Recipes for Success Innovative Educator Consulting Inspired Technology Leadership to Transform Teaching and Learning
Naomi Harm, CEO of Innovative Educator Consulting
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Table of Contents... 21st Century Administrative Leadership: Cultivating the Digital Landscape in Your K- 12 Teaching and Learning Environment .......................4 21st Century Assessments for Today's 21st Century Learner ........................4 21st Century Skills for the 21st Century Educator..........................................5 Be Seen ~ Be Heard: Educational Podcasting for the K-12 Classroom............5 Building and Growing Your Professional Learning Network as an Educational Leader......................................................................................... 6 Building Community and Collaboration through 21st Century Blended Learning Environments.................................................................... 6 Captivate Your Audience with Cost Effective Lecture Capture and Screencasting Tools ....................................................................................... 7 Content Creation and Delivery in the 21st Century with iPad Technologies................................................................................................... 7 Digital Storytelling in the K-12 Classroom......................................................7 Flip Teaching Within 21st Century Classrooms...............................................8 Google Earth Rocks: A Powerful and Free Cross-Curricular Learning Tool.................................................................................................. 8 Google My Way.............................................................................................. 8 How to Become a Transformed Twitter Teacher in a *Flash...........................9 Intel Elements: Assessment in 21st Century Classrooms.............................10 Intel Elements: Collaboration in the Digital Classroom...............................10 Intel Elements: Project Based Approaches...................................................10 iPads in Special Education.............................................................................. 9 Just Apps for the 7-12 Educator!.................................................................. 11 Just Apps for the K-6 Educator!.................................................................... 11 Kaleidoscope of Learning: K-12 Global Collaboration and Virtual
Video Field Trips ......................................................................................... 12 Kicking It Up A Notch: Season Your SMART Notebook Lessons with Technology Integration................................................................................. 12 Let the Journey Begin: Transforming Classroom Practice with iPad Content Integration...................................................................................... 13 New Workshops and Keynotes in Development:.........................................20 Presenting Dynamic Webinars to Engage and Motivate All Learners........................................................................................................ 14 Promoting Research and Information Fluency Skills with eReaders....................................................................................................... 13 Right Here -- Right Now: Thinkfinity Educational Web Resources for Your Classroom....................................................................................... 14 Social Networking for You- the 21st Century Educator................................15 Teaching and Learning in a Flat Classroom...................................................15 Technology Leadership Camp: Cultivating the New Digital Landscape in Your K-12 Teaching and Learning Environments.....................16 The Art of Online Facilitation Supported with Blended Learning Environments............................................................................................... 17 The Power of Collective Intelligence: Leveraging the Back Channel Chat to Promote Inquiry and Critical Thinking...............................16 Total Engagement: Teaching and Learning with Interactive Whiteboards................................................................................................. 17 Transforming Classroom Practice with Web 2.0 Literacy and Social Networks............................................................................................ 18 Ustream, iStream Everyone Wants a Live Stream........................................19 Web 2.0 Literacy to Transform Teaching and Learning Environments..........19
21st Century Administrative Leadership: Cultivating the Digital Landscape in Your K- 12 Teaching and Learning Environment In this course, administrative and technology leaders will explore new trends related to both emerging technologies and 21st century skills as they relate to teaching and learning. In particular, it will focus on these trends from the administrator’s point of view. At the end of this course, learners will be able to:
• Identify 21st Century Skills, web 2.0 literacy tools, and discuss their possible application and educational benefits in the classroom • Understand the National Educational Technology Standards for students, teachers and administrators • Craft and Articulate a shared vision related to teaching and learning in the 21st century through a district technology literacy action plan.
21st Century Assessments for Today's 21st Century Learner The major function of student needs assessment is to provide educators the tools and information necessary to make solid decisions about how to best facilitate the educational experience from start to finish. This information will assist in setting learning objectives, selecting appropriate technology, deciding on curriculum content, and determining strategies for effective learning. The main goal of 21st Century student needs assessments is to establish, facilitate, and maintain an environment that is learner focused. To determine assessment areas, educators must ask themselves, “What do I want to know about my students that will help me determine what to teach, how to teach, what technology to employ, and where to start the educational experience?” There are many assessment areas, but certain areas are essential when planning Web-based and technology infused learning, such as: Computer skills, learning styles, and a learner’s desired outcomes. Within this workshop educators will explore, discuss, collaborate and create a variety of online 21s century skills assessments and resources through a multitude of online assessment repositories. Educators will have the opportunity to: • Use free online application to develop your own checklists, rubrics, and open-text assessments from scratch.
