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Teaching Physics with Technology, June 21-22, 2012

This intensive two-day workshop will offer hands-on opportunities for Physics educators to explore practical ways to use Web 2.0 technology to enrich the study of science. The workshop will explore innovative ideas, effective techniques, and thoughtful plans for incorporating Web-based resources, desktop software packages, and new and emerging technologies into the Physics classroom. Participants will examine numerous examples of the best science-related web sites, and will work with innovative tools to help improve Physics education, such as wikis, embedded maps, graphs, charts, and online social networks. Participants will learn strategies to build creative, collaborative, and community minded classrooms of the 21st century.

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Teaching Foreign Language with Technology, June 21-22, 2012

This intensive workshop will offer hands-on opportunities for Foreign/World Language educators to explore practical ways to use technology to enhance instruction of the 5 C's framework (Communication, Culture, Community, Connections and Comparisons), with specific attention to listening, speaking and writing skills. The workshop will explore innovative ideas, effective techniques, and thoughtful plans for incorporating Web-based resources, social media, and emerging technologies into foreign language classrooms with an eye towards building global awareness, collaboration skills, and critical thinking.

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Primary Sources 2.0, June 25-26, 2012

Primary sources -- the heart of historical analysis -- are increasingly available on the Web and will become predominantly digital in the future. Furthermore, as conventional, print-based text gives way to screen-based "multimodal" communication, the historian of the 21st Century will be as likely to encounter multimedia primary sources as print-based ones. As such, historians, educators, and students must improve their skills of accessing, evaluating, and collaborating with digital primary sources in networked environments.

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Teaching Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome with Technology, June 25-26, 2012

Join us for an intensive, two-day, hands-on workshop for history and social studies educators to explore practical ways to use technology to enrich their ancient history curricula. This workshop explores powerful technologies and innovative ideas for incorporating Web 2.0 resources and emerging technologies into the classroom instruction of ancient history - specifically Egypt, Greece, and Rome.

Read more: Teaching Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome with Technology, June 25-26, 2012

Teaching History with Technology, June 27-29 & July 30 - August 1, 2012

The 10th-annual Teaching History With Technology Workshop is an intensive three-day, hands-on opportunity for history and social studies educators to explore practical ways to use technology to enrich their history curricula and engage students. The workshop explores innovative ideas, effective techniques, and ready-made plans for incorporating Web-based resources, desktop software packages, and emerging technologies into the classroom instruction of history.

Read more: Teaching History with Technology, June 27-29 & July 30 - August 1, 2012

Teaching English with Technology, July 9-11, 2012

This intensive three-day workshop will offer hands-on opportunities for English and Language Arts educators to explore practical ways to use technology to enrich the study of literature, poetry, grammar and writing. The workshop will explore innovative ideas, effective techniques, and thoughtful plans for incorporating Web-based resources, desktop software packages, and emerging technologies into classroom instruction of English and Language Arts. Participants will examine numerous examples of the best English-related web sites, work with innovative tools to help improve student reading and writing, and develop skills with Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, and online social networks. Participants will learn strategies to build creative, collaborative, and community minded classrooms of the 21st Century.

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21st Century School Leadership: Leading Change in Changing Times, July 9-11, 2012

As technology and globalization transform our economy and civic sphere, educators must rise to the challenge of preparing students for an ever more complex and cognitively demanding world. This workshop is designed for school leaders working to make 21st Century Learning an essential element of school culture and intellectual life. The workshop is organized around three core themes:

1. Why Change? Making the case for 21st Century Skills instruction
2. What Does Change Look Like? Envisioning and enacting 21st Century Skills
   instruction across schools
3. Assessing Change in Changing Times: Monitoring school progress towards 21st Century
   Skill goals.

Read more: 21st Century School Leadership: Leading Change in Changing Times, July 9-11, 2012

Using Google Docs in the Collaborative Classroom, July 12, 2012

Google Docs encourage collaborative learning, information sharing, and student engagement. They facilitate communication and community building between teachers, students, colleagues, and parents. From anywhere with an Internet connection, regardless of the platform or device, Google Docs allows for real-time as well as asynchronous collaboration and editing through a variety of features.

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Teaching Technology to Teachers: 10 Years of Tips and Secrets from EdTechTeacher, July 12 & July 26-27, 2012

Over the past ten years, EdTechTeacher has worked with thousands of educators from all across the world. One part of our mission is to help teachers leverage emerging technologies to create student-centered, inquiry-based learning environments. An essential component of that mission is building capacity. Nothing makes us happier then when participants come back for a second summer and tell us: “I taught my colleagues everything I learned from last summer’s workshop.” So in this Teaching Technology to Teachers workshop, we plan to share everything we have learned over ten years of technology professional development with educators.

