Adding digital video to your lessons and presentations can add relevance and increase students' interest. Alabama Public Television provides all teachers, students, and parents with free, high-quality digital images and streaming video through their new digital database, Learn360.  This workshop focuses on searching, downloading, and integrating digital images and videos into teacher and student presentations. Teachers all over the state are raving about the high-quality videos from APTPlus and the ease with which they can be added to existing lessons.
National Educational Technology Standards (NETS-T)
Standard III: Teaching, Learning, and the Curriculum
Teachers use technology to support learner-centered strategies that address the diverse needs of students.

Standard VI: Social, Ethical, Legal, and Human Issues
Teachers model and teach legal and ethical practice related to technology use.
Teachers apply technology resources to enable and empower learners with diverse backgrounds, characteristics, and abilities.

 
Google provides everything a 21st century teacher needs to promote effective communication, collaboration, and engagement in the classroom.  Exciting new themes and templates make webpage creation fun and easy. In this workshop you will learn how to add interactive calendars, shared documents, blog posts, and photo slideshows to your teacher website or webblog. Additionally, teachers will create online surveys and add hyperlinks from their website to online digital content. Best of all, it absolutely free!!
National Educational Technology Standards (NETS-T)
Standard III: Teaching, Learning, and the Curriculum
Teachers manage student learning activities in a 
technology-enhanced environment.

Standard V:  Productivity and Professional Practice 
Teachers enhance productivity and professional practice by using technology to communicate and collaborate with peers, parents, and the larger community.  


 
The Mobi interactive slate and the CPS Pulse clicker system work seamlessly to provide classroom teachers with instant formative and summative assessment data. In this workshop, teachers create classes for their students and either import or create matching assessments that instantly grade homework, quizzes, and tests.  Both teacher-led and student-paced assessments will be covered as well as how to integrate the CPS response system within a Mobi Workspace lesson. Thanks to the CPS response system, teacher can instantly and graphically view what each knows about a content topic and make intervention decisions accordingly.  This is one piece of technology that will change your classroom forever!
National Educational Technology Standards (NETS-T)
Standard IV: Assessment and Evaluation
Teachers apply technology in assessing student learning of subject matter using a variety of assessment techniques.
Teachers use technology resources to collect and analyze data, interpret results, and communicate findings to improve instructional practice and maximize student learning. 
 

 

Few technologies have revolutionized instruction in the way that SMART Interactive boards have.  Innovators in the field of interactive instruction, SMART continues to provide high-quality devices combined with a robust software package.  This workshop is designed to provide classroom teachers with the knowledge and skill to effectively raise the interest and engagement levels in their classrooms with high-quality lessons and instructional strategies that feature SMART technologies and SMART Notebook 10.0 software.  The focus is student engagement and each activity in this workshop is designed to provide classroom teachers with proven strategies that will transform dull lectures into engaging learning opportunities.
National Educational Technology Standards (NETS-T)
Standard I: Technology Operation and Concepts
Teachers demonstrate continual growth in technology knowledge and skills to stay abreast of current and emerging technologies.
Standard II: Planning and Designing Learning Environments and Experiences
Teachers design developmentally appropriate learning opportunities that apply technology-enhanced instructional strategies to support the diverse needs of learner. 
Standard III: Teaching, Learning, and the Curriculum
Teachers use technology to support learner-centered strategies that address the diverse needs of students.
Teachers  manage student learning activities in a technology-enhanced environment.
Standard IV: Assessment and Evaluation
Teachers apply multiple methods of evaluation to determine students’ appropriate use of technology resources for learning, communication, and productivity. 



More than ever, students need a break from the monotony of drill-and-practice.  Using an inexpensive microphone, teachers can give students the creative license to produce professional-sounding public service announcements, dramatic readings, or school projects.  Its easy and fun!   In this workshop, teachers learn the skills they will need to create audio, image, and video productions that can be shared on their teacher Web pages or burned to DVDs.  This workshop utilizes free software such as Audacity, Photo Story, and MovieMaker.
National Educational Technology Standards (NETS-T)
Standard I: Technology Operation and Concepts
Teachers demonstrate continual growth in technology knowledge and skills to stay abreast of current and emerging technologies.
Standard II: Planning and Designing Learning Environments and Experiences
Teachers design developmentally appropriate learning opportunities that apply technology-enhanced instructional strategies to support the diverse needs of learner.
Standard III: Teaching, Learning, and the Curriculum
Teachers use technology to support learner-centered strategies that address the diverse needs of students.
Teachers  manage student learning activities in a technology-enhanced environment.
Teachers apply technology to develop students’ higher order skills and creativity.
Standard IV: Assessment and Evaluation
Teachers  apply multiple methods of evaluation to determine students’ appropriate use of technology resources for learning, communication, and productivity.
Standard VI: Social, Ethical, Legal, and Human Issues
Teachers model and teach legal and ethical practice related to technology use.
Teachers apply technology resources to enable and empower learners with diverse backgrounds, characteristics, and abilities.



