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AzTEA TnT UnConference-Feb. 2, 2013. Steve Dembo, Director of Social Media Strategy and Online Community Manager for Discovery Education. The 21st Annual Teaching and technology conference brought educators from around Arizona together to listen to Keynote presenter Steve Dembo's fantastic talk and to participate in AzTEA's first UnConference. Along with sevral planned sessions, the UnConference offered Breakouts created by the day’s participants on the spot, with the interests of the participants in mind.

May 2012 Mini-geekfest sponsored by AzTEA. A monthly online webinar with co-hosts Peggy George and Kim Thomas sharing great web 2.0 resources, tools, webinars and virtual conferences. Participants are invited to take the mic and share their favorite tools and resources.

Are you searching for great STEM based online interactive activities for your students to explore at school and at home? Join Letia and Jill and enhance your STEM curriculum with a wealth of websites and WEB 2.0 tools. Learn how to incorporate these sites and activities into the flipped classroom model. AzTEA WOW 2012 Virtual Technology Conference, May 5, 2012.

Power of Visual Storytelling What role could visual storytelling play in the process of learning and recording the human journey? As a document to help understand an event -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Minard.pngor in the education of others in learning who we are as a species -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaqueor in recording a full journey of a life -http://feltron.com/ar10_01.html. Visual storytelling can be used to analyse, educate, and remember the world around us. AzTEA WOW 2012 Virtual Technology Conference, May 5, 2012.

Arizona's Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) supports districts, schools and educators in infusing technology into their classrooms. The Arizona K12 Center created the Arizona Technology Integration Matrix at http://azk12.org/tim with the belief that “encouraging the seamless use of technology in all curriculum areas and promoting technology is essential in today's 21st Century Classroom. The Arizona Technology Integration Matrix can help support the full integration of technology in Arizona’s schools.” This session will familiarize you with the five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments with five levels of technology integration, and how they can help you support a technology infused student-centered classroom.

This presentation will take a look at why Arizona, and so many other states in our nation, are moving to college and career ready standards. Sarah will discuss the "seismic shifts" that are coming and how Arizona educators can respond to them. She will look at the changes in current workforce demands and public education’s response to those demands. Time will be spent looking at major shifts in the standards and how the PARCC* assessment will be designed to focus on college and career readiness. You will see that Arizona is STEAMING ahead with the implementation. *PARCC: Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers

A Flipped Classroom: What it is, what it isn’t, and the many forms the Flipped Class can take. AzTEA WOW 2012 Virtual Technology Conference, May 5, 2012.

Co-Facilitators: Peggy George and Kim Thomas. Virtual STEAM Smackdown (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math). A "Smackdown" or "Speed Demo" involves fast and furious presentations by educators demonstrating their favorite STEAM online tools and resources in 3 minutes or less per person. AzTEA WOW 2012 Virtual Technology Conference, May 5, 2012.

Julie D. Ramsay, author and National Board Certified fifth grade teacher at Fultondale Elementary School just north of Birmingham, Alabama joins us to share her more than sixteen years of experience teaching reading and writing across content areas. This webinar was presented virtually at the AZ Humanities Festival in Phoenix, AZ, October 22, 2011.

Az TEACH 21 Webinar presented by Dru Waggoner. An introduction to various interactive online tools that support the writing process

AZ Teach 21 webinar presented by Reed Brotherton. An overview of select Web 2.0 resources including: Delicious, Animoto, Glogster, Brain Pop, EBSCO, Wall Wisher and more.

AZ Teach 21 webinar presented by Dru Waggoneer. Intel free teaching tools-Visual Ranking, tools for assessing projects and more

AZ Teach 21 webinar presented by Cindy Lange. A guided tour throughout the Learning Resources Manager, a searchable online database of curricular resources, including trade books, lesson plans, reading passages, media, examples, assessment items, and links to external web sites.

AZ Teach21 webinar presented by Mari Westenhauser. A look at Project Based Learning and what essential questions are and how to articulate them.

AZ Teach 21 webinar presented by Rebecca Love. Online resources and activities (from a librarian's perspective) Databases, copyright law, Wordle, vocabulary games and more.

AZ TEACH 21 webinar presented by Donald Mitchell. An overview of Thinkfinity resources across content areas. Interactive sites, video clips, primary source documents, data links and more.

