So I am slightly confused, I am looking out my window and I see no snow falling for the clouds and the weather channel says it should be sunny and in the 40s and 50s all week.  But then I look on my calendar and on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday it says it is time for the Ohio Educational Technology Conference.  For those of you that have been attending OETC for the past 15+ years like me understand my confusion.  OETC usually means trudging through many inches of snow, climbing the massive snow drift to get from the parking garage to the convention center and hearing about all of the snow days for the local schools.

Oh well, maybe this is a new trend for the weather of OETC as I think last year was snow-free as well.  It makes me happy that we don’t have to contend with the weather as I will be presenting or co-presenting in 6 different sessions throughout

Below is a list of all of the resources that we would like to make available during OETC.

• Pickerington Schools’ Comprehensive 10-Year Technology Plan
• Pickerington Schools’ Technology Plan Overview
• Pickerington Schools’ Tradigital Road Map
• 2017 Chromebook Handout for Students about Going One2One with Chromebooks
• What We Learned by Going One2One (Infographic)
• Pickerington Schools’ Data Non-Disclosure Form (NDA)
• Pickerington Schools’ Student Online Personal Information Protection Agreement – For EdTech companies and content providers
• Pickerington Schools EdTech Software and Application Rubric
• Pickerington Schools’ Building Technology Advisor New Job Description
  • One staff member per building, stipend position ($1,500 per year)
• Evaluation Metrics:
  • Future Ready – Readiness Assessment
  • ISTE Lead and Transform Diagnostic Tools
  • Apple Educator Profile
• EdTech Resources for CTO:
  • Digital Leadership by Eric Sheninger
  • Blended by Michael Horn
  • Blended Learning in Grades 4-12 by Catlin Tucker
  • SAMR Sorting Activity
  • Student First, Not Stuff Article
  • More Verbs, Fewer Nouns Article
• Professional Development (Out of the Box)
  • “Let’s start measuring PD by competency, instead of seat time.”
  • Liberty Leadership – Using Social Media to Curate Tweets, Pins and Posts
    • Contact Dr. Randall Sampson
  • Badging
    • Google Certification
    • Apple Teacher – Apple Learning Center
    • Create Your Badges with Credly

Other Pickerington related resources

Using Virtual Reality to Close the Achievement Gap

• Slide Deck
• How to Creat a Virtual Reality Classroom Kit
• ISTE Article – Using VR to Close the Achievement Gap
• Google Expeditions – Complete List