EIPS Ed Tech

Its time to talk about Ed Tech in EIPS. We have a number of new and 'ongoing' initiatives for 2012-2013:

• Social Media
• Develop Social Media Guidelines and Tutorials for EIPS staff (available on Staff Connect)
• Twitter, Facebook and Edmodo training
• Develop (in consultation) the EIPS Digital Citizenship Policy
• Create Digital Citizenship resource lists (per grade)
• Google Apps in Education
• how to use a variety of Google apps, and how these can improve 'workflow'
• Professional Development for School Administrators (e.g. EIPS Technoganza October 24, 25)
• Teacher support
• how to set up collaborative sites, social media training, digital literacy, and more based on school requests
• iPad deployment for schools
• 'best practices' e.g. apps for the iPad
• Apple Volume Purchasing program
• oversee Educational App deployment
• Apple TV
• how to set up
• usage by school administrators, teachers, and students
• Ed Tech/Tech Services collaborative work
• solution-focused approach to technology issues related to:
• educational sites/security
• Apple VPP procedures
• Website block/unblock procedures
• revise as needed
• form located on Staff Connect
• Copyright and video/media
• guidelines for schools
• EIPS Evergreen(ing) plan
• provide educational input 
• Partnerships with Alberta Education, Student Technology Sector
• EIPS PD Day
• provide a variety of Ed Tech offerings
• include teacher experts in this plan
• School Based Professional Learning Days
• offer our expertise to your school staff 
• Parent evening sessions - available on request
• Hardware research - best mobile devices for students? We explore the options on a regular basis
• Blogging - we will provide ongoing blog posts with EIPS Ed Tech news
• Video tutorials - coming soon! Our own EIPS Ed Tech Central video presentations will be made available to EIPS staff. We will highlight the 'best of' collaborative sites, apps and hardware
• EIPS Academy - available for students (and parents) on the EIPS website - specific to Senior High courses - we continue to update this site
• EIPS Virtual Library - update and inservice school staff
• Last but not least, our work is to support and action the EIPS Education and Technology Vision document

School administrators: please contact us. We are available to meet with you about your school Ed Tech needs. For school/teacher support requests, please contact one of our Ed Tech Consultants: 

• Donna Griffin
• David Hay
• Aaron Tuckwood

School based Professional Learning Support PD/requests (for Ed Tech pd) and Parent Evening session requests please contact:
Faye McConnell (Director, Educational Technology & AISI)

A note about Technoganza:

EIPS welcomes Dean Shareski once again to our annual Technoganza event.  Dean worked as a Digital Learning Consultant with the Prairie South School Division in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan until January 2012. He currently works with Discovery Education as the Community Manager of the Canadian 'DEN' or Discovery Educators Network. Our theme this year is : "Connecting with Community; Building on Social Capital". I look forward to our time together, learning and sharing: What's your school story?