Leading Digitally The Admin 2.0 Webinar Series Sponsored by ACSA and TICAL

Add Pizazz to Professional Development with QR Codes & LiveBinders

May 24, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. PDT
Presented by educational consultant Susan Brooks-Young
Are your professional development activities feeling a bit stale? Interested in livening things up a bit while modeling strategies teachers can use to support classroom technology use? Look no further! QR Codes, those odd-looking square patterns featured in advertising are easy to create and can link to anything that can be digitized. LiveBinders are digital 3-ring notebooks that individuals and groups can use to store and share allkinds of digital files. Attend this Webinar to learn how school leaders cancombine use of these tools to spice up their next professional development meeting.
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SBE Webcast Archive for May 9-10, 2012 Meeting
Whooping Cough Vaccination Reminder
Torlakson Responds to May Revision

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Public Gets Glimpse of Science Standards
Study: Eighth-grade students still lag in science

eSchool News
Microsoft calls for cloud-computing regulations
Grant-giving continues despite financial limitations
Online college for union members in the works

New York Times
Photo Sharing on the Go Is the Latest Hot Investment Niche in Silicon Valley
F.C.C. Investigates Google Street View
I.H.T. Special Report: Business in South Korea: Korean Giants Struggle to Crack Smartphone Market

TICAL is one of Californias four Statewide Education Technology Services (SETS). Each project provides unique resources to help educators use technology. Visit our colleagues at:

California Learning Resource Network (CLRN) provides a guide to standards-aligned electronic learning resources and assessments.

EdTechProfile provides educational administrators with tools that guide their decisions about how to integrate technology into classroom instruction and how to create and evaluate effective teacher technology training programs.

TechSETS provides technical professionals in California schools improved access to training, support and other resources.

In addition, the California Technology Assistance Program provides regional support to districts. Look here to find the contact information for your county.

For a pre-formulated search of the TICAL Resource Database, click one of the topics below—or suggest a hot topic you'd like to see us add.

• 21st Century Skills
• Cyber Safety
• Web 2.0 Tools
• Mobile Learning
• Integrating Technology in Standards-Based Curriculum

Looking for some highly productive and useful resources to assist you along the way? Register for the FREE Leading Digitally, Admin 2.0 webinar on January 26th.

Interested in sharing your predictions on what may come to fruition in 2012 when it comes to educational technology? Share your thoughts in the Administrator 2.0 discussion “What’s ahead for 2012?” (requires log-in).

View previous polls.

Interested in accessing some of the resources from Leadership 3.0?
Join the conversations and access many of the resources and presentations that occurred at the Leadership 3.0 Symposium in San Mateo, April 19-21, 2012.

Teaching Teachers to Teach Online!
Learn about the Leading Edge Certification program that trains teachers to teach in an online and blended environment and is currently working on an administrator curriculum and much more!

7 Things You Should Know About.....
...many different emerging technologies for teaching and learning! Several documents provided by EDUCAUSE to help you understand!

Communicate to Your Stakeholders with Facebook!
This tutorial will highlight some successful school site and district Facebook pages and walk you through how to create your own safe page!

What's happening in Online Learning?
An Online Learning Summit happened at the Leadership 3.0 Symposium in April. View the Summit to hear from the experts.

Bringing the TICAL Conference to You!
Didn't get a chance to go to the TICAL Conference or missed some key sessions? Arkansas iTunes U captured summaries of many sessions. Check out these short videos on Moodle, iPods, 1:1, and more!