Educational Technology Planning

Open 1-to-1 is a not for profit organization that provides resources and support for schools that want to deploy 1-to-1 computer solutions. Our organization is comprised of school technologists, educators, consultants, vendors, and other parties which collaborate to provide a comprehensive set of solutions and services for the Open 1-to-1 community. The mission of this organization is to make 1-to-1 computing more affordable, and create solutions that further aid in learning and greater opportunities for students and their communities.

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Meet, collaborate, conduct seminars, conduct webinars, and teach courses over the Web, in a real time, fully accessible environment! IDEAL Conference® integrates data and voice within standard web browsers. This enables people to conduct meetings over the Internet from just about any computer with a network connection and a web browser. Empower your students (e-learning) and workforce (virtual) with online conferencing and collaboration services. Deliver dynamic and interactive presentations to your partners, vendors, and customers. It's easy to conduct an accessible online meeting-and it's just as easy to invite participants and demonstrate products.

Text to speech service for web and documents. Uses personalized avatar and high quality voices. Subscription is very reasonable considering the cost of other packages.

CoFFEE is a suite of applications to support collaborative problem-solving discussions in the classroom. Its main components are a series of tools for collaboration, shared work, individual work and communication. Around these core tools, several other components make it possible to plan, run or participate in a CoFFEE lesson (or session).

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills developed the Milestones for Improving Learning and Education (MILE) Guide for 21st Century Skills to assist educators and administrators in measuring the progress of their schools in defining, teaching and assessing 21st Century Skills. Up for discussion are the materials contained in the most recent iteration of the MILE Guide, published in Spring 2009.

All of the webinars below are free and easy to join. Click the yellow buttons to log into a current meeting or watch recordings of previous webinars. The arrows allow you to scroll through the events. Then, watch the National Action Agenda discussion in our Discussion Tracks and take part in the ongoing follow up conversation.

School leaders, whether they are the ICT co-ordinator or leadership team, need to prioritise and plot a clear course of action for their staff. This is not to say an enthusiastic classroom teacher with a flair for ICT is not to be encouraged, but teachers need to be somewhat 'insulated' from the growing mass of emerging technologies so as not to be overwhelmed.

TURN UP THE H.E.A.T. with Levels of Technology Implementation.

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