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Summer PD Series: Web 2.0 for Educators

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Yesterday a number of our teachers participated in a Web 2.0 for Educators workshop. The purpose of the session was to (1) heighten awareness concerning the differences between Web 1.0 (digification of media) and Web 2.0 (interaction with media) and (2) explore how the read/write web can foster communication, collaboration, creativity, and design. | View [...]

Summer PD Series: David Jakes

Monday, June 9th, 2008

One of our school’s greatest strengths is that we are able to support internal and external professional development opportunities. Today we had the pleasure of hosting David Jakes and learning about 21st Century Cartography and Digital Storytelling. His two half-day workshops inspired everyone in attendance and his resources simply cannot be missed. Digital Cartography Using [...]

Summer PD Series: Search and Research Strategies

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

The second on-campus workshop offered last week was Search and Research Strategies. Using the Big6 as a framework, our teachers explored how to teach information literacy within the context of the curriculum: | View | Upload your own Although there are myriad information resources available, Google, Wikipedia and copy/paste are frequently the starting and ending [...]