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ISTE Hurt Book Sale Tomorrow in Eugene, OR
I’ll be live tweeting from sale tomorrow in the late morning and early afternoon. Hope to see you there!
ISTE Prepares for Website Launch Sept. 1
We are excited to announce the launch of our new ISTE website on September 1. The new site (www.iste.org) will offer the great resources and information you have come to expect from ISTE, and will feature improved navigation, more interactivity, and an updated look and feel.
The new website will allow you to engage with education [...]
Retool Your School With Free Google Apps
In a brand new postcast offered by ISTE Books, James Lerman and Ronique Hicks, co-authors of Retool Your School: The Educator’s Essential Guide to Google’s Free Power Apps, discuss the benefits of bringing Google Apps into the classroom. Lerman and Hicks explain Google Applications Education Edition, share how educators are using Google [...]
Should there be Limits on Students’ Screen Time?
The point/counterpoint question for the next issue of L&L asks “Should there be limits on students’ screen time?” The ISTE magazine is asking for reader input on this sensitive topic. I’ve been thinking a lot about this issue lately as my child moves from baby-hood to life as a more alert, active, and aware toddler.
Last [...]
Final Stats Announced for ISTE 2010
The official numbers from ISTE 2010 are in and they are impressive. The slow Wi-Fi during major events can be explained in part by the 16,500 devices trying to connect at the same time. Also, my sore feet can attest to the accuracy of the exhibit hall numbers. Walking that floor was like hiking a [...]
Denver Public Schools Distance Learning Streams Live from ISTE 2010
Are you feeling ISTE-envy? Trying to keep up with the deluge of tweets on #iste10? The Denver Public Schools Distance Learning Network is offering yet another way for people watch and participate in ISTE 2010.
Denver Public Schools, Distance Learning Department runs Comcast Channel 22 for Educational TV programming here in Denver and are streaming live [...]
Ed Sec. Duncan’s Video Shows Priorities for Public Education
Eduflack wrote a thought-provoking blog post this week titled Social Media Failure in our Schools. About three weeks ago Secretary of Education Ame Duncan offered up a video for school principals where he “lays out the Administration’s education priorities, funding commitments for programs like Title I and IDEA, and plans for improving the federal [...]
Teaching Technology: Practical Skills or Critical Thought?
ISTE was on the road last week. While I was living it up in Las Vegas at the Broadcast Educator Association conference, the ISTE leadership was on the other side of the world at the 2010 Global Forum on Technology & Innovation in Teaching and Leadership held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
ISTE CEO Dr. Don [...]
Education Technology: A Student’s Perspective
I am Sierra, a 7th grader and Rob Reed’s daughter. I went with him to California to the HP Innovations in Education conference, co-sponsored by ISTE.
So far, my classroom has been using shared computers for the whole school(Macbooks) and each student has an assigned computer. We do not do much on the computers but type [...]
ISTE 2009 Award Winner, Sheryl Abshire, Named to USAC Board
Congratulations to long-time ISTE member and winner of ISTE’s first annual Public Policy Advocate of the Year, Dr. Sheryl Abshire, on her appointment to the federal governing board of the Universal Services Administrative Company(USAC). Among its duties, the USAC oversees the e-rate program. Abshire is theChief Technology Officer for Calcasieu (LA) Parish Public Schools.
Read more about Abshire’s recent [...]