• Access databases of hundreds of high-quality, ready-made assessments on products and performances, processes, and thinking skills and modify them to meet your individual needs. • Save your assessments in a Teacher Workspace or share them with another teacher who is registered in the site. • Learn about the research and theory behind successful assessment. • Find a wide variety of assessment strategies you can use with your students. Many online researched based assessment portals will be showcased and explored which will include: Route 21, sponsored by The Partnership for 21st Century Skills, offers a one-stop-shop for 21st century skills-related information, resources and community tools. Route 21 offers over 100 formative and summative assessments for assessing digital students. Educators will find a treasure chest filled with assessment resources like the Intel Education Assessing Project, which helps instructors create assessments that address 21st century skills. Included are strategies to make assessment an integral part of their teaching and help students understand content more deeply, think at higher levels, and become self-directed learners.
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21st Century Skills for the 21st Century Educator The purpose of this workshop is to provide ”Just in Time” training through a blended interface for K-12 educators based on the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). These standards are the basic technology skills every educator should possess. In the process, educators will develop their own skills and discover what students need in order to meet the NETS for Students. 21st century skills and assessment also provide educators the tools and information necessary to make solid decisions about how to best facilitate the educational experience from start to finish. The layout of this interactive course will include “21 essential strategies and intuitive tools to meet the needs of the 21st century educator” while the information will assist in setting learning objectives, selecting appropriate 21st century web 2.0 literacy tools, deciding on curriculum content, and determining strategies for effective learning. The main goal of this “21st Century Skills for the 21st Century Educator” workshop is to establish, facilitate, and maintain an environment that is learner focused. To determine 21st century skills and assessment areas, educators must ask themselves, “What do I want to know about my students that will help me determine what to teach, how to teach,
Be Seen ~ Be Heard: Educational Podcasting for the K-12 Classroom This hands-on workshop will demonstrate to you how easy it is to create your own educational podcast for teaching and learning with free and low cost web-based content media tools. You will explore many examples of educational-related Podcasts, and learn how to ´subscribe´ and listen to Podcasts through free software. You will also gain a general understanding of the instructional technology involved. You will learn how to record and edit your audio narration, how to add music and digital photos, and when you’re done, how to send and publish your podcast for the world to hear and see.
what technology to employ, and where to start the educational experience?” There are many areas, but certain areas are essential when planning Web-based and technology infused learning incorporating computer proficiency skills, learning styles, and a learner’s desired outcomes.
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Building and Growing Your Professional Learning Network as an Educational Leader Collaborative social networks allow educational leaders to create online communities that support their personal and professional learning. Whether your personal learning network is overflowing or just starting to grow, this workshop will help you to refine your network to best suit your learning needs. We'll lead you to interesting people who advocate for the effective use of technology to improve teaching and learning, while supporting a 21st century administrative leadership shared vision. We will discuss tips and tricks to leverage the potential of these networks and provide resources to help attendees set up their own networks. Participants will gain hands-on experience using social communication and collaboration media tools such as Twitter, Intel Engage, Classroom 2.0, Facebook, Ning, back channel chats, and social bookmarking tools to build professional learning and social networks to lead effectively in your school district or educational organizational setting.
Building Community and Collaboration through 21st Century Blended Learning Environments This practical hands-on workshop shows you how to apply a straightforward, decision-making approach for structuring performance-based blended learning solutions. It gives you practical tips, tools, and techniques that will help you exploit the benefits of blended learning through robust content and learning management systems (CMS and LMS) of EDU2.0, Edmodo and Twiducate or your chosen school district CMS. The designed blended coursework environment will enhance student involvement and engagement, while meeting the teaching and instructional delivery styles of your 21st century educators.
