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DeWitt, MI
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Michigan Department of Education
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Director, Office of Educational Technology and Data Coordination

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Okay, so it’s been a while since I blogged on MACULspace, but I have been blogging (check out OneThi…

Okay, so it’s been a while since I blogged on MACULspace, but I have been blogging (check out OneThingMichigan.blogspot.com). But I discovered this very cool feature on the web with which all my ed techie friends would agree (and probably already know about it).

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Posted on October 30, 2008 at 1:06pm —

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FIRST Robotics Competition (Bad Picture ... Awesome Ed Tech Event)

Last Saturday, my daughter Jaci and I had the privilege of attending the FIRST Robotics Great Lakes Regional competition at the Eastern Michigan Convocational Center as guests of Team Rush (Clar… Continue

Posted on April 3, 2008 at 8:59pm — 1 Comment

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Humor 2.0

So I have been tracking an interesting blog titled, “Indexed,” maintained by Jessica Hagy. I even bought her book.


Then I ran across Hagy’s 3/17 post.

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Posted on March 23, 2008 at 5:19pm — 4 Comments

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COSN: when a conference is really a conversation …


It was a little hard to follow up MACUL 2008 with CoSN 2008, but that’s what happened. To be honest, I wasn’t enthusiastic about doing MACUL then CoSN back-to-back because it’s smaller than MACUL and counts as “1” in terms of the limited out of state trips that I can take this year.

But thi… Continue

Posted on March 14, 2008 at 5:11pm —

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MACUL 2008 made me a rock star …


… and I am not referring to the Guitar Hero III duel that kicked off my “MDE Update” session on Thursday (3/6/08). I am talking about owning “Umpstead” on Google.com.

Out of curiosity, on last Friday after the conference, I decided to “google” my last name on “… Continue

Posted on March 11, 2008 at 10:30am — 4 Comments

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At 9:35pm on November 11, 2008, Pam Shoemaker said…
Bruce, Congrats on the nicely crafted article about MI-Learning in E-School News! This is going to be great for Michigan students and educators.
At 11:07am on August 6, 2008, Ashley said…
Hi Bruce. I am currently in MI champions Westland with Kevin and wanted to sent a thank you!!
At 4:12pm on April 28, 2008, Cathy Williams said…
You are very welcome!! It was wonderful to meet and talk with so many MDE folks.

Thank you for including me in in this special event!

Cathy
At 5:46pm on April 27, 2008, Susan Roustan said…
Hi Bruce,

I'm sorry that we missed you at the end of the day, but I'm glad that everything went so well! I hope that people felt that it was helpful and informative. Please let me know what comments (if any) they had. I am more than happy to help in any way that I can.

Thanks again for the opportunity!

Susan
At 10:18am on April 26, 2008, Michelle Ribant said…
I am totally intrigued by social networks. Just happy they have evolved into meaningful ways to communicate. Really liked the notschool.com info, especially around this very topic.
At 2:28pm on March 10, 2008, Pete Mantei said…
Hi Bruce,

It was good to re-connect with you at MACUL. This kind of networking that takes place at the conference is at least as valuable to many attendees as the sessions themselves!

Pete
At 9:33pm on March 8, 2008, Susan Roustan said…
Hi Bruce,

Sorry I didn't get a chance to speak with you at MACUL! I am curious as to the event you referred to on Wednesday. Let's talk soon!
Hope your presos went well!
At 12:53pm on March 8, 2008, Ben Rimes said…
A huge helping of thanks to you, Bruce, for your support of MACUL and helping to restore confidence in state government supporting technology in education. For a simple teacher like me, it's inspiring and amazing to be able to converse with someone in your position that can affect change at a state level.
At 1:33pm on October 19, 2007, Jim Seitz said…
Bruce:

We are all very excited about the Technology Integration Champions grant. This is a great opportunity for Michigan teachers. MACUL is looking forward its implementation.

Thanks for making this happen,

Jim
MACUL Bd. Member
At 8:43am on October 17, 2007, Ric Wiltse said…
Hey Bruce,
We had a MACUL Board meeting yesterday and Marie Zuk reviewed the MI-Champions program. The Board was really impressed with the program and Marie's dedication to the project. We're really looking forward to launching this exciting opportunity to expand the capacity for Michigan educators to better integrate technology throughout the curriculum.

We expect the registration website to launch within the next 7 days.

Thanks for making this happen!
 
 

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