The Southern Union Educational Technology Association (SUETA) met this week on Tuesday and Wednesday.  The group strives to effect postive change in educational technology through collaboration, networking, and recommending.  This year the association refocussed their energy to effect support to our teachers, schools, conferences, and Union.  Starting in February the association will hold monthly GoToMeetings on various topics of interest to SUETA members.  The schedule will be posted in the next few days at www.SUETA.org. 

They also hope to finish creating a very usable and current technology plan template for schools.

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The following contest would be a great opportunity for students to use Corel Painter or Corel Photo Paint Pro.

THE 2008 HEALTHY LIFESTYLE CONTEST

Healthy Lifestyle 2008 is a contest open to the young people of the North American Division. The purpose of the contest is to encourage participants to sign the temperance pledge and commit to a healthly lifestyle. Participants can submit creative health-themed projects in one of four categories shown below. Prize money will be available in all four contest groups and three grade levels. Please visit the prizes and rules sections of this site or click on ...   more »

Have you been wanting to experiment with synchronous technologies, but been held back by the cost of the soultions available?  Here is a chance to really test out its possibilities are for free. Elluminate is offering any K-12 academic institution free, unlimited access of Elluminate Live! Lite Edition for one year.  This is one of the foremost solutions available for synchronous communications in a school setting.  While not all of their features are available on the Lite version, it will definitely give you a change to test things out. Here is a link to more informationon the offering. 

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We have a new Russian student at our school who doesn’t speak any English.  He couldn’t understand how to login to the computer with his user name and password.  His teacher, Mrs. Smith tried writing things down on paper accompanied by a lot of pointing, but that didn’t help either.  Then she thought about using an online translator.  She went to http://babelfish.altavista.com/ and typed in the message.  She printed off the translation and took it to her student.  Immediately his eyes lit up and he nodded his head.  Mission accomplished! 

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Here is a captivating presentation that should get attention at any gathering of educators. 

Link to a flash version:  http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift

The original source:  http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2006/08/did-you-know.html

 

Any comments?

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A working model of the $100 laptop has been shown, and here is an eWeek preview.  This project is looking to provide low cost computing for education in developing countries.  It will be interesting to see how it plays out here in North America too.

(http://www.eweek.com/slideshow_viewer/0,1205,l=&s=25951&a=205057&po=1,00.asp?p=y&?kc=EWEWEMNL041307EP38A)

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A first-of-its kind experiment in a global on-line conversation among the
Adventist community will occur April 10-12, 2007.  Open to people in every
continent, this online experience will be an interactive and dynamic
brainstorming session where people come together to propose innovations,
discuss major trends, opportunities, and breakthrough initiatives in the
Church’s mission and ministry.  People from every country and community will
be free to post their best ideas, refine the ideas of others, and lend their
own, unique perspectives to the conversation. 

Your thoughts and insights, combined with a little preparation, are all you
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To help ed-tech leaders ensure that new technologies are properly installed and integratedd into the curriculum, the education division of the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) has release a new software implementation checklist for schools.   more »

Web resources for the interactive educator. Adapted from I.E. magazine.   more »

Teachers can spend hours surfing the web for good sites. The featured sites on this posting include grant information, lesson plan resources, science experiments, and resources for integrating video production into the classroom.

Check the TDEC blog often for Worthwhile Websites.   more »

Do a search for NAD and EDUCATION at www.youtube.com and the NAD promotional videos should be found.  They are already available from the NADECUACATION.ORG site, but we thought why not make them available on this more public forum.  Lets use any medium possible to spread the word about our passion and mission .   more »

Technology and Distance Education Committee is your access to grants, scholorships and group purchasing power. Come visit www.nadtdec.org

 

Larry Blackmer,

Chairperson

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As a very very much a layperson who uses computers, I, as a member of the TDEC committee, find this committee of IT professionals works very long hours to study and explore agenda which keeps our Technology program up-to-date.  The information that is shared helps me come to a given level of knowledge about this tool that now controls our life.

 

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This  has been my first experience with the NADTDEC committee. Great experience! I look forward to working together with the group as well as attending future meeting. Thanks for the initiation…by the way, this is my first experience with blogging—hope to actually have something interesting and useful to post in future blogs.

I have installed an interesting application - BlogJet. It's a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com

"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond ...   more »