The “Building Community and Collaboration through Blended Learning Environments” workshop also provides effective teaching strategies and promotes the importance of designing, delivering and modeling a safe online community for your k-12 students. It is also designed to provide a cost effective solution and framework for supporting k-12 educators teaching and learning environments, while engaging all students at varied levels, while implementing collaborative projects embedded with 21st century assessments. Learning Objectives: • To learn how to facilitate and assess online discussions • To describe the importance and value of interaction in the blended course • To identify and list various types of student interactions for a blended learning environment • To explore strategies and techniques to infuse student-student and instructor-student interaction and engagement
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Captivate Your Audience with Cost Effective Lecture Capture and Screencasting Tools
Content Creation and Delivery in the 21st Century with iPad Technologies
Lecture capture is an umbrella term used to describe any technology that allows instructors to record what happens in their classrooms and make it available digitally. In the classroom, lecture capture systems offer three important benefits: an alternative when students miss class; an opportunity for content review; and content for online course development.
As technological innovation continues in our modern society, changes in the delivery of content are now foremost. With the influx of iPad tablet technology in our schools and the development of thousands of robust apps, iPads are leading the way as a viable solution for the K-12 Learning environment. This workshop goes beyond the Apps as we discover how the iPad can be a feasible solution for the creation of reading, instructional and multimedia content created by both teachers and students. This workshop targets both regular and special education staff who want to explore an abundance of great ideas, tips and tricks and other ways to make an their iPad a viable educational tool.
Creating successful screencasts requires a knowledge of the whole screencasting workflow, from planning, though production, to delivery. There are many elements that can go into a lecture capture or screencast, and in this workshop we’ll be looking at each stage of the process in turn, and how to maximize quality and consistency. This is a hands-on session will also offer plenty of practical exercises and resources. If you want to know how to capture a voiceover narration, enhance your screen and highlight important elements, or tailor your screencast materials to your audience’s needs in any other way, then this is the workshop for you.
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Digital Storytelling in the K-12 Classroom Change your students' 21st century learning experiences by tapping into the wonderful world of Media Literacy. This graduate course is designed for teachers who are interested in using digital storytelling both in their teaching and to meet curriculum and
technology literacy expectations from various subject areas through student presentations. You will explore a collection of over sixty-five fun and favorite Web 2.0 storytelling tools. You will interact with these sites and share how three of your favorites can be used to add visual enhancements to lessons and to add engagement and creativity to your teacher and student presentations to tell a story.
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Flip Teaching Within 21st Century Classrooms It's called "Flip Teaching" or "reverse teaching" or a "backwards classroom." Here's how it's happening, for real. Educators embrace the Internet and social media as an instructional tool, and then record their lessons and post them via YouTube or embedded into a blog, wiki or LMS for students to complete at home. Some educators blog what is covered in class and the homework, which includes the lesson videos, worksheet pdfs, and online worksheets, where students can check their own work. • Kids watch lectures and videos at home • Class is for hands-on work and face-to-face interaction with teacher/peers So why has this method become such a booming topic in education? The days of the teacher as "sage on the stage" are numbered. Instead, the teacher becomes the "guide on the side" where students are using the class/school experience as a fully interactive experience WITH the teacher - - instead of the teacher being the one-way traditional talking head. This way, students are asking questions and solving problems with the teacher or fellow students - instead of just sitting compliantly and listening - where the teacher can spend more time addressing specific questions and personalized attention, rather than just the one-size-fits-all lecture.
Google Earth Rocks: A Powerful and Free Cross-Curricular Learning Tool In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to use Google Maps and Google Earth to create digital mash-ups and virtual lit-trips, while unlocking the potential of Google Earth by embedding “live” Web 2.0 components, such as interactive timelines, slideshows, quizzes, and more, directly into customizable place marks. We will also explore and create with Google Earth’s built-in features in this fun, practical, and handson workshop, and take virtual journeys and literature trips and discover cross-curricular implications. Participants will discover and apply how to: • Navigate and search in Google Maps and Google Earth • Create a Custom Google Map • Customize Google Map Placemarks with text, links, images, and embedded videos • Share Custom Google Maps with links and as embedded maps on webpages • Use Google Earth’s layers, measurement tools, and places • Create digital mash-ups while unlocking the potential of Google Earth by embedding “live” Web 2.0 components • Use Google Earth custom KML/KMZ files created by others • Create custom Google Earth custom KML/KMZ web tours and share them
Google My Way Come explore the wonderful world of Google apps for education. Participants will be totally immersed in innovative ways of how to use Google tools to support and extend learning opportunities for all of their students, and how the tools can support the productivity and efficiency of today's 21st century educator. A full day of interactive presentations and hands-on activities includes experience with advanced search techniques, collaborative web-based applications, and inspirational instructional
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strategies. Naomi will share ways she has worked with educators at the national level of how they've implemented tools such as Google Docs, Google Maps, Google Sites, and... even more.
