Professional Development

TIER ONE LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

DESIGNING A SMART LESSON

Requirements: Basic Knowledge of How to Use SMART Boards

Level: Beginner/Intermediate Strands: Design

Dates:

Description: This session will focus on exploring the basics of SMART Technologies and how to use
SMART to design interactive, engaging lessons. Learn how to transform your existing presentations to
enhance student learning.

DESIGNING A SMART UNIT

Requirements: Basic Knowledge of How to Use SMART Boards

Level: Beginner/Intermediate

Strands: Design

Dates:

Description: This session will focus on how to design an entire unit using SMART technologies to help
students build knowledge and understanding over a period of time. Create engaging activities that will
help students of all learning styles master content.

DESIGNING A SMART PRESENTATION

Requirements: Basic Knowledge of How to Use SMART Boards

Level: Beginner/Intermediate

Strands: Design

Dates:

Description: This session will focus on how to utilize SMART technologies to design professional
presentations that engage the audience with interactive components.
DESIGNING A SMART STUDENT PROJECT
Requirements: Basic Knowledge of How to Use SMART Boards

Level: Beginner/Intermediate

Strands: Student Projects

Dates:

Description: This session will focus on how to design an entire unit using SMART technologies to help
students build knowledge and understanding over a period of time. Create engaging activities that will
help students of all learning styles master content.

DESIGNING SMART ASSESSMENT

Requirements: Basic Knowledge of How to Use SMART Boards

Level: Beginner/Intermediate

Strands: Assessment

Dates:

Description: Transformative assessment is one of the most powerful practices in enhancing student
achievement. Learn how to expand your ability to utilize transformative assessment via SMART clickers

INTRODUCTION TO MOODLE
Requirements: Participation of new cohort

Level: Beginner/Intermediate

Strands: Participatory Learning, Cooperative/Collaborative Learning, Quality of Thought, Student

Projects

Description: A critical piece to the multi-dimensional learning space is the course/teacher space.
Moodle is the framework for that space and provides teachers with the opportunity to share, engage,
and extend the class into the digital space. Join a group of your colleagues from a variety of
departments as you engage in the development of your digital space.

DESIGNING AN ENHANCED MOODLE LEARNING SPACE

Requirements: Enrolled in a Moodle Cohort

Level: Intermediate/Advance

Strands: Participatory Learning,Cooperative/Collaborative Learning, Quality of Thought, Student

Projects

Dates:

Description: In this seminar, explore the wealth of activities that Moodle provides that can take your
Moodle presence from a passive, 1-way space for students to one that is engaging and enriching.

COLLABORATION IN THE MULTI-DIMENSIONAL LEARNING

SPACE
Requirements: Enrolled in a Moodle Cohort

Level: All

Strands: Cooperative/Collaborative Learning, Student Projects, Inquiry-Based Learning

Dates:

Description: Collaboration is a powerful means of student engagement. Come explore best practices
in collaboration and how Moodle and Google can assist in the process.

TAKING CLASSROOM DISCUSSIONS TO THE NEXT LEVEL

Requirements: Enrolled in a Moodle Cohort

Level: All

Strands: Higher-Order Thinking and Questioning, Quality of Thought

Dates:
Description: Online discussions have been shown to increase participation and enhance the quality of
discussions. Come explore best practices in discussion facilitation and how Moodle can assist in the
process.

INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING IN A DIGITAL SPACE

Requirements: Enrolled in a Moodle Cohort

Level: All

Strands: Inquiry-Based Learning, Cooperative/Collaborative Learning, Student Projects

Dates:

Description: Inquiry-Based learning is a powerful practices for developing quality of thought,

community, and higher-order thinking. Come explore best practices in inquiry and how Moodle can
assist in the process.

PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF INNOVATION IN MOODLE

Requirements: Enrolled in a Moodle Cohort

Level: All

Strands: Quality of Thought, Inquiry-Based Learning

Dates:

Description: There is so much more to Moodle than meets the eye. Come explore the possibilities of
Moodle and discuss potential additions to our current Moodle framework.

GOOGLE WORKSHOP
Requirements: None Level: Beginner

Strands: Cooperative/Collaborative Learning, Student Projects

Dates:
Description: Another critical piece to the multi-dimensional learning space is the student space.
Google is the framework for that space. Come explore the power of Google Apps for collaboration,
communication, and creation.

