April 2019 RCET Workshops - April 8 - 27, 2019
All April workshops are held from April 8 - 27, 2019.
Diigo: Online Annotation and Media Literacy
Annotating a book is an important skill for any student to learn. Highlight text, sharing ideas and writing in the margins is a common practice in schools today. Diigo lets you do that on the Web. Imagine a website, you read four years ago, that has your highlights, post it notes, and annotated images saved to your library. Now think about how you can share your ideas and annotations with students, guide them in difficult passages and differentiate the content for certain students. Diigo is a free, web-based application that will allow you to bring these imaginations into your classroom.
Instructor: JC Lenk & D. Garth Holman
Date: April 8 - 27
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Introduction to Mindfulness
This mini-course is designed to introduce teachers to mindfulness and explore benefits and applications of mindfulness in educational settings.
Instructor: Becca Hollis
Date: April 8 - 27
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Learning First, Technology Second
Designing authentic lessons can be overwhelming with so many different technology resources available, along with constant new tools appearing daily. Learn how to apply the Triple E Framework developed by Liz Kolb, Professor at the University of Michigan. This easy and practical framework can be used on its own, or easily by extended as part of TPACK, TIM and SAMR model frameworks. You will create a lesson applying the Triple E Framework resulting in an authentic lesson where learning is first and technology is second.
Note: There is a required text for this course that must be purchased by the participant: Learning First, Technology Second by Liz Kolb. Available for purchase through Amazon.
Instructor: Laurie S. Green
Date: April 8 - 27
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Lifelong Kindergarten
The book, "Lifelong Kindergarten", by Dr. Mitch Resnick, LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research and Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT Media lab, will be the focus of this course. Resnick makes a great case that "the rest of school (even the rest of life) should be more like kindergarten." Beginning with "Froebels Kindergarten" in 1837 Resnick shows us how we can nurture creativity and learning in ourselves and our students. Skills that are necessary for today's learner. Students will read and discuss Resnick's ideas, create an action plan to enhance their classroom applying the concepts shared in the book.
Note: There is a required text for this course that must be purchased by the participant: Lifelong Kindergarten, Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play by Mitchel Resnick. Options for purchasing.
Instructor: Laurie S. Green
Date: April 8 - 27
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My Maps: Interactive Online Mapping
This course features the free product of Google My Maps. This interactive tool can be used in a variety of ways in a variety of different subjects. In this course you will learn the ins and outs of this program helping you guide your students to create a great visual of class content that allows students to quickly recall previously learned content, because they built it! You will learn how to plot points on a map and customize pins, images, videos, links, lines and shaded regions all while gathering ideas for you to use in your classroom upon completion.
Instructor: JC Lenk & D. Garth Holman
Date: April 8 - 27
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Pear Deck: Presentations and Engagement
How do you get every student to answer every question that you ask? Pear Deck, that's how. Using Pear Deck allows you to get 100% of your students to answer 100% of the questions. The main purpose of "Pear Deck: Blur the Line on Your Presentations and Get 100% Engagement" is to transform your daily lesson into an interactive conversation between the whole class that blurs the line between traditional instruction and learning while students receive immediate feedback. That feedback or formative assessment can then be used by the teacher to help make decisions about future lessons. All students in this course will learn how to make, save and use these interactive Pear Deck's in their own classroom.
Instructor: JC Lenk & D. Garth Holman
Date: April 8 - 27