Educational Technology at IU13

In order to ensure that our current Instructional Media Services (IMS) Tools/Resources align with district needs and initiatives, we reevaluate current services every three years. All 22 member districts were asked to elect one or two representatives that would serve on our IMS Focus Group to help evaluate our current IMS. Our group was made up of Assistant Superintendents, Technology Coordinators, Principals, Media Specialists, and Technology Integrators/Coaches. This group began meeting last Spring of 2016 and then in the Fall of 2016. They had the opportunity to fully evaluate our current tools/resources and help determine which ones we wanted to continue moving into the next 3 year cycle that align with district needs, initiatives, strategies, and environments. After a lot of collaborative work and meetings, recommendations began to form. Finally, the process ended in an official vote from each district on the new recommendations in Dec 2016. Starting in 2017, district members received the opportunity to review and provide comments on the recommendations from our IMS Focus Group. As of the end of April 2017, all final approvals have been received.  We are very pleased to be offering the following IMS resources for the next three year cycle of 2017-2020 (the order is alphabetical):

Lancaster-Lebanon IU13 is pleased to announce Atomic Learning for all IU13 employees. Did you ever want some dedicated tutorials that can help you learn certain applications and programs you need to use for your position responsibilities?  Are you looking for some help using Google Applications for Education, Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Access, Windows 10, Accessibility, Sharepoint, Outlook, Office 365 and so much more?  Click here to see the so much more. Atomic Learning has specific tutorials you can access for a quick how-to tutorial or full courses.  Click here to learn more about Atomic Learning at IU13.  

We are excited to promote the following IMS events for this Spring 2017:

We had an amazing week last week celebrating both our Elementary and Secondary Technology Conferences at Lancaster-Lebanon IU13! We had over 350 k-12 educators participate and over 74 sessions running between the two days.  Keynote Drew Minock opened our world to Virtual Reality use in education! Participants had the opportunity to explore and discover in our AR/VR/QR room.  In addition, participants were given the opportunity to participate in our first ever ETC Edcamp and STC Edcamp sessions where they explored like-minded topics of interest in an unconference format. A special thank you to all the committee members who made all these special events possible! If you participated in our ETC16 or STC16 this year, please let us know your reflections in the comments section below.  Check out the journey from the twittersphere below:

Registration is now open for both our Elementary Technology (ETC) AND Secondary Technology (STC) Conferences coming up on Dec. 6th and 7th 2016.  All sessions were just recently published so you can take a look to see what might interest you in attending our conferences this year.  We are offering over 36 sessions for our ETC and over 33 sessions for our STC this year so there is something for everyone!