Module 1080
Bring Learning to Life: Maximizing Instruction with Technology-Based Projects
Apply this towards your professional development requirements
Tuition: $225 complete
What You'll Learn The effective educators of today know how to use technology to their advantage. Do you? In this module, you’ll learn why technology-based projects are a powerful way to bring your lesson plans to life. Discover how to guide your students through the Roman Coliseum, the Pyramids of Egypt and the Safaris of Africa with a few clicks of a mouse. Learn how to tap into the vast resources of the internet to create exciting, engaging lesson plans and classroom activities – regardless of age level or content area.
In this module, you will learn how to:
Utilize the internet to promote a stimulating classroom environment Integrate technology projects into effective ‘bell ringer’ engagement activities Develop Web 2.0 activities that appeal to digital/visual learners Guide your class through a “Virtual Field Trip” Highlights Digital Engagement Strategies Instant "bell-ringer" activities that encourage creative thinking Web 2.0 project rubric and assessment strategies Digital tools that promote vocabulary, literary, math and geography skills Blogs and photo sites that stimulate students’ brains Virtual Travel – The Field Trips of the Future Traveling the world through Virtual Tour sites Using Web Cams as a data collecting tools Exploring the world topography through Google Earth Experiencing historic events through panoramic photo imaging Web 2.0 for All Grade Levels and Content Areas Digital images that capture students' attention Quick and easy student project options Web-based project publishing and collaboration Boosting reading and writing skills through the Web Your Instructor Joanne Troutner is an educator with over 30 years of experience. Joanne has worked as an educational consultant and trainer for IBM and ETS. Joanne has given speeches and workshops that include presentations at the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development annual conference, American Association of School Librarians conferences, National Educational Computing Conference, and American Library Association.
Joanne has also presented to state library media conferences and computer conventions in South Carolina, Maryland, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Illinois, Michigan and Indiana. She has been conducting computer training since 1981 with adult learners. The professional development model she uses has been implemented successfully with over 6,200 teachers across the U.S. and Canada.
The Virtual Teachers Lounge™
Check in with your peers and get answers to your questions – any time, 24/7. Taking this course will give you exclusive access to the thoughts, insights and experience of other educators and K-12 experts discussing your topics and giving you solutions and ideas for whatever is on your mind. In the Teachers' lounge, you can:
Learn new, working strategies and solutions from other educators – live!
Get answers to your toughest questions from top K-12 experts
Discuss course topics with your peers and benefit from their experiences
Share your success stories and best practices to benefit other teachers and administrators
Get new perspectives, fresh ideas and guidance – whenever you need it.
You can log whenever is most convenient for you, 24/7
All you have to do is sign up for this course, and you're in!
Materials & Assessment
Lectures
Your lectures, delivered by one of the nation's leading, recognized experts on
this topic, are presented in multiple parts to make listening and tracking your
progress easier. You can listen to each as often as you like by playing it on your
computer, downloading it to your iPod or other MP3 player, even burning it to CD.
Listen wherever it is most convenient for you: at home, in your car; at the park;
and whenever you like: before or after work, at night or on
weekends. Many educators can complete a module in only a week.
Text Resources
Virtual text resources are downloadable and expand on the material covered in your lectures. They may include articles, web links to related materials and web sites, definitions of important terms and concepts, and a bibliography. All materials can be viewed on your computer or downloaded and printed.
Assessment
To receive your Certificate of Completion or Certificate of Attendance and earn Professional Development/Continuing Education units/credits/hours, you will need to complete all assessments and submit all final projects.
Virtual Teachers Lounge
To gain Professional Development credits or hours for any of these three modules, you must participate in the Virtual teachers Lounge discussion for that module. If you are not seeking credits or hours, participation in the Lounge is not mandatory, but you are still welcome to connect with and share your thoughts, questions, insights and experience with your peers at any time.
Register Now Bring Learning to Life: Maximizing Instruction with Technology-Based Projects Tuition: $225