CMSCE 2007-2008 Workshops
The Center for Mathematics, Science and Computer Education

Title: Web 2.0 for Language Arts
Course ID #: 112707

Time: 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Date: Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Location: CMSCE lab
Cost: $195
Presenter(s): Lisa Thumann
Audience: Grade 3-12 Teachers, Supervisors, Technology Specialists, Special Ed Teachers

Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of using the Internet.

Description:
You keep hearing the phrase – now find out what it’s all about! Web 2.0 applications are entirely web-based. Come and take a tour through these useful (and fun) FREE online tools that will help you educate your students. Explore the social components of Web 2.0 that allow students and educators to collaborate online and take a sense of ownership of their work. Leave our workshop with a list of NEW language arts websites to use with your students and colleagues the very next day!

Objectives:
  • Receive an overview of Web 2.0 and how it is changing technology in schools
  • Review language arts-related Web 2.0 applications and how they can be used in the classroom and at home
  • Learn ways to search for new Web 2.0 applications as they are released

    • Benefits:
  • 5 professional development hours
  • Free eBoard for one year (www.eBoard.com)
  • Access to the Centers' Web 2.0 eBoard with dozens of QUALITY educational Web 2.0 websites
  • Return to the classroom with exciting ideas on how to use your new-found Web 2.0 resources with your students and colleagues

    • Click here to REGISTER FOR THIS WORKSHOP!