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Wednesday, January 28, 2009 |
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Province-wide Adobe Cumulative Licensing ProgramAlberta Education has entered into Adobe’s Cumulative Licensing Program (CLP). This allows all Alberta school authorities to access the highest level of discount on Adobe products, and is expected to save school authorities an average of 50% on Adobe product purchases. Adobe products are widely used across the education system, including Career and Technology Studies courses. More information on the Adobe CLP, including what software titles are available through the CLP and how to register your jurisdiction as an affiliate with Alberta Education’s master agreement, is available on the School Technology section of the Alberta Education website at http://education.alberta.ca/admin/technology/standards/software.aspx.
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Excellence in Teaching NominationsAlberta Education is now accepting nominations for the 2009 Excellence in Teaching Awards. The Excellence in Teaching Awards program recognizes outstanding Alberta teachers and involves Albertans in celebrating teaching excellence. A total of 20 Excellence in Teaching Awards and three SMARTer Kids Foundation Innovative Use of Technology Awards will be announced by Alberta Education in May.
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Launch of 2Learn2Gether.caThe 2Learn.ca Education Society has recently launched 2Learn2Gether.ca, an online networking community established to support Alberta educators. The site provides moderated groups and forums, upcoming events, professional development opportunities and resources, educational videos and other tools designed to help users connect to others in education communities of practice. K-12 educators, or those affiliated with an Alberta education institution, can participate.
This website is hosted on 2Learn.ca servers and is subject to 2Learn.ca’s Terms of Use. User information is secure and private. Visit http://www.2learn2gether.ca/ to register for an account.
For more information, contact Danny Maas at Danny@2Learn.ca or by phone at 780-486-0380. For information about privacy on social networking sites from the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, visit http://blog.privcom.gc.ca/index.php/privacy-on-social-networks/ .
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Videoconferencing UpdateThe 2Learn.ca Videoconferencing Regional Leads Network has launched a listserv to keep teachers up to date on videoconferencing ideas, events and professional development opportunities. For more information on the listserv, and to register, please visit http://www.mailman.srv.ualberta.ca/mailman/listinfo/vcrln.
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Upcoming EventsDistributed Learning Symposium 2009
Alberta Education, the Alberta Teachers’ Association and the Alberta Distributed Education and Technology Association are co-hosting the Distributed Learning Symposium 2009, Embracing and Becoming Drivers of Change. The symposium will take place in Calgary, at the Hyatt Regency, from March 11 to 13, 2009.
To register for the symposium online, visit http://symposium.adeta.org/.
For information on the speakers and key themes, a copy of the symposium overview is available: Overview Alberta Regional Professional Development Consortia (ARPDC) Professional Development Sessions ARPDC is hosting sessions to support the implementation of technology in schools.
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Tools4Teachers UpdateNew Resources The following courses have recently been posted to the Tools4Teachers site:
The Tools4Teachers website can be accessed at http://www.tools4teachers.ca/. Login and password access to Tools4Teachers was distributed to schools in September, for distribution to teachers as requested. To receive a password, contact your school administrator. For more information, contact Lori Ristoff at Lori.Ristoff@gov.ab.ca or by phone at 780-674-8719.
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LearnAlberta.caThese new resources have been added to the LearnAlberta.ca website:
>> For more information on these new resources, click here.
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