Session I Session II Policy Discussions
9:45 -11:15 am
States Sharing with States Session I
Individualized and Alternative Assessments - Lincoln Room
Dee Appleby, Director Office of eLearning, South Carolina
Linda Hains, Consultant, South Carolina
Rick Gaisford, Educational Technology Specialist, Utah
The South Carolina Department of Education (SCDOE) created an ePortfolio system that measures the technology proficiency of all K-12 certified staff and students in grades K-8 using technology assessments aligned to the latest ISTE/NETS Standards. Additionally, the ePortfolio system prescribes individualized professional development for staff and resources for students; measures performance via an electronic portfolio; and provides reporting analysis for individuals, schools, districts, and state levels as required by the EDENS Data Collection Report. Based on the success of our program, your state might want to adopt the ePortfolio system. In Utah, Sevier District is piloting a new way to deliver assessment. The district data disaggregate system (DDS) has a simple user-friendly format for teachers and administrators to view Utah's end-of-level assessments. The DDS system also disaggregates Northwest Education Association (NWEA) Measure of Academic Progress (MAP) data. Teachers rapidly obtain a diagnostic profile of all students in their classroom.
Creative Approaches to Digital Content - Kennedy Room
Barbara Fardell, Education Technology Manager, Michigan
Dr. Tammy McGraw, Director of Educational Technology, Virginia
Lan Neugent, Assistant Superintendent for Technology and Career Education, Virginia
Video Recording of Session
Removing the barriers to online instruction is the goal of the EETT Michigan Learns Online Grant. After identifying cost as the number one reason for the slow expansion of online learning in Michigan, the grant purchased and is giving away the digital content for a complete high school curriculum. Supporting this statewide EETT grant is professional development for both teachers and administrators to assist with various levels of virtual learning implementation. Virginia has recently applied two creative approaches to developing digital content. The Apps Challenge is based upon the premise that iPhone/iPod touch applications can help students learn critical information that might prove too difficult in regular instruction. Another digital content initiative is the Physics Flexbook. This project provides Virginia schools with an electronic text featuring regularly updated resources and information that can be changed continually as scientific advances occur.
Professional Development for Administrators - Jefferson Room
Rowland Baker, Director of the TICAL Project, Arkansas
Mike Kozak, Co-Administrator - Curriculum, Instruction and Innovation, Nebraska
Brent Gaswick, Technology Integration Specialist, Nebraska
Carla Wade, Technology Education and Title I Specialist, Oregon
Arkansas's Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership (TICAL) is a statewide project consisting of three things: a portal of hundreds of resources to assist administrators in running their schools and districts, a group of practicing administrators that help populate the portal and provide professional development and an annual conference. Nebraska will highlight the planning and facilitation of their first annual Educational Administrators Technology Conference and plans for additional professional development opportunities for Nebraska’s school administrators. The session will includes tips on how to organize an administrator’s ed tech conference on minimal budget and video clips from some of the key sessions. The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) is working in partnership with the Confederation of Oregon School Administrators (COSA) to offer professional development for administrators on 21st Century Learning. Starting this fall, Oregon will hold T4: Third Tuesday Technology Talks; 30 minute webinars and podcasts with experts sharing "hot topic" strategies.
Making the Most of Competitive Grant Evaluations - Roosevelt Room
Melinda Stanley, Educational Technology Consultant, Kansas
Deborah Sutton, Director of Instructional Technology, Missouri
Monica Beglau, Executive Director - eMINTS Natl. Center, Missouri
Missouri’s competitive Title II.D grant recipients/projects undergo a series of monitoring and evaluation activities. Research and evaluation is conducted both at the program (state) level and at the project (local) level, with both including formative and summative assessments. Deborah Sutton and Monica Beglau will discuss how the Missouri Dept. of Education, the eMINTS National Center, along with the grant recipients and their external evaluators work together to address various reporting requirements, from structuring evaluation studies to submitting annual and final (pre-post) project evaluation reports. Kansas will share its three-tiered approach to evaluating the state EETT Competitive Grant project, Kansas Technology Rich Classrooms. The team will highlight how state level program evaluation, district/LEA level local evaluation, and research activities have helped shape program improvement, encourage growth and sustainability for grant participants, and ultimately, show the impact the program has on students, teachers, and schools. More information available at: http://www.kansastrc.org/page/evaluation-1
1:45 - 3:15 pm
States Sharing with States Session II
Technology Integration for Preservice and First Year Teachers - Lincoln Room
Peg Henson, Curriculum Technology Specialist, South Dakota
Gloria Steele, TIE Consultant
Brenda Williams, State Technology Director West Virginia
South Dakota will highlight how it is using online mentors to help build capacity in new teachers across the state. In 2008-2009, there was a special focus on new teachers in high need schools, most serving Native American students. South Dakota will share details of lessons learned from the online mentoring system. West Virginia will share details regarding their Transitioning from Teacher Candidate to Professional Teacher Through Technology Fluency—A K-12/Higher Education/State Department of Education Partnership. The goal of the program is to provide Innovative Activities will be shared to address teaching and learning in a global 21 environment.
