Office of the Superintendent of Pima County Schools, Pima County Regional Support Center
6420 E. Broadway, Ste A100
745-4588
6420 E. Broadway, Ste A100
745-4588
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Peer Coaching by Puget Sound Center & Microsoft |
Peer coaching provides a structure for ongoing professional development that strengthens and forms around the knowledge and expertise of your teachers. Training of coaches is provided by the Statewide Instructional Technology project free of charge. | |
| Google Tools for Schools | Collaborative creation, 3-D drawing tools, word processing documents, spreadsheets, shared video storage. Learn about the new Google tools for online collaboration and how they can revolutionize education. | |
| DI4Peak | Digital Images |
Learn how to edit digital images and incorporate them into your classroom instruction across the curriculum. Two strands are offered: 1) Using desktop software for the PC to edit and present photos. 2) Using free online photo-editing, posting, and presentation resources. Topics to be covered include: digital image types, resizing and cropping images, working with multiple layers, digital image resources, using digital images across the curriculum, online posting, editing, animating and presentations. |
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Digital Storytelling
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PhotoStory and MovieMaker, free programs from Microsoft, bring digital storytelling to your classroom. Have your students take a few pictures, add a voice-over, and use some simple special effects in PhotoStory to create a finished product that demonstrates creative learning and that their parents will love. Or use a digital camcorder with MovieMaker, to create a public announcement, documentary, or other creative digital story. Cameras, digital picture libraries, and methods of work will be available for participants. You are also welcome to bring your own digital library. |
| GoogleEarth | Google Earth & Google Literature Trips | Fly from your school to anywhere in the world or in space, follow the Freedom Trail with images, post pictures and see how other Google Earth users have enriched the world view. Follow the path of Candide, The Traveling Pants, or The Yellow Balloon and see the embedded images and descriptions that bring the stories to real-life. |
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Student E-Mail conjures up visions some educators find frightening. It doesn’t have to be that way. There are safe and sound alternatives for student e-mail which allow teachers to closely monitor and restrict student interaction. Come ready and learn and get your class online with their own email account, blog and ability to create their own learning environment showcase.
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Thinkfinity (.pdf) | |
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VoiceThread: An Online Story-Telling Tool.
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| Personal News Network | Personal News Network (Online Newsletters & Webpages) | PNN provides a free online newsletter creation tool for teachers and students. Using nothing more than a web browser with a webcam or picture taking cell phone and your ingenuity you will create a fantastic online newsletter. Also featured: Kids-Talk Radio. |
| Podcasting | Podcasting | With Podcasting you and your students can share audio over the internet for audiences to listen or download. In this class you will learn how to create an audio podcast using the open source software program called Audacity. Mac and PC users share the same software interface and controls, so what you learn can be used on either computer. |
| Webquests | Learn about Webquests and problem-based learning, how to find existing webquests, evaluate them and how to create your own. | |
| Marzano Strategies and IDEAL | Using Technology with Marzano strategies | Learn resources that correlate with each of the Marzano strategies. Internet links, graphic organizers, and other technology options will be presented. |
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Geocaching and GIS | According to Dr. Alice Christie, the challenge for teachers in the 21st Century, is to use technology effectively “to help students take ownership for learning and develop the practical and critical thinking skills necessary to better understand the world around them. To meet this challenge, teachers can use an emerging technology tool, GPS receivers, and an emerging GPS-based activity, geocaching, to transform their classrooms from teacher-centered environments to exciting, empowering, exploratory environments that focus on student engagement in the learning process.” |
| Distance Learning: Options for Learning in the Digital Age | What options are there available for students who need credit recovery or want to get ahead? This workshop will present several options for learning online. | |
| IDEAL: Moving Your Content Online | Thinking about moving to anytime/anywhere learning? Participants will explore the IDEAL professional development course creation tools. Based upon Sakai, the IDEAL course creation tools make it easy to jump to online learning. | |
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IDEAL Curriculum Resources |
Explore curriculum resources in the IDEAL Portal (iTunesU, Recipes4Success, Discovery Streaming, Thinkfinity and more). Build a portfolio of grade appropriate resources that support standards-based teaching practices. | |
