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Fall/Spring
2008-2008 tele schedule
Student-Centered
Focus!
Cooperating School Districts has upgraded its tele computer lab
that replicates the type eMINTS classroom (a classroom in which
there is one computer for every two students) and includes enhanced
features. This room is equipped with:
+14
computer workstations running both Macintosh and Windows XP
operating systems and connected to the Internet with webcams
+Software applications include:
+Microsoft Office 2007 (Win) and 2007 (Mac)
+Inspiration, Kidspiration and SMART Ideas
+
iLife
+SMART Board & Promethean Activboard
+Student response systems: SMART's Senteos and Promethean's
Activotes
+Polycom 4000, interactive two-way audio and video equipment that
can be used for videoconferences and distance learning
+Document camera and DVD player
We have
the capability of conducting all types of staff development
sessions that can be delivered either on-site or over the
videoconferencing equipment. Come take advantage of this new
Technology Enhanced Learning Environment!
How
Teaching with Technology Can Improve MAP Scores
Technology
is a tool that prepares students with the higher order thinking and
questioning skills needed for the workforce. When students work
with technology and the Internet, they are required to use these
skills. Each project they work on is, in essence, a performance
task. All of the tele classes are designed from a constructivist
learning theory foundation that the Show-Me Standards are based on.
The instruction is inquiry-based and project oriented.
Our
philosophy is that technology integration takes many hours of
training and is an on-going process. Our newly revamped tele
classes are designed to move you along this process. By introducing
skills in the first half of the class and then immediately
integrating those skills into project examples, you will develop a
usable product for your classroom.
All tele
classes held at
1460 Craig Road
St. Louis, MO 63146
If you
see a tele class you would like for your staff or department,
please call or email the contacts listed below.
Our
tele lab is equipped with computers that use both Windows and
Macintosh operating systems. Pick any class, and you will have the
option of working either in a PC or Mac environment. Our focus is
on student outcomes and developing 21st century skills. These
classes provide you with:
* Hands-on
activities
* Focus on student outcomes
* Skill building time
* Time to create usable lesson plans with newly acquired technology
skills
Find out
how to use new technology tools & how to integrate them
into your classroom and lesson plans at the same time!
Microsoft
Office 2007 and Your Classroom
Come find
out what Office 2007 is all about!
Using MS
Word in the Classroom
Sept. 17
OR Jan. 21 4-7pm
$68 CSD
member; $102 non-member (Half Grad. Credit
Available)
MS Word is
a powerful word processing program that helps teachers create
lessons, tests and letters. Students can use it for creative
writing, basic reports or research papers. Learn the basics along
with more advanced features such as inserting graphics, clip art,
and spreadsheets, transforming text to html, and word art.
Participants will also plan a lesson activity incorporating the use
of Word such as having students create bookmarks that persuade
readers to read the book. Learn how to help students create
newsletters and brochures, and how you can create easy to use
worksheets with imbedded hyperlinks that can help support your
students as they create their own projects.
Using MS
PowerPoint in the Classroom
Oct. 7 OR
Jan. 15 4-7pm
$68 CSD
member; $102 non-member (One Grad. Credit
Available)
Learn
everything from the basics to the more advanced features that make
PowerPoint a great tool for student learning. You will have the
opportunity to create your own PowerPoint presentation for use in
the classroom to introduce or clarify a lesson. Learn how to create
photo albums, adventure stories, and Jeopardy games. During the
second half of the class, learn how to design student PowerPoint
assignments that require higher order thinking skills, such as a
poetry analysis presentation, and examine assessment methods that
will help you grade these student assignments. Walk away with your
own presentation and ideas for integrating PowerPoint into your
classroom!
Interactive
Whiteboard Classes
(all-day
training as well as evening classes)
Transforming
Learning with a SMART Board
$125 CSD
member; $195 non-member (No Credit)
Day
Classes (9am-3pm): Sept. 11, Oct. 9, Dec. 11, Feb. 6 and March
27
Evening
Classes (4-7pm)
Sept. 23
& 24
Nov. 10
& 11
March 2
& 3
Come learn
how to use this new technology tool in your classroom. The SMART
Board is an interactive whiteboard that improves the way you teach,
train and present. It combines the look and feel of a regular
whiteboard with the power of a computer so you can save and print
notes, collaborate on electronic documents, share information and
run multimedia materials. When combined with an LCD panel or
projector, the SMART Board becomes a large, touch-sensitive screen.
Discover how to develop lesson plans that make use of this fabulous
tool and motivate students to learn. This class is for beginners;
no prior knowledge of SMART Boards required.
Transforming
Learning with a Promethean Activboard
$125 CSD
member; $195 non-member (No Credit)
Day
Classes (9am-3pm): Sept. 26, Nov. 6 and Feb. 17.
