Virginia Society for Technology in Education
Googlepalooza 2015
June 16, 2015, 9 AM - 4 PM
Corron Community Development Center
Lord Fairfax Community College
Middetown Campus
173 Skirmisher Lane
Middletown, Virginia
All thing Google! For the second year, we bring you Googlepalooza, a day of Google-related workshops as well as the chance to network with others around GAFE and Chromebooks. Just $30 includes breakfast, lunch and all the M&Ms you can eat!
Check out the jam packed schedule here: http://googlepalooza2015.sched.org/
VE PLN Tonight at 8 PM
What are you reading?
VSTE members read books, blogs, magazines, journals, newspapers, websites, and more, from novels to the backs of cereal boxes. Join Beth Ghostraven as we discuss what we're reading, and how we get news about education in virtual worlds. Meet at the VSTE Island Community Center in Second Life.
Join the Google Plus community to learn more about the Virtual Environments PLN.
Broadband is the backbone of a high skilled, high-tech economy. Access to broadband accelerates all of Virginia towards economic opportunity, 21st century education, advanced health care, enhanced safety and security and can lead to a better life for everyone in Virginia.
In an effort to expand high-speed Internet access across the state, Virginia Tech's eCorridors program has launched Accelerate Virginia, a new broadband mapping project.
You can help! By sparing just a few minutes of your time to take the Accelerate Virginia Internet speed test, you will help encourage the expansion of affordable broadband services throughout Virginia.
Visit http://www.acceleratevirginia.org/speedtest today to take the speed test and get an instant review of your Internet connection and survey results of what others in your zip code are reporting about their broadband services.
If you do not have access to high speed Internet, please report your broadband dead zone at:http://acceleratevirginia.org/contact/ Your participation will help encourage the expansion of affordable broadband services in Virginia.
Ten candidates are running for the VSTE Board of Directors. Review their candidate information pages here.
Members in good standing since Saturday, March 28, 2015, may vote for up to five candidates. Members should login here to access the link to the ballot.
VSTE partners with Big Deal Media to provide access to quality resources of interest to K-12 educators. From grants to competitions to curriculum resources, this newsletter has something for everyone.
NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, which launched on March 12, provides an opportunity to bring hands-on science activities related to the mission to classrooms. The MMS mission will study the mystery of how magnetic fields around Earth connect and disconnect, explosively releasing energy via a process called magnetic reconnection. Using four identical spacecraft, the mission will provide the first three-dimensional view of this fundamental process that occurs throughout the universe.
Plus: NASA partnered with the University of Virginia and the International Society of Technology Education (ISTE) to design and publish a set of digital-age resources for students and educators, callediMAGINETICspace. These freely downloadable resources are designed to encourage teachers and students to work creatively and collaboratively through a study of science and engineering principles related to space weather and the MMS mission.
March 16, 2015 Edition (opens in a new window)
