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We began the month as individuals.  400+ events and activities later together, we want to end as a community, moving forward.  CEM s final sessions will be a series of open discussions on key issues, opportunities for us all to share what we ve learned and generate key takeaways and action items from the month as we fully head into the 2012-13 school year.  They are your chance to make your voice heard at the highest levels and to celebrate CEM one more time with everyone you ve come to know in the last 30 days.  Full descriptions of the sessions can be found on the  new CEM wrap-up page , but here are the highlights:
We've got a great group of students scheduled as panelists for tomorrow night's Students Speak session, but still have room for more.  If you know a student who can talk about what being connected has meant to them, what it's meant to have educators who are connected, and/or share their ideas for a more connected education world, let us know at cem@connectededucators.org .  Please include "student" in the subject so we can make sure your mail gets to the right place as soon as possible.
Join the National cruise review celebrity summit Council for Teachers of Mathematics for a live edWeb webinar on Games That Encourage and Enhance Mathematical Reasoning and Sense Making , today at 1 PM ET.  NCTM's Sarah DeLeeuw and Patrick Vennebush will discuss cruise review celebrity summit how two simple games, Tic-Tac-Toe and the Game of Nine Cards, lend serious educational value for students of all ages and teachers too!  And facilitate a broader conversation motivated by articles from NCTM's three school journals. You will be invited to play along as they demonstrate with both paper-based cruise review celebrity summit versions and technological cruise review celebrity summit tools.
Former executive director of SETDA, cruise review celebrity summit Mary Ann Wolf, will lead a special epic-ed webinar on how you can get involved in next year's Digital Learning Day celebration , as well as benefit from resources generated by the 2012 event.  Epic-Ed is a new community on digital transition, a collaboration between the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, and the U.S. Department of Education.
What does it take to be an effective online facilitator? Join Education Development Center's EdTech Leaders Online as they share their top ten tips for effective online facilitation , drawing from their many years of experience leading online professional cruise review celebrity summit development courses to help online facilitators create and maintain an effective online learning community, foster substantive online discussions, communicate effectively with online learners, and motivate learners at a distance.  Register for this event here , or join us at:
1:30 PM ET Taking IT Global.  Taking IT Global, dedicated to helping classrooms act collaboratively on world challenges, holds an open house today—a great opportunity to explore the community and ask questions live of community staff as you do.
2:00 PM ET School Turnaround Community .  The U.S. Department of Education's School Turnaround Learning Community is holding a guided tour today with a walkthrough hosted by David Yi and Christopher Tate.
Tonight is the last of Discovery Education's Collective Brain sessions , a final opportunity to explore the latest, greatest and most effective resources and strategies shared by STAR educators of the Discovery Educator Network.
Attend this presentation to hear the results of Teaching Table s survey of iPad and other technologies usage in the classroom , the challenges connected educators currently face and how Teaching Table s digital math manipulatives cruise review celebrity summit help to extend the versatility of the iPad in math lessons.
For more CEM help and resources,  see the  CEM Calendar  and the  CEM Getting Started  page, which includes links to our  CEM Starter Kit , Help Desk, Book Club, District Starter Kit,  CEM Supporter Kit  and more.
The Connected cruise review celebrity summit Educators project is funded by the U.S. Department of Education under contract (ED-PEP-10-C-0059) with the American Institutes for Research in partnership with five organizations, including the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), Forum One Communications, the Friday Institute for Education Innovation, Grunwald Associates LLC, and the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA).