podcasting for educators Thursday, July 30, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Collaboration, Distance Learning, Tech PD, VLC Programs, Web 2.0, podcast.Tags: Cooperating School Districts, podcast, Tech PD, tele
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Stacey Franks teaches Empowering Students with Podcasting in the tele July 30 at CSD. The class will be offered again November 4 & 5, from 4-7 p.m. each night.
SMART Board Master Training at CSD Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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While I’m dowtown at the United States Distance Learning Association Conference, my colleagues as well as some guests are attending a SMART Board Master Training at Cooperating School Districts. How’s it going in Creve Coeur?
July 30: Empowering Students with Podcasting Class Friday, April 10, 2009
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Come find out what all the talk is about! You don’t have to own an iPod or even an MP3 player to create and listen to your own podcasts. Learn how to record digital audio broadcasts, edit them and upload them to the web. Teachers can use this new technology to create podcasts of their lectures and class discussions so that students can listen to them again for reinforcement, or, students who were absent 
can catch up on work missed. Participants will also create lessons for their students that require them to create their own radio broadcasts, performances, interviews and more. Learn how this using this tool in the classroom can help auditory learners and motivate reluctant learners. Walk away from this tele class with your own original podcast!
Past podcasts created by educators into include:
- “poetry of the week” podcasts for a kindergarten class
- “welcome back to school” podcast from teacher to students
- “introduction to yearbook” podcast for high schools students
Click here to listen how CSD uses podcasts to keep members up to date on the latest in education!
Classes are subject to a minimum and maximum number of participants | Empowering Students with Podcasting | Cooperating School Districts | July 30, 2009 | 8:30 am – 3:30 pm | $138 CSD member; $214 non-member | One Graduate Credit Available | Register today!
Summer ‘09 Beginning and Intermediate Moodle Training Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Collaboration, Distance Learning, Moodle, VLC Programs, Videoconferencing, Web 2.0.Tags: Cooperating School Districts, course management system, Moodle, open source software, Tech PD, tele, Virtual Learning Center, Web 2.0
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Beginning and Intermediate Moodle Training: choose one, or both! The morning workshop on July 31 at Cooperating School Districts is for beginners, and the afternoon workshop is a continuation, or for people already familiar with Moodle (it is a free Web 2.0 application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites) who want to delve deeper.
Moodle Basics: Using a Course Management System to Increase Teacher/Student Connections from 8:30-11:30 a.m.; $69 CSD member; $107 non-member; (No Credit)
Have you heard of Moodle, but don’t have a clue what it’s all about? This workshop is for you! Come find out what this powerful course management system is, how to use it as the one stop website for your class, and how to get your own for free. Participants will have an opportunity to see how other teachers are using Moodle, and try their hands at setting up various features of this powerful course management open source software. This is for beginners with no prior knowledge of Moodle.
Intermediate Moodle: Creating Your Own Course from 12:30-3:30pm; $69 CSD member; $107 non-member ; (No Credit)
(Now that you are) already familiar with Moodle and have a pretty good idea how it works, it’s time to practice developing your own course. Learn the advanced features of this open source course management system and have time to practice them. Lots of hands-on time provided to create your own sample class and organize it the way you want. Prerequisite: Moodle Basics class OR prior knowledge of Moodle.
Sign up for this tele class at www.csd.org.
March Madness! Friday, March 27, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Collaboration, Distance Learning, Links, SMART Board, Tech PD, VLC Programs, Videoconferencing.Tags: Carolyn Lesser, SMART Board, Tech PD, tele, videoconference, Virtual Learning Center
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It has been a busy Friday morning here in the Virtual Learning Center! Carolyn Lesser had a videoconference (which got rave reviews from the school!), Stacey taught a beginning SMART Board class in the tele, and Martha and Ruth connected to videoconference with other Missouri technology educators. (And I was running around, checking the vc connections [plus another one, off site] and taking photos!)
NEW CLASS: Tracking Student Learning with VoiceThread Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Links, Tech PD, VLC Programs, Web 2.0.Tags: art, assessment, collaborative, Cooperating School Districts, field trips, foreign language, free, language arts, Math, multimedia slide show, online, science, social studies, Tech PD, Virtual Learning Center, VoiceThread
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Tracking Student Learning with VoiceThread
Date: June 17 from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm
Cost: $138 CSD member; $214 non-member (One Graduate Credit Available)
Location: Cooperating School Districts, 1460 Craig Rd
A VoiceThread is a free, online, collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to leave comments in 4 ways – using voice, text, audio file, or video. VoiceThread can be used for assessment, foreign language, field trips, art, language arts, social studies, math and science. In the VoiceThread environment, students and teachers can safely share their voices on the global stage. In this class, participants will create a project using photos and audio commenting using VoiceThread to document student learning across several content areas. Learn how this multi-media free resource can be used in your classroom!
SMART Moves: sign up for tele classes Friday, March 20, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, SMART Board, Tech PD, VLC Programs.Tags: Airliner, Cooperating School Districts, motivate students, Senteo, SMART Board, summer classes, Tech PD, tele
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This summer, we will have several SMART Board classes at Cooperating School Districts in St. Louis, MO! The first set are at the beginning of the schedule:
Wednesday, June 3: Beginning SMART Board
Thursday, June 4: Intermediate SMART Board
Beginning SMART Board: Transforming Learning
The SMART Board is an interactive whiteboard that improves the way you teach, train and present. Come 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 to learn.
Intermediate SMART Board:
Creating Lessons to Engage and Motivate Students
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. In addition, we will introduce participants to Senteo, the SMART Board “clicker system” and discuss the Airliner, a device that allows you to manipulate objects on the SMART Board from any location in the room.
Discover the possibilities in your classroom… Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Distance Learning, Tech PD, VLC Programs.Tags: Cooperating School Districts, Discovery Streaming, Tech PD
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Upcoming Discovery streaming classes in Cooperating School Districts‘ tele include the monthly free class (for Cooperating School District members) and the summer class that is scheduled for Friday, June 5. The May class takes place Monday the 11th.
With Discovery streaming, teachers receive on-demand streaming and downloading of videos for classrooms, plus lesson plan, quizzes, images, sound effects, encyclopedia articles, and more! For more information, or to schedule personalized workshops at your school on Discovery streaming, contact Stacey Franks at sfranks@csd.org or 314-692-1212.
How Activ are You? Monday, March 16, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Promethean Activboard, Tech PD.Tags: Promethean Activboard, Tech PD, Virtual Learning Center
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Today, Nancy taught the first of two Promethean Activboard classes for Riverview Gardens staff. (The next session is Thursday, March 19).
You don’t work for Riverview Gardens? No worry- we’ll be offering Promethean classes this summer as part of our tele schedule. Those classes will listed soon here.
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