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UPCOMING EVENTS
VSTE @ RPDIT July 7 - 8, 2015 Rocky Mount, Virginia
Digital Age Learning 2015 July 22, 2015 Portsmouth, Virginia
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Events and Items of Interest to VSTE Members
Besides our Summer of Learning events, there are a variety of other options for learning. Here are just a few...
GIS Workshops for Educators Summer 2015 The Virginia GIS K-12 Consortium is providing five training opportunities to teachers and educators on how to use ESRI's ArcGIS software and integrate it into a variety of classrooms and curricula.
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TechSplash 2015 Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center Abingdon, VA July 13, 2015 Learn More Making Engineering Everything Albemarle County Public Schools is hosting the Virginia Technology and Engineering Association 2015 Summer Conference, July 29-31, 2015. Check it out for a hands-on experience into making, engineering, electronics, programming and research while connecting with educators, administrators, artists, and professionals. Learn More
Call for Proposals Open Now
VMI STEM Education Conference
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Virginia Society for Technology in Education
PMB 149 - 9702 Gayton Road
Richmond, Virginia 23238
vste@vste.org
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 What We're Reading
Featuring resources of interest to our members
Gaming, Gamification, Game-Based Learning: Thinking about incorporating games in your classroom? This blog entry and graphic from Pranjalee Thanekar at Upside Learning helps distinguish between the varieties of gaming.
Minecraft and Kids: A great cover article from The New Yorker about Minecraft and learning. Want to learn more about Minecraft? Check out the VE PLN summer book group.
Game Designers and Teachers are teaming up in Pittsburgh to create games that meet the needs of students and teachers. The games incorporate physical movement, collaboration and reflection. The article from KQED describes both sample games and the challenges of designing learning games.
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We know many of you will be traveling to Philadelphia for the ISTE Conference in late June. Want to connect with your VSTE colleagues and friends? Join us at our reception, which will be held at Field House Philly on Tuesday, June 30, 2015, from 5 to 7 PM. Tickets are free but registration is required. Space is limited so REGISTER NOW. |
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Summer is on its way which means VSTE is gearing up for its summer learning events. These regional one-day events are free or low cost and include lunch, beverages and all the M&Ms you can eat. Browse below to find one in your area:
VSTE Day @ RPDIT
Opening Session: Tuesday, July 7, 8:30 - 12:00
Workshops and Technology Showcase: Wednesday, July 8, 8:00 - 4:00
Gereau Center, Rocky Mount, Virginia
Discussions of ed tech issues as well as sessions related to educational technology and integration from Google to Classflow to Online Learning.
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Digital Age Learning
July 22, 9 AM - 4 PM
Parkview Elementary, 260 Elm Avenue, Portsmouth, VA 23704
A full day of learning with over 20 breakouts sessions on a variety of educational technology topics including Classflow, Office 365, iPads, Edmodo and more. Learn how to choose the best tools and how to manage a 1:1 classroom. Learn More |
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS OPEN NOW!
What are you doing to make your classroom innovative? How is technology changing the way you teach and your students learn? We want to hear from you! Please consider sharing your expertise and passion at the annual conference.
Presenters also receive a significant discount on registration. Whether you are a first-time or returning presenter, your presence makes a difference.
Super Early Bird registration is open now for the 30th Annual Technology in Education Conference. We'll be celebrating with the best conference ever held December 6-8, 2015, at the Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center, Roanoke, Virginia. Check out the conference website and register now.
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From Kim Harrison, President of VSTE's Virtual Environments PLN...
While you are out enjoying the hot weather and catching some time by the beach, we want to enrich your minds with VSTE's annual online book club in Second Life and for the first year in Minecraft.
This Summer we will be reading An Educator's Guide to Using Minecraft in the Classroom also known as "Minecraft in the Classroom: Ideas, inspiration and student projects for teachers" by Colin Gallagher.
With VSTE's first year of having an educators only Minecraft server, we want to show you all the wonderful things one can do in Minecraft while we explore the world of Minecraft and find ways to incorporate student projects within the curriculum.
The VSTE Summer Book Club will hold discussion meetings in Second Life on July 13, 27 and August 10 at 8 PM. During the Mondays between these sessions, and possibly throughout the week with enough response, we will be in the VSTE Minecraft world to play and practice.
We hope you join us as we venture through these Virtual Environments helping each other in this new popular online world with a lot of potential.
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VSTE 2015: 30th Anniversary Conference