PD Offerings from the Muskingum Valley ESC

10/12/10

Creative Problem Solving
The Creative Problem Solving Model (CPS) is a five-step process for solving problems and making decisions by using creative thinking skills and critical thinking skills.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 10/7/2010
Karen Brown, Kelly Erb
MVESC Curric/Gifted Consultants

10/19/10

Podcasting Pizzazz

Add pizzazz to your instruction using a podcast. Learn where to find them and how to use them with students of all ages.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 10/14/2010

Krissy Machamer
Maysville Local Teacher

10/26/10
Adolescent Reading
Reading is the key enabler of learning for academic proficiency across all subject areas and over all grades (Dagget, Hasselbring, 2007). Attend this session to learn instructional strategies to use to teach adolescent readers before, during and after the instruction.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 10/21/2010
Cathy Morgan MVESC Curriculum Consultant

$75.00

Leslie Charles
Distance Learning Coordinator
I bleed scarlet and gray!!!!
Muskingum Valley Educational Service Center
205 North 7th Street
Zanesville, Ohio 43701
740.452.4518 ext 133
lcharles@mvesc.k12.oh.us
www.mvesc.k12.oh.us/tap/

Tips for Using Windows on Your Mac

What could be better then using a Mac? How about running Windows software on your Mac? It might seem impossible but it’s true! Using software like Parallels or VM Ware you too can have the best of both worlds. Learn the pros and cons of the software available, how to install Windows on your Mac using Parallels, and the various settings and ways Windows can integrate with your Mac. Installing Windows on your Mac is as easy as 1,2,3!

$125
50 Minutes
By Request

Bob Stricker
bob@soita.org
150 East Sixth Street
Franklin, OH 45005
United States
Phone: (937) 746-6333 ext. 120
Fax: (937) 746-1029

Tips for Using a Flip Video Camera

Do you need a refresher course on how to use and implement your Flip Video camcorder in your classroom? Join us to review the basics, re-examine the software, and learn some tips and tricks for using the camcorder with students. Participants will also gain some ideas for implementing the Flip Video camera in their content curriculum and have the opportunity to share their ideas with other attendees.

By Request
$125
50 Minutes

Bob Stricker
bob@soita.org
150 East Sixth Street
Franklin, OH 45005
United States
Phone: (937) 746-6333 ext. 120
Fax: (937) 746-1029

Exploring Free Resources in iTunes U by SOITA

iTunes U is a powerful distribution system for educational content. Through it you can access more than 250,000 free lectures, videos, films, and other resources from all over the world. Get a preview of the available resources and start teaching and learning from iTunes U.

$125
50 Minutes
By Request

Bob Stricker
bob@soita.org
150 East Sixth Street
Franklin, OH 45005
United States
Phone: (937) 746-6333 ext. 120
Fax: (937) 746-1029

Lost in Cyberspace: Teaching Brock To Search

The perfect page is out there somewhere. It's the page that has exactly the information you're looking for and you cannot find it.
An important 21st century skill is Information Literacy, the ability to find, evaluate, and use information effectively and ethically. Learn how teachers can help students search, read for information, how to guide students through the research process, and how to help students develop essential critical evaluation and thinking skills.
Attendees will be provided an overview of relevant Internet safety and responsible use issues, current research and statistics related to online behaviors.
Internet search sites can search enormous databases of Web pages, using titles, keywords or text. You can maximize the potential of search engines by learning how they work, and how to use them quickly and effectively. Participants will learn the effective use of 6 key command words to find the information they are searching for.
The challenge is to ask your question the right way, so that you don't end up overwhelmed with too many search results, underwhelmed with too few, or simply unable to locate the material that you need. More often the end result of the search is a range of thousand of pages that areoff-target web pages that must be combed through and in most instances the student does not find what they are really looking for. As with most skills, practice makes perfect!
We will learn how to become savvy web searchers and be web literate Internet users. Learn advanced searching techniques to find what you want & know what you have found. Powerful “Web Searching” technique allows you to find better sites, dig deeper into sites found and discover the specific information desired. Learn how to critically evaluate sites and the information found.
Upon completion of the session/workshop participants will be able to:
· Search the Internet Effectively
· Evaluate Internet information and web pages skillfully
· Determine fake information on the Web
· Read Web Addresses
· Determine Page Authorship
· Check Viral Information and the Content
· Use 5 key commands to search the Web
· Define why you're looking for it, and what you're not looking for.
· Learn to think critically, even suspiciously
· How search engines work with KEY words
· Learn why the most powerful keyword combination is the phrase.
· Learn why you MUST use quotation marks when you search for a document
· Why Boolean" searching is a powerful technique that can narrow your search to a reasonable number of results

By Request
$150
75 Minutes

Howie DiBlasi
howie@frontier.net
928 River Walk
Georgetown, TX 78633
United States
Phone: (970) 749-0760
Fax: (512) 819-0627

Building a Better Teacher: Teaching Creativity and Transforming Education

What is creativity/critical thinking & how can we teach it effectively? Thinking Skills/Problem solving in Education with 10 K-12 Creativity projects-explored utilizing Web 2.0 resources. Reinforce the idea that creativity matters; understand that creativity can be taught across all disciplines and meet the challenges of the modern world.

