We are inviting all interested presenters to consider sharing their expertise at our annual CUEBC Horizons Conference.  This venue presents a unique opportunity to inform and educate Computer Using Educator’s in the K-12 school system.

This year we are using an online registration form for the presenters. Click here to register.

No need to clawback money from your school's library, learning resources, or tech budgets for these:

"Lego Digital Designer" lets you play like a kid again with those classic building blocks, but without the hassle of running out of pieces. Zoom around your creations in 360 degrees, and explore several alternatives for constructing your masterpiece.

The new Version 2 update adds a much improved brick palette for selecting pieces like basic blocks, engines, hinges, and sensors, and
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This spring my family and I took a trip of a lifetime and spent 39 wonderful days traveling through China and Taiwan. We initially looked into booking a tour with a tour group but when we got the itinerary, we quickly knew the pace and cost was not for us. A trip like this would seem almost next to impossible to do on our own if it wasn't for the Internet. We researched and plannned the entire trip, booked hotels, airline tickets, and shared our adventure with family and friends throughout t...
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My dream was realized on Tuesday, May 27th., 2008 when I visited the Media Lab  at MIT in Boston.

I walked through the doors into the Lifelong Kindergarten  area and looked around in awe at the amazing ideas under development. Professor Mitchel Resnick and his graduate students made me feel at home. I sat in on a graduate discussion talking about the latest ideas for the programming language called SCRATCH  that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations...
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"The Apple Learning Interchange (ALI) is a social network for educators. Find a wealth of content ranging from simple lesson ideas to in-depth curriculum units"

I have spoken to many people recently that have not heard of the Apple Learning Interchange. This is an Apple service to the education community. The quality of lessons and resources available are incredible. The lessons in the interchange often use Mac software; however, there are many that use platform inde...
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I recently had the pleasure of introducing students in my Marketing 11 class to the XO laptop.  The class composition includes students from grades 10-12.  Our focus was not on using the technology for productivity because we only had two laptops to work with and had only borrowed them for a short time.  Instead, I wanted to find out what students thought about the laptop while incorporating a marketing focus.

I introduced the laptops to the students, reviewing the physical feature...
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I have loved the idea of Google Literature Trips for some time; however, I didn't realize how exciting they could really be until I created one.  Here is one that I created and published in the Apple Learning Interchange - http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=15418

This resource mashes up Google Earth's Geographic database with the locations and events within Hana's Suitcase by Karen Levine.  In the book, you follow the Brady family during the war.  You fol...
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I've started adding video clips of school events onto my school server which is an aging P2 running Windows 98.

By keeping to relatively small screen sizes, and using Flash format, even on this low-powered server, we can have bunches of students watching videos at the same time without lag and performance issues.

Alternatively, you could use the same techniques to put the Flash-formatted video clips on your school webpage-- but then you run into issues of permissions for every student shown th...
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The end of the school year is always a busy time and because of that, my desk at home and at school becomes a huge mess. On June 30th I start to purge my desk and bring some order back in my life. I recently stumbled upon an article at Lifehacker.com called “Defrag Your Office for Increased Efficiency”. There are some tips that I will follow to hopefully help me clear my desk of junk and keep me on a path of a clutterless office space. Here are my before pictures and in the...
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Computers and Internet technologies have provided teachers and students with a lot of options. But they’ve also created opportunities for a lot of complexities and confusion.

For instance, both staff and students often find themselves juggling work on multiple computers: home and school, networked and standalone, desktop and laptops, Macs, Windows, and more. Where is that file you’re working on? Is it on a school network, inaccessible from home? On the laptop that you don’t have...
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Want your students to know more about Engineering and Computer Science?  Try a web-based info session from the University of Victoria.  Our new web sessions are live and interactive - students can see the presentation, hear the presenter speaking, and ask questions by typing them in.

The sessions run 30 - 40 minutes and cover what Engineering and Computer Science are, describe the program at UVic and explain how to apply. They're most appropriate for Gr...
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