Windsor Southwest Supervisory Union

Creating 21st Century Classrooms: WSWSU Dots Independent Study Wiki For those who wish to explore the topics covered in the VTCite Creating 21st Century Classrooms: Connecting the Dots II course, a wiki has been set up to guide you through the readings and assignments. There were 5 modules in the original course. The purpose of this online "course" is to either review or learn how to "transform" your classroom into a 21st Century Classroom.	Lauren Baker	Library
Transforming an established science unit into PBL Through inquiry, communication, and place based research, students in Cavendish have been spending this month analyzing the health of the Black River. Their work, done in short field trips, classroom investigations and blog discussions, will be reported and published in a variety of media forms to at least three relevant organizations. This workshop will reveal the process of posing a question, providing"mini lessons", guidelines and allowing students to take over the ownership of their work. This project is done with a depth of knowledge of 4. Our time together will bring you up to date on their ongoing work, with time for discussion on how to take something you already do and make it project based.	Robin Bebo-Long	Room C304
Webspiration: Online Mind Mapping Webspiration is an online diagraming tool. Students can use the program to create notes collaboratively or individually. In this workshop we will learn how to set up a webspiration account, look at examples of student work, create and share diagrams. We will also talk about how this can be used as an assessment tool.	Mike Eppolito	Room C203
Smartboard™ (Beginners only) Come to see what an interactive whiteboard is, how it functions and ways to quickly engage your learners. We will walk through the icons of the toolbar, pop down menus and take a peak into the gallery and the Lesson Activity Toolkit™. To get the most from this workshop, please bring your laptop and download the FREE software. Mac users go to: http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Support/Downloads/SBS/NBSv10MacEval.htm This will give you a 90-day free trial. To keep the download just get the product key code from a teacher in your building who has a Smartboard. The key codes are good for 1000 downloads. You will also need to download the Lesson ActivityToolkit 2.0. That is available at: (Scroll to the bottom) http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Support/Downloads/Admin+tools/AdminToolsNBMac.htm	Jennifer Harper	Room C207
Building Forms Using Google Docs Google Docs is an easy-to-use online word processor, spreadsheet and presentation tool that enables collaboration and the ability to create, store and share instantly and securely, online and in real time. You can create new documents from scratch or upload existing documents, spreadsheets and presentations. There's no software to download, and all your work is stored online and can be accessed from any computer.	Karen Surma	Room B201
Introduction to Audio Editing This seminar will look at audio capture, editing and conversion techniques using the free, open source program Audacity. Learn about recording audio, deleting the opps, adjusting volume, special effects, and saving the audio in a usable format. Good for creating pod-casts, transferring tape & vinyl to mp3s, visualizing and analyzing audio samples, and enhancing a bad audio file to be more understandable.	Greg Styles	Room C204

Creating 21st Century Classrooms: WSWSU Dots Independent Study Wiki For those who wish to explore the topics covered in the VTCite Creating 21st Century Classrooms: Connecting the Dots II course, a wiki has been set up to guide you through the readings and assignments. There were 5 modules in the original course. The purpose of this online "course" is to either review or learn how to "transform" your classroom into a 21st Century Classroom.	Lauren Baker	Library
Getting the Most from your Notebook™ This session is designed for educators who have used Notebook 10™ and are looking to make their Notebook™ lessons more interactive to engage the learners. We will explore linking, screen capture, flash video, recording and the Lesson ActivityToolkit 2.0™ To get the most fromt his workshop, please bring your laptop and download the FREE software. Mac users go to: http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Support/Downloads/SBS/NBSv10MacEval.htm This will give you a 90-day free trial. To keep the download just get the product key code from a teacher in your building who has a Smartboard. The key codes are good for 1000downloads. You will also need to download the Lesson Activity Toolkit 2.0. That is available at: (Scroll to the bottom) http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Support/Downloads/Admin+tools/AdminToolsNBMac.htm	Jennifer Harper	Room C207
Building Forms Using Google Docs Google Docs is an easy-to-use online word processor, spreadsheet and presentation tool that enables collaboration and the ability to create, store and share instantly and securely, online and in real time. You can create new documents from scratch or upload existing documents, spreadsheets and presentations. There's no software to download, and all your work is stored online and can be accessed from any computer.	Karen Surma	Room B201
Introduction to Audio Editing This seminar will look at audio capture, editing and conversion techniques using the free, open source program Audacity. Learn about recording audio, deleting the opps, adjusting volume, special effects, and saving the audio in a usable format. Good for creating pod-casts, transferring tape & vinyl to mp3s, visualizing and analyzing audio samples, and enhancing a bad audio file to be more understandable.	Greg Styles	Room C204
Building Your Own Personal Learning Network (PLN) Teachers attending will be signing up for an RSS Reader, subscribing to a blog, or blogs, and setting up a Twitter account.	Charles Herzog	B204
Garage Band for the Classroom Learn three easy ways to use this popular Apple program in your classroom: As a recording device:.Learn how to use GarageBand to record your own or your student's voice for purposes such as archiving student progress in Reading Fluency. As a music creation tool: Learn to create beautiful and effective soundscapes for live student projects and plays or for slide shows and movies. As a Podcast creation tool: Learn how to create a podcast with photos, video, voice over and/ or background music, which then can be used in the classroom or uploaded to an ipod.	Michael Turk	Computer Lab