Helping Teachers Get IT!

IT is Not Just About Technology

Reprinted with special permission of King Features SyndicateCopyright 1999

IT is About Kids & Learning

Student centered learning is the answer. Technology is the tool to...

•Facilitate change

•Engage students

•Make learning real

•Break down the walls of the classroom

•Improve your practice

OII Workshops

•From enhancing your current practice

•To fostering new ways of teaching and learning

•Take you from where you are to where you want to go

•Develop a technology vision

•Build comfort levels

•Build skill levels

•Establish a foundation for learning

•Understand the need to change our teaching and learning methods

Finding your Way and Pathways to Working the Web for Education

•Understand the culture of online exchanges

•Locate experts and colleagues

•Develop collaborative skills

Effective Online Communication

•Learn strategies that work across a wide range of search tools

•Locate what you want, when you want

•When not to use the net

•Evaluating Information

Internet Search Strategies

Resource Exploration

•Early Childhood Education•Science & Math•History•The Arts•Language Arts & Humanities•Customized Tours

Tour of some of the best resources and activities on the web

Information Literacy

Locating information is just the first step.

•Evaluating information

•Applying information

•Developing critical thinking

•Problem solving

Student Research

•Big6 Research Techniques

•Provide students with a proven method

•Develop critical thinking

•Intellectual property issues

•Develop lifelong learning

Basic Web Activity Design

•For those new to the web

•Activities to begin transforming the classroom

•Enhance current practice

•Empower and engage students

Advanced Web Activity Design

•For those comfortable with the web

•Activities to create student centered learning

•Empower and engage students

•High quality WebQuests

Student & Teacher Web Publishing

•Utilizing the medium

•Publishing techniques to get the message across

•Student safety & teacher liability

•Copyright and intellectual property issues

•When and why you should publish

It’s not just about making web pages!

Other Services

•Technology Readiness Assessment

•Train the Trainers Programs

•Custom Workshops