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Professional Development

The workshop, Instructional Technology Resources and Procedures, is set up to address a variety of instructional technology topics. In order to receive renewal credit a minimum of 5 hours (.5 CEU) must be attended. The maximum credit allowed is 1.0 CEU (10 hours of training).

Topics already presented and included in the total number of hours are:

Copyright Law (.5 hour)
ClassScapes (1 hour)
Prescriptive Instruction Training (1.5 hours)
Podcasting (K teachers - 1 hour)

The remaining topics are to be determined by the participants in order to better address the needs of the each teacher.
Choices include but are not limited to:

ActivStudio - ActivBoard Training - January 28th 3:10-4:40
Troubleshooting Your Mac and Other OS X Tips
Assessment Tools - Key Skills/Orchard (K-2)
Assessment Tools - PI
Assessment Tools - ClassScapes (3-5)
Assessment Tools - ActiVote ("Egg" response pads)
NeoOffice - Working on files in Windows or Mac
Keynote for Kids - Lesson Ideas
Spreadsheets for Kids - Lesson Ideas (Grade 2-5)
Pages for Kids - Lesson Ideas
Digital Cameras for Kids - Lesson Ideas
Audio Stories for Kids (Using Garageband and/or Kid Pix) - Lesson Ideas

Click here to take the professional development needs and wants survey.

IMPACT

This year Millbridge has become an IMPACT school. IMPACT is a collaboration model developed by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction to provide guidelines for technology and media integration with classroom instruction. The primary goals of IMPACT are:

Media and technology programs focus on student achievement.
Approach to instruction is learner-centered
Collaboratively planned lessons
Lessons are authentic, engaging, enriched by high-quality resources and current technologies

Teachers will be planning collaboratively with the media coordinator and the technology facilitator as well as other enhancement teachers in the school. Students and teachers will have flexible access to both the media center and the computer labs so that Project Based units can be implemented.

For more information on IMPACT go to:
http://www.ncwiseowl.org/impact/

Teachers will be interested in IMPACT for Teachers:
http://www.ncwiseowl.org/kscope/impact/

In preparation for IMPACT twelve teachers from Millbridge attended a weeklong workshop this past summer. QUEST (Quality Educational Strategies and Technologies) allowed the teachers an opportunity to experience many authentic, technology-rich lessons. Teachers utilized many technology tools, e.g. cameras, Classroom Performance Systems, ActivBoards, Digital Microscope, document cameras, and worked with a variety of software. Lessons modeled activating, cognitive and summarizing strategies, designed to engage all learners. The week ended with a collaborative planning session where teachers began the process of planning a project-based learning activity to do with their students. Teachers will use the strategies from this summer's workshop as they implement IMPACT during this school year.