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09 UDL Collaboration Day Photos:

Last Monday was the annual PATINS UDL Pilot Team Collaboration Day in Indianapolis.  All current teams come together to show and talk about the UDL principles, concepts, technologies, and instruction they’ve been implementing in their schools.  The newly selected and trained UDL teams come to see what sorts of things other places have had success with.  Photos from the event here: www.patinsproject.com/PhotoGalleries/UDLCollaboration2009/index.html

…and one of the New UDL Teams blogged about their experience on this day here: http://esmspatins.edublogs.org/2009/02/24/udl-collaboration-day/

LiveScribe Paper: I know many of you have been playing with the awesome Livescribe Pulsepen this school year and hopefully many of you are utilizing them with students who need the support it offers.  I just realized recently that you can can print out your own “Dot Paper” to use with your pen:  See here: http://www.livescribe.com/smartpen/dotpaper.html And here: http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/CSKBPortalPage#/support/kb/?View=entry&EntryID=221

ISTE’s Samples/Examples: …of great educational uses for Second Life are displayed in the screenshot above.  This is a wall of great destinations to go visit to see how Second Life is already being used successfully in Higher Ed., Libraries, History, Literature and Art, Math and Science.  I highly recommend visiting some of these if you’re new to Second Life and want to see what might be possible OR If you are still thinking that SL is merely a social site.  The slurl to visit this wall: http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/116/43/30

Additionally: An article in THE JOURNAL about Second Life in Education.  www.thejournal.com/articles/23777_1

AND… check out NASA in Second Life:

Free Promethean Conference:
Westfield-Washington Schools will be hosting a FREE Promethean Interactive Whiteboard Conference on March 13th, 2009 at Maple Glen Elementary School. Please feel free to join us for breakout sessions on uses of Promethean in the classroom, lunch, keynote speaker and door prizes. You are welcome to bring any other staffers from your district that you think will benefit from this conference. All that we ask is that you and anyone else attending, please register at the following link, so that we are aware of how many to expect.    www.eventville.com/search/groups.asp?coordinatorgroupid=1001051

Click on “Indiana” on the map and then click “register” to sign up for the specific breakout sessions and complete your registration. Remember that this is a FREE conference!  Lunch will be provided free of charge from Kelties Restaurant as well.

To Start the Weekend With A Smile:
Last Friday, we had a text to speech workshop here at the NE Site and had our first non-human participant!    Thanks Tiki for keeping my participants awake… couldn’t have done it w/out ya

Don’t forget to register for the Tech Expo:
www.patinsproject.com/training.html

…and Download your copy of Read:OutLoud Text To Speech Software at no Cost:
www.icam.k12.in.us/DJ/DJLogin.aspx