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=Welcome to a collaborative wiki for our STEM Constituencies! =

The purpose of this WIKI is for those of us who attended GAETC this past week; November 2nd-4th, 2011 to communicate and serve our school community with information and provide an opportunity for dialog on what we learned. This week Jonathan Streich, Philip Dooley, Jan Weir, Mrs. Riordan, and myself attended either part or all of the Conference sponsored by our STEM Grant at CMS. Summaries and reviews of each of our sessions will be documented along with links found from a parallel wiki from GAETC. We hope you glean some valuable information and be inspired as we were by some of the presenters.

Keynote Speaker was Alan November: Take a look at this sneak peek at a different conference via http://youtu.be/ebJHzpEy4bE

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 * <  Alan November is an international leader in education technology. He began his career as an oceanography teacher and dorm counselor at an island reform school for boys in Boston Harbor. While Alan was a computer science teacher in Lexington, Massachusetts, he was probably the first teacher in the world to have a student project on line in 1984--a database for the handicapped. He has been director of an alternative high school, computer coordinator, technology consultant, and university lecturer. He has helped schools, governments and industry leaders improve the quality of education through technology. Audiences enjoy Alan’s humor and wit as he pushes the boundaries of how to improve teaching and learning. His areas of expertise include planning across curriculum, staff development, new school design, community building, and leadership development. He has delivered keynotes and workshops in all fifty states, across Canada, and throughout the UK, Europe, Asia, and Central America. Alan was named one of the nation’s fifteen most influential thinkers of the decade by //Technology and Learning Magazine//. In 2001, he was listed one of eight educators to provide leadership into the future by the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse. In 2007 he was selected to speak at the Cisco Public Services Summit during the Nobel Prize Festivities in Stockholm, Sweden. His writing includes numerous articles and two best-selling books, //Empowering Students with Technology// and //Web Literacy for Educators//. Alan was co-founder of the Stanford Institute for Educational Leadership Through Technology and is most proud of being selected as one of the original five national Christa McAuliffe Educators. ||