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Current update - November 10, 2008

Congratulations to Angie Hammons for Educause presentation

Angie Hammons, Education Technology Specialist at Missouri Science &Technology University in Rolla, MO, presented a poster session at the 2008 international Educause conference in Orlando Florida. The title of the presentation was Transforming Informal Learning Spaces. Angie is formerly from Bunker R-III School District in Missouri and served as an instructional specialist and teacher there.

Invitation to participate in national tech literacy survey

Would you like to know how other reading teachers across the U.S. use technology in their classrooms? What skills do they think are important to develop literacy online? What obstacles do they face in integrating technology into their instruction? You are invited to participate in a national online survey that addresses these questions. Your assistance will require nothing more than completing the 10-minute online survey (by November 30).

For assisting in this project, your state will receive a summary of the national results when it is available early next year. This national survey is supervised by Dr. David Reinking, who has edited IRA's Reading Research Quarterly and is a leading researcher in the area of technology and literacy. You may contact Amy Hutchison, his assistant at Clemson University, if you have any questions about the survey.

Webcast: Engage Students and Promote Project-based Learning Across the Curriculum with InspireData

Inspiration is offering a free webcast about InspireData that includes the following topics:

• How to conduct a collaborative project across the curriculum, using InspireData
• How to use InspireData's online e-Survey tool to gather data
• How to analyze data and create appropriate graphs to support a proposal. A 9th grade teacher shares her project.

Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008
Time: 3 - 3:45 p.m. Eastern (U.S.) Time
If you are unable to join the webcast, it will be archived and available shortly after the event concludes.

Register now ....

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Monica Beglau
Executive Director, eMINTS National Center

Reviewed November 10, 2008.