Westside_Networking_Social_Planning

This is a great page for planning and for storing wonderful pictures and artifacts from meetings and celebrations!!!**
 * To all Westside members...

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Important Announcement for All Westside Leadership Team Members:
This is a reminder for those of you who attended our April/May Westside Leadership meetings and an announcement for those of you who weren't able to be with us. We have set a date/time for our annual Leadership Team social event, hosted by our chapter funds (except for alcoholic beverages), to celebrate another great, busy year for Westside. We will gather at the Claim Jumper located near the 101 and I10 intersection in Avondale. We'll have lots of great appetizers and fun conversation and collaboration! 4:30-7:00pm** Claim Jumper Restaurant 10125 W McDowell Road Avondale, AZ 85323 (623) 742-9892 http://www.claimjumper.com
 * Monday, May 18, 2009

media type="custom" key="4303771" ==**Photo memories from our celebration. If you weren't able to join us you missed out on a really fun time! Thanks to all for a fantastic year with Westside AzTEA! If you'd like to receive the special CD gift that was created especially for the Westside Leadership Team and distributed at the celebration, please contact Peggy at pgeorge@mac.com**

We'll use this page to begin to compile plans, documents, photos and other resources we will use for the social event we are planning for Westside technology leaders (as discussed in our meeting on Monday, September 8). Please add anything at all to this space and we'll use it to create slideshows and resources for the flash drives we would like to distribute to all guests attending the event. If you have any questions about this or questions about how to add documents, images, videos, presentations to this wiki page, please feel free to call me. I would be happy to help you. Peggy 602-265-8033 (home)==

Agenda item from Sept. 8 meeting (background information)
Continue brainstorming and planning for this event. Form ad hoc committee to work on arrangements. Set date/time/location. The purpose of this event as discussed in last year's meetings is to help raise awareness and increase active involvement of many more districts from the West Valley in the various AzTEA opportunities throughout the year. Do we want to create a special Westside brochure for distribution at this event? We need people to view the Google spreadsheet of District Technology Administrators to provide us with the most current information possible for invitations to this event. (see link in left menu bar "District Tech Admins-Working Document") Possible options: host a "happy hour" social event w/o alcohol at Cartwright Learning Center-provide cookies, snacks, beverages. Possibly find a sponsor for this? "Each one bring one"-bring someone with you from another district. Have something to give away provided by sponsor. Invite as many of the district technology leaders as we can. Schedule for first week or two in October.
 * Kick-off social event for all westside district administrators and technology leaders**

**Please add your name or comments to any of these tasks you are willing to help with--we need as much help as we can get!**
 * A few of the suggestions from our meeting to refresh your memory:**

1-Create a hard-copy brochure for Westside AzTEA that can be distributed to all visitors

2-Create an invitation that can be posted online and in an email to send out to all of the guests and Westside members.

3-Create an RSVP on SurveyMonkey so we will know how many people to plan for. (Peggy will do this once the invitation is prepared so the RSVP link can go out in the email invitation.)

4-Need to update and revise/correct the names, positions and contact information on the "District Tech Admins-Working Document" (The original database we started with can be viewed by clicking on the link in the left menu bar.)

UPDATE: Rosy has spent a lot of time making changes and additions to this spreadsheet, but we need others to look at it and provide updates. Here's the version Rosy has been working on. The plum colored rows have been confirmed and the correct information has been updated. The green are ones that she questioned and couldn't find info for online. [|http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p PnG9MbAv-CpJV-ufOr38bw] 5-Have 2 self-running slideshows looping on screens during the event--Peggy will compile and prepare the slideshows but we need more photos and images to include. I have added about 30 AzTEA photos on the linked page but don't have photos of kids, schools, labs, etc.

(1) facts and information about AzTEA, Westside AzTEA, ISTE district facts from Westside districts (possibly screenshots of district web sites (home page), and possibly some screenshots of some of the resources available through IDEAL such as Thinkfinity, Discovery Streaming, etc. (2) Photos of workshops, training, conferences, students using technology, classroom labs in action, computer lab carts, etc. You can upload your photos, etc. here.

6-Possibly prepare a handout of a compilation of all of the westside district websites. Use this link to add the URLs for district websites.

7-Seek a donation from a sponsor (Rosy will work on this) to see if we can get someone to provide flash drives for everyone. We will pre-load the flashdrive with all documents and resources we have compiled for this event.


 * UPDATE: Rosy has obtained a donor for the flash drives but we won't have any "content" to add to them if people don't step up and start contributing your links and resources. Please help. **

8-We need people to contribute documents and resources you think they would find valuable on this page. We would especially like to have some links/resources for content-related items (ie. science, math, social studies) in addition to any technology integration resources you may be able to share. Add your URLs to this page.

9-Try to provide some incentives that could be used in a raffle ticket drawing for guests. Suggestions for incentives?

10-Make personal contacts with any tech leaders you may know to invite them to this event (in addition to an email invitation they will receive)

Just to clarify who our target audience will be for this social event:
-Any administrators are welcome to attend but we would like to target the audience for technology leaders in all of the westside districts and organizations (technology coordinators, tech specialists, CATS, MICE, IT Directors, curriculum directors involved with technology, librarians, IMC directors, classroom teachers who are school leaders with technology integration, etc.) Examples of organizations might be universities, community colleges, AZ K-12 Center, charter schools, Maricopa County TISs, ADE, IDEAL, ASSET, etc.) = Feel free to add any other ideas you may have to make this event really successful. = Laurie's suggestion...(9/22/08) What do you think about creating a virtual event? I am not sure exactly what that would look like, but using tools such as Second Life, UStream, Facebook, etc., we could do something pretty cool, and something that would reach more people. Just a thought…

IMPORTANT NOTE: I have added one option to this survey based on feedback since I sent it out. It is the option to develop a "virtual" PR/informational video that could be shared anytime, anyplace. It would not have to be completed by the Oct. 7 deadline, and anyone could use it in professional development sessions or district meetings to share with teachers, administrators along with the brochure. If you already voted, and this option is appealing to you feel free to vote again.
 * This is a duplicate copy of the survey that was sent out via email to all Westside Leadership Team members. You may complete the survey here or submit the one you received in your email.**

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