State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA)

About Us

Founded in the fall of 2001, the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) is the principal association representing the state directors for educational technology. SETDA's goal is to improve student achievement through technology. Find out more >

Events

Thank you to all SETDA members for making the 2009 ET Forum such a success!

2009 Leadership Summit and Ed Forum
November 1-4, 2009
Washington, DC
Agenda | Hotel Information

Joint Initiatives

Tell Us about Your Data Systems: Our partner organization, The SIF Association, wants to learn what you are doing about interoperability and educational applications. Please take this 5 minute survey at http://edusystemics.net/survey and enter the code SETD. Please respond by July 17, 2009. Survey respondents will receive a copy of the Executive Summary report of the survey and will be entered into a raffle to win an iPod Shuffle.

CCSSO’s State Education Data Center launched SchoolDataDirect which includes a tool enabling users to download data directly from the website. Much of what is contained in the Coordinated Data Ask is available on this website and ready to download. For more information visit the SchoolDataDirect site www.SchoolDataDirect.org.

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Educational News

eSchool News - Top News

Pa., Maine faced with ed-tech budget woes
7/2/09 9:12 AM
Two states are taking very different approaches when it comes to managing spending cuts and sustaining education technology budgets. In Pennsylvania, Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell has proposed cutting his signature Classrooms for the Future initiative, which provides laptops and training to the state's schools. Maine, despite economic worries of its own, is expanding its one-to-one laptop initiative to all state high schools. Key words: education technology funding, Maine school technology funding, Pennsylvania technology funding, Maine Learning Technology Initiative, Classrooms for the Future, education, technology

THE Journal: Current Articles

Research Shows Schools Making Small Progress Toward Technology-Rich Environments
7/2/09 9:50 AM
America's schools, colleges, and universities are making limited progress toward providing technology-rich environments for students. According to the results of a benchmark study released this week at the 2009 National Educational Computer Conference (NECC) in Washington, DC, schools improved most in the area of broadband adoption in the last year but are still weak in the use of technology for assessments and creating educational equity.

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

ARRA Information and Resources

News and Announcements

July 1, 2009

Choose a state to learn more about each states technology initiatives and to view contact information for state technology team members.

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SETDA Announces the Election of the Board of Directors and Officers for 2009

Now Available - Future of Learning Technology Showcase Video

House Committee on Education and Labor's Technology Hearing a Success

SETDA Co-hosted Future of Learning Showcase on Capitol Hill

FY10 Federal Budget is Released

On-demand Webinar Available: "Stimulating Ed-Tech Investments"