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Over
1,700 New York State educators, administrators and
business people attended the annual
NYSCATE
(The New York Association for Computers in
Technologies in Education) conference which was held
November 18th - 20th in Albany, New York. As a
state-of-the-art conference, NYSCATE 2001 is one of
the first all-digital conferences to be held in the
nation. Every registrant received their own
handheld Palm, loaded with the conference program
and a variety of educational software.
NO
PAPER.
All
schedules, information on keynotes, sponsors,
evaluations, sessions, maps, and even hotel
information was loaded on the Palm III.
Schenectady Superintendent Honored
NYSCATE named
Schenectady City School
District's Superintendent, Dr. John Falco
"Outstanding Superintendent." Schenectady is the
lead education agency for Project VIEW.
Amy
Perry, NYSCATE President, presented the award to Dr.
Falco at the conference banquet on the evening of
November 18th for transforming the Schenectady City
School District into a model for technology
integration.
Dr.
Falco, a former New York City teacher, principal and
Schenectady Deputy Superintendent, served in the
Schenectady School District for the past seven
years. It was in April 2000, when the District was
awarded the $10 million U.S. Department of Education
Technology Innovation Challenge Grant, Project
VIEW. VIEW partners schools across New York State
with cultural institutions across the nation.
"VIEW
is our vision of the future," Falco stated. "The
project brings real time learning into the classroom
through vido-conferencing." Falco stressed the
importance of standards driven videoconferencing in
the post 9/11 educational environment. Under his
leadership Schenectady City Schools are pioneering
exciting new ways of learning and teaching.
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