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Eastside AzTEA, December 17, 1008 **Holiday Edition

Thanks for the scrooge like dessert advice and Merry Christmas from Amy!!! :)** **Ed Tech Collaboration Day - 2009** - Julia contacted Steve Hargadon via Wiki Phoenix, AZ (Gilbert, AZ) ===Julia Lott: julia_lott@gilbert.k12.az.us - I am an Eastside AzTEA Chapter Co-chair and our Instructional Technologists very much enjoyed the Classroom 2.0 training we held in Paradise Valley last May 2008. The Eastside Chapter is currently planning a similar workshop for Information technology administrators and directors. We would love to replicate the format we used last year and try to get some conversation started with administrators and instructional technologists, who are open to Web 2.0 tools, and those who are more cautious. Collaborating and discussing the issues related to implementation of these new web 2.0 tools would be a goal of this workshop. I am not sure if this fits within the scope of your goals, but if so and you would like to participate, collaborate or just plan the whole thing, our target date is April 30-May 1, 2009, Thursday and Friday before the last AzTEA conference of the year, Way out West (WOW) on Saturday May 1st. If this is something of interest and we can work it out, perhaps you would consider staying for the Conference and presenting there as well.===

12/05/08 01:36 PM That sounds very interesting, and I am available those dates. Steve
 * Steve's Reply -**

Steve Hargadon steve@hargadon.com www.stevehargadon.com 916-899-1400 cell

eMail from Coy - For the last two weekends I've been studying Drupal and I'm very impressed. I believe that we could have a new AzTEA Website in a very short time. By short - I mean no later than Jan 1st.
 * New AzTEA Website Conversion**

After installing Drupal 6.x on a server I made the following Dev Site for my learning process. http://www.vfog.com/azdev/ (Check it out)

Dec 8th - Met w/ Communication Committee about how to proceed with the conversion.
 * I volunteered the Eastside group to start converting our info from the wiki and the webpage to the drupal site as soon as we get notice it is ready. Robin has volunteered to help review the webpage. Perhaps she has some ideas on what to include.
 * What do we want on the AzTEA page? Any suggestions
 * What do we want on the Eastside page?


 * Gala Luncheon @ MEC:**


 * About the rooms - Committee intro. & group discussion
 * About the Menu - Committee intro. & group discussion
 * Budget - group discussion
 * Crowd Control - group discussion
 * Outcome: recommendations to Board




 * Planning for EdTech Collaboration**