Students love to talk and share ideas with classmates but teachers are always telling them to be QUIET!  Why not harness that natural characteristic and get your students talking about your subject content.  In this workshop, teachers will explore the art of effective questioning and witness first-hand the power of conversation and collaboration. Combining effective questioning and the Intel Teach suite of online thinking tools, teachers will be able to transform their teacher-directed classroom into a student-centered, 21st Century classroom.  The Intel Teach online tools promote higher-order thinking skills by providing students a collaborative learning environment where they rank-and-prioritize, explore cause-and-effect relationships, and develop effective argumentation skills.  Join teachers around the world that have been trained using these effective and fun tools... 10 million teachers can't be wrong!!
National Educational Technology Standards (NETS-T)
Standard I: Technology Operation and Concepts
Teachers demonstrate continual growth in technology knowledge and skills to stay abreast of current and emerging technologies.
Standard II: Planning and Designing Learning Environments and Experiences
Teachers design developmentally appropriate learning opportunities that apply technology-enhanced instructional strategies to support the diverse needs of learner.
Standard III: Teaching, Learning, and the Curriculum
Teachers use technology to support learner-centered strategies that address the diverse needs of students.
Teachers  manage student learning activities in a technology-enhanced environment.
Teachers apply technology to develop students’ higher order skills and creativity.
Standard IV: Assessment and Evaluation
Teachers apply technology in assessing student learning of subject matter using a variety of assessment techniques.
Standard VI: Social, Ethical, Legal, and Human Issues
Teachers model and teach legal and ethical practice related to technology use.
Teachers apply technology resources to enable and empower learners with diverse backgrounds, characteristics, and abilities.



Everyday, more and more apps are being created for the iPad.  Which apps are worth downloading? Sure there are lots of free apps but which ones are actually worth paying for?  I have put together several collections of iPad apps and displayed them using a Delicious social-booking site.  

National Educational Technology Standards (NETS-T)
Standard I: Technology Operation and Concepts
Teachers demonstrate continual growth in technology knowledge and skills to stay abreast of current and emerging technologies.
Standard II: Planning and Designing Learning Environments and Experiences
Teachers design developmentally appropriate learning opportunities that apply technology-enhanced instructional strategies to support the diverse needs of learner.
Standard III: Teaching, Learning, and the Curriculum
Teachers use technology to support learner-centered strategies that address the diverse needs of students.
Teachers  manage student learning activities in a technology-enhanced environment.
Teachers apply technology to develop students’ higher order skills and creativity.
Standard IV: Assessment and Evaluation
Teachers apply technology in assessing student learning of subject matter using a variety of assessment techniques.




There is a wealth of information on the World Wide Web but how does an educator find and decide which online resources are accurate and worthy of valuable class time? I have compiled a short list of some of my favorite online interactive sites to share with you.  I will continue to add to this list so be sure to visit often or if you have a Delicious social bookmarking account, simply click "Follow" and you will be notified when I make changes to the list.


Standard II: Planning and Designing Learning Environments and Experiences
Teachers design developmentally appropriate learning opportunities that apply technology-enhanced instructional strategies to support the diverse needs of learner.
Standard III: Teaching, Learning, and the Curriculum
Teachers use technology to support learner-centered strategies that address the diverse needs of students.
Teachers  manage student learning activities in a technology-enhanced environment.
Teachers apply technology to develop students’ higher order skills and creativity.

Standard VI: Social, Ethical, Legal, and Human Issues
Teachers model and teach legal and ethical practice related to technology use.
Teachers apply technology resources to enable and empower learners with diverse backgrounds, characteristics, and abilities.






Administrator introduction to blended instruction using Intel Teach Online Thinking Tools.  This one-day course is developed in the Moodle learning management system and enhanced through the use of streaming video showcasing the best examples of project-based, blended classroom practices.