Tag Archives: 21st Century Classroom
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 Teaching + Learning Today with Technology
The Learning Division of Cooperating School Districts is excited to invite you to participate in a week long edtech bootcamp! You should register for this summer professional development experience with Meg Ormiston if you want to create a classroom where students are engaged in creating projects aligned to the Common Core State Standards using digital tools. Meg feels teaching and learning today cannot be done without integrating technology and redesigning projects for students. This training is open for any interested K-12 educator.
During the course of the 5-day session, each participant will build, create, and publish project examples that they will have students complete back in the classroom. Participants are encouraged to bring materials they would like to redesign into technology rich projects. They will also learn new Web 2.0 tools to use while designing lessons aligned to the Common Core State Standards. All tech camp participants will have access to an online professional development library with 70 titles created by Meg. These 70 items are grouped into the four domains similar to the evaluation frameworks. In addition to walking away with a wealth of resources and ideas, those interested can earn three graduate credits for their participation.
Participants will:
• Design lessons that align to the Common Core State Standards identified at their grade level.
• Analyze, select, and organize appropriate on-line resources.
• Synthesize the various assessment options and apply authentic assessment strategies to technology rich projects.
• Analyze and reflect on best practice as it applies to literacy and math across the curriculum.
• Become involved in active, professional research exploring new ways to expand their personal learning network.
• Prepare students and teachers for the Next Generation Assessments.
Bring your own device! The July sessions are hands-on, fast paced, and relevant to teachers today. Each session is focused on the skills a teacher needs today to actively engage students in a 21st Century classroom.
To enlist in this boot camp, visit CSD’s registration site.
Tags: Cooperating School Districts, 21st Century Classroom, Meg Ormiston, edtech, BYOD, Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Assessments
Friday, May 15, 2009 Day Four
Check out the ceiling in the photo on the left! New speakers for the audio system and a Polycom mic are now in the tele. Up next: hanging the Promethean Activboard (still in the box, see right).
Tags: 21st Century Classroom, Cooperating School Districts, tele, Virtual Learning Center
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 Day Two
Day Two: the interactive whiteboards- SMART Board and Promethean Activboard- are going in, as is a new mounted, flat screen TV to go with the Polycom.
Tags: 21st Century Classroom, Cooperating School Districts, tele, Virtual Learning Center
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 CSD’s 21st Century Classroom
Day One
The Virtual Learning Center is updating our tele to truly be a 21st century classroom! Today is day one in the make-over!
The new set up will be ready in time for the summer tele classes, which begin the first week of June.
What does the new look include? A new HD Polycom 9000, a new Promethean Activboard with attached projector, a SMART Board 600I with attached projector, Benne‘s tables specially constructed for the tele, and an audio enhancement system.
Tags: 21st Century Classroom, Benne's, Cooperating School Districts, Polycom, Promethean Activboard, SMART Board 600I, tele, Virtual Learning Center
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Thursday, February 12, 2009 Podcasts with Virtual Learning Center
Did you know that Cooperating School Districts has a podcast series? To see a full list of the available podcasts, click here.
The staff of the Virtual Learning Center have been featured in some of the podcasts:
Nancy George, on the topic of Cyberbullying and Internet Safety for Parents.
Ruth Litman-Block, on the topic of Technology Integration in the Classroom.
Martha Bogart talks on the topic of the Midwest Education Technology Conference.
Is there a topic you would like CSD to feature in an upcoming podcast? Contact Craig George with your ideas.
Tags: 21st Century, 21st Century Classroom, csd, Cyberbullying, Internet safety, Midwest Education Technology Conference, podcast, technology integration, Virtual Learning Center
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Monday, February 9, 2009 SMART Board Training 3/2 + 3/3
Come learn how to use this great technology tool in your classroom (this class is for beginners; no prior knowledge of SMART Boards required). 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 (click here to see a video from a past tele class). Discover how to develop lesson plans that make use of this fabulous tool and that motivate students to learn! St. Louis area educators, the Virtual Learning Center’s next class is March 2-3 at Cooperating School Districts’ tele. Space is limited, so sign up today.
