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Stay up to date on what's happening in your region by following your regional representative's own region blog! Visit the links in the sidebar to view and subscribe to each region blog. The most recent entries from each blog are displayed below.

Northwest Region

Featured Workshops for Spring 2008

EduTech is featuring a number of workshops for Spring 2008. If you are interested in booking any of these please contact our Coordinator of Training, Tabitha Lang. Her e-mail address is tabitha.lang@sendit.nodak.edu. Tabitha will assist you with a date for scheduling.

Here is the list of featured workshops:
1. Activboard in the Classroom
2. Smartboards in the Classroom
3. ActivPrimary
4. Eduweb
5. What’s New in Office 2007 (specific titles include Word, 2007. Excel 2007, Powerpoint 2007, Outlook 2007)

Posted by Don Simon on January 4, 2008 at 8:16 AM

West Central Region

Podcasting Possibilities

A list of resources to utilize when you are just getting your feet wet with using podcasting in your classroom:

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-11293_7-6246557-1.html?tag=bnav
Step by step podcasting directions and a wealth of links.

http://www.edublogs.org
A free hosted blog solution for any educator or researcher.

http://www.addysg.org.uk/ipodined/news.php
Discusses using iPods and Podcasting in education.

http://learninginhand.com/podcasting
Contains information about podcasting in education and links to podcasts and podcast directories.

http://www.epnweb.org
The Education Podcast Network brings together podcast sites for teachers.

http://esp.mit.edu/web/discoveresp/studentpodcasts.html
Educational Studies Program, MIT Middle and High School students from MIT produce podcasts as part of an Educational Studies Program.

http://www.power-team.org/kidcast/kidcast.htm
Elementary students using podcasts to develop reading fluency.

http://www.stager.org/podcasting.html
Gary S. Stager Podcasting resources for educators and students

http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/tips.html
Apple Education Essential tips for podcast lovers

http://www.liberty.k12.mo.us/~elanghorst/blog
Speaking of History Middle school students produce history podcasts

http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/radio
Radio WillowWeb Elementary students create podcasts. Tony Vincent is the first teacher to have student podcasts in iTunes.

http://www.smithsonian.org/podcasts/default.htm
A collection of podcasts from the Smithsonian

http://www1.gcs.k12.al.us/~podcast/
Gadsden City Schools “Podcast Central” contains elementary students podcasts.

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/evalpodcast.html
Kathy Schrock posted a guide to evaluating podcasts.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help
Audacity documentation, tutorials, and a wiki are found on this page.

http://www.learninginhand.com/ipod/audio.html
Downloadable audio content like music and historic speeches and sounds.

Posted by Lynne Anderson on April 10, 2008 at 10:43 AM

Southwest Region

Grant County Anatomy Students Connect via Video to Live Surgery

A common surgery that we hear about today is total knee replacement. However, six classes from North Dakota not only have hear about this, but can now say they actually observed a live surgery of this type. On Wednesday, April 9, Grant County High School’s Human Anatomy class was one of the six North Dakota classes that connected via video to the surgical suite at Mount Carmel East Hospital in Columbus, Ohio to observe a live total knee replacement surgery. The orthopedic surgeon removed the diseased cartilage and bone from the femur, patella and tibi and replaced these with prosthetics.

Students were allowed to ask questions of the operating room staff throughout the surgery. Comments from students following the surgery: “The surgical team was very descriptive to help us understand what was going on. Very interesting. Not as bloody as I thought it would be.” Instructor Darrell Howard conducted both pre- and post-visit activities with his 28 students.

The other North Dakota schools connected were Beulah, Bottineau, Jamestown, Tioga and Glenburn. Two schools from Ohio, one from Texas and one from Alberta Canada were also connected. This live interactive videoconference was coordinated by EduTech and COSI.

Posted by Marcy Schmidt on April 10, 2008 at 1:58 PM

Northeast Region

Microsoft Student Select Program

The email introduces E-Academy’s new webstore platform and features for the Microsoft Student Select program. I think everyone will be pleased with the new platform foremost because it eliminates assignment of codes for faculty and staff. For additional information on this new platform see E-Academy’s K12 Administrator ELMS Direct Manual located at http://www.edutech.nodak.edu/ under the announcement section.

If you’ve not yet taken advantage of this program try out the new platform by visiting http://edutech.nodak.e-academy.com

Posted by Tabitha Lang on March 11, 2008 at 1:44 PM

East Central Region

Real Connections: Delivery Models and Enriched Content with Distance Learning

K-12 teachers are invited to join us this summer in learning about “Real Connections: Delivery Models and Enriched Content with Distance Learning”. This two-day workshop will be conducted by videoconference in locations across the state on August 11–12, 2008. Participants have the option to attend one or both days.

The workshop will be conducted by videoconference at the following locations:
• Cavalier High School
• Berg Elementary, Dickinson
• NDSU, Fargo
• Minot Extension Center
Registration is on a first come, first serve basis. Workshop cost for both days is $80 or $60 for a single day payable to EduTech. Graduate credit is available upon completion of workshop. Graduate credit cost is $65 payable to North Dakota State University. Lunch is on your own. Participants are encouraged to bring their laptops.

To register, get more information or for special accommodations, contact Kari Sauer at 800.804.8550 or kari.sauer@sendit.nodak.edu. Register through EduTech’s online dashboard by August 1. Topics and more is available at Real Connections: Delivery Models & Enriched Content with Distance Learning .

Posted by Charity Nix on April 2, 2008 at 12:20 PM