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Welcome to the 2010-2011 School Year!

Welcome to the 2010-2011 School Year! We hope you have a great start to the new year and that you will include our NICE meetings in your plans for professional growth opportunities this year. Our first meeting of the year, "Share-A-Rama," will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 29 at Edgewood Middle School (Northwood Junior High School Library, 945 North Avenue) in Highland Park. This meeting provides a great way to share what you have learned over the summer, while learning from your NICE colleagues. Details, directions and sign-up information will be posted on our NICE website, in our "Back to School" issue of NICE News, and this blog in a few weeks. We hope you will be able to join us!!

Also at the September meeting, members in attendance will have the opportunity to vote on proposed changes to the NICE By-Laws.

You may view the proposed changes here. Your feedback is welcomed, please email your comments to [email protected].

Looking forward to learning with you!

(Post edited 9/12/2010)

We have a treasurer!

We're happy to announce that Jason Meltzer, Technology Coordinator at Oak Grove School District #68 in
Green Oaks has volunteered to be our NICE treasurer. We officially welcomed Jason to the NICE Board at our September 23 meeting. As always, please feel free to contact any of the NICE Board members with your questions and/or comments, so we can better serve our members.

We're Blogging

Welcome to the NICE blog, a new communication tool designed to help connect all members of the Illinois Computing Educators organization who live and work in the northern suburbs of Chicago. We hope that this blog will supplement the services already being offered to members in this region and encourage members to become more active in the events and professional development opportunities that are sponsored by ICE and the local chapters.

Throughout the year, we will post announcements of upcoming events and opportunities, links to valuable resources, information about special offers, and photos of state and regional activities. Since this is an active weblog and not a static web page, you have the ability to comment on any post, add additional information, or suggest new resources that might be useful to other readers. This site is designed to facilitate lines of communication between all members, so we encourage you to participate.

You can also “subscribe” to this blog so that you are alerted when new information has been posted. Please use the tools located in the upper right corner to receive e-mail alerts or to add this RSS feed to your favorite blog aggregator utility.

The Illinois Computing Educators organization sponsors events such as the annual ICE Conference to serve educators from across the state, but much of the activity throughout the year occurs at the local chapter level. We encourage you to become active in the activities hosted by your local chapter so that you receive the most benefits that the organization has to offer!