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Effective June 15, 2010, eMINTS will discontinue hosting teacher websites
Apply for PBS Innovators award
eThemes search feature repaired
eMINTS featured at world-wide seminar in London
10th anniversary celebration
eMINTS Rocks: 10th annual Winter Conference
eMINTS offers Cognitive Coaching seminars
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10th anniversary celebration - March 3, 2010
 Join eMINTS staff, participants and friends for a special 10th anniversary celebration from 6:30 - 9 p.m. on Wednesday, March 3.
Note: It is not necessary to attend the conference to join the celebration.
Learn more ....
eMINTS Rocks: Synthesizing a Decade of Change
10th Annual Winter Conference
Online registration is open - through February 17 ....
Participants may register just for the 10th anniversary celebration event to be held on Wednesday, March 3 from 6:30 – 9 p.m. at the Courtyard by Marriott in Columbia or for the entire conference to be held in the same location March 4 and 5, with a pre-conference program on the afternoon of March 3.
We especially invite all eMINTS teachers from the cohort groups over the past 10 years, their trainers, principals, superintendents and tech coordinators to attend the March 3 evening event. There will be a dinner, special activities and a brief program honoring those who have supported eMINTS throughout the years. Join us for all the fun!
eMINTS offers Cognitive Coaching seminars
Ever wish you could communicate more effectively with the people you supervise, work with or train? Do you find it challenging to help people solve complicated problems they are facing or to change how they are teaching or working with others?
The eMINTS National Center is pleased to offer an eight-day professional development opportunity for instructional coaches, administrators, teachers, mentors, professors, supervisors, eMINTS PD4ETS program participants, certified Educational Technology Specialists and anyone who wants to encourage self-directedness of others.
Find more information and register for the seminars ....
Effective June 15, 2010, eMINTS will discontinue hosting teacher websites
A decade ago, eMINTS customarily provided website hosting services for Missouri teachers in its professional development programs because options were few and/or expensive. While eMINTS continues to believe that a classroom website, well-designed and regularly maintained, is a valuable teaching, learning and communication tool, the widespread availability of district web hosting and low/no-cost online hosting for teachers' sites makes the time and cost investment required to continue providing hosting on an eMINTS server untenable.
As with other educational organizations, eMINTS is dealing with the tight financial times and we must find ways to reduce all possible costs. Please begin making other arrangements for your website files so that when we discontinue hosting websites as of June 15, 2010, your files will already be packed and moved. We are making this announcement in early 2010 to provide ample time for teachers to move their site files to a new location before the sites are removed.
Please consult with your local district or building technology coordinator about relocating your website from the http://teachers.emints.org domain to a local web server. If no local hosting solution is available, check out the following options:
If you need help zipping up the files on your current teachers.emints.org site to move them before the June 15, 2010 deadline, please contact support@emints.org.
You also will receive a personal email message at the last email address that we have on file for you. The email will ask you to notify support@emints.org when your website has been successfully moved to its new hosting location.
PBS Innovators award
All eMINTS and eMINTS4All teachers in the US are invited to apply for a special award from Public Broadcast Stations. Show how you inspire your students and you could win a behind-the-scenes trip to the Premier Annual PBS Event: PBS Showcase in Austin, TX, May 17-20.
- Go to http://www.pbs.org/teachers/innovators/
- Tell why you are an innovative educator in 200 words or less
- Submit a video clip or a photograph showing how you inspire your students. (*Use of Teachers' Domain and other PBS content is a plus!)
- Entry due between January 25 - March 12
- Fifty winners announced April 5, 2010, and winning entries will be featured on the PBS Teachers site
eMINTS has partnered with Teachers' Domain for the last two years. If you haven't checked out the great FREE resources available through Teachers' Domain, take some time and get acquainted with their terrific materials. Even if you decide not to submit an entry, it is worth your time to visit the website and see all of the outstanding resources available.
Don't forget eMINTS discussion list searchable archives
The eMINTS discussion list has a searchable archives. It you miss a topic or can't remember what a post was for a great resource, then check out the list archives. You can search by key word, date, or thread.
Visit archives now ....
eThemes search feature repaired
We are pleased to report that the search feature for eThemes is once again available, as of February 2010.
eMINTS featured at world-wide seminar in London, England
eMINTS in the U.S. and Australia was featured in a special seminar held in conjunction with BETT, the British educational technology conference in early January. Presentations about eMINTS included references to all of the elements of the instructional model and how it is implemented in schools. Representatives from more than 40 countries attended the seminar where they discussed the importance of technology in education and how professional development is key in supporting teachers as they use technology to transform learning.
Monica Beglau, eMITNS National Center Executive Director says, "It was an honor to represent eMINTS and all of the incredible work being done every day in eMINTS classrooms across the U.S. and in New South Wales, Australia."
The U.S. National Teacher of the Year, Anthony Mullen, also spoke at the seminar. View his inspirational story online ....
See the BETT Conference program ....
Discussion list reminders
With the first few weeks of school getting well underway here in the US and our Australian colleagues on their way to the end of term, here a few reminders about the eMINTS discussion
list:
- attachments are NOT possible with the list - we do this as a security measure and to avoid overfilling Inboxes that may have specific limits on their capacity. If you have something to share, make it a pdf or document linked to your website or portal.
- if you want to remove yourself from the list, please follow the instructions provided - you have many options here as well such as receiving all of the posts as a digest at the end of each day rather than individually throughout the day. This is also the place to unsubscribe for awhile (summer vacation) and then re-subscribe when you return.
- use the great searchable public archives feature - find that great video resource or see all of the past posts about keyboarding programs that have been submitted.
- remember that you are putting an email in more than 1,200 Inboxes when you post to the list or reply to something on the list. Be careful to COPY AND PASTE the email address from someone who posted a question or item to the "TO" line in your email client if you wish to correspond only with that person.
- use the list to ask questions, start a conversation, join the conversation, and most of all to share ideas and stories about how your eMINTS or eMINTS4All classrooms are making a difference for students across the world.
Share the good news
If you have good news to share about an eMINTS or eMINTS4All classroom, an eMINTS instructional specialist or other educators in your school or district, please send the relevant information to emints-info@emints.org and we will publish the good news for all so see on the Weekly Update. It is always inspiring to hear about what everyone is doing and all of the recognition that comes your way helps people see the importance of educational technology.
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