June 17-20 / 9AM - 3PM
2 PLU / $350 ($0 for Woodward Faculty)
Led by Dee Koscik (Middle School English) &
Brian Sorrow (Middle School History)
With so many technology‐based options for teachers to use, educators and students can get lost in a web of online accounts, site addresses, and online tools. In this workshop, teachers will learn to use 100% free Google sites and other tools to create a single integrated classroom platform that will host all online activities for students. This will include documents, presentations, media projects, resource links, student blogs, and a student‐authored wiki. This site will be a one‐stop shop for all online classroom activity. By the end of the session, each participant will have an operating online classroom platform. View Testimonials here!
June 24-27 / 9AM - 3PM / 2 PLU
$350 ($0 for Woodward Faculty)
Led by Dee Koscik (Middle School English) &
Brian Sorrow (Middle School History)
In this follow-up course to Class in the Cloud 1.0, we will build upon the basic skills and knowledge presented in week one. This session will be targeted toward anyone interested in working collaboratively with other educators to create online...or cloud-based... learning opportunities for their students. We will present and collaborate on the following:
•Student-centered project-based learning (Apps, Blogging, Wikis, Message Boards, Online Flashcards, Glogster, etc...)
•site-specific quizzes (paperless testing, Edline quizzes, Google forms as quizzes, Socrative).
•Online classroom participation (Using hand-held devices, Twitter in the class and for Professional Development, Socrative, Today’s Meet, Text-to-Poll, other back-channeling, Edline interactive assignments)
•Forms and parental communication (group email, group sharing, text messaging as emergency communication)
•Pod-casting, video, and digital communication (Youtube, TED, Flipped learning, Animoto, Voicethread, Pinterest)
June 3-6 /9AM - 3PM 2 PLU
$350 ($0 Woodward Faculty)
Led by Jason St. Amand
(Middle School History, Technology Specialist)
In this workshop, teachers will learn to utilize Edline and wikis to create a more comprehensive online learning environment that facilitates critical-thinking development and problem-solving. Teachers will incorporate blogs, discussion questions, Twitter, and the use of YouTube and iMovie, to enrich the classroom experience and empower students to create a digital portfolio of their learning. This course is designed to teach the basics of how to start your online classroom.
June 6-7 / 9AM - 3PM 1PLU
$250 ($0 Woodward Faculty)
Led by Kris Muir (Upper School Foreign Language)
As Net Gen learners, most of our students live in the 21st century surrounded by stimuli, but they may not have developed critical 21st-century thinking skills. They are, at times, rooted in a world of constant instant messaging via texts, tweets, and status updates. Despite their sense of being connected to everything, our students lack crucial digital literacy skills to properly collect, sufficiently analyze, and appropriately share the knowledge they have gained.
This workshop will focus on why our students learn differently, and the ways in which we can utilize neurological research to create instructional strategies that extend beyond the confines of the textbook and curriculum, in order to further engage the multi-tasking learner of the 21st century. Topics will include:
- Understanding the shift for the Net Generation of learners
- Differentiating instruction through novelty, movement, and visuals in order to prime the brain’s pump and maximize student engagement
- Improving vocabulary retention via innovative methods
- Incorporating tools for digital storytelling as well as other Web 2.0 Tools