09.29.11+(new)

Welcome back to a great year!
Tech Team/MTA Organizational Meeting 2011-12 Sept. 29, 2011

My son introduced me this summer to the [|Nerdfighters] (I know...I'm all out of date). These two brothers, one a very popular young adult novelist, have a saying that I feel the Tech Team could adopt:
 * New Motto?**

**[[image:http://www.omnictionary.com/images/8/80/Dftbahand.gif width="197" height="141"]]DFTBA** (Don't Forget To Be Awesome)
Then he introduced me to having my own YouTube channel (and all those features) and I suddenly felt like one of those parents that this site is designed for -- Google's [|Teach Parents Tech]

Maybe that's because I remember the typewriter and the first computers in schools. Andy Rooney, who just retired, shares his thoughts about technology.

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 * New (to me) tools**
 * [|Newswordy]** -- buzz word of the day that is filling up the blogosphere, Twitterverse, and other pundit chat.


 * Embedit** and other tools that make life easier online from this article by [|Joyce Valenza]


 * AASL's** [|25 Best Websites for Teaching and Learning] Past [|lists]

GCS Technology Integration for curriculum facilitators //and// media specialists

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