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CUE

Advancing Student Achievement Through Technology

What is CUE?

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Computer-Using Educators, Inc. is a nonprofit California corporation founded in 1978. CUE's goal is to advance student achievement through technology in all disciplines from preschool through college. With an active current membership of thousands of educational professionals, CUE supports many regional affiliates and Special Interest Groups. CUE Conferences are California’s premier educational technology events. CUE is the largest organization of its type in the west and one of the largest in the United States.
CUE-related websites:

• The CUE Community | community.cue.org
  For CUE members and friends, this social network offers a place to connect, collaborate and contribute.
  
• hub@CUE | www.cuehub.org
  A place for CUE leaders to collaborate and share their work with the broader CUE community.
• CUEcast | cuecast.blip.tv
  CUE's official podcast.
• CUE on LinkedIn, facebook and twitter
  

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PROGRAMS
Our members are important and as a value-added benefit, members are invited to participate in programs aimed at promoting and highlighting their success and achievements and furthering the mission of CUE.

Current CUE Programs:

• Annual Conference
• Innovative Learning Conference, in partnership with FETC
• Leadership 3.0 Symposium, in partnership with ACSA and TICAL
  
• Awards
  
• CUEtoYOU Professional Development
  
• CUEcast: CUE's Official Podcast
• Events
  
• Google Teacher Academy & Infinite Thinking Machine
  
• Legislative Advocacy
• LeRoy Finkel Fellowship
  
• Member Benefits
• Monterey Technology Conference, in partnership with CLMS/CLHS
• Tech Forum, in partnership with Tech & Learning
• Macworld Educator Academy (formerly K12 Educator Market Symposium)
  

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MISSION
CUE provides leadership and support to advance student achievement in the educational technology community.

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ACTIVITIES

• Supporting a network of  geographically-defined affiliates in California. Affiliates provide CUE members with local year-round support through meetings, grants, events and mini-conferences.
• Operating six Special Interest Groups: Administrators, Independent Schools, Library Media Educators, Teacher Educators, Technology Coordinators and Video in the Classroom.
• Maintaining staff and operating programs on an annually-audited budget principally derived from its membership and events. CUE's operations are not dependent upon support from public or private funding.
• Maintaining an active advocacy program. Sponsor of the SB 1510 and the Digital High School Initiative. Most recently, CUE has sponsored both SB 1006 and SJR8 (Chapter 95) EETT Restoration Resolution. Both of these passed the State Legislature.
  
• Planning and presenting the CUE Conference each year, the oldest (over 25 years) and largest Educational Technology conference in California.
• Annually recognizing its members' contributions to CUE with its Gold Disk.
• Recognizing outstanding education technology leaders with its Platinum Disk.
• Recognizing community leadership with its Technology in Learning Leadership and Outstanding Teacher Awards.
• Publishing its quarterly journal, OnCUE.
• Actively participating in global technology issues via affiliation with the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). CUE was ISTE's first organizational affiliate and remains among the largest.
• Co-sponsoring the California Student Media Festival and other projects.
• Providing on-site professional development through CUEtoYOU programs.
• Supporting cutting-edge learning technologies and student expression through the CUEcast official podcast.
• Producing the Educators Academy at Macworld, San Francisco.
• Co-presenting the CLMS/CLHS/NHSA and CUE Technology Conference in Monterey.
• Partnering with ACSA and TICAL to produce Leadership 3.0, a symposium for educational leaders.
  
• Providing benefits to its membership, including myCUE online benefits.

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