March+3,+2008+Meeting+Agenda+and+Minutes

12:30-2:00pm Pendergast Learning Center**
 * Westside AzTEA Leadership Team Meeting Agenda**
 * Monday, March 3, 2008

[|View March Meeting Minutes Here]


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

Time to start thinking about Westside Leadership for next year!!!!
 * II. Business (old/new)**


 * 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 few new resources for you to explore!! Take a look. Have you discovered the AzTEA "Interest Group" on the IDEAL website? Feel free to add discussion topics or questions and share resources or answers to questions on the site. This was created in response to the recommendation in our last meeting that we have an AzTEA presence on the IDEAL site. You will need to log in to view and edit/comment on the site. https://www.ideal.azed.gov/content/og_interest/AzTEA

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 * [|Animoto]** Animoto is a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using patent-pending Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology and high-end motion design. Each video is a fully customized orchestration of user-selected images and music. Produced in widescreen format, Animoto videos have the visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer. You can create short shows (up to 30 secs. with 10-15 photos) for free. You can purchase an "All-Access Pass" for $30.00/year and produce an unlimited number of both short and long videos. When your All-Access pass expires, if you chose not to renew it, you will still be able to access all of the videos you have created. You can upload movies you have created in iMovie or Windows Movie Maker or even movies you have captured with a video cam to add to your video. There are some very helpful tutorials on the site that teach you how to do everything. Here are two examples of Animoto slideshows with music I created to explore the application. **The first show highlights Westside AzTEA members, and the second show captures some of the photos from our recent VoiceThread workshop.**
 * [|Vimeo]** Free online site for uploading photos and videos to create slideshows with music. Take a look at the show I created with screenshots of our AzTEA Island on Second Life.

Peoria District Home Page: http://portal.peoriaud.k12.az.us/default.aspx Information Management and Technology: http://portal.peoriaud.k12.az.us/C0/Information%20Management%20%20Techno/default.aspx
 * Ed Tech Website of the Month:**
 * March Websites of the Month:**
 * Shawn Wheeler, Peoria Unified School District**

[|http://www.dysart.org/edtech.html]
 * Laurie King, Dysart Unified School District** (she's ready to debut her newly revised site)


 * April Website of the Month**: Rosy has volunteered to demo the Scottsdale District Educational Technology website. Any volunteers for May?

http://www.classroom20wiki.com/LIVE+Locations
 * IV. Special Interest Topics**
 * Classroom 2.0 LIVE Workshop event**--possibly in the Phoenix Metropolitan area in late May/early June 2008. You can view the wiki where Steve Hargadon is organizing and communicating about the LIVE workshops and see the Arizona responses here:
 * //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.

Steve was enthusiastic about all of the responses from AZ and really wants to offer a 2-day workshop in our area. Dates/times/locations need to be worked out. If we are selected to host this workshop we will need your help in communicating it to our larger communities. If you are interested in helping to facilitate this event, let me know. pgeorge@mac.com So far, the following people have expressed a willingness to help with facilitation: Peggy George, Ann Lumm, Julia Lott, Jennifer Merrill, Cherie Stafford, and Brett Hinton.

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. If you aren't checking the site regularly yourself, please do that. There are new Web 2.0 resources added regularly and we have added a lot of fantastic resources on the Social Networking Workshop link.

Update on VoiceThread workshop held on Wednesday, February 27, 2008--a great success! :-) We had close to 30 enthusiastic participants and everyone signed up for a VoiceThread account and created their first VoiceThread. We received lots of positive feedback on the survey. Thanks to Dave Beard and Sunshine Darby for providing this valuable workshop.
 * 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! A few decisions need to be made in our meeting today so we can begin actively promoting the Friday evening event along with the conference. Decisions needed: How should we promote/invite administrators and professional development leaders to the Friday evening session? Limit 50 guests. Should we invite legislators to either Friday evening or Saturday and should they be asked to say a few words? Friday schedule is very TIGHT. Should we provide an incentive to teachers who bring an administrator to WOW on Saturday? What should the incentive be? Recommended incentive--1gb flash drive due to complications and expense in providing AzTEA membership or gift certificates/cards to bookstore or teacher store.
 * VI. Conference Updates** (WOW)

Time to register and submit presentation proposals if you haven't done this already. Registration forms and payment procedures are all online this year: http://members.aztea.org/

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=1760

Monday, April 7, 2008: 12:30-2:00pm, Pendergast Learning Center
 * VII. Next meeting: Date/Place/Location Confirmation**