Innovative Educator Technology Academy

Technology Integration

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August 15-19, 2011Hosting Site: School District of Onalaska

21st Century Skills

Think back to the best professional development experience you ever had. What made it so effective? In most cases, it was a memorable learning opportunity that was fun, collaborative and influential. The Innovative Educator Technology Academy is based on the premise of these three

dynamic learning opportunities infused with 21st century skills, ISTE NETS, high quality professional development, and hands-on/minds-on learning.

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The staff develop “menu” we have organized for this Innovative Educator Technology Academy is based off the Panera Bread dining option of “Pick 2.” You will have the opportunity to choose two learning strands for the week based on your individual learning needs. Most academies lock you in for an entire week long study, With the “Pick 2” choice option- you will be able to immerse yourself in two different dynamic focused strands while adding variety to your five day training experience. Pick 1 options will run from Monday through Wednesday noon, and Pick 2 options will run Wednesday afternoon through Friday.

Like any cafe’ or bistro, the Innovative Educator Technology meets specific needs and niches for many different people. From the nonfat, no foam latte lover to the house coffee junky, we will make sure you and your PD cadre are satisfied by catering the experience to meet the needs of your diverse group.

“Pick 1” Menu Choices

Technology Leadership Camp: Cultivating the New Digital Landscap in Your K-12 Teaching and Learning Environments

21st Century Skills for the 21st Century Educator

Kicking It Up A Notch: SMART Interactive Whiteboards Level 3 and Beyond

Teaching and Learning with eReaders to Promote Research and Information Fluency

Transforming Classroom Practice with Web 2.0 Literacy and Social Networks

“Pick 2” Menu Choices

Let the Journey Begin: Transforming Classroom Practice with iPad Integration

The Art of Online Facilitation Supported with Blended Learning Environments

Kicking It Up A Notch: SMART Interactive Whiteboards Level 3 and Beyond

Teaching and Learning with eReaders to Promote Research and Information Fluency

Transforming Classroom Practice with Web 2.0 Literacy and Social Networks

Our content revolves around:

• Time to collaborate, discuss, and put together learning in a culminating digital project

• Hands-on/minds-on, all the time learning, designing, and planning

• Excitement of emerging technologies (Web 2.0 and technology tools and resources)

• Constant modeling of instructional technology into the curriculum, classroom, and job

• Specific staff development strategies with understanding of how to learn (show a strategy and explain how and why you can infuse it into your classroom practice)

• Planning and preparing our students for the 21st century supported with 21st century skills

• Utilizing ISTE’s National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) to identify student’s technology proficiency outcomes.

Now, we take the content and put it in a comfortable 21st century teaching and learning environment that resembles all the good things about a chic coffee shop or a Panera Bread bistro: collaboration, individual focused time, movement, energy, and, of course great healthy food. There’s a reason we meet our friends, colleagues and Professional Development (PD) Cadres in coffee shops and bistros. It’s relaxing, and we’re free to talk and actively listen while immersing ourselves in the personalized learning experience.

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Location, Dates and TimesThe Innovative Educator Technology Academy running August 15-19, 2011 will take place at the School District of Onalaska Middle School, 711 Quincy Street, Onalaska, WI 54650.

“Pick 1” workshops: Monday and Tuesday 8:30am-3:30pm and Wednesday 8:30am-11:30pm.

“Pick 2” workshops Wednesday 12:30-3:30pm and Thursday and Friday 8:30am-3:30pm.

Each day healthy choices for breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snacks will be included through the Innovative Technology Academy. Schedule on-site dining times at the School District of Onalaska Middle School Café are:

Breakfast 8:00-8:30am Lunch 11:30-12:15pm Afternoon Snack 2:00-2:15pm

Technology Academy FeesThe cost for half a week is $175/participant. A full week is $350/participant. If a PD Cadre of three educators from a district signs up together, the cost per week is $900/team. You may sign up as many teams of three as you like at this reduced price.

* There will be a $75 cancellation fee for any cancellations made after August 8, 2011.

