The ADP Center for Teacher Preparation & Learning Technologies @ Montclair State University Presents:
The 21st Century Teaching Skills Professional Development Certificate Program for Practicing K-12 Educators (Teachers and Administrators are welcome)
Time to Complete: Five 2-hour after-school workshops during the months of May and June (see topics and dates below)
Cost: $95.00 per teacher for all five workshops
Professional Development Hours: 10
About the program: This program is designed to help K-12 educators obtain the skills necessary to incorporate 21st Century teaching skills into your classroom. While we have broken up the skills into five two-hour after school learning sessions, we hope to show that these skills are intertwined and will be developed as an overall skill-set, one that allows you to continue to create innovative 21st century learning experiences for your students that will help increase academic achievement across subject areas and grade levels. We also hope to help educators understand the power of professional learning networks as a resource to continue to learn and evolve even after completing these five professional development workshops. While we do highlight some examples of "Digital Tools and Skills Covered" for each class below, we will also incorporate new concepts that continue to emerge in the digital world of education. The total cost to participate in the five two-hour after-school workshops is *$95.00* and each participant will earn 10 professional development credits as a result of their completion of the program.
Workshop Titles, Descriptions and Dates:
1. Information Overload: *Finding the right web-based tools and resources for teaching and learning can be a daunting task for anyone. Simply goggling a keyword usually provides too many unrelated results and can consume precious time you do not have. This hands-on workshop will show you how to search for and evaluate online educational resources more efficiently while using social networks such as twitter to connect with peers searching for similar content.
*Digital Tools and skills covered:* Google Advanced Search; Custom Search; Twitter, Google Custom Search, Web Directories, Diigo. *
Date, Time and Location of Workshop: *May 23, 2012 4-6pm, ADP Center Room 1143
2. iPlan, iTeach & iAssess (Part One):* Building on the skills developed in our Information Overload workshop, this intensive hands-on learning experience introduces cloud-based tools to collaboratively plan and facilitate instructional activities that integrate engaging digital resources such as video, screencasts, podcasts and flash animations while constructing web-based student assessments that inform future instruction.
*Digital Tools and skills covered:* Google Docs, Google Forms, Youtube, Teachertube, Podomatic, Blogs, Wikis, Jing, Screenr, Rubistar, Quizstar, Google Sites*
Date, Time and Location of Workshop: *May 30, 2012 4-6pm, ADP Center Room 1143
3. iPlan, iTeach & iAssess (Part Two): Building on the skills developed in our Information Overload workshop, this intensive hands-on learning experience introduces cloud-based tools to collaboratively plan and facilitate instructional activities that integrate existing and engaging digital resources such as video, screencasts, podcasts and flash animations while constructing web-based student assessments that inform future instruction.
*Digital Tools and skills covered:* Google Sites, Google Docs, Google Forms, Youtube, Teachertube, Podomatic, Blogs, Wikis, Rubistar, Quizstar*,* TweetPolls*
Date, Time and Location of Workshop: * June 6, 2012 4-6pm, ADP Center Room 1143
4. iCreate, iPublish and iCollaborate (Part One): Screencasting, Skyping, Tweeting, Texting, Mashing and Animating -- what does it all mean? While it may seem like a totally new language, one that many of your students seem to instinctively understand, in this intensive hands-on workshop we will show you how to utilize the power of free web-based tools to collaboratively create and share interactive learning activities with your students and your peers.
*Digital Tools and skills covered:* Skype, Google Sites and Docs, Diigo, Prezi, SlideShare, Animoto PBWorks, Podomatic, Screenr/Jing, VoiceThread, Nota*
Date, Time and Location of Workshop: *June 13, 2012 4-6 pm, ADP Center Room 1143
5. iCreate, iPublish and iCollaborate (Part Two): * Screencasting, Skyping, Tweeting, Texting, Mashing and Animating -- what does it all mean? While it may seem like a totally new language, one that many of your students seem to instinctively understand, in this intensive hands-on workshop we will show you how to ultilize the power of free web-based tools to collaboratively create and share interactive learning activities with your students and your peers.
*Digital Tools and skills covered:* Skype, Google Sites and Docs, Diigo, Prezi, SlideShare, Animoto PBWorks, Podomatic, Screenr/Jing, VoiceThread, Nota*
Date, Time and Location of Workshop: *June 20, 2012 4-6pm, ADP Center Room 1143
