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Working with Colleges and Departments of Education

Jim RundBusiness Development Mgr, SA

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Presentation Purpose:

Provide you a useable, valued suite of tools for working with Colleges of Education

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Software

Resources

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College of Education Objectives

• Prepare teachers • Provide support for schools and teachers • Do scholarly research

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Software

• Apple Education Series• Kid Pix Studio• Office’98• Media Plant

• Inspiration• iMovie• SPSS• QT

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Inspiration

• HOTS - develop and organize ideas • Brainstorming - input at student’s best ability• Nonliner approach to problem solving (the world isn’t linear)• Collaboration - one of key learning strategies

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iMovie

• Comes with each DV iMac

• Perfect for teachers, students

• Demo

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SPSS

• Most widely used Statistics Package

• Used across many disciplines

• Redeveloping for Macintosh

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Apple Education Series

• “Best of Best” in core curriculum areas • Global launch in Mar/Apr (English)

• Primary,Middle, High schools

• CD’s, teacher reference material

• Australia applicable

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Kid Pix Studio• Primary Schools (K-7) • Sequencing (getting things in the right order) as a way of understanding

• Crosscurricular

• Graphic based (all this work for this?)

• Animation

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Office ‘98

• Most popular business applications have Mac twin • Share same file formatting • New Internet Explorer (March) • Express, Outlook, Office 2000 native on OSX

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Media Plant

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• Apple Learning Interchange• iTools• Sherlock• Planning

• Apple Distinguished Schools• Apple Staff Development• AUC

Resources/Tools

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iTools - Kidsafe

•55K web sites pre-screened and approved by educators/librarians

• Blocks rest, edit’able by parents/teachers

• Acceptable content AND educational relevance

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iTools-iReview

•Review and index of web sites

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Sherlock- searching

• Internet • Hard drive - indexed

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Teaching, Learning & Technology Pkg

• QT clips of best practice examples

• Planning templates

• Theory and practice

• Technologies used

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Apple Distinguished Schools

• Reference them • Use them for presentations, consulting

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Apple Learning Interchange

• Int’l site for discussions and sharing courseware and ideas • K-12, HiEd

• Cross-curricular/departmental • Demonstrate - http://ali.apple.com.alihe

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Apple Staff Development Online

• Self paced courses: curriculum integration, leadership, internet, mobile computing • Fee based on single, yearly license

• Coming in June-Mentors/Trainers needed

• http://ali.apple.com/alihe/

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Compatability

• Files: File Exchange/PC Exchange • Programs: VPC • NT Networks: services provided-configure DAVE -Macs appear to server as PC

• Novell - Mac support via TCP/IP, IPX, AppleTalk

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Apple University Consortium

• Purpose: “support the use of Macintosh technology to further the goals of education”

• Joint support of MM title development

• AUDF

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Airport technologies

• Save

• Industry Direction (wireless) • Based on industry (Lucent) standards

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Planning

• With you, your SE, the ADS rep, your Apple rep, re: directions, (often need help planning).

• Teaching, Learning & Technology CD’s - best practice examples, planning templates

• Communicate, Communicate, Communicate!

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“3/4’s of success is showing up”

Woody Allen

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Think Different