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The workshops that are listed on this page are NOT necessarily an endorsement by Union County Public Schools and should not be construed as an endorsement. They are simply a means to post all opportunities that are marketed to our office. Register for these workshop only after you have personally vetted them for content and appropriateness to Union County Public Schools guidelines.


Thursday, September 24, 2009

PD 360 Bullying

Strategy of the Week: Bullying from The Compliance Series

According to the U.S. Department of Education, bullying in the classroom has increased 5% in recent years. Children who are bullied are more likely to experience loneliness, anxiety, and depression. It's important that teachers understand the various forms of bullying, as well as how to effectively intervene when bullying takes place in the classroom.

To learn more about bullying, watch the following PD 360 segment. To view this video segment, click on the link or copy and paste the link into your browser. Use your PD 360 login and password to access the segment.

Video segment - http://www.pd360.com/index.cfm?ContentId=2448

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Discuss with Others
Want to learn more? Visit the PD 360 Learning Community at http://www.pd360.com/index.cfm?loc=1&locType=3&thread=17 to collaborate with educators across North America.

If you have forgotten your PD 360 password, go to
http://www.pd360.com/ to have it emailed to you. If you have any questions or problems, please call 800-572-1153 and ask for tech support.

School Improvement Network
32 West Center Street
Midvale, UT 84047
http://www.schoolimprovement.com/

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Interested in a Video Conferencing Class?

Class #1: Planning Interactive Curriculum Connections

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Wondering how to integrate interactive video conference technology in your curriculum? This introduction to videoconferencing in the classroom provides an overview of the resources and tools to help you use videoconferencing in your curriculum. Designed for teachers and videoconference coordinators, you'll network with participants, and learn about exciting sources of content and collaborative projects to engage your students.

Dates: October 5-30, 2009

Time commitment: Plan to spend about 3-5 hours per week on the course.

Cost: $200

Target audience: Designed for teachers, media specialists, and distance learning coordinators.

More Information and Registration:

http://www.cilc.org/search/professional-development-provider-program.aspx?id=2824

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Class #1: The Blogs That Bind

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Making connections with students, parents, and the world beyond the traditional 50 minute class period has become essential for educators. In this online class we¹ll create teacher blogs and use them to explore how blogs can be used as a tool to enhance school communication and collaboration.

Dates: October 5-30, 2009

Time commitment: Plan to spend about 3-5 hours per week on the course.

Cost: $200

More Information and Registration:

http://www.cilc.org/search/professional-development-provider-program.aspx?id=2834

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Class #3: Connecting & Collaborating with Web Tools

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The web offers a wide variety of free tools whose use is appropriate and even essential for educators. Participants will learn to integrate various online technologies in their classroom instruction to promote student learning as well as teacher productivity. Teachers will use these online tools to extend their classroom onto the web and share with other students, teachers, parents, and beyond.

Dates: October 12 - November 20, 2009

Time commitment: Plan to spend about 3-5 hours per week on the course.

Cost: $300

More Information and Registration:

http://www.cilc.org/search/professional-development-provider-program.aspx?id=2832

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Class #4: Kid2Kid Videoconference Connections

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An in-depth six week focusing on collaborative projects. You¹ll receive assistance creating, advertising and implementing a collaborative project with another classroom.

Dates: November 2 - December 18, 2009

Time commitment: Plan to spend about 3-5 hours per week on the course.

Cost: $300

More Information and Registration:

http://www.cilc.org/search/professional-development-provider-program.aspx?id=2837





Monday, September 21, 2009

Collaborative Projects

To access the URL for these projects, you must create a CAPspace account at http://projects.twice.cc/

Title: International Peace Day 9/21/09:

URL: http://projects.twice.cc/?l=collaboration&id=347

Connections: H.323

Grades: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Subjects: Language Arts/English, Social Studies/History

Dates: September 9 through September 21

Description: Suffern Middle School sixth grade seeking another school to collaborate and connect with on The International Day of Peace, September 21 http://www.internationaldayofpeace.org/

jjaffee@ramapocentral.org

Julia Jaffee, Humanities Teacher

eschuster@ramapocentral.org

Eleanor Schuster, Library Media Specialist

Suffern Middle School, Suffern, NY

Title: Pen Pals:

URL: http://projects.twice.cc/?l=collaboration&id=348

Connections: H.323

Grades: 3

Subjects: Language Arts/English

Dates: October and April

Description: We would like to collaborate with another third grade class that would be willing to write once a month and possibly conference two times during the school year. Email: lwalker@richlandone.org S Kilborne Elementary School Columbia, SC

Title: Who's school is bigger?:

URL: http://projects.twice.cc/?l=collaboration&id=349

Grades: 6

Subjects: Mathematics

Dates: to be decided later

Description: I would like to collaborate when my classroom reaches area and perimeter and compare our school with a collaborating classrooms school size

renee.coghill@carroll.kyschools.us Carroll County Middle School, Kentucky

Title: Debate Class:

URL: http://projects.twice.cc/?l=collaboration&id=346

Connections: H.323

Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12

Subjects: Language Arts/English

Dates: Between Sept. 8 and Dec. 11, 2009

Description: Our high school in California has a Speech and Debate class and the teacher wants to have the students debate any topic with another speech class. They meet between 12 and 1:25 every other day.

