A Quarter Million for a Quarter Century

The WEMTA Permanent Endowment Trust (PET), established in 1992, has begun a fund raising campaign A Quarter Million for a Quarter Century to celebrate the 25th anniversary of PET in 2017. Please participate in this campaign by making your tax deductible contribution to PET. Donations may be sent to the WEMTA Office at PO Box 44578, Madison, WI 53744-4578. Individuals are also encouraged to pledge annual contributions to PET. Please contact the PET committee at pet@wemta.org for information on making contributions, making a pledge, or applying for scholarships and grants. The WEMTA PET has provided over $50,000 in scholarships and project grants to Wisconsin recipients. Contributions to PET are tax deductible and donors are honored through a cumulative giving program (details below). For a donation brochure please click here.

Banned Books Week & Banned Websites Day September 22nd-28th

Banned Books Week September 22nd-28th
Check out resources and potential activities here
http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/

For those in the Milwaukee area there is a free talk http://www4.uwm.edu/sois/news/events/bannedbookweek09222013.cfm

Banned Websites Awareness Day September 25th 2013
http://www.ala.org/aasl/advocacy/bwad
To raise awareness of the overly restrictive blocking of legitimate, educational websites and academically useful social networking tools in schools and school libraries, AASL has designated one day during Banned Books Week as Banned Websites Awareness Day. On Wednesday, September 25, AASL is asking school librarians and other educators to promote an awareness of how overly restrictive filtering affects student learning.

Welcome to WEMTA Online

Welcome to WEMTA Online.

We will be using our various blogs to share general WEMTA info, along with special interest blogs for Legislative Advocacy, WEMTA yearly conference, Professional Development, Leadership and more.

Stay tuned and join us as we continue to support the WEMTA mission. The purpose of the Wisconsin Educational Media and Technology Association (WEMTA) is to embrace individuals involved in the support, utilization, and integration of information, communication, and technology and to advance their efforts to improve student growth and achievement.