Dennis Eamon Young’s outstanding photos of the Endeavour Institute Balloon Fest at Tobin James Winery on April 20th are now posted on the Cal Coast News website. Click here.

Where: Hosted by Mother’s Tavern, ambulance 725 Higuera Street, vcialis 40mg SLO
Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Time: Discussion starts at 6:30pm, come early to get settled and order
your food and beverage, (not included)
Cost: $5.00, includes $3 off your order that night only

Limbless Reptiles “Reach Out” Through Research

Join us in being a “lounge lizard” for our next Pub Science Night! Julius “Tony” Frazier, Lecturer and Reptile Researcher from Cal Poly, will share his expertise in, enthusiasm for and research about these amazing, fascinating, and often misunderstood creatures. Tony will discuss recent research and findings and inform how using snakes and other reptiles are effective tools for community outreach! Take this opportunity to meet other reptile enthusiasts…or become one! SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSee you there!

Pub Science Night
Wednesday, recipe April 24, 2013
Location: Steynberg Gallery, 1531 Monterey Street, SLO
Time: Discussion starts at 6:30pm, come earlier for some food or drink.
Feed your brain and quench your thirst for knowledge at Pub Science Night! Enjoy fine local food and drink while our featured speaker, Dr. Rafael “The Big Cheese” Jimenez from the Dairy Products Technology Center at Cal Poly shares the unsung story of MILK. Flier.

SLO Mini Maker Faire
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Location: SLO Mission Plaza
Time: 11am to 3pm
A Maker Faire is about learning, doing and making. It’s not about the finished product. It’s a place to share and show off what we are learning. It’s a place to celebrate the fun and freedom of being an amateur. The SLO Mini Maker Faire is a family-friendly celebration coming to San Luis Obispo for the first time on May 11, 2103. Our location is the jewel of downtown SLO, Mission Plaza. At our event, you will see DIY science and technology, sustainability, unique hand-made crafts, and educational exhibits. Flier
Website: SLOMiniMakerFaire.com

Invest 5 hours of your time at tech camp and we will turn you into a Rockstar Teacher!

CUE Rock Star Express Paso Robles
Estrella Warbird Museum
Friday evening, April 26th
Saturday morning, April 27th

Presenters are dynamite speakers and incredible resources for all things geeky. They are Google Certified Teachers and Trainers, Apple Distinguished Educators, YouTube Star Teachers, and subject matter experts in blogging, social media, web tools, e-learning, edgaming, and instructional design. They are VERY willing to share their knowledge and resources in a low pressure, social, and highly charged learning environment.

The camp runs from 5-8 on Friday night and from 9 am to noon on Saturday. Refreshments are included!

Friday

Refreshments and appetizers followed by introductions and four keynotes that build on the theme: We did stuff you aren’t supposed to and LIVED!

Classroom 3.0 – Time for an upgrade
Tweet your way to good mental health
Why you need to promote yourself online

Saturday

Begins with a shred session where each presenter has 2 minutes to try to convince you to come to their session.

Continues with one, two-hour hands-on session where you will make and take something with you that DIRECTLY addresses CCSS.

Choose from:

Google Tools – Leveraging the Power of Free to Meet CCSS. Students can create and collaborate with free Google tools. No more lost documents, true collaboration occurs, going paperless – winning!

Twitter for Educators – Make an account, join folks and follow/create hashtags AND guaranteed hotshot teachers to follow!

Publishing Student Content for a Global Audience – Learn how to leverage free tools you already have access to to publish and promote student work for a global audience. I’ll share how my student and class blogs have attracted over 100,000 visitors and you’ll create a friendly, useful, and utterly amazing space to share creative student work.

Web 2.0 Tools – What are they and how do I use them in my classroom. There are a host of Web 2.0 tools out there. Incorporating them into your daily routine is quick and easy. Many of these tools can be used by your students, meeting those ‘Create’ and ‘Publish’ requirements set by CCSS.

Low Tech, No Tech, Locked Down Tech, No Problem – Discover new ways to integrate edtech into your low tech classroom and how to design your way around roadblocks.

The morning ends with a Google Demo Slam where each presenter has 5 minutes to share a fabulous and little known awesome Google tool that will blow your mind, including:

Stopping Plagiarism with GDOCS
Google Forms
Google Voice
Google Art Project
Google Street View
Google Research Tool
Google Search Secrets
Google Search Stories

All of this is for the low cost of $59 for CUE members. If you are not a CUE member, the price is $99 which includes a CUE membership.

With the CUE membership you will receive a MEGA discount (practically FREE!) for the all-day SLOCUE Connects Conference at New Tech High School in Nipomo on Saturday, October 5th. You will also receive the CUE journal quarterly, loaded with best practices in edtec and discounts for both the Fall CUE Conference in Napa and the Annual Conference in Palm Springs.

Common Core is here. Our students are expected to publish original and creative work on the Internet and reflect on their learning in multiple ways. Are you ready to teach them how?

More: http://rs.cuetoyou.net/home/summer-2013/rock-star-paso-robles

Science Pub is a program of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. As the Museum says, “fun and friendly conversation, and quench your thirst for knowledge about science and nature.” Upcoming programs include:

Dark Energy, Supernovae, and Robotic Telescopes with Dr. Andy Howell, March 25, 6:30-8:00PM

Aging in the Amazon with Dr. Michael Gurven, UCSB, April 20, 2013, 6:30-8:00PM

The meetings take place at Dargan’s Pub, located at 18 E. Ortega Street in Santa Barbara.

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