October 8th at Sherwood High School

Cost: Free
Location: Sherwood High School
16956 SW Meinecke Rd.
Sherwood, OR 97140 - (503)825-5500
Web cast: ESDs and schools all over Oregon.
(See web site for locations...)

• Apps for teachers
• Apps for administrators
• IT and system administrators strand
• Deployment help
• Training resources

Web site for more info and registration...

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Learn all about teaching online courses from the expert teachers of the Florida Virtual School. This course will have one day of face-to-face training and the next 4 days (24 hours) will be conducted virtually. We have space for 20 so apply for your spot today!

Topics covered:

• Introduction to online learning (history, background, standards, future)
• What's it like to be a virtual instructor? (pros and cons, organization, managing time)
• Establishing rapport virtually (calling, email, IM and more)
• Feedback techniques (timeliness, specific and motivational)

We'll work on all these topics and include an introduction to resources on the ORVSD course server that you can use with your students next year.

Dates: Monday, July 26 for our one-day, face-to-face session. The rest of the course will be online.

Cost: Free

Location: NWRESD Washington Service Center
5825 NE Ray Circle Hillsboro, OR 97124-6436
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Tuition Credits: We're working on this but expect to offer graduate credit to those who complete the course. Tuition fees are the responsibility of the student.

These FREE technology courses are offered to all NWRESD area teachers.

Register HERE!

This March (2010) OpenClipArt.org released version 2.0 of their giant clipart library. It contains over 24,000 public domain images in *.svg and *.png format. The zip format is a 417 MB download. [Download link]

SVG stands for scaleable vector graphic. That means that the graphics are vector based and that when scaled to larger sizes, they do not pixelate as do *.gif, *.png and *.jpg files. The image below is from a Wikipedia article about SVG and offers a good example.

As of 2009, all major web browsers support *.svg images inside the <img> tag except for Internet Explorer. Click on the attached *.svg file at the end of this message to see if your browser supports *.svg. The file below does not display inside of a Drupal post because Drupal does not yet support *.svg as an image file. There are several groups working on this problem.

A great software tool for creating and editing *.svg files is Inkscape. It's free and runs on Linux, MAC and Windows workstations.

The US Dept. of Education released today the new National Educational Technology plan. You can download the full plan and the summary below.

Goals:

1.0 Learning
All learners will have engaging and empowering learning experiences both in and outside of school that prepare them to be active, creative, knowledgeable, and ethical participants in our globally networked society.

To meet this goal, we recommend the following actions:
1.1 Revise, create, and adopt standards and learning objectives for all content areas that reflect 21st century expertise and the power of technology to improve learning.
1.2 Develop and adopt learning resources that use technology to embody design principles from the learning sciences.
1.3 Develop and adopt learning resources that exploit the flexibility and power of technology to reach all learners anytime and anywhere.
1.4 Use advances in the learning sciences and technology to enhance STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) learning and develop, adopt, and evaluate new methodologies with the potential to enable all learners to excel in STEM.

2.0 Assessment
Our education system at all levels will leverage the power of technology to measure what matters and use assessment data for continuous improvement.

If you're uploading videos created by PhotoStory or MovieMaker (wmv), you may need to convert them to *.MP4 format before web servers like Drupal and Kaltura can publish them. A good tool for this is Any-Video-Converter. The program is free, easty to install and use and it has all of the features you need for preparing videos for the web. It even runs on Windows 7. It will even download videos from YouTube and convert them for you. Be sure to consider YouTube's terms of use when you're using content posted on their site.

Join technology-minded teachers from NWRESD area schools for 4 days of intense training. Read more and register... (click on sign up at bottom of post)

Cost: FREE!
Where: NWRESD (June 4 session in Astoria)

Substitute reimbursement provided for 3 days of training. NOTE: We have enough funds to reimburse ONLY one teacher from each district for each of the three full workshop events.

Feb 19
Open House - Information and agenda
What's it all about?

April 2
Google Docs and more

May 7
Creativity, music, video

June 4 - Digital Photo Safari - Astoria
Digital photography, software and publishing