Description
Ask a Tech Teacher offers a variety of certificate classes. All are online, hands-on, with an authentic use of tools you’ll want for your classroom. Each is designed for a group of 5+ individuals in a PD setting and is taught via Google Classroom. For additional information, email [email protected]:
The Tech-infused Teacher
The 21st Century lesson blends technology with teaching to build a collaborative, differentiated, and shared learning environment. In this course, you will use a suite of digital tools to make that possible while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, digital publishing, and immersive keyboarding. You will actively collaborate, share knowledge, provide constructive feedback to classmates, publish digitally, and differentiate for unique needs. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network.
Assessment is project-based so be prepared to be fully-involved and an eager risk-taker.
Price includes course registration and all necessary materials.
The Tech-infused Class
The 21st Century classroom blends technology with traditional teaching to build a collaborative, differentiated, and shared learning environment. This  three-week course is a follow-on to the introductory class, Tech-infused Teacher, digging into the digital ideas and tools used by innovative teachers to extend and enrich student learning. This includes topics like how to build your tech-infused classroom, using tech to differentiate for student needs, teaching reading and writing with tech (you can learn more about that in the class, Teaching Writing with Tech),  and favorite digital tools. You will actively collaborate, share knowledge, provide constructive feedback to classmates, publish digitally, and differentiate for needs. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Professional Learning Network.
Pre-requisite: the 21st Century Tech-infused Teacher or permission of the instructor.
Assessment is project-based so be prepared to be fully-involved and an eager risk-taker.
Price includes course registration and all necessary materials.
Teach Writing with Tech
Educators participate in this three-week hands-on quasi-writer’s workshop as they learn to use widely-available digital tools to help their students develop their inner writer. Resources include videos, pedagogic articles, lesson plans, projects, and virtual face-to-face meetings to share in a collaborative environment. Strategies introduced range from conventional tools such as quick writes, online websites, and visual writing to unconventional approaches such as Twitter novels, comics, and Google Earth lit trips. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Common Core, or the basic who-what-when-where-why. By the time educators finish this class, they will be ready to implement many new tools in their classroom.
Assessment is project-based so be prepared to be fully-involved and an eager risk-taker.
Price includes course registration and all necessary materials.
20 Webtools in 25 Days
Participants in this four-week online class will explore twenty popular digital tools educators use in their classrooms to extend learning and differentiate for student needs. Participants will review between one and four during the five-week class (by themselves or in groups) and present their review to classmates in a weekly virtual meeting. Participants will respond to the reviews of their classmates with comments, suggestions, personal experience, and questions. All tools can be used by participants in their classroom during the upcoming school year.
This is a high-energy, innovative, and motivating class that can be reproduced in a Professional Development setting or with students in your classroom. Assessment is project-based so participants should be prepared to be fully-involved and eager risk-takers.
Price includes course registration, college credit, and all necessary materials.
20 Tech Curricula Webtools in 20 Days
Participants will prepare one webtool every week and then teach classmates in a group virtual meeting. Participants can select a webtool they’re familiar with, that they use in their classes (from the list above) or one they’d like to get to know. This can be done individually or in groups, as a live presentation or a moderated screencast. Each weekly virtual meeting will include five presentations of webtools by class members. They are about fifteen minutes each, with the goal of completing all presentations within 90 minutes.
At the end of this course, participants get 24 hours of professional development credit and a Certificate of Completion itemizing your achievements.
Assessment is based on involvement, interaction with classmates, and completion of projects so be prepared to be fully-involved and an eager risk-taker. Price includes course registration and all necessary materials. To enroll, click Buy and sign up.
Price includes course registration, college credit, and all necessary materials.
Building Digital Citizens
This is a self-paced online certificate class in the 13 main topics that build good digital citizens. Topics include:
- Copyrights, Fair Use, Public Domain
- Cyberbullying
- Digital Commerce
- Digital Communications
- Digital Footprint/Digital Privacy
- Digital Rights and Responsibilities
- Digital Search/Research
- Images
- Internet Safety
- Netiquette
- Passwords
- Plagiarism
- Social Media
Learning takes place on a dedicated private wiki. You move through topics at your own pace, self-assess your progress, ask questions as needed, and let us know when you’re done. At the end of this course, participants get 18 hours of professional development credit and a Certificate of Completion itemizing their accomplishments.
