This document can be used to provide information on the important role that school librarians play in promoting the use of educational technologies in their schools and the need for libraries to have adequate available technologies. The statement was created by the SIGMS Executive Advocacy Committee - Lisa Perez, Doug Johnson, Joyce Valenza, Keisa Williams, Wendy Stephens and Ernie Cox.

from eSchoolNews.com

Children's ebooks with word highlighting and the added bonus of personalizing the stories.

The Pennsylvania Online Learning Summit is a face-to-face conference on October 28, 29 and 30, 2010. We will bring together PA educators who have an interest in online and blended learning. We will concentrate on Moodle, an open-source learning management system, though many other distance-learning technologies will be shared and discussed.

Presenter opportunities

"Welcome to a global collaborative videoconferencing community! This wiki is a collection of educator-created templates and projects for collaborative videoconferences. Start by browsing the projects. Then follow these instructions to add your own projects! You may also use the lesson template and the sample agendas."

Leslie Fisher's presentation for iphone/iPod Touch.

Wiki created by Patti Duncan - gathering of resource from ISTE 2010.

Installation Guides

"This report documents the beliefs, perspectives, and practices of educational administrators which help or hinder effective use of Web 2.0 in K-12 education. "

The Horizon Project: K-12 Edition wiki

from Silvia Tolisano's Langwitches Blog - She shares the "Skype Jobs" of her students for when they get ready to conduct a Skype call.

"On May 4-6, 2010, we will be holding an online career fair. Middle and high school students and parents, teachers, guidance counselors and anyone else who wants to learn about careers in Pennsylvania will be able to log on from the comfort of their home, office or school to participate in webinars with employers and schools throughout the region."

Programs for Educators Resources and Curriculum for Teachers

Are any of you using this? I created an account for the LIU, so I could see all of the materials. There are program materials for holding parent education nights for the various grade levels. This ties right in with our conversation from Thursday. There is so much on here too - check out the grade by grade guide and the family media agreements too. That's all I've had time to check out quickly!

Conference in Dubai - Jared Mader is attending and presenting here!

"eThemes is your source for content-rich, kid-safe online resources that will help enhance your teaching and save you time. eThemes provides free, fast access to over 2,500 collections of websites, on topics ranging from Aerodynamics to Zebras and everything in between! By researching and creating these resources for you, eThemes will save you the time that you used to spend wading through millions of hits on Google, trying to find a few websites that meet your teaching needs. We do the searching for you, giving you more time to improve your lesson plans and actual teach! "

Mathtrain.TV is a free educational "kids teaching kids" project from Mr. Marcos & his students at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, CA. There are student-created, teacher-created, and captioned videos.