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Friday, June 8, 2007

News from CECA: Volume Pricing on NetTrekker

Following is an announcement from CECA:

CECA has been collaborating with other New England State organizations. Our mission is to be able to provide regional services to all states. As an outgrowth of our affiliation with New England ISTE there is a limited time offer we are sharing with CECA Advisors and Connecticut Schools. This offer is like other partnerships CECA has provided; it is not an endorsement. CECA is merely the conduit to bring the information to its member.

netTrekker
The collaboration of the New England ISTE organizations has resulted in opening up an interesting and cost effective opportunity for the product netTrekker. Due to high rate of sales of this product in New Hampshire, Connecticut is being given the opportunity of the pricing of $.95 per student. Cyndy Currier of Southeastern Region Service Center in New Hampshire has opened up a trial subscription that is available to all educators in Connecticut that is good until May 30, 2007. Just go to www.nettrekker.com and login with: Username: neistect and Password: trial. Visit the CECA website for further details on how to take advantage of this special pricing. This offer is available to all Connecticut Schools, not just CECA members.

To Place an Order for netTrekker
The POs should be made out and sent to SERESC, ATTN: Cyndy Currier, 29 Commerce Drive, Bedford, NH 03110 and the fax is 603-206-6598. The address and fax are on the order form which can be found on the CECA website at http://www.ceca-ct.org/Partnerships/partners.html The order form needs to accompany the PO so Cyndy can get your account setup up quickly. The sooner she gets the orders, the better. She will be deluged the end of June and it makes it very difficult to get the order in promptly.

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School of the Future: Background

Good afternoon, everyone.

In reviewing some materials today, I found a useful presentation on the School of the Future that may help clarify its planning, purpose, and outcomes. To download the presentation, click the following link or place it in your browser:

http://www.crec.org/technology/documents/SOF_Overview.ppt

From the presentation, it's also clear that more than just technology (educational or infrastructure) specialists would benefit from the trip. Share this invitation with your curriculum, data, and even facilities heads. We welcome everyone from your district who may have an interest in visiting the School of the Future.
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Wednesday, June 6, 2007

School of the Future Trip

At our last meeting we discussed activities for the coming year, including a trip to the School of the Future in Philadelphia (see http://www.microsoft.com/education/schooloffuture.mspx). After some conversations with Microsoft, I was able to get a rough sense of when we could visit, given the school's current load of previously scheduled tours. We have the following dates possible:

  • Tuesday, October 16
  • Tuesday, October 30
  • Tuesday, November 6

Please write back by Friday, June 15, to let me know if you or someone from your district has interest in attending this event. Let me know the preferred dates and likely number of attendees. Based on responses, we will look to rent a bus and share costs for transportation for this one-day event.

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