Registration and PaymentsRegister online by going to http://blog.innovativeeducator.us/ and clicking on Innovative Educator Technology Academy. Placement in all workshops is on a first and first come registration basis. If a workshop is filled, participants will be notified and placed on a waiting list or given the option to choose another “Pick 1 or Pick 2” option to meet their learning needs. Once registered, participants will receive a confirmation email to send in with their payment. To reserve your spot, payments must be made by June 30 to:

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Contact InformationFor questions regarding course content, contact Naomi Harm at (507) 750-0506--home or (608) 386-2018--cell or email [email protected].

For questions regarding registration, contact Kim Berg at (608) 406-6004 or email [email protected].

Extra! Extra! Read All About It... Café Menu Bonus Choices for All Educators!

Each participant will receive an Innovative Educator Emerging Technology Tool Kit filled with gizmos, gadgets and resources to support your teaching and learning success for the week.

We are also offering cost effective graduate credits. One, two or three graduate credit course options will be made available

at the cost of $110 per credit through Viterbo University.

* Graduate credit paperwork, online registration, and payment must be completed on the first day of the Innovative Educator Technology Academy Pick 1 or Pick 2 starting dates.

Graduate credit payment will be made directly Viterbo University through a personal check or credit card.

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“Pick 1” Workshop Options

Instructors: Dan King and Naomi Harm Max enrollment = 25

We’ve developed a special Technology Leadership Camp just for administrators and school technology leaders. Held onsite at the Onalaska Middle School, the Technology Leadership Camp is a multi-day, hands-on program that will equip you and your school leaders with the skills, resources, and confidence to effectively meet the learning needs and levels of the teachers and students in your district. In this hands-on training, administrative and technology leaders will explore new trends related to both emerging technologies and 21st century skills as they relate to teaching and learning. In particular, it will focus on these trends from the administrator’s point of view.

At the end of this course, the Technology Leadership Camp will help you:

• Craft and articulate a leadership shared-vision

• Energize staff, students, and the community

• Stay on top of important educational technology trends, research and best practices

• Manage ongoing technology programs • Create effective staff development

programs based on data-drive decisions• Model and integrate technology into

instruction• Assess technology programs for

productivity and efficiency purposes• Access Web resources for administrators

through social networks and PLN’s• Identify 21st Century Skills and web 2.0

literacy tools and benefits in the classroom• Understand the National Educational

Technology Standards (ISTE NETS)

21st Century Skills for the 21st Century EducatorInstructors: Dan King and Naomi Harm Max enrollment = 25

The purpose of this workshop is to provide ”Just in Time” training through an blended interface for K-12 educators based on the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). These standards are the basic technology skills every educator should possess. In the process, educators will develop their own skills and discover what students need in order to meet the NETS for Students. 21st century skills and assessment also provide educators the tools and information necessary to make solid decisions about how to best facilitate the educational experience from start to finish. The layout of the interactive course will include “21 essential strategies and intuitive tools to meet the needs of the 21st century educator” while the information will assist in setting learning objectives, selecting appropriate 21st century web 2.0 literacy tools, deciding on curriculum content, and determining strategies for effective learning. The main goal of this “21st Century Skills for the 21st Century Educator” workshop is to establish, facilitate, and maintain an environment that is learner focused. To determine 21st century skills and assessment areas, educators must ask themselves, “What do I want to know about my students that will help me determine what to teach, how to teach, what technology to employ, and where to start the educational experience?” There are many areas, but certain areas are essential when planning Web-based and technology infused learning incorporating computer proficiency skills, learning styles, and a learner’s desired outcomes.

Technology Leadership Camp: Cultivating the New Digital Landscape in Your K- 12 Teaching and Learning Environment


“Pick 1” Workshop Options

Kicking It Up A Notch: Season Your SMART Notebook Lessons with Technology IntegrationInstructor: Shirley Galstad-Roh Max enrollment = 25

Seasoned SMART Notebook lessons infused with technology integration allows a teacher to immediately transform his/her classroom practice and promote literacy skills focused on student outcomes. This hands-on workshop will assist educators to create curriculum activities that are visual, highly interactive, learner-centered. Educators will also learn how to implement SMARTBoard Notebook lessons beyond level and 1 and 2, and focus on the seamless integration of designing meaningful content based thematic lessons.

