All TeacherTECH workshops are open to Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College and Adult Education Educators and Administrators.


Beginning Podcasting for Educators (Mac)
Saturday, July 11, 2009
9:00am - 3:30pm

Podcasting is an emerging technology that is being utilized in education to give students, teachers, administrators, and school districts an authentic voice and to provide them with a wide audience to share their work. We will discuss how podcasting is being used in education with the focus on incorporating podcasting into curriculum to benefit teaching and learning, as a showcasing tool for school sites and districts, and to deliver training materials. We will provide hands on instruction on how to download, listen, and create podcasts using both GarageBand™ and iMovie™ software and how to publish your podcast on the Internet. Copyright will also be discussed as needed throughout the sessions.
Presented by Mike Senise, San Diego Unified School District
Course fee: $45.00


Moodle I: Beginning Moodle for Educators
Saturday, July 18, 2009
9:00am - 3:30pm

Moodle is an open source learning management system (LMS) used to augment traditional face-to-face courses and also deliver content in online courses. Moodle is a web-based, software package designed using sound pedagogical principles to help educators create effective online, constructivist, learning communities. Moodle is currently used by more than 1,000 teachers and thousands of students in San Diego area schools. In this beginning course, you will begin to build and add content to your Moodle course by creating resources such as web pages, links to files and web sites, and organizing files into folders accessible in Moodle.
Presented by Mike Senise, San Diego Unified School District
Course fee: $45.00


Moodle II: Intermediate Moodle for Educators
Saturday, July 25, 2009
9:00am - 3:30pm

Participants should be familiar with the basics of Moodle, including how to add activities and files, and how to navigate a Moodle course. This course will teach you strategies on how to implement online collaboration and interaction in Moodle. Covered in this course will be glossaries and online assignments, online discussion and collaboration, data driven decision making, construction of online self-graded quizzes and collection of data to help drive your instruction.
Presented by Mike Senise, San Diego Unified School District
Course fee: $45.00


Moodle III: Advanced Moodle for Educators
Saturday, August 1, 2009
9:00am - 3:30pm

This training session is designed to extend and enhance the skills of a Moodle course creator with a focus on peer assessment, online content delivery and collaboration. Included will be discussions of key instructional design principles as they apply to the elements of your Moodle course.
Presented by Mike Senise, San Diego Unified School District
Course fee: $45.00


Beginning SMART™ Interactive White Board for Educators
Monday, August 3, 2009
9:00am - 3:00pm

This is a beginning workshop for teachers who are 
starting to use or who are interested in using a SMART™ Interactive Whiteboard. This workshop will introduce you to SMART™ Board hardware and software. You will learn how to create engaging interactive lessons to meet the needs of your students, as well as find lessons and templates that correlate to the standards. This workshop, appropriate for teachers of all grade levels, will give practical ways on how to keep students focused and engaged while learning key components of the curriculum.
Presented by Kelly Smith, SMART™ Exemplary Educator, The Nativity School
Course fee: $45.00


Intermediate/Advanced SMART Interactive White Board for Educators
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
9:00am - 3:00pm

This SMART™ workshop is intended for teachers who want to master the advanced features of the SMART™ software and hardware. By the end of the day you will have learned how to incorporate the SMART™ Board into your existing curriculum while having the time to prepare and share lessons or units to be used in your classroom.
Presented by Kelly Smith, SMART™ Exemplary Educator, The Nativity School
Course fee: $45.00


Digital Storytelling Using Apple iLife
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
9:00am - 3:00pm

Invigorate your curriculum with dynamic digital storytelling! Apple’s iLife Suite helps you weave images, video, sound, and voice into a multimedia masterpiece. This hands-on session will be spent learning the basics of Garageband, iMovie, and iPhoto and how they can add depth and enthusiasm into any content area. Discover the exciting possibilities that can turn your students into enthusiastic producers, directors and editors of their very own creative productions. Participants will walk away with sensational collaborative projects and creative ideas to utilize on the very first day of school.
Presented by Kelly Smith, The Nativity School
Course fee: $45.00


Beginning Podcasting for Educators (Windows)
Saturday, August 8, 2009
9:00am - 3:30pm

Podcasting is an emerging technology that is being utilized in education to give students, teachers, administrators, and school districts an authentic voice and to provide them with a wide audience to share their work. We will discuss how podcasting is being used in education with the focus on incorporating podcasting into curriculum to benefit teaching and learning, as a showcasing tool for school sites and districts, and to deliver training materials. We will provide hands-on instruction on how to download, listen, and create podcasts using both Audacity™ and Movie Maker™ software and how to publish your podcast on the Internet. Copyright will also be discussed as needed throughout the sessions.
Presented by Mike Senise, San Diego Unified School District
Course fee: $45.00


One quarter unit of professional development credit is offered for each of these workshops through UCSD Extension. San Diego Unified School District Discover credit is offered for all podcasting and Moodle workshops.

For complete workshop information and to download an application, please see http://education.sdsc.edu/teachertech

For questions, please contact Ange Mason at 858 534-5064 or amason@ucsd.edu.