Technology in Education news and
faculty Presentations

News

• Three students from Dr. Joan Thormann's Technology and Special Needs course had articles published in November 2008's Learning and Leading with Technology. According to Thormann, they wrote the articles as a culminating assignment in the ECOMP 5007 course. The articles are: Robotics for All Learners, by Stacey Bayley and Lytania Mackey; and Inspiring Students with Special Needs, by Barbara F. Green.
• One of Dr. Maureen Yoder's Emerging Technology students was awarded a grant for $1553. The student, Patricia Jenkinson, applied to her regional electric cooperative for 15 GPS units to use in her Geometry classroom. "A whole group came with balloons, a backpack filled with goodies, and a huge copy of the check on poster board," said Jenkinson. "They took pictures for the local paper. My students went crazy! It was truly a good day."
• TIE faculty member and noted Middle East scholar Jo Anne Hart faced off against John Bolton, former US ambassador to the UN, about the war in Iraq on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews. See the video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNqR4oEtV0o.
• The Casper, WY, Cycle 10 group continues to have success with their grant funding through ECOMP 6101, Technology: Impact on Society and the Schools. Jim Watson has been awarded $10,000, as part of a Perkins grant, for eight Genisys scopes; Chad Sharpe has been awarded over $37,000 for PASCO Xplorer GLX system from the KWHS mini-grant program; and Sam Weaver has been awarded $24,500 as part of a CAFB project proposal. EdnaMay Duffy taught the group.
  
  UPDATE: The Casper Cycle 10 group has continued its successes, with a total of nearly $84,000 in grants and awards. Chad Sharpe has totaled $42,000 for the PASCO Xplorer GLX system. Kora Huffman received $2000 from CSF for a 20" Power Planer to be used in Industrial Technology classes at Frontier Middle School, and Robbie Lliteras received $5000 for Teton Science Camp and an after-school program at John Paul II School in Gillette, WY.

FACULTY Presentations

2009

National Annual American Montessori Conference
February 26-March 1, 2009 | New Orleans, LA

• Sheryl Ancone: Integrating Technology Into the Primary Montessori Classroom

2008

California Business Education Statewide Advisory Committee
March 6, 2008 | Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA 

• Steve Linthicum: PodCasting with Profcast

LingoLynx LLCC and Reality Spanish
April 9-12, 2008 for New Mexico Association of Bilingual Educators, Albuquerque, NM
April 25-26, 2008 for California Continuing Education Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA

• Gaye R. Teipel: Empower Monolingual Educators with Dual Language Connections;
  Presentation of research paper on Reality Spanish

International Reading Association (IRA)
May 7, 2008 | 9am-10:15am, Georgia World Congress Center/B302, Atlanta, Georgia

• Kimberly McCoy: Adult Education and Family Literacy--Decreasing the Digital Divide in Adult Education, Family Literacy, and English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL): Research-Based Initiatives and Programs

AccessAbilities Conference
May 19, 2008 | William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ

• Melda Yildiz: TEACH/CREATE/PLAY: Power of New Media in the Curriculum

NJTESOL/NJBE 2008 New Jersey Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages/NJ Bilingual Educators
May 20-21, 2008 | Somerset, New Jersey

• Melda Yildiz: Redefining Literacy and Media Education @Web 2.0

Fifteenth International Learning Conference 2008
June 3-6, 2008 | University of Illinois, Chicago, IL

• Melda Yildiz: Power of New Media in Teacher Education 2.0: Applying Web 2.0 Into the Curriculum (refereed presentation)

National Education Computing Conference
June 30, 2008 | 4:30 - 7:30pm, San Antonio, Texas

• Adrianne Hunt: Pulling the Trigger on PowerPoint: Learning Triggers and Advanced Interactivity

ED-MEDIA 2008 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia, and Telecommunications
June 30 - July 2, 2008 | Vienna, Austria

• Melda Yildiz: Cultural Literacy Project: Connecting K12 Students from Turkey and the US Through Web 2.0 Technologies
• Carl Reynolds: Student-Produced Multi-media Projects: The Assessment Conundrum

International Conference on Excellence in Education 2008: Future Minds and Creativity
July 2-4, 2008 | Paris, France

• Melda Yildiz: Power of Social Interaction Technologies in the Curriculum: Liberating Education from a Textbook Format

First Annual Southern Colorado Education Conference
July 31 - August 1, 2008 | Adams State College, Alamosa, Colorado

• Len Scrogan: Using Technology to Differentiate Instruction

National Educational Computing Conference
June 29 - July 2, 2008 | Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio, Texas

• Maureen Yoder: Constructivist Teaching 2008: Virtual Worlds, Promising Technologies, Inspiring Examples
• Judi Mathis Johnson: T_ELL Everyone How to Use Technology with English Language Learners

National School Boards Association
October 28, 2008, 4:30-6:30pm | Seattle, WA

• William Morrison: Beyond One-to-One: The All-Digital High School