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| Inside this section Student Media Festivals California Student Media Festivals The nation's oldest student media festival. The Festival celebrates projects and learning with media and multimedia projects by students. There are also awards for teachers. Over 7,000 students and hundreds of teachers took part in this years Festival! The Festival is not just for the high-end, expert technology users. If your students (or you) are using videomaking or multimedia in your classroom, the Festival is here to honor your efforts. Schoolhouse Video This project moves video projects from classroom to broadcast. School-based video are mastered in classrooms on digital video (see above) and broadcast on KOCE-TV, PBS in Orange County, California. KOCE broadcasts to more than 11,000,000 people in Southern California. Sample videos from students have included "commercials" for glasses that change a person's perspective, a close, positive reexamination of students' own "undesirable" neighborhood, and a positive look at "becoming a scholar" from an elementary school. Contributing classrooms have ranged from 3rd grade through 12th grade Texas Media Festival This is the pdf version and call for participants with link to the online site. The mission of the National Educational Computing Association (NECA) is to advance educational philosophies, practices, policies, and research that focus on the appropriate use of current and emerging technologies to empower all individuals to reach their full potential. The primary vehicle is the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) for those interested in improving teaching and learning with technology in K-12 and teacher education. NECC is in its 22nd year of providing K-12 and university-level educational professionals with an annual forum to learn, exchange, and survey the leaps and bounds being made in the field of education technology. Through hands-on workshops, lecture-format and interactive "short" sessions, discussions with key industry speakers, and the largest vendor exhibition of its kind, participants have the unique opportunity to discover and share what they need to develop the appropriate use of technology in their classrooms, districts, and universities California Technology Showcase 1. What types of projects do students present? A variety of projects were presented at the Student Technology Showcase held on March 5, 2000. Projects included: database analysis, probeware projects, PowerPoint presentations, robotics, animation, videos, student-created web pages, computer-generated models as well as hands-on projects that encouraged audience participation and interaction. 2. How can I have my students present at the Showcase? Presentations are selected by each of the regional California Technology Assistance Projects (CTAP). If you would like your students to present at the Student Technology Showcase, please contact your local CTAP office. The following web site lists each region and the contact person: http://www.ctap.k12.ca.us/. You may click here for the listing of CTAP directors and contact information. Computer-Using Educators, Inc. is a non-profit California corporation founded in 1978. Our goal is to promote and develop instructional uses of technology in all disciplines and at all educational levels from preschool through college. We have an active current membership of over 11,000 educational professionals. We support twenty-two regional affiliates and five Special Interest Groups, and present two national educational technology conferences each year. CUE is the largest organization of this type in California, and one of the largest in the country.
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