Evening
Classes (4-7pm)
Oct. 14
& 15
April 7
& 9
May 5
& 7
Come learn
how to use this new technology tool in your classroom. The
Promethean Activboard has a copper metal grid sandwiched inside it.
Through the use of a special magnetic pen, the board can detect
where it is touched based on the metal grid. This is aligned with
the projected picture on the board, and the pen in effect becomes
the mouse. It combines the look and feel of a regular whiteboard
with the power of a computer. Discover how to develop lesson plans
that make use of it and motivate students to learn. This class is
for beginners; no prior knowledge of Promethean Activboards
required.
Creating
SMARTBoard Lessons to Engage and Motivate Students
Oct. 21
& 22 4-7pm OR March 23 9am-3pm
$125 CSD
member; $195 non-member (One Grad. Credit Available)
Already
have a SMART Board and consider yourself a user? This class is for
you! Come learn some “tricks” of the SMART Board and create lessons
that you can use over and over. Learn how to create recordings of
what you do on the SMART Board for playback and find out how to use
the video player that comes with your SMART Board to annotate
videos. Learn how to attach audio files to objects on the SMART
Board, how to save items that you use often to the My Content
folder and share with others. Find hundreds of lessons that have
already been created for use on the SMART Board and create your own
usable lesson, either from scratch or by tweaking a downloaded
lesson. Bring a teaching unit with you to use as you create your
SMART Board Notebook file. In addition, you will be briefly
introduced to Senteo, the SMARTBoard “clicker system” and the
Airliner, a device that allows you to manipulate objects on the
SMART Board from any location in the room.
Boundless
Learning with Videoconferencing
Sept. 16
OR Jan. 13 4-7pm
$68 CSD
member; $102 non-member (Half Grad. Credit
Available)
Find out
how to take your students anywhere in the world, connect with
experts, and collaborate with other students in different locations
using this easy technology tool. Research has shown that
videoconferencing can increase student motivation and learning by
figuratively tearing down the walls of the classroom, providing
students with experiences and relationships that they would
otherwise never be able to have. In this workshop, you will have
the opportunity of creating a lesson using videoconferencing that
fits into your curriculum. Come learn how to design virtual field
trips and collaborative projects for your students that promote
higher order thinking skills and increase motivation. Participants
will:
* Be
introduced to the equipment and how it works
* Learn how to find videoconference content
* Create an inquiry-based lesson
* Design their own field trip or collaborative project
Differentiating
Instruction with Discovery Streaming
Oct. 1
& 2 4-7pm $125 CSD member; $195 non-member (One Grad. Credit
Available)
Discovery
Streaming is not just videos. Come find out how to use this
resource more effectively in your teaching. Discover ways to
develop curriculum based Writing Prompts, Quizzes and Assignments
through the use of the Teacher Center. Learn new ways to save time
and make your teaching easier by creating common assessments and
sharing them with your school and your district through the use of
My Content. Engage today’s learner by using images and videos in
your PowerPoint presentations. Bring a lesson idea, its objectives
or GLE’s, and be ready to develop easy to use resources for more
differentiated instruction. Walk away with a lesson ready to use
with your students!
NEW! Wiki
Your Way to a Classroom Website
Oct. 16
4-7pm OR Jan. 13 9am-12pm
$68 CSD
member; $102 non-member (No Grad. Credit Available)
Want to
create a class website where you can post daily assignments and
pictures and upload documents for parents and students to download,
but don’t have the time? Wikis were designed for you! Come learn
how to use this free, Web 2.0 tool to create quick websites that
contain everything you are dreaming of. In no time at all, you will
have a robust website that you will be proud of and others will be
impressed with. Learn the uses and benefits of using wikis and see
several examples of how they are being used in education.
Participants will create their own wikis using pbwiki (a free
Internet-based service) and learn wiki basics such as setting one
up, adding pages, inserting links, uploading files, inserting
images and adding tables. Walk away with your own website in less
time than you ever thought. “Wiki” means “quick” in Hawaiian, and
they truly are!
NEW! Teaching
Higher Order Thinking Skills in the Elementary Classroom with
Spreadsheets (Featuring MS Excel 2007) Oct. 27 & 28 OR March 4
& 5 4-7pm
$125 CSD
member; $195 non-member (One Grad. Credit Available)
Already
familiar with how to create a spreadsheet and work with formulas
and cells? This class is for you! Take your skill level a notch
higher and learn how to have students gather and organize data,
create a spreadsheet and then analyze it to solve problems and make
decisions. Charts, graphs, and pictographs are all easily made with
a spreadsheet like MS Excel, and you will learn how to design
lessons that make use of these tools in the elementary classroom.
Advanced features of the Excel software will be taught. Bring a
unit or lesson with you that requires students to gather data, and
you will be able to include using a spreadsheet in no
time.
