Leadership Trainings & Workshops
- 1The
Changing Role of the Leader in a Technology Rich School
3 & 6 hour options (60-90 minute Keynote also available)
Things are changing in our
classrooms. The kids are different, the curriculum is
different and the tools are different. Come explore your
role as an educational leader and as a technology
leader. We will address why technology is so popular in
our classrooms. Other issues addressed are technology
standards for administrators and recent accountability
studies and their relationship to technology integration.
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- 2Effective
uses of the Internet in Classroom Instruction
3 & 6 hour options (60-90 minute Keynote also available)
Sure your teachers are using the Internet
with their students, but what are they doing with it? Is it enhancing
instruction? Are the sites they are using age appropriate? Is
learning taking place? This session will provide you with some
tools to help understand and answer these questions and how to
guide your teachers to more appropriate uses of the Internet in
their classroom.
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- 3iPad
& Tablet Technologies in the Classroom
3, 6 & 12 hour options (60-90 minute Keynote also available)
iPad, Tablet or
Slate it doesn't matter what brand as long as they are leveraging
greater engagement and improving student achievement. This session
is designed to go beyond the media & advertising hype of mobile
learning to the core of why these types of devices are right for
the classroom. Since most districts/schools will adopt one
platform for this type of device we will customize a workshop to
fit the interest & goals of your district. Topics addressed range
from which device to choose, how to manage & support them, how
classroom/school management changes and putting the right apps in
the hands of your students & teachers.
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- 4The
1-2-1 Classroom & School
3, 6 & 12 hours (60-90 minute Keynote also available)
Technology is a magnifier of
all things good and bad. This is without a doubt the most
important thing to understand when a school or a district makes
the decision to implement a more 1-2-1 learning environment.
Tablet, laptop, netbook or phone doesn't matter what you choose.
Success will be determined on how well you plan, your willingness
to change the plan and how committed you are to build the capacity
of your educators so that you are magnifying the most powerful
educational strategies. The primary goal of this session is to
understand what makes a successful implementation, strategies on
getting all stakeholders on board and training and pacing your way
to success. Every 1-2-1 scenar
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- 5Writing
for an Audience! Blogs & Wikis in the Classroom
3, 6 & 12 hours (60-90 minute Keynote also available)
Blogs & Wiki�s can be a powerful tools to enhance instruction and
greater engage your students in all forms of writing. When
students have enough technology access they make a great format
for student electronic portfolios. Come explore how blogs &
wiki�s can be used in your schools classrooms to improve student writing
through greater engagement and by strengthening the revision and
editing process. Participants may utilize a variety of tools
including Blogger, Edu Blogger and Wordpress to set-up a teacher
and/or student blogs. They learn how teachers can manage and protect
bloggers when they are sharing online and how to use blogs as a
student writing portfolio and collaborative writing tool. Various
free wiki tools are used to model collaborative writing projects
for students.
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- 6Powerful
Tools for the 21st Century Classroom-
The World of Web 2.0 & School 3.0
3, 6 & 12 hours (60-90 minute Keynote also available)
The world of the classroom is changing! Or maybe I should say it
could change (hopefully for the better) with the use of so many
new �Web 2.0my� applications. Web 2.0? What does it mean and more
importantly how can it help transform classrooms and teaching into
more engaging and project oriented learning environments? Learn
to lead in the world of Web 2.0 by exposing your teachers to basic productivity software, the amazing world of Google Apps
and easy to build Facebook type social networks for your school/classroom.
This day is filled with practical tools for every administrator.
Participants will spend the day exploring many amazing Web 2.0
applications that they can use in their schools right away and
how we continue to keep our students safe when we move away from
the one dimensional internet into the highly connected and
interactive environment that is Web 2.0.
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- 7Smart
Boards & Active Boards- Leveraging the Interactive White Board for
Greater Student Engagement
(moving
beyond the overhead mentality)
6, 12 & 18 hours- Target Audience: Administrators
Smart, Promethean, Interwrite & Mimeo
boards have all made there way into many classrooms over the last
decade. The brand is not that important, but what teachers do with
them is. These devices can be very powerful tools in helping
teachers create a more visual, auditory & kinesthetic learning
environment. This session will explore the basic operational
components of the boards and the software that gives it most of
its power. More importantly the session addresses how to move
beyond the grafted on "overhead projector" mentality that most
teachers have attached to these devices. Administrators get
hands-on, modeled classroom examples of how the tool can be
integrated into their lessons and how to extend learning beyond
the board and classroom door to create 24/7 learn possibilities
for students. This training can
be customized to meet the needs of each district.
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The LIST!
- 01. Leaders Changing Role
- 02. Effective Internet Use
- 03. iPad & Tablet Classroom
- 04. The 1-2-1 Classroom & School
- 05. Blogs & Writing for an Audience
- 06. Web 2.0 & School 3.0
- 07. Moving Beyond the Overhead