925-634-0037 Heritage High School, Brentwood, CA
Diane Alexander alexande@libertyuhsd.k12.ca.us

Title: Spanish:

Status: Open

URL: http://projects.twice.cc/?l=collaboration&id=345

Connections: H.323

Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12

Subjects: World Language

Dates: October 1,2009 thru April 30, 2010

Description: A rural Catholic high school in Southeast Iowa (CDT) would like to collaborate with another school in order to practice Spanish language skills. The teachers would discuss format and topics prior to the actual collaboration.

donna.mcveigh@gpaea.k12.ia.us

Title: Second Grade Pen Pal Project:

Status: Open

URL: http://projects.twice.cc/?l=collaboration&id=338

Connections: H.323

Grades: 2

Subjects: Elementary All Subjects

Dates: September 2009 - June 2010

Description: We would like to collaborate with another second grade class that would be willing to write once a month and possibly conference two or three times during the school year. cturek@northbranch.k12.mn.us

North Branch, Minn.

Grades: 6, 7, 8

Subjects: Social Studies/History

Description: Our school is having an open evening and we would like to connect with children in the U.S. to find out about their lives etc. Dates: Sept 17th 2009 18:30 - 20:30 GMT (BST)Sign up method:Email: jocoleman@westleigh.rmplc.co.uk

Geography Staff Development

NCGA Geo-Gram

September 19, 2009

2nd Annual Conference of the NCGA and SCGA Consortium for Geography Action!

Saturday, October 24, 2009 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Registration begins at 9:30 AM

University of North Carolina - Charlotte, McEniry Building

Charlotte, North Carolina

The North Carolina Geographic Alliance and the South Carolina Geographic Alliance are excited to present the Geography Action! Mapping Europe Toolkit at our second annual Geography Action! Conference to be held on Saturday, October 24, 2009 at UNC-Charlotte in Charlotte, NC. K-12 educators, pre-service teachers, college instructors, media specialists, curriculum coordinators, and the general public are invited to attend the Geography Action! Conference. The conference will include teaching strategies from the toolkit for the elementary, middle, and high school classroom as well as content lessons. The toolkit is designed to help you celebrate geography in your school during Geography Awareness Week (November 15-21, 2009) and throughout the school year. The toolkit includes tips for planning a highly interactive and festive event for students, families, and communities to enjoy. The activities and games in the toolkit are easy, fun, and educational. Students who participate in a Geography Action! Mapping Europe event will come away with a new understanding of how fun maps can be and the diversity of people and landscapes in Europe.

Registration information and can be found on the NCGA website:

http://www.ngsednet.org/community/resource_uploads/GeoAction Flyer_Program.pdf

Steve Pierce, Coordinator

North Carolina Geographic Alliance

stevepierce@charter.net

828-442-8482 (cell)

Free NASA Video Conferencing Workshops

NASA would like to announce an exciting panel of presenters for the DLiNFocus Videoconference series starting September 9th. The series is aimed at middle school and high school students to expose them to the variety of careers and research being done at NASA. Each Wednesday a researcher will talk about their work for about 20min and their career path for 10min. Following the presentation is a chance for 5 schools to ask questions to the speaker about their research and career. All other schools are welcome to participate a view only site. The series is every Wednesday at 10:00 PDT (1:00 EDT).

Details
Cost: FREE
Website: http://erc.arc.nasa.gov/dln
Registration: http://erc.arc.nasa.gov/dln
Questions: ca.dln.studios@gmail.com
Webcast: Sessions will be webcast, see URL above for webcast link each week. (no registrations required)

List of Speakers:
Sept. 9 – Astronomy – Kepler Mission, searching for earth like planets
Sept. 16 – NASA historian/ writer – learn about being a science writer and recording history
Sept. 23 – Aeronautics – learn about how we test/ design airplanes
Oct. 7 – Robotics – learn about current and future robotic missions
Oct. 21 – Astrobiology – learn about the search for life
Nov. 4 – Lunar Exploration – the LCROSS mission will have just impacted the moon – get the most recent results!
Dec. 2 – Astrobiology - learn about the search for life using chemistry
(Dates in between will be filled in as presenters are confirmed)


Greg Pitzer
Digital Learning Network Coordinator
NASA Ames Research Center
MS 253-2
Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000

Voice: 650-604-3292
FAX: 650-604-3445

Gregory.E.Pitzer@nasa.gov