Curriculum-Based Professional DevelopmentTHE INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES: MISSION & STRUCTURE
The Institute for Learning Technologies (ILT) is a research and development department of Columbia University and Teachers College dedicated to advancing innovations in education. Founded in 1986 at Teachers College, Columbia University, ILT develops, tests, and implements effective pedagogical approaches to the use of new and emerging information and communication technologies and designs technology-based teaching and learning methods that enable students and teachers to maximize the potential of the educational process. This ultimately leads to new ways of engaging and assessing students and transforms the structure and culture of educational institutions. The scope of ILT's new media development efforts includes K-12 Professional Development, the New Media Center for Teaching and Learning, Project Development, and Evaluation. ILT delivers professional development services in the form of workshops, institutes and curriculum collaboratories for teachers, librarians, technology coordinators, and school administrators.
Collaboratories
Collaboratories take place all day on Saturdays. Teachers may attend the collaboratory to develop individual and collaborative projects. There, they have access to hardware & software, technology support, curriculum development experts and other teachers.
Implementation Workshops
Implementation workshops are two-hour in-person or point-to-point follow up sessions with the instructor. The implementation workshops supplement other forms of follow up taking place throughout the course of the academic year.
Invention Workshops
Invention workshops are one- and two-day sessions that focus on individual Web sites and software that are in development. These workshops give teachers in the Consortium an opportunity to work with and incorporate cutting edge technologies into their curriculum projects.
Workshops
ILT workshops, generally 1-2 days in length, are content-based and participatory. ILT strives to model best practice in education by structuring collaborative, project-oriented learning experiences. Workshops are designed to mobilize teacher creativity and initiate a continuing process of curriculum development and technology integration. Workshops motivate teachers to further develop curriculum projects in the collaboratory.
August 31 & September 1, 1998
LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES & THE SCIENCE CURRICULUM (6-9) (NHEEEP 300)
This workshop focuses on the enhancement of science curriculum in grades 6-9 through the use of computer-based simulations, data visualizations and analysis tools, and "virtual laboratory" tools and activities. The workshop addresses curriculum structures, with special attention paid to the virtues of a "task stream" approach wherein students' academic responsibilities are defined in terms of discrete problems they must engage in groups in sequence using the tools. Exploring the technology as a means of nurturing scientific literacy and quantitative understanding is also a key element of the workshop. Much of the workshop is oriented around the integration of proven software designed by the instructor, a science teacher with over 30 years of classroom experience who is also a principle in a commercial educational technology venture. All participants will receive site licenses for the software so that they may use the software with their students as much as they choose. The workshop includes online follow-up support throughout the school year.
Instructor(s): Malcolm Thompson, Thompson Educational Consulting, L.L.C.
Location: Hudson Falls District Office Technology Lab
Date(s): August 31 & September 1, 1998
Time: 8:30AM-5:00PM
August 31 & September 1, 1998
DEVELOPING LANGUAGE & LITERACY IN THE K-5 CLASSROOM (NHEEEP 301)
This workshop focuses on ways new media can be used to help young children develop mature communication skills. Workshop participants are exposed to numerous multimedia programs and projects that address reading, writing, listening, and related creative and interpretive skills. Computer-Aided Instruction (CAI) programs for individualized reading instructions are also reviewed in the workshop. Visual literacy, including everything from fine art understanding to map reading, is addressed as well. Workshop participants will work with several cutting-edge products developed at Columbia that they may continue to use with their students following the workshop. The workshop includes follow-up support throughout the school year.
Instructor(s): Cory Brandt, Columbia University
Laurie Marshall, Consultant
Location: Hudson Falls District Office Technology Lab
Date(s): August 31 & September 1, 1998
Time: 8:30AM-4:30PM
September 2 & 3, 1998
NETWORKED MULTIMEDIA IN THE HIGH SCHOOL HUMANITIES CLASSROOM (NHEEEP 302)
This workshop focuses on enhancement of humanities curriculum through the use of multimedia information resources, hypermedia authoring, online conferencing, commercially available software, high quality Web sites, and generic applications (e.g., spreadsheets and word processors). Participants design and develop curriculum components that address NY State Regents Standards and that enable students to learn through formal research processes using powerful tools and rich information resources. The workshop addresses the development of project-based curriculum elements that encourage students to learn from each other while working in groups but that also attend to individual students' particular needs. The workshop exposes participants to numerous ongoing projects at Columbia University and elsewhere which teachers may wish to have their classes become involved. The workshop includes follow-up support throughout the school year.
