Bring your teaching ideas and curriculum and leave with a project!

New and Enhanced Tele Classes

Beyond Skill Building!!

Experience True Technology Integration!

CSD's Virtual Learning Center is excited about our Tele computer teaching facility 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 connected to the Internet with webcams plus Microsoft Office 2003, Inspiration & Kidspiration
• SMARTboard
• Polycom 4000, interactive two-way audio and video equipment that can be used for videoconferences and distance learning
• Instructor computer workstation
• Document camera and VCR

We now have the capability of conducting all types of staff development sessions that can be taken 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.