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How to Become a Transformed Twitter Teacher in a *Flash
Twitter is becoming an integral "module-based self directed learning part of many digital lives and course" will explain what Twitter is and personal and professional how its service is used by individuals, by learning networks. This businesses, and within k-16 education introductory course and the classroom environment. of "How to Become a Demonstration of how to sign up, Transformed Twitter Teacher send and read Twitter updates (also (T3) in a Flash" explains called "tweets"), and build your how to use Twitter own PLN (Personal/Professional as an educational Learning Network) of friends will tool for professional be showcased. This self-directed development purposes. training will also explore and Twitter is an online describe how to get the most out of microblogging service Twitter by customizing an individual that offers a way to profile, setting options, and tapping penn-olson.com share short bites of into third-party resources that make information instantly with others. This it easier to follow and send updates.
iPads in Special Education Day 1... This workshop is designed for staff who are just beginning to use an iPad. Participants will learn why iPads are effective for today’s students, how to use all buttons, cords, and connectors for the iPad and how to organize, customize, and personalize the iPad for learning. Explore assistive devices for adaptability, apps that come with the iPad including camera, photos, and safari, apps for special education including how to access key web sites to meet the needs of SPED staff, and get an overview of using iTunes to manage the iPad. Day 2... This training is designed for staff who have a thorough basic understanding of iPad functions and would like a more in-depth training. Participants will have a quick review of iPad basics including more operational tips and tricks. Learn how to use iTunes to add other content including music and video, explore the iPad as an e-reader for Special Ed students,
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and see examples of how iPads are working for Special Ed students today. Participants will be shown apps to use for teacher management including data collection and behavior management, apps for teacher productivity including social stories, video modeling and reward programs, apps for student learning of academic, social, and fine motor skills, and apps that serve the student as communication devices, organizational tools, and test taking/ assignment completion tools.
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Intel Elements: Assessment in 21st Century Classrooms
Intel Elements: Collaboration in the Digital Classroom
(Learn new assessment strategies to meet needs of 21st century students.)
(Develop activities to help prepare students to collaborate in the digital, global world.)
Assessment in 21st Century Classrooms is an interactive e-learning experience that offers an in-depth look at assessment that meets the needs of 21st century teaching and learning. In this course, teachers see how assessment strategies can benefit their teaching practices and their students’ learning. They learn how to plan, develop, and manage studentcentered assessment. They follow three teachers and see how the three teachers are implementing embedded and ongoing assessment methods in their classrooms. The course offers opportunities to apply the assessment concepts with action planning exercises.
Collaboration in the Digital Classroom is an interactive e-learning experience that offers an in-depth look at collaboration with a focus on online collaborative tools. In this course, teachers see how collaboration helps students develop 21st century thinking skills, deepen content understanding, and prepare them for the global world. Teachers learn how to plan and manage collaboration activities that integrate online collaborative tools increasingly part of our globally connected workplaces. They follow two teachers as they implement collaborative experiences in their classrooms. The course offers opportunities to apply the collaboration concepts with action planning exercises.
Intel Elements: Project Based Approaches (Explore ideas and try new project-based approaches for your classroom.) Using specific classroom scenarios, teachers explore characteristics and benefits of ProjectBased Learning (PBL). Throughout the course, teachers consider their own teaching practice as they follow a teacher new to projectbased learning who discusses strategies with a mentor teacher. They also consider the ways that technology supports project-based approaches. Planning and project design modules guide teachers through organizing the curriculum, the classroom, technology, and students for successful 21st century projects. The assessment module demonstrates strategies for assessing students’ 21st century skills throughout an open-ended project. The course offers opportunities to apply the PBL concepts with action planning exercises.
