Goin' Google for Educators
LAPDA
LamoilleArea Professional DevelopmentAcademy
Goin’ Google for Educators
Visit our website for the latest course details: www.lapdavt.org
This Course is appropriate for K-12 Educators. The 3-credit option will include a self-designed project and teacher teams are encouraged to attend Course Description:
Dates: Tuesdays January 18 - April 26, 2010 4:15- 7:30pm
21st century classrooms are all about creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and communication. Free Google tools and applications are the technological pencils and chalkboards educators are using to prepare students for living and working in a global, technology-rich world. In this hands-on course, participants will read and discuss the ‘big ideas’ about 21st century learning and learn to use a variety of free Google tools and applications to enhance productivity, creativity, and technology integration in the classroom. The course includes:
Location: Spaulding High School/ Barre Tech CTR. Digital Classroom and Library
• Google Docs for creating, sharing, and collaborating with students on documents, and spreadsheets, presentations, • Google Forms for survey design and quiz creation • Google Sites for easy web page creation • Google Maps and Google Earth • Productivity tools—iGoogle, Google Calendar, Google Reader, and Google teacher resources • Advanced Google searching to improve student research
* Participants must purchase textbooks
Cost: $575 for LAPDA members $720 for non-members. Additional $285 for 3 graduate creits from St. Michael’s College
Registration: www.lapdavt.org Call (802) 224-9110 for more information
Required Readings and Materials: Please visit the website to see the full list of readings. There are several readings that will be published this spring and those are indicated as ‘TBA.’ Since the topic of 21st century learning and Google tools changes rapidly, there could be some potential changes in this list.
About The Instructors: Linda McSweeney is a ‘Digital Immigrant’ who took her first computer course in 1982 at Rutgers University where she received her master’s degree in Library and Information Studies. Since then she has directed the Reference and Law Division at the Department of Libraries, has been an academic librarian at VTC and Norwich University, and is currently the School Media Specialist at Spaulding High School in Barre, VT.
LamoilleArea Professional DevelopmentAcademy
Goin’ Google for Educators
Visit our website for the latest course details: www.lapdavt.org
This Course is appropriate for K-12 Educators. The 3-credit option will include a self-designed project and teacher teams are encouraged to attend Course Description:
Dates: Tuesdays January 18 - April 26, 2010 4:15- 7:30pm
21st century classrooms are all about creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and communication. Free Google tools and applications are the technological pencils and chalkboards educators are using to prepare students for living and working in a global, technology-rich world. In this hands-on course, participants will read and discuss the ‘big ideas’ about 21st century learning and learn to use a variety of free Google tools and applications to enhance productivity, creativity, and technology integration in the classroom. The course includes:
Location: Spaulding High School/ Barre Tech CTR. Digital Classroom and Library
• Google Docs for creating, sharing, and collaborating with students on documents, and spreadsheets, presentations, • Google Forms for survey design and quiz creation • Google Sites for easy web page creation • Google Maps and Google Earth • Productivity tools—iGoogle, Google Calendar, Google Reader, and Google teacher resources • Advanced Google searching to improve student research
* Participants must purchase textbooks
Cost: $575 for LAPDA members $720 for non-members. Additional $285 for 3 graduate creits from St. Michael’s College
Registration: www.lapdavt.org Call (802) 224-9110 for more information
Required Readings and Materials: Please visit the website to see the full list of readings. There are several readings that will be published this spring and those are indicated as ‘TBA.’ Since the topic of 21st century learning and Google tools changes rapidly, there could be some potential changes in this list.
About The Instructors: Linda McSweeney is a ‘Digital Immigrant’ who took her first computer course in 1982 at Rutgers University where she received her master’s degree in Library and Information Studies. Since then she has directed the Reference and Law Division at the Department of Libraries, has been an academic librarian at VTC and Norwich University, and is currently the School Media Specialist at Spaulding High School in Barre, VT.