Instructor(s): Frank Moretti, Columbia University
Luyen Chou, Learning Technologies Interactive
Location: Hudson Falls District Office Technology Lab
Date(s): September 2 & 3, 1998
Time: 8:30AM-4:30PM
September 26, 1998
SUPPORTING A STANDARDS-BASED CURRICULUM USING THE WORLD WIDE WEB (NHEEEP 303)
This workshop introduces K-12 educators to outstanding resources on the Web and explores integrating those resources into a standards-based curriculum. Through the Curriculum Navigator Web site, participants use the New York State Regents’ standards as an interface to exemplary educational Web resources. They will then work collaboratively to design model curricular units. Discussions will cover navigation techniques, site selection criteria, classroom use of the Web and basic Web page design and development. Educators will leave the workshop with a deeper understanding of the Web, a variety of Web sites suited to the subjects and levels they teach, and a collection of units that model how the Web can be incorporated into their teaching. The workshop includes follow-up support throughout the school year.
Instructor(s): Rachel Balsam, Consultant
Location: Hudson Falls District Office Technology Lab
Date(s): September 26, 1999
Time: 8:30AM-4:30PM
September 28 & 29, 1998
SITE MANAGER’S MEETING (NHEEEP 304)
This workshop orients participants to the North Hudson Electronic Education Empowerment Project (NHEEEP). The workshop discusses the concept behind the consortium as outlined in the grant proposal, underlying purpose and goals of the project, and proposes a "straw plan" for implementation. Participants are encouraged to contribute to the implementation plan based upon their perception and in-school experience. Bell Atlantic, a partner in NHEEEP, has agreed to provide resources to support the use of Intel ProShare desktop video conferencing technology as a means of keeping key project personnel at all sites connected. Project management as well as key school-based participants (most likely, the Webmasters) will use the ProShare systems to coordinate planning; in particular, the video conferencing system will be an important means of facilitating consortium-wide interaction. This workshop will train key participants in the use of the ProShare system and will provide opportunity for participants' to develop a "virtual meeting" schedule to be implemented using the system. The workshop includes follow-up support throughout the school year.
Instructor(s): Kelly Corder, Columbia University
Gregory Partch, Hudson Falls District Office
Location: Hudson Falls Technology Training Center
Date(s): September 28 & 29, 1998
Time: 8:30AM-4:30PM
September 30 & October 1, 1998
SOHO INTERNET:RUNTIME (NHEEEP 305)
The development of a consortium-wide World wide Web site for sharing experience and curriculum developments is a key element of the North Hudson Electronic Education Empowerment Project. The Soho Internetworking Co., a partner in the project, has created software that facilitates the development and maintenance of such Web-based "extranets" call "RunTime Site Builder." The program allows individuals at distributed sites with limited technical understanding to contribute information to a common Web site; it manages privileges for mounting information on the site, schedules updates, supports conferencing forums and provides design templates. The project-wide Web site will be a RunTime site. Each school in the NHEEEP consortium will designate a staff member as Webmaster. That individual will be responsible for representing his or her school's activities on the site. This workshop, conducted by Soho Internetworking, will train school-based webmasters in the use of RunTime and will involve participants in initial development of the site. The NHEEEP Runtime Web site should evolve into a rich repository of curriculum developments, lesson plans, high quality Web links, announcements of events, and it should also become a hotbed of communication and sharing related to project participants' efforts to. The workshop includes follow-up support throughout the school year.
Instructor(s): Bob Matsuoka, SOHO Internet
John Bogosian, SOHO Internet
Heidi Lobecker, SOHO Internet
Location: Hudson Falls District Office Technology
Date(s): September 30 & October 1, 1998
Time: 8:30AM-4:30PM
October 20 & 21, 1998
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES & THE SCHOOL LIBRARIES (NHEEEP 306)
This workshop focuses on the full range of information resources schools can use to enhance teaching and learning from hands-on sources such as books, videos, and CD's to network resources including the Web. Participants will explore the relationship between traditional library materials and emerging information literacy in curriculum development and database applications for the management of academic information. Attention will be paid to the design of effective library programs that integrate traditional and new media resources in the context of specific financial constraints. The workshop includes follow-up support throughout the school year.