At the end of this course, learners will be able to:

• Create high-quality, effective lesson activities with your content

• Collaborate with peers to assess and improve new and existing lessons

• Time to create lessons in your specific subject area and grade level

• Hands-on practice opportunities with every task you complete

Promoting Research and Information Fluency Skills with eReadersInstructor: Jennifer Malphy Max enrollment = 25

Did you receive a Kindle, Pandigital, or Nook, as a recent gift or a personal purchase and don’t know how to use it? Would you like to implement eReading best practices throughout your classroom instruction to promote literacy with your students? Do you want to utilize the local public library’s services to download eBooks and audio book titles free of charge? Answer yes to any of these questions and this workshop is for you. Join Jennifer Malphy as she collaboratively shares strategies and solutions of how to promote research and information fluency skills in library media center/classroom with your students. You will also explore eBooks and eReaders, the differences, uses, resources, websites as well as how to download books at home, work or at the library.

Participants are encouraged to bring their own eReader, or you may purchase the Kindle 3G/Wi-Fi at $189 or the Nook Color Wi-Fi at $249. Your purchased Kindle or Nook will be made available to you on the first day of the workshop.

Transforming Classroom Practice with Web 2.0 Literacy and Social Networks Instructor: Jena Sherry Max enrollment = 25

The students in our classrooms today will work in a fast-paced, collaborative online world tomorrow. Are today’s educators prepared for these digital natives? In this workshop you will experience the excitement of online Web 2.0 tools including Blogs, Wikis, Nings and Twitter to engage and motivate you as a 21st century educator and your individual learners in your classroom. Discover how you can open a digital door to a wealth of data and collaboration for you and your students. In addition, participants will discover a variety of engaging and innovative Web 2.0 literacy tools that support the differentiated and individualized communication, organization, and productivity needs of our 21st century digital learners. While at the same time, educators will be introduced to a variety of online professionals through social networks to communicate and collaborate with other like minds an content areas to extend the learning environment beyond the k-12 classroom walls.


• Identify how the use of Web 2.0 tools can deepen learning and increase student engagement

• Explore and utilize Web 2.0 literacy tools and professional social networks

• Identify how Web 2.0 tools support a student centered learning environment

• Assess and apply best practices in the use of Web 2.0 and global literacy

• Create a Blog, Wiki, Ning or Twitter account for personal and/or professional uses

• Build an online professional learning network to support 24/7 professional development and best practices.


“Pick 2” Workshop OptionsLet the Journey Begin: Transforming Classroom Practice with iPad IntegrationInstructor: Dan King Max enrollment = 25

Grab a hold of Apple’s new iPad whether you are first generation user or you just purchased the second generation model, and be prepared to be engaged with this innovative teaching and learning tool. Be among the first to discover how the iPad is impacting learning throughout classroom practice, whether it’s true anytime anywhere learning or merging all 60 pounds of textbooks into a 1.5 pound device. Discover how schools are you varied methods of synchronizing and licensing of downloaded apps across multiple iPad units as well. Free as well as commercial apps will be demonstrated including applications for education, photo sharing, news, social networking, digital storytelling, musical expression, art, audio recording, games, and more! A multitude of possibilities exist and we are so excited to showcase how this tool can transform your classroom instructional and delivery of a content based lessons. Utilize some of the best education apps available to enable students to create, consume and reflect on their learning.

Participants are encouraged to bring their own iPads, or you may purchase the new Apple iPad 2 (cost TBA soon). Your purchased Apple iPad 2 will be made available to you on the first day of the workshop.