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Just Apps for the K-6 Educator! Everywhere you look now, people are talking about mobile learning devices. How can we use them and their apps to assist educators with their day to day instruction and immediate and mobile assessments? How can we harness the power of this exciting new technology to better meet the needs of ALL of your students in your classroom? Join us for this exciting, fast paced look into the world of Just Apps for the K-6 educator! Bring your own device and share resources you have been using or download the apps highlighted in the workshop. Don’t have an iPad, iPod, Tablet or mobile android device? No problem – we will have a limited number of devices to trial during the workshop. We will walk you through the options available for using mobile technologies for everything from: • Communication/Task Reminders/ Assessments
Just Apps for the 7-12 Educator!
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Everywhere you look now, people are talking about mobile learning devices. How can we use them and their apps to assist educators with their day to day instruction and immediate and mobile assessments? How can we harness the power of this exciting new technology to better meet the needs of ALL of your students in your classroom? Join us for this exciting, fast paced look into the world of Just Apps for the 7-12 educator! Bring your own device and share resources you have been using or download the apps highlighted in the workshop. Don’t have an iPad, iPod, Tablet or mobile android device? No problem – we will have a limited number of devices to trial during the workshop.
• Productivity • Digital Storytelling • Reading, Writing, and Spelling • Science and Math • Polling and Phlogging • QR Codes • Cloud Storage
We will walk you through the options available for using mobile technologies for everything from:
• Educational Games
• Communication/Task Reminders/ Assessments • Digital Storytelling • CMS and LMS mobile • Reading/Writing/Notetaking • Science and Math • History and Foreign Language • Polling and Phlogging • QR Codes • Virtual Fieldtrips • Cloud Storage notesfromaspecialneedsteacher.wordpress.com
• Educational Games
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Kaleidoscope of Learning: K-12 Global Collaboration and Virtual Video Field Trips Explore the limitless possibilities of cross-cultural interactions via global collaboration projects! Participants will be engaged in an interactive presentation where online projects will be showcased utilizing ePals, Global School House Network, and Ask an Expert. We will also take a closer look at existing R-12 classroom projects and discover how easy it is to design and publish your own interactive project to make meaningful real-world connections with your learners and another classroom from around the world. These global collaboration projects will promote a multi-cultural awareness, which fosters mutual respect, tolerance, and communication inside and outside of the classroom.
Kicking It Up A Notch: Season Your SMART Notebook Lessons with Technology Integration Seasoned SMART Notebook lessons infused with technology integration allows a teacher to immediately transform his/her classroom practice and promote literacy skills focused on student outcomes. This
hands-on workshop will assist educators to create curriculum activities that are visual, highly interactive and learnercentered. Educators will also learn how to implement SMARTBoard Notebook lessons beyond level and 1 and 2, and focus on the seamless integration o designing meaningful content based thematic lessons. At the end of this course, learners will be able to: • Create high-quality, effective lesson activities with your content • Collaborate with peers to assess and improve new and existing lessons • Time to create lessons in your specific subject area and grade level • Hands-on practice opportunities with every task you complete.
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Promoting Research and Information Fluency Skills with eReaders Did you receive a Kindle, Pandigital, or Nook, as a recent gift or a personal purchase and don’t know how to use it? Would you like to implement eReading best practices throughout your classroom instruction to promote literacy with your students? Do you want to utilize the local public library’s services to download eBooks and audio book titles free of charge? Answer yes to any of these questions and this workshop is for you. Join us as we collaboratively shares strategies and solutions of how to promote research and information fluency skills in the library media center/classroom
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with your students. You will also explore eBooks and eReaders, the differences, uses, resources, websites as well as how to download books at home, work or at the library. Participants are encouraged to bring their own eReader, or you may purchase the Kindle 3G/Wi-Fi at $189 or the Nook Color Wi-Fi at $249. Your purchased Kindle or Nook will be made available to you on the first day of the workshop.
