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Tuesday, January 22, 2013 The Connected Classroom … and office

 

iPad webinarThere’s more to this photo than you think! This afternoon Cooperating School Districts’ Martha Bogart connected to teachers in Marshfield, Missouri. Topic of discussion: iPads in the classroom. Martha is providing this professional development interactively over WebEx. She’s sharing images of her iPad via her desktop and discussing various apps with the group. Participants are asking questions and she’s responding in real time, and showing them various techniques, and talking through demonstrations. What were some of your favorite iPad apps?

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Thursday, September 6, 2012 Tech, Teaching and Common Core Professional Development

Starting next week, Cooperating School Districts of Greater St. Louis is offering several types of technology integration professional development, from single day sessions to year-long academies. Learn more by clicking below, and remember, registration is now open, and spaces are limited for these events- 
Also, don’t forget that the Midwest Education Technology Conference- celebrating 30 years in 2013- is February 11, 12, and 13th.

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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.

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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

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Thursday, June 28, 2012 Connecting at ISTE 2012

We’re really looking forward to hearing all about ISTE’s annual conference from our colleagues Martha Bogart, Nancy George and Stephanie Madlinger, who were able to attend in San Diego, California this week. (ISTE stands for International Society for Technology in Education and Cooperating School Districts has it’s own affiliate- Missouri Educational Technology Community, or METC). Of course, we’ve been following the hashtag #ISTE12 on Twitter in real time, but hearing about the experience first-hand is a whole other story! We’ve posted some of their photographs on our Flickr page and have been enjoying those images, too- like this one of Stephanie with Gwyneth Jones and Linda Dougherty.

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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. 

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Monday, June 25, 2012 METC ISTE Affiliate Meet Up Tomorrow

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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Thursday, June 21, 2012 Who is Flipping Out?

Check out some snapshots of the beginning of Stephanie Madlinger’s workshop on Flipped Classrooms! This is one of our brand new professional development sessions- it’s full title is Flipping Your Classroom with Flip Cameras & Screencasting. At a cost of $110, these participants get a full day of instruction, plus hands-on time with the cameras. Stephanie and the group will explore various online resources for “flipping” classes, and will practice using a digital Flip Camera, and consider how to use IWB software like SMART and Promethean to create their own flipped class. (In addition, if they are so interested, the attendees can earn one graduate credit for their participation).

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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!)

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Thursday, May 31, 2012 Hands-on Professional Development Taking Place

Here’s a snapshot of today’s SMARTBoard Level 1 workshop taking place in Cooperating School Districts‘ tele.

See more photos from today, and other professional development sessions, on Flickr.

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