Category Archives: Digital Media
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 Using Cell Phones as Tools in the Classroom
Come to CSD the morning of June 26 and learn several ways to use cell phones in the classroom as collaborative tools to engage and motivate your students. From polling, micro-blogging, exam review and flashcard creation – enlist the cell phone as your ally and not your enemy. The Pew Research Center has determined that 100% of teens text. Kids get their first phone on average at age 12; three out of four students think they have at least one friend who is addicted to their phone. Cell phones are ubiquitous – why not use them to facilitate learning?
Date: June 26, 2013 | Time: 8:30-11:30 am
Cost: $85 CSD member; $125 non-member
Register Online
Tags: Cooperating School Districts, Creative Commons, Flickr, Pew Research Center
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Friday, April 12, 2013 New PD Comes to CSD’s tele this Summer
This summer heats up with great educational technology professional development opportunities from the Learning Division of Cooperating School Districts! Check out the offerings taking place in just in July!
July 2 | Integrating Technology Tools in English Language Arts to Meet Common Core Standards
July 8 | Digital Curation: How to Collect and Save Resources
July 9 | Social Media Management
July 10 | Using Digital Portfolios to Collect & Evaluate Student Work
July 11-12 | Digital Citizenship – It’s Common Sense
July 15-19 | Teaching and Learning Today with Technology: Tech Boot Camp 2013
July 22 | DIY Infographics for Easy Data Reporting
July 24 | Flipping Your Classroom with Video Cameras & Screencasting
July 29 | Integrating Technology Tools in Math to Meet Common Core Standards
July 30 | Best Practices in ActivBoard Flipchart Lessons (Level 3 Training)
July 31 | 3 C’s + School Librarians = Common Core Success
Full descriptions and online registration can be located here. Graduate credit is available for some classes. Classes taught by ed tech professionals from CSD and area districts & universities.
Tags: Cooperating School Districts, digital citizenship, best practices, social media, Midwest Spotlight Educator, Digital Curation, ed tech
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013 GMLP Media Literacy Mini Conference: Pedagogy & Production
Gateway Media Literacy Partner’s Education Community Engagement Committee is hosting a special event for K-12 educators, Media Literacy Mini Conference: Pedagogy and Production, at Cooperating School Districts on Friday, June 7 from 7:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. This mini conference is open to library media specialists, teachers, technology integration specialists- anyone who wants to exchange ideas and learn more about media literacy.
Register by May 24, seating is limited to 60 attendees. St. Louis educators Don Goble and Julie Smith will keynote this event, followed by two different session times with various resources, programs, and ideas shared from area experts in the field media literacy.
Cost for event is $10 (cash only) at the door, which covers breakfast and printed materials. For questions regarding the Media Literacy Mini Conference: Pedagogy and Production, contact GMLP ECE co-chairs Mary Pat Gallagher or Rebecca Morrison.
CSD is an institutional member of GMLP.
Tags: Don Goble, Gateway Media Literacy Partners, GMLP, Julie Smith, media literacy, summer PD
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Friday, March 22, 2013 Digital Storytelling with Mobile Devices
Digital Storytelling with Mobile Devices Summer Workshop
Do you have an iPad or Android tablet? Are you wondering if creating a digital story is too difficult? Help your students create their own digital stories by experiencing the process yourself.
This workshop teaches the pre-production, production and post-production phases of digital storytelling. You will have an opportunity to use either iMovie for the iPad or various Android apps. Bring a story to share, or select from one of the stories provided. Walk away with your own 2-3 minute movie and lots of ideas about how to help students create one. This is a BYOD workshop on June 5. Bring your own mobile device.
Workshop runs 8:30 a.m. -3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 5 at CSD.
Cost: $145 CSD member; $185 non-member | Register online
[1 Grad Credit Available at additional cost]
Tags: BYOD, Cooperating School Districts, iMovie, Mobile Learning, movie making
Thursday, March 21, 2013 Upcoming Webinar Series offered by Facing History and Ourselves
Explore Facing History themes & topics in live, interactive, facilitated online learning events. Features such as two-way audio, multi-point video, interactive whiteboard, application and desktop sharing, rich media, and breakout rooms allow Facing History staff & scholars to engage with participants with the benefits of a traditional classroom in a virtual setting. All sessions are recorded for those who cannot attend the live event.
Here’s the available spring line up of free webinars:
Choices in Little Rock Web Tour | Tuesday, March 26 · 8 p.m. EDT
Join Facing History Program Associate for Technology K.C. Kourtz and participants of our “Choices in Little Rock” online course on a guided tour of facinghistory.org. Discover new resources and learn where to find the resources explored in the “Choices in Little Rock” course, that will help bring American civil rights history to your classroom.
Holocaust and Human Behavior Web Tour | Monday, April 1 · 8 p.m. EDT
Join Facing History Program Associate for Technology K.C. Kourtz and participants in the “Holocaust and Human Behavior” online course on a guided tour of facinghistory.org. Discover new resources and learn where to find resources explored in the “Holocaust and Human Behavior” course, that will help bring the history of the Holocaust to your classroom.
Survivor Testimony in the Classroom | Thursday, April 4 · 8 p.m. EDT
Join Facing History Program Associate for Technology K.C. Kourtz for a tour of Facing History’s online survivor testimony pages and learn how to use these resources with students. Participants will discover materials and strategies for preparing students for a survivor classroom visit.
Choices in Little Rock and the Common Core State Standards |
Wednesday, April 10 · 8 p.m. EDT
Join Facing History Program Associate Daniel Braunfeld as he explores with online course participants how “Choices in Little Rock” resources and teaching strategies align with the Common Core State Standards.
