eNetColorado is deploying to districts and teachers statewide a “digital toolkit” that has been created in partnership with districts, BOCES, and organizations across the state.
View the short overview video on eNetColorado at: http://vimeo.com/26981026
View the latest eNet Colorado Newsletter online
TOOL KIT INCLUDES
Colorado on iTunesU http://goo.gl/t1993 (iTunes required) This site supports audio & video in a consistent format that is delivered through the Apple iTunesU. This service is free to all Colorado districts. Visit Colorado on iTunesU and see resources that other districts have created and are sharing statewide. Resources you will find include Algebra II student instruction videos from Monte Vista, how to use the Promethean Board from DPS, and free resources from History Colorado, Douglas County Center for Professional Development, the Council on 21st Century Learning and much more. Districts and organizations are invited to share content and resources that they have through Colorado on iTunes U. Please contact Julie Rieken at: riekenfive@gmail.com if you have content or know of content that you think should be shared through Colorado on iTunes U. You can get additional information at: http://www.enetcolorado.org/
eNetcolorado Online Learning http://moodle.enetcolorado.org – This site brings teachers and districts high-quality and low-cost professional development supported by Intel Teach and the Verizon Thinkfinity programs. This site also supports professional development that is free and being made available by BOCES, districts, and projects across the state. If your school district, BOCES, or educational organization wants to support your own online online professional development and/or courses for students, eNetColorado makes this environment available at a low cost. And remember, eNetColorado provides its partner districts and BOCES inexpensive web conferencing via Adobe Connect Pro to support “blended-learning” offerings.
New online courses are starting in January and February. See a complete catalogue and registration information at: http://www.enetcolorado.org/
The Digital Resource Exchange and Marketplace – DREAM - DREAM supports curriculum resources and “learning objects” shared and accessed by teachers and students in a “standards-based” online community. DREAM helps teachers in searching for, creating, and sharing resources that are aligned to the new Colorado Academic Standards. DREAM gives teachers and administrators the ability to align content and activities to the Colorado standards, the Principal and Teacher Effectiveness Standards, NETS-T, and Common Core. Teachers can immediately access and use free, high quality, standard’s aligned content from sources like NASA, the PhET project at the University of Colorado, Khan Academy, American Museum of Natural History, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, National Digital Science Library, and many more.
Colorado educators can start using a free DREAM account now by signing up at http://www.learning.com/coloradodream.
Districts can also have eNetColorado through learning.com setup their own district account so their teachers can share and create resources with their district.
Contact Dan Morris at: danmorris@enetcolorado.org for more information and see: www.enetcolorado.org.
eNetColorado partners with Esri to bring FREE GIS software licenses to Colorado educators
The Colorado Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) and eNetColorado has signed an agreement that provides all Colorado K-12 schools and districts and the Colorado Department of Education unlimited seats to Esri’s ArcGIS software. Esri provides geographic information system (GIS) mapping functions that can be integrated into multiple content areas and supports management and development plans of many organizations. To learn more about Esri software availability, please contact Dr. Teresa Yohon at tyohon@enetcolorado.org.
The Colorado Department of Education (CDE) and eNetColorado through a partnership with Google is offering free Google SketchUp Pro licenses
Three types of licenses are available.
• School non-networked computers, both for Windows and Mac (Licenses to be distributed to individual teachers for their own computers.)
• School lab networks, both Windows and Mac (Licenses allow for up to 300 simultaneous users on any given network.)
• Codes for imaging and installation on multiple laptops that need functionality both on and off the school computer network (i.e., for laptops that are assigned to students.)
To request SketchUp Pro licenses for your school, go to https://sites.google.com/a/enetcolorado.org/colorado-sketchup-pro and follow the steps to request Google SketchUp Pro licenses.
Staff Development Support
eNetColorado provides customized staff development at very reasonable rates to support the implementation and use of these resources, including how to align district content to the new state standards and share it across the district and state.