Empowering
Students with Podcasting
Nov. 3
& 4 OR March 11 & 12 4-7pm
$125 CSD
member; $195 non-member (One Grad. Credit
Available)
Come find
out what all the talk is about! You don’t have to own an iPod or
even a MP3 player to create and listen to your own podcasts. Learn
how to record digital audio broadcasts, edit them and upload them
to the web. Teachers can use this new technology to create podcasts
of their lectures and class discussions so that students can listen
to them again for reinforcement, or, students who were absent can
catch up on work missed. Participants will also create lessons for
their students that require them to create their own radio
broadcasts, performances, interviews and more. Learn how this using
this tool in the classroom can help auditory learners and motivate
reluctant learners. Walk away with your own original
podcast!
Classroom
Projects Using Digital Photography
Nov. 12
& 13 OR April 14 & 16 4-7pm
$125 CSD
member; $195 non-member (One Grad. Credit
Available)
A picture
is worth a thousand words, so they say. Find out how to use this
powerful tool in the classroom. In this class, teachers will learn
about the basics of using digital cameras and photography in the
classroom. Find out what can be done with digital images—how they
can be enhanced, manipulated, and changed using basic photo editing
software. Gain information about how to integrate images into
lesson plans and classroom activities. Participants will be
encouraged to develop a lesson that incorporates the use of digital
images. Bring your own camera and photos, or borrow from
us!
Online
“Street Smarts:” Being Legal, Literate, and Secure
Feb. 24
& 25 4-7pm
$125 CSD
member; $195 non-member (One Grad. Credit
Available)
What
dangers lurk online for our children? We teach them how to be safe
within the physical community, but what about safety in the cyber
community? Learn the Internet Safety concepts of:
* Cyber
Security
* Personal Safety
* Cyber Bullying
* Cyber Predators
Do
students know how to validate information found on the Web? Too
often, information published on the Internet is viewed as truth,
but is it really? Also, what about copyright? Do students have the
legal right to copy and paste information from a website into their
multi-media presentations and/or their own documents and websites?
In addition to Internet Safety, learn the new grammar of the Web
and how to:
* Read URL
web addresses to find their hidden meaning
* Locate owners of websites
* Evaluate the validity of a website
* Investigate fair use as it applies to student-created digital
documents
Participants
will have the opportunity to learn about the iSAFE curriculum and
the modules available to them in the classroom. They will create
model lessons for their students that teach Internet Safety,
Literacy, and Intellectual Property/Copyright.
Creating
Technology-Rich Lessons to Increase Student Achievement
April 1,
8, 15 & 22 4-7pm
$259 CSD
member $389 non-member (Two Grad. Credits Available)
This
three-day workshop is for people already familiar with "surfing the
Net" but unsure about how exactly to use it and other technologies
such as Microsoft Office applications in their classes. The focus
of the workshop will be to help you create an entire lesson plan
from lesson objectives and assignments to teacher and student
support materials, all the way to a scoring guide for technology
projects. Get tools and a model for technology integration in your
classroom.
· Learn
easy to use Internet search strategies for you and your
students
· Find
lesson plans on the Web to use or modify
· Store
websites in a free location on the web
· Create
"tracks" of approved websites for students
· Learn
the "grammar" of the web
· Create
quizzes online
· Create
worksheets for use online by students
· Create
assignments that require students to use word-processing,
PowerPoint and simple web pages
· Create
your own PowerPoints for use in introducing a lesson
· Find
scoring guide templates for technology projects and create your own
rubric online
Macintosh
Classes!
Using
iPhoto in the Classroom Feb. 10 4-7pm $68 CSD member; $102
non-member (No Credit)
Don’t be
daunted by all those digital photos you and your students have been
taking. Share them by email or create amazing web pages, cards and
calendars. iPhoto automatically organizes your photo library and
makes editing as easy as clicking your mouse. Learn how iPhoto
automatically organizes your library by Events, based on dates and
what the new tools are to let you edit like a pro. Build a stunning
online gallery using .Mac, where visitors can view and download
your photos, and add their own photos from a Mac or PC. Search your
photo library in one place — filtered by name, date, rating, or
keyword. You'll learn how to print high-quality, frame-worthy
photos with colored textures, borders and mattes on your printer.
Bring your own photos, or use the ones provided. Beginners
welcome!
Using
iMovie ’08 in the Classroom Feb. 12 4-7pm $68 CSD member; $102
non-member (No Credit)
iMovie ’08
makes viewing and working with video as intuitive as enjoying your
photos. A built-in library automatically organizes your videos, so
all the clips you’ve captured and movies you’ve created are just a
click away. iMovie makes it quick and easy to browse your library
and create new movies, and iMovie is built for sharing. In just a
few steps, you can add movies to your website, publish them on
YouTube, and create versions for iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV. Come
find out how to do all this and more! No experience necessary.
