Day one workshop: Moving Beyond the Basics with Your Personal Computer

The first day focuses on helping educators increase productivity, work more efficiently, stay better organized, and communicate more effectively with peers, parents, administration, and students.

Morning session: Classroom Organizational Tools

Participants gain many resources that can assist them in developing technology-rich, student-centered, and standards-based learning activities.

• Project-based learning
• Organization in planning and researching
• Organization in creation, delivery, and evaluation
• Summary and review
• Wrap-up and evaluations

Afternoon session: Effective Communication Tools for Educators and How to Make Them Work for You!

Participants gain multiple resources that can assist them in developing technology-rich activities to meet state and national standards in Language Arts and Technology and can help in all subject areas to improve communication.

• 21st-century communication strategies
• Using Microsoft® Office Live Workspace to erase the time and space confines of the classroom
• Using Microsoft Office OneNote® 2007 to collect all communications pieces for the e-newspaper and to organize them
• Using templates for Quick Start in Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel®, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint®
• Creating audio and video communication for hyperlinks in the e-newspaper
• Wrap-up and evaluations

If you have questions about the workshop, send us an e-mail.

Day two workshop: Leveraging Tools to Extend the Classroom Experience: Collaboration and Engagement

The second day introduces educators to new engagement tools to expand the classroom beyond the traditional four walls.

Morning session: Engagement Tools for the Classroom

Participants gain a better understanding of how to create authentic, real-world units of study in which students create artifacts that are used in a performance or production for an audience.

• Engaging students with the Paideia method of learning
• Seamless integration of technology into existing curriculum
• Moving an Office PowerPoint presentation to the Zune Media Player
• Creating a three-dimensional tour of significant locations, using Microsoft Virtual Earth and WorldWide Telescope
• Concluding discussion
• Wrap-up and evaluations

Afternoon session: Collaborative Tools for Students and Educators

Participants gain hands-on experience and resources to enable them to develop technology-rich curriculum materials and activities that meet state and national academic standards.

• Collaboration for content development and writing
• Collaboration across the content areas
• Collaboration on presentations
• Newer tools to aid collaboration
• Wrap-up and evaluations

Day three workshop: Building Capacity for Broad-Based Implementation (Train the Educator)

The third day is dedicated to leading participants to become Technology Integration Specialists in their districts as they learn to teach fellow educators the use of the tools needed for classroom organization, communication, and collaboration, along with increased student engagement. Participants gain experience with a curriculum that empowers them to lead their fellow teachers toward 21st-century teaching and learning skills.

• Preparing to teach your fellow educators to integrate technology
• How to lead teachers to analyze a project-based learning unit and its template for technology-rich learning
• Teaching the basics of the four modules
• Teaching the teachers: Mock instructional sessions
• What's to come?
• Wrap-up and evaluations

If you have questions about the workshop, send us an e-mail.