Instructor(s): Cory Brandt, Columbia University
Location: Hudson Falls District Office Technology Lab
Date(s): October 20 & 21, 1998
Time: 8:30AM-4:30PM
October 27 & 28, 1998
LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES & THE SCIENCE CURRICULUM (6-8)(NHEEEP 307)
This workshop focuses on the enhancement of science curriculum in grades 6-9 through the use of computer-based simulations, data visualizations and analysis tools, and "virtual laboratory" tools and activities. The workshop addresses curriculum structures, with special attention paid to the virtues of a "task stream" approach wherein students' academic responsibilities are defined in terms of discrete problems they must engage in groups in sequence using the tools. Exploring the technology as a means of nurturing scientific literacy and quantitative understanding is also a key element of the workshop. Much of the workshop is oriented around the integration of proven software designed by the instructor, a science teacher with over 30 years of classroom experience who is also a principle in a commercial educational technology venture. All participants will receive site licenses for the software so that they may use the software with their students as much as they choose. The workshop includes follow-up support throughout the school year.
Instructor(s): Malcolm Thompson, Thompson Educational Consulting, L.L.C.
Location: Hudson Falls District Office Technology Lab
Date(s): October 27 & 28, 1998
Time: 8:30AM-4:30PM
November 7, 1998
LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES & THE MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM (6-12)(NHEEEP 308)
This workshop focuses on enhancement of the mathematics curriculum through use of multimedia information resources. Web-based resources and several commercial packages that support the acquisition of content knowledge, and the use of tools for representing, analyzing, and manipulating data are explored. Participants will work to design and develop curriculum components that address NY State Regents Standards and engage students in authentic academic work. The workshop exposes participants to numerous ongoing projects at Columbia University and elsewhere with which teachers may wish to become involved. The workshop includes follow-up support throughout the school year.
Instructor (s): David Hoppe, The Dalton School
Location: Hudson Falls District Office Technology Lab
Date(s): November 7, 1998
Time: 8:30AM-4:30PM
December 1 & 2, 1998
LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES & THE SCIENCE CURRICULUM (K-5)(NHEEEP 310)
This workshop focuses on enhancement of the K-5 science curriculum through use of multimedia information resources. Web-based resources and several commercial packages that support the acquisition of content knowledge, and the use of tools for representing, analyzing, and manipulating data are explored. Participants will work to design and develop curriculum components that address NY State Regents Standards and engage students in authentic academic work. The workshop exposes participants to numerous ongoing projects at Columbia University and elsewhere with which teachers may wish to become involved. The workshop includes follow-up support throughout the school year.
Instructor(s): Kristina Ransick, Columbia University
Location: Hudson Falls District Office Technology Lab
Date(s): December 1 & 2, 1998
Time: 8:30AM-4:30PM
December 11 & 12, 1998
IMPLEMENTING YOUR DISTRICT’S TECHNOLOGY PLAN (NHEEEP 309)
This workshop is designed to assist superintendents and/or technology coordinators in the continued development of their existing district-wide technology plan. The workshop covers 5 key components of the planning process. Section one centers on a discussion regarding the importance of technology and its potential impact on educational and administrative outcomes. Section two provides an overview of the current market for the purpose of choosing appropriate technologies and remaining at the forefront of the emerging trends. Section three highlights the economics if the plan to illustrate the importance of scalability and collaboration. Section four stresses the importance of empowering schools as unique communities. Finally, section five discusses the importance of educational outcomes and assessment. Activities include the review of existing technology plans and the design of a template for future plan development with specific attention to educational utility and relationship to student performance. Participants will leave the workshop with the ability to lead the development of district-wide technology planning effort.
Instructor(s): Theron Feist, Consultant
Location: Hudson Falls District Office Technology Lab
Date(s): December 11-12, 1998
Time: 8:30AM-4:30PM
December 15 & 16, 1998
NETWORKED MULTIMEDIA IN THE K-5 HUMANITIES CLASSROOM (NHEEEP 311)
This workshop focuses on the integration of Web-based and stand-alone multimedia applications and resources into the K-5 language arts curriculum. This workshop emphasizes the use of technology to support reading instruction and related literacy activities. Participants will work in small groups to design and create humanities curriculum units that emphasize critical reading skills and improved writing that can be tested in a classroom setting. The workshop exposes participants to numerous ongoing projects at Columbia University and elsewhere with which teachers may wish to become involved. The workshop includes follow-up support throughout the school year.