Best Practices in STEM Education - Kennedy Room
Shannon Parks, Education Administrator, Alabama
Dr. Melinda Maddox, State Technology Director, Alabama
Nancy Carey, Maryland
Jayne Moore, Maryland
Video Recording of Session
Alabama’s Girls Engaged in Math and Science University, GEMS-U, project-based learning concept was created to deeply engage girls in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics through 21st Century Technology tools and pedagogies. The Alabama Learning Exchange, ALEX, a 2009 winner of the Center for Digital Education’s “Best of the Web,” in collaboration with state and national partners, including Apple iTunes U, is creating a robust learning community full of podcasts and exciting learning resources designed to motivate girls to envision themselves as powerful contributors to 21st Century thought and paradigms. The project will culminate in girls building projects using technology to research and express STEM key concepts. Maryland will highlight projects that combine funding to maximize effective technology integration in their Math-Science Partnership Grants. The Maryland model for STEM builds upon a priority to refine the math, science, and technology curricula, allowing for a trans disciplinary approach that incorporates the latest technology. This includes the Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) at Chesapeake High School in Baltimore County and cost-effective technology solutions for teacher professional development.
Comprehensive 21st Century Learning Environments - Roosevelt Room
Kathy Barnhart, Principal Education Consultant, Illinois
Kimberly Vidoni, State Educational Technology Coordinator, Nevada
The Nevada Pathway Project, a statewide collaborative program that is funded through ARRA and develops a state model for the 21st century classroom. The program includes placing mobile technologies into classrooms and providing teachers and administrators with online professional development that focuses on classroom technology integration skills and providing students with a 21st century education. Illinois will highlight districts with 21st Century classroom models.
Using Web 2.0 Tools with Teachers and Districts - Jefferson Room
John Keller, Assistant Director of Information Systems, Indiana
Jeff Mao, Learning Technology Policy Director, Maine
The Learning Connection is a newly developed system for Indiana educators providing access to a professional network, longitudinal achievement data, digital teaching and learning content and curriculum design tools. This tool replaces some legacy systems and serves as a foundation for Indiana DOE's efforts to provide digital classroom tools. Any Indiana teacher can get an account on the system. When schools sign up to participate, additional features are available including data access, creation, and reporting capabilities as well as parent and student access to classroom assignments, grades, and historical performance. The IDOE will be formally releasing this system at the beginning of 2010. The Maine Learning Technology Initiative’s (MLTI) professional development model uses the combination of a blog, podcasting (iTunes U) and webcasts to provide PD for teachers and administrators. This new program includes at least one webcast per week rotating through 5 topic areas and recorded "studio" versions of those presentations. Additionally, MLTI plans to host monthly webcasts based on roles specifically for administrators, teacher leaders and tech leads.
3:30-5:15pm
Policy Discussions
The In-Depth Policy Discussions are a new opportunity for SETDA members, corporate partners and leaders from the greater educational community to participate in round table discussions and draft a policy statement and/or guidelines for the assigned topic as appropriate. Each working group will share their discussion points with the SETDA membership via online collaboration tools. Since these policy discussions are on current issues the deliverable for each group will vary. The format will be similar to the Class of 2020 Round Tables.
- Guiding Districts to Provide Powerful Access - Kennedy Room
Steve Midgley, FCC
Jimmy Takata, Idaho
Jeff Mao, Maine
Rick Gaisford, Utah
- Promoting Digital Citizenship - Lincoln Room
Tessa Jolles, Center for Media Literacy
Cathy Poplin, Arizona
Wayne Hartschuh, Delaware
Jayne Moore, Maryland
- Technology's Role in Disaster Relief (MI, LA) - Roosevelt Room
Kumar A Garg, White House
Margo Murphy, Lousiana
Bruce Umpstead, Michigan
Beth Cortolillo, eTech Ohio
Video Recording of Session
- Alternatives to Traditional Textbooks - Jefferson Room
Geoff Fletcher, THE Journal
Kate Kemker, Florida
Karen Kahan, Texas
