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Thursday, July 12, 2012 Level 3 SMART Board Workshop Next Week
Best Practices in SMART Notebook Lesson Creation (Level 3) on Friday, July 20 • Enhance your ability to create professional and interactive SMART Notebook lesson activities! This content creation class provides instruction for creating content with SMART Notebook collaborative learning software; create interactive lesson activities based on curriculum standards and best practices scoring guides.
PREREQUISITE: Level 2 Training or equivalent. To register for summer workshops, or any others, visit the tele registration page on www.csd.org.
Tags: best practices, content creation, SMART, Tech PD
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Monday, July 2, 2012 June 2012 Top Reads
Here are the top five blog posts for the past month on The Wired Classroom — have you read them?
(1) Here’s Your Chance to Participate in The Big CleanUp
(2) Apple offers summer webcast series
(3) about the vlc
(4) Flipping Your Classroom with Flip Cameras & Screencasting … This Week
(5) Free computer recycling from Apple this summer
Tags: Apple, Flipping Your Classroom, Tech PD
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012 Level 2 and 3 ActivBoard Training is Here!
The Virtual Learning Center of Cooperating School Districts has two more workshops this summer on your Promethean ActivBoard. Take both, or just select the single session that best suits your needs! Each session runs from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and is $110 for a CSD member and $149 for a non-member. For Level 2 and 3, one graduate credit is available for each workshop (at an additional cost). To register, click here. If you’d like to get a little taste as to what this kind of professional development offers you as an educator, take a some time to view this archived webinar offered by the VLC earlier in the 2011-2012 school year.
Creating ActivBoard Lessons to Engage and Motivate Students (Level 2) Learn the advanced features of the ActivInspire and create flipcharts; develop lesson activities that organize lesson resources, make use of sound and images to motivate students and create a story or problem where your students demonstrate knowledge or creativity in a fun way. You’ll be able to create your own usable flipchart, either from scratch or by tweaking a downloaded lesson. PREREQUISITE: Level 1 training or equivalent; not a workshop for beginners. This workshop is Monday, July 2.
Best Practices in ActivBoard Flipchart Lessons (Level 3) Available for teachers with intermediate or advanced skills in ActivInspire software, this workshop will teach you how to create interactive lesson activities based on curriculum standards & best practices scoring guides. You’ll also collaborate with others to design & build lessons. Lessons created during class will then shared with other teachers through Promethean Planet. PREREQUISITE: Level 2 training or equivalent; not a workshop for beginners; You will be sent a survey of their skills before enrolling. This workshop is Monday, July 9.
Tags: csd, interactive whiteboard, Promethean Activboard, Promethean Planet, Tech PD, tele
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Monday, June 25, 2012 METC ISTE Affiliate Meet Up Tomorrow
@cyberteacher Where is the meetup at tomorrow?—
Christine Ruder (@jhox1) June 25, 2012
If you are in San Diego attending ISTE, we hope you are able to make it to the Missouri Educational Technology Community meet up at the Holiday Inn Express at 5:30.
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Monday, June 11, 2012 Summer Sale! Save Money on Tech PD

take advantage of excellent PD at a lesser cost this summer
The Virtual Learning Center is offering a discount on the remaining tele workshops for the rest of the summer (going until the July 30th Connecting Digital and Print Literacy – Creating Book Trailers workshop). For members and non-members both, tele workshops will be 25% off their regular prices:
• 1-day workshop for a CSD member will now be $110 instead of $149
• 2-day workshop for a CSD member will now be $209 instead of $279
• 3-day workshop for a CSD member will now be $277 instead of $369
• 1-day workshop for a non-member will now be $140 instead of $189
• 2-day workshop for a non-member will now be $262 instead of $349
• 3-day workshop for a non-member will now be $344 instead of $459
(If you have already registered for a tele workshop between now and the end of July, your price will be adjusted!)
Tags: csd, summer professional development, Tech PD, tele
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Here’s a snapshot of today’s SMARTBoard Level 1 workshop taking place in