Native American Tribal Curriculum Available Fall 2010

When I read this Seattle Times article, "Washington educators, leaders aim for progress with new tribal curriculum," there were quite a few parallels that came through my mind in working with teachers in our D.O.E. who also have limited access to culture-based resources for their classrooms. Hopefully, our collaborative efforts working with D.O.E. Hawai'i Virtual Learning Network (HVLN) will set up a pathway for KS to increase access to culture-based online courses for all state of Hawai'i students. It'll be interesting to see how things pan out in Washington with their efforts on trying to increase teachers integrating the tribal curriculum, which will be available online, through development of six training centers. Thoughts after reading this article?

EDTECH at Boise State University

I enjoyed viewing this 2 minutes 30 second video and thought I'd share with you too. It looks like Boise State University's Ed Tech Department is doing some neat things with their students. I know we haven't talked about Second Life in awhile, so it'll be good to catch up on the trends of what's happening with 2-D, 3-D technologies. I've been seeing an increase in streaming of presentations via Second Life now. Have you? Any volunteers for owau? We're almost done with Blackboard 9.0 upgrade training, so I think owau topics will be opening up again.

Chatting With Kids About Being Online

Following up on our team meeting today with discussions of Web 2.0, netiquette and educating our students, parents and adult learners, I wanted to share this resource before I forgot about it.

OnGuard Online is Web site provided by the federal government and technology industry to assist with guarding against Internet fraud, securing your computer and protecting your personal information. They have a downloadable PDF titled "Chatting With Kids About Being Online."

Moving Learning Online: Washington Post

Good read per a discussion post from an iNACOL member.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/26/AR2010032602224_pf.html

What are your thoughts about online learning for Hawai'i? For KS?

Adobe Connect Pro Mobile for iPhone

It looks like Adobe has released an iPhone application for Adobe connect. As I read through the article, I just thought about how great it would be if we could provide our learners with this type of access via mobile phones, especially as we expand our support services and see and increased usage of Adobe Connect with our CEI programs. I'm sure it'll be rocky in the beginning with the normal bugs for new applications, but definitely worth testing out to see.

http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/424/adobe-releases-connect-pro-mobile-for-iphone

Hot Off the Press...National Ed Tech Plan

According to iNACOL, the National Ed Tech Plan was posted today on the Office of Educational Technology Web site. You can download an executive summary as well as the entire plan off their website, http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/os/technology/index.html.

How to Lead Effective Teams with Ray Ohta

My professional development experience yesterday with Ray Ohta was very enjoyable. Here are several quotes from philosophers and his thoughts that were shared with us...

• The philosophy of what you're doing is always more important than the mechanics of doing it.
• The organization bestows "management" rights to the individual. The employee bestows "leadership" rights to the individual.
• Ingredients of successful relationships include mutual trust, respect, commitment to a shared purpose and active colalboration through mutual responsibility and accountability