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Intel®Teach: Skills for Success Course Overview & material
Skills for Success will provide you with hands-on opportunities to explore and discover how to do many things on a computer. You will have a chance to use computers to find information on the Internet as well as use computers to paint and draw pictures, write, solve mathematics problems, and create presentations.
DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: Tools and Technologies for Effective Classrooms
"There is one in every school. There is one in every district. There is that one teacher, no matter what you do, no matter how much time you take, how slow you go, how much one-on-one time you spend with them, there is that one teacher who is not going to integrate technology into their classroom. They dig in their heals. They bury their heads in the sand. They shut the doors to their classroom, leaving technology (and perhaps ultimately quality learning) out in the cold."
Elluminate workshops edu calender
These free online workshops/webinars with great educational topics are always great. Just wish I had more time!
Tapped In Calendar of PD events
Always great things, talks and topics here. Check this calender regularly or add to yours. Very worthwile
The Teacher Tap: Professional Development Resources for Educators
"The Teacher Tap is a free, professional development resource that helps educators and librarians address common questions about the use of technology in teaching and learning by providing easy access to practical, online resources and activities. "
LearnTrends 2009 -online conference
The theme/focus this year is on Convergence in Workplace Learning. We will bring together people who look at different aspects of learning and knowledge work to understand better what's going on in those areas and how we should be thinking about this holistically.
As always, this conference is about getting together interesting people who bring a slightly different perspective and have meaningful conversation around innovation in workplace learning. We typically get more than a thousand people signed up and at least a hundred in each session.
Teacher Development Summit
The overall aim of the Teacher Development Summit is to facilitate effective system-wide teacher development that will lead to sustainable improvement in the quality of teaching and learning in classrooms and schools. The outcome of the summit will be a declaration that contains a set of recommendations regarding and commitments to a national plan for teacher education and development.
EXPLORING WHAT IT MEANS TO 'DO' MATHEMATICS
This unit gives a historical background to mathematics education in South Africa, to outcomes-based education and to the national curriculum statement for mathematics. The traditional approach to teaching mathematics is then contrasted with an approach to teaching mathematics that focuses on 'doing' mathematics, and mathematics as a science of pattern and order, in which learners actively explore mathematical ideas in a conducive classroom environment.
Learn Web 2.0 with Maggie - Join me on my Web 2.0 learning journey!!
Currently running a blogtwit workshop for teachers
Curse: Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources course is an elective course in the Certificate of Emerging Technologies for Learning. The course facilitator is Peter Tittenberger, (tittenbe@cc.umanitoba.ca) Director of the Learning Technologies Centre at the University of Manitoba.
Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning
This Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning (HETL) has been designed as a resource for educators planning to incorporate technologies in their teaching and learning activities.
Videos for PD
Lots of great resources here. Basically a collection ow web 2.0 , school 2.0 , internet safety stuff. Great
Developing Understanding in Mathematics
In this unit, the theoretical basis for teaching mathematics – constructivism – is explored. Varieties of teaching strategies based on constructivist understandings of how learning best takes place are described.
Exploring What It Means To ‘Do’ Mathematics
This unit gives a historical background to mathematics education in South Africa, to outcomes-based education and to the national curriculum statement for mathematics. The traditional approach to teaching mathematics is then contrasted with an approach to teaching mathematics that focuses on ‘doing’ mathematics, and mathematics as a science of pattern and order, in which learners actively explore mathematical ideas in a conducive classroom environment.
ACE Maths Project Developing and using quality learning resources in an Open Educational Resources environment
Developing and using quality learning resources in an Open Educational Resources environment: The aim of SAIDE ACEMaths project was to pilot a collaborative process for the selection, adaptation and use of OER materials for teacher education programmes in South Africa.
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