Instructor(s): Jennifer Hogan, Columbia University
Location: Hudson Falls District Office Technology Lab
Date(s): December 15 & 16, 1998
Time: 8:30AM-4:30PM
February 9 & 10, 1999
ELECTRONIC MAIL & SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATORS
This workshop provides an overview of software, hardware and technical implementation of an email system. Initial topics include review of available software, cost, alternative hardware configurations, maintenance issues, propriety of communications, supervision and management. Workshop focuses on how teachers utilize systems to increase students' engagement, increase students' course production and promote meaningful content-oriented conversations outside of class time. This workshop focuses on uses of e-mail and online conferencing to increase student engagement, enhance student productivity, and promote meaningful content-oriented conversations among students, teachers and outside experts. Participants will also work to design and develop curriculum components that explore the classroom potential of communications tools by utilizing information processing and data management tools such as spreadsheets, word processors, image processors, basic multimedia authoring tools, databases and Web page design for the classroom. Participants are guided in the design and development of curriculum projects that integrate one or more of the applications covered. The workshop includes follow-up support throughout the school year.
Instructor(s): Ray Stewart, Columbia University
Location: Hudson Falls District Office Technology Lab
Date(s): February 9 & 10, 1999
Time: 8:30AM-4:30PM
February 23 & 24, 1999
LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES & THE SCIENCE CURRICULUM (6-12)
This workshop will use the resources of the Center for International Earth Science Information Network's (CIESIN) located at Columbia University to focus on enhancement of the 6-12 curriculum. The two days will focus on how to use the socio-economic, geographic and environmental data and information found on CIESIN's website in teaching environmental science concepts. Topics which may be addressed include using demographic data to look at US population density and reviewing the content and status of environmental treaties (e.g. on biological diversity or global climate change). Participants will work to design and develop curriculum components that address NY State Regents Standards and engage students in authentic academic work. The workshop includes follow-up support thoughout the school year. Grades 6-12 Social Studies teachers are welcome as many of CIESINs's resources can also be used to enhance the social studies curriculum.
Instructor(s): Kristina Ransick, Columbia University
Location: Hudson Falls District Office Technology Lab
Date(s): February 23 & 24, 1999
Time: 8:30AM-4:30PM
March 9 & 10, 1999
ELECTRONIC MAIL & SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS FOR ADMINISTRATORS
This workshop focuses on the use of electronic mail to conduct school business in the interest of efficiency and economy. This instruction is intended to demonstrate emails use as a tool for communications among administrators and also between administrators and faculty. A significant part of the workshop focuses on developing the skills to discriminate between issues better handled on-line and those that should be addressed in face-to-face meetings. This workshop directed at administrators will demonstrate how administrators might make use of on-line software for report production, document development, project tracking and so on. Particular emphasis is placed on how, in a network environment, data can be shared and updated, and documents developed collaboratively without consuming excessive time in face-to-face meetings. The workshop includes follow-up support throughout the school year.
Instructor(s): Ray Stewart, Columbia University
Location: Hudson Falls District Office Technology Lab
Date(s): March 9 & 10, 1999
Time: 8:30AM-4:30PM
March 16 & 17, 1999
CONSTRUCTING & MANAGING YOUR SCHOOL'S NETWORK
This workshop provides an overview of the requirements for maintaining a network within a specific school. Topics include selection of hardware, stages of implementation specific to spaces and finances, strategy for Internet implementation, and access from an external site. This workshop focuses on the requirements for maintaining a schools’ local and wide area networks. The workshop defines and delineates the responsibilities of individuals who are involved and the methods for deploying students effectively in the management process. A detailed assessment of the annual cycle of maintenance that a local network requires. Particular attention is paid to issues relating to copyright protection and appropriate use of software within legal constraints. The workshop includes follow-up support throughout the school year.
Instructor: Theron Feist, Consultant
Location: Hudson Falls District Office Technology Lab
Date: March 16 & 17, 1999
Time: 8:30AM-4:30AM
March 18 & 19, 1999
DIGITAL PORTFOLIOS OF STUDENT WORK: PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION
How do you know if your students are meeting standards? Traditional report cards and transcripts provide just a glimpse of what a student knows and can do. In this workshop, we will look at Digital Portfolios-multimedia or web-based collections of student work. When designed well, Digital Portfolios can provide a much richer picture of a student’s knowledge and abilities, and provide a more complete indication of a student’s progress towards standards. During the two days, participants will discuss the issues involved in creating Digital Portfolios. We will look at example portfolios from elementary, middle, and high schools, and have some hands on time developing a portfolio. While some time will be spent on the technological issues, the primary emphasis will be on the development of a school’s vision on how students can meet standards, and how a school’s practices can support performance assessments. The workshop includes follow-up support throughout the school year.
