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Jeffrey L. Jones, editor
jjones@fayette.k12.ky.us

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Highlights from this issue:

Watch Lafayette Math Department's Judi Day teaching Calculus II! Connections features a video showing what students at Tates Creek see through Fayette County's Video-Linked Classroom!

Jeopardy, Instrumental Writing, and bringing those old laptops back - all in Into the Classroom, with student work examples in Through a Student's Eyes.

STLP Digital Art winners from Millcreek! View the PowerPoint in Through a Student's Eyes.

IBM computer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov! (In 1997! Put your mouse over the TIPS banner above for a short history note.)

Meet Sam Kirkland and John Zeigler in this month's Staff Profiles.

  • Toyota TapestryWinburn Middle, with help from Fayette County TRTs, win Toyota Tapestry Grant! "SPACE: Weaving Literacy into a Celestial Tapestry" is the title of this successful grant application from Winburn Middle School science teacher Lynn Orr, with help from Technology Resource Teachers Amy Johns, Lucinda Sanders, Neva Christensen, and Kim Overstreet. In partnership with the Bluegrass Astronomy Club and nationally-known "skyteller" Lynn Moroney, this $10,000 grant from Toyota will fund professional development, storytelling, unit development, and a parent/teacher/student "Astronomy Night" at Winburn!
  • FCPS Tech FairFayette County Tech Fair this Saturday, March 19! Join us at the Tates Creek High Campus for a morning of classroom projects, STLP projects, TSA projects, and district technology initiatives! See the Tech Fair website for details.
  • Fayette County is a Platinum STLP District! KDE has awarded only five other districts in Kentucky with this level of recognition! See STLP News for details.TEC
  • TEC Conference accepting applications to attend. Registration is open for the June 2-3 "Technology Enhanced Classroom" conference at Paul Laurence Dunbar. See the TEC Conference website for information.

I wish I'd said it...When I was finishing up my teaching degree back in 19...uh...mmm...a while ago, and was preparing for my first classroom experience as a student teacher at Henry Clay High School, my advisor at the University of Kentucky sat me down to talk about what my post-degree goals and concerns should be...(...more...)