| Highlights
from this issue:
Found Poetry and the Literary Book Club go
Into
the Classroom, with student work examples in Through
a Student's Eyes.
Video Self-Modeling with Becky Farmer is featured in Assistive
Technology.
Meet the Commodore VIC-20 computer! (Put your mouse over the TIPS banner above for a short
history note.)
Connections features a new
announcement system offered by FCPS's Office of Instructional
Technology. It is available for any school wanting to simplify
announcement management and display!
Meet
Cammy Baxter and Brandon Wade in this month's Staff Profiles.
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 Fayette
County wins big in the state Kentucky
Kids Video Contest! Morton Middle Math Class (Laura Piper,
teacher), and Paul Laurence Dunbar
High Video Production Class (Hesan Haghnazar, student, Tonya
Merritt, teacher) took home 2nd place honors for their Public Service
Announcement videos. The winning classrooms receive a free digital
camcorder, and their videos will be shown in Frankfort to the
legislature! See the KK '04
website
for details.
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 FCPS
Technology Fair gets bigger! On Saturday, March 19th, Fayette County
shows off its technology and students at Tates Creek High campus. See the
Technology Fair
website for details.
-
 TEC Conference now accepting Applications to
Present.
Registration is open for the June 2-3 "Technology Enhanced
Classroom" conference at Paul Laurence Dunbar. Applications to present are
being accepted through February 15. Presenters will receive a stipend,
and the conference is free to teachers. See the TEC Conference
website for details.
 I
thought computers made things easier!...The early
promise of digital technology was that things would be faster and easier
with its use. As any veteran will tell you, this promise came as a
two-edged sword - you had to learn the new tool before you could reap
any efficiency benefits from it. But once that learning curve was
negotiated, administrative assistants and accountants around the world
were singing the computer's praises.... (...more...)
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