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AzTEA Westside Chapter

Welcome to the

Westside AzTEA Chapter

We'd love to have you join us!!

Our goal is to model communication and collaboration within the AzTEA organization as well as demonstrate the power of a Wikispace to teachers and administrators around the state.

Your Westside 2010-2011 Officers:

Sandra Israel - Co-chair

Laura Sheehy - Co-chair

Secretary- Nan Williams

Workshop Coordinator (Open)

Westside AzTEA Meetings

We will be posting both the meeting minutes and agendas for our leadership meetings on a separate page on the Westside Leadership wikispace. http://westsideleadershipteam.wikispaces.com/ Our goal is to have the proposed agenda posted a couple of weeks before each meeting. If you subscribe to the RSS feed to keep track of changes you will automatically receive a message either in your feedreader or your email letting you know there has been a change on the page. We encourage you to add proposed items and topics of interest to the agenda because we want our meetings to reflect your needs/interests. If we can't fit it in for that meeting (time constraints) we'll move it to the next month's agenda. We review and approve new chapter goals for each year in our first meeting. We're hoping that all of you will review the proposed agenda in advance of each meeting so you will know what is being planned for discussion. This will allow you to bring along your resources and ideas to share during the meeting. We're looking forward to some very active participation throughout the year!

During each meeting (usually the last half hour) we will hold a professional development time to present and discuss issues, challenges and strategies for management of educational technology in schools/districts. Anyone can volunteer to be a presenter/facilitator for these sessions. We have used Livestream.com to broadcast our meetings so people who can't get away from school/work at that time can either join the event live and participate in the chat room or view the archives later. http://www.livestream.com/greatnews

We are also hoping to stream all of our Westside workshops this year. AzTEA now has a new community partnership with Elluminate so it may be possible for us to use this fantastic web conferencing service for sharing professional development opportunities with others throughout the year.

Participants in our monthly leadership meetings can receive a certificate for re-certification credit hours. Each month we highlight district technology websites from around the state to learn more about how these sites are organized to support teacher technology use in their schools/districts. Anyone is invited to volunteer to share your site(s). Another regular agenda item is sharing/problem solving which is a time anyone can bring up questions and obtain advice from others in the group.

 

Westside Leadership Team Meetings for 2010-2011

Meeting Dates for 2010-2011

http://aztea.wikispaces.com/AzTEA+Google+Calendar+of+Events


To view the agenda for each of our meetings, go to the Westside Leadership Team wikispace.

http://westsideleadershipteam.wikispaces.com/2010-11+Meetings

Generally, our meetings are held virtually on the first Monday of the month, 12:00-1:30pm in Elluminate.
Elluminate link to join the meeting:  http://tinyurl.com/AzTEA-PD

Monday, September 13, 2010 Time 12:00-1:30pm, VIRTUAL MEETING via Elluminate
Note: September 6, 2009 is Labor Day.


Monday, October 4, 2010 Time 12:00-1:30pm, VIRTUAL MEETING via Elluminate

Monday, November 1, 2010 Time 2:30-4:00pm, VIRTUAL Meeting via Elluminate

Monday, December 6, 2010   Meeting cancelled.

Monday, January 10, 2011  Time 2:00-3:30pm, VIRTUAL Meeting via Elluminate

Monday, February 7, 2011  Time 2:00-3:30pm, VIRTUAL Meeting via Elluminate

Monday, March 7, 2011   Meeting cancelled.

Monday, April 4, 2011 Time 2:00-3:30pm, VIRTUAL Meeting via Elluminate

Monday, May 9, 2011  Time 2:00-3:30pm, VIRTUAL Meeting via Elluminate

(Final "meeting" is our social event in late May or June)

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.
Come and join the fun!