Today's students live in an incredibly high tech world - from cell phones to Facebook to YouTube to iPods- K-12 schools are faced with a multitude of new challenges that must be addressed in your student handbook.  How can you restructure your student handbook to include the potential issues that may arise as a result of students' increased use of these technologies?  Join us for a live, 60-minute audio conference where you and your colleagues will learn:

• Keys to Drafting K-12 Handbook Policies for Today's Students
• Online Use Policies: Facebook, MySpace & Online Communities
• Crafting Guidelines & Policies for Cell Phone & iPod Use at School
• Protecting Your School from Liability: What You Need to Know
• Cyberbullying & Technology Misconduct: What Educators Must Know

Wednesday, July 15, 2009  12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

For registration and more information, visit https://odie.esu10.org/

OFFICE 2007 UPDATE 1 - JULY 8, 2009
Explore the new features of Microsoft Office 2007 Word and Excel during this all-day workshop!

OFFICE 2007 UPDATE 2 - JULY 9, 2009
Explore the new features of Microsoft Office 2007 PowerPoint and Access during this all-day event!

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This workshop is targeted at anyone who will be teaching a class using two-way video conferencing technology with special training on the life-size mobile cart system.  In addition to hands-on training on the technology, we will cover strategies of instruction in the distance learning classroom.

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This workshop is targeted for all teachers K-12 who would like to find out how existing distance learning technology in their school can provide virtual trip experiences for their students.  The workshop will include; an introduction to local, regional, national, and even international programs, how to schedule a program and who to contact at your school for support with the distance learning equipment, how to prepare your students to be active participants in these virtual trips, and more.

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Laptops in my classroom?!  Yikes!  What will I do?!?!?  Let us allay your apprehension in a two-day workshop about teaching differently in a technology-rich classroom.  Nicole Badgley, laptop veteran teacher and Apple Distinguished Educator, will share what she has learned since Arnold Public Schools adopted the laptop learning initiative several years ago.  She, along with ESU 10 staff, will cover classroom management and room arrangement, teaching techniques, course management, as well as online resources and other helpful tools.  You will prepare for the first week of school and walk away with a lesson plan ready to go.  You'll also leave feeling relieved and with the thought that this laptop thing is just going to be okay.

For registration and more information, visit https://odie.esu10.org/

Technology Integration Specialists Summer Camp     July 16, 17, 27 & 28

This workshop is designed to demonstrate and utilize technology integration tools as we create a project around the ISTE standards.  Highlights during the workshop include - applying exciting new Web 2.0 tools, accessing classes on Angel, and collaborating with other integration specialists to gain valuable planning and lesson ideas to use in the classroom.

Career & Technical Education 2.0 (CTE)   August 4

This workshop is designed to demonstrate and utilize technology integration tools specifically for the career and technical education classrooms.  Featured throughout the day will be web resources, software, and other technology that encourage the use of 21st Century skills for students.

For registration and more information, visit https://odie.esu10.org/

This would be a great adventure for families as well as classrooms!  Check out http://www.negpp.org/!  there is a challenge there to visit all of the 15 listed Nebraska state parks!  If you want to participate, you must register there on the web site. 

This might be a great summer project to continue to engage students in Nebraska Geography! Have your own Great Park Pursuit!  Challenge your next group of students (any age would love this) to get to as many of Nebraska's parks this summer as they can.  Once they get there, have them take a picture of the park sign and two more pictures from inside the park.  They must then email those pictures to you, the teacher.  You can create a map in Google Earth and mark their travels using the pictures they took!  This would also make a great competition between class sections or maybe between conference schools!  (They could even use their cell phones and send those pictures if your cell plan will handle that!)

Most importantly, encourage your students to get out and enjoy Nebraska's state parks!

http://www.negpp.org/

Here is a spreadsheet that I came across via email from another trainer in Lincoln.  I thought this might give some great ideas for you and some of your teachers!  See what you think and maybe we can create our own spreadsheet with other lesson ideas!

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p_VM5beL2JAq3B0pk3NrxBw&hl=en