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SMART Board Across the Curriculum: A First Course Make the most of your SMART board and watch class participation and engagement soar. First you will master SMART board basics. Then you will learn how to plan and prepare your SMART lessons on any computer using SMART notebook software. Come and take back interactive enhanced lessons to use with your SMART board. We will provide a list of websites that are particularly SMART board “friendly.” No more fumbling for transparencies, hyperlinks, diagrams, or files. Your lesson will flow seamlessly and learning will increase as students participate as active learners. Please bring your curriculum materials. Note: Smart board software is free to Smart board users and can be purchased for use on other boards Recommended for: Anyone interested in using a SMART board Word Processing I: Microsoft Word and Google Docs After this full-day workshop, you won’t be able to imagine how you existed without Microsoft Word. You will learn to create, save and open documents; change the style and color of text; add borders and shading; and use the spell checker and thesaurus. See how to use Google Docs to make your files available via the internet and make collaboration possible. Recommended for: Anyone who wants to learn word processing. Some experience using a mouse and Windows is suggested, but not necessary. No experience with Word is expected. For teachers who are familiar with SmartBoard basics, this course will focus on hands-on activities specifically designed to show you how to incorporate “SMART” math lessons into your curriculum. Bring your planning guide and text book and design a Smart Notebook unit for use with your curriculum. You will also have time to find ready-made interactive enhanced lessons directly correlated to the new common core math standards that you can use as it, or modify. Recommended for: Teachers of math Teaching Math in the 21st Century Classroom Are you looking for: § an understanding of the new math standards? § free resources to make mathematics “come alive” in your classroom? § free tools to engage students in their own learning with hands-on activities that will both motivate and improve learning? This series is designed just for you! Each class will begin with a comparison of the old and new standards followed by hands-on discovery based activities that can be used with teacher directed lessons with one computer and projector or/and then by students with individual computers to help build proficiency based on a better visualization of mathematical concepts. Online resources for student activity sheets that can be printed out and used offline will also be provided. Choose your grade level and apply for the day/s. Bring your math textbook and a flash drive and you will leave with marvelous free resources. You'll also have time to develop an interactive unit to use with your students. New standards, old standards, these classes will give you the valuable tools needed to teach today’s students who live in such a “multi-media” world. Recommended for: Classroom teachers, special ed math teachers, math coaches and math supervisors Number sense and computation to support the new (and old) standards Grade level appropriate activities including real world applications and problem solving Need a Wiki? Are you looking for a quick way to post a syllabus or student homework? Do you want your students to collaborate online? Come explore this free web-based tool and make a wiki today. Recommended for: All teachers and anyone searching the Internet Presentations II: Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Docs Come and expand your PowerPoint skills. You will learn how to add hyperlinks, sound, and action buttons. Bring your own curriculum materials and/or an existing PowerPoint presentation and you’ll take back an amazing classroom-ready slide show. Use Google Docs to make your presentation interactive and collaborative. Recommended for: Participants who have completed Presentation I Top of Page Strategies to Meet the Common Core Literacy Standards in Content Areas: 6-8 The new Common Core English Language Arts standards require specific literacy proficiencies in all content areas. The new Standards require from 30% to 50% of all reading instruction to be completed with informational texts, a move away from instruction that has been based primarily on all narrative texts. This workshop will focus on specific strategies to enable students to read and comprehend complex informational texts and to respond in well written answers to Open Ended prompts. Additionally, an analysis of the type of Multiple Choice questions that are presented to test comprehension will be discussed and practiced. Through a variety of activities, participants will gain skills to promote close reading of informational texts and strategies to promote proficiency. This workshop is appropriate for all content areas teachers as well as reading and language arts teachers. Recommended for: Grade 6-8 teachers Intermediate SMART Board Users: Creating Interactive Lessons You’ve been using your SMART board for a while and you and your students really like it. Now thanks to the latest upgrades in the SMART notebook software there is more for you to learn. And thanks to the growing community of SMART board users you will access terrific Internet sources for ready-made Smart notebook lessons. Use the downloaded lessons as is or modify. During this workshop you will learn to use action buttons, insert video clips, and create your own interactive manipulatives for the content area and grade that you teach. After learning advanced skills and examining Internet resources in the morning the afternoon will be a SMART notebook lesson studio, providing time for you to prepare a dynamite lesson that will inspire your students your colleagues, and you. If you like bring SMART notebook files you’ve created and raise the lesson to new levels. Recommended for: Participants who took SMART board for Beginners or SMART board Across the Curriculum or who can create SMART notebook lessons and use a SMART board. This class is not for beginners. Using iPads in the Classroom This workshop will include