2010-11+Meeting+Agendas

Welcome to our 3rd TIG meeting this year!
Please use this VoiceThread to record your thoughts about how participation in TIG this year has helped you grow professionally. How has it changed or influenced your teaching practice?
 * Introductions and Reflection:** [|VoiceThread]
 * TIPS:**
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 * Future TIG dates /Housekeeping:**
 * Thursday-Friday, April 28-29, NETA conference at Embassy Suites LaVista - [|Register TODAY]
 * If you have missed one or less TIG meetings, ESU 6 will pay for your NETA registration and sub. If you missed 2 meetings, ESU 6 will pay for your NETA registration fee and the district must pick up sub costs.
 * Prepare for NETA conference via [|NETA web site]

**Next steps:**
 * Report On Next Steps Progress From Last Meeting**
 * Which social networking/ PLN tools have you used since our last meeting?

[|2011 Horizon Report]
 * Visioning**

[|QR Codes at a Glance] [|QR Codes:] What are they and why should I care? [|38+ interesting ways to use QR codes in the classroom]
 * What's new? **

Flipped Classrooms
 * Discussion/Theory**
 * Connected Principals [|Blog Post on Flipping Classrooms]
 * [|Flipped classroom - video]

[|Twitter]
 * Practice**
 * Twitter Hashtags
 * [|Tweetgrid]
 * [|Tweetdeck]
 * [|Twitter hashtags]
 * [|Twitter live chats]
 * [|Twitter news template]

[|Diigo] social bookmarking tool
 * [|Lynne's Diigo library]

[|Smories] - How could you make smories in your classroom?
 * [|Smories background info]

[|Little Bird Tales] - Create multimedia stories with your own images and text.

Dustin Frank and Dan Reid from [|Engaging Technologies] will highlight mimios, mobi tablets, clickers and Livescribe pens. (11:15-noon and 12:45-1:30).

[|Google Forms]
 * [|66+ ways to use Google Forms in the Classroom]

Free digital textbooks through [|CK 12]

[|Khan Academy expands resources]

**Next steps:** How will you pre-plan for the NETA conference? How will you share information you learn at NETA back with your colleagues? Agree on a sharing tool.

= [|**Meeting Feedback**] =

December 1: TIG meeting


 * Introductions**/**Housekeeping**

Today is Pay It Forward Day!

[| Future TIG dates]:
 * Wednesday, February 16, 9-3 pm at ESU 6
 * Thursday-Friday, April 28-29, NETA conference at Embassy Suites LaVista

[|2010-12 TIG cohort information]

[|NETA conference proposals] due TODAY

**Next steps:**
 * Report On Next Steps Progress From Last Meeting**
 * Find a copy of your school district's technology plan and internet acceptable use policy. Please bring a printed copy or web link with you to our next TIG meeting.
 * Talk to the previous TIG folks from your school/district about how they let folks know about TIG resources. Develop a strategy to share tools with your colleagues.
 * Use one of the Publish It! tools above with your students prior to the next meeting so you can report back to us in December.
 * If you are on Facebook, "like" Edutopia, Free Technology for Teachers and Educational Service Unit 6.

Google Form Feedback [|Feedback Results]

We looked at the [|ipevo2 $69 document camera] and the [|Bamboo Pen and Tablet.]
 * What's new? **

What is a PLN? Why should you care and get involved in one?
 * Discussion/Theory**

Tagging Wikispaces - Create a wikispace account and join the TIG wiki [|Google Forms] [|Doodle] [|Twitter]
 * Practice**
 * Browser bookmarks
 * Social bookmarking**:** [|Delicious], [|Diigo]

Honda Video - [|Failure: The Secret to Sucess]
 * Visioning**

**Next steps:** Which sessions do you plan to attend at the NETA conference? How will you share what you learn with your colleagues?

October 18: TIG meeting

Registration Demo Future TIG dates:
 * Introductions**/**Housekeeping**
 * Wednesday, December 1, 9-3 pm at ESU 6
 * Wednesday, February 16, 9-3 pm at ESU 6
 * Thursday-Friday, April 28-29, NETA conference at Embassy Suites LaVista

[|2010-12 TIG cohort information]

What sites are schools required by the federal government to filter or block via the [|Children's Internet Protection Act?] [|Engage Me or Enrage Me] article by Mark Prensky > > > [|Voicethread] - Online posting of images and shared conversation [|Prezi] - Create poster presentations [|Kerpoof:] Digital storytelling tool [|Storybird] Create your own online storybooks with words and images [|Glogster] "Posterize" yourself [|8 Voice Recording Tools] [|Digital Media Resources] - Outstanding Collection of free tools [|Online tool to create printed storyboard sheets] (PDF)
 * Policy**
 * Discussion/Theory**
 * [|Just Say Yes to Publishing! Exposing The Man Behind the Curtain If He’s Still Saying No.__]
 * [|The Secret To Getting Every Student Excited About Writing__]
 * [|Innovative Educators Can Help Students and Themselves Become Published Authors__]
 * Practice**
 * [|Lesson Plan Rehab] by Richard Byrne - NETA 2011 keynote speaker
 * [|Transform a Hand It In Classroom to a Publish It Classroom] by Lisa Nielsen
 * [|Mrs. Kolbert's 4th grade blog] by Lee Kolbert
 * [|How to link to a web site in Prezi]
 * [|Glogster Tutorial via Free Tech 4 Teachers]
 * [|Glogster Edu tutorial]
 * [|Glogging 101]
 * Glogster in the classroom - includes rubric to evaluate Glogs

Clickers/Mobi Tablets with Dustin Frank [|ipod touches]with Lynne Herr

[|TED talk about self-teaching]
 * Visioning**

**Next steps:** Google Form Feedback
 * Find a copy of your school district's technology plan and internet acceptable use policy. Please bring a printed copy or web link with you to our next TIG meeting.
 * Talk to the previous TIG folks from your school/district about how they let folks know about TIG resources. Develop a strategy to share tools with your colleagues.
 * Use one of the Publish It! tools above with your students prior to the next meeting so you can report back to us in December.
 * If you are on Facebook, "like" Edutopia, Free Technology for Teachers and Educational Service Unit 6.

September 29 Understanding and Preventing Online Cruelty Seminar in Partnership with the Anti-defamation League