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EDUCATE, ADVOCATE, INNOVATE
In This Issue
Events of Interest to VSTE Members
October 16-17, 2015
Virginia Children's Book Festival
Longwood University, Farmville, VA

October 17-18, 2015
Suffolk Summit
Suffolk, VA

November 7-8, 2015
Northern Virginia Summit
Falls Church, VA


Connect With Us
Getting Connected
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Join CoSN CEO Keith Kreuger as he explores 
digital equity and its implications for education. His blog posts this fall share his  Work Study at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, under the sponsorship of Professor Chris Dede. 

From the VSTE Communities:

An article about using Minecraft to support elementary logic education

Ideas for using different kinds of tools for formative assessments

Ways to incorporate digital portfolios to support ISTE's standard for coahes

Connected Educator Month Webinars: Making, Minecrafting, and Coding
VSTE will be hosting three webinars for Connected Educator Month.  All of them will be held in our Adobe Connect meeting room: http://vste.adobeconnect.com/vstelive.

Wednesday, October 21, 7 PM: Learning and Making
Join Meg Swecker and Tina Coffey from Roanoke County to learn how they are implementing engineering and design through makerspaces.

Monday, October 26, 8 PM: Minecrafting History: Iterative Learning, Virtual Environments And You
Join educators from The Madeira School as they share how Minecraft can be used as a meaningful tool for curriculum and student engagement in the history classroom. It will also discuss the importance of virtual environments, world building and citizenship as part of a social sciences course. There will be classroom examples, lesson artifacts and student observations regarding their experiences in-game to help demonstrate why the Minecraft enabled classroom offers a safe, iterative environment as well as meaningful learning experiences for students of all levels of digital literacy.

Wednesday, October 28, 7 PM: Coding for Students and Teachers
Join Marnie Hawk from Loudoun County and Charles Hinsch from Virginia Beach as they talk about how they are implementing coding programs for students and teachers. Marnie will describe the C.A.M.S. pilot program at Blue Ridge Middle School while Charlie discusses his work with teaching programming to adults as part of professional development.

VSTE 2015
30th Anniversary Conference


The Conference is Coming: we're welcoming three internationally known speakers to the VSTE stage to help us celebrate our 30th anniversary.  Check out keynoter Dean Shareski's video preview
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Early Bird registration is open now for the 30th Annual Technology in Education Conference. We'll be celebrating with the best conference ever held December 6-8, 2015, at the Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center, Roanoke, Virginia.   Check out the conference website and register now.