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

Visit Us at Two Upcoming Conferences

The Educational Technology Programs will be represented at two upcoming conferences in Michigan in March.  The first conference is the 2009 Michigan Science Teachers Association Conference which is being held at the Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center from March 5-7.  Come visit us at booth H.

The MACUL Conference 2009 is being held at Cobo Hall from March 18-20. This is a great conference for educators to learn more about technology and how it can be applied in the classroom. They have hands on workshops as well as presentations conducted by other educators and educational vendors. Several of our instructors (Carolyn McCarthy-Research Based Classroom Formative Assessments; Michael Partridge-Joomia! Free Content Management for Schools) will be presenting in pre-conference workshops on Wednesday March 18^th, as well as doing information sessions on Thursday and Friday (Tammy Maginity -We’re Just Moodlin’ Along; Michael Partridge- Bringing Technology to Your Theater Arts Program; Eric Spicer- Explore, Engage, Empower: Using Interactive Tools in Your Classroom) Additionally, a number of teachers that graduated from our program will also be presenting in different sessions.

The Educational Technology Certificate Program, the Master’s in Educational Technology and the Confucius Institute will all be represented at booth #423 in the exhibitor hall. Come visit us and learn more about the certificate, endorsement and Master’s programs in Educational Technology. We’d be happy to provide a demonstration of our Certificate program classes.

Representatives from the Confucius Institute at MSU will also talk about their online materials developed with up-to-date technologies, such as podcasts; 3-D language learning environments (”Second Life”); and other multimedia learning materials that teach adult and K-12 students about Chinese language and culture.

We look forward to seeing you at either of these conferences!

-Carrie Albin, Outreach Coordinator and Co-Editor