I had the pleasure to attend a small, powerful conference at the elegant Hotel Northampton yesterday sponsored by CELT: Connecting Education, Leadership and Technology.

Keynote speaker Kathleen H. McClaskey from Personalized Learning spoke about how to move towards student led learning and how students need: motivation, engagement & voice in their learning.  She emphasized Universal  Design Learning [UDL] throughout her presentation.

Kathleen also suggested to have a look at CESA 1 in Wisconsin and the projects they have been working on. She also talked suggested we look at Competency Works and All4Ed-both excellent sources.
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Online learning Implementation Strategies was led by Lesley Professor Joan Thormann Ph.D
This presentation also confirmed some basic strategies for online learning: Joan spoke of pitching online learning to one’s district, building distinct capacity, infrastructure, LMS options, student readiness, observation & evaluations, blended learning, district policies and she mentioned her new book.
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E-Rate 2013 update: maximize your e-rate dollars
I also sat in on this session which was quite detailed. Not having an in depth background on this topic, I listened for items emphasized. Primarily the changes for 2013 were discussed.
Important:
ITT 46 ends 9/30/2017
Form 471 Item 21 attachments MUST be filed by form 471 (descriptions of services)

Eligible items:
residential locations ( maybe like DYS?)
Community use of services-  the example used was where schools are open after school allowing people from the community to come in and use the facilities.
CIPA Changed- June 30,2012
Updated Internet Safety Policy
– cyber bullying
-public notices or hearings

For More Information:
888.203.8100
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Flipping the Classroom was presented by Eric Braun of 30 Hands Learning

This presentation focused primarily on the LMS 30 Hand Learning sells which has reasonable pricing and supposedly dovetails with other LMS like Moodle.
Eric Braun spoke about future initiates:

• Shared Learning Collaborative -SLC
• Content, tools & solutions – CTS
• Learning, resource, metadata initiative – LRMI

Eric also spoke briefly about how teachers are paying teachers for the curriculum they build for Flipping Classrooms. Interesting ideas.