VSTE

Virginia Society for Technology in Education

Online Events

Starts Monday, April 27: Brainstorm 2020: Limitless Learning

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Brainstorm: Limitless Learning Online Conference
A joint online conference between UnisonEDU, SVTC, VSTE, and JMU!

The Brainstorm Conference is going virtual this year modeled after amazing online PD like the Ditch Summit, Hive Summit, or Cy Fair Edtech. The sessions will be interview style and/or recorded with a tool, concept, or project featured as well as resources to aid each session yielding a takeaway the attendee can implement right away. Presentations can be tech related or on any other topic people are passionate about that could benefit other educators.

Join in this amazing professional learning opportunity with over 20 different sessions all with dynamic presenters!

Sessions will begin going live the week of April 27, 2020!

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Minecraft Monday: April 6, 2020, 8 PM

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It’s that time again! Join us at VSTE place at 8 PM tonight. Minecraft Monday for April 2020 will be fishing data collection.

This is an idea you can replicate with your students! We will meet in survival on VSTE Place and go fishing. We will record time of day, weather, type of rods, and items caught. Everyone will tally their catches in groups of ten. There will be a google spreadsheet to enter your results. What will we learn? Do you get more fish, treasure, or trash? Do we even agree on which items are treasure or trash? Are enchanted fishing rods really better than others? Let’s find out! When you get into VSTE Place type /warp survival to meet up with us.

If this is your first foray into Minecraft, you'll need to do a little setup including creating an account and downloading the software. Start here.

How to Join

To join our Minecraft server please email K4sons@gmail.com or lwalconc@gmail.com. If this is your first time, we need your Mojang Minecraft user name and your real name. Thank you for your interest! I will add you to the server in just a moment. The VSTE Place IP address is 69.175.17.26:25565 If you experience any difficulty, please let me know. As a reminder, this server is for educators. If you are using your child's account to participate please do not encourage your child to use our server. We are currently using version 1.15.2.

This Google doc has more info about the server: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rrwGjJDu3lgZuqZ7udrM8-DAMyofF186a78__ciEem8/edit?usp=sharing

 

 

VSTE & UnisonEDU Offer Online Coaching Plus Other Ways to Connect

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Not only are teachers and students learning how to connect online, Virginia's technology coaches are also figuring out how to support teachers in an online environment.

VSTE is offering several ways for teachers and coaches to connect and share.

  1. Online Coaching: In partnership with UnisonEDU, we are offering synchronous online coaching sessions. These sessions are available for any educator in Virginia. Fill out the form, and we will match you with the UnisonEDU and VSTE coach best fitted for your needs. From tips for using your LMS to ideas for easy online activities, coaches will schedule time to meet online or via phone for just in time support. Online Coaching Request Form
  2. VSTE Social Media Update: VSTE will continue to share resources via Twitter and Facebook. To make it easier for our members and friends to share, we have created a public VSTE Facebook Group. Please join and share your best coaching tips and online learning tricks. If you share a great idea on Twitter, use the hashtag #vsteretweetme and we'll make sure we share it via our account, too. Let's use these tools to continue to learn, share and grow.
  3. #GoOpenVA: This collaborative initiative enables educators and organizations throughout Virginia to create, share, and access openly-licensed educational resources (OER, also known as open education resources). OER are free digital materials that can be used or modified to adjust to student needs; they are openly-licensed unhampered by many traditional copyright limitations. You can learn more about this initiative here and browse the resources here.

Spring 2020 PD From The Source For Learning Begins Tomorrow

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VSTE is pleased to partner with The Source for Learning to provide access to high quality resources created by teachers for teachers. Start here for customized access for VSTE members and conference attendees.

Don't miss the link to OK2Ask, The Source for Learning's LIVE educational technology professional development opportunity. Spring 2020 sessions begin March 3, 2020.

These quality virtual webinars are:

  • Interactive and practical – usually 90 minutes of hands on learning
  • Aligned with the ISTE Standards for Teachers
  • Packed with great ideas you can use in your K12 classroom
  • Conveniently scheduled after work hours
  • Available in live (for credit) and archived (without credit) formats

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