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Monday, September 17, 2012 Preview of Ferdi Serim’s Workshop
Last week, Cooperating School Districts’ recorded a podcast with Ferdi Serim, our upcoming speaker on technology and Common Core State Standards (see previous post). Learn more on how to promote digital learning and college & career readiness in this 10-minute interview.
Serim will be in St. Louis is just two weeks! Enroll today in this two-day workshop here.
Tags: Common Core, Cooperating School Districts, Ferdi Serim, iste, podcast, technology
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Friday, September 14, 2012 Learn how to help all staff transition to the Common Core, Teaching Strategies + More
We delve deeper into the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) with with Ferdi Serim on October 1 & 2 in St. Louis, Missouri. This two-day workshop focuses on how schools can transition to the CCSS & integrate technology tools at the same time.
Participants can come both days or just one, and will explore how to use engaging projects to help learners develop 21st century skills by applying the Common Core to real-world challenges and how to use available school performance data to select the most appropriate & engaging projects. We will closely examine strategies for determining readiness entry points for staff, based on their prior experience with project based learning and comfort level with online learning, and how to use job-embedded online professional development to help all staff transition to the Common Core.
In addition, Serim will show you how to strategically align your efforts so that you incorporate the teaching strategies that have been found to be most effective into tasks explicitly designed to develop 21st century skills, within the context of the Common Core. Finally, Serim will introduce participants to an online interactive database and demonstrate how it can be used to bridge the gaps and silos that impede more effective and seamless collaborations between K12, institutes of higher education, employers and communities.
Serim is the Executive Director of the New Mexico Society for Technology in Education, an ISTE affiliate, the Learning Community Technologies Director at Quaglia Institute for Student Aspirations and owner of CLARD Consulting. The 
audience for this professional development is superintendents, curriculum coordinators, teachers, and administrators.
Cost includes continental breakfast & lunch
Single-day: $95 CSD member; $135 non-member
2-day: $175 CSD member, $255 non-member
Register: http://www.csd.org/pd |
Look for “Transitioning to Common Core Using Technology” in October and use #34031-CCUT to enroll.
Tags: 21st century skills, Common Core State Standards, Ferdi Serim, technology
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Friday, March 30, 2012 McGraw Hill to Award $25,000 to Innovative STEM Educators
We just learned about this from our friend Kathleen Frank from the Challenger Learning Center in Wheeling, West Virginia: McGraw-Hill Education launched the STEM Innovative Educator Awards to recognize & reward teachers who are finding innovative ways to reach today’s students. The awards, known as the STEMIEs, will acknowledge teachers who are pioneering effective techniques to engage their students in science, technology, engineering, or math – fields of study critical to our nation’s economic growth.
Teachers can enter by submitting a 2-minute video, a short essay, and lesson plan that demonstrate an innovative lesson or other project from their classroom. First place will receive $15,000, second place gets $5,000 and third place wins $2,500, plus McGraw-Hill will grant an additional $2,500 in other awards.
Think about it, do you:
• Have an innovative math lesson?
• Have an interesting idea for math game or science activity?
• Want to share your most intriguing science project?
… because, they are looking for:
• Engaging/interactive lessons
• Unique uses of technology in the classroom
• Innovative and differentiated instruction techniques
• Teaching tips you would give your first-year-teacher self!
In addition to the judging panel, members of the general public will have the opportunity to vote online for their favorite video. Applications will be accepted through May 31, 2012. For more information about the STEMIEs, please visit www.mheonline.com/stemie.
Tags: engineering, Math, McGraw-Hill, science, STEM, STEM Innovative Educator Awards, technology
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Thursday, February 10, 2011 Peter Buffett Podcast
Midwest Education Technology Conference keynote Peter Buffett took some time to talk with Cooperating School Districts about his parents, his book, his career, and his life, and how they connect to the METC 2011 theme of Motivate, Engage, Transform, Connect.
Take a few minutes to listen to Peter talk about motivation, engagement, technology, ingenuity and storytelling by clicking here.
In addition to being METC‘s keynote speaker Wednesday morning, he’ll be performing Wednesday evening for the public at the St. Charles Convention Center at 7 o’clock.
Tags: Connect, Cooperating School Districts, Engage, engagement, ingenuity, Midwest Education Technology Conference, Motivate, motivation, Peter Buffett, storytelling, technology, Transform
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010 Independence Seaport Museum Videoconferences
According to www.cilc.org, Independence Seaport Museum focuses on engaging visitors with the rich past, present and future of the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers by building on vibrant collections, historical archives and engaging programming. ISM focuses on trade, commerce, shipping, immigration, ship building, military, fishing, recreation, transportation, science and technology. This content provider has offered videoconferences since 2010.
The museum recently posted several program offerings that sound really interesting, including:
- African American Mariners at Sea
- WWI- The Forgotten War
- Real Pirates of Philadelphia
- The China Trade- Economics,Past and Present
- WWII-Submarines and Naval warfare
Their videoconferences range in cost from $125 per session to $145 per session. I’m looking forward to connecting some St. Louis area schools with these programs!
Tags: commerce, fishing, immigration, Independence Seaport Museum, military, pirates, recreation, science, ship building, shipping, technology, trade, transportation, WW I, WW II
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 Videoconferences with the St. Louis County Library
Don’t forget that St. Louis County Library Coordinator of Electronic Database Training, Paul Steensland, presents a videoconference workshop about Gale’s Academic OneFile database! Academic OneFile is a source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world’s leading journals and reference sources. Teachers and students will find coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. During this videoconference, students learn how to search Academic OneFile’s database using keyword searching and how to print & email their articles. In order to take advantage of this workshop, it is best if students use computers during the v/c, but this is not mandatory. Free to New Links members. Dates & times upon request. To learn more about upcoming events from the St. Louis County Library, click here. To register your classroom for this v/c, contact Megan Moncure
Tags: Academic OneFile, Literature, medicine, physical sciences, social sciences, St. Louis County Library, technology, the arts, theology
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Thursday, May 28, 2009 METC 2010: Reaching Beyond the Cloud!
Midwest Education Technology Conference
this February 8, 9, 10, 2010
registration begins October 1, 2009
Tags: assessment, curriculum, data, integration, media, METC, Midwest Education Technology Conference, networking, technology, Web 2.0, Wordle
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009 summer tele schedule coming soon…
The Virtual Learning Center staff is currently working on the summer tele class schedule- new dates, times, new and updated courses! Check back soon…
Tags: technology, tele, Virtual Learning Center
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