GENERATION YES

The "big idea" of all our Generation YES programs is to give students the opportunity to experience this kind of enjoyment from their learning experience. Providing students with the opportunity to utilize technology to produce powerful learning environments will always be our organization's primary goal. As we reflect back on 2003, our best moments are certainly when we see happy and confidant Gen Y students working side-by-side with teachers to accomplish great things.

I hope that during this holiday season you have some "moments in the rain."

Forward,
Dennis Harper

What's New at Generation YES
Georgia's Gen Y Debuts
Generation YES and the Valdosta State University Educational Technology Training Center have announced a partnership to offer Generation Y training and implementation to local schools through regional training centers (ETTCs) throughout Georgia.
Valdosta ETTC: https://ettc.valdosta.edu/GenY/genyindex.htm
Press Release: https://www.genyes.org/news/1103

Free Report - Generation Y and EETT
Title 2D of the No Child Left Behind legislation, Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) requires the use of research-based and scientifically proven methods to improve student achievement. Our free report, Gen Y and EETT, can give you the background and research you need to include the exemplary Gen Y program as part of your EETT plans this year.
https://www.genyes.org/scripts/eett.php

New Generation Y Schools in December
Returning to his own high school haunts, Generation YES founder Dr. Dennis Harper gave a Gen Y Teacher Training workshop for Berkeley, California middle schools this month. Next Dennis travels to Wisconsin (brr!) where teachers from ten additional Wisconsin schools will learn how to train students to provide professional development support through Generation Y.

Gen Y Students Present at the NYSCATE Conference and the State Education Department in Albany, NY
Four New York Generation Y students presented a session at the New York State Technology Conference (NYSCATE) about their Gen Y and Gen TECH courses at Hudson Falls High. It was such a success that they were requested to repeat it for a command performance at the State Education Department across the street. Gen Y student Sean Connolly was so enthused about the opportunity to show the State Education Department what Gen Y can do, that he went back to school on a mission with his video camera. Overnight he shot and produced a 4-minute video, complete with music, showcasing teachers throughout his school talking about their Gen Y experience working with students. Needless to say, the video was a huge hit with everyone present, and we hope that this meeting helps open the doors of opportunity for other Gen Y classes in New York. Thanks to Brian Brownell, Francine Battiste, Sean Connolly and Isabella Ientile for being awesome!

Gen Y - The Tipping Point?
The November T.H.E. Journal has a column by Bernard Percy entitled Achieving Education's Tipping Point. Percy applies the lessons of the bestselling book, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell to education. This book has swept the country with its analysis of how small movements, changes, or ideas can become widespread accepted practices. Percy imagines that one of education's "tipping points" might be Generation Y. We certainly believe this is true!
https://www.thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A4593.cfm

Student Showcase
New York Gen Y Project Featured on Apple Learning Interchange Exhibit
Gen Y student Sean Connolly and his partner teacher Mr. Mathew Rozell created a project where U.S. History students learned about World War II from web-based video clips of veteran's recollections. This Hudson Falls High School project is featured with numerous video clips on the Apple Learning Interchange website.
https://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000798/

Tech Tips Plus
Freeware - WireTap 1.0
WireTap is a free product for MacOS X 10.2 or later from Ambrosia Software that allows you to record any audio playing on your Mac, saving it to a file for later listening or processing. This allows you to record news from Internet radio stations such as the BBC News, sound snippets from your favorite DVD movie, record the audio from a game, or even iChatAV conversations. Of course, you still have to deal with copyright and fair use issues, but this program can record ANY audio coming through your Mac - RealPlayer, iTunes, DVD Player, Windows Media Player, etc. are all supported.
https://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/freebies/

Book - The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
Ignore the imposing title; this is a very accessible monograph by Edward Tufte, one of the world's foremost experts on visual communication. In it, he examines the value of PowerPoint and how to make presentations better. You haven't lived until you've seen the Gettysburg Address as a PowerPoint presentation. ($7)
https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint

Internet Archive Launches Moving Images Archive
Thousands of educational films and television commercials from the dawn of television are available for free online viewing. The archive is categorized and searchable.
https://www.archive.org/movies/movies.php

News You Can Use - $ea$on$ Greeting$!
High School Junior Scholarship from AASA and Discover Card
The Discover Card Tribute Award Scholarship Program recognizes and rewards high school juniors who have accomplishments beyond academics. Up to nine $2,500 state scholarships and nine $25,000 national scholarships are available annually.
https://www.aasa.org/Discover.htm

$3 Million Te@ch Awards from the Best Buy Children's Foundation
The Te@ch program supports schools and educators using technology to make learning fun. 1,200 schools will win awards of $2500 each in recognition of programs or projects that creatively integrate interactive technology into the curriculum. Each selected school must be located within 25 miles of a Best Buy store. Applications and more information on the website.
https://communications.bestbuy.com/communityrelations/teach.asp
Application deadline: December 31, 2003.

Toyota International Teacher Program
Applications are available to participate in a fully funded two-week study tour of Japan. Fifty full-time secondary school classroom teachers (grades 9-12) from Alabama, California, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Texas and West Virginia will be chosen. Apply online at:
https://www.iie.org/programs/toyota
Application deadline: January 12, 2004

$10 Million Technology for Teaching Grant Initiative from Hewlett-Packard
The HP K-12 Technology for Teaching Grant Initiative is designed to support innovative and effective uses of technology in the classroom setting. During 2004, HP will grant awards to K-12 public schools that are using a collaborative, team-based approach to implementing technology integration projects. The focus of the project must be on using technology to teach, rather than teaching students to use technology. (Hint - hint, sounds like Gen Y projects might work well!)
https://grants.hp.com/us/programs/tech_teaching/index.html

Beaumont Foundation Offers Toshiba Equipment
The Beaumont Foundation of America grants state-of-the-art, wireless laptop computers and technology equipment to schools and community groups serving low-income populations and individuals.
https://www.bmtfoundation.com/bfa/us/public/en/grants/