AZ TEACH 21 webinar presented by Kathleen Jensen. Essential questions and Intel Thinking Tools a) Description of essential questions and some strategies of how to create Essential Questions. b) Reviews Intel Thinking Tools through Yavapai County ESA

AZ Teach 21 webinar presented by Sonja London-Hall. Yavapai and Mojave County online resources and more

AZ TEACH 21 webinar presented by Margaret Bowerman. Tips for navigating through a Moodle course for participants

AZ Teach 21 webinar presented by Brian Weir. An overview of Web 2.0 resources, differences between Web 1.0,2.0,3.0, cloud computing, bibliography makers, online chart makers, comic strip makers, educational movies, flash card makers and more. Resources available here: http://tinyurl.com/weir20

AzTEA WOW Virtual Technology Conference Closing Panel Presentation and Conference Wrap-up "Now that We're Feeling the Passion What Do We Do Next? Facilitator: Steve Hargadon Panel Members: Angela Maiers, Amy Sandvold, George Couros, Lisa Nielsen and Virtual Technology Conference Team

AzTEA WOW Virtual Technology Conference presentation by Tina Schneider,Barbara Tallent, Dean Mantz, Mike Fisher "Pulling it all Together - LiveBinders lets you Add Context to Content and Engage Students in the Process" Teachers use LiveBinders to share resources with colleagues, provide structure to student projects and showcase student work. You will get a brief overview from the founders Tina Schneider and Barbara Tallent as well as see example classroom LiveBinders from Dean Mantz and Mike Fisher. Learn how to pull together different tools into one streamlined package for a project.

AzTEA WOW Virtual Technology Conference: Virtual Smackdown • A “Web 2.0 Smackdown”—or “Speed Demos”—involves fast and furious presentations by educators demonstrating their favorite Web tools. • Choose one of your favorite web tools and quickly demo it for the group making sure to share ways that it can be integrated with teaching and learning. • Each demo is allowed a maximum of 3 minutes. • Warning: This is fast, frantic and lots of fun. The goal is to involve as many people as possible and learn about as many new resources as possible.

AzTEA WOW Virtual Technology Conference "More Seeds to Success with Skype" presented by Paula Naugle, Jan Wells, Len Horn and Kristen Robertson Do you Skype? Skype is a free download that allows you to video conference with others around the corner, around the country, or around the world. Paula and Jan, 4th grade teachers from Louisiana and Kansas, have been Skype buddies for three years. Share their lessons learned, experiences, and celebrations as Skype buddies. They will be joined by Arizona educators Len and Kristen who will help you find other classes to connect with and projects to get started. The resources shared will help you get started or demonstrate ways to make your Skype sessions more meaningful and easier to manage.

AzTEA WOW Virtual Technology Conference "Building Technology Leaders with Peer Coaching" presented by Shelee King George, Matt Huston, Jane Miller The rapidly changing digital landscape shapes how our students learn. Hear how schools across the U.S. align professional development with 21st century teaching and learning practices, ensuring that all teachers are adequately trained in new instructional strategies and technologies. Hear how Peer Coaching can cultivate and capitalize on human resources.

AzTEA WOW Virtual Technology Conference "Engage Digital-Age Learners with Interactive GoogleTreks" Presentation by Dr. Alice Christie Learn to use Web 2.0 tools to produce interdisciplinary user-created units called GoogleTreks™ that engage, empower and motivate 21st century learners. Dr. Christie created and branded this instructional strategy that incorporates text, charts, photos, movies, podcasts, or other digital data in a central, web-based location. GoogleTreks™ encourages learners to engage in problem solving, critical thinking, visual literacy, understanding spatial and cultural differences, and improving digital-age skills. This session is supported by GoogleTreks™ resources and repository found at http://www.googletreks.org.

AzTEA WOW Virtual Technology Conference Keynote Presentation: "Passion Driven Leadership and Learning" Angela Maiers and Steve Farber (Introduced by ISTE President, Dr. Helen Padgett) Includes the Conference Opening Session/Welcome--first 22 minutes. Join Angela and Steve for an enlightening and insightful look at passion's place in leadership, learning, and 21st Century success. You will discover how to use the power of the heart to achieve the extraordinary results with students, staff, and members of your leadership community. Passion and love can: Inspire yourself and others to change the world you live in Earn your students and colleagues respect and loyalty Keep yourself and others passionately engaged in the work at hand --even in troubled or difficult times

AZ TEACH 21 webinar presented by Margaret Bowerman. Tips for setting up and navigating through a Moodle course, geared for online course facilitators.

AZ TEACH 21 webinar presented by Diane Ouellette. Glogster-provides an online collaborative learning platform for teachers and students

Video Recording of Kevin's Saturday Keynote Address: Trends, Tools and Tactics for 21st Century Learning. Kevin Honeycutt for a fun look at the exciting things that happen when educators step outside their boxes and try new tools. Kevin reinforces the importance of relationships while encouraging teachers to become learners again through positive examples of teacher and student success. He shared the idea of self-directed staff development and showed ways to grow your own personal learning network to empower you as you learn exciting new ways to meet the needs of learners.