CUEBC is pleased to be in Vancouver at Magee Secondary for the 2008 Fall Conference. This year's conference has over 50 break out sessions for all grades and subjects. The conference officially opens on Thursday October 23 with Brian Lamb and a free wine and cheese social. Brian maintains his weblog Abject Learning http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/brian/ where he mutters ill-tempered observations on social learning, open education, disruptive technologies and other such things.

The confer...
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If you understand the image above, then you understand the crux of this article: more and more, images are being used to communicate ideas once reserved exclusively for text, making the skills commonly associated with artists and designers everyday literacy skills. For more information, a text-based explanation follows.

Literacy shift. Literacy requires being able to consume and produce the media forms of the day, whatever they may be. For centuries this has involved primarily words, parti...
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Like many proud parents, our computer is clogged full of full of photos of our three kids.  At last count we have well over 10,000 photos from the past seven years of owning a digital camera.  One of the challenges is to view, manipulate and share the photos.  This is where I recently rediscovered Picasa 3.0 beta.  Weather you are at home or at school, Picasa is free Windows software that will make your photo work more seamless and enjoyable.

When you first install Picasa it ...
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In 1988, while teaching a professional development course for teachers concerning the use of telecommunications in education, I had an experience that changed me irrevocably. I had just finished describing the expectations for the final project, when a student raised her hand and asked if she could produce a video instead of writing a paper. The question caught me totally off guard. As I paused, mouth agape, I could feel old thinking and new paradigms chafing against each other like psychic tect...
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The July/August 2008 issue of the Atlantic Magazine asked a question that should resonate with every computer using educator: “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Available online (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google), author Nicholas Carr wasn't really wanting to pick up Google. Rather, he was referring to the Internet as a whole, and to our new abilities to get information-- if not knowledge and understanding-- in near-instant little chunks.

He notes: “I’ve had an ...
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Hi. My name is Raj Mahey and I am in Mr. Nguyen's class at Maillard Middle School in Coquitlam. I am a regular grade 8 student and I get regular grades in school. I do the same stuff as other kids after school – hang out with friends, watch a movie or two, as well as other things. One thing that most people in our school would know about me by now though, is that I enjoy learning about computers and I have been working on many different programming and electronics projects. A...
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Are you looking for some new applications or interesting websites? Here are some applications and websites recommended by members of the CUE Executive.

Delicious library is a great way to organize all your resources; books, cds, dvds, games. It works by scanning the bar code from the resource using your webcam and automatically puts the info, reviews, summary, etc into a library for you which you can link to ical  or your address book to remember who you lent books to and to send t...
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10. Only $100 to register.

9. Registration fee includes membership to CUEBC, a Provincial PSA.

8. Free 2 GB USB Flash drive for all paid attendees.

7. Vendor booths on display and ready to answer questions throughout the day.

6. Free Wine and Cheese Thursday Night with your registration fee

5. Draw prizes of laptop computers, gift cards, a set of XO Laptops (One Laptop Per Child, laptop.org), computer accessories and much more

4. Hot gourmet lunch buffet catered by Austin Gourmet.

3. Two Fabu...
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All conference attendees are welcome to join us at the CUEBC Annual General Meeting.  It will be held at the conference during the lunch hour.  All BCTF member are eligible to vote at the meeting.  There will also be draw prizes.

Computer Using Educators of BC

Annual General Meeting 2008

October 24, 2008

Agenda:

1.  Call to order

2.  Motion to adopt the agenda

3.  Motion to adopt minutes of the previous AGM (October 19, 2007)

4.  President’s Report

5.  Treasu...
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