2010-11+Professional+Development

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 * Session Descriptions**

In this interactive workshop we will discover (and play with) a myriad of installed software resources and technologies for math and stats that you can begin using immediately. We will also look at the bigger question of how and when to incorporate the technologies into your curriculum and how this can facilitate a shift to more student-centered instructional practices in any learning format.
 * Integrating Math Apps on a MacBook**

Web 2.0 is changing the way tech-savvy educators teach their courses. This workshop will explore how to use a wiki to enhance the classroom and online learning experience. Using Wikispaces as a foundation for the interactive classroom, webpage participants will build a web page (if one hasn’t been created), and integrate links, images, video, and more. This can be applied to any curriculum. Discover how to attractively present your school year curriculum using this web 2.0 tool and communicate with your students.
 * Communicate with Wikis: Creating a Classroom Website**

What is the benefit of having your students make movies in your class? Digital video has been instrumental in many areas of curriculum for empowering students to actively shape their educational experience. Come learn how to energize your classroom with the successes and challenges of spawning creativity, revitalizing content, promoting collective and individual reflection and offering students a variety of experiences to engage in authentic learning all using iMovie.
 * Make Movies, NOT Term Papers: Using iMovie**

Educators, discover solutions and strategies for making creative use of digital images in the classroom. Time will be spent working on refining your images in Photoshop including tone adjustments, layers, resizing, cropping, etc. The presenter will also explore open source alternatives that are already installed on your MacBook.
 * Creative Use to Digital Photography in the Classroom**

Teach your students to use graphic organizers and ComicLife to help them better comprehend curriculum content. These are visual tools that can help students understand and organize information. They are like mind maps which promote active learning. Graphic Organizers can also help students develop higher level thinking skills and promote creativity.
 * Comically Speaking: Helping Students Organize and Comprehend Content**

Ask students a quantitative question in non-mathematics context -- a question that requires consideration of numbers, tables or graphs, and/or a calculation or estimate. Then ask the students to build a spreadsheet to answer the question. What mathematics applies? How do you do the mathematics? How do you design the spreadsheet to calculate an answer? What cell equations belong in the cells? In short, ask students to figure out How to Solve It using the software that resides in the technology installed on their MacBooks.
 * Data Analysis Using Numbers**

Google Tools in the Classroom workshop includes an introduction to some of the free resources from Google that are available to educators and students. Google Documents is a document sharing program that makes sharing and editing documents with students and colleagues very easy and efficient. With iGoogle you have everything you need in one place, even if you’re not on your computer. Participants in this session receive an overview of multiple types of Google documents, demonstration of strategies on how to integrate, and a presentation of examples from various subject areas and grade levels. Throughout the workshop, participants learn how Google Docs can be used to increase teacher productivity and engage students in meaningful learning experiences.
 * Google Tools in the Classroom**

How often do your students fill out paperwork? Student data, surveys, homework assignments—the list could go on and on. As an alternative, have you considered redesigning these activities as forms for your class? Imagine having students answer questions to problems of the week, tests, course content responses and feedback. Once the information is entered it can be transmitted to a spreadsheet that displays the results or saved and sent via email. This workshop you will explore several possibilities for creating forms and how they can benefit your learning environment.
 * Creating Interactive Forms: What are the educational possibilities?**