Greetings!

As the academic and school years are both in full swing – this fall is full of lots of exciting opportunities for our students and alumni to connect to professional learning networks! Recently, MAET Alumnus Paula Burrough tweeted for us from the 21st Century Learning Conference (http://21c-learning.hk/) in Hong Kong! She even had the chance to meet up with fellow MAET Alumni and students!  You can find all of Paula’s tweets from the conference at http://twitter.com/paulawalla72

For those close to campus, registration is now available for the 26th annual MSU College of Education Technology Conference on November 14, 2009. This is an opportunity to learn and share ideas about using technology in the classroom with educators from across Michigan and to see several MAET alumni presenting! We will have our first ever MAET Tweet-up during lunch from 12-1. Come join in the fun and meet with your fellow MAET students, alumni and faculty!  Follow the conference on Twitter with @COETechConf09 and use the tag #coetc09.

(MAET students and alumni, email edutech@msu.edu for the secret code, and we’ll take care of your registration!) Click here to register: http://bit.ly/7sgTY

You can also catch up with us at the following conferences (if you can’t make we’ll be tweeting at http://twitter.com/maet):

K-12 Open Minds 2009, Michigan City, Indiana http://www.k12openminds.org/

October 6-7, 2009

Kappa Delta Pi – International Honor Society in Education Orlando, Florida http://www.kdp.org/

October 29-31, 2009

54th Annual MCSS Conference, Mt. Pleasant, MI http://www.mcssmi.org/

November 1-3, 2009

Educational Computing Organization of Ontario ECOO, Toronto, Ontario http://www.ecoo.org/

November 11-13

Current students: be sure to have your enrollment requests for spring 2010 into Emily by October 10, 2009 to avoid late fees! If you haven’t had a chance to fill out Emily’s enrollment survey please do so by visiting:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dFpCMi1JTEVzbk1JQUpMY29TR2xWanc6MA

We are working hard this fall to reconnect with all of our Master of Arts in Educational Technology Alumni around the globe! We have heard from many of you and are working on new and exciting ways for you to keep up with educational technology and extending the “shelf life” of your tech skills. If you can take a moment to fill out this brief survey we would greatly appreciate hearing from you:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHZiUDdDejFOWElUejdBNFZBdEdpa0E6MA

For all of our current students and alumni we have created a MAET badge that you can embed into your Facebook page, web page, blog, etc.  Email us at edutech@msu.edu to get the embed code and begin showcasing that you are a member of the MAET program.

Take care!

Leigh Graves Wolf, Program Coordinator

Masters of Arts in Educational Technology

Summer 2009 classes have come to a close! We had a great summer online, on campus and in Plymouth, England.  One very exciting thing that happened this summer was our Jing-Off. Ken Dirkin and I challenged the MAET Year 3 students to create 9 screencasts in 10 minutes using Jing! You can read more about the challenge and see the results on the Jing Education Blog!

TechSmith also featured our “Jing-off” on their product blog.

To top it all off, all of our students won a free copy of Jing-Pro to take back to their classrooms! Keep your eye on the Jing Education Blog, they always run contests and highlight educators using their software!

We are looking forward to seeing those of you who have signed up for courses this fall.  Very shortly you will be hearing from your fall instructors with instructions on accessing course materials.  If you have any questions about your schedule, make sure to check http://stuinfo.msu.edu — if you see errors, please contact Emily Fink at finkemil@msu.edu.

Here are some important dates for Master of Arts in Educational Technology students from the Registrar’s Office August, 13, 2009 – Initial minimum tuition & fee payment due for Fall 2009 September 2, 2009 – Classes Begin September 7, 2009 – University Closed, Labor Day September 28, 2009 – End of Tuition Refund

Make sure to follow us on twitter @maet. We will post important dates for students and links to great resources!

Additionally, if you search twitter for #maet you may run across lots of great resources posted by other MAET tweeters.  Don’t know what the # mark means? Check out this easy to follow explanation – http://kristinewirth.com/that-mysterious-sign-in-twitterwhat-does-it-mean/

Here is to a great fall semester!

Leigh Graves Wolf, Program Director
Masters of Arts in Educational Technology

CURRENT STUDENT NEWS
MAET Student Dana Dziedzic who as awarded a $2500 grant for classroom clickers based upon her Dream IT assignment she created for her East Lansing summer cohort class last summer!  Dana says “I was turned down the first time, but resubmitted it in January.  So, if students complain about the assignment, tell them that I will have $2,500 in new teaching tools come next fall.”

MAET REQUIRED SOFTWARE LIST
We have provided a list of commercial software along with free/open source alternatives.  In order to support your individual needs and to make the summer most beneficial to your school/work environment you must have the software in each category, though you are are not required to buy the commercial versions.  All projects can be completed successfully with either commercial or open source alternatives.

An updated list of required software and hardware can be found by visiting:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ah93×5pp2qng_5t4dxbzg3

NP ENDORSEMENT
Upon completion of the 21 Educational Technology endorsement credits (CEP 810, 811, 812, 800, 815 (formerly 801), 820, 822) you will need to apply for the NP endorsement using the following form:

http://www.educ.msu.edu/programs/forms/endform.pdf

FALL 2009 APPLICATION DEADLINE
The fall MAET application deadline of July 1st is quickly approaching!

Thanks to all who have recommended family, friends and colleagues to our program! Application materials can be found by visiting – http://edutech.msu.edu/apply_masters.html

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