May
2000
Online
Newsletter for Greater Essex County Computer Using
Professionals
On May
15, all of the Computers in Education School
Contacts were invited to the annual dinner
meeting/mini-conference. This year's event was held
at Villanova Secondary School. About 90
teachers, including counterparts from the Catholic
Board, participated in the evening. Many of the
vendor partners from both districts were there to
support the event by setting up displays and
donating door prizes. Thanks to Cemtech,
Edcom,
Planet
Micro,
Apple
Canada,
and Courseware
Solutions
for their efforts in making the evening a
success. We started
with a number of interesting presentations
showcasing some of the innovative things happening
in classrooms throughout Essex County and Windsor.
Click here
for a photo gallery from the evening. Gisèle
Winger and Janice Blencowe explained the basics
behind Claymation and made the connection to
Hyperstudio stacks and Internet
Webpages. Diane Bedard
showed how high end graphics programs like
Photoshop could be used to manipulate images for
webpages. Steve
Cox
has been keenly interested in the development of
Classroom Intranets and shared some of his
suggestions and tips with his section. Rob Murphy
and a group of students showed off a very involved
Hyperstudio project dealing with "Natural
Disasters". Mary
Pat MacDonald gave
those attending her session a sneak preview of the
Mathville products that have been recently Ministry
licensed and should appear in your elementary
school in the near future. After dinner,
the keynote address from Sue
Braiden
addressed the sobering issue of Internet Safety
but, at the same time, offered all kinds of
enthusiasm for the prospects of using the Internet
for research and collaboration in the spirit that
it was originally designed for. Sue Braiden - Internet
Safety This is the
final newsletter for this school year. I'd like to
formally acknowledge all of the support for those
of us who deal with Computers in Education by
Debbie Primeau. It all works because of her
tireless efforts. Please let her know how much you
appreciate her contributions when you email or
phone her next. And, finally,
this is the first edition of GEC Computers in
the Classroom that will not be printed on paper for
distribution. With the new networking reaching
every school building now, there's no need to kill
any trees. Please let those who would read the
paper version at your school know that we're just a
mouseclick away.
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