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=2012-2013 TL Cafe Season=

**ISTE Inspire**

Hot Tips & Advice to Maximize Your Ed Tech Conference Experience


 * Join Us Tuesday June 4th 7pm EASTERN**

The TL Cafe & ISTE SIGMS teams up to present a FREE webinar to get you ready & inspired for ISTE13 San Diego!

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== TL Virtual Cafe Webinar Series Season Finale: Online communities and learning networks are helping hundreds of thousands of educators learn, reduce isolation and providing “just in time” access to knowledge and opportunities for collaboration. Learn ways to help your school, district and state become connected, collaborative educators. This session features the following guest presenters: Session Wikipage
 * Connect, Share, Learn, Grow: That's The Way We Roll!**
 * June 3rd 8pm Est US**
 * moderated by NikkiDRobertson**
 * Author Judith Glenn: Collaboration with students and teachers
 * School Librarian, Sandy Brand Madison, AL: International Collaboration
 * Educational Consultant, Jaime Vandergrift: EdCamp Atlanta-Collaboration between public, charter, private & home schools
 * Educators, Cat Flippen & Jaime Vandergrift: Founders of EduVue

iCame! iSaw! iGoogled! Googlizing Your Learning Environments with Google Apps May 6th, 8PM EST US with Joquetta "The Digital Diva" Johnson Moderated by Gwyneth "The Daring Librarian" Jones Are you ready to move beyond just using Google as a search engine? Led by Google Certified Teacher-Librarian and Digital Diva – Joquetta Johnson, participants will discover how to use Google Applications as a vehicle to drive student collaboration, engagement, and learning. During this learning adventure, we will explore Google Apps like Chrome, Docs, YouTube, and Google+. Participants will leave with a digital backpack of Google resources and a deeper understanding and appreciation for Google as an Ecosystem. This is one Google trip you don’t want to miss. Session Wikipage Image Source

April 8th, 8pm EST US The age of toiling away alone in the classroom is long gone. There is a hero in your midst that can help you now. This suave savior is a master of media, a talented techie, and a connected colleague. The teacher librarian should be the "go to" resource in every building. This chat is going to focus on how these amazing people can be integrated into a teacher's lesson planner. Session Wikipage
 * The Connected Concierge In Your School (& Classroom!)**
 * With Tiffany Whitehead aka The Mighty Little Librarian and **
 * Nick Provenzano aka **
 * The Nerdy Teacher **

Care and Feeding of Your Blog

March 4th at 8pm Eastern US Time and March 5th 9am Perth Australia Time
 * With Sue Waters, The Edublogger**

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We've all been there, either we've started a blog and neglected it - feeling some deep-seated internal blog guilt or we've started a blog and sometimes just don't know what to post or how to make it grow. Sue Waters, the Edublogger herself, is here to the rescue! Giving practical tips on how to get a blog started, how librarians and educators use blogs, and how to maintain and nurture a healthy blog without stress or guilt.




 * Student Collaboration, Research Skills and Tech Integration **

February 4th at 8pmE US Time

With Ron Peck & Melissa Seideman

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 * A very special #TLChat & #SSChat collaboration!**


 * Join us for a lively and informative discussion on: Tips, tricks and sound ways to get students collaborating and researching using the best of current technology integration tools. **

**Transparency is the New Black.**
 * Monday January 7th 8pmE **
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Don’t hide your style under a bushel…be daring and go transparent! Straight from the Paris & New York runways it's time to be on trend and change into that digital shift! Advocate for your practice and our profession by embracing social media and fighting the "locked net monster." Pump up your web presence and stand out from the crowd by being culturally literate, interweb savvy, cloud computing friendly, and embracing our new transliterate "remix mashup culture." Having a hip web presence isn't showing off - it's sharing with the community! Gather round, It's time to make it work!

EduTech Smackdown:

= Open Mic Night =

// with Dr. Joyce Valenza! //

Moderators Gwyneth A. Jones - The Daring Librarian & Tiffany Whitehead The Mighty Little Librarian

Monday December 3rd - 8pm EST

With special //surprise// guest Nicholas Provenzano (@thenerdyteacher)

This year, we're bustin & branching out beyond the library walls to include ALL of the EdTech world in our rip-roaring fast-paced Smackdown Open Mic Night with Dr. Joyce Valenza hosting & with Gwyneth Jones & Librarian Tiff moderating. We’re planning to get ready by creating a rich  crowd-souced presentation/book. Please feel free to take a slide (or several) and be ready to grab the mic on the night of the event and share your faves. We’ll leave the evening with our own on-going dynamic resource book.
 * For resources, chat & webinar archive visit the Session Wikipage **



Why gaming works, reframing instruction using game theory, and the most epic book club EVER. No gaming experience necessary. Monday, November 5th - 8pm EST Presented by: Matthew C. Winner & Jennifer LaGarde Gamification for the Epic Win! wikipage
 * Gamification for the EPIC WIN **!

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**Your Common Core Secret Weapon** with the Librarians in the Middle!

Monday October 1st - 8pm Eastern US Starring: Tamara Cox, Kristen Hearne AND Monique German

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 * Back to School Special 2012**

Rocking the New Year!

Monday Sept. 10th (Due to the US Labor Day holiday)

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