Educational Technology at IU13

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!

IU13 IMS is pleased to announce that finding discount pricing options for rich, online instructional media resources has now become even easier! IU13 Instructional Media Services (IMS) and Pennsylvania Instructional Media Services (PAIMS) together bring consortia opportunities for IU13 public and nonpublic districts/schools striving to offer the best possible prices for quality instructional media resources for teaching & learning.

What's new to the IMS this 2016-2017 school year you ask?  IU13 IMS is pleased to partner with Gale Cengage Learning providing two popular research databases Student Resources in Context and Opposing Viewpoints in Context.  Starting this school year, all our IU13 high schools have access to these two powerful databases for student research.  No account log in information is necessary when using these databases at IU13 or in each high school. When at IU13, go to the homepage on this IMS blog and click on the link to these databases in the upper-left corner under Resource Links.  When in each high school, navigate to your library/media center webpages to find active links to these databases. Notice that once you find the research you are looking for, you can log in to your Google Drive (GAFE) account and annotate the articles all while keeping the notes in your DRIVE!  Learn more about these databases by browsing the slide deck below:

IU13 IMS is very pleased to announce that through PAIMS (Pennsylvania Instructional Media Services) we have secured discount pricing for the popularly used instructional resource - BrainPop. BrainPop is a great educational tool to help engage & motivate student learning independently, in small groups, and within direct instruction. Investigate the multitude of topics/units in Science, Math, Social Studies, English, Health, Arts & Music, and Engineering/Tech. Students learn through video lessons and take quizzes to capture their learning.  There are games as well as teacher resources to access.  The following subscriptions are available via per student pricing: