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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.
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Winburn
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!
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Fayette
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 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...)
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