Libby Solberg PESA Educational Technologist Box 25, Ismay, MT 59336 libby4label@gmail.com 406-772-5583 or 406-951-1896 Our Region I Educational Technologist would enjoy coming to your school and training staff and or students in any of the listed programs. Not seeing what you need? Contact us. We may be able to find resources to fit your specific needs. Online Web Presence-Connecting teachers with students and with parents! It’s a must for today’s classroom. But what should be there? Who cares?! What shouldn’t be there! We will help you design a manageable site, one that is productive and much more than just a “visit-once” billboard. (Schoology, Edmodo, Google, Wikispaces, etc) Web 2.0 Tools-Online applications that are easy to use and real classroom time savers. Adapt this workshop so that your staff received instruction on effective online tools for their grade level or subject area. Save the headache of trying to sifting through the plethora of tools---we’ll go find you just what you need! BTW--we always look for the free applications first! Using Google Earth/Maps in Education-Learn how to use and effectively integrate Google Earth and Google Maps in your lesson plans. This isn’t just for history and geography lessons - Google Earth can be used for any content area. Learn how to find already created content and how to easily add create content for Google Earth. So easy, even your students can do it! Google Tools-Learn how to harness the power of Google in your classroom. Customize this workshop to fit the needs of your staff. Perhaps you want to focus on learning to search in powerful ways or how to begin to use the Google Suite to collaborate effectively. It’s up to you. IWB Training-Learn how to effectively use your SmartBoard in your classroom. Find ways to make it more than an overhead projector or movie screen---get students to the board. iPads for Schools -Workshops can be provided to guide you through the basics or more classroom applications of the Ipad2. Explore some useful educational apps, and learn the power of the Ipad2. Internet Safety-One of the most popular topics, this workshop will give teachers/parents/students resources that will to help students be safe on the internet. Games in Education-Yep, we said it! Learn how to use games to engage and teach students. From online role playing games, to offline games, studies show a high potential for engagement and learning with the right game for your curriculum. Digital Cameras and Storytelling-Quickly and easily create content online. Learn how to quickly create a story using pictures or video using installed programs, online applications, digital cameras, and video cameras. (PhotoStory3, MovieMaker, Storybird?, Animoto, etc.) Microsoft Office--You already own it, but are you using it as well as you’d like to be? Excel for art? Or for study guides? Or quickly update your PowerPoint games from one Excel page rather than individual PowerPoint slides? What about making PowerPoint interactive or use-able with multiple mice? Do your Word documents look professional? They can with the tool set within Word. What about adjusting and tweaking pictures, or making a wonderful movie----Microsoft tools will to that, and chances are you already have them on your computer. Talk with us to design a custom set of workshops to meet your Microsoft Office training needs. Looking At Student Work—This workshop is designed to give educators new ways of looking at student work, ways that emphasize: 1) teachers looking together at student work with colleagues, 2) focusing on small samples of student work, 3) reflecting on important questions about teaching and learning, 4) using structures and guidelines ("protocols") for looking at and talking about student work. This is a research based model that is we’ve used in our grants with wonderful results. Technology Integration via Marzano’s Instructional Strategies—Technology with a purpose! If you have the tools, let’s make sure that their use is rooted in sound instructional theory so that it is meaningful not just “cool”! A workshop can be focused on any of the strategies, or multiple workshops can combine tech tools with many strategies. If your district emphasizes the use of Marzano’s Strategies, then this is the workshop you want. Differentiating Instruction with Technology—Technology has the potential to meet the learning needs of some students that are the most complicated. Kids respond differently to technology, so utilize its power effectively. We will address tech tools from the vantage point of Bloom’s, Marzano, Gardner and others and your teachers will come away with specific ways to integrate tech to differentiate their instruction. Other Services Grant-writing—If you’ve found a funding source and need someone to work through the data gathering, sorting and the writing process, we can help. Having secured more than $1 million in grant funds in the past 10 years, we are here to write for you. In classroom assistance—Your teachers have seen the tools, talked about using them, but just could use that extra help getting comfortable using them with the students. It’s a common obstacle to tech integration that our Curriculum Coach is incredible in helping your staff overcome. You will be glad for every hour you have either our Regional Tech or our Curriculum Coach in your classrooms. Ask us how. PESA Fee Guidelines 1 hour: $250 2 hours: $400 3 hours: $550 1/2 day: $650 (max 4 hrs of training)
Libby Solberg PESA Technologist Box 25, Ismay, MT 59336 libby4label@gmail.com 406-772-5583 or 406-951-1896 |
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