NICE News!

The following "save the dates" were sent by the the NICE board (Northern Illinois Computing Educators):

Monthly meeting schedule for 2012-2013:

As always, we have a monthly meeting schedule filled with great opportunities. A new feature this year is the Bring a Buddymeeting. NICE members who bring a NICE 1st timer to these meetings will receive a special gift.

Another change is to our annual mini-conference, which will be hosted by District 219 at Niles North High School on Saturday, January 26th, so mark your calendar now!

Prior to each meeting we will send out an RSVP and more detail about the meeting.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012: Share-a-rama @ Caruso Middle School, Deerfield - Bring a Buddy! Meeting

Monday, October 22, 2012: Technology Integration for Formative Assessment Location TBD - Bring a Buddy! Meeting

Saturday, December 1, 2012: Tablets, iOS, Chromebooks, oh my! @ Oak Grove School, Libertyville

Saturday, January 26, 2013: NICE Mini-Conference @ Niles North High School

February 26-March 1, 2013: ICE Conference @ Pheasant Run Resort, St. Charles

Thursday, March 14, 2013: IDEaS of March Location TBD

Monday, May 7, 2013: HOTS- Higher Order Thinking Skills with Technology - Common Core is Coming! Location TBD

These meetings are an essential part of my own professional development.  (Let me bring you as a buddy because gifts work for me!) I can forward your emails if you want to receive the newsletters.