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You Are Here: Home > The EdTechTeacher.org Newsletter The EdTechTeacher.org Newsletter Spring 2010 The EdTechTeacher.org Newsletter offers resources, lesson plans, and tech tips to help educators incorporate technology effectively into their courses. To receive our newsletter electronically click the Membership link at the top of this page. Workshops and Webinars for April & May: We're excited to offer several free (or nearly free) workshops and Webinars for history, science, and world language teachers:
Teaching Peace and Conflict Studies with Technology: The Russian/Georgian War, April 23-24, 2010
This event will examine peace and conflict studies by considering the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia. Day one (April 23rd) will feature lectures on the history of Russian/Georgian relations by Dr. John Schoeberlein, Director of the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus at Harvard, and the Russian/Georgian war and its aftermath by Dr. Peter Rutland of Wellesley College. Day one will also feature an interactive exercise on historical perspective-taking in the classroom and a tutorial on how to improve your online web-browsing skills. Day two (April 24th) will be devoted to learning to use Diigo--a social bookmarking tool. Social bookmarking allows communities of students to conduct online research in groups, by tagging websites with shared keywords, annotating, and commenting on them. It makes research and following current events a collaborative, social process, rather than an individual task. Participants will come away from this workshop not only with new academic, pedagogical, and technical information and skills, as well as a new tool to use in the classroom. Logistical Information: K-12 educators teaching on topics and using technology tools related to the four regional areas covered by the workshops are invited to participate. The cost of the workshop is $20. Lunch will be provided. All participants will receive PDPs for their participation, although interested participants can receive one graduate credit from Framingham State University for participating in the workshop for the additional cost of $65. The workshop will be held on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, in the Center for Government and International Studies buildings on Cambridge Street. Parking is available at a cost of $11/day for interested teachers, although the event is also accessible by public transportation. Teaching Science with Web 2.0 Wednesday April 21 at 4pm EST: Join Tom and David Strasburger Wednesday, April 21 at 4:00 EST for a free, live webinar hosted by EdTechTeacher. Tom and David will present on ways to use Web 2.0 technologies to enrich the study of biology, chemistry, physics and other sciences. David is Science Department Head, Physics Teacher, and Faculty Evaluation Member at the Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, Massachusetts, and winner of the Vernon L. Greene award for Faculty Excellence. David will also be leading the Teaching Science with Web 2.0 Summer workshop June 24-25 in Boston. Please register online: (closed) Teaching a Foreign Language with Technology Thursday April 22 at 4pm EST: Join Tom and Erin McCloskey for a free, live webinar Thursday April 29th at 4pm EST, on using technology in the Foreign Language classroom. Tom and Erin will present some of the best Foreign Language resource web sites and innovative tools to help students practice and improve their speaking, listening and writing skills. Erin is a doctoral candidate in the Learning and Teaching program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), and prior to doctoral studies Erin was a high school Spanish teacher, EFL teacher, and language curriculum developer. Erin will also be leading the Teaching a Foreign Language with Technology summer workshop July 29-30 in Boston. Please register online: http://fs12.formsite.com/thwt/webinar Upcoming May workshops: We have tentatively scheduled three workshops for May 2010: Creative Teaching with SmartBoards (May 10), Connecting Classrooms with Web 2.0 (May 5), and Web 2.0 Integration in the History Classroom (May 10) (hosted by NCSS Network). Registration is not yet open. To be notified of these and other webinars please become a member of THWT. Summer workshops filling quickly! As in previous years, our most popular workshops: Teaching History with Technology, Teaching English with Technology, and Creative Teaching with Interactive Whiteboards are filling up very quickly. These three workshops are almost sold out, so we'd encourage you to sign up soon. To sign up for any of our workshops and to learn more, visit the EdTechTeacher Summer Workshops Page. Tom and Justin on the road: We've be busy on the road this winter, presenting all over the US: Rutland, VT schools, Bishop Feenan High School, Fontbonne Academy, the Massachusetts Computer Using Educator conference, the Harvard Civic and Moral Education Initiative, the Hewlett Foundation Open Education Resources grantee meeting, The Education Collaborative, ACCEPT's Project Able STEM initiative, Coppel ISD in Texas, MIT's Lifelong Kindergarten Group, Dana Hall, Springfield College, and Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. We're happy to be busy, and we'd love to come work with your school or district as well. Contact us! ---- The EdTechTeacher newsletter is produced by Tom Daccord and Justin Reich. Together they co-direct EdTechTeacher and the Center for Teaching History With Technology and publishes the Best of History Web Sites |
Summer 2010 Teaching with Technology Workshops Organized by Tom Daccord and Justin Reich of Best of History Web Sites, Center for Teaching History with Technology, & National Council of Social Studies Technology Committee Join educators from around the world who come to Boston each summer for a memorable educational experience: 8th annual Teaching History with Technology Geography & Maps 2.0 Primary Sources 2.0 Connecting Classrooms with Web 2.0 4th annual Teaching English and Language Arts with Technology Creative Teaching with Interactive Whiteboards 21st Century Skills- Frameworks and Teaching Strategies Follow Best of History |
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