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Connected Workshops: Technology Integration
Bring our Learning Specialists to your school and empower your teachers to help students maximize their learning every day.
Each Workshop is delivered in a relaxed atmosphere at your school site, fostering collaboration and idea sharing among your staff. Participants receive comprehensive handouts with practical tools and resources they can use the next day in class!
Choose from the following list of existing Workshop titles focused on technology integration, or let's work together to create one of your own:
Camp Connect™ Technology Integration
Overview:
This three-day workshop promotes the integration of technology into the curriculum, the improvement of teaching practice and improved student achievement in the standards-led curriculum. Participants will acquire the skills and strategies in the areas of understanding Internet tools, accessing teacher resources, and integrating student activities and projects. All participants will develop a student activity or project that can be immediately used in the classroom.
Objectives:
- Explore the different types of search engines and searching strategies.
- Locate and evaluate educational Web sites.
- Classify and organize Web sites according to content.
- Locate Web sites that illustrate the use of higher-level problem-solving skills.
- Understand how to locate and/or develop Internet lesson plans.
- Locate online content and resources that support local standards.
- Collect Internet content and resources that support project-based learning.
- Explore the different types of problem solving projects.
- Locate and integrate classroom projects.
- Understand how to manage project-based learning in the classroom.
- Understand how to create online projects such as hotlists, WebQuests, hunts.
- Explore the different types of project development tools.
- Create one online activity or project.
Activities: May include demonstrations, guided discussion, modeling, sharing, small group and large group work, collegial interaction through brainstorming and collaborating, creating checklists, action-planning and applications tasks.
Resources: EParticipants will receive a comprehensive handout of essential resources specifically designed for this workshop, including classroom activity materials, and URLs for important online tools and resources for educators.
Product: Each participant will develop an online activity or project.
Target Audience: K-12 Teachers, Teachers of Gifted Students, Mentor/Lead Teachers, and Administrators.
Recommended Technology Skill Level: All levels
Number of Trainers: Up to 3 trainers
Number of Participants: Up to 60 participants
Duration: Up to 6 instructional hours per day
Meeting Room: Three computer labs required (one computer per participant required).
Equipment to be Provided by Customer: For each lab, a projection system (digital projector, or LCD projector for use with trainer's laptop), overhead projector (as backup projection device), Internet connectivity, whiteboard/chalkboard, 6 ft. table for trainer's laptop, equipment and other materials.
Workshop Overviews
Camp Connect Mentoring
This three-day workshop provides mentoring strategies for educators while promoting the integration of technology into the curriculum, the improvement of teaching practice and improved student achievement in the standards-led curriculum. Participants will acquire the skills and strategies in the areas of understanding Internet tools, accessing teacher resources, mentoring peers and integrating student activities and projects. All participants will develop a model student activity or project that can be immediately used in the classroom during the mentoring process.
A Technology Coordinator's Tool Kit
This workshop will explore the complexity of district and site technology coordination, and provide resources that will support and streamline the technology coordinator's job. Participants will examine and assess their district's technology and learn how to collaborate and network with other Technology Coordinators. This course will provide a practical and realistic approach to technology coordination at all levels.
Classroom Web Page Design (Beginner)
This workshop will provide participants with the information, resources, and tools to develop and design you're their own Web pages. Participants will also have the opportunity to explore the variety of instructional approaches in Web authoring to support the daily curriculum.
Classroom Web Page Design (Intermediate)
This intermediate workshop is designed to take participants to the next step beyond basic HTML tags. Using a Web page authoring tool, the workshop supports participants in adding powerful design, alignment, and interaction tools to a Web site. Web sites have powerful applications in education. In this workshop, participants will examine examples of Web sites in different educational categories and create their own site with a clear focus on the site's audience and purpose.
Creative Assessment Strategies
In this workshop, participants will explore innovative approaches that combine instruction, technology, and assessment to create truly dynamic approaches to teaching. Participants will receive practical, ready-to-use ideas, tools, and strategies to help them understand the potential of creative problem solving. Participants will also learn about effective formats for implementing rubrics, and recognize the different approaches to using portfolios as a tool for assessment, planning, and instruction. The final project is a culmination of all of these components, created in digital format and shared with colleagues in class.
Designing WebQuests
In this workshop, participants will be provided with the resources, skills, and practice they need to create a WebQuest. WebQuests are inquiry-based online activities that are designed to focus on developing higher-level critical thinking skills in students. Participants will learn how the instructional strategy of using the Internet as the basis for a lesson or unit can be used with individual students or in cooperative groups, and can be adapted to any content area.
Getting Started on the Internet
In this workshop, participants will gain the necessary skills to effectively use online tools to locate and harness online resources that support curriculum in the classroom. This workshop will also give participants an overview of available resources for teachers and students as they begin to use the Internet as an instructional tool.
Internet: Taking Learning Beyond the Classroom Walls
This workshop gives participants hands-on guidance in locating Web sites for virtual tours that enhance existing classroom lessons. Participants will develop activities that take their students on journeys to other lands…and beyond.
