How TCEA CAn Help YOu This School Year
Facilitator: Robert Bennett (rbennett@tcea.org)
SESSION DESCRIPTION
Discover how TCEA membership works, and all the benefits the TCEA staff and members work to extend to everyone, and how they can have an impact on your campus, your classroom, or your career.
HOW DOES TCEA MEMBERSHIP WORK?
Three Ways to join
Additional memberships
SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS
Special Interest Groups, or "SIGs," allow you to network with educators in similar roles or with similar interests to share ideas, challenges, and solutions.
SIGs charge $20 for annual membership.
Learn more about our SIGs:
Community
ONE THING TO NOTE: We here at TCEA cannot reset your Community password due to GRPD regulations. To change your password, you'll want to go to this part of the page here:
TCEA'S MESSAGE FORUM
With 33,000 members, TCEA's Community is the place to learn about the latest trends, share tips and tricks, troubleshoot issues, and ask for policy advice.
In Community, you can:
Search conversations for tips
Learn what's happening in your area
Access files, including ALL of our recorded Webinars
Connect with experts and colleagues
Community's very active - so if you'd like to cut down on the amount of alert emails you receive, just watch this quick 30 second video.
ONLINE EDucation
Our online courses are self-paced and developed by our outstanding professional development team to meet the needs of educators like you.
Check out the daily short-form video mini-sessions for bite-sized professional development, tips, and tricks for teaching online. Scroll through the videos, below, or filter them by your role. You can also explore relevant TCEA content through our member-only webinars, Ed Tech Club podcast, and TechNotes blog.
Nearly every week - and sometimes more often than that - TCEA hosts a webinar that's created by and for educators, and is built to work with your schedule. Our cumulative online education adds up to over 80 hours of CPE.
Watch this quick 1.30 minute video that walks you through registering for a webinar - quickly, easily, and for free.
Ice breakers are a great way to encourage interaction, make introductions, boost involvement, and form communities. Whether you’re leading a classroom on the first day of school or a new training session, this eBook will help you get things off on the right foot!
Contains nine unique activities including all of the instructions, templates, and resources you need to replicate them.
Showcases examples and suggestions for how to use each activity in your learning space.
Events
Do you know a teacher, librarian, tech specialist, education student, or administrator worthy of recognition as a leader in the use of technology in education? Then nominate them for an Educator Award!
We also offer scholarships for the undergraduate, graduate, and practicing educator levels.
Nominations are open from September 1 through October 31, 2020.
With five days of events, hundreds of education hours, and over ten thousand attendees, the TCEA Annual Convention is one of the largest conventions in Texas, let alone in ed tech. Members receive advance notice and discounted rates to attend.
The 2021 Convention will take place in Dallas at the Dallas Convention Center.
Partners
SKETCH UP PRO
TCEA has been granted the exclusive rights in the state of Texas to provide free licenses of SketchUp Pro to all K-12 public school educators and students for school-owned computers. The 3D modeling software, normally $495 per license, is easy and intuitive, allowing anyone to model in 3D quickly and accurately.
CLIP STUDIO ART
CLIP STUDIO PAINT is one of the leading illustration, design, animation, comic and manga creation software applications worldwide. CLIP STUDIO PAINT allows for a completely digital creative process.
TIMA
TECHNOLOGY AND INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS ALLOTMENT
The Technology and Instructional Materials Allotment is designed to provide funds for districts to purchase the instructional materials that will be used to support the teaching and learning of the curriculum established by the State Board of Education (SBOE) as outlined in the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS).
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