The Art of Online Facilitation Supported with Blended Learning EnvironmentsInstructor: Naomi Harm Max enrollment = 25

This hands-on workshop will showcase how to apply a straightforward, decision-making approach for structuring performance-based blended learning solutions. It gives you practical tips, tools, and techniques that will help you exploit the benefits of blended learning through robust content and learning management systems (CMS and LMS) of EDU2.0, Edmodo, Google Sites and Twiducate. The designed blended coursework environment will enhance student involvement and engagement, while meeting the teaching and instructional delivery styles of your 21st century educators.

The “The Art of Online Facilitation Supported with Blended Learning Environments” workshop also provides effective teaching strategies, and promotes the importance of designing, delivering and modeling a safe online community for your k-12 students.We will also address the “Textbooks to Netbooks” impact and the implications of taking your content mobile for all of your learners and save dollars on future textbook purchases. This course is also designed to provide a cost effective solution and framework for supporting k-12 educators teaching and learning environments, while engaging all students at varied levels, while implementing collaborative projects embedded with 21st century skills and assessments.Learning Objectives:

• To learn how to facilitate and assess online discussions• To describe the importance and value of interaction in the blended course• To identify and list various types of student interactions for a blended learning environment• To explore strategies and techniques to infuse student-student and instructor-student interaction

and engagement.

Kicking It Up A Notch: Season Your SMART Notebook Lessons with Technology IntegrationInstructor: Shirley Galstad-Roh Max enrollment = 25



Transforming Classroom Practice with Web 2.0 Literacy and Social Networks Instructor: Jena Sherry Max enrollment = 25

The students in our classrooms today will work in a fast-paced, collaborative online world tomorrow. Are today’s educators prepared for these digital natives? In this workshop you will experience the excitement of online Web 2.0 tools including Blogs, Wikis, Nings and Twitter to engage and motivate you as a 21st century educator and your individual learners in your classroom. Discover how you can open a digital door to a wealth of data and collaboration for you and your students. In addition, participants will discover a variety of engaging and innovative Web 2.0 literacy tools that support the differentiated and individualized communication, organization, and productivity needs of our 21st century digital learners. While at the same time, educators will be introduced to a variety of online professionals through social networks to communicate and collaborate with other like minds an content areas to extend the learning environment beyond the k-12 classroom walls.


• Identify how the use of Web 2.0 tools can deepen learning and increase student engagement

• Explore and utilize Web 2.0 literacy tools and professional social networks

• Identify how Web 2.0 tools support a student centered learning environment

• Assess and apply best practices in the use of Web 2.0 and global literacy

• Create a Blog, Wiki, Ning or Twitter account for personal and/or professional uses

• Build an online professional learning network to support 24/7 professional development and best practices.

“Pick 2” Workshop OptionsKicking It Up A Notch: Season Your SMART Notebook Lessons with Technology IntegrationInstructor: Shirley Galstad-Roh Max enrollment = 25



• Create high-quality, effective lesson activities with your content

• Collaborate with peers to assess and improve new and existing lessons

• Time to create lessons in your specific subject area and grade level

• Hands-on practice opportunities with every task you complete

Promoting Research and Information Fluency Skills with eReadersInstructor: Jennifer Malphy Max enrollment = 25

Did you receive a Kindle, Pandigital, or Nook, as a recent gift or a personal purchase and don’t know how to use it? Would you like to implement eReading best practices throughout your classroom instruction to promote literacy with your students? Do you want to utilize the local public library’s services to download eBooks and audio book titles free of charge? Answer yes to any of these questions and this workshop is for you. Join Jennifer Malphy as she collaboratively shares strategies and solutions of how to promote research and information fluency skills in library media center/classroom with your students. You will also explore eBooks and eReaders, the differences, uses, resources, websites as well as how to download books at home, work or at the library.

Participants are encouraged to bring their own eReader, or you may purchase the Kindle 3G/Wi-Fi at $189 or the Nook Color Wi-Fi at $249. Your purchased Kindle or Nook will be made available to you on the first day of the workshop.

Innovative Educator Consulting295 South Marina Drive, Brownsville, MN 55919

Home: (507) 750-0506 Cell: (608) 386-2018 Email: [email protected]


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