North Alabama Technology Conference

Hey Folks,

The 2013 edition of the North Alabama Technology Conference will be held on July 23 & 24, 2013, at Hazel Green High School.  Registration is now open.  Here's the link:  http://goo.gl/qrBFQ

Lots of workshops and concurrent sessions to meet the needs of beginners to advanced users.  Check out the .pdf documents of workshops and concurrent sessions at the link above.

There will also be an administrator strand with a local PLU available for Madison County administrators (other school system administrators will need to contact your PD person for permission to use this training as a PLU).

Hope you will plan to attend.  Can't beat the price ($30) for such great professional development, food, networking with educators, and opportunities to win great door prizes!

Hope to see you this summer!

Til next time . . .

Vickey

eLearning Alabama course

During the last few weeks, I have been taking an online course through eLearning Alabama (http://elearning.alsde.edu/)  called Developing and Growing Personal Learning Networks for School Leaders.  We have learned various ways to stay in touch with professionals, our peers, other educators, and the school community via podcasting, blogging, Twitter, and other social media resources.  I found that I am already doing a lot of the things mentioned in this course, but just not on a consistent basis. 

Plan of Action:  After taking this class, I am going to strive to become more regular in my blogging efforts with at least one post each week, get my ideas for podcasts "off paper" and "onto the internet"--I want to do a short podcast showing how to use one of the technology tools that I post in my blog, and become more vocal with my Twitter "tweets"--I follow several people, but I never post anything myself, so I am going to start re-tweeting things that I think teachers in my school system would like to read about. 

I really did enjoy the online course and encourage you to check out future courses. The website is listed above.