West GA RESA Educational Technology Center

 
Reservations will be held on a first come-first served basis. For more information, please contact Doresa at (404) 407-6629 or doresa.may@gtri.gatech.edu.

Visit the Follett Library Resources page to explore available grants for educational technology.  This is a site for instructors in all areas, not just the media centers!
 

The deadline for this competition offered through PrometheanPlanet.com is March 15th, 2010.  Don't miss out on your chance to win a fully installed ActivBoard+2 or a set of ActivExpression by participating in the ActivClassroom Film Festival Video Contest. If you are one of the first 10 to submit an entry, you'll get an ActiView visual presenter just for entering!
Submit your video for one of the following categories:

Last year’s winning students earned $21,000 in college scholarships.  Attention Georgia math, science and technology teachers:

A $40,000 online challenge proposed by the US government has been won by a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - just hours after it was launched.
The Darpa Network Challenge, which took place on Saturday, offered a cash prize for the first group to successfully locate 10 large red weather balloons hidden at a string of secret locations across the US.

Find out more information about how you can enter your school inThe West GA Technology Fair to be held on January 29, 2010 at the The Centre for Performing & Visual Arts in Newnan. 
Deadline extended to Jan. 21st.  Get registered today! 
 

Open Source Victoria & The National Center for Open Source and Education has put together a book entitled Free Software for Schools.  The original can be found at http://www.lulu.com/content/286873.  I am also making it available here.

I recently asked a teacher whom our center loaned 20+ Dell Inspiron 4100 (aka, older) laptops loaded with Ubuntu Linux to reflect on her experience with them.  At the time I delivered the laptops to her, she was familar with Firefox, but had never heard of Ubuntu.  Below is her response (you may need to click Read more to see the rest):
 
 

There is now a link on the left-side menu entitled Other Useful Sites to the state's site for all things relating to the K-12 Network.  The address is http://gadoe.org/it.aspx?PageReq=ITStatewideNetworks