GOOGLE APPS FOR EDUCATION SEMINAR

Requirements: None

Level: All

Strands: Cooperative/Collaborative Learning, Student Projects

Dates:

Description: Explore the power of Google Apps for collaboration, communication, and creating.

COLLABORATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Requirements: None

Level: All

Strands: Participatory Learning, Connective Learning, Cooperative/Collaborative Learning, Quality of

Thought, Inquiry-Based Learning

Dates:

Description: Collaboration has long been a valuable part of the classroom community and learning.
Participants will explore collaboration in the digital age with the infusion of various web 2.0
applications into their instructional practices as well as learn how to design lessons that help students
improve their retention of concepts and demonstrate knowledge in a collaborative environment.

PARTICIPATORY LEARNING IN THE 21ST CENTURY

WORKSHOP
Requirements: None

Level: All

Strands: Participatory Learning, Connective Learning, Cooperative/Collaborative Learning, Quality of

Thought, Inquiry-Based Learning
Dates:

Description: Participatory Media is shaping the ways people create and contribute. This session will
explore this social phenomenon and discuss how to best leverage this in the classroom.

TEACHING AND LEARNING IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Requirements: None

Level: All

Strands: Participatory Learning, Connective Learning, Cooperative/Collaborative Learning, Quality of

Thought, Inquiry-Based Learning, Student Projects

Dates:

Description: What does it mean to be well-educated in the 21st Century? What does this mean for
teaching and learning? These questions and the potential answers will be explored with a discussion on
participatory and connective learning as potential means for the classroom.

CONTENT DELIVERY AND CONNECTING IN THE 21ST

CENTURY
Requirements: None

Level: All

Strands:

Dates:

Description: The ability of learning to occur independent of time, space, place, and size is forcing us
to rethink the delivery of content. In this workshop, explore how to deliver content using technology
and reallocate classroom time to participatory, inquiry-based, and connective learning.
 TIER TWO LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

MEET YOUR MAC

Requirements: None

Level: PC Users and Beginner Mac Users

Dates:

Description: Come explore the power of the Macbook from the Mac side of things. This seminar
focuses on understanding how the functions on the PC happen on the Mac, what things Mac can do
that PC can’t, and when to use Mac vs. PC.

WHAT IS NEW AT GBN?

Requirements: None

Type: Hands-On, Seminar

Level: All

Dates: In the very near future

Description: Hands-on exploration of new technology at GBN: Parallels, Projectors (wireless), Flips,
iPods, etc.

TEENS, TECHNOLOGY, AND DIGITAL FOOTPRINTS

Requirements: None

Level: All

Dates:

Description: This community seminar will explore the world of teens and technology with a focus on
the social phenomenon of the Internet. A key focus is on the digital footprint that teens are currently
creating.
 TIER THREE LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

DESIGNING POWERFUL PRESENTATIONS

Requirements: Bring a PowerPoint or Keynote Presentation

Level: All

Strands: Quality of Thought, Student Projects

Dates:

Description: Explore strategies and techniques for creating powerful presentations that capture all
audiences. Participants will apply these new skills and learn how to teach students how to design
presentations.

DIGITAL STORYTELLING
Requirements: None

Level: All Levels

Strands: Participatory Learning, Quality of Thought, Student Projects, Higher Order Thinking and
Questioning

Dates:

Description: Learn how to integrate writing, art, and technology to produce a powerful digital story
based on design and literacy skills. This session will include hands-on experience in all the steps
involved in creating a digital story: writing and editing a narration, planning and storyboarding, and
understanding concepts of visual literacy and production. We will also explore how to bring digital
storytelling into your classroom to promote student understanding of 21st century skills.

THE WORLD OF WEB 2.0 AND YOUR CLASSROOM

Requirements: None

Level: Beginner/Intermediate

Strands: Participatory Learning, Quality of Thought, Connective Learning, Inquiry-Based Learning

Dates:
Description: The shift of the web from a 1-way form (web 1.0) communication to 2-way (web 2.0) is
fundamentally shifting society in the ways we communicate, connect, collaborate, create, and maybe
even think. While this shift to participatory media is changing many facets of society, it is in education
where the power and philosophy of web 2.0 is affording us new opportunities and approaches to what
we already know to be best practices. Come explore web 2.0 in your class!

NEW MEDIA LITERACIES WORKSHOP

Requirements: None

Level: All Levels

Strands: Participatory Learning,Cooperative/Collaborative Learning, Quality of Thought

Dates:

Description: Come explore the potential of new media literacies on creativity and critical thinking.