Chromebooks in the Cloud Classroom
Bring the Cloud to your Classroom! This Professional Development is designed to help educators effectively integrate Chromebooks and Cloud tools into a project-based educational framework. Participants gain experience using Chromebooks, evaluating online tools for educational use, and exploring strategies for teaching with this technology. This hybrid course has two in person sessions and weekly online discussions and assignments The in person sessions of this course will be taught using Chromebooks. We have a limited number available for you to use. If you have access to a Chromebook, you are welcome to use it in class.
Elementary Session
Dates: July 6 and 20, 2016
Time: 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
Secondary Session
Dates: August 10, 2016
Time: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
The Connected Educator: Developing your Professional Learning Network
This four-week hybrid course helps teachers tap the educational potential of social media tools for your professional development and use in your classroom. Participants will learn how tools like Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google +, Facebook, and more can be incorporated into your Professional Learning Network (PLN). Along the way, participants will explore strategies for using social media tools to challenge and engage students, as well as improve parent-student-teacher communication. In addition to class time, participants will also have weekly online discussions and assignments.
Dates: August 2, 9, 23, and 30
Time: 4:30 – 6:30 p.m
Multimedia Projects with iPads for Elementary Teachers
The iPad’s powerful collection of multimedia tools provide new and innovative ways for students to demonstrate learning through creative and motivating projects. This professional development is designed to help elementary educators effectively integrate this technology into a project-based educational framework. Participants will learn to utilize the iPad to plan, teach, manage and evaluate a variety of student created multimedia projects tied to the core curriculum.
Dates: July 7 and 21, 2016
Time: 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
Online Google Tools (Google Apps for Education)
This courses introduces teachers to Google Apps for Education which is available for students in grades 3-12. Google Apps for Education (GAFE) is a suite of secure web-based and collaborative applications that includes Documents, Slides, Sheets, Forms and Classroom. It allows students and teachers to work and learn together anytime, anywhere, and on any device. GAFE is hosted by Google, and is managed by Jordan School District. When students log into their school google account, they are seamlessly connected to the GAFE suite of productivity and collaboration tools.
The first class session will be taught in the ASB Computer Lab to introduce you to Jordan District’s Canvas online learning system.
Elementary Session
Date: July 6, 2016
Time: 2:00 pm
Secondary Session
Date: August 3, 2016
Time: 10:00 am
Utah Online Library: Preschool/Elementary
This 6 week online class is designed to help preschool and elementary teachers and library media specialists effectively use the wealth of information resources in Utah’s Online Library (formerly Pioneer Library) to enrich their teaching and students’ learning. The course guides participants through using the many databases of newspapers, journals and magazines as well as encyclopedias, videos, music collections and more. Each week participants add on to a resource list, as well as explore project-based learning activities and effective research strategies that ensure students benefit from the Online Library’s resources as well. The course weekly start day is Wednesday and all weekly assignments and discussions are due the following Wednesday at 11:59 pm. The materials are available for review starting on the Thursday before the due date.
We meet in the ASB Computer Lab.
Date: August 3, 2016
Time: 9:00 am to 11:0 am to introduce the course outline.
Digital Citizenship for Secondary Educators
In this course participants will learn what digital citizenship is, how to teach students to be responsible digital citizens, and how to talk with students openly about cyberbullying and other potential pitfalls of social media. Participants will learn the how to model digital citizenship and develop tools and lessons to use with students of all ages.
Date: August 3, 2016
Time: 1:00-2:00 pm