information on applications to use in class such as Dragon dictation, This Day in History, Sonic Pic, Read Me Stories, and various current event apps. You will also learn how to teach lessons using the iPad, and how to manage the use of iPads in the classroom. Please bring your own iPad, running iOS 4.3. Recommended for: All teachers and anyone searching the Internet Differentiated Learning and Making Menus What is differentiated learning? How can I incorporate this way of teaching into my curriculum? What is a menu and can I actually use one with my students. Come to this leading edge session and walk away with an understanding of differentiated learning and menus for any subject you teach. Recommended for: All educators Thinkfinity and SMART Boards Now that you know how to use a SMART Board, use Thinkfinity to enhance your supply of interactives for your students. Use this workshop to improve your “bag of tricks” when using the SMART Board. As long as you “have an idea” of how to use your SMARTboard come to this workshop to sharpen those skills and learn new sites to use. Recommended for: Teachers with a Smart Board in the classroom Word Processing II: Microsoft Word and Google Docs Move beyond the basics of Microsoft Word. In this workshop you will learn how to import pictures and other objects, create and customize tables, generate personalized letters to replace form letters, and create and use templates. Learn more about sharing, collaborating, and storing using Google Docs. Recommended for: Users comfortable working in Microsoft Word. Teaching Math in the 21st Century Classroom : measurement Are you looking for: § an understanding of the new math standards? § free resources to make mathematics “come alive” in your classroom? § free tools to engage students in their own learning with hands-on activities that will both motivate and improve learning? This series is designed just for you! Each class will begin with a comparison of the old and new standards followed by hands-on discovery based activities that can be used with teacher directed lessons with one computer and projector or/and then by students with individual computers to help build proficiency based on a better visualization of mathematical concepts. Online resources for student activity sheets that can be printed out and used offline will also be provided. Choose your grade level and apply for the day/s. Bring your math textbook and a flash drive and you will leave with marvelous free resources. You'll also have time to develop an interactive unit to use with your students. New standards, old standards, these classes will give you the valuable tools needed to teach today’s students who live in such a “multi-media” world. Recommended for: Classroom teachers, special ed math teachers, math coaches and math supervisors Measurement and Geometry to support the new (and old) standards Grade level appropriate activities including real world applications and problem solving Top of Page Engage Struggling Students with Thinkfinity's Interactives Are your students confused, distracted, unwilling or unable to focus? Come explore the FREE interactive games and tools from Thinkfinity.org. See your students get excited about learning. The standards-based interactive resources reach across curricula. Select the interactives that your students can use to strengthen reading, organize thoughts, and develop writing skills. Recommended for: Teachers of grades K-8, special education teachers The Inquiry of Science In Inquiry of Science, teachers will be immersed in inquiry based investigations, making discoveries by playing with pennies and testing paper towels using the scientific method. Teachers will also design their own inquiry-based lab. Recommended for: K- 8 teachers interested in spicing up science Integrating Multimedia into your SMART Board lessons In this session we will define multimedia, discuss and demonstrate the different SMART Board tools and techniques that can be utilized to deliver a rich multimedia lesson. Some of the topics that will be covered include: introduction and demonstration of the SMART Recorder tool, SMART Video Player and Page Recorder, inserting FLASH Video into SMART Notebook software, attaching sounds to objects in Notebook and different methods to reveal text on page. Participants should be familiar with SMART Notebook software prior to attending the session. No technical experience required. Recommended for: Intermediate and Experienced users Scratch: Create Interactive Media Treat yourself and your students (ages 8 and up) to a new, free way to create your own interactive stories, music, and art using Scratch, invented at MIT. Student creations can be shared via the Internet (check out scratch.mit.edu). See why NovemberLearning says, "The Scratch website has become the YouTube of interactive media." While your students are programming and sharing with Scratch, they will "learn to think creatively, plan systemically, and work collaboratively, while also learning important computational ideas.” Recommended for: Teachers of grades 2 and above, technology education, and G & T BYOM: Bring your own Macbook Learn how to use the cool features that are part of your Macintosh operating system. Bring your own MacBook and all your questions. Leave with the answers and much more. Recommended for: New Macintosh users SMART Response Assessment Strategies We need to find out what students do and don't understand without waiting for test results or homework assignments or the end of a lesson. We need to make formative assessment part of instructional practice so that we can adjust teaching and learning while they are happening. See how this can be done with SMART Notebook software, SMART Response interactive clickers, and accompanying Teacher Tools. Learn how to use the clickers, create question sets, set up class records, and establish effective assessment strategies to raise student achievement. Modify your lessons based on quick and easy responses from your students. Target your lessons for success while engaging students of all ages. Recommended for: Teachers with access to SMART Response clickers and software Top of Page |
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