Project-based Learning
In this workshop, participants will learn to direct student learning to enhance interactive, student-centered, cooperative learning. Participants will also be introduced to classroom management methods for effectively integrating project-based learning.
Research Using Technology's Information Tools
In this workshop, participants will learn about conducting research using the latest information tools available to the researcher--including information on browsers, search engines, resources, writing tools, and more. Best practices in research strategies and techniques will be discussed.
Using the Internet to Create Thematic Units
In this workshop, participants will explore the Internet as a valuable source for cross-curricular resources and opportunities. This workshop introduces participants to practical Web integration ideas to enhance the writing of multi-disciplinary units. Participants will experience the latest in online resources, tools and content related to the classroom curriculum.
Using Multimedia to Enhance Teaching and Learning
In this workshop, participants will explore the use of multimedia to enhance a multiple intelligence teaching approach. Participants will be introduced to online resources that can help them understand intelligences and styles of learning, and find ways to create challenging technology enhanced lesson plans using multimedia.
Using PowerPoint and the Internet
This workshop will introduce participants to basic components and features of Microsoft PowerPoint. Having acquired these skills, participants will learn how to convert the PowerPoint presentations to be accessible via the Web. This workshop also covers ideas for using PowerPoint in the classroom, how students can use PowerPoint, and the nuts and bolts of what it takes to create an effective PowerPoint presentation that students can learn from and enjoy.
Using Technology to Teach Standards
This workshop is designed for teachers who are ready to integrate education technologies into their instructional units. During the workshop, participants will be introduced to the National Curriculum Content Standards and to a new set of technology standards for students. The goal of the class is to prepare participants to be able to create and modify lessons that use technology to help students meet learning standards.
Using Laptops in the Classroom
In this workshop, participants will learn how laptops can be used to facilitate learning through demonstration, simulation, sharing of student projects, research, communications, group discussion, and teacher or student presentations. In addition, participants will learn to manage student groups; assign relevant lessons; organize student communications and projects. Developing documentation that summarizes the responsibilities and expectations of all stakeholders in your laptop program including administrators, parents, teachers and students will also be examined.
Inspiration and Kidspiration in the Classroom
This workshop will show participants how Kidspiration and Inspiration can create graphic organizers that support improved achievement for students in all grades. Inspiration strengthens critical thinking, comprehension, and writing across the curriculum, in language arts, science, social studies and anytime students need to structure research or thought processes. Using the proven principles of visual learning, young readers and writers build confidence in organizing information, understanding concepts, and expressing their thoughts.
Integrating Microsoft Office into the Classroom
This workshop focuses on strategies to streamline administrative tasks by using the power of technology. Participants will learn to use Microsoft Office for administrative tasks. They will be introduced methods of using word processing, spreadsheet, database and presentation applications to better manage their time and streamline tasks. Participants will leave with skills that can be implemented immediately in their daily functions.
Strategies for Successful Online Learning
In this workshop, participants will learn strategies to ensure that their online professional development experience is positive, effective and enjoyable. Participants will learn how to find the information they need, contribute to discussions, and complete the assignments within their online learning community.
Using Technology to Enhance Learning for At-Risk Students
This workshop will introduce participants to a variety of instructional strategies to be used with at-risk students that will enhance development of the higher order thinking skills necessary to be able to function effectively in the world. Participants will learn how to use technology to help students develop small-group cooperative learning skills to help them to learn from each other and raise student motivation. Focus is on maximizing student involvement in challenging, long-term projects that stress composition, comprehension, and application of skills in the context of working on authentic tasks.
Digital Photography Using Adobe PhotoShop Elements and Adobe Digital Kids Club
In this workshop, participants will experience how easy it is to integrate digital photography into the classroom curriculum. Adobe Digital Kids Club is a special Web site created for teachers, students, and parents. It provides essential digital photography resources such as photo tips, tutorials, product training, lessons and activities that educators need to unleash the creative freedom that digital cameras can offer.
Using Adobe Photoshop Elements in the Classroom
In this workshop, participants will learn how to use Adobe Photoshop Elements effectively as an instructional tool, and experience how digital photography can be integrated into the classroom curriculum. Adobe Photoshop Elements offers the broad functionality of Photoshop presented in a user-friendly way. With its easy effects and filters, Adobe Photoshop Elements is the perfect program to edit your Web and/or digital camera images.
Using Adobe Acrobat with Students
In this workshop, participants will explore ways to develop documents that can be opened reliably and look exactly as intended with page layout, formatting and images intact. Participants will use Adobe Acrobat 5.0 or higher to convert documents to portable document files (PDF) and to customize those PDF files for your instructional needs and the needs of your students. In addition, participants will learn how teachers and students can convert various documents to PDF files, create dynamic Adobe PDF forms, convert Web pages to Adobe PDF files, and more. Curriculum integration strategies and projects will also be discussed and highlighted.
To learn more about Connected Workshops and our other Technology Integration professional development programs, call us today at (800) 638-1639.
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