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Calendar of Education Events in NJ and NY

This is probably a sales pitch but I thought I would pass it on. It's free. "The JAMF Nation Roadshow stops by New York City, on Tuesday, June 9th at the beautiful CATCH NYC. Whether you're new to managing Apple, or are looking for a better management solution, the Roadshow is designed to meet you where you're at. This free event features breakouts and topics ranging from the basics of iOS and Mac management to taking the stress out of OS upgrades to leveraging iBeacons, DEP and VPP - so you can pick the tracks that are relevant to you."

Website with resource links, loan form, events, technology maps, director of instructional technology's calendar.

Link to register for free event on October 22

The April 2015 Infotopia Newsletter in PDF is now online. This month's issue includes online drawing and painting programs, resources for National Poetry Month and Earth Day, April events, our new technology page for Kidtopia, and all about the photos on Infotopia.

A number of interesting short talks from the Discovery Education Fall Virtcon about 13 Literacies.

Could be useful to share with families or to make an evening conversation/event between school and parents.

This is May 14, 2015 at 4:00pm PDT which translates to 7:00pm Eastern. "Find out what it takes to run a Minecraft server so that players can participate together. Connected Camps staff will also talk about some useful tools and add-ons to help with server management."

Daily, child appropriate news in categories of war&peace, science, kids, money, law, health, arts, and sports. The same article can be viewed in multiple reading Lexiles. Many articles have short four question quizzes. The content can be used to lead classroom discussions.