Agenda_05_09_11

 **Date: Monday, May 9, 2011 ** ** Time: 2:00 - 3:30 pm ** ** Location: VIRTUAL meeting via Elluminate ** To join Elluminate session as a Participant, use the link below and type in your name on the sign in page: []

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In Attendance: Laura Sheehy, Peggy George, Ruth Catalano, Ruben Montoya, Jen Lane, Sandy Israel


 * Agenda **

 **I. Welcome** Roll Call: introductions by participants

**II. Business (old/new)** a. Review/Approval of minutes Motion to approve the minutes - Ruth Seconded by Peggy Unanimous vote of approval

<span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">b. Pot Luck =Westside AzTEA Pot Luck Dinner: Year-End Celebration - May 16, 2011= Our End-of-Year Celebration will be held on Monday, May 16, 6:30-8:30pm at Ruth Catalano's home. We want everyone to come and help us celebrate another great year whether you have been able to actively participate in meetings/events or not. **Please indicate whether you will attend and what food item you will bring to our pot-luck dinner:** Pot-Luck Dinner. Come and join the fun! To view the responses to help you decide what you'd like to bring: @https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AvohktlsaMcOdHJGYjQ4cVNXYUJZYmExNGQ3a0VOaWc&hl=en&authkey=COzsxfcG <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Final discussion of plans for Pot Luck Laura will send out a blast to Westside membership.

<span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">c. Additional nominations for officers? <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">No additional nominees

<span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">d. Election of officers: <span style="color: #002060; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Nominated last week: > > <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Workshop coordinator description: finding people to present either virtually or f2f, organizing it and spreading the word via flyers and email.
 * <span style="color: #002060; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Co-Chairs: Laura Sheehy, Sandy Israel
 * <span style="color: #002060; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Secretary: Ruben Montoya
 * <span style="color: #002060; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Workshop Coordinator: open

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Motion to vote on the slate of officers as presented - Ruth Seconded - Peggy Unanimous vote of approval

<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">**III. Share & Solve (continuing this popular agenda item to allow members to ask questions, brainstorm/share solutions, and share new technology discoveries)** <span style="color: #002060; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">a. Unable to attend ISTE in person? Check out attending virtually: [] <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">There are a couple of ways to participate in ISTE virtually. The ISTE Unplugged sessions are free. @http://isteunplugged.com

<span style="color: #002060; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">b. Eight Ways to Support Teachers Integrate Technology post: []

<span style="color: #002060; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">c. Sandy talked about Mission US program. She has successfully used it with 5th graders. www.mission-us.org Peggy added Saturday Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinar on Mission US and Kim Flack/Joanne Henning presented it. It was fantastic! @http://live.classroom20.com/1/post/2011/04/mission-us-joanne-henning-and-kimberly-flack.html

<span style="color: #002060; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Volunteer for next time? Would anyone be interested in providing us with a short presentation for Professional Development at our ___meeting?
 * <span style="color: #c00000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">IV. Wow Factor – PD Moment: **

<span style="color: #002060; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">a. Mini-Geek Fest this month (TONIGHT) Monday, May 9, 2011, 8:00-9:00pm PDT (AZ time) <span style="color: #002060; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">b. [|Mobile Learning Experience 2011 Blog] <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wonderful resources, incredible blog by attendees. They offered an incentive for blog posts. Substantial blog posts were entries into drawing for iPad. They like the combo of lodging with the conference because of the additional collaboration opportunities by everyone being in the same place.
 * <span style="color: #c00000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">V. Special Interest Topics: **

<span style="color: #002060; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> c. Anyone else have a tech initiative to share today or at another meeting?

<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">**VI. Westside Workshops:** <span style="color: #002060; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tabled for the summer <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">- yes

<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">**VII. WOW Conference Report:**

Report on WOW: Ruth Catalano & Peggy George

 * ===**<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">90% of door prizes have been mailed out. Have enough books for volunteers too. Only one door prize went out of the country. 14 AZ winners during the actual conference sessions. **===
 * ===**<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Notice sent to everyone for questionnaire: some receive it twice. Over 90 have complete **<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">d the survey. ===
 * ===<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Ruth is retiring as the cheerful volunteer of the WOW Conference. ===
 * ===<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The conference was extremely successful. Bigge **<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">st challenge has been the participants finding the certificates. Chats were phenomenal and filled with extra information. **===
 * ===**<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Douglas and Riverview in Mohawk Valley had very successful HotSpots. Presenters were great. Range of attendees from all over the world. **===
 * ===**<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Peggy quickly brought up the Moodle environment to show what was happening. Participants can still register for the Moodle environment to access the recordings. Links to recordings are on the page with chat log. MP4s of recordings are posted as well. **===
 * ===**<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Link of Passion Driven resources is also available. Items will keep being added.  Conference certificate links are posted as well. **===
 * ===**<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Peggy is doing a great job keeping the Moodle updated. She encouraged everyone who enters the Moodle to respond to introductions. Her goal is for every post to have at least one response. **===
 * ===**<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">We had 170-190 people in every Elluminate session. **===
 * ===**<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Great job Peggy, Paula and Ruth!!! **===

<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">**VIII. Next meeting: Monday, September 12, 2011** <span style="color: #c00000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Suggestion to have evening meetings next year. Question about whether we are meeting in person or virtually. Virtual may be the best option, especially if at night. We'll send out a survey to get feedback. Laura will send out the survey in July around July 18-19.

Motion to adjourn by Ruth. Seconded by Sandy. Unanimous vote to adjourn.