Technology Toolbox Series of 22 PD Exciting Sessions

  Need Technology Professional Development for your teachers but don’t have the time to search for presenters, educational technology topics and can’t afford to bring people in? NORT2H has the solution for you! Technology Toolbox is a series of PD Sessions for schools to receive over videoconferencing. With 22 topics scheduled, schools can join other schools from across the county for presentations on the many of the hottest topics in educational technology at one low price. The series is offered twice each day at 2:30 pm and 4:00 pm Eastern time zone.

The NORT2H Consortium has been providing Technology Professional Development over videoconferencing for over five years to schools in Ohio and have been offering select programs through CILC since the start of the PD Market Place. Technology Toolbox is a PD series that have been offered to schools in Ohio. NORT2H is now making these programs available to all schools through the CILC PD Market Place as the complete series or as individual programs. Purchasing the series will be provide your school with a guaranteed seat in all of the programs sessions and provides a cost savings over individual programs.

School districts purchasing the program are welcome to switch sessions times and locations for each of the sessions. Before each session your school will be contacted by NORT2H to confirm participation, identify the session time and the location for that session. The purchase of the series provides schools or districts 1 IVC connection for each topic at the time scheduled.

Additional programs add to the technology toolbox series are available to schools purchasing the series at no additional costs making the price per session drop as the year goes on. Each year NORT2H has new topics, guest presenters and even reruns of popular topics that are added to the schedule. Any new programs to the technology toolbox series are included in the original purchase price of the series.

The NORT2H Consortium offers teachers the opportunity to purchase graduate credit through Ashland University as a combination of live events and online learning. Teachers interested in purchasing graduate credit must complete the following:

1) Complete the online registration with Ashland University between September 28, 2010 and December 2, 2010; and
2) Attend 16 out of the 22 listed programs from NORT2H; and
3) Complete 16 of the 22 followup learning modules on NORT2H's Moodle site for Technology Toolbox; and
4) Complete one out-of-class project. The class project is the creation and implementation of one of the Web 2.0 tools demonstrated by the NORT2H consortium. Teachers must submit their projects prior to the close of the class on May 20th.

Contact Hours:
Teachers participating in Technology Toolbox sessions are welcome to receive certificates of completion upon request.

A complete list of programs, dates and more details about Technology Toolbox can be viewed online at www.tinyurl.com/techtoolbox

Contact:
Paul Hieronymus
hieronymus@esclc.org

440.324.3172 x2

$1195

Each of the 22 sessions is 50 - 60 minutes in length and is offered at either 2:30 p.m. or 4:00 p.m. ET.