NYSTL Spending Guide

OIT has created a handy NYSTL spending guide with materials you can consider for purchase geared toward elementary, middle, and high school settings. Enjoy the recommendations:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p6pwYrPKv6ipKW2klJlTVLA

Competition Opportunity: Doodle for Google

http://www.google.com/doodle4google/

School competition where students can win laptops/computers for their schools. As well the winner will win a 10,000.00 scholarship and a laptop…..

Welcome to Doodle 4 Google, a competition where we invite K-12 students to play around with our homepage logo and see what they come up with. This year we're inviting U.S. kids to join in the doodling fun, around the intriguing theme "What if...?"

At Google we believe in thinking big, and dreaming big, and we can't think of anything more important than encouraging students to do the same. So we hope you'll gather those art supplies and some 8.5x11 landscape paper and encourage your kids to enrich us all with their creative visions of our world, as it is and as it might be.

You'll find everything you need to get started here, including detailed lesson plans to incorporate the competition into your curricula. Registration closes on March 28th, and entries are due by April 12th. A panel of judges will select 40 finalist doodles, from which the public will help select a favorite to be featured on our homepage on May 22nd, 2008.

P.S. We'd be thrilled if you spread the word to your fellow educators.

Software Survey for Training and Support

Hello all -- We are trying to assess the need for training and support for vendor products usewd at your schools. Please take a few minutes to complete the online survey below.

Survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=iSQbmPE02j717rP15H4ugQ_3d_3d

February Computer Liaison Meeting:

Come join us as we discuss recommendations for NYSTL Spending: grade appropriate software, hardware, and subscriptions. Items to discuss include:

Budget

-- Famis
-- Recommendations for NYSTL Spending
-- Grade appropriate software, hardware, and subscriptions
-- Vendor presentations

Agenda:

1. New OIT website, ways to communicate with us, blog resources, 9:00-10:00
2. Tech 4 Learning 10:00-11:00
3. Apple 11:00-12:00
4. Lunch 12:00-1:00
5. Riverdeep 1:00-2:00

Resource:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p6pwYrPKv6ipKW2klJlTVLA

Share the iLead Institute with your principal

Register for Instructional Technology Leadership Institute

The Office of Instructional Technology (OIT) is offering New York City principals an additional opportunity to participate in a year-long iLead Instructional Technology Leadership Institute, beginning this spring with a 4-day prerequisite session. The goals of the institute are to prepare principals to meet the technological challenges of leading a 21st-century school, to guide instructional leaders in promoting the effective integration of technology into their classrooms, and to provide principals with the technology skills to view, manipulate and analyze data to inform instructional decisions.

This spring, the institute will guide leaders through four days of instruction focused on relevant research and alignment to the National Education Technology Standards for Administrators. During the course of the institute, participants will have the opportunity to visit a model school that demonstrates effective use of technology. Participants will also work with an on-site consultant to extend and expand the use of technology for instruction and school management. Participants will have access to online communication and collaboration tools created for this program.

OIT will fund selected applicants to participate in this year-long program. To learn more about the program and how to qualify for full funding and participation, see the online application at www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=7oTqSpKeBaYYi_2fmFverGVw_3d_3d. The application deadline is February 7 at 5 p.m. Please note that the program is a year-long commitment. Confirmation of acceptance into the institute, including the weeks of your attendance, will be forwarded to you via e-mail. For additional information, contact iLead@schools.nyc.gov.