April+7,+2008+Meeting+Agenda+and+Minutes

12:30-2:00pm Pendergast Learning Center**
 * Westside AzTEA Leadership Team Meeting Agenda**
 * Monday, April 7, 2008

**[|April Meeting Minutes]**

 * Agenda:**
 * I. Welcome and Introductions**

Nominations for Westside AzTEA officers for 2008-2009 (Co-Chairs, Secretary)
 * II. Business (old/new)**

Brainstorming for possible meeting times, days of week and location for next year's Westside meetings to get maximum participation. Form created on Zoho Creator-free, online form creator that can be embedded in wikis and web pages http://creator.zoho.com/ http://creator.zoho.com/pgeorge/form/1/ NOTE: We'd really like all Westside members to complete this survey to give us some feedback on your preferences for our meetings next year. Fill in the survey and click on "Submit." THANKS!!!

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 * III. Share & Solve** (continuing this popular agenda item to allow members to ask questions, brainstorm/share solutions, and share new technology discoveries)

Peggy has a new resource for you to explore!! Take a look.


 * [|Diigo]-a social bookmarking site that goes way beyond what is provided through del.icio.us!**

Research and Collaborate

 * Don't just bookmark! **Highlight the web!** Add sticky notes too!
 * Access and search your findings from any PC or iphone!
 * Create groups to pool resources for specific projects.

Connect and Discover

 * **You are what you annotate**, creating a presence for you in the community.
 * Connect with friends effortlessly and non-intrusively through content.
 * Discover quality resources on any subject or get personalized recommendations.
 * **Bookmark, highlight, and add sticky notes to any web page**
 * Diigo highlights and sticky notes are persistent in the sense that whenever you return to the original web page, you will see your highlights and sticky notes superimposed on the original page, just what you would expect if you highlighted or wrote on a book!
 * **Organize your bookmarks and annotations by tags or lists.**
 * Tags and lists are two different ways to organize information. Tags are best for diverse and disparate information, while lists are best for focused information.
 * **Access and search your bookmarks anywhere, by tags or by full-text**
 * Since all your bookmarks and annotations are stored in your Diigo account on the web, you can access them from any computer with web access. Your web pages are cached so they will always be available. You can search your collections not only by tags, but also by full-text, including highlights, sticky notes, and the full-text of the web pages.
 * **Multiple ways to share your bookmarks and annotations**
 * You can publish your findings to your blog by using the one-click "Send to Blog" feature, by setting up automatic daily posting, or by adding linkrolls and tagrolls to your blog. You can send multiple annotated and highlighted pages at once by email, and the recipients will see exactly what you are referring to. You can also easily post to other websites such as twitter, facebook, delicious, etc.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0RvAkTuL02A media type="custom" key="627069" An excellent **blog post about getting started on Diigo** by Kristin Hokanson. http://khokanson.blogspot.com/2008/03/dig-ging-diigo.html Kristin has also held a ustream.tv conversation with people learning about Diigo and it provides some great tutorial/startup information about Diigo. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/openpd Very helpful blog post by Ryan Bretag with chart comparing features of Diigo, Del.icio.us and Zotero. http://www.bretagdesigns.com/technologist/?p=531
 * Video tutorial/overview** of Diigo features on YouTube: Diigo V3: Highlight & Share the Web! Social Bookmarking 2.0

Check out this sample webslides presentation compiled on Diigo. Amazing tool! http://slides.diigo.com/list/pgeorge/shawns-sites How-to Guide for WebSlides: http://help.diigo.com/How-To_Guide/WebSlides


 * Ed Tech Website of the Month:**

http://www.susd.org/district/edtech/its/
 * April Website of the Month**: Rosy has volunteered to demo the Scottsdale District Educational Technology website.

Any volunteers for May?


 * IV. Special Interest Topics**

[|http://www.classroom20wiki.com/Arizona+2008] Educational Integration Specialists, Technology Coordinators and principals/administrators across the valley are invited. Sessions and topics for discussion will be determined by attendees both on the workshop wikispace and during the actual workshop. Come with ideas you want to share or topics you’d like to explore with others. **There is no charge for this event—just a commitment to learn and actively contribute. Professional development re-certification hours will be provided.**
 * Classroom 2.0 LIVE Workshop event**--in Phoenix (Paradise Valley) May 8-9, 2008. You can view the wiki where Steve Hargadon is organizing the LIVE workshops and Arizona is now an official workshop location. :-)
 * //Classroom 2.0 LIVE is all about Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education//**, and in true Web 2.0 fashion, you get to help plan the sessions. The schedule is designed to be flexible, but should be somewhat set about a week before the workshop. Sessions are designed to be practical and we will try to always have one track that is friendly for the beginner. Since this is so close to the end of the school year, the target audience will be educational technology leaders and administrators and the focus will be on collaborating and sharing Web 2.0 tools and practical applications in the classroom.

15002 N. 32nd St., Paradise Valley, AZ
If you are interested in helping to facilitate this event, let me know. pgeorge@mac.com So far, the following people have been involved in the planning: Peggy George, Ann Lumm, Julia Lott, Jennifer Merrill, Cherie Stafford, Brett Hinton and Rosy Escandon.


 * IMPORTANT: If you would like to participate in this exciting event, be sure to go to the page for "I'm Attending" on the wikispace and enter your information ASAP as the space will fill up quickly!**

Several of us (Cherie, Peggy, Ann, Rosy) had an opportunity to meet with Sylvia Martinez, President of GenYES, after the Media Fest and she shared some exciting new changes for the program.
 * Special Guests: Cherie Stafford and Kathryn Scott, Technology Integration Facilitators, Paradise Valley Unified School District.** (approx time-1:30pm) There are some incredible things happening with technology across the Paradise Valley District! On Thursday, March 27 from 5:00-8:00pm the District hosted a Media Fest which featured demonstrations, presentations and displays of work done by students. It was such an exciting, quality event that I invited them to come and share with all of us details about the event, and information about the [|GenYES] program they are using to involved students in supporting teachers using technology in the classroom. .http://blog.genyes.com/index.php/2008/03/26/paradise-valley-mediafest/

[|GenYES]
GenYES students learn to provide high-quality, curriculum-focused **professional development support** for teachers in their classrooms school wide. 10 years of research proves GenYES changes the way teachers integrate technology in their lessons, all for less than the cost of a one-day workshop.

Our final workshop of the year will be a podcasting workshop offered by Shawn Wheeler. (Update from Shawn) Date/Time/Location:
 * V. Westside Workshops for 2007-08**

WOW is fast approaching and Ruth Catalano will provide us with the latest updates and information about how we can help to make this the best WOW ever! Peggy will provide an update on the Friday evening event. RSVPs are coming in very slowly for Friday. Be sure to register and sign up for the guests you are bringing so we can get an accurate count. Depending on the administrator enrollment in WOW (Sat) we need to decide if we should send out "Plan B"--teacher incentive to bring an administrator to WOW for a 1gb flash drive? Should we set a deadline for the incentive? "Pre-registration is required and must be registered no later than April 25?"
 * VI. Conference Updates** (WOW)

For up-to-date planning information and volunteering to help with WOW you can access the site here:http://www.wienerdogs.com/page.asp?o=aztea&s=WOW&p=2488


 * VII. Next meeting: Date/Place/Location Confirmation**