Promote creativity and imagination of all our children. Reinforce the idea that creativity matters; to demonstrate that creativity can be taught across all disciplines (not just the arts); and therefore, that it must be taught if students are to meet the challenges of the modern world.
In the current culture of public education, it’s often challenging for teachers to teach creativity and for schools to focus on it. As educational leaders we need to transmit certain kinds of content knowledge but also to equip students with the habits, mindsets and practices for creative thought and action.
Observers of globalization like Thomas Friedman, business leaders like Bill Gates, and gurus of education reform like Ken Robinson all agree: creativity should be America’s competitive advantage.
What is creativity and critical thinking? How can we teach it effectively? Thinking Skills and Problem solving in Education. Ten K-12 Creativity projects will be evaluated and explored utilizing Web 2.0 resources
Discover ideas, concepts and projects about creativity, problem solving and critical thinking. Projects for K-12 will be examined in the area of innovation, critical thinking, problem solving and creative thinking skills. Explore original lessons using the Creative Process and how educators can learn to structure creative problem solving lessons on a daily and yearly basis.
This sessions is for all grade levels. Projects will be demonstrated and explored.
Creativity in the classroom – what does it look like?

When students are being creative in the classroom they are likely to:
· Question and challenge.
· Are curious, question and challenge, and don’t necessarily follow the rules.
· Make connections and see relationships.
· Think laterally and make associations between things that are not usually connected.
· Envision want might be.
· Imagine, see possibilities, ask ‘what if?’
· Picture alternatives, and look at things from different view points.
· Explore ideas and options.
· Play with ideas, try alternatives and fresh approaches,
· Keep open minds and modify their ideas to achieve creative results
· Reflect critically on ideas, actions and outcomes.
· Review progress, invite and use feedback,
· Criticize constructively and make perceptive observations.

$150
By Request
60-90 Minutes

Howie DiBlasi
howie@frontier.net
928 River Walk
Georgetown, TX 78633
United States
Phone: (970) 749-0760
Fax: (512) 819-0627

10 Ways To Become An Inspirational Teacher: Power Tools for Lifelong Learners

Topics will include how to: · Capture student’s attention. · Keep the students interests. · Motivate them to change. · Give student’s choices · Connect students with community · Induce students to participate · Enable opportunities to contribute · Make learning an experience to remember · Make learning personal · Make learning unique to each individual · Provide the learners the skills to decide where to engage · Help students feel connected to the community · Write a script for a Photo story · Understand 3 different ways to make learning personal · Using Technology with K-2 Students · Rationale for the Use of Technology · Engagement - Empowerment - Differentiation: · Cooperative Grouping and Collaboration: · Problem-Solving and Project-Based Learning: · Examples of Integration · Resources for Teachers and students · Assessments · Web Quests Our students deal with an enormous number of sensory inputs on any given day. Helping them focus attention is a critical first step when engaging students. Getting their attention is only the first step. Digital Kids learn from watching, showing, and sharing with others. Discover what Social Learning is all about and how to allow students and give learners a sense of feeling personally engaged. To provide a 21st Century Learning Environment we need to engage learners and will provide a memorable learning experience. If we learn how to change the learning environment the greater likelihood students will remember what they’ve learned. Help your students focus on 21st Century Skills, engage in the active negotiation of new knowledge so that new learning will be relevant to each and every contributor. Learn how to keep your learners’ engaged. Find out what it will take to compel students to do things differently and how to engage with ideas, information, and each other. Learn how to discover your students' potential in technology as we explore 24 resources that are exclusively for K-12 students. The session will include skills, a description of the particular tool; examples of its use in the K-12 curriculum; how to get started, and a unit plan focused on learning strategies. Participants will be provided links and complete listing of all Web sites mentioned plus access to a Web site for exercises, new URLs, and more.

60-90 Minutes
By Request
$150

Howie DiBlasi
howie@frontier.net
928 River Walk
Georgetown, TX 78633
United States
Phone: (970) 749-0760
Fax: (512) 819-0627

10 Rules for Revolutionaries in the 21st Century Classroom

Our students deal with an enormous number of sensory inputs on any given day. Helping them focus attention is a critical first step when engaging students. Getting their attention is only the first step. Learn how to keep your learners' interests piqued so you can keep them engaged. Find out what it will take to compel students tod o things differently and how to engage with ideas, information and each other, on terms they define for themselves. Our Digital Kids learn from watching, showing and sharing with others who care as much as they do. Discover what social learning is all about and how to allows students latitude with social learning and give learners a sense of feeling personally engaged. To provide a 21st Century learning environment, we need to engage learners in the active negotiation of new knowledge so that new learning will be relevant to each and every contributor and will provide a memorable learning experience. If we learn how to change the learning environment then the greater the likelihood students will remember what they've learned. Learning is unique to each individual, and we need to discover how to give the learners the skills to decide where to engage. In today's socially networked world, it's important to help students feel connected to the community.

75 Minutes
By Request
$150

Howie DiBlasi
howie@frontier.net
928 River Walk
Georgetown, TX 78633
United States
Phone: (970) 749-0760
Fax: (512) 819-0627