TA+Fall+2009-Archive

Participant Projects
Date: 11/21/2009 Time: 9:00-2:00 Location:89th Street 4th Floor Topic:**Transforming Instructional Practices Using Digital Media**


 * Objectives**: Teachers will become digitally fluent as they plan, create and share digital stories. Digital stories will align with participants’ core content and grade appropriate themes.
 * Course Description**:How can participants use digital media for instructional support? 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
 * Facilitators**: Joe, Robert

Digital Storytelling Agenda Examples of Digital Media http://pearlsprojectdigitalmedia.blogspot.com November 21, 2009 Projects
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Date: 11/24/2009 Time: 4:00-6:30 Locations: BayRidge ISC: 4th Floor Conference Topic: **Learning Beyond the Classroom Walls: Using Screencast Technology to Enhance your Instructional Practice**

Teachers will explore the power of digital screencast to enhance instruction. They will create a screencast for the introduction of screencasting in their instruction. **Course Description:** The web is all about sharing. Screencasting lets you share a recording of your computer screen activity, along with your voice or other audio, for others to view. Perhaps you want to demonstrate how to use a certain piece of software, or navigate through a website - screencasting can record the whole thing. Screencasts can be short demonstrations, or longer tutorials. This workshop will show you how to create your own screencasts, examine a few screencasting tools, and provide tips and insights for making the most of your screencasts. By the end of this workshop you will have a clear understanding of using screencasts to differentiate instruction and the many uses for developing screencasts. We will look closely at Jing and the steps necessary to share videos with community. Teachers will begin to shift their thinking about how students can learn and work in developing the self taught student model. Lia, Denise
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**Screencasting for Educators Agenda Examples of Screencasts** http://screencastingforeducators.blogspot.com November 24, 2009 Projects
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Date: 11/30/2009 Time: 4:00-6:30 Location:89th Street Room 508 Topic:**Planning for Inquiry-based Learning**

Teachers will design, resource and publish an inquiry-based unit that addresses content area and student ISTE standards. Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I understand. The steps of inquiry-based learning for the classroom: Planning, assessing, engaging students in planning, aligning with standards, effective technology integration & creating classroom communities. __**Facilitators**__: Joe, Lia
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__**Agenda & Resources**: Planning for Inquiry-based Learning Agenda @http://www.emints.org/xmodres/activities/inquirybased/researchguide.htm November 30, 2009 Projects__

Date: 12/1/2009 Time: 4:00-6:30 Location:89th Street 4th Floor conference room Topic:**Google Tools in the Classroom**


 * Objectives**:Teachers will explore and create: google maps, calendars, RSS gadgets, & google docs to manage information and collaborate with students and colleagues.
 * Course Description:**Learn to use Google's online collaborative tools to create projects that take learning beyond the four walls of your classroom at the same time as it empowers students to truly collaborate on classroom projects and homework. Participants will learn how to use Google Docs calendars and maps, how to design learning activities around the tools, and how to manage this virtual classroom. Participants should come with a curriculum unit for integration during this session.
 * Facilitators**: Joe, Barrie

Google 4 Educators Agenda December 1, 2009 Projects []
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Date: 12/2//2009 Time: 4:00-6:30 Location:Staten Island Petrides Building A Room 108 Topic:**Planning for Inquiry-based Learning**


 * Objectives**:Teachers will design, resource and publish an inquiry-based unit that addresses content area and student ISTE standards.
 * Course Description**:Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I understand. The steps of inquiry-based learning for the classroom: Planning, assessing, engaging students in planning, aligning with standards, effective technology integration & creating classroom communities.
 * Facilitators**: Susan, Lia

Planning for Inquiry-based Learning Agenda December 2nd, 2009 Projects @http://www.emints.org/xmodres/activities/inquirybased/researchguide.htm
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Date: 12/8/2009 Time: 4:00-6:30 Location:89th Street 4th Floor Topic:**Integrating Social Networking Tools In Your Classroom**


 * Objectives**:Participants will explore the advantages of collaborative learning spaces, and create a Ning for classroom collaboration about a project aligned with content area instruction.
 * Course Description:** Participants will learn how to navigate and align ning with instructional content. Create Ning guidedlines for educational usage. Use the forum or blog post for curriculum discussions, upcoming events or class assignments.
 * Facilitators**: Joe, Steve

Social Networking tools Agenda December 8, 2009 Projects
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Date: 12/16/2009 Time: 4:00-6:30 Location:89th Street 4th Floor Conference Room Topic: **Podcasting in the Classroom**


 * Objectives**: Participants will examine the power of podcasting as an instructional resource, and create podcasts to enhance instructional units.
 * Course Description:** Teachers and students can podcast to get their voices heard, report school and community news, and demonstrate content area instructional units. Teachers and staff can search podcasts for personal learning experiences and professional practices.
 * Facilitators**: Steve, Barrie, Susan

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 * Participant Projects**
 * [|The American Revolutionary War], by Mandy Rosado
 * [|How to Properly Access Study Island], by Simone Salmon
 * [|The Steps to Solve a Multi-Step Equation], by Christine Russo
 * [|iMovie Public Service Reminder], by Jill Miskanic
 * [|Sixties PowerPoint Project Instructions], by Krystal Seebach
 * [|Rock Project], by Jacquelyn Ryan
 * [|Message to iSquad], by John Hutton
 * [|Santa], by Maria Jeffries
 * [|Reminders to Students], by Evelyn Katz
 * [|How to Wash Your Hands], by Samantha Stouber