Educational Technology at IU13

ProQuest CultureGrams is one of the services included in your IMS membership and they now have produced a LibGuide for your use.  CultureGrams provides you with a database that "... goes beyond basic facts and figures on more than 200 countries, with up-to-date reports detailing daily life and culture, history, customs and lifestyle from an insider's perspective. (excerpt directly from the LibGuide)." 

Computer Science Education Week is December 9-15, 2013.  In order to celebrate this year, The Hour of Code 2013 has begun!  The mission: Introduce 10 million students to coding in a one hour session ages 6-106.  Several school districts in our IU13 have already registered full k-12 classes in Math and Computers to take one hour during this week to introduce this to their students.  Check out the video for more details:

Personalize learning in a digital world through attending our IU13 E-Learning Revolution Conference this June 2014.  This is not another PETE & C, but rather a conference focusing on what personalized learning looks like through a variety of instructional practices encompassing differentiated instruction, technology integration, and data-drive instruction.

Google forms is a service of Google Apps that is available for you to use in your classrooms with your students or parents.  A Google form is a quick survey tool.  You develop the questions and then put the survey link or embedded code on your blog, wikispace, or LMS for students or parents to access.  You may already survey your students/parents on their interests, email addresses, or topics they are interested in studying.  In addition, you could consider using Google Forms for a quick formative assessment, check for understanding, or "ticket out the door". If you move your paper survey over to a Google Form, all the responses are noted for you in a nice Google Spreadsheet that you can easily sort and insert graphs to display the data.

What is the difference of being a Teacher versus an Educator? Take a look at this video and post your thoughts in the comments section.