November+5,+2007+Meeting+Agenda+and+Minutes

Agenda:
 * I. Welcome and Introductions**


 * II. Business (old/new)**


 * a. Goals for 2007-08**
 * From the October Agenda Brainstorming—recommended **action steps for each 2007-08 goal** to make the goals more concrete and measurable which was until the November meeting due to lack of time.
 * b.** ETAN update from conference call and booth experience at Peak. (Peggy, Nan, Helen)
 * c.** Update on Guinness World Record dance event on Oct. 27-Penny Hudspeth
 * d.** Don't forget to encourage your teachers to apply for the Qwest/AzTEA grant.

Did anyone go to [|T & L]? October 17-19, 2007 Update and highlights from Shawn and others who attended)
 * III**. **Share & Solve** (continuing this popular agenda item to allow members to ask questions, brainstorm/share solutions, and share new technology discoveries)

Sites where you can convert and download YouTube, TeacherTube and Google video (among others) so you can play them on your computer without having to rely on internet access or bandwidth problems. Web Filters getting in the way of [|YouTube] and [|Google Video] content. Check out http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/ (PC site)

Another site that works for both Macs and PCs is: http://vixy.net

Are you a blogger? If so, please add your blog to this list. We are going to compile a list of blogs for a blogroll. If you know the link to the RSS feed for your blog, that would be helpful too. //Blog Address// //RSS Feed// http://shawnwheeler.blogspot.com/ http://shawnwheeler.blogspot.com/atom.xml


 * Ed Tech Website of the Month:** Dysart if they are ready to show it off. Who would like to volunteer for December?

Is anyone aware of a school or district using iPods or Podcasting?
 * IV. Special Interest Topics**

Continue our discussion and sharing of experiences, questions, concerns about AUP development from the October meeting.

Please continue to add links, resources and ideas to our wikispace for District/School Ed. Tech websites, AUPs, presentations, quotations, etc. There are many people, even beyond AZ that are beginning to look to our wikispaces for resources, and we want to make it relevant and valuable to all.


 * V. Workshop Topic Brainstorming for 2007-08** (We don't really need to talk about this we just wanted to keep it in everyones line of site.) We need to talk about our next workshop-November?? See minutes from October meeting to hear the latest thinking about a "social networking" overview workshop. We may not have time to plan and communicate this in time for November. The workshop needs to be held in a lab/facility that doesn't have these social network sites blocked (Second Life, Ning, MySpace, Facebook, etc.)

Share update and highlights from our first workshop of the year: LAN party at Ruth's to participate in the K12 Online Conference and learn to use [|VoiceThread].


 * VI. Conference Updates** (Peak, Tucson, WOW) Time to register if you haven't done this already. Registration forms and payment procedures are all online this year: http://members.aztea.org/ Highlights from those who presented or attended the PEAK Conference.

Monday, December 3, 2007: 12:30-2:00pm, Pendergast Learning Center**
 * VII. Next meeting: Date/Place/Location Confirmation


 * Westside Leadership Team Minutes**
 * November 5, 2007**

New Members – Mike Shepard, Agua Fria High School District
 * I. Welcome and Introductions**

In attendance: Ruben Montoya, Shawn Wheeler, Rodney Turner, Rick Baker, Penny Hudspeth, Rosy Escandon, Irma Sandercock Steve Andrews, Peggy George, Dave Beard, Amanda Hughens, Mike Shepard


