November 5, 2009

Aberdeen Arlington Colville

NEW ESD 101 ESD 112 ESD 113

Olympic ESD 114

ESD 123 NCESD 171

Highline Kelso Tonasket

Mt. Vernon Okanogan Pullman

Sequim Stevenson-Carson

Union Gap

Bethel

9:00 Introduction and Welcome Conn McQuinn, PSESD

9:10 PBS TeacherLine and NCCE Capstone Program

Jeff Allen, ESD 114

9:25 PILOT Update Anne Allen, PSESD

9:40 ETSC Statewide Website and Leader Announcements

Forrest Fisher, ESD 105

10:00 Thinkfinity Online Course Announcement

Anne Allen, PSESD

10:15 Trends in Educational Technology Jeff Allen, ESD 114

10:50 Use of Netbooks for One-to-One Computing

Walt Szklarski, Tahoma School District 11:25 Google Apps for Education JB Fitzpatrick, Kris Hagel, and Ron Stark,

Peninsula School District

12:00 Adjourn Videoconference

Through Washington’sEd Tech Support Centers

An online collection of over 55,000 standards-based K-12 lesson plans, student materials, interactive activities, and other instructional content tools

Resources reviewed and endorsed by the nation’s leading education organizations

Through a Verizon Foundation grant, the ETSCs are working to roll-out Thinkfinity in Washington

Goals◦ Spread the word about Thinkfinity’s free

resources◦ Eventually all educators know about it and use it

Two major efforts◦ Online Moodle courses◦ Train-the-Trainer program

Introduction to Thinkfinity

Thinkfinity and Elementary Music Thinkfinity Science Resources Thinkfinity and the Arts Thinkfinity and Science Thinkfinity and Reading Thinkfinity and Social Studies

Equivalent to ten hours of on-site workshop, this structured online course is self-paced for the participants, providing them an overview of the rich educational teaching and learning resources that are offered on the Thinkfinity web site that they can complete at their own pace

Clock Hours: 10 clock hours

Registration Limit: 25 participants

Dates: November 16 – December 18

Registration Instructions (details on www.edtech.wednet.edu )

1. Go to www.esd112.org and click on courses.  2. Search for “Thinkfinity” and click on the course.3. If you are a new user, you will be asked to create an

escWorks account.  If you already have an account on the ESD 112 escWorks site you will need to login.

4. Once you are logged in, you will be taken to the registration page

Goals: Establish a network of Washington

Thinkfinity trainers coordinated through each ESD

In 3 years◦ A trainer in every district◦ Awareness in each building

1. Each ESD will announce a date2. An invitation to districts to send one

person for training3. Training is free, clock hours available, and

a stipend will be offered4. Trainers commit to training at least 10

teachers or 50% of their staff, whichever is less

5. Additional stipends possible if/when teachers become ESD adjunct instructors and teach Thinkfinity courses for the ESDs

6. Starting late 2009 and early 2010

ETSC Websitewww.edtech.wednet.edu