Let the Journey Begin: Transforming Classroom Practice with iPad Content Integration Grab a hold of Apple’s new iPad whether you are first generation user or you just purchased the second generation model, and be prepared to be engaged with this innovative teaching and learning tool. Be among the first to discover how the iPad is impacting learning throughout classroom practice, whether it’s true anytime anywhere learning or merging all 60 pounds of textbooks into a 1.5 pound device. Discover how schools are utilizing varied methods of synchronizing and licensing of downloaded apps
across multiple iPad units as well. Free as well as commercial apps will be demonstrated including applications for education, productivity, photo sharing, news, social networking, digital storytelling, musical expression, art, audio recording, games, and more! A multitude of possibilities exist and we are so excited to showcase how this tool can transform your classroom instruction and delivery of content based lessons. Utilize some of the best education apps available to enable students to create, consume and reflect on their learning.
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Presenting Dynamic Webinars to Engage and Motivate All Learners
Right Here -- Right Now: Thinkfinity Educational Web Resources for Your Classroom
We know that a third of all training has moved from live to live-online webinars since 2006, but delivering training via webinars is a whole different scenario from teaching in front-of-the-room courses. If you have investigated and tried your hand at presenting webinarsyou know there is a learning curve that requires expert help. When facilitating webinars you will find that teaching sessions are shorter and some exercises cannot be used. Making the training modules or segments meaningful and a lasting learning experience can be a challenge, while competing with all the other distractions of the workplace environment is now possible!
Thinkfinity is the Number 1 rated educational web resource for teaching and learning. It offers teachers, students and parents excellent lessons, interactive activities, reference materials, primary source materials, multimedia and tools for in school and out of school. One of the challenges teachers face is locating high quality Internet resources quickly. If you are looking for complete lessons, learning objects, or Internet resources Thinkfinity should be your first stop. Thinkfinity is searchable by grade level, subject or resource type. Thinkfinity offers an easy method for teachers to address Wisconsin State Standards while including 21st Century Skills and Tools.
When done well, web based live-training can rival live in-person courses in content retention and learning application. Webinar training also exceeds live courses in ease of access and lower costs. Webinars are also a great way to reach distributed teams through the world.
In this Thinkfinity workshop participants will learn to quickly locate resources that align to content standards and grade
As a result of experiencing Presenting Dynamic Webinars to Engage and Motivate All Learners: you will improve your webinar facilitation skills through the following activities: • Plan your webinar—learn what content works and does not work in this medium. • Choose the best webinar technology platform for your needs. • Modify your delivery style for webinar success, including vocal qualities and creating the "one-on-one" connection. • Avoid distractions through involvement with robust Q&A, polls, chat exercises, and more. • Effectively prepare and conclude your webinar. Learn the five things you must do to start and end each session. • Engage participants, and keep participation and involvement high.
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Social Networking for You- the 21st Century Educator
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level benchmarks. Participants will locate lessons that align to standards and meet 21st century learning expectations. You will gather student resources and learning objects to assist you in differentiating instruction to meet individual needs. The Internet sites have all been screened and approved for student use. Thinkfinity has done the search work for you. It does not matter if you are a technology guru or a novice Thinkfinity is for you.
Collaborative social networks allow educators to create online communities that support their personal and professional learning. Whether your personal learning network is overflowing or just starting to grow, this online webinar will help you to refine your network to best suit your learning needs. We'll lead you to interesting people who advocate for the effective use of technology literacy to improve your 21st teaching and learning environment. We will discuss tips and tricks to leverage the potential of these networks and provide resources to help attendees set up their own networks. Participants will gain hands-on experience using social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Ning, and Delicious to build professional learning networks.
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Teaching and Learning in a Flat Classroom What does a flat classroom mean? How do you recognize one and how can you create your own embedded with 21st Century Skills? We invite educators who want to transform their learning spaces to include global collaboration in their curriculum to join us for this unique graduate course. We emphasize a hands-on approach with examples highlighting inquiry-based and research oriented technology applications. Featured projects include the Flat Classroom Project (video clip), Global School House Network, ePals, Eduscapes, CIESE, Jenuine Tech, and Global Education Collaborative. This two credit graduate course showcases innovative ideas for building community and collaboration with wikis, blogs, online social networks, back channel chats, online video collaborations, and other web 2.0 tools.
