With increased concern about safety in our schools, SchoolSpan is offering a grant that would provide a web site module for a district’s web page which is an Anonymous Alert Tip Line free of charge for the next five years as a public service. Deadline approaching January 15, 2007.

(From Michael Simkins, TICAL)

Hello everyone, check out these key TICAL resources!

Narrated slideshows http://www.portical.org/contents2.html?mode=MM by TICAL cadre members and invited experts on a variety of topics from data-driven decision-making to copyright and fair use guidelines. Great for your own professional development or to share with staff.

Get to know Skip Johnson http://www.portical.org/profile.html , one of TICAL’s newest leadership cadre members.

Have a technology question? Post it in TICAL’s Ask-a-Question http://www.portical.org/directions.html feature and you are guaranteed an answer!

Michael Simkins, Ed.D.
Director, TICAL
TICAL is provided by Santa Cruz County Office of Education under contract to the California and Arkansas State Departments of Education. Learn more at: http://www.portical.org/

The K12HSN is pleased to announce an upcoming Professional Development Café (PDC) videoconference/webstream presentation. On December 1 at 12:00 pm, the Education Advocates from AT&T will be presenting on Filamentality and how it can help educators create five different types of web pages. The web pages can be used in the classroom as well as a variety of other ways.

Outcomes:

• Create an interactive multimedia product that can be used immediately in the classroom with existing tools at the site.
• Use research-based strategies with existing tools in the classroom to support student engagement and individual learning styles.

Spread across 88 acres just to the south of downtown Riverside is one of the most unique high schools in the Inland Empire. Consisting of about 450 students and their 45 teachers is Sherman Indian High School in Riverside, California, one of four federally funded Native American, Off Reservation Boarding Schools (ORBS), still remaining in the western United States.

As you walk into a math classroom at Raymond Cree Middle School, you may notice something unusual: student desks are not facing the whiteboard. Instead, students are arranged in groups that focus around a projection screen.

Through funding with EETT Competitive Grants, Palms Springs Unified School District’s middle schools have implemented the SUMMIT program: Step Up To Math Mastery Integrating Technology. Teachers and students use laptop computers, LCD projectors, audience response systems, and interactive wireless tablets to create a truly digital learning environment. The SchoolPadTM wireless tablet allows teachers and students to write directly on the tablet to illustrate and share conceptual understanding on the projection screen and access digital resources from anywhere in the classroom.