Friday, November 8, 2013

What Can We Do for You?


In case we have not formally met, or you are still a little unsure about who that new team at Central Office really is, be sure to check out our video.


If you are wondering how exactly you could utilize an Instructional Technology Facilitator in your own classroom, consider these five ideas:

1.       Re-Define Lessons From Previous Years - Instructional Technology Facilitators can come to your school and work with your team to augment, modify, and re-define lessons that you have previously taught to enhance the lesson and allow for a more student centered approach to learning.

2.       SMART Boards – The ITF team can come and provide SMART Board trainings in your building after school.  You will need a minimum of six participants.  Each sessions is from 4-6 PM and you will be paid $20/hour stipend.  We currently have two trainings that we can provide. 

·         Basic – Learn the skills you need to operate the basic features of a SMART® Board and the SMART® Notebook software. This session, intended for beginners, will cover the basic features offered by the Board and how to quickly integrate this software into everyday classroom use. Participants will also learn how to locate and adapt SMART® Board lessons crafted by other users to quickly enhance classroom learning. Your laptop is required in order to participate in this course.

·         Intermediate - This intermediate course builds on the skills you learned in SMART Notebook Training (Basic). Learn how to use SMART Notebook collaborative learning software strategically to build more attractive, clear, organized lessons. During this session, you'll build a SMART Notebook lesson to use in your classroom or improve one that you bring with you. Users who choose to attend should be able to effectively integrate the basic features of the SMART Board and SMART Notebook software within the learning environment. You must bring your laptop to this session in order to participate.

3.       Teaching/Co-Teaching Lessons - The Instructional Technology Facilitators would be more than happy to join your class to teach or co-teach lessons that integrate technology.  These lessons could include, but are not limited to:
·         Digital Citizenship
·         Blogging
·         Several Web 2.0 tools
·         D2L 
·         Google Apps for Education

4.       Set-Up G-Class Folders – The ITF team can set-up G-Class Folders for you and your students within each class. G-Class Folders create shared folders for each student by class.  G-Class Folders provide a folder to edit, view items, and also an assignment folder that is shared between the student and teacher.  G-Class Folders allow teachers and students to seamlessly share and edit documents.

5.       Try Something Completely New – We would love to come to your plan time, team collaboration, or even before or after school to help you create a new, innovative, student-centered lesson based on the CCSS and the NETS.  We could even work to be there to offer support during your lesson with students. 


These are just a few ways that the ITF team can support you and your students.  Feel free to contact us with any other questions or requests. We are here for you!

No comments:

Post a Comment

All comments will be reviewed by the ITF Team before they are posted to the blog.