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Technology Leadership Camp: Cultivating the New Digital Landscape in Your K-12 Teaching and Learning Environments At the end of this course, the Technology Leadership Camp will help you: • Craft and articulate a leadership sharedvision • Energize staff, students, and the community We’ve developed a special Technology Leadership Camp just for administrators and school technology leaders. Held onsite at the Onalaska Middle School, the Technology Leadership Camp is a multi-day, handson program that will equip you and your school leaders with the skills, resources, and confidence to effectively meet the learning needs and levels of the teachers and students in your district. In this hands-on training, administrative and technology leaders will explore new trends related to both emerging technologies and 21st century skills as they relate to teaching and learning. In particular, it will focus on these trends from the administrator’s point of view.
• Stay on top of important educational technology trends, research and best practices • Manage ongoing technology programs • Create effective staff development programs based on data-drive decisions • Model and integrate technology into instruction • Assess technology programs for productivity and efficiency purposes • Access Web resources for administrators through social networks and PLN’s • Identify 21st Century Skills and web 2.0 literacy tools and benefits in the classroom • Understand the National Educational Technology Standards (ISTE NETS)
The Power of Collective Intelligence: Leveraging the Back Channel Chat to Promote Inquiry and Critical Thinking The Backchannel is the practice of using networked computers to maintain a real-time online conversation alongside live spoken remarks….(and) generally refers to online conversation about the topic or the speaker. (Wikipedia, 2010) First growing in popularity at technology conferences, backchannel is increasingly a factor in education where Wifi connections and laptop computers allow students to use ordinary chat to actively communicate during class, ask probing questions, and extend their background knowledge from the larger community of student learners in the classroom. This workshop will show case how structured backchannel chats can easily capture the learning essence of an event, a hands-on technology session, or a student-centered learning activity. The backchannel chat will
provide the opportunity to showcase the "the power of collective intelligence" within a school district environment, but also note how- and when others are invited in from outside of the "bricks and sticks" of the school walls, the global literacy knowledge of educational professionals can also contribute to the collective intelligence as a “right here- right now- just in time centrally controlled learning information hub.”
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The Art of Online Facilitation Supported with Blended Learning Environments This hands-on workshop will showcase how to apply a straightforward, decision-making approach for structuring performancebased blended learning solutions. It gives you practical tips, tools, and techniques that will help you exploit the benefits of blended learning through robust content and learning management systems (CMS and LMS) of EDU2.0, Edmodo, Google Sites and Twiducate. The designed blended coursework environment will enhance student involvement and engagement, while meeting the teaching and instructional delivery styles of your 21st century educators.
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The “The Art of Online Facilitation Supported with Blended Learning Environments” workshop also provides effective teaching strategies, and promotes the importance of designing, delivering and modeling a safe online community for your k-12 students.We will also address the “Textbooks to Netbooks” impact and the implications of taking your content mobile for all of your learners and save dollars on future textbook purchases. This course is also designed to provide a cost effective solution and framework for supporting k-12 educators teaching and learning environments, while engaging all students at varied levels, while implementing collaborative projects embedded with 21st century skills and assessments. Learning Objectives: • To learn how to facilitate and assess online discussions • To describe the importance and value of interaction in the blended course • To identify and list various types of student interactions for a blended learning environment • To explore strategies and techniques to infuse student-student and instructor-student interaction and engagement.
Total Engagement: Teaching and Learning with Interactive Whiteboards An Interactive Whiteboard is a 21st Century tool that allows a teacher to immediately transform his/her classroom practice, while infusing ICT literacy skills of the 21st Century learner. This new classroom hands-on tool can help the teacher create curriculum that is visual, interactive, learner-centered, and includes formative assessment so that the teacher understands in real-time what the learner is learning. Educational leaders will learn how Interactive White Boards can: • Increase learner engagement
• Provide real-time assessment for teachers • Increase ease of incorporating Internet resources into daily classroom teaching • Reach different learning styles and strengths through access to visual and audio resources to supplement texts. • Create digital content that can be used with Web 2.0 collaborative tools • Provide opportunity for meaningful Professional Development around building digital lessons.