Holocaust and Human Behavior and the Common Core State Standards | Thursday, April 11 · 8 p.m. EDT
Join Facing History Senior Program Associate Jocelyn Stanton as she explores with online seminar participants how “Holocaust and Human Behavior” resources and teaching strategies align with the Common Core State Standards.
According to its website, Facing History engages nearly two million students annually through its network of more than 29,000 educators around the world and reaches the public and the broader educational market through community events and extensive online resources.
Tags: Civil Rights Movement, Common Core State Standards, Facing History, History, Holocaust, Little Rock, social studies, World War II
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Thursday, March 21, 2013 CSD offers New Technology Workshops this Summer
Registration opens soon for exciting summer instructional technology professional development opportunities!
New sessions offered by the Learning Team and ed tech professionals from around the region include:
• Are You Ready to Moogle? Combing the Power of Moodle & Google
• Free Microsoft Tools for the Classroom (prerequisite: PC computer with Windows 7 operating system. These apps will NOT work on a Mac).
• Visual Literacy & the Common Core Standards
• How to Use Cell Phones as TOOLS in the Classroom
• DIY Infographics for Easy Data Reporting
• plus much more!
Check back for dates, prices, and even more workshop selections!
Tags: Common Core State Standards, Cooperating School Districts, Google, infographics, Microsoft Tools, Moodle, summer PD, visual literacy
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Monday, March 18, 2013 The Science Behind Weather Forecasting
We’ve all watched the local TV weatherperson & wondered just what they do to create the forecast they give us. What equipment do they use? What kind of training do they need? How do they determine when conditions are ripe for certain types of storms, whether temperatures will rise or fall, whether or not they should break into TV programs to provide a breaking weather update? What is the science behind forecasting?
Join HEC-TV Live! on April 4 to interact with St. Louis’ KTVI Fox2 meteorologist Chris Higgins to take a tour of his weather studio and find out what goes into creating a forecast. The program will focus on two very different spring days of actual St. Louis weather—one with clear skies and temperatures in the sixties and one where conditions produced dangerous storms and tornadoes. How were the forecasts created? What technology was used to follow the changing weather conditions on that stormy day? What conditions forced the announcement of a tornado watch and later a tornado warning? How does Mr. Higgins read that Doppler Radar and pinpoint where the tornado is located? How does he take what he has learned and translate into understandable language for every TV viewer? Enroll in “The Science Behind Weather Forecasting” videoconference by March 28 to find out the answers to these questions and more.
After enrolling for the program, you will receive pre-program materials that include website resources, information on the two actual weather days that will be used as examples during the program, and pre-program worksheets designed to get your students thinking about the topic of weather forecasting and creating questions they most want to ask Mr. Higgins. If you wish to participate as an interactive school, be sure to note the deadline for returning these pre-program worksheets to us so we can incorporate your student comments and questions into the program.
Date: April 4, 2013
Times: 10 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 2 p.m. Central Time
Grade Levels: 4-8
Cost: no fee, but please register online
Tags: Creative Commons, Distance Learning, Flickr, HEC-TV Live!, KTVI, STEM, weather
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Monday, March 11, 2013 Meeting Common Core Standards Using Google Tools
The Common Core State Standards call for technology to be integrated seamlessly into instruction, thereby empowering students to publish online, critically evaluate Internet resources and use and understand multi-media’s impact on instruction. Did you know that you could use the basic abilities of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel in an online collaborative environment? Are you interested in creating a variety of online forms for assessment through surveys, quizzes, and questionnaires? Would you like to create classroom drawings or charts to access anytime or anywhere?
Come learn on March 25 about Google Drive and discover how these online collaborative environments can expand your classroom, save you time and help students meet the Common Core. Learn Advanced Search techniques, develop a Custom Search Engine, and discover easier ways to find images, resources and websites. You’ll learn how Google Drive and other Google Apps can support learning 24/7.
Cost: $95 CSD member; $135 non-member
One graduate credit available through Lindenwood University for $60!
PRE-REQUISITE: You must have a Google Account and/or Gmail.
Tags: Common Core State Standards, Google Apps, Google Drive
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Thursday, March 7, 2013 2013 Virtual METC Available Through Fall
Once again the Midwest Education Technology Conference offers free content to educators world-wide. Select presentations from METC 2013 were chosen for the annual Virtual Conference, including those from Keynote Speakers, Featured Speakers, and Midwest Spotlight Educators.
These presentations were live-streamed at the conference in February, and the archived session recordings are available until fall 2013, so educators can learn at their own pace, on their own device, and share the information with their colleagues.
Cooperating School Districts and METC would like to thank the speakers, as well as Conference Technologies, Inc. (provided streaming services) and SqoolTechs, LLC. (provide the conference Moodle).
Tags: CJ Huff, Conference Technologies, Cooperating School Districts, Ferdi Serim, Greg Lawrence, Howie DiBlasi, Jerry Blumengarten, Josh Stumpenhorst, Ken Shelton, Lucy Gray, Matt Monjan, METC, Midwest Education Technology Conference, Moodle, Shelly Terrell, SqoolTechs, virtual conference
Friday, March 1, 2013 February 2013 Top Reads
Here are the top five blog posts for the past month on The Connected Classroom — have you read them?
(1) Students Front & Center @ METC 2013
(2) February 11: Best Practices Conference
(3) Announcing the Winning 2012 Show-Me Movies
(4) Reinventing Project-Based Learning
(5) Free Opportunities for Teachers this Week in St. Louis
Tags: best practices, Cooperating School Districts, METC, PBL, project-based learning, Show Me a Movie
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