapparel.net