Technology in Education

Summary of New Developments in Education & Technology

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Carol Holzberg, Director of Technology for Greenfield Public Schools, wrote a short summary of recent developments in education & technology. These developments are:
  • draft of the proposed Massachusetts Digital Literacy & Computer Science standards (DL&CS)
  • newly released National Education Technology Plan (NETP16)
  • newly accepted Federal Every Child Achieves Act (ECA)
We thought this might be useful to everyone, not just those of you on the TiE PLC listserv*.
(*If you are not on the TiE PLC listserv and are interested in joining the conversation and/or attending monthly meetings, please contact technology@collaborative.org)
Here is the summary from Carol.

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Notable PDF

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This weekend, I was visiting friends in Maine and one of them was struggling with a PDF. This friend is a graduate student and most of her research (articles, chapters, etc.) is in PDF. Her research process has always involved printing each article and marking it up with a pen. As the research increases, so has her budget for printer ink until she has finally decided to explore paperless options. This is where I come in to the picture. She already uses Google Drive and Docs for much of her work, so it seemed logical to find a tool that fit in to that universe. We settled on Notable PDF, a Google Drive App. And it is awesome.

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GPS Website Redesign

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The new Greenfield Public Schools website is now live! Take a look at gpsk12.org.

The Recorder covered the GPS Website Redesign in an article on July 4th.

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Watch this blog for more details about the GPS Website Redesign process from our Web Systems Administrator and Developer.

This is the second website that the Collaborative has redesigned for a member school district. You can take a look at the site we did for Hatfield Public Schools in this post.