October 2009: Creating SMARTBoard Lessons to Engage and Motivate Students Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Collaboration, SMART Board, Tech PD, VLC Programs.Tags: Cooperating School Districts, SMART Board, tele, Virtual Learning Center
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Creating SMARTBoard Lessons to Engage and Motivate Students
October 28 & 29, from 4:00-7:00 pm
$138 CSD member; $214 non-member
(One Grad. Credit Available)
Do you already have a SMART Board and consider yourself a user? This intermediate class is for you! Come learn the advanced features of the SMART Board and create lessons. Become adept at creating recordings of what you do on the SMART Board for future playback! Find out how to use the video player that comes with your SMART Board to annotate videos. Learn how to attach audio files to objects on the SMART Board, and how to save items that you use often and want to share to the My Content folder. We’ll show you how to find hundreds of lessons that have already been created for use on the SMART Board. You’ll be able to create your own usable lesson, either from scratch or by tweaking a downloaded lesson.
There is limited space available- sign up at www.csd.org/tele.
September Transforming Learning with a SMART Board Classes Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, SMART Board, Tech PD, VLC Programs.Tags: SMART Board
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Transforming Learning with a SMART Board
$138 CSD member; $214 non-member
September 15, 2009 from 8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. or September 28 & 29, 2009 from 4 – 7:00 p.m.
The SMART Board is an interactive whiteboard that improves the way you teach, train and present. Come to Cooperating School Districts to learn how to use this technology tool in your classroom—no prior knowledge of SMART Boards required! The SMART Board combines the look and feel of a whiteboard with the power and applications 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 that you and your students can utilize. Discover how to develop lesson plans that make use of this fabulous tool and motivate 21st century students. Register for this tele class here.
Transforming Learning with a SMARTboard this Fall Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, SMART Board, Tech PD, VLC Programs.Tags: Cooperating School Districts, SMART Board, tele, Virtual Learning Center
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Transforming Learning with a SMARTboard will be offered this fall five times by the Virtual Learning Center: Sept. 15 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.; Sept. 28 & 29 from 4 to 7 p.m.; Oct. 9 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.; Nov. 2 & 3 from 4 to 7 p.m.; Dec. 2 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Did you know that the SMART Board combines the look and feel of a whiteboard with the power and applications 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 that you & your students can utilize.
To register for this technology professional development class at Cooperating School Districts, visit the tele website: www.csd.org/tele.
B-Roll & SMART Boards Friday, July 10, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Collaborations, Distance Learning, SMART Board, Tech PD, VLC Programs, Videoconferencing, Web 2.0.Tags: Cooperating School Districts, Gateway Media Literacy Partners, Lindenwood University School of Communications, media literacy, New Links to New Learning, SMART Board, Virtual Learning Center
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In addition to a full house of participants in her beginning SMART Board tele class, Martha had two more in attendance this morning- interns Diane Kenley and Zach White from Lindenwood University’s School of Communications came to shoot B-roll of the VLC staff in action.
Working with Assistant Professor Jill Falk, the interns are helping produce a video on the Virtual Learning Center for the Gateway Media Literacy Partners (GMLP).
They will return in a couple weeks to interview Director Ruth Litman-Block on the Virtual Learning Center’s programs, including the award-winning New Links to New Learning.
Registration still open for some July tele classes Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Collaboration, Distance Learning, Links, Moodle, Promethean Activboard, SMART Board, Tech PD, VLC Programs, Videoconferencing, Web 2.0, podcast.Tags: Google Academy, interactive whiteboard, Moodle, podcasting, Promethean Activboard, SMART Board, videoconference, Virtual Learning Center
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It is hard to believe June has come and gone already! Here is some of what we have coming up this month in the Virtual Learning Center:
+ Moodle classes (click here for a full tele schedule)
+ Google Academy
+ Podcasting workshop
+ SMART Board and Promethean Activboard trainings
+ Videoconferences with Bill Dallas Lewis in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and the Lee Richardson Zoo in Garden City, Kansas
+ We are accepting Midwest Education Technology Conference proposals: http://metcconference.org.
SMART Board Classes Friday, June 26, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, SMART Board, Tech PD, VLC Programs.Tags: Cooperating School Districts, SMART Board, Virtual Learning Center
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Today class attendees learned how the SMART Board combines the look and feel of a whiteboard with the power and applications of a computer, so users can save and print notes, collaborate on electronic documents, share information and run multimedia materials. Stacey had a full class- 16 people- who learned SMART Board basics.
