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Communication

From TIES: Join us for the first ever TIES Administrative Assistants’ day!

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We are passing on this great info from TIES to help get ready for their Administrative Assistants’ day celebration! Click here to register.

“Join us on August 22, 2018 at TIES for TIES Administrative Assistants’ Day! It is just for you. As an administrative assistant in your school district or school, you are the NUMBER ONE support for other people–coworkers, teachers, parents, vendors and other visitors to your school/district. You spend a great deal of time and energy giving everyone what they need, but what about you? What do you do for your own professional growth?

At TIES Administrative Assistants’ Day, you will build skills that will make your work life easier. You will also get to touch base with other administrative assistants who face the same challenges you do each day. TIES Administrative Assistants’ Day will include sessions on Google, Microsoft, creativity, personal and school cybersecurity, and more.

We will also have a panel discussion on how Administrative Assistants can anticipate the needs of their principals, administrators, and teachers that they serve. Participants on the panel will share great tips and tricks and answer your questions.

There will be massage chairs and lunch too! Treat yourself to a little fun and professional pampering. After all of your hard work, you deserve it!

Who should come to the Admin Assistant’s Day?

While the day is open to any kind of school administrative staff, anyone is welcome to join! There will be sessions for all ability levels.“

Conference

Call: TIES 2018 Preconference Workshops

This is from the ITEM listserve. CMLE members: if you have questions about submitting a proposal, or if you want to bounce around some ideas – contact us! We are big fans of the TIES conference and want to help you to be part of it!

“Dear ITEM Members:

I am writing to you for a number of reasons. First of all, I want to share that the TIES 2018 Conference is alive and well and will be held December 8-11, 2018 at the Minneapolis Hyatt Regency as usual. Second, I know that ITEM members are some of the best experts when it comes to effective use of technology and information resources for learning. Yes, I know flattery will get me everywhere, but I am quite sincere.

We are looking for some preconference workshop proposals for Saturday and Sunday. Typically, these are three hour, hands on workshops where participants will learn how to use a new tool, create engaging activities for their classroom, or learn some new way to transform their teaching with the help of information and technology literacy.

We also are seeking engaging presentations for the regular conference days and have options for creation sessions, standard information sharing sessions, and posters. This is a golden opportunity for you to share your wisdom and expertise with educators from around Minnesota and other states.

Presenters of preconference workshops on the weekend are paid a stipend, and presenters for the regular conference days receive half off the registration fee on the day they present.

Please think about joining us at the biggest education technology conference in the upper Midwest.

The Call for Proposals and other information can be found at http://ties2018.ties.k12.mn.us

Mary

Mary Mehsikomer, CETL Technology Integration Development & Outreach Facilitator Minnesota E-Rate Coordinator for Schools TIES 651-999-6510 Mary.mehsikomer@ties.k12.mn.us @MaryTMM”

Instruction, Training

ITEM Summer Refresher

From the ITEM listserve:

“DON’T FORGET to sign up for ITEM Summer Refresher at http://mnitem.org/event-2577086.

In addition, TIES’ most popular summer PD event is coming in a little over a month from today! The TIES Institute featuring G-Suite for Education is happening at TIES on July 27 and 28! This 2-day institute covers everything you need to know about utilizing new and classic Google apps to enhance your classroom and curriculum. Attendees from last year said it was the best workshop/conference they have ever attended!

Are you or someone you know interested in presenting? We welcome you or your staff to present! Submit a proposal by Friday here: https://goo.gl/forms/y9eu2NMNoFVB9LPJ3

For more information on this and other TIES events head here: http://events.ties.k12.mn.us/ties-institute-g-suite/ Registration is now open and a great deal!

We also have our Summer Catalog Offerings posted at http://events.ties.k12.mn.us/tiesed-professional-development/. Feel free to forward this to anyone you think might be interested. Best wishes for a great summer! “

Guest Blogger, School Media Specialist

TIES 2016 Conference Summary: A CMLE Scholarship

 

Reflection on TIES Conference
Brad Scherer
Instructional Technology Specialist
Sartell Middle School

I love going to the TIES conference! It is so refreshing and helps motivate me to constantly be pushing forward for our students.  I have two main takeaways. The first being more about paradigm than practice; I need continue to strive to bring joy to my job and the school.  I want to get to a place where, as Dean Shareski (Monday Keynote) stated, ‘Learning is a joyful act all by itself!’ Shareski points out that this can be done by living in constant wonder, embracing play, and eliminating busyness. I love these tips, as they seem such practical steps to making life more joyous. I have already tried to implement this. We have embraced place in the Makerspace and have even upped the use of Spheros in curriculum since TIES!

My second takeaway is learning about the use of drones in education. This is really fresh and new technology. I learned how some schools are using the drones to teach coding and also explore other applications: videography, photography, agriculture, and more. I plan to explore this more and see how we can incorporate this into our Makerspace and other areas of curriculum. I think there are lots of opportunities to engage students with drones and potential for them to explore this new technology.

I am grateful for the opportunity to attend TIES! Thanks to CMLE for allowing me to go and connect with other passionate educators and better my practice!

Conference, Guest Blogger, School Media Specialist

TIES Conference Summary: A CMLE Scholarship

 

Reflection on TIES Conference
Katherine Vinje Stark
Pine Meadow Elementary, Sartell, MN Instructional Technology Specialist
December 14, 2016

The TIES 2016 Conference was a success. It fulfilled my expectations in that I went with the hope of more tools for our 21st century learners, including maker space and to feel better equipped for more job embedded professional development in our school. The keynote speaker on Monday could not have stated better, “Do not postpone joy.” Too often we are stuck in the rush of life and forget that we need to have those joyful moments if not extended periods of time to truly soak it all in and learn. If we are joyful we can retain so much more and if we make learning joyful, we are putting everyone first.

The first session I attended was to get to know and exchange experiences with other tech coaches in the Midwest. This session helped me gauge where we are at here in Sartell and I felt that we are on track. We were able to share philosophies and missions of districts and bring back feedback/ideas to ours. This was a great takeaway as it helped me get a feel for a support group in the area as well.

Another very valuable session was on flipped professional development. A school district in Wisconsin started to flip their professional development after they noticed teachers were very disengaged. They talked about PD and how teachers need: active engagement, voice, choice, collaboration, effective use of time, teacher centered meetings, meaningful application to take back with them and put into practice, modeling, teacher leadership, and a personalized agenda. I definitely feel that I can put this into practice here at Pine Meadow Elementary. I’m excited to start the conversation with my administration.

This is a very brief summary of what I soaked in. Thank you so much for supporting our library by allowing me to attend and become more in awe and wonder as to how we can get our maker space up and running (fresh maker ideas were out yesterday helping to embed STEM and language arts) as well as continue to educate our teachers, students and community.