Conference Overview- California Educational Technology Professionals Association, Pasadena, Ca Nov. 14-17, 2017

Astronaut Fun! Overall take on the conference

Tom's Take Away- John Morgan and the One thing they did at Capo Unified to make their PD great and timely and applicable to their whole organization

Mike's Take Away-1:1 Rollouts by other districts, Andrew Schwab, wireless shoutout (Unite, Apple TV, AirTame, ScreenBeam, NovoPro), Capstone w/ Capo USD, Future Ready (Rocklin, Pomona, Davis school districts)

Exhibit Hall Madness!

IACUE Presentation and what to expect and how to visit us

Flipgrid Ambassador and licenses

Black Friday and Cyber Monday

• Biggest trend this year, the fact that many companies are releasing or having their sales early.
• Closing of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FatWallet the leader in Black Friday Ads and often spoiler ads before retails were ready to publish their prices. Community members started https://phatwalletforums.com
• Apple Deals: Best to look at third party retailers as Apple has a history of not offering much on Black Friday and Cyber Monday https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2017/11/07/apple-black-friday-2017-early-iphone-ipad-macbook-watch-deals-sales/#1c6687096706
• All of Sears is on sale https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/01/sears-puts-the-whole-store-on-sale-to-avoid-black-friday-crunch.html  Sears is bringing back their Holiday catalog, remember as kid circling your wish list in their catalog? Now we just save to a digital wish list.
• Amazon tip: Put items in your cart now and Amazon will update the prices for you. https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2017/11/06/amazon-black-friday-2017-deals-echo-echo-dot-fire-tv-kindle/#6efe20d67ea6 
• Jump to Tom's list list http://a.co/hIc3qL7 
• STEM monthly subscription Great use of a Rotary Grant https://www.amazon.com/STEM-Club-Toy-Subscription-year/dp/B01M7UD21X/ref=sr_1_57
• Amazon Show https://www.amazon.com/dp/B010CEHQTG/_encoding=UTF8?coliid=IOON8IXM3SHE&colid=171OAFOT1373S 
• AR/VR Deals https://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/jedichallenges/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIuJaAtt2i1wIVRWV-Ch0qLQ1XEAAYASAAEgLUX_D_BwE&cid=us:sem|se|google|All_Products|NX_Lenovo_All_Products_DSA&ef_id=WfyFlQAAAHFAbFbn:20171103153425:s 
• Tony Vicent Gadget List https://learninginhand.com/gear 

Inland Code Consortium- CS for All Event

Saw Hadi Partovi give a great key note on coding and why everyone should be coding. Talked about his upbringing and how his father was able to teach him how to code and how that completely changed his life. On coming to America and the doors that were open to him because of this skill he had acquired.

Had two different panels,

one with college and career focus, and why we should be coing and learning new languages

Other with Middle school teacher, high school teacher, and high school senior, and they were focusing on how coding was becoming a part of their school life, and the opportunities and sense of accomplishment that they felt while teaching or learning codin. All three were female.

Student Showcase- they had schools from all over the inland empire and some SGV schools with showcase displays, showing their coding clubs, their robotics, or makerspaces, or competition squads that go out and compete.

CETPA

Different type of conference for us. What are we looking forward to seeing/doing/learning?

Digital Learning Initiative

What does it take to actually roll out a 1:1 program? Office of Educational Technology has an idea! Great resource for any who have not heard of it.

Why is 1:1 become a passé phrase now? Why changing a name can bring success to a program.

What considerations or preparation surprised you? Which piece made you say "yea, no duh"

Common Sense School, District and work we have been doing.  Referenced in Episode 50

How did this start?

What was our process?

How did it go?

Office 365 Trainer of Trainers

What was this program?

How did we select?

What did they do?

What have they done since?

FallCue 2017 and the Podfather

• Thursday 10/26
  • Need you to present right now! (Audio in the Classroom)
  • Sketch 50 w/ Misty Kluesner & Cate Tolnai https://fallcue2017.sched.com/event/CBKO/sketch50-lean-into-your-growth-mindset
  • No room for you!
• Friday 10/27
  • Playtime in the STEAMpunk Playground https://fallcue2017.sched.com/event/CBOx/cue-steampunk-playground Ozobots and Spheros
    • Helping to set-up, more than willing...
  • Digital Breakout Edu with Microsoft OneNote http://fall.cue.org/event/CBKl/breakout-with-onenote with Maria Turner & Melinda Richwine https://fallcue2017.sched.com/event/CBKl/breakout-with-onenote
  • Circuit Studies with Makey-Makeys with Rick Phelan https://fallcue2017.sched.com/event/CBPI/circuit-studies-with-makey-makeys
  • Better Together Learning Network
    • https://fallcue2017.sched.com/event/Cbf7/better-together-learning-playground
    • https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/15FKahYvTdu4_IjeZ6Ge9km10Gn1UB1Eno8saNrgCHfY/edit
  • Aurdino: What is it what do I do with it? with David Platt, Heidi Baynes and special guest Roger Wagner of Hyperduino and Hyperstudio https://fallcue2017.sched.com/event/CBPf/arduino-what-is-it-what-do-i-do-with-it
• Saturday 10/28
  • Tried to get into Lesson Builder's Fair session with Jon Corippo and Lindsey Blass http://fall.cue.org/event/CBQH/lesson-builders-fair-a-bold-approach-to-lesson-design Absolutely packed, next time.
  • Went to http://fall.cue.org/event/CBQ7/why-the-maker-movement-matters-in-education-exploring-the-new-steam-power with David Thornburg and his wife Norma -STEAM curriculum areas with 3D printers, Arduinos, micro:bits and other new tools for the K-12 classroom.
  • http://fall.cue.org/event/CBQp/tubes-tape-and-imagination-starting-and-sustaining-a-future-ready-lab with Jennifer Harrison Principal, Tustin Unified School District and Traci DiLellio Teacher Grades 3/4, Tustin Unified School District
  • http://fall.cue.org/event/CBRT/tech-out-that-open-house with Monica Bennett and Valerie Sun
  • Finally, http://fall.cue.org/event/CBRx/makerspaces-nuts-and-bolts with Heidi Baynes TOSA-Instructional Technology, San Jacinto Unified School District, Gabrielle Henderson, Denise Leonard, Mark Synnott, Joseph Williams and again special guest Roger Wagner.
• Sunday 10/29 Podfather Leo Laporte
  • https://twit.tv/shows/the-tech-guy/episodes/1435?autostart=false check out about the hour and fifteen minute mark to see us in the studio, and a sticker of ours on Leo's Desk.