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September 28, 2006 05:46 PM

Fall Oregon Meeting

WOW! What a blast. The Oregon Cadre had it's best meeting yet. Take a look at what the cadre is blogging about.

To consider in future planning:

  • Down side, the break out rooms where small.

  • The connectivity was not the best.

  • The process for getting cadre members to be authors on the blog was cumbersome.

  • Vendor supported meals. We had a complaint about a vendor schpeal that paid for dinner

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September 26, 2006 05:39 PM

Grant Opportunities Available

Here is the Mini-Grant Grant Application for the EdTech Cadre participants. Only school districts, and ESD Regions that are going to host regional cadres are eligible. In addition, you have to commit to the 2006-07 year of Oregon EdTech Professional Development Cadre meetings. We will talk more about the details of the mini-grants at 6:30pm, September 25, 2006.

In addition there will be teacher grants available from Qwest. Download the application packet here.

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September 21, 2006 05:42 PM

Planning

This week was spent cementing and planning the last minute details for the Oregon Cadre next week, to include handouts for notebooks. Take a look at our agenda. We have ninety people registered. Hoping the connectivity is a go!

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September 15, 2006 05:21 PM

Qwest

Today I met with Judy Peppler (Qwest), Ginny Lang(Qwest), Steve Nelson (OVSD), and Carla Wade to talk about Qwest Foundation Grant. In the past ODE has received Qwest monies and we have decided to run Qwest Teadcher grants through OETC. Originally I think Carla and I were wanting the foundation monies for the Oregon Cadre to fund regional mini grants. Qwest really felt strongly about the grants being for individual teachers. Thus Carla and I designed a plan that will align. We will award grants to teachers who are involved in a regional cadre. This will make a nice tie from the Oregon Cadre

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September 8, 2006 05:18 PM

Oregon Leadership

Much of this week was spent on planning the Oregon Cadre Leadership meeting. The end of the week we hosted our leaders (who applied by application and letter of reference). I hosted the leadership planning meeting at Forest Grove Grand Lodge McMenamins. We bonded over frisbee golf.

We worked on the year long agenda. We had some tense moments of coming to consensus. Overall, I think we have a good plan and a fantastic team.

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September 1, 2006 12:00 PM

A Little of This...a little of that

This weeks highlights:

  • OETC Staff Rafting. We went rafting for our bonding activity. It rained... of all days filled with sun we had the rainy day. IT was so cold but great fun!

  • ITSC planning meeting with Kim.

  • OETC staff planning retreat. Worked with staff to align the board goals with OETC goals and the layout for Ops, IT, Communications and IP.

  • UMESD Round table. Was asked to sit in on a planning meeting that UMESD was having on the directions they should move in technology. It was a great conversation.

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