| Games | Pacman and the Ghosts: Games That Make You Think | Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design. (from scratch.mit.edu)” Come to this workshop to learn MIT’s “Scratch” program for creating games, animations, and more. This free download teaches the basics of programming and the logical thought processes required to make Pacman Eat the Ghosts. |
| Wikis, Blogs, and Threaded Discussion for Classroom Collaboration | Learn how to use wikis, blogs, and threaded discussions to create a collaborative classroom environment. | |
| Student Response Systems | Student Response Systems: The Clickers! | The latest and greatest tool to invade the educational technology market, student response systems help to personalize and differentiate teaching and learning. You no longer have to wonder if students understand what you’ve taught them. They can tell you with the click of a button. Experience the tools for yourself. |
| Google Tools for Schools | Collaborative creation, 3-D drawing tools, word processing documents, spreadsheets, shared video storage. Learn about the new Google tools for online collaboration and how they can revolutionize education. | |
| ePortfolio2 | ePortfolios & Digital Portfolios | ePortfolios are the show-and-tell tool of the 21st Century for showcasing student and teacher work. Learn the various tools for creating an online gallery of work that compiles documents, media, images and a platform for reflection. Explore web sites that offer space for student work. |
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Internet Safety | This event is designed to show educators and administrators how to use NetSmartz interactive materials in their classrooms, accumulate more information about Internet safety and technology, and take steps to bring their classrooms into the 21st century. Other resources designed with educators in mind will be highlighted. |
| Thinking about Technology... |
What can I plan for? Technology Tuesdays and other technology related events are subject to federal and state funding. If you attended any of the workshops this year you might like to participate in shaping what happens next year. We would really appreciate your feedback. | |
| How do you do that? | Ever wonder how some features work in Word, Power Point and/or Excel? iPhoto, iMovie and/or Garage Band? Other applications? Bring your questions to this open ended, hands-on, two hour workshop. Your individual concerns will be answered by the Technology Integration Specialists. We will provide you with suggestions on how you might integrate these programs into your classroom. | |
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ISTE Webinar: GoogleLit Trips with Jerome Burg, GoogleLit Trips Developer |
GoogleLitTrips.com project brings the greatest journey literature of all time to the world that today's 21st century students live in by tracking and marking a book’s journey on the surface of Google Earth. | |
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ISTE Webinar: Technology for Not-Yet-Readers (K-2) with Gail Lovely |
As technologies advance, there are new tools and resources for non-readers. Animation, video, sound, and graphics combined with good teaching creates powerful learning opportunities. Join Gail Lovely for this webinar and see some great tools and resources for young non- and almost-readers. Gail will share more than just a series of links, she will emphasize teaching strategies and classroom management of technologies as well as some really cool technological tools! | |
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Project-based Learning Sara Armstrong |
Project-based learning strategies engage students, meet standards, and address 21st Century skills. During this session, we will examine examples in which project-based learning has been successfully implemented, learn about resources, share planning documents, and commit to implementation action steps! | |
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ISTE Webinar: Visual Arts with Mark Gura. |
This webinar will discuss how technology makes Visual Art something that virtually all teachers can include in instructional activities and to greater effect than ever before. Discussed will be equipment, resources, and classroom management logistics–basic techniques–and activities and approaches of obvious value in our current instructional climate. | |
ISTE Webinar:Differentiated Instruction + Tech = Powerful Learning with Stephanie Throne and Grace Smith |
A thought-provoking discussion about how you can use technology as a tool to differentiate instruction. They will offer a variety of practical strategies and user-friendly resources to accommodate a broad range of learning styles, abilities, and curriculum content to help kick-start your use of technology in differentiating instruction. | |
| ISTE Webinar: ePortfolios and Web 2.0 with Dr. Helen Barrett | Use Web 2.0 tools, freely available on the Internet, to create student-centered electronic portfolios. Learn how the use of a portfolio can be a powerful tool to support both learning and assessment, making learning visible across the curriculum. |
A Metaphor for Approaching Technology
recommended by Vicki Davis
1 This list of characteristics comes from work of the National Staff Development Council (NSDC) (Sparks 2002), Michael Fullan (2001), North Central Regional Laboratory (NCREL) (Sparks & Loucks-Horsley, 1989), and the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) (2003, July)