Schoology LMS Competitive bids, lower costs, and extensive pricing options: members can now purchase Schoology LMS through the OETC store. OETC has negotiated a RFP-backed contract with Schoology, an award-winning Learning Management System platform. This contract allows your K-12 or Higher Education institution to benefit from the service and support that OETC provides to all …
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New OETC FY16 Board Members
FY16 OETC Board Members Last week our membership elected three new representatives to serve on OETC’s FY16 Board. We are pleased to announce the new board members below. David Roberts – Boise School District, ID David Roberts serves the Boise School District as the Administrator of Technology. David has worked in public education across the …
Request for Proposals – Learning Management Systems (LMS)
Learning Management System (LMS) Request for Proposals (RFP) The Organization for Educational Technology and Curriculum (OETC) is issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) for Learning Management System (LMS) providers as a Joint Cooperative Procurement on behalf of its public K-20 member institutions. The purpose is to identify and award a contract to provide volume price …
Request for Proposals (RFP) – Servers, Computers, Related Peripherals
Servers, Computers and Related Peripherals Request for Proposals (RFP) The Organization for Educational Technology and Curriculum (OETC) is issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) for Servers, Computers and Related Peripherals as a Joint Cooperative Procurement on behalf of its public K-20 member institutions. The purpose is to identify and award a contract to provide volume …
On Technology, Music, and the Complex Relationship Between Them
Interview with Will Magid Will Magid is a trumpeter, producer and DJ based in San Francisco, California. His musical performance blends and blurs the lines between technology and art, and he has toured and collaborated with many talented artists from diverse genres of music, such as Afrolicious, Bonobo, Solomon Burke, Erykah Badu, Pretty Lights, Kenny …
OETC Community Interview: Leigh Graves Wolf
We can use the technologies around us to help everyone achieve their potential Leigh Graves Wolf is a teacher-scholar, innovator, and a staunch believer in the power of community and collaboration. She has been a network administrator, a teacher, an instructional technologist, and a professor, and has worked across the spectrum from K12 to Higher …
OETC Community Interview: DK
Less about the technology, more about the curiosity—especially for grown-ups DK is an advisor, speaker, producer and blogger with a resume that spans professions as well as the globe. He is the current producer of TEDxWellington, founded the social media consulting agency MediaSnackers, and has worked with a vast clientele including BBC, The Gates Foundation …
Recap: SPARK Seattle 2015
Recap by Darren Hudgins Last week in Seattle, Washington I was given the amazing opportunity to plan, organize (along with a great team at OETC) and participate in an event called SPARK. In less than a school day educational leaders discussed a myriad of complex topics that impact the future of education every single day. …
Technology in Transition: Where We Are and Where We Need to Be
Corin Richards, an Administrator for Instructional Technology in the Beaverton school district, describes herself as “an educator-mom-cyclist promoting 21st century skills, knowledge and tools in today’s educational system.” Richards’s influence in the world of technology integration branches out across the web, promoting and discussing the use of technology in Oregon classrooms; but whether in the …
OETC Community Interview: Ramsey Musallam
Technology is not just a tool; it’s a catalyst. Ramsey Musallam’s students at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School know him as a chemistry teacher who sends his class videos of himself launching objects across the room or setting things on fire. The education world knows him as a TED speaker, an independent ed-tech blogger, and …