Full Digital Alien image
News from Educational Technology
See What's New!
May 2009
Upcoming Events

Remote NECC
Live at the Orange County
Department of Education!

Terrence Roberts
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
OCDE Conference Center
7:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

$105 per person
District CTAP Certificates may be used toward
conference registration.

Contintental breakfast and lunch included.


Attend the National Educational Computing Conference live in Orange County! NECC content will be delivered live via videoconference from the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C.

Bring your own laptop and get ready to design tomorrow's lessons using the latest social learning, and neoroscience research on critical thinking, multitasking, multimodal learning, collaboration and engagement using Web 2.0 Innovation. 
Click here to register

__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________

CalisphereUCIDigital Literacy Professional Development
California History and Visual Literacy Converge with Calisphere

Monday, June 29, 2009
9:00 a.m. - Noon

$15.00
or NO CHARGE with Remote NECC registration


OCDE, Learning Resource Display Center
3001 Red Hill Ave., Costa Mesa, CA  92626, Bldg 4, Suite 117


Learn how to effectively use the FREE resources available from the UCI History Project and Calisphere for K-12 Education. This fast paced session will include:

· Professional development
· Train-the-trainers model
· Free digital archive for K-12 education
· Visual literacy analysis tool
· Hands-on training
· Copyright and intellectual property

Bring your own laptop. To register, please contact apenny@ocde.us
or 714.966.4346.
 Funding Sources


Educational Technology Funding Opportunities

Resources


Alternative To: Find free and low-cost replacements to many software titles: Photoshop to Vista, Dreamweaver to Norton Antivirus. This site will guide you to numerous software titles to help you be more productive http://alternativeto.net

ReadWriteThink: Writing an essay? Use this free online tool to map out your ideas and help you in the prewriting process
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/essaymap/

Aviary: Looking to edit images, create incredible effects, collaborate on artistic projects and more? Then try out Aviary when looking to edit images, create incredible effects, collaborate on artistic projects and more? http://aviary.com/home
Get Your Training NOW!
GoSignMeUp

Web 2:0: The 101 Course
May 12, 4:00 - 7:00 pm


Google Earth for the Language Arts Classroom
May 13, 4:00 - 7:00 pm

Grant Writing: The Short Course
May 13, 8:30 am - 3:30 pm


For a full list of courses
please go to...


Course Offerings

Have a Question?
Digital Alien
Ask Our Digital Alien
Contact Information
OCDE, Educational Technology
Email: edtechnews@ocde.us
http://edtech.ocde.us/
714.966.4461

Join Our Mailing List