Professional+Development+Opportunities

** 2013 Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference (CMTC) **
Bundle packages - click [|here] The official website is located at @http://nhcmtc.org
 * Date: December 3-December 5, 2013**

Associated with CMTC is a grant - NHSTE Releases Chris Nelson Memorial Grant Program
The New Hampshire Society for Technology in Education ([|NHSTE.org]) released information about a new grant program the organization is piloting this fall. The Chris Nelson Memorial Grant Program honors the memory of one of New Hampshire’s most beloved and enthusiastic technology supporters. Chris Nelson was a passionate educator that served in many roles during her long career in New Hampshire. Throughout her time in the classroom she possessed an amazing ability to talk to classroom teachers about their challenges and the unique needs of their students and find a way to assist those teachers with technology. Chris believed that most educators are in the classroom because they have a passion for knowledge and want to help their students develop this same love of learning. What she also understood is that emerging instructional technologies were new, unfamiliar, and in many cases threatening to teachers who were not “digital natives”. Chris had the patience, teaching expertise, and technical knowledge to guide and mentor educators in the greater Manchester area, Farmington, Winnisquam, and many other districts across the state toward the effective integration of technology tools and resources for teaching, learning, classroom management, and communication. Chris Nelson Memorial Grant Program sponsored by NHSTE.The Fall 2013 program is a pilot and will award one $4000 grant to fund a project that emphasizes the integration of technology to improve student learning. In March of 2014, the full grant program will be launched and two additional $4000 grants will be awarded. Download the Flyer (pdf) from NHEON. // For more information, contact //** Stan Freeda ** 603.271.5132 Stanley.Freeda@doe.nh.gov [|ww.education.nh.gov/instruction/ed_tech/] [|ww.opennh.org] w[|ww.nheon.org]

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 * Digital Learning Day - Feb 4, 2014 **

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**On April 4th, 2014**, author of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other PowerfulWeb Tools for Classrooms(2010) and Personal Learning Networks: Using the Power of Connections to Transform Education (2011) Will Richardson will present on From Old School to Bold School: Making the Jump from Traditional to Modern Learning. Richardson is an outspoken advocate for the need to change schools and classrooms that will incorporate diverse new learning opportunities offered by the Web and other technologies. Richardson gives TED talks, consults and presents all over the world, and regularly writes blogs as well as writing articles published in Education Week, English Journal, District Administration Magazine, and ASCD's Educational Leadership. =====

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 At this April 4th, 2014, NHASCD conference, Will Richardson will urge educators to rethink the roles of schools, classrooms and educators as students can increasingly access diverse educational options. How do we help students become literate, self-directed masters of learning and making in this new, interconnected world? Conference participants will better understand the changing contexts for modern learning literacies in a technology rich, networked world; learn a framework for beginning conversations and actions around system change from traditional to modern teaching and learning; and envision newly designed classrooms, schools and practices to better serve modern teaching, learning, and leading in this era of the Common Core. =====