The Collaborative Classroom is an interview with Linda Darling-Hammond. The Stanford University education professor says social and emotional learning is a crucial part of teaching the whole child. For more on this topic, go to the Edutopia website.
This year the National Middle School Association (NMSA) conference is focusing on technology for teaching and learning in the global community. There is a live stream going on right now. Access the Classroom feed today, Friday, October 31 from 1:00 to 3:00 EST.
CUELA Tech Fair 2008 will be held this year at Virgil Middle School in Los Angeles. Map The event will be held on November 15, 2008 from 8:00 to 3:30 pm. Registration/check in begins at 7:30 am. This is a great conference to attend. There will be a number of workshops available throughout the day as well as a presentation from this years Keynote speaker Robert Craven. For more information or to register, visit the CUELA website.
Inspiring middle-school girls to make a difference in the world through math, science and technology has been behind IBM’s commitment for conducting annual EX.I.T.E. (EXploring Interests in Technology and Engineering) Camps.
Cal State LA will be hosting the 21st Century Learners Symposium.
The event will be held on October 24, 2008 from 7:30 to 3:30. You can register by going to http://ito.lacoe.edu. Registration closes this Friday, October 17 at 5:30 pm.
Just a reminder. The iWeb workshop for developing school websites will be this Thursday from 3:30 – 5:00 at the Local District 4 office. You can still register through the Learning Zone if you have not done so yet. Http://lz.LAUSD.net