Yesterday we just finished our third annual Milwaukee Digital Media Conference. Many thanks to the participants and instructors who made this event so successful. We would also like to thank our sponsors and partners Apple Computers, KZO Eduction, Txttools, VoiceThread, Animoto, The Milwaukee County Zoo and Cardinal Stritch University for all of their support.
The Stephens Group has been busy gearing up the 2009-2010 School Year. We have just released our Fall Professional Development Catalog and registration for these events is now available online.
We also excited to have Dr. Lovejoy as our new Director of PODetc.
We are also looking forward to working with a number of school districts around the country on information technology planning this year. Read the article that appeared in School Planning & Management Magazine on Must Have Technologies for school districts written by Tammy Stephens.
We hope to see many of you are our events this coming year!
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Fall Professional Development Catalog is Here!
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The Fall Stephens Group Professional Development Catalog is now available!
The catalog contains our face-to-face and online professional development opportunities.
The catalog also contains information on how you can bring The Stephens Group to your school district to offer graduate courses on-site.
Please download our catalog and share it with other teachers in your district.
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The Milwaukee Digital Media Conference
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The theme of this year's conference was Educators Avoiding Extinction. Tammy Stephens talked about how today's educators are in danger of becoming extinct if they keep using the
same methods and formats to deliver information. You can view the keynote on the conference wiki. You can also view Paul Musegades keynote on Mobile Technologies at the Apple Reception.
 We hope that the learning and collaboration that was started during the conference will continue. Join the MDMC Ning to join in on the conversations started by participants.
Participants created VoiceThread projects about endangered animals at the zoo. You can also view and comment on participants final projects via our Google Map set up for the conference.
2010 Conference
 Next Year's Conference will be held at The Milwaukee Art Museum from July 27-30th.
Super Early Bird Registration! Register before October 1st for $199 (on-site registration is $400).
Register Now!
Note: School Districts can use Stimulus Money for this event.
*Note: Groups from the same school district registering by purchase order should use the Group Purchase Order Form.
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Please Welcome Our New Director of PODetc
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 Please welcome Dr. Victoria Lovejoy our new director of PODetc. PODetc (Professional Online Development from the Educational Technology Community) is a division of the Stephens Group designed to give professional educators the tools they need to utilize technology resources in the classroom setting.
Dr. Lovejoy
has been an administrator and educator for more than twenty years. She
has worked at both public and private schools at grade levels ranging
from Kindergarten through Junior College.
Read More
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Must Have Technologies
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Article by Tammy Stephens in School Planning & Management Magazine
Today's educational leaders are confronted by a barrage of new and
emerging technology options on a daily basis. The challenge becomes,
how do educational leaders make decision in times of limited resources
on which technology to invest our time, energy and resources? Tammy Stephens, CEO of The Stephens Group, writes about some of the must-have technologies that are needed in every school
district to improve student achievement.
Read the Article in School Planning & Management Magazine.
The Stephens Group offers strategic planning consulting services to help school districts make the most of their technology investments. More information is available on our website.
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Free Online Tool of the Month
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Tammy Lind, Director of Face-to-Face Professional Development
This month's tool is Spoken Text.
SpokenText is an online
text to speech/audio converter. It allows you to record PDF, Word, plain text,
PowerPoint files, emails and web pages, and converts them to speech
automatically. This tool is ideal for students that struggle in the classroom
with reading. Documents can be sent to Spoken Text and then converted into
an audio file that the student can then listen to on the computer, an MP3
player, or embedded into a web page.
If you are interested in learning more about Spoken Text, please to attend our
Differentiation in the 21st Century Workshop day on February 6th, 2010.
See our web site for more details!
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Congratulations to Jeanne Procell
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Many thanks to all of you who tool our online professional development survey. The information from the survey was very helpful in putting together our professional development offerings for the upcoming school year.
Congratulations to Jeanne Procell from the Whitefish Bay School District for the drawing of the iPod shuffle.
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