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Michigan Department of Education
7th Standard Workshop
On January 30, COATT will be co-sponsoring a new 7th Standard Workshop, "Assessing
Performance: How Do We Know Technology Integration is Working?" This workshop
is the second session in a series of workshops on the new 7th Standard for pre-service
teachers. The workshop will be held in Lansing. There is no registration fee,
but please register for the workshop in advance. A registration form is available
at the COATT website (http://www.coatt.org/mde/jan30.html).
The registration deadline is January 21, 2004.
COATT’s booth
at MACUL
COATT will have a booth at the MACUL Conference, at the DeVos Place, Grand
Rapids, MI on March 10-12, 2004. Stop by booth #611 to receive a COATT CD-ROM
and other promotional materials.
Handheld Teaching and Learning
Conference
Jim Hirsch, Associate Superintendent for Technology, Plano Independent School
District, Plano, Texas will keynote the Wayne RESA Handheld Conference on February
11, 2004. The one-day conference will include topics on research, management,
administrative issues and applications, teacher and student tools, and classroom
examples of using handheld computers. The day will be closed by an address
by Dr. Elliott Soloway of the University of Michigan. Registration information
may be found at http://itt.resa.net/FebConference/.
The History Channel in the Classroom
The History Channel and Comcast have announced a three-year partnership with
The School District of Philadelphia to provide teacher training sessions,
grants/scholarships, classroom materials and a public service announcement
for Philadelphia's public secondary school teachers and students. The History
Channel education initiative with The School District of Philadelphia is
part of Save Our History(R), the network's national campaign for historic
preservation and history education.
The History Channel website (http://www.historychannel.com/) with
its video clips, audio speeches, and the Save Our Documents collections
are excellent resources in any classroom. Save Our Documents is a combination
of efforts by the History Channel, National History Day and the National
Archives to examine the great documents in the archives' collection.
These historic documents can be brought to life at the Image Gallery (http://www.historychannel.com/classroom/documents/sod_image_gallery.html) along
with lesson plans and student activities.
Video On Demand
A video streaming service that delivers clips of educational videos on demand
to teachers’ desktop computers has been found to boost student achievement
by nearly 13 percent in some Virginia schools. Teachers say the online service
helps engage students’ interest while making lesson-planning easier.
Unitedstreaming (http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStoryalert.cfm?ArticleID=4071),
available to most teachers in the state of Michigan through their ISD, contains
over 15,000 clips that can be used by videostreaming directly from the Internet.
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