Summer
at
EASTCONN
2008
 

Technology, Writers and Writing: An Advanced Mini Institute for the CT Writing Project in collaboration with EASTCONN
July 1-3, 2008, 9 a.m.– 4 p.m.
UConn, Storrs

Presenter: Jane Cook
Audience: Teachers in all content areas in grades 6-12, technology teachers, technology integration specialists, teachers, ELL, and struggling readers CEUs: 1.8 Fee: $225.00
Register by: 6/17/08 Course #: 08 253 101

Using Poetry to Help Readers Connect to Text and Infer Meaning
July 9, 2008, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
EASTCONN Hampton

Creating a Classroom Web Site
July 15 & 16, 2008, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
EASTCONN Windham Mills

SMART Boards in the Classroom for Beginners
August 12, 2008, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
EASTCONN Windham Mills

Presenter: Pamela Skelly
Audience: K-12, content area educators
CEUs: 0.5 Fee: $75.00
Register by: 7/29/08 Course #: 08 253 113

This is an excellent way to learn the basics, explore learning opportunities, and find and develop lessons. No prior experience with a SMART Board is necessary. If you have a laptop you use at work, you are encouraged to bring it and use our wireless network.

Intel Teach Leadership Forum
August 13, 2008, 8 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
EASTCONN Windham Mills

Presenters: Jane Cook, Pamela Skelly,
                    Lynn Reedy
Audience: Teachers, library media specialists
CEUs: 0.4 Fee: $20.00
Register by: 7/30/08 Course #: 08 253 102

The Intel Teach Leadership Forum provides face-to-face professional development focusing on the importance of leadership in promoting, supporting, and modeling the use of technology in instruction. Explore relevant research and behaviors related to supporting effective technology integration and associated professional development.

Supporting and Maintaining a Culture that Aligns with Scientific
Research-Based Instruction
and Intervention (SRBI) and
Response to Intervention( RtI)
August 13 & October 8, 2008, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
EASTCONN Windham Mills

This two-day series is designed to equip educational leaders to be better prepared to help other educators develop classroom cultures that are more learning responsive. Practices that align with SRBI/RtI expectations will be explored, as will methods to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of implementation.

Making Sense of Science Text: Strategies to Help Your Students Read Science Materials
August 19, 2008, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
EASTCONN Windham Mills

This workshop offers strategies to teach students how to make sense of complicated science text.

Effective Teaching Strategies
August 20 & 21, 2008, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
EASTCONN Windham Mills

At this two-day seminar, specific strategies will be shared based on Robert Marzano’s books: Classroom Instruction that Works and The Art and Science of Teaching.

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Strategy Instruction to Enhance Comprehension and Vocabulary  Development Using Nonfiction
July 16, 2008, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
EASTCONN Hampton

Learn new ideas to hook your students onto nonfiction using engaging activities before, during, and after reading. This presentation will show how teachers have met with success using ideas from The Reading Teacher publication to teach metacognitive strategies with expository text.

Motivating the Plugged-in Generation:
Blogging Basics
July 23, 2008, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
EASTCONN Windham Mills

Create blogs that can be used for reflection and learning logs, student journals, team blogs for group work, communication between home and community, collaborative learning communities, teacher and class Web pages, a class portal and more.

Motivating the Plugged-in Generation:
The Wonderful World of Wikis
July 24, 2008, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
EASTCONN Windham Mills

Presenters: Donna Drasch, Rebecca Pilver
Audience: All teachers
CEUs: 0.5 Fee: $95.00
Register by: 7/10/08 Course #: 08 253 130

Wikis are Web pages that anyone can edit. They allow students to contribute to a single piece of writing or a collection of writing. They are easy to use and have huge potential for integrating technology into literacy across the curriculum.

Increase Students’ Understanding, Engagement & Motivation in All Content Areas With Foldables Part I
August 13, 2008, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
EASTCONN Hampton

Presenters: Donna Drasch, Rebecca Pilver
Audience: All teachers
CEUs: 0.5 Fee: $95.00
Register by: 7/30/08 Course #: 08 253 133

Using Foldables in All Content Areas: Part II
August 14, 2008, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
EASTCONN Hampton

As a follow-up to the first make-and-take Foldables presentation, participants will be trained in additional Foldable manipulatives and have time to develop and share their own, content specific, three-dimensional graphic organizers.

Scratch: If You Want to Play a Game, Then Make it!
August 14 & 15, 2008, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
EASTCONN Windham Mills

Scratch is a new programming language developed at the MIT Media Lab that turns kidsfrom media consumers into media producers,this can enable them to create their own interactive stories, games, music, and animation for the Web.

Get Out the Vote — Election 2008
August 20, 2008, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
EASTCONN Windham Mills

Explore an on-line project and various sites on the Internet that will enrich learning about the electoral process. Connections will be made with literacy, mathematics, and social studies.

Digital Images in the Classroom
August 21, 2008, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
EASTCONN Windham Mills

Motivating the Plugged-in Generation: Potential of Podcasting
July 30, 2008, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
EASTCONN Windham Mills

Motivating the Plugged-in Generation: Digital Storytelling
July 31, 2008, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
EASTCONN Windham Mills

The inclusion of the technology into the storytelling process represents a “value-added” approach by extending the learning experience to construct meaning in a visual sense, as well as a written one, for communication in the 21st century.

Google Earth in the Classroom
August 5, 2008, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
EASTCONN Windham Mills

Presenter: Pamela Skelly
Audience: All teachers
CEUs: 0.5 Fee: $75.00
Register by: 7/22/08 Course #: 08 253 114

Explore different regions with natural and political maps, annotate locations and share with others, and create and share virtual tours. No prior experience with Google Earth is necessary. If you have a laptop you use at work, you are encouraged to bring it and use our wireless network.

Google Tools for Educators
August 6, 2008, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
EASTCONN Windham Mills

Presenter: Pamela Skelly
Audience: All teachers
CEUs: 0.5 Fee: $75.00
Register by: 7/23/08 Course #: 08 253 118

Google offers a suite of powerful tools available for educators at no cost. (You will need to create a free Google account to access these tools.) No prior experience with Google Earth is necessary. If you have a laptop you use at work, you are encouraged to bring it and use our wireless network.

Making Sense of Math Text: Strategies to Help Your Students Read Math Materials
August 15, 2008, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
EASTCONN Windham Mills

This workshop offers strategies to teach students how to make sense of cryptic math text and to teach math as a discrete language.

Increasing Student Achievement Through Content Area Writing
August 18, 2008, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
EASTCONN Windham Mills

In this workshop we will focus on the basic creative techniques associated with informational writing. The goal is to begin to develop or add to a repertoire of techniques you can apply to any writing project in any classroom.

Thinkfinity: Free Resources Created by Experts and Educators
August 18, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. &
August 19, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
EASTCONN Windham Mills

Day 1 is an overview of the Thinkfinity program and the free, standards-based, high quality, online resources and navigation to resources provided by each of the 7 Partner sites and the Thinkfinity Literacy Network. Day 2 will focus on the integration of Thinkfinity resources within the context of a lesson to support student learning.