Some cool STEM related video

Oklahoma CTE Social Media - Your One Stop Shop!

Have you seen the new CareerTech Social Media page?

It is our attempt to put together the Facebook groups, Twitter accounts, YouTube streams and more of the CareerTech System.

On the page you will find links to social medial for CareerTech, our student organizations, technology centers and more. All in one convenient place!

Check it out. Maybe there are some accounts that you would like to follow that you did not know about? Maybe we did not include one of your accounts that you feel should be included, let us know. We hope that the new page will become the one stop shop for all things Oklahoma CTE related!

We also hope that the new page will serve as an example to others who are doing social media and that they will develop a webpage that encompasses all of their social media in a one-stop shop so that people can get connected with them.

Happy connecting!!

Cara Goes to Class

Check out this cool video from Meridian Technology Center. I think it is the first, so it will be fun watching Cara as she goes to the different classes.

Going Paperless

This morning I attended a presentation from Green Country Technology Center and their nursing instructors.

GCTC is working to transition to a paperless classroom where students have access to their instructional materials in a 24 hour setting. Even during the snowstorm of last week, students has access to lectures, notes and text books. They also have access to learning on 3D models of organs like the heart and brain, that before would be just pictures in an 11lb book.

They also talked about the many opportunities avaliable to educators through YouTube, apps and other resources that they have found. They are working with CIMC to develop online curriculum and they are excited about teaching while their students are excited about learning.

What ways are you bringing technology into the classroom?

CareerTech on YouTube

If you are needing to keep up with CareerTech YouTube content, we have several channels to share with you from our technology centers. You can add their feeds to your favorite RSS reader and keep up to date with what is happening across Oklahoma in CTE.

My favorites are Francis Tuttle Technology Center, Metro Technology Center and Tulsa Technology Center. They have taken the standard YouTube skin and have branded it to go with their marketing efforts. They are very clean and professional looking, with just a little something to make them different.

Here are the ones that I have found.

Oklahoma Horizons

Autry Technology Center
Canadian Valley Technology Center
Francis Tuttle Technology Center
Great Plains Technology Center
Meridian Technology Center
Metro Technology Center
Northwest Technology Center
Tri County Technology Center
Tri County Technology Center II
Tri County Technology Center III
Tulsa Technology Center

Did we miss anyone? Let us know in the comments.

Did You Know 4.0

Summer Camp Video's

Looking for great examples of how to use social media?

Fans of the Autry Technology Center Facebook page received a link with their Autry Teen Tour Video.

How are you showing off the accomplishments and FUN that your students had this summer?

I Am an Engineer

Promoting Camp

How are you promoting your Summer Camp?

Last week I emailed out to our coordinators a link from Caddo Kiowa Technology Center that showed how they are using Picaso Web albums, arming their camp counselors with digital cameras and are snapping over 100 pictures a day.

Gail indicated that their intent was to get around the "I Don't Knows?"

A link to the album is sent to the parents and counselors of the students. Now, when a parent ask their student what they did at camp during the evening meal, and the student says "I don't know," the parent can ask them about the purple rocket with orange stars that they built and launched.

The parent gets to see their kid shooting that rocket, the smiles on their faces, watch them prepare their egg drop or any number of fun, cool and educational things that their child is doing during the summer.

I know a few more technology centers are working with their marketing departments and are implementing this during their summer camps, what do you think?

Want to take it a step further? Watch a video about the Summer Wonder Camp of the Stillwater Childrens Museum. Wouldn't this make a nice intro on your website?

Summer Wonder Camp
by stwnewspress

Senior Plan Board

Saw this posted at NeverEndingSearch and thought it was a good idea to share with you.

FIRST Robotics

A Brave New World Wide Web

Viewed a well done video by David Truss shared via the Dangerously Irrelevant Blog that does a great job showing the transformation and tools of a instructor in the 21st Century and why these tools should be used in the classroom.

Think, Discuss, Share

Dalton Sherman's DISD Keynote

This morning I received a link to Dalton Sherman's moving keynote address for the Dallas ISD. Dalton is a 5th grader at Charles Rice Learning Center, home of the Tigers!! Thought you might enjoy.

Cooperative Alliance Spotlight 2008

The 2008 Cooperative Alliance Spotlight is now online at YouTube!! Special thanks to Brian Bendele at Oklahoma Horizon for putting this together for us.

OK CareerTech YouTube Player

YouTube now allows you to make a video player for your specific YouTube channel. This player is for the account http://www.youtube.com/user/okcareertech

Please feel free to visit the player or ask for the code for inclusion on your website. Be sure to check it often for more videos.

Cooperative Alliance Spotlight

Last year, Oklahoma high school students in area technology centers had a very successful year with over 4,400 enrollments earning over 31,000 transcripted college credit hours.

This Sunday, August 24, Oklahoma Horizon will be showing the latest installment of our Cooperative Alliance Spotlights.

You can see when the Horizon show will play in your area at: http://www.okhorizon.com/

Here is last years video.....

Tech Prep & You Tube

In a recent post from the Tech Prep Blog, a You Tube link to Tulsa Tech's Second Life Video was included. Second Life is a internet based virtual world where people can interact from all over the world. Higher Education institutions, including the University of Florida, Princeton, and Rice University have chosen to develop real estate for educational purposes within this environment.

(Wikipedia entry for Second Life)

Tulsa Tech has chosen to build a Second Life campus and made a video showcasing their efforts. The Tech Prep Blog contained a post of the video with the intent of showing creative thinking and innovation in the recruitment of students to CTE. It was not our intent to offend anyone with the showing of the video.

It was brought to our attention that the "Related Videos" section of You Tube contained a video that could be viewed as inappropriate. If you came across the video, we apologize. That was not the intended video we were sharing.

Please understand that the content of some of the features of You Tube is out of the control of the user. The link to the video sent was intended to share the good things that Tulsa Tech had to offer using Web 2.0 technologies. We hope to continue using Web 2.0 technologies, including You Tube, for educational purposes and for elevating CTE and student performance in Oklahoma.

CareerTech Videos

Meridian Recruitment Video

A Vision of Students Today