Winter Professional Development Catalog Now Available
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Our winter professional development catalog is now available. Includes face-to-face and online professional development offerings. Courses are available for graduate credit.
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Focus on the ISTE NETS Standards
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Creativity and Innovation
by Tammy Stephens
Each month we will devote this colum in our newsletter to how PODetc Courses help educators meet the standards The International Society of Technology Education has developed National Education Technology Standards.
This month we will be examining the standard Creativity and  Innovation. The standard states: Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Teachers:
a. promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.
b. engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.
c. promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.
d. model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments.
In the course we study through readings and in-depth discussion what are the components of creativity and innovation really are. For example the article, Six Myths of Creativity the author states, "People are most creative when they care about their work and they're stretching their skills. If the challenge is far beyond their skill level, they tend to get frustrated; if it's far below their skill level, they tend to get bored. Leaders need to strike the right balance". This idea is further supported by The Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow (ACOT Research) and is depicted in the following graph:
In addition to deeply reflecting and discussing what instructional components are necessary to create a classroom environment that fosters creativity and innovation, participants collaboratively explore online Web 2.0 tools such as social bookmarking and mind mapping tools, to foster these skills. Participants also work throughout the course to develop a lesson plan that supports this standard which is peer reviewed by others in the course.
Our next Creativity and Innovation Course starts February 22nd. The deadline to register is February 15th. More information about the course is available on at the PODetc website. Participants can take the course for 1 graduate credit through the University of Green Bay.
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Still Time to Register for January Courses
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Introduction to Instructional Technology
January 25th- February 12th
1 graduate credit available through the University of Green Bay
Special Offer: Non-credit offer $80.00
Discover what it means to be truly technologically literate! This
course will focus on six areas of technology proficiency that our
students need as determined by the International Society of Technology
Education (ISTE) student standards for technology proficiency. More information is available at the PODetc website.
Tech 103: Utilizing Social Networking Tools in a Leadership Capacity
January 25th- February 19th
1 graduate credit available through the University of Green Bay
Learn how to create asynchronous technical support for others in your
organization through the use of social networking and Web 2.0 tools!
Through peer-to-peer engagement with others in this online course, you
will create learning resources for colleagues in your own organization. More information is available at the PODetc website.
Hurry Registration ends January 18th!
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Online Education in the News
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Wisconsin has a new state statue that states, "Beginning July 1, 2010, no person may teach an online course in a public school, including a charter school, unless he or she has completed at least 30 hours of professional development designed to prepare a teacher for online teaching." [Wisconsin State Statute 118.19(13)].
The Stephens Group is offering the following course to help teachers teach online:
Teaching and Learning Online Using Moodle
2 graduate credits through Cardinal Stritch University
Explore using Moodle as a rich content management resource for developing and publishing your class online. The course will be taught as a hybrid - face to face and online course. We will meet face to face on February 6th and May 8th with online synchronous help sessions scheduled as needed.
Registration is filling up quickly. We have ten spots left in this course.
More information is available on our face-to-face Professional Development Website.
We also offer Teaching and Learning On-Line - Plan and Design for Implementation for one graduate credit as a follow-up to this course.
Contact Tammy Lind at (800) 408.4935 x 4 or
lind.tammy@gmail.com for more information on this course.
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