Instructor(s): David Niguidula, Consultant, Technology and School Reform
Location: Hudson Falls District Office Technology Lab
Date(s): February 16 & 17, 1999
Time: 8:30AM-4:30PM
March 23 & 24, 1999
LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES & THE MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM (6-12)
This workshop focuses on enhancement of the mathematics curriculum through use of multimedia information resources. Web-based resources and several commercial packages that support the acquisition of content knowledge, and the use of tools for representing, analyzing, and manipulating data are explored. Participants will work to design and develop curriculum components that address NY State Regents Standards and engage students in authentic academic work. The workshop exposes participants to numerous ongoing projects at Columbia University and elsewhere with which teachers may wish to become involved. The workshop includes follow-up support throughout the school year.
Instructor(s): David Hoppe, The Dalton School
Location: BOCES
Date(s): March 23 & 24, 1999
Time: 8:30AM-4:30PM
March 23 & 24, 1999
DEVELOPING LANUGAGE & LITERACY IN THE K-5 CLASSROOM
This workshop focuses on ways new media can be used to help young children develop mature communication skills. Workshop participants are exposed to numerous multimedia programs and projects that address reading, writing, listening, and related creative and interpretive skills. Computer-Aided Instruction (CAI) programs for individualized reading instructions are also reviewed in the workshop. Visual literacy, including everything from fine art understanding to map reading, is addressed as well. Workshop participants will work with several cutting-edge products developed at Columbia that they may continue to use with their students following the workshop. The workshop includes online follow-up support throughout the school year.
Instructor(s): Joann Kleifgen, Columbia University
Location: Hudson Falls District Office Technology Lab
Date(s): March 23 & 24, 1999
Time: 8:30AM-4:30PM
March 30 & 31, 1999
NETWORKED MULTIMEDIA IN THE 6-12 SOCIAL STUDIES CLASSROOM
This workshop focuses on enhancing the social studies curriculum through the use of multimedia information resources. The workshop integrates both Web-based and stand-alone multimedia applications and resources into the social studies curriculum. Participants will design and develop curriculum components that address the NY State Regents Standards and engage students in authentic academic work. This workshop will use the Document-Based Question as a basis for exploring student-centered activities that engage participants in considering technology integration as it relates to: research skills; depth vs. coverage of content; higher order thinking; student decision making; group process; and assessment.
Instructor(s): Dick Parsons, Columbia University
Location: Hudson Fall District Office Technology Lab
Date(s): March 30 & 31, 1999
Time: 8:30AM-4:30PM
April 6 & 7, 1999
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES & THE SCHOOL LIBRARIES
This workshop explores the full range of information resources that can be used to enhance teaching and learning from hands-on sources such as books, videos, and CD’s to network resources including the Web. The relationship between traditional library materials and new media resources for curriculum development is explored. The use of database applications for curriculum development and the management of academic information are also covered. Participants gain hands-on experience by applying new technologies to information management challenges in their schools. The workshop includes follow-up support throughout the school year.
Instructor(s): Cory Brandt, Columbia University
Location: Hudson Falls District Office Technology Lab
Date(s): April 6 & 7, 1999
Time: 8:30AM-4:30PM
April 13 & 14, 1999
NETWORKED MULTIMEDIA IN THE HIGH SCHOOL HUMANITIES CLASSROOM
This workshop focuses on enhancement of high school humanities curriculum through the use of multimedia information resources, hypermedia authoring, online conferencing, commercially available software, high quality Web sites, and generic applications (e.g., spreadsheets and word processors). Participants design and develop curriculum components that address NY State Regents Standards and that enable students to learn through formal research processes using powerful tools and rich information resources. The workshop addresses the development of project-based curriculum elements that encourage students to learn from each other while working in groups but that also attend to individual students' particular needs. The workshop exposes participants to numerous ongoing projects at Columbia University and elsewhere that teachers may wish to have their classes become involved with. The workshop includes online follow-up throughout the school year.
Instructor(s): Malcolm Thompson, Thompson Educational Consulting, L.L.C.
