ESU 10 is hosting the Windsor VIII room at NETA 2012 and would like to invite you to consider being a host for one of the sessions on April 26 or 27.

Please visit http://sn.im/2012neta-room-host, look over the session titles, and enter your name and cell phone in the corresponding cells for the session you’d like to host.  Cell phone numbers will only be used to contact you during the event. For a more complete description of each session, see http://goo.gl/ki8qj or go to http://www.netasite.org/ and click on the Search feature. Then choose Embassy, Windsor VIII in the Location drop down.

As in the past for being a room host, you’ll get a FREE NETA T-shirt, which can be picked up when you turn in the evaluations after your session. Also, NEW THIS YEAR--IN HONOR OF NETA's 25TH ANNIVERSARY- NETA IS GIVING AWAY ITUNES GIFT CARDS!  EACH TIME YOU VOLUNTEER, YOUR NAME GETS PUT IN A DRAWING FOR AN ITUNES GIFT CARD!!!  The more you volunteer, the more your name is entered to win.

As a room host your responsibility is to be at the room early, help the presenter pass out handouts or get set up, ask a select number of attendees to complete the evaluation and return it to you, and help with the lighting in the room. After the session take the completed evals to the NETA booth to receive your free T-shirt.

Thanks for volunteering. Room hosts are a vital part of the success of NETA. :-)

Graci

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Graci Gillming 
Technology Training Coordinator
Educational Service Unit 10
PO Box 850, 76 Plaza Blvd
Kearney, NE 68848
Bus: 308-865-5664 X-229
Fax: 308-233-9066
ggillmin@esu10.org

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.  Mother Teresa

 

 

Please share this with your students, staff, and parents.

With the new Timeline look going into effect on ALL Facebook accounts on February 15, your previous Facebook privacy settings will NOT be in effect. Most everyone's account will be wide open; i.e. your info, wall, photos, etc. will be accessible by anyone with a FB account, friend or not.

The following article is a great guide to helping you understand the new privacy settings.

http://howto.techworld.com/personal-tech/3336013/how-to-secure-your-facebook-profile-in-a-post-timeline-world/



Graci

Your Nebraska Educational Service Units (ESUs), in partnership with the Nebraska Educational Technology Association (NETA), the Nebraska Council of School Administrators (NCSA) and Lincoln Public Schools (LPS) are excited to bring you the first Great Plains Google Summit to be held at Lincoln Southwest High School in Lincoln, Nebraska on July 19-20, 2012.

http://www.greatplainssummit.org/

The Summit has something Google for everyone!  We have strands for technology directors, school administrators and classroom teachers!  All presenters are invited Google Apps for Education Certified Trainers from across the country.  International educational technology leader Jeff Utecht will inspire you to implement flipped instruction models for all content areas and help you get set up with the Google Ninja program to systematically train teachers, parents and students in Google Apps for Education. Iowa Superintendent Andy Crozier will inspire Administrators to use Google Tools to lead the district.  Youtube STAR classroom teacher Jim Sill will be here from California to help educators maximize Youtube as an instructional resource.  Molly Schroeder from Minnesota will turn you into a Google Search Superhero and outline how to become a Google Certified Teacher yourself!  Join Jeff, Andy, Jim, Molly and other presenters from around the country to learn more about all of Google Tools potential to improve teaching and learning!

Registration will open on February 14 ("Feel the Google Love!") and is limited to the first 500 to register, so register early! We look forward to seeing you in Lincoln this summer!

See PDF flyer available here: http://goo.gl/9SNT8

Please feel free to share with friends and colleagues you know may be interested in this exciting opportunity. On behalf of the planning committee, thank you!
Jason Everett

The ESUs of Nebraska in partnership with the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office are sponsoring an Internet Safety and Digital Citizenship Poster and Public Service Announcement (PSA) Contest for students in K-12 Schools in Nebraska.  

This is a great opportunity for students to learn more about Internet safety and responsible behavior in the digital society that  now pervades our world.  Creating a poster, video, or audio PSA forces students to dig deeper into an aspect of digital citizenship and formalize their ideas and beliefs into an artistic and lasting format that can be shared with other students and the community. 

I am always amazed at the creative and astute submissions from students of all ages. 

Deadline: March 9, 2012

Send entries on the ESU 10 route or by mail to: 

Graci Gillming 
ESU 10
PO Box 850, 76 Plaza Blvd 
Kearney, NE 68848

For more contest information and the entry form, visit ESU 10 Internet Safety Contest Guideline 12.pdf

Visit http://blog.esu10.org/internetsafety for more Internet safety and digital citizenship resources as well last year's winning entries from the local and state competition.

I look forward to receiving these great projects.  If you have any questions, contact me at ggillmin@esu10.org or 308-865-5664, x-229

Just wondering if/what others use or have found as a free or inexpensive alternative for garage band that can be used with PC.
Thanks,
Heather Callihan

Holy Myers sent this out to the School Librarians, but I thought I would help her out and send it to other groups as well.  Can you help answer her questions?  Thanks!
Susan Sandoval, ESU 10 Media Center

The Media-Specialists
Community - One to one computers

By Holly Myers

November 28, 2011

Hello all! We are looking at trying to go one to one with computers next school
year and we just want to feel out others to see what they are doing. Some
questions that have come up are: Does the school provide a case to each
student? Do the students and parents have to sign a waiver? What kind of
insurance do you have for the computers? Are the students allowed to take the
computers out of the building? If anyone has any advice, we would really
appreciate it. You can email me at holmyers@esu10.org
or call the school (North Loup-Scotia) at 308 245 3201 or leave your
suggestions as comments. Thanks so much for your help! :)