Tech+Academy

Date: 11/21/2009 Time: 9:00-2:00 Location:89th Street 4th Floor Topic:** Transforming Instructional Practices Using Digital Media ** __Course Description__**:How can participants use digital media for instructional support? Digital Media is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. Participants will use various delivery systems for their digital media to push content to their students. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. Digital media usually contains some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music Pearls only: []
 * __Objectives__**: ** Teachers will become digitally fluent as they plan, create and share digital stories. Digital stories will align with participants’ core content and grade appropriate themes.
 * __Facilitators__**: Joe, Denise
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Date: 11/24/2009 Time: 4:00-6:30 Location: Staten Island: Petrides Complex Building A Room 118 Topic: **Learning Beyond the Classroom Walls: Using Screencast Technology to Enhance your Instructional Practice** Teachers will explore the power of digital screencast to enhance instruction. They will create a screencast for the introduction of screencasting in their instruction. The web is all about sharing. Screencasting lets you share a recording of your computer screen activity, along with your voice or other audio, for others to view. Perhaps you want to demonstrate how to use a certain piece of software, or navigate through a website - screencasting can record the whole thing. Screencasts can be short demonstrations, or longer tutorials. This workshop will show you how to create your own screencasts, examine a few screencasting tools, and provide tips and insights for making the most of your screencasts. By the end of this workshop you will have a clear understanding of using screencasts to differentiate instruction and the many uses for developing screencasts. We will look closely at Jing and the steps necessary to share videos with community. Teachers will begin to shift their thinking about how students can learn and work in developing the self taught student model. Joe http://screencastingforeducators.blogspot.com
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Date: 11/30/2009 Time: 4:00-6:30 Location:89th Street Room 508 Topic:** Planning for Inquiry-based Learning ** Teachers will design, resource and publish an inquiry-based unit that addresses content area and student ISTE standards. __**Course Description:**__ Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I understand. The steps of inquiry-based learning for the classroom: Planning, assessing, engaging students in planning, aligning with standards, effective technology integration & creating classroom communities. __**Facilitators**__: Joe,Lia __**Register**__: [] @http://www.emints.org/xmodres/activities/inquirybased/researchguide.htm
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Date: 12/1/2009 Time: 4:00-6:30 Location:89th Street 4th Floor Topic:** Google Tools in the Classroom ** Pearls:[] []
 * __Objectives__**:Teachers will explore and create: igoogle, reader & RSS gadgets, & google docs to manage information and collaborate with students and colleagues.
 * __Course Description:__**Learn to use Google's online collaborative tools to create projects that take learning beyond the four walls of your classroom at the same time as it empowers students to truly collaborate on classroom projects and homework. Participants will learn how to use Google Docs, how to design learning activities around the tool, and how to manage this virtual classroom. Participants should come with a curriculum unit for integration during this session.
 * __Facilitators__**: Joe, Barrie
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Date: 12/2//2009 Time: 4:00-6:30 Location:Staten Island Petrides Building A Room 108 Topic:** Planning for Inquiry-based Learning ** Pearls: [] @http://www.emints.org/xmodres/activities/inquirybased/researchguide.htm
 * __Objectives__**:Teachers will design, resource and publish an inquiry-based unit that addresses content area and student ISTE standards.
 * __Course Description__**:Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I understand. The steps of inquiry-based learning for the classroom: Planning, assessing, engaging students in planning, aligning with standards, effective technology integration & creating classroom communities.
 * __Facilitators__**: Joe, Lia
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Date: 12/8/2009 Time: 4:00-6:30 Location:89th Street 4th Floor Topic:** Integrating Social Networking Tools In Your Classroom ** Pearls: []
 * __Objectives__**:Participants will explore the advantages of collaborative learning spaces, and create a Ning for classroom collaboration about a project aligned with content area instruction.
 * __Course Description:__** Participants will learn how to navigate and align ning with instructional content. Create Ning guidedlines for educational usage. Use the forum or blog post for curriculum discussions, upcoming events or class assignments.
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Date: 12/15/2009 Time: 4:00-6:30 Location:TBA Topic: ** I Squad in Schools ** Pearls: http://iteachilearn.wikispaces.com/iSquad+Agenda+Winter+2009
 * __Objectives__**: Participants will develop a plan for tech squad development in their buildings. They will assess tech needs of their schools, identify student participants, create collaborative web space (ning) for communication and collaboration with tech squad members, and develop agenda with training aids for students.
 * __Course Description:__** Developing a student tech team to assist student and teachers on a variety of digital tools and trainings.Create a method to manage requests.Train students to assist teachers in the use of technology.
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Date: 12/16/2009 Time: 4:00-6:30 Location:89th Street 4th Floor Conference Room Topic: ** Podcasting in the Classroom ** Pearls: [] []
 * __Objectives__**: Participants will examine the power of podcasting as an instructional resource, and create podcasts to enhance instructional units.
 * __Course Description:__** <span style="font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Teachers and students can podcast to get their voices heard, report school and community news, and demonstrate content area instructional units. Teachers and staff can search podcasts for personal learning experiences and professional practices. **__Facilitators__**: Joe
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