July 13, 2023: USDLA Brief — National Conference is just days away! Be sure to sign up for your photo opportunity

Four days until Conference Time! The USDLA’s 2023 National Conference starts on Monday, July 17 in Orlando, FL

We are so excited that the conference is just days away at the gorgeous Wyndham Resort in Orlando.

Remember: If you still need to reserve your spot for $500, be sure to do so, as the on-site registration cost goes up on July 16. Click here to register: https://usdla.org/2023-registration/

We told you in Tuesday’s News about this great photo opportuniy: JDLHorizon’s Tom Lapping and his team will be shooting videos and offering free headshots to conference attendees. Click here to register for a 30-minute time slot. Scroll down to learn more about Tom and his firm.

USDLA Conference is a great place to meet the larger community and connect with leaders from our state chapters.

  • If you can’t attend the conference in person: Click here to find the sessions you can attend virtually.
  • Below: You can learn about the July webinar hosted on July 27 by our colleagues, NEDLA.org (the Northeast Digital Learning Association), which teaches us how to Cultivate a Culture of Wellbeing with Linda Bonnar! She is a coach, educator, author, and the Co-Founder of Upstrive
  • Also below: Meet our sponsor GoReact
  • Don’t forget to bring your yoga mat for our Morning Stretch with Alexandra and Hope: Tuesday, July 18, 7-8am

Visit us to learn more about the conference:

We’ll see you the week of July 17th! — The USDLA Communications team

Get ready to have your picture taken: The JDLHorizons team is offering free headshots at the National Conference

Photo opp! We are excited to bring back JDLHorizon’s Tom Lapping and his team this year. They will be shooting videos and offering free headshots to conference attendees.

Sign up to be interviewed or for your headshot by clicking here. Please provide your name, cell, and email address.

Eduvision, developed by JDL Horizons, is the trusted source for creating, hosting, managing, and distributing high-quality video to all desktop browsers and mobile devices. Eduvision Capture and Quiz Wizard can be integrated directly into your LMS Lesson creation and linked to the grade book. This tool allows users to host, capture, caption, translate, and create quizzes with full WCAG2.1 AA Compliance all in one platform. Click here for a short animated video overview.

Thomas Lapping has over 30 years of management, sales, marketing, and technology-related services delivery in the US education market. He founded JDL Technologies, without outside investment capital, in 1989 as a K-12 education network integrator. He led the company to deliver over 5,000 IP networks in K-20 institutions and merged JDL with Communications Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ JCS) in 1998. ESchool News then selected him as one of the 30 most influential leaders in the use of technology in 2001 with Bill Gates and Michael Dell. He also founded JDL Horizons and acquired two operating divisions from JDL Technologies in 2007 and is the developer of award-winning Eduvision, with over 1 million hours of coding for safe and secure video workflows specific to the needs of Educators, JDL has district-wide adoptions for Eduvision in the nation’s largest schools, Miami-Dade, Clark County, Las Vegas, Broward, Ft. Lauderdale, and Michigan. He enjoys skiing and boating and summers on Big Island, Lake Minnetonka. Click here to learn more about JDLHorizons.com.

GoReact empowers educators to easily build AI-proof authentic assessments that transform learning outcomes into activities that measure student knowledge transfer.

The GoReact platform humanizes and simplifies skills-based learning through a proven combination of video + feedback. Academic institutions around the world use GoReact to improve the student experience, ensure academic integrity, and simplify skills-based learning. With simple, flexible tools for experiential learning, GoReact helps all learners develop and demonstrate skill competency.

Learn how GoReact empowers confident skills at GoReact.com.

NEDLA.org webinar: July 27, 6pm Eastern

Cultivating a Culture of Well-being in Your Organization

NEDLA is excited to announce our July Webinar featuring an interactive and engaging session with Linda Bonnar, coach, educator, author, co-founder, and Director of Content of Upstrive.

Please join us: July 27, 6pm Eastern

In this informative and engaging session she will explore:

  • What it means to cultivate a culture of wellbeing in your organization
  • Why well-being really is the foundation of organizational success
  • Steps any organization can take to being to cultivate a culture of wellbeing

Register here: www.nedla.org

About Linda: Passionate about empowering people to become the drivers of their own success, She combines 16 years of educational experience with her wealth of coaching certifications, NLP training, and Positive Psychology to empower her clients to maximize their full potential. As a corporate coach, Linda has coached employees in global companies such as Google, Salesforce, Chevron and Warner Media, in areas of leadership, executive and change management. Originally from Ireland, Linda now lives in New York City with her husband Stephen and their two tortoises. An avid runner, Linda has completed 16 marathons, two ultra-marathons and numerous half marathons.