Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching:
February 5th-8th:
Group Professional Development
Pick a topic:
Tech infused Teacher/Classroom
Writing With Tech
Building Digital Citizens
20 Webtools in 20 Days
Differentiation
Here are general guidelines:
- up to 10 people per class (same low price–$750)
- delivered via Google Classroom
- each class is about four weeks
Normally, we charge $750 for five people. For three days, get up to 10 people–your entire team–for the same price. We take POs, PayPal, or we’ll invoice you.
We wrote the books. We’ll help you integrate tech into your curriculum, teach digital citizenship, differentiate for your learners, and more. Questions? Ask Jacqui Murray at askatechteacher at gmail dot com.
The Tech-infused Teacher
Certificate
The 21st Century lesson blends technology with teaching to build a collaborative, differentiated, and shared learning environment. In this three-week 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.
Student joins a Google Classroom-based class and meets weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments.
Assessment is project-based so be prepared to be fully-involved and an eager risk-taker.
Price includes course registration and all necessary materials. Can also be taken for college credit (see MTI 562)
Teach Writing with Tech
Certificate
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. Student joins a Google Classroom-based class and meets weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments.
Building Digital Citizens
Certificate
If students use digital devices (iPads, Chromebooks, PCs, Macs, or another), they need to become familiar with the rights and responsibilities required to be good digital citizens. In this three-week class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce at what age and how to make these authentic to student lives.
Topics include:
- cyberbullying
- digital citizenship
- digital commerce
- digital communications
- digital footprint
- digital law
- digital privacy
- digital rights and responsibilities
- digital search/research
- fair use/public domain
- image copyrights
- internet safety
- netiquette
- plagiarism
- passwords
- social media
Class is student-paced with no direct instructor involvement or meetings. Student joins an ongoing Google Classroom-based class.
Assessment is project-based so be prepared to be fully-involved and an eager risk-taker.
Price includes course registration and all necessary materials. Can also be taken for college credit (see MTI 557)
How Technology Makes Differentiation Fast and Easy
Certificate
Differentiation in the classroom means meeting students where they are most capable of learning. It is not an extra layer of work, rather a habit of mind for both teacher and student. Learn granular approaches to infusing differentiation into all of your lesson plans, whether you’re a Common Core school or not, with this hands-on, interactive class. Ideas include visual, audio, video, mindmaps, infographics, graphic organizers, charts and tables, screenshots, screencasts, images, games and simulations, webtools, and hybrid assessments.
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 material.
20 Webtools in 20 Days–for the K8 SL Tech Curriculum
Certificate
Participants in this four-week online class will explore twenty digital tools educators use in their Structured Learning technology curriculum. Participants will review between one and four each during the 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.
This is a high-energy, innovative, and motivating class that can be reproduced with students in your classroom. Assessment is project-based so participants should be prepared to be fully-involved and eager risk-takers. Student joins a Google Classroom-based class.
Price includes course registration, certificate, and all necessary materials.