MEMSET meeting yesterday

Yesterday Colm Eliot, Svetlana Grinshpan, Julia Kelly and I attended the 2nd meeting of the Massachusetts Elementary and Middle School Educational Technologists (MEMSET). This is a new group formed just this year, meeting first at the Brookwood School last October and then at the Tenacre school last night.

The evening included several presentations, dinner and discussion. The group has decided to meet monthly, so if you are interested in attending a meeting, please let your ATS know. The meetings will focus on technology integration in the elementary and middle school grades.

Technologies/Topics of discussion last night included: movie making in world languages classrooms using flipcams, comic life, keynote, stop motion animation software, virtual field trips on iPods, wikispaces, and Google Aps.

Schools in attendance included (but were not limited to): BB&N, Park, Shady Hill, Fessenden, Chestnut Hill, Belmont Day, Fay, Derby Academy, Brookwood, Meadowbrook, Pike, Shore Country Day, Brimmer and May, Kingsley, Ten Acre. Advent, Nashoba Brooks, and Bell South.

-Megan Haddadi

Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach Open House

The Center for Engineering Education and Outreach will be hosting its 3rd Annual Open House on December 9th, 2010 from 4pm-7pm.

474 Boston Ave ~ Curtis Hall, lower level

Come and Explore a day in the life of working at CEEO!

• conduct research studies like their graduate students
• test their educational technologies like their product developers
• think of ways to teach engineering like students in their STOMP Outreach Program (STOMP for STEM)
  
• and, of course, play with LEGO products!

Win LEGO prizes!
Kids take home a bag of LEGO bricks!
Play a part in the CEEO's largest SAM movie!
Meet the amazing faculty, students, and staff of CEEO!

Register at http://ceeoopenhouse.eventbrite.com
(You do not have to register to attend)

iCreate to Educate: SAM animation workshop

Educator's Institute: Going Beyond the Animation

There is still space left in the full-day hands-on workshop at Tufts University this Saturday! This is an opportunity to explore the ways stop-motion can be used as a tool to enhance and assess conceptual understandings by your students in science, math, and other subjects.

WHEN: Dec. 4th, 9am - 4pm
WHERE: Tufts University, Medford, MA

Click here to register

$175 registration fee (or $245 for the fee plus your own webcam classroom kit!)
All fees include a free copy of the SAM Animation software.

**lunch will be served**

If you can't make this one, there will be another conference held in January:
EDCO Collaborative
Waltham, MA
Jan 27th, 2011
4pm-7pm