Location: Hudson Falls District Office Technology Lab
Date(s): April 13 & 14, 1999
Time: 8:30AM-4:30PM
April 28 & 29, 1999
USING PRIMARY DOCUMENTS IN THE SOCIAL STUDIES CLASSROOM
This workshop is designed for K-12 Social Studies teachers who are interested in integrating primary source material into their current curricula. Workshop participants will be introduced to a wealth of Web-based primary documents, including censuses, maps, photographs, eyewitness accounts, diaries, and newspapers. They will develop a plan for correlating primary-source activities with the New York State Learning Standards, and will create Document-Based Questions of increasing levels of difficulty that prepare students for the new State assessments. They will be introduced to several pieces of graphic organizing software, including Tom Snyder's TimeLiner, Inspiration Inc.'s Inspiration, and Edunetic's Visual Planner, and will also learn how to publish individualized sets of primary and secondary documents to the Web.
Instructor(s): Susan Lowes, Columbia University
Location: Hudson Falls District Office Technology Lab
Date(s): April 27 & 28, 1999
Time: 8:30AM-4:30PM
May 4 & 5, 1999
SECOND SITE MANAGER’S MEETING
This workshop orients participants to the North Hudson Electronic Education Empowerment Project (NHEEEP). The workshop discusses the concept behind the consortium as outlined in the grant proposal, underlying purpose and goals of the project, and proposes a "straw plan" for implementation. Participants are encouraged to contribute to the implementation plan based upon their perception and in-school experience. Bell Atlantic, a partner in NHEEEP, has agreed to provide resources to support the use of Intel ProShare desktop video conferencing technology as a means of keeping key project personnel at all sites connected. Project management as well as key school-based participants (most likely, the Webmasters) will use the ProShare systems to coordinate planning; in particular, the video conferencing system will be an important means of facilitating consortium-wide interaction. This workshop will train key participants in the use of the ProShare system and will provide opportunity for participants' to develop a "virtual meeting" schedule to be implemented using the system. The workshop includes follow-up support throughout the school year.
Instructor(s): Kelly Corder, Teachers College, Columbia University
Greg Partch, Hudson Falls Central School District
Location: Hudson Falls District Office Technology Lab
Date(s): May 18 & 19, 1999
Time: 8:30AM-4:30PM
May 8, 1999
SUPPORTING A STANDARDS-BASED CURRICULUM USING THE WORLD WIDE WEB
This workshop introduces K-12 educators to outstanding resources on the Web and explores integrating those resources into a standards-based curriculum. Through the Curriculum Navigator Web site, participants use the New York State Regents’ standards as an interface to exemplary educational Web resources. They will then work collaboratively to design model curricular units. Discussions will cover navigation techniques, site selection criteria, classroom use of the Web and basic Web page design and development. Educators will leave the workshop with a deeper understanding of the Web, a variety of Web sites suited to the subjects and levels they teach, and a collection of units that model how the Web can be incorporated into their teaching. The workshop includes follow-up support throughout the school year.
Instructor(s): Rachel Balsam, Consultant
Location: Hudson Falls District Office Technology Lab
Date(s): May 4 & 5, 1999
Time: 8:30AM-4:30PM
May 18 & 19, 1999
DIGITAL SCHOOL PORTFOLIOS: DOCUMENTING SCHOOL CHANGE
Think about when you’ve needed to talk about your school. Perhaps it was when your school was being accredited. Perhaps it was when you needed to explain a new initiative to parents. Perhaps it was when you wanted to participate in an action research project. Often, such discussions are about how a school has changed – or about how it could change. Just as we use portfolios to document a student’s growth over time, we can use a "school portfolio" to demonstrate how a school’s work has changed. In this workshop, we will look at how the World Wide Web can be used as a platform for describing a school’s ongoing work – and how it can document the progress a school makes towards reform. During the two days, participants will be able to review a prototype digital school portfolio and discuss the issues involved in documenting change. Participants will have the opportunity to outline a school portfolio for their own schools – and describe what will have to be done to create the portfolio on the web. The workshop includes follow-up support throughout the school year.
Instructor(s): David Niguidula, Consultant, Technology & School Reform
Location: Hudson Falls District Office Technology Lab
Date(s): May 4 & 5, 1999
Time: 8:30AM-4:30PM
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Digital Dante
New Deal Network
Art Workshop
Harlem Live
Science and K-5
This workshop focuses on enhancement of the K-5 science curriculum through use of multimedia information resources. Web-based resources and several commercial packages that support the acquisition of content knowledge, and the use of tools for representing, analyzing, and manipulating data are explored. Participants will work to design and develop curriculum components that address NY State Regents Standards and engage students in authentic academic work. The workshop exposes participants to numerous ongoing projects at Columbia University and elsewhere with which teachers may wish to become involved. The workshop includes follow-up support throughout the school year.
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