Oral History Documentaries,
Creating Imovies that Support Academic Content.
Creating professional movies of community member involvement in historic events
can put history into the hands of any student in your class. Learn how
to create your own content driven documentaries while learning from seven years
of examples from Ms Palmer’s students’ work. Very little classroom
time was used to research and represent social issues from their community in
the process. See how convincing these students became as historians through
their investigation of neighborhood involvement in history. Good for any
teacher looking to create video content to support classroom instruction.
Mary Palmer, 2007 History Channel National Teacher of the Year, 2005 VFW Teacher
of the Year, 2004 National Apple Educator,
Century HS, Bismarck, ND.
Classroom Resources for using Remote Sensing
Sources of Satellite
Imagery…What Do I Do With Them?
How does one teacher receive the Toyota Tapestry grant, Milken Award for
excellence in education, and an Einstein Fellowship? By helping her middle school
students realize they can access NASA imagery to address issues in their own
neighborhoods. Come experience dozens of activities Ms. Soeffing has
found successful with her middle school students over the years. From
trips to the zoo, to local ecology experiments, seeing the geography of the
state, to tackling math and science issues on her campus. NASA satellite
imagery is an accessible and valuable science tool to help students realize
that science can even happen right in your own campus.
Cassie Soeffing, 2006
NASA Einstein Fellow, 2004 Toyota Tapestry grant recipient, 2004 Milken award
winner, and 2004 SD teacher of the year Sioux
Falls, SD.
Podcasting 101- Authoring Podcasts
The final workshop in this series is designed for creating your own resources
and distributing them to your students or other faculty. Texas Regional
Collaborative’s Keith Mitchell spearheads development of podcast content
for professional development and will share how to create and distribute
podcast resources that support your projects. Come experience a variety of
ways to get classroom resources in the form of slideshows, notes, college
lectures or illustrations into your students’ hands.
Keith Mitchell, Texas Regional Collaborative at the University of Texas Austin,
Austin, TX.
Social
Justice and Immigration Issues
Deacon
Charlie Stump, Diocese of Dallas, Dallas, TX
Working Smarter Not Harder with Quia
Learn several techniques to make the most
of your valuable time with Quia’s
online templates and processes. We will cover the vast resource pages you might
borrow from or be inspired to vary to create classroom exercises. The
evaluation tools can immediately provide positive feedback for student learning
on daily assignments or tests. Quia helps shorten the learning cycle,
the grading turn around time, and helps you understand what students are understanding
or needing remediation with. In a few short hours you will create your
own classroom activity, outline a learning unit, create a survey, and a class
web page. Experience first hand the benefits of instant grading and fast
feedback of student perception. Languages, mathematics, science, social
studies, or literally any discipline will find practical ways to reduce paperwork
and increases student learning opportunity using the online activities that
you can create with Quia.