LoTi soon to be free to all schools

SAN DIEGO, CA, March 15, 2006 As technology dollars become further strained nationwide, the National Business Education Alliance, a nonprofit organization in Carlsbad, CA, today announced that it has secured funding from one of its corporate partners, Penta Water,to provide access to the online *LoTi Lounge educational web portal for every public and private school in the nation commencing in Fall 2006. Access to LoTi Lounge will include the online DETAILS for the 21st Century Questionnaire, individual questionnaire results profiling personalized professional development needs based on five empirically-validated skillsets, and an extensive database of resources catalogued by grade level and subject area. This donation will continue the process of schools nationwide evaluating their instructional uses of technology for the purposes of improving student achievement tied to the initiatives set forth by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

*LoTi is a term referring to Dr. Christopher Moersch's Level of Technology Implementation Framework designed to accurately measure authentic classroom technology use.

Google Digitizes National Archives Videos

Through an agreement with the National Archives, Google Inc. has added historic video footage of such events as the Apollo moon landing and Japan's surrender in World War II to its internet search engine. Students, teachers, researchers, and others now can access these digital video clips free of charge through the Google Video search portal.

'05-'07 EETT ctcurriculum.org Summer Training

If you are an EETT awardee, or if you and your curriculum team have developed technology rich activities activites, keyed to CT standards, and would like to learn how to place them onto ctcurriculum.org, then save the following dates: July 19-21 @ ACES. More information will follow...

new iCONN CD + lot's more!

The Connecticut Digital Library (iCONN) provides online access to journals, magazines, newspapers, and ebooks/encyclopedias to all Connecticut residents for free. Select to find a title list of the publications accessible in Connecticut.

iCONN highlights for educators:
* A flyer describing Science and Math content,

* Freely accessible web resources in mathematics and science,

* The Professional Collection is a database focuses on publications related to education.

* Learning Activities created by CT library media specialists and designed to correlate with CT curriculum standards for various grade levels and subject areas. Please feel free to contribute activities that you've developed using iCONN databases!

* A Schools ToolKit designed to support the use of iCONN's resources in your classroom. Go to: http://www.iconn.org/siteindex.aspx > Scroll down to: Training > Click on: Schools Toolkit CD (in ZIP - 135MB)

Access iCONN directly from any library or school in Connecticut. If you are working at home, use your CT public library card number to login.

iCONN is administered by the Connecticut State Library in conjunction with the State Department of Higher Education. It is authorized and funded by the Connecticut State Legislature.