Date: March 9, 2005
To: CTAP Regional Contacts
From: Bonnie Marks, Director
Subject: April 5th BARC Meeting
We look forward to seeing you at the April
5th BARC meeting. We’ll follow up
on previous discussions of building support
for the use of technology in education
with a presentation on a recent ISTE project.
Jane Krauss, of ISTE’s Eugene office,
will showcase the new Advocacy Toolkit:
Making the Case for Educational Technology,
that is available at the ISTE website.
The Toolkit offers guided templates and
starter kits, which focus on a range of
audiences, from teachers and building administrators
to policy makers. Jane will share strategies
and resources that will be demonstrated
at a leadership symposium scheduled at
the National Education Computing Conference
in Philadelphia this June.
As our CTAP spotlight,
Adrienne DeWolfe will highlight a project
focused on the work being done by Shauna
Hawes’s
fifth grade classroom at Hidden Valley
Elementary in the Mt. Diablo School District.
Shauna participated in CTAP’s 2004
Summer Literacy Academy.
We'll be videoconferencing
this meeting to a second site – the
San Mateo County Office of Education.
We look forward to seeing you on:
Tuesday, April 5, 2005
12:00 Registration and Refreshments
12:30 - 3:30 p.m. (BARC meeting)
at the
Contra Costa County Office of Education
77 Santa Barbara Road, Pleasant Hill
With Videoconference to the San Mateo
County Office of Education
101 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City
Other BARC Agenda items include:
- State
Educational Technology Update
- CTAP Region
IV Activities
- Grants and Funding updates
- Plans for future
meetings, activities, and events
- And, as
always, Sharing and Collaborating
There is no need to RSVP, but for additional information,
you may call (510) 670-4168.
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 Meeting
Agenda for the
BARC Meeting held April 5, 2005
at Contra Costa County Office of Education
with video conference to
San Mateo County
Office of Education
Welcome
and Introductions – Bonnie
Marks
State
EdTech Update –
New Staff at
the CDE
Patrick McMenamin and Julie Baltazar
Technology Blackout Day
<http://www.technologyblackoutday.com>
Take a journey through time that examines
the impact of technology on our society.
The blackout day begins on April 20.
Regional Technology
Update
Teacher Recognition
Awards Presentation – May
17, 2005
Technology
Funding Alert! – The
new funding alert is online.
ISNE Summer
Fellowship
<http://www.iisme.org>
The IISME Summer Fellowship Program
places Bay Area K-14 teachers of
all subjects into high-performance
work sites for the summer. Teachers
complete a project for their sponsors
and are paid $7,000 for their work.
Teachers also spend time focusing
on ways to transfer their Summer
Fellowship experience back to their
students and colleagues.
State Technology
Survey <http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/et/rs/techsurvey.asp>
The survey for Region IV was more successful
than ever before. 99.6% of the surveys
are complete. 98.2% of the district surveys
are complete. Thank you for the assistance
in completing the survey.
Presentation and Discussion
Making the Case
for Educational Technology <http://www.iste.org/advocacy/toolkit>
Jane Krauss • ISTE (jkrauss@iste.org)
The toolkit came out discussions at
the NECC leadership symposium last year.
The Advocacy Toolkit is a collection of templates,
starter kits, and resources that help you to
make the case for educational technology to
a variety of audiences. Issues of immediate
concern to advocate for:
- Enhancing Education Through Technology--April
8
- Uniterrupted Flow of E-rate
- Technology Blackout Date
Advocacy issue updates can be found at Ed
Tech Action Network <http://www.edtechactionnetwork.org> CTAP Region IV Update – <http://www.ctap4.org>
New 2005-2008 Plan
CTAP asked for feedback from our districts
and submitted the plan to the CDE in March.
Some areas of focus will be support to rural
districts, CLRN, Tical, and TechSETS.
Upcoming Events
Middle School Math
Project -- This workshop geared
towards sharing standards and text-book
aligned resources will be held April 12
from 4-7 in San Mateo. The date has been
changed from March 29.
OS X Server -- This class
will be held on April 22 in Marin.
OS X for the Educator --
This class
will be held on April 29 in Contra Costa.
New Literacy Train the Trainer--
Train the Trainer will be held on May 10,
11, and 16 in Contra Costa County. It is
full to overflowing. We might offer another
session in the future.
New LIteracy Workshop --
The final of this six-part series will take
place on May 12 at Solano COE and on May
20 at Alameda COE.
Summer Institutes:
- Middle
School Mathematics --
Two summer institutes. July 11-14
ACOE. August 8-12 MCOE.
- Summer Literacy
Acadmey -- August 1-4. Grades 4-12
will be held in San Mateo.
Visit the CTAP IV calendar for each of these
events.
Resource Spotlight – Literacy
Expository
Shauna Hawes • Hidden Valley
Elementary • Mt. Diablo USD
Shauna is a participant of the summer
academy. The presentation chronicles the
work Shauna and Adrienne DeWolfe (CTAP) completed
with students at Hidden Valley Elementary.
Download PowerPoint presentation
Enhancing Education through
Technology - EEET Update
Formula Funded
Grants – April 6 (tomorrow)
is the deadline for the techplans. We have
recieved 8 plans and expect 22 tomorrow.
The will be groomed and returned by April
18. If the plan needs revisions, they will
go to the district and then back to the
grooomer. Once it passes the regional groomer,
the plan will be uploaded to the state
for final approval.
Competitive Grants – Tomorrow,
April 6 is also the deadline for the Competitive
application. We hope to get results in May
and announce awardees in June.
Upcoming Events
CUE –
http://www.cue.org --
Any CUE members should have received their
ballots to vote for board members. Doug Prouty
is one of the board member candidates. Members
can go to http://www.cue.org/mycue/ to
access a number of online benefits that have
been added for CUE members (video streaming,
Grokker, and others).
East Bay CUE --
A mini conference will be held January 28,
2006 at the Alameda COE. Intel Teach to the
Future Leadership Forum will be held on May
17, 2005 at Contra Costa COE from 8am to
12:30pm. This Intel workshop is for principals
and administrators, and it is FREE!
Digital Media Academy -- http://www.digitalmediaacademy.org
A number of new
classes have been added specifically for
classroom teachers.
Next BARC Meeting
May 24, 2005
Alameda
County Office of Education
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