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 support 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.

With a few extra long hours the keyboarding sub-committee has completed their keyboarding skills document.  SUETA and TDEC have fielded many calls by teachers asking for guidance in this area.  Specifically, teachers have wanted to know how many WPM students should be able to do at each grade level.  This document attempts to answer this question and more.  Many people have contributed to this document including Georgia-Cumberland’s Keyboarding Committee.  The next stop for the document is the Southern Union Education Elementary Advisory before being voted in February at the next full education council.  There is even hope by some that the document will eventually be adopted in some form by the North American Division Office of Education.