Tags: 21st, 21st Century Classroom, Cooperating School Districts, interactive whiteboard, SMART Board, tele, Virtual Learning Center
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Monday, September 15, 2008 METC Featured Speakers Announced
Featured Speakers for the Midwest Education Technology Conference have been announced! For a complete list of names, program topics and biographies, please visit here. Registration starts Wednesday, 10/1/08.
Tags: technology, Midwest Education Technology Conference, Web 2.0, 21st Century Classroom, wiki, Google Earth, Tech PD, handheld computing, digital camera, media, Photo Editing, Discovery Educator Network, eLearning, Levels of Technology Integration, LoTi, Curriculum and Instruction, Marzano’s nine instructional strategies, Instructional Technology Specialist
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Friday, August 1, 2008 just over a week to go…
… to get your METC 2009 presentation proposal in. It’s a busy time of the year, educators, but don’t forget to submit! Questions? Contact Nancy George. The METC 2009 program committee established two goals:
* Design a program based on strands that encompass technology in all aspects of education – classroom, library media center, school / district offices and network infrastructure.
* Offer a program that fits into educators’ individual learning plans and aligns with high quality professional development.
To reach programming goals, METC 2009 invites teachers, media specialists, administrators, technical support and other education-minded people who have effective instructional technology programs and management strategies to share their methods, plans & successes.
Midwest Education Technology Conference 2008 @ St. Charles Convention Center
Cooperating School Districts’ METC 2009 is January 26 through 28 at the St. Charles Convention Center.
Tags: 21st Century Classroom, Cooperating School Districts, METC 2009, Tech PD, Virtual Learning Center, Web 2.0
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 KC3 Kids Creating Community Content – over Videoconference
Jan Zanetis of Tandberg presented at MODLA last week on KC3 Kids Creating Community Content. Last year was the first year of the student videoconference project, and they plan to continue it into this school year. Here are some details from the guidelines listed on the website:
PROJECT OVERVIEW
From east to west, urban or rural, we each live in a unique community. What can we learn from our area, from our varied citizens or natural resources? What can we share with others that will enhance their view of our country or our world? This standards based project seeks to tap into the creative nature of students as they look at their community with new eyes and explore ways to share their findings with others using videoconferencing and technology as a resource.
Requirements include, in part:
- Student Teams will research a topic in their community. Examples of this might include a historical place or figure, a natural resource, a unique place of interest.
- Students will develop an informational program geared toward a specific audience educating them on the topic.
Students all over the country participated- from Oklahoma to Hawaii! Jan shared some clips from the videoconferences that were really great. Students were teaching others about their community; for example, the students in Honolulu taught their mainland peers and about hula and about aquaculture. Students in Texas educated others on Fire Ants. The kids on both ends were totally engaged, as were the participants in Jan’s session. I can’t wait to get St. Louis area schools involved.
Tags: 21st Century Classroom, 21st century learner, 21st century skills, aquaculture, CILC, collaborative projects, community, Distance Learning, fire ants, hula, MODLA, student projects, Tandberg, videoconference
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Monday, July 14, 2008 What’s New with SMART Notebook Version 10
Martha Bogart
Nancy George
CSD’s Martha Bogart & Nancy George will be presenting at Successlink’s 6th Annual Technology Innovations Conference later this week on SMART Notebook Version 10.
I thought I’d give you a sneak peek at some of the new features they will be using and talking about:
- Presentation Pen: spotlight, magnifier, invisible ink
- Animations: fly-in, shrink & grow
- Fill Effects: pattern, image
Tags: 21st Century Classroom, blogging, Cooperating School Districts, handhelds, podcasting, SMART Board, SMART Notebook Version 10, SMART technologies, Successlink, Tech PD, Technology Innovations Conference, Virtual Learning Center, webquests
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