13-14+Technology+Workshops

= Technology Workshops =

The Paperless Classroom
7/8, 7/9, 7/10 10/22, 11/1, 11/6 2/11, 2/26, 3/7 This workshop will focus on implementation strategies, ideas and resources for teachers who want to turn their classrooms paperless. Teachers will begin the process of setting up their classrooms during the workshop.

K-5 Center-Based Learning with Technology
7/9, 7/10, 711

10/21, 11/19, 12/10

1/24, 1/30, 2/3

This 3 day workshop is designed to help teachers who teach grades K-5 to infuse technology with the NEW Common Core Curriculum. Participants will have an opportunity to share ways they are presently using technology. Time will be provided to explore specific Web sites, software, and hardware applications that that are aligned to the NEW Common Core Curriculum. They will create a technology center-based activity aligned with the Common Core Curriculum.

Technology Projects in the Classroom (K-6)
7/15, 7/16, 7/17 3/4, 3/13 There is an abundant use of technology to enhance and support student learning and projects. There are many new ways to incorporate technology into your lessons and bring to life CCLS based projects with multimedia. This one-day workshop will showcase examples for content-based technology infused projects and provide opportunities to create projects, using your school's available technologies. Project ideas range from using PowerPoint for Student Portfolios and Publications to Google based projects in specific content areas and more, all designed to be completed in one to two classroom sessions.

Technology Boot Camp Series
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">7/11 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">7/26 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">8/19

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">10/7 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">11/15 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">12/9 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">2/3

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Tech Boot Camp series is designed to go back to the basics of file management, locating CCLS resources and CCLS technology enhanced lessons, cloud computing (digital storage), social media, Educational Apps and more will be covered in the series. **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This is a series of 1-day workshops that have the SAME agenda each day and is repeated throughout the year. Please only sign up for ONE date when registering! **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Innovative Educator Series - Social Studies

 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Erie 1 Flyer **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">9/25 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> (Webinar)

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">10/24 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">11/6 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">1/29 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">3/13 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">5/21

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This course is uniquely designed to give Social Studies teachers the resources and ideas to engage their students and create high quality artifacts and lessons. Sessions include: Best of the Web Resources, Interactive Whiteboard Tips and Tricks, Professional Learning Communities, Everyday Tools, and High Powered Virtual Environments. These sessions are tiered to provide support for the tech savvy user, as well as the new tech user. After the formal sessions, teachers are requested to bring at least one artifact or lesson to share with other social studies teachers in order to create a ready made pool of high quality resources aligned to state Common Core Standards.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The Digital Classroom
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">9/27 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">11/29 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">3/7 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">5/5

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Life in the classroom is hectic, but learning to take advantage of technology can make your classroom management and educational life a little less stressful with free tools. Teachers will learn how to manage digital content for classrooms and be exposed to digitalized resources. We will focus on organizing bookmarks, finding CCLS content/resources, use Google Tools (beyond searching), Live Binders and more.


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This is a series of 1-day workshops that have the SAME agenda each day and is repeated throughout the year. Please only sign up for ONE date when registering! **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Computer-Based Testing and Online Assessments
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">9/30 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">10/25 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">11/8 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">1/23 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">2/26 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">3/19 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">5/2 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">6/3

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This one-day series will introduce participants to the CBT, set to start in 2014-2015 for ELA and Math on-line testing. An overview of CBT components, sample questions and district preparation will be discussed. Examples of on-line assessment options will be shown to give participants a showcase of options in preparation for Computer-Based Testing. * The same session will be repeated on a monthly basis.


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This is a series of 1-day workshops that have the SAME agenda each day and is repeated throughout the year. Please only sign up for ONE date when registering! **

Innovative Educator Series - Science
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">10/2 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">10/24 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">11/21 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">1/22 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">3/6 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This Innovative Educator Series will give teachers the ability to examine and evaluate science strategies and resources to enhance their classroom instruction. From learning the basics of web resources to exploring specific technologies such as the iPad and the SMART Board, teachers will evaluate and collect strategies and resources for their science classrooms.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Google SketchUp
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">10/15, 10/23, 10/31

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">2/18, 2/26, 3/6

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Interactive art and 3-D modeling can be used to address 21st century skills within the classroom. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to concepts of 3D modeling, and will leave with 21st Century skills-based lesson ideas that use Google SketchUp.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">QR Codes in the Classroom
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">10/18

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">3/18

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">QR codes are easy to create, easy to use and require technology most teachers and students already have. Teachers in this workshop will learn how easy it is to create a QR code and use it in their instruction. We will share many lesson plans and unique ways that QR codes can be used to support learning in your classroom.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The Google Classroom (Online Only)
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">7/22 - 8/12 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> (Asynchronous)

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In this course we will explore beyond the typical Google search by digging deep into the power of Google! Our goal is for participants to become proficient using various instructional strategies with Google to support the Common Core Learning Standards and College and Career Readiness expectations.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The Google Classroom
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">7/23, 7/25, 7/31

