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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
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 This Summer, Attend a Tech Boot Camp!
Learn more about Cooperating School Districts’ summer educational technology workshops, like the boot camp
with Meg Ormiston, by clicking on the image below.
Tags: Common Core State Standards, Cooperating School Districts, Meg Ormiston, Microsoft Tools, Next Generation Assessments, Understanding by Design®
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010 Vendor Showcase this summer for CSD Members
Bena Kallick
The Virtual Learning Center, along with the RPDC and St. Louis Area Curriculum Coordinators Association (SLACCA), will hold two vendor showcases for Cooperating School Districts members this summer.
The first showcase for CSD members to participate in will take place Friday, June 11, and features Virtual K-12 Learning vendors, including:
• Acellus • Aventa Learning • K12 Virtual Schools L.L.C. • SchoolTown • SqoolTools • University of Nebraska-Lincoln Independent Study High School
Meg Ormiston
Meg Ormiston will be a special guest speaker on June 11, sponsored by SchoolTown. Meg is involved in professional development activities focused on changing instructional practice in the classroom.
The second showcase will take place Monday, June 21, and features curriculum and professional development vendors, including:
• Elluminate • PD 360 • Reading Plus • Recorded Books • SunGard Public Sector | K-12 Education (Performance PLUS) • The Master Teacher
Dr. Bena Kallick will also be a special guest speaker on June 21, sponsored by SunGard Public Sector | K-12 Education. Dr. Kallick is a curriculum and assessment expert. Like Meg Ormiston, Bena Kallick speaks across the country to educators.
CSD members, to register for the June 11 showcase to learn more about the listed Virtual K-12 Learning products, click here. To register for the June 21 showcase to learn more about the listed curriculum and professional development products, click here.
Tags: Bena Kallick, Cooperating School Districts, Elluminate, Meg Ormiston, PD 360, SchoolTown, SunGard Public Sector, Virtual Learning Center
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Thursday, January 15, 2009 METC 2009 Keynotes: Will Richardson and Meg Ormiston
Tuesday Keynote
Will Richardson keynotes Tuesday on “A Shifting Notion of What It Means to Teach“: The incredible resource that is the web is changing much about what we can do with our curricula and our students. The classroom is no longer restricted to four physical walls, and it is becoming a truly collaborative space in which to learn. Every student can be a contributor of knowledge to the world. This networked classroom is a more complicated place for teachers, but it’s also one filled with incredible potential for learning. This keynote challenges educators to rethink their roles to make maximum use of the tools and information now available to them.
Wednesday Keynote
Meg Ormiston keynotes Wednesday on “Culture Clash! Wired Kids in Text Driven Classrooms“: This keynote will focus on engaging 21st Century students by transforming teaching and learning. Instructional strategies that work will be showcased along with projects that engage students of all ages. See how powerful multimedia can be used in instruction and hear suggestions to modify student products. Meg will focus on the changing role of instructor in the digital age with specific strategies to take back and use immediately.
The Midwest Education Technology Conference is at the end of January.
Tags: Meg Ormiston, METC keynote, Midwest Education Technology Conference, Will Richardson
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 Working with Web 2.0
Yesterday, Meg Ormiston (METC keynote speaker) worked with our Boeing Grant participants at The Principia. Meg discussed Web 2.0 tools and how they can be used in the classroom. Wordle, Skype, Google, Twitter, and Flickr were all topics of discussion. During the afternoon, participants (from districts like Francis Howell, Clayton and Hazelwood) worked on lesson plans that incorporate these tools.
Tags: Boeing Grant, Cooperating School Districts, Flickr, Google, Meg Ormiston, METC, METC2009, Midwest Education Technology Conference, Skype, Tech PD, Twitter, Virtual Learning Center, Web 2.0, Wordle
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Monday, September 15, 2008 METC Keynotes: Meg Ormiston & Will Richardson
Midwest Education Technology Conference Keynote Speakers for 2009 are Meg Ormiston 
and Will Richardson. Will speaks Tuesday in addition to holding preconference workshop on Monday. Will is former public school teacher and an author and education consultant. He welcomes opportunities to do presentations on technology and to teach and train educators how to use technology effectively in the classroom. Meg’s keynote is Wednesday. Also a former school teacher, Meg is an author and speaks and consults on educational matters as well. She is passionate about transforming teaching and learning through the power of digital tools. To learn more about Will and Meg, please click on their photos and then visit the METC website.
Tags: Meg Ormiston, Midwest Education Technology Conference, Will Richardson
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