Technology+Academy

Tech Academy 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.

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__**2010-2011 Agendas:**__ TA-Oct2010 TA-iPad for Administrators-Spring 2011

Past Course Offerings:
 * Course**: **Planning for Inquiry-based Learning**
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 * __Course Description__**: Inquiry-based learning is a teaching method that combines the curiosity of students to enhance the development of critical thinking skills while learning various content area. This three session course will walk you through the steps of planning an inquiry-based learning unit that you can implement in your classroom. You will be planning, assessing, aligning with standards and implementing effective technology tools. Participants must attend all three days of this workshop. **//Participants must attend all three days of this workshop.//**
 * __Objectives__**: Teachers will design, resource and publish an inquiry-based unit that addresses content area and student ISTE standards using an online collaborative space.
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**Course**: **Transforming Instructional Practices Using Digital Media** 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. **//Participants must attend both days of this workshop.//**
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 * __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.
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**Google Tools in the Classroom**
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__**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. Participants must attend all three days of this workshop. **//Participants must attend all three days of this workshop.//** Teachers will explore and create: google maps, calendars, RSS gadgets, google site, google docs, and google forms to manage information and collaborate with students and colleagues.
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**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. **__Facilitators__**:
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 * __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. **//Participants must attend both days of this workshop.//**
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