A wide variety of ISTE awards are available. Check the 210 ISTE AWARDS & Recognition PDF Flyer for a list of these awards.  

Please note that the nominations for the ISTE OutstandingLeader of the Year award and the ISTE Outstanding Teacher of the Year award MUST be made by the NJAET Board.

Nominations for the other awards may be self-nominations.

Nominations close in March. All winners will be announced in April.

• NAACP interactive timeline: a new resource developed for the NAACP, highlighting NAACP milestones and detailing the organization's impact on civil rights, science, the arts, law and more. It includes photos, media clips and multimedia resources.
• National Geographic Underground Railroad: Take part in an online journey through the eyes of a slave, selecting different paths or answers that will lead him or her to freedom, or back to the plantation.
• Martin Luther King Teaching Resources: A set of social and behavioral science resources from Science NetLinks to celebrate the work and legacy of Dr. King.
• Science Update: Spotlight on African-American Scientists, this series of 60-second audio clips highlight latest discoveries in science, technology and medicine.

• Presidents Day educational resources
• Opportunities to sign up for free professional development
• A daily Thinkfinity calendar highlighting timely educational resources tied to each day of the year

The Verizon Foundation is proud to make these resources available to every media specialist, librarian and teacher within reach of the Internet. Please visit Thinkfinity.org and remember to pass this message along to your colleagues so they too can take advantage of the exciting and valuable resources available.

ANNUAL NJAET FALL CONFERENCE - Date/Location/Fees Set

The 2010 Fall NJAET Conference has been confirmed for Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, New Jersey. In recognition of the economic times that we are experiencing, the 2010 Advance Registration Fee will be $99 and the Late Registration Fee (after October 1, 2010 and on-site) will be $125.

AND THE WINNERS ARE...
 

Congratulations to all of the winners and thank you to all who took the time to enter this grant competition. Mini-grant winners have been notified, contracts are being completed, and grant monies are being sent from NJAET so the projects can be implemented. We look forward to learning more about these winning projects when they are presented at the Annual Fall Conference in October.

Grade Level:  PK-2

Stacy Milan of the Milton School in Oak Ridge, NJ is the Project Manager for this winning grant that will support a minimum of 24 PK disabled students by using augmentative devices (talking photo albums and buttons) to help autistic students communicate. Specifically, the educational goals and objectives of the grant say, "Through the use of augmentative devices it is our goal to accelerate skill acquisition for our autistic, developmentally and language delayed students.  The following areas will be targeted: communication skills, independence and academic goals. These devices will facilitate the child’s communication abilities to express needs and wants, comment, put ideas into words and subsequently sentences and improve articulation skills.  Independence will be increased as the child is able to participate in classroom routines and initiate interactions with adults and peers. Utilizing assistive technology will improve academic goals in language arts and literacy; i.e. sequencing experiences; story retelling."

Grade Level:  3-5

Debbi Marra of the Ocean Road Elementary School in Point Pleasant, NJ is the Project Manager for this Fifth Grade project - integrating iPods in the curriculum as learning and creation tools. A total of 87 students will be involved in the project that will include Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, and Math curriculums. Included in the educational goals and objectives of this grant are "One of the primary goals of this project is the use of digital tools, more specifically iPods, as part of the fifth grade curriculum to increase our students’ active participation in 21st century learning and overall exposure to new and exciting forms of technology. Also, by incorporating multimedia activities into daily lessons, students will have access to a wide range of interactive lessons to enhance their learning."

Grade Level:  6-8

John Volpa of the Indian Mills Memorial School in Shamong, NJ is the Project Manager of this grant - using math and science equipment and software to study how individuals’ homes impact plant and animal life in the pinelands. The grant will involve 92 sixth grade students this year (The project will continue after the grant is completed and will involve 120 students next year.). From the educational goals and objectives of this grant, we learn that this is a "multidisciplinary project based learning experience joining math, technology and science researching the local ecosystem.  Using exciting new hardware and software and some Web 2.0 tools (Survey Monkey, Google Docs,…) in the project, students will learn and be amazed at how their families’ ordinary use of the land effects the animal life, plant life and water system in the area."

Grade Level:  9-12

Anthony Sciaino of DePaul Catholic High School in Wayne, NJ is the Project Manager of this grant that will have an impact on all 630 students in grades 9, 10 and 11. As outlined in the educational goals and objectives of this grant, the "objective is to design and pilot a digital learning game to demonstrate knowledge and skills related to computational skills." The grant funds will be used to purchase software to develop a math game for a 3D programming course. DePaul Catholic currently offers two 3D Game Programming Courses. This grant will allow a third course in which the specific collaborative effort would be to design an “Escape the Room” game. The student playing the game would move through a series of locked rooms by solving assorted mathematical problems. Once the game has been proven to be a success, it can be shared with other schools.