Professional Development
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Saturday Courses
Podcasting in the Classroom
Free Digital Tools in the Classroom
Using Digital Images in the Classroom
Emerging Technologies to Assist Struggling Students
PODetc Online Courses
Introducation to Instructional Technology in the Classroom
Saturday Courses
Each workshop can be taken for 1 credit from Cardinal Stritch University. Credits are $150/credit. All workshops will be held at the Wyndham Hotel and Convention Center 4747 South Howell Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53207 from 8am-4pm.
All participants will need to have a laptop with wireless internet capabilities. Courses are $125 for the day.
October 11th, 2008
Podcasting in the Classroom
Educators will create a 3 to 5 minute podcast in this workshop. This workshop is designed for all skill levels to attend. Mac users will be learning GarageBand and Windows users will be using Audacity.
- Wisconsin Teacher Standards#: 4, 6
- Wisconsin Administrator Standards#: n/a
- Partnership for 21st Century Skills: Information, Media and Technology Skills
- ISTE NETS Standards for Teachers: 1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity, 2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments, 3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning, 4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility, 5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
- Course Prerequisite: Graduate Standing (Must have earned a bachelor's degree)
- Target Audience: This course is geared towards K-12 Wisconsin educators.
- Course Instructor(s): Audacity: Chad Kafka, Garageband: Joan Roehre
Free Digital Media Tools for the Classroom
There are numerous free web resources that are available to be integrated into the classroom setting. The workshop is designed to expose the educator to a plethora of free tools .
- Wisconsin Teacher Standards#: 4,5,6,7
- Wisconsin Administrator Standards#: n/a
- Partnership for 21st Century Skills: Information, Media and Technology Skills
- ISTE NETS Standards for Teachers: 1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity, 2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments, 3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning, 4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility, 5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
- Course Prerequisite: Graduate Standing (Must have earned a bachelor's degree)
- Target Audience: This course is geared towards K-12 Wisconsin educators.
- Course Instructor(s): Tammy Lind
December 13th, 2008
Emerging Technologies to Assist Struggling Students
This class will focus specifically on Web 2.0 tools that struggling students can use to assist in access to the general curriculum. Many of the sites will include voice output and other technologies that encourage independence.
- Wisconsin Teacher Standards#: 2,3,4,7
- Wisconsin Administrator Standards#: n/a
- ISTE NETS Standards for Teachers: 2. Design and Develop Digital-Age LearningExperiences and Assessments, 3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning, 5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
- Partnership for 21st Century Skills: Information, Media and Technology Skills
- Course Prerequisite: Graduate Standing (Must have earned a bachelor's degree)
- Target Audience: This course is geared towards K-12 Wisconsin educators.
- Course Instructor(s): Tammy Lind
Using Digital Images in the Classroom
Explore connections between emerging literacies and writing, reading and learning in content areas and strategies to stimulate inquiry, creativity, critical thinking and digital storytelling. Both Digital video and digital photography will be explored as well as tagging images to create a repository of resources for teachers to use in the classroom.
- Wisconsin Teacher Standards#: 4,5,6,7
- Wisconsin Administrator Standards#: n/a
- Partnership for 21st Century Skills: Information, Media and Technology Skills
- ISTE NETS Standards for Teachers: 1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity, 2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments, 3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning, 4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility, 5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
- Course Prerequisite: Graduate Standing (Must have earned a bachelor's degree)
- Target Audience: This course is geared towards K-12 Wisconsin educators.
- Course Instructor(s): Tammy Lind
February 21st , 2008
- - Repeat of October Courses - -
May 16th, 2008
--Repeat of December Courses - -
Cancellation policy: All cancellation requests must be made in writing. 100% of the registration fee will be returned prior to October 1 st for the October session and February 10 th for the February 21 st Session. After October 1 st and February 21 st only $50 will be refunded.
Online registration coming soon
A division of the Stephens Group, Professional Online Development from the Educational Technology Community (PODetc) was designed to give professional educators the tools they need to utilize technology resources in the classroom setting.
The mission of the Stephens Group is to help school districts make the most of their technology investment by showing them the most up-to-date ways to utilize those tools.
Together, the Stephens Group and PODetc provide the professional educator with an online learning format that will enable them to teach students the technological skills needed to be effective in the 21 st century. Our goal is to address the need for technology literacy within school districts by both faculty and students. PODetc helps educators increase their technological understanding by offering 24 / 7 asynchronous, technology based coursework to both individuals as well as entire districts.
NEW COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT!
INTRODUCTION TO INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM
Instructor(s): Tammy Stephens, Alicia Mundt and Brian Dixon
Format: Online
Session Date(s):
- September 15, 2008 – October 24, 2008
- October 27, 2008 – November 14, 2008
- November 17, 2008 – December 5, 2008
- December 8, 2008 – December 26, 2008
What does it mean to be truly technologically literate? In this course 3-week course, course participants will be exploring each of the 6 International Society of Technology Education (ISTE) student standards for technology proficiency. It is our belief that in order to be able to deliver these types of learning experiences for our students, we must experience learning in this way ourselves.
Online registration coming soon |
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