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Transforming Classroom Practice with Web 2.0 Literacy and Social Networks The students in our classrooms today will work in a fast-paced, collaborative online world tomorrow. Are today’s educators prepared for these digital natives? In this workshop you will experience the excitement of online Web 2.0 tools including Blogs, Wikis, Nings and Twitter to engage and motivate you as a 21st century educator and your individual learners in your classroom. Discover how you can open a digital door to a wealth of data and collaboration for you and your students. In addition, participants will discover a variety of engaging and innovative Web 2.0 literacy tools that support the differentiated and individualized communication, organization, and productivity needs of our 21st century digital learners. While at the same time, educators will be introduced to a variety of online professionals through social networks to communicate and collaborate with other like minds an content areas to extend the learning environment beyond the k-12 classroom walls. At the end of this course, learners will be able to: • Identify how the use of Web 2.0 tools can deepen learning and increase student engagement • Explore and utilize Web 2.0 literacy tools and professional social networks • Identify how Web 2.0 tools support a student centered learning environment • Assess and apply best practices in the use of Web 2.0 and global literacy
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• Create a Blog, Wiki, Ning or Twitter account for personal and/or professional uses • Build an online professional learning network to support 24/7 professional development and best practices.
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Ustream, iStream Everyone Wants a Live Stream Ustream is an interactive web streaming platform that lets users broadcast their own channels on the Ustream network or on a third-party website like Facebook or your personal blog. Ustream offers a platform for users to host events, promote their own shows, or set up interactive conversations with participants across the globe. Ustream’s broadcasting model offers an attractive new way for Internet broadcasters to connect with audiences, allowing dialogue between users and opportunities to build connections across the globe. Ustream gives faculty free, easy-to-use options for streaming video to geographically disparate audiences, and the service also introduces new frontiers for authentic assessment in the classroom.
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Web 2.0 Literacy to Transform Teaching and Learning Environments Web 2.0 is a term describing changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing and collaboration among users. This hands-on workshop will not only teach you how to use new web technologies that are beginning to transform education, it will also put you well on the way to implementing them in your practice. The tools we'll be looking at include image/video editing and production, collaboration, writing and research, converters and widgets, presentations and virtual environments. These tools will allow teachers and learners to express their creativity in any curricular area, and you will learn how each of these tools and resources are being used in classrooms around the world.
In this course, administrative and technology leaders will explore new trends related to both emerging technologies and 21st century skills as they relate to teaching and learning. In particular, it will focus on these trends from the administrator’s point of view. At the end of this course, learners will be able to: • Identify 21st Century Skills, web 2.0 literacy tools, ISTE NETS Essential Conditions, and discuss their possible application and educational benefits in the classroom • Address the National Educational Technology Standards for students, teachers and administrators
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• Craft and articulate a shared vision related to teaching and learning in the 21st century through a district technology literacy action plan.
About Naomi... Naomi Harm, Master of Education in Professional Development, ME-PD, best known as an 21st century educational technology literacy specialist, enthusiast and guru welcomes every opportunity to share her expertise and best practices relating to technology infused teaching and learning environments. Her dynamic career focus includes many exciting and cutting edge jobs which include: an Intel National Senior Trainer, SMART Technologies consultant and SMART certified trainer for Tierney Brothers, and managing her own "Innovative Educator" 2.0 consulting corporation, where she provides customized staff development technology workshops, grant writing expertise, and designs and delivers online graduate course work for universities. She also has a well-known specialty and expertise area of delivering motivational international keynote presentations focusing on emerging technologies, 21st century skills and assessments, 21st century administrative leadership, peer coaching, project based learning, and inspired and transformative educational technology leadership. Naomi is truly passionate about building global relationships with educational technology leaders, while engaging in meaningful and collaborative conversations to meet the needs of today's diverse learners.
New Workshops and Keynotes in Development: INNOVATIVE EDUCATOR CONSULTING
• Android My World: Yes, I Can Build an Educational App For That! • Breaking the QRCode with Cell Phone Technologies • Capture the Moment with Free Online Audio and Video Tools to Tell Your Story, Enhance Your Instruction and Motivate Your Students
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• Maximizing Your 1:1 Learning Environment with Netbooks and Tablet Computing • STEM Digital Toolbox to Inspire Student Learning and Optimize Career Choices • Social Media to the Rescue in a Web 2.0 World • Up, Up and Away- Cloud Computing and Beyond • Windows Live Will Rock Your World