Professional+Development

=Professional Development:=

iLead Instructional Technology Institute: The iLead Institute is designed to provide school leaders with the skills, knowledge and expertise to prepare their educational community for the 21st century. The iLead program prepares school-based instructional leaders to meet the needs, challenges and demands of the modern day educational environment by incorporating the latest information technology practices into their daily routines. This program recognizes the rewards of leading a 21st century school into the future by guiding them in promoting the effective integration of technology into their classrooms and provide them with the technology skills to view, manipulate and analyze data to better inform their decision making process.

iTeach program: prepares school-based instructional staff to meet the needs, challenges and demands of the modern day educational environment by incorporating the latest information technology practices into their daily routines.  Technology Academies: Technology Academy is an after school professional development opportunity for teachers across South Brooklyn & Staten Island. The Academy is designed to provide a cadre of K-12 teachers with professional development courses that illustrates how technology can be infused into the curriculum to enhance teaching and learning.

Digital Media: is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. Participants will use various delivery systems for their digital media to push content to their students. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. Digital media usually contains some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music. Social Networking Tools for Educators: Social networking is here to stay. Whether it is Facebook or Twitter, or the next web application waiting to become a phenomenon, social networking is a part of our students’ lives. The only place where it isn’t usually present is in our classrooms. Is it possible to use social networking to further learning?

Building Technology Teams:

Podcasting Professional Development involves the online publication of digital files (audio, video, or other formats) within a channel to which others can subscribe and obtain updates. In this session we'll learn how to utilize free podcatching software (including iTunes) to download and subscribe to podcasts, as well as how to use free software (Audacity) to create and publish audio podcasts on your classroom or personal website. These podcasts can include recorded teacher-lectures, student projects, student-created news programs, or almost anything else.

Screencasting is capturing and recording your computer screen and activities. As educators this is useful for mini-lessons or sets of instructions. Students can pause and replay these short videos as much as they want! In this 2 day Academy, teachers will create and upload screencasts for their classroom. Day 1 will cover the use of a free downloadable tool called Jing. Day 2 will cover the use the Smartboard record feature.

Digital Citizenship for Online Learners is an essential introduction to the world of online learning. Participants will explore the elements of digital citizenship, collaborate on classroom practices and acceptable norms, and create a portfolio of shared lessons on the topic.  Blogging to Enhance Communication & Collaboration Mobile Technology: To provide school Leaders with the ability to integrate mobile technology into their practice in order to become a more efficient school leader. Participants will learn how to use their devices to collect data as well as both download and create professional development through iTunes University as well as the podcast channels available in the iTunes Store.

OPAL Professional Development: 21st Century Project-Based Learning: The Online Professional & Academic Learning (OPAL) project is an innovative proposal to test the very competencies that matter most for the 21st century. OPAL plans to motivate students who have grown up in a digital world to aspire toward academic excellence through the infusion of project-based learning, the development of e-portfolios to showcase learning, and the acquisition of knowledge in an online learning environment.

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LIƒE - Professional Development: The Leadership Innovation for Education (LIƒE) project combines access to evidenced based strategies with an expanded level of professional support to the Title lID schools in Districts 31 and 22 to align effective technology-based strategies to school improvement goals and thus improve student achievement in the core content areas. ======

CMS Professional Development: CMS (Content Management System) is an exciting new school website initiative aimed at giving schools the tools needed to produce a vibrant, current, and professional looking website. CMS enables webmasters to focus on the content of their website instead of the technical details. Training is required for a user to be given permission to edit their page.