 * II. Business (old/new)**


 * Goals for 2007-08**
 * Revisited from October Agenda Brainstorming — suggested **action steps for each 2007-08 goal** to make the goals more concrete and measurable in italics.
 * Goal 1 -Continue goal 1 from 06-07: Host events and use the wikispaces and website to share, showcase and explore the integration of technology, curriculum and innovative instructional strategies.
 * //Explore ways to obtain data from AZTEA on membership within districts to better figure out how to spread the word about AZTEA events//
 * //Explore steps to take starting in January to beef up registration for WOW//
 * Goal 2: Improve communication with membership and stakeholders using current technology tools.
 * //Encourage people to go to Westside’s wikispace. Promote idea that information in wiki available to everyone.//
 * //Include information on how to become a Westside AZTEA member on Wikispace//
 * //Proposed mid-January workshop – Overview of social networking communities, see where your kids are going online, incorporate information on cyber safety, uses for closed networks. Tentative date Thursday, January 17th 4:30-6:30, Cartwright Training Center. Rosy will check on availability of Center. Possible topics include Second Life, wikispace, FaceBook, MySpace, Ning, blogs, Gagglenet, Google Docs, Sharepoint. Laurie King volunteered// //in absentia// //to help present. Other volunteers include: Dave Beard, Peggy George, and Steve Andrews.//


 * //Advocacy// (Peggy) – ETAN update from conference call and booth experience at Peak. Peggy manned booth at Peak for attendees to send their messages of support for educational technology to their elected representatives. This is a critical time to get message to Congress encouraging them to support technology in our schools due to upcoming vote. For more information: www.EdTechActionNetwork.org


 * //Update// (Penny Hudspeth) - Guinness World Record dance event was held on Oct. 27 - Didn’t have enough to make the Guinness World Record. Event planners contacted the Record Holder Registry who created a new category for world record of number of people doing the Thriller dance. Verification for World Record Holder Registry still underway. Plans are to still try for the Guinness World Record next year.


 * //Promotion// - Don't forget to encourage teachers to apply for the Qwest/AzTEA grant. Remember Qwest is looking to fund //innovative// uses of technology. Emphasis will be on moving beyond tools to how the tools are used in an innovative manner. Think of ways to tie it to the needs of the community.


 * III**. **Share & Solve**
 * [|T & L] Conference October 17-19, 2007 Update and highlights from Shawn and others who attended)
 * Shawn’s presentation very well attended with good cross section of educator roles represented. Conference geared toward board members, administrators but classroom teachers also attended. Information on sessions Shawn attended is found on his blog. http://shawnwheeler.blogspot.com/2007_10_01_archive.html


 * One obstacle to Web 2.0 classroom environments are district web filters getting in the way of [|YouTube] and [|Google Video] content. Several possible workarounds suggested
 * http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/ - Is a YouTube downloader to serve as a workaround for districts who block YouTube videos.
 * Another site that works for both Macs and PCs is: [|http://vixy.net]


 * The Westside Chapter would like to create a blog roll for members. Please consider adding your blog to the list. Our goal is to show administrators blogs can be used productively. Contact Shawn for more information.


 * Rosy discussed the issues surround using her district’s current registration system. Asked for suggestions of a system incorporating registration capabilities and certificate generation. Some suggestions generated:
 * Instruct Performance System from EDmin.com - http://edmin.com/products/perf_systems_index.cfm
 * Course Wizard http://solutions.filemaker.com/solutions/search_details.jsp?serial=1997996

Dave Beard pitch hitting for Laurie King demonstrated Dysart web pages from teachers participating in the T-Cubed program. T-Cubed teachers model technology for other teachers at their site. Pages created with district created software, blog and RSS features built in. Everything is embeddable. Also demonstrated Voice Thread tool. http://voicethread.com/#home designed for collaboration and communication. Can be public or private, moderated, comments can be emailed to creator.
 * Ed Tech Website of the Month:**

Peggy also shared updates and highlights from our first workshop of the year: LAN party at Ruth's to participate in the K12 Online Conference where participants learned to use [|VoiceThread] and created a Voicethread to post on the K12 Online Conference site.


 * VI. Conference Updates** Peak was held last weekend. Good attendance. Attendance at remaining conferences to hear keynote speaker Tim Tyson highly recommended. Register for Tucson and WOW now so you don’t miss out. Registration forms and payment procedures are all online this year: http://members.aztea.org/

Monday, December 3, 2007: 12:30-2:00pm, Pendergast Learning Center
 * VII. Next meeting: Date/Place/Location Confirmation

Submitted: Irma Sandercock**