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Free ISTE iBook Will Enhance NASA’s Newly Released T-Book ISTE has published a free iBook for teachers designed to be used with a transmedia book (T-book) that NASA has released ahead of the 2014 satellite launch for the Mag- netospheric Multiscale (MMS) Mission. NASA’s book, iMAGINETIC Space: Where Imagination, Magnetism, and Space Collide, focuses on the foundational scientific principles of the magnetosphere that surrounds the earth. Its goal is to build excitement and interest
in the mission.
ISTE’s iBook for teachers is embedded with lesson supplements that support
experiments through the use of multimedia, self-paced professional development tools, NETS resources, and learning extensions. Find it for free on ISTE’s
Resources page ( iste.org/learn/resources) and the NASA MMS Mission
website ( mms.gsfc.nasa.gov). You can also meet the authors at ISTE 2013
at a poster session on June 25 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and at the SIG playgrounds.
Sign Up Now for
New JHU Cohort
ISTE, in conjunction with
Johns Hopkins University
School of Education, will
begin a new cohort in
January for the Online
Graduate Certificate in
School Administration
and Supervision. The 18-
credit online course is designed to provide aspiring administrators and super-
visors with the strategic skills and tools to effectively implement instructional
technology in their schools or districts.
The application deadline will be in November.
For more information, visit iste.org/jhu.
New Board Members Elected
The following volunteers will begin three-year ISTE Board terms in June.
Mila Fuller
Deputy Executive Director
National Council of Teachers of English
Illinois, USA
Matt Harris
Head of Learning Resources
German European School Singapore
Singapore
John Keller
Director of Instructional
Technology and eLearning
Metropolitan School District of Warren Township
Indiana, USA
Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
CEO
Powerful Learning Practice
Virginia, USA
Kari Stubbs
Vice President, Learning and Innovation
BrainPOP
Kansas, USA
Mia Williams
Associate Professor
University of Northern Colorado
Colorado, USA
Jan Zanetis
National Education Advocate
CISCO Systems
New South Wales, Australia
In an effort to become more effective, nimble, and responsive, the ISTE
Board of Directors is no longer a constituency-based board. All positions
are now “at large.” Going forward, the board will include fewer members
and each will serve for three years instead of two.