The next Transforming Learning with a SMARTBoard class is July 10 at Cooperating School Districts. For more information, including times, cost, and registration, please visit the tele website, www.csd.org/tele.
Creating SMART Board Lessons to Engage & Motivate Students Thursday, June 4, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, SMART Board, Tech PD.Tags: SMART Board
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Do you already have a SMART Board in your classroom and consider yourself a user? This intermediate class is for you! Come learn the advanced features of the SMART Board and create lessons. Become adept at creating recordings of what you do on the SMART Board for future playback! Find out how to use the video player that comes with your SMART Board to annotate videos. Learn how to attach audio files to objects on the SMART Board, and how to save items that you use often and want to share to the My Content folder. We’ll show you how to find hundreds of lessons that have already been created for use on the SMART Board. You’ll be able to create your own usable lesson, either from scratch or by tweaking a downloaded lesson. Next session: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 (NEWLY ADDED).
a clearer picture of the tele Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Distance Learning, SMART Board, Tech PD, Videoconferencing.Tags: Cooperating School Districts, Polycom 9000, SMART Board, tele
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Greg Niemeyer from Polycom came in Friday and set up the Polycom 9000 in the tele. The photo on the left is the SMART Board projecting the Polycom’s picture (yep, that’s me taking a photo), and the photo of the TV is also the image captured from the Polycom (you’ll notice that the TV is actually on the TV screen). We have another codec to install, so we can get a full view of the room, not just from the front to back. The tele is still a work in progress, but classes don’t start until the first week of June, so we have a little time left…
They’re so SMART Thursday, May 14, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in SMART Board, Tech PD, VLC Programs.Tags: Cooperating School Districts, SMART, SMART Board, SMART Certification Training, Virtual Learning Center
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SMART Certification Training goes beyond the basics with extensive hands-on training that enables educators to train others effectively. The credential participants receive gives them the required skills to deliver high-quality training for SMART Board. In April, a SMART Certification Training was held at Cooperating School Districts in St. Louis, Missouri. Earlier this week, Martha Bogart, Stacey Franks, Nancy George, Ruth Litman-Block and Karen Montgomery passed their Certification Assessment. Congrats!
Prior to the training in April, participants needed to complete a pre-certification and self sudy package (research, readings, competency checks and assignments). The actual training was three days. According to SMART’s website, “Training Certification for any of our offerings includes a focus on both methodology and content. Attendees gain a greater understanding of the order and flow that they would apply in their delivery.
The final day of SMART Training Certification includes an opportunity to learn and apply the methodology in a practice environment which prepares the candidate to effectively train their customers.”
Summer SMART Board classes in CSD’s tele are scheduled on the following dates, and will be taught by a SMART Certified Trainer:
Transforming Learning with a SMARTBoard
June 3, June 26, July 10, July 21, OR July 28
8:30 am-3:30 pm | $138 CSD member; $214 non-member
and
Creating SMARTBoard Lessons to Engage and Motivate Students
June 4 OR July 29
8:30 am-3:30 pm | $138 CSD member; $214 non-member
For more information on the classes held at CSD, visit our website: www.csd.org/tele.
GarageBand… Discovery streaming… Activboards… oh my! Friday, May 1, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Distance Learning, Links, Tech PD, VLC Programs.Tags: Cooperating School Districts, Discovery Streaming, garageband, McREL, PowerWalkThrough, Promethean Activboard, SMART Board, tele
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The Virtual Learning Center’s tele summer schedule begins in just 1 month! Here’s what we have lined up for the first couple of weeks in June! (Classes are subject to a minimum and maximum number of participants).
First week of June
Monday, June 1: GarageBand
Tuesday, June 2: PowerWalkThrough
Wednesday, June 3: Beginning SMART Board
Thursday, June 4: Intermediate SMART Board
Friday, June 5: Discovery streaming
Second week of June
Monday, June 8: Transforming Learning with a Promethean Activboard
Tuesday, June 9: Creating Activboard Lessons to Engage & Motivate Students
Thursday, June 11 + Friday, June 12: McRel’s Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works
To see a full summer schedule or to register for any of the above courses, click here.
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