Welcome and Introductions

State and Federal Education Technology Updates

CTAP Region 4 Update

Upcoming Events

AB 430

Reboot: This event takes place on December 8, 2009 at ACOE. Different representatives from the business and education world will

SIS Vendor Fair: This two-part series will focus choosing a new SIS system. The first date in December will discuss what factors are important in understanding and choosing a new sis system. The February 3 event will be a vendor fair where districts can talk with vendors about their products and compare different programs side-by-side.

Cool Tools 3: East Bay CUE will host another session of cool tools

Atomic Learning: For a limited time, CTAP is partenering with Atomic Learning to offer $25 licenses.

Technology Funding Alert:

The new funding alert is out. Take special note of C-SPAN's StudentCam 2009, Napa Valley's In School and Out of School Community Impact Fund, and Contra Costa Grants, and the MOUSE squad.

Disney's High School Musical Grant: Not posted on the Funding Alert is a Disney grant to allow schools to host their own production of High School Musical or High School Musical 2. http://www.tinyurl.com/hsmusical

Chuck from Buckingham Charter School in Vacaville shared a grant resource from the Barona Tribe for teachers. This grant is open ended and is in the amount of $5000. School applying will need to solicit the support of thier assembly man. http://www.baronatribe.org/education/education.html

Grant 411 Listserv: CTAP has started the grant 411 listserv for updated information on grant opportunities that might occur between publiscation of the Technology Funding Alert.

K-12 Voucher Program

There are 2 types of vouchers, and the administrator's website has records of what each district has spent in K-12 voucher funds. 90% of invoicing errors occur because the invoices don't include the words "educational pricing."

Enhancing Education Through Technology

Competitive Grants: Livermore and Newark were awarded EETT Competitive grants.

Formula Grants (State-approved Technology Plans): We have had 2 plans submitted for the Cycle A deadline in October. We expect more plans to be submitted in December. Two new items have been added to the tech plan requirement. AB 307 has been passed and required districts to develop a plan to educate teachers and students in area of cyber ethics and cyber safety. All districts should be aware that if they use their plan for e-rate, the e-rate addendum they keep on file should be updated each year.

Spotlight on Web 2.0 Resources

Interactive Environments for Educators

David Truss

CUE NING, NECC 2008 NING

Classroom 2.0

Apple Learning Exchange

Diigo

You Noodle

SchoolLoop groups

Announcements and Upcoming Events

NetDay Speak Out Day: If you sign up as a school or a district, you will get all the data about your school and community.

CUE: Spring CUE conference is happening in Palm Springs on March 5-7, 2009. The keynote speaker will be Robert Marzano.

EB CUE: Cool Tools

MacWorld: The CUE Educators' strand will be in full force this year with educator events during the entire four days of MacWorld.

Featured Speaker: Lisa Linn (a.k.a. Clare Lane)

with a virtual visit from David Warlick (Suriawang Dapto)

Second Life in Education

Lisa Linn noted that a lady in China made a $1,000,000 selling virtual land in Second Life. Note: 2nd Life is bandwidth heavy. Things don't always happen synchronously. Education site on 2nd Life: lots of signage offering newbies help. New video there (also on ISTE site). Lisa did a demonstration tour of 2nd Life with Kevin Jarrett and David Warlick. Kevin is a K-4 teacher. Received a $10K grant to explore 2nd Life for Education. Heads the Center for Advancement of Virtual Education. Invited Will Richardson and Kathy Schrock to join him in the initial effort. They helped feed other members into the project.

ISTE started by renting space on "EduIsland". Built the Alamo, prior to the San Antonio NECC and built the Acquarium when the conference was in Atlanta. Now, there is a space for CUE there.

David Warlick joined in online from Washington State. Described himself as a "healthy skeptic." Says 2nd Life allows you to share ideas with teachers from all over the world. Thinks about it as a sandbox. Would send students there to do homework in teams... go there to build. Numbers imbedded in everything you see. Takes numbers and shapes them into objects that you see. Programming language within the numbers that enables objects to do specific things. David showed us a file cabinet in his virtual office where he keeps presentations that he has done. Can alter the numbers that describe an object and where it is. David programmed a floor cushion so that when you sat on the cushion, it turned into a hovercraft. A few BARC participants were able to join in with Lisa Linn and David Warlick by creating avatars first and then befriending Lisa, then Lisa teleported them in.

To explore ISTE's Second Life headquarters, visit
http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/93/83/30

ISTE also has a wiki to keep up on 2nd life activities.
http://secondlife.iste.wikispaces.net/

Video tutorials for building in 2nd life: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Video_Tutorials

Sites referenced by Lisa Linn:

Peggy Sheehy: Suffern Middle School in Second Life
http://ramapoislands.edublogs.org

Of Mice & Men
http://rampoislands.blogspot.com/2007/02/of-mice-and-men.html

Claudia Linden: in charge of education and the teen grid for Second Life.
http://blog.secondlife.com/author/claudialinden/

Bernajean Porter - digital storytelling in 2nd Life
http://www.storyofmysecondlife.com/?p=599

2nd Life in Education Blog
http://www.sl-educationblog.org