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Teaching the Elementary Grades with Technology, July 16-18 & August 2-3, 2012

In this session, we will explore online tools and activities that nurture essential K-4 developmental skills and highlight innovative educational uses of the Read-Write Web. We'll show how primary school teachers are using blogs, wikis, podcasts, tablets, interactive whiteboards, and other tools to create meaningful and engaging activities. In addition, we will examine the best K-4 web sites, work with innovative tools to help improve student reading, writing, and mathematics, and learn different strategies to build creative, collaborative, and community minded classrooms.

Read more: Teaching the Elementary Grades with Technology, July 16-18 & August 2-3, 2012

The Best Web 2.0 Tools & Apps for Teachers, July 16-18, 2012

Join Richard Byrne of Free Technology for Teachers (http://www.freetech4teachers.com), and EdTechTeacher Co-Director and author Tom Daccord, as they present their favorite Web 2.0 sites and apps and show you how to leverage them to transform learning – your students' and your own. The intuitive, free, and interactive Web 2.0 tools featured in this session allow educators to create online connections that support both classroom instruction and professional growth. Participants will gain hands-on experience using Google Docs, Animoto, Glogster, Diigo, Socrative, Aviary, LiveBinders, Audioboo, Quizlet, Creaza, and other Web 2.0 tools. Participants will also have the opportunity to explore productivity and educational handheld apps, such as Evernote, ShowMe, Educreations, iMovie, Dropbox, Flipboard, Google Earth, and many others. We will also glimpse into the future of animated and socially connected digital textbooks and augmented reality apps.

Read more: The Best Web 2.0 Tools & Apps for Teachers, July 16-18, 2012

The Flipped Classroom, July 19-20, 2012

In the “flipped classroom,” teachers use technology to reorganize classroom time so students maximize the value of time in class with their teachers and peers. Class time, in many typical classrooms, is spent delivering content, and then students go home and do individual processing work for homework. For example, a math teacher gives a lecture on a concept in class, and then students go home and solve problems. An English teacher explains a grammar rule, students go home and do writing exercises applying the rule.

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Leveraging Technology to Create Differentiated Learning Environments, July 19-20, 2012

As today's classrooms become increasingly diverse, teachers frequently find themselves working to address the varying needs of their students. Emerging technologies allow teachers to create flexible, individualized, curricula that can scaffold as well as enrich. The goal of this workshop is to explore and evaluate technologies to facilitate differentiation, support diverse learners, and create rich learning environments that meet the needs of all students.

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The iPad Classroom, July 23-25, 2012

Handhelds are increasingly finding their way into 21st century classrooms, and the iPad is quickly emerging as a favorite of primary and middle school educators for a variety of reasons: flexibility, portability, engagement, intriguing apps, and more. In addition, great possibilities exist for integration with Web 2.0 tools: slideshows, podcasts, whiteboards, photo galleries, videos, ebooks, and more. Moreover, as the iPad evolves - and its apps become more powerful - the device becomes more versatile, and its creative potential increases.

Read more: The iPad Classroom, July 23-25, 2012

Dynamic Teaching with Interactive Whiteboards, July 23-25, 2012

A SMART Board and ActivBoard are both examples of an Interactive Whiteboard (IWB), a 21st Century tool that can transform the classroom and nurture essential skills. Major benefits of an interactive whiteboard include its versatility, interactivity, multimedia/multimodal presentation, and participation potential. Interactive Whiteboards can also help students better conceptualize new knowledge through representations of abstract ideas. Furthermore, IWB lessons and activities can be recorded and published in ways that facilitate sharing and collaboration. In all, IWBs are a classroom tool that can help teachers create engaging, interactive, collaborative, and visual lessons and activities that motivate students to learn.

Read more: Dynamic Teaching with Interactive Whiteboards, July 23-25, 2012

Creating Digital Course Content: iPads & ePubs, July 26-27, 2012

With iPads increasingly becoming the device of choice for 1:1 programs, especially in light of Apples recent launch of iBooks2, iBook Author, and the improved iTunesU, school districts and classroom teachers no longer have to rely on expensive and often outdated paper based textbooks to provide course content to their students. Educators now have the ability to create their own, custom content that can be published as an eBook and distributed to students online and then directly to the iPad.

Read more: Creating Digital Course Content: iPads & ePubs, July 26-27, 2012

Teaching Civil War and WWII with Technology, August 2-3, 2012

The Teaching the Civil War & World War II with Technology workshop is an intensive hands-on opportunity for history and social studies educators to explore practical ways to use technology to enrich their history curricula and engage students. The workshop covers various Civil War and WWII topics such as campaigns and battles, diplomacy and politics, soldier and civilian experiences, and explores innovative ideas for incorporating virtual tours and simulations, inquiry based research, Google Docs collaboration, iPad integration, wikis, blogs, podcasts, online social networks, and other emerging technologies into the classroom instruction of these topics.

Read more: Teaching Civil War and WWII with Technology, August 2-3, 2012