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Note: This photo was NOT taken at the TxCTO09 event.
On June 23, 2009, Anita Givens addressed a room full of Texas Chief Technology Officers (CTO), providing what I believe was the first update to Texans from the Texas Education Agency’s (TEA) perspective on new changes.
In this update, she addresses some important questions that have been asked among district technology leaders, including:
- The future of virtual schooling
- The State Technology Allotment’s funding source
- New textbooks, including open source process developed ones
- School District Grading Policy (no more 50% if you didn’t earn it, kids!)
- Computer Lending Project
- Electronic Course Pilot
There are various other critical topics addressed, some of which I tried to capture in my notes and was unsuccessful…Anita spoke quickly and often switched slides in her presentation without inflection (which meant, I didn’t catch the change from her voice). Fortunately, the audio recorder was on!
Compare Anita’s update to this one provided by Ron Whitlock.
Listen to Anita Givens’ Texas Legislative Update (31 megs). This audio file is hosted at the Internet Archive.
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