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Announcing the ISTE Season Pass Series

The phrase “win-win” is often overused to the point where it has lost much of its meaning, but our parent organization, the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), has just announced an incredible professional development opportunity that can be of tremendous value to both your school district and ICE. The program is called the Season Pass webinar series and entitles school leaders to offer as many as 30 different webinar topics to all of the teachers in their schools or districts for a one-time cost of $795. Even better, each time a school district purchases one of the ISTE Season Passes, the ICE organization automatically receives a $100 check from ISTE. It is a great way to provide quality professional development opportunities for your colleagues and help support the programs with which ICE is involved at the same time.

The ISTE webinars are held all through the school year on topics that include Web 2.0 resources, digital storytelling, Google Earth, copyright issues, distance learning, Moodle, digital photography, and many others. Each webinar program is archived so that subscribers can access them and use them at staff meetings whenever school leaders prefer to show them. You can view the full webinar schedule by clicking this link.

Below are links to two documents that contain more information about the Season Pass program. It is important to note that ICE will not receive the $100 affiliate benefit unless the individuals who purchase the Season Pass program are also ISTE members and have updated their member profile to indicate that they are also members of ICE.

Download webinar_season_pass.pdf
Download season_pass_incentive.pdf

With the new school year at hand, this new program can be a significant and very cost-effective way for school districts to provide the vital professional development courses that are so important to all educators. Please feel free to contact me at the ICE office if you have more questions about this webinar series.

TechCon 2008

The Illinois Association of School Business Officials, the Illinois Computing Educators and Illinois Chief Technology Officers are pleased to announce the second annual:

TechCon: Technology and Financial Issues for the 21st Century Conference

Technology is changing society and education. From business managers to technology directors, investment in technology will change the future of learning. As access moves faster than understanding, education professionals must keep pace. Illinois ASBO, the Illinois Computing Educators and the Illinois Chief Technology Officers have created a conference to meet these needs.

Of special interest to educators is the fact that noted speaker Wesley Fryer will give the keynote presentation in addition to a breakout session later in the day. ICE members David Jakes and Charlene Chausis are also featured presenters during the day, and each will present sessions focusing on the challenges and opportunities that Web 2.0 resources present to teachers and school administrators.

The 2008 TechCon will be held on Friday, October 17, 2008, at the Holiday Inn Select in Naperville; 1801 Naper Boulevard, Naperville, IL 60563. For more information about the event and links to the online registration site, please click the link below to view the conference web site:

http://events.iasbo.org/techcon/index.html

Last year's conference was a great success and this year's event promises to be even more powerful. Please save the date and plan to join us for a valuable and thought-provoking program!