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Participants will explore the tools and applications available through Google™ and how they can be used to use to engage students in 21st century learning such as creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and problem solving. Participants will be allotted time to design a lesson based on their own content and pedagogy-related goals using the technology of Google apps such as Google™ Drive, Google™ Earth, Google™ Books, Google™ News and more.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Building Better Assessments
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">7/23, 7/25

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">1/13, 2/11, 2/28

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This workshop will focus on instructional strategies to help teachers construct stronger formative and summative assessments. Training will focus on higher order thinking skills, constructing better test questions and incorporate instructional strategies. Teachers will create technology assessments using; Power Point with video, Google Forms and various technologies to prepare teachers for Computer-Based Testing.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">SMARTBoards and CCLS for ELA
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">8/6, 8/7, 8/8

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">12/6, 12/16, 1/9

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The workshop will help teachers understand how to create Common Core lessons based around the SMARTboard and SMART Notebook. Teachers will explore resources and learn how to create, deliver, and manage interactive lessons to engage students. Each teacher will design their own interactive SMART Board lesson aligned to the Common Core.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">SMARTBoards and CCLS for Math
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">8/12, 8/14, 8/15

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">10/3, 10/18, 10/28

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The workshop will help teachers understand how to create Common Core lessons based around the SMARTboard and SMART Notebook. Teachers will explore resources and learn how to create, deliver, and manage interactive lessons to engage students. Each teacher will design their own interactive SMART Board lesson aligned to the Common Core.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Math Technology Toolkit
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">8/19, 8/20, 8/21

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">1/17, 1/27, 2/6

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Want to get technology in the hands of your students? In this workshop, you will have the opportunity to evaluate the Common Core Learning Standards and Web Tools and see how to incorporate the technology to enhance the curriculum and instruction around the CCLS. Participants will be given time to develop / gather a variety of math activities that align to the curriculum and get your student using the technology.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The Flipped Classroom
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">8/19, 8/20, 8/21

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">9/25, 10/2, 10/9

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Change the culture of your classroom by using reverse teaching strategies, where students view lectures outside of class and get the hands on interaction of learning in class. Participants in this workshop will learn how to create or find multimedia lessons to deliver personalized content to their students, how to create meaningful classroom activities to replace traditional lectures, and how to check for understanding with a range of assessment types.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">iTextbooks
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">10/3, 10/18

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> Learn how to turn your own materials into interactive books for use on an iPad. Teacher will be able to aggregate their own information, different texts and multimedia resources to create their very own classroom resources. Time will be spent showing many free ways to convert your documents to ePubs to be used with any ereaders or ipads. We will also explore Apple's new iAuthor software program developed to create iTextbooks to be used with the iBooks app for an iPad or itouch device. Please feel free to bring a mac with the latest operating system to be able to create an iTextbook (not required). **Must have a strong background with iTunes and ios devices.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">iTunes U (iPad Teacher Series)
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">12/13 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">, 1/7 <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">5/20 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">6/3 <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Teachers will be exposed to all the free resources available to them on iTunesU. iTunesU hosts courses created by educators, universities, museums and educational leaders. Teachers will be able to find a lot of content to supplement their course material. Teachers are free to create and publish podcasts and create a course within iTunesU. Walk through the creation and organization of a course within iTunes U. This hands-on workshop will cover setting up your own course within the iTunes U Course Manager tool. Participants will begin creating their course outline and uploading course materials. **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Must have a strong background with iTunes and ios devices. **

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Teacher Productivity on the iPad
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">11/7 <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">3/6 <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This workshop will focus on all the ways a teacher can use an iPad to be more productive. We will take all the tasks that a teacher does on a regular basis and explore how an iPad could help you manage these tasks in a more efficient manner. Tasks like data collection, lesson planning, observation, etc.

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Digital Storytelling with Your iPad
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">12/11 <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">4/8 <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Student digital publishing is a requirement in the Common Core Learning Standards. The iPad’s capabilities make student publishing easy and seamless across all content areas. Teachers will leave with ability to create different types of artifacts of learning.

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Organizing and Managing iPad Workflow
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">1/9 <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">5/9 <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This session will help teachers determine the best way to get information to and from the iPad. We will investigate the most efficient methods of content delivery, collecting student work, and grading the student work. We will explore all of the “cloud” options and “client” solutions. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">iTunes U Course Creator Workshop
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">8/6, 8/7, 8/8

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This workshop will give teachers an understanding of the iTunes U program for computer and mobile devices. Teachers will then explore some of the high quality courses available in their content areas. Lastly, teachers will create their own iTunes U based courses that will be hosted at our Erie 1 iTunes U page. **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Must have a strong background with iTunes and ios devices. **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Using Google to Support the ELA Shifts
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008cbc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">4/28 and 5/5

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This workshop will focus on the integration of Google resources to support ELA shifts for the Common Core. Each of the shifts will be reviewed, and Google resources such as Google Drive, Google Books, and Google Scholar will be presented to support each shift. This workshop is for Middle School and High School teachers.