Beginning
and Intermediate Moodle Training (Choose
one, or both! The morning workshop is for beginners, and the
afternoon workshop is a continuation, or for people already
familiar with Moodle who want to delve deeper.)
Moodle
Basics: Using a Course Management System to Increase
Teacher/Student Connections Oct. 3 OR Feb. 27 9am-12pm; $68 CSD
member; $102 non-member (No Credit)
Heard of
Moodle, but don't have a clue what it's all about? This workshop is
for you! Come find out what this powerful course management system
is, how to use it as the one stop website for your class, and how
to get your own for free. Participants will have an opportunity to
see how other teachers are using Moodle, and try their hands at
setting up various features of this powerful course management open
source software. This is for beginners with no prior knowledge of
Moodle.
Intermediate
Moodle: Creating Your Own Course Oct. 3 OR Feb. 27 1-4pm; $68 CSD
member; $102 non-member (No Credit)
Already
familiar with Moodle and have a pretty good idea how it works? Now
it’s time to practice developing your own course. Learn the
advanced features of this open source course management system and
have time to practice them. Lots of hands-on time provided to
create your own sample class and organize it the way you want.
Prereqisite: Moodle Basics class OR prior knowledge of
Moodle
FREE!
Once a Month Full-Day Discovery Streaming Training at
CSD!
Receive
on-demand streaming and downloading of videos for your classroom,
and lesson plan, quizzes, images, sound effects, encyclopedia
articles, and more! Using Discovery Streaming, student are
engaged in their learning experiences, and teachers have the
ability to use or create standards-based lesson plans, assignments,
quizzes and writing prompts online. CSD offers FREE training the
second Monday of the month during the school year from 9am-3pm at
the Craig Rd. location. Space is limited, so register
early!
The
following dates are available:
September 8, October 13, November 10, December 8
January 12, February 9, March 9, April 13, May 11
For more
information, or to schedule personalized workshops at your location
on Discovery Streaming, contact Stacey Franks at
sfranks@csd.org or 314-692-1212.
2008-2009
Technology Leadership Academy (TLA)
Cooperating School Districts is pleased to announce that
registration is open for all educators (superintendents, assistant
superintendents, principals, assistant principals, librarians,
media specialists, tech coordinators, and teachers) to attend the
2008-2009 TLA. This Academy will assist educators in developing the
knowledge and skills necessary to use technology as a tool for more
effective and efficient leadership in their schools.
The
Technology Leadership Academy will help you:
* Focus on
leadership skills in technology
* Improve classroom use of technology
* Develop a vision of how to use technology to improve student
performance
* Assess strengths and needs of your staff/students in the area of
technology
* Develop a practical and useful technology plan
* Expand your network of colleagues
As a part
of the academy, participants will receive the following:
* a Palm
T|X handheld computer with Bluetooth and Wifi
* a wireless Palm keyboard
* Classroom observation software for the Palm
* Web Literacy for Educators by Alan November
* 48 hours of professional development training
* attendance at one day of the Midwest Education Technology
Conference (METC)
* breakfast and lunch each day of the training
Dates for
the 2008-2009 school year are as follows:
* October
1
* November 5
* December 3
* January 7
* January 27 (METC)
* February 25
Time: 8:00
am to 4:00 pm each day
Cost: $1200 per person
All
training sessions will take place at CSD on 1460 Craig Rd. except
for the Jan. 27th session, which will be at the St. Charles
Convention Center. To register, go to:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=JbkEDjgkfM2NvvwNq4o3og_3d_3d
P.O.'s and
credit cards will be accepted. Slots will fill up fast, and space
is limited, so register now! If you have any questions, please
contact Martha Bogart at 314-692-1258 or
mbogart@csd.org.
Show-Me a
Movie: Digital Storytelling Contest for Missouri
Students!
Show-Me a
Movie is a digital storytelling contest for Missouri students to
demonstrate their creativity and digital moviemaking skills. Based
on curriculum and with a content focus, the videos will showcase
what students know, care about, and are able to do.
Cash
prizes will be awarded to the different divisions of each category.
December 15, 2008 is the contest deadline. Entries must be received
no later than 5 p.m on this date. Entries received after this
deadline will not be considered. Mailed entries should be addressed
to:
Show-Me a
Movie
Cooperating School Districts
1460 Craig Rd.
St. Louis, MO 63146
Emailed entries should be sent to: mbogart@csd.org
The
winners will be contacted in January, 2009, and they will be
show-cased at the Midwest Education Technology Conference on
January 27, 2009. For more details and the entry form, go to:
http://www2.csd.org/showmemovie/index.htm
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