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A group of Chicago-area school
educators meet to share ideas about technology in schools.
The North Suburban Shared Technologies Consortium meets
several times yearly to share ideas about technology in
schools. This group of principals, technology coordinators,
and librarians is primarily from school districts in the
suburbs north of Chicago. The group gets seed money from
these districts and is a good source of professional development.
The group has a listserv that spawns discussion within
the group. One benefit of this forum is that participating
schools have sometimes been able to share resources. For
example, teachers interested in learning more about particular
software applications have gone to other schools in the
consortium where a staff member has ideas to share. Von
Steuben's principal, Richard Gazda, was able to capitalize
on just such an opportunity:
"And I asked a group member from Glenbrook South
if he had some teachers that would be interested in telling
us what they're doing with word processing. He sent them
to us, and it worked out really well, because that was
a teacher talking to other teachers." |
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