Webinar and Brown Bag Bytes Descriptions

Webinar Descriptions

Podcasting I for Educators

Podcasting provides numerous teaching and learning opportunities. Join us and learn about some fun, easy, and free podcasting tools that will have you creating podcasts in a very short time.

As an educational tool, podcasting has grown in popularity during the past 3 years. Fortunately, it has become much easier to be a podcaster. In this webinar, you will learn about some great, easy-to-use podcasting tools that will have you creating podcasts in no time. You will also have an opportunity to discuss with other teachers all the great ways you can use podcasting in your classroom, to learn where to find other great podcasting resources, and to take away some basic tutorials that will ensure your first foray into podcasting is successful.

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Podcasting II for Educators

Want to take your podcasting to the next level? Join us and discover some interesting, exciting strategies for maximizing the educational potential of podcasts.

In Podcasting I, you were introduced to some great podcasting tools. Now, in Podcasting II, we're going to explore a variety of strategies to energize your teaching, engage your students, and improve learning.

During this webinar, you'll have the opportunity to learn what educators around the U.S. are doing with podcasts as well as share ideas, tips, and strategies with colleagues. Along the way, we'll also look into other free, easy technologies to improve the interactivity of your podcasts!

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Blogs in the Classroom I

You hear about blogs everyday from students or co-workers, but have you thought about using them in your classroom? In this webinar session you will be introduced to the refreshing world of blogging where you will begin generating ideas on how you might use blogs within your own classroom. In this first session we will introduce you to: what a blog is, what a blog can be used for, help you set up your own blogging account, and then send you on your way with resources, so that you will make an informed and enjoyable push into the “blogging world.”

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Blogs in the Classroom II

Whether you joined us for Blogging I or not, this session will surely help any educator take their blogs to a heightened level. Here we will go more in depth with the other options in managing and adding features to your blogs (RSS feeds, widgets, polls, images, slideshows, etc.) as well as discussing ideas on how to keep your curriculum continually evolving eLearning-style.

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Wikis in the Classroom I

Wikis are extremely useful tools for doing everything from helping you easily create web sites to providing your students with an engaging collaborative workspace. Yet, choosing the right wiki from among all those available can be quite challenging and time-consuming. In this webinar, you will explore a few different wikis and learn how to choose a wiki that’s appropriate to your class needs.

Read about and share wiki resources at http://wikiwebinar.pbwiki.com/

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Wikis in the Classroom II

You’ve selected a wiki and you’ve even attempted creating a few wiki pages. Now you want to start thinking about what type of activities work well using wikis and what strategies will help make the wiki activities successful. If so, then this is the webinar for you! So, come join us in this webinar and learn about some of the wonderful activities and strategies other educators have used to create an effective wiki experience.

Read about and share wiki resources at http://wikiwebinar.pbwiki.com/

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Introduction to Moodle I

Moodle is an open source course management system used by educators around the world. Created by Martin Dougiamas to support social constructivism, Moodle provides flexibility and autonomy for districts and teachers while supporting a wide variety of interactive social learning tools. In this introductory session you will learn more about what Moodle can do and find out how it can be implemented.

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Introduction to Moodle II

Now that you know what Moodle is, you’ll want to see it in action. In this demonstration, you will see how a basic Moodle course shell can be designed into a learning module. This will give you an overview of the Moodle design process. Participants will discuss ideas for integrating Moodle in the classroom and other learning situations.

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Brown Bag Bytes Descriptions

Protopage: A Collection of Multimedia Resources

Ever feel like there is too much information out there to keep track of? Well join us for our first Brown Bag Byte session and learn how to start organizing, personalizing, tracking, and staying up-to-date with your favorite multi-media resources on any number of topics that interest you and your students. With Protopage you can finally have one spot to go to for your news, eLearning updates, podcasts, videos, or lessons of the day…You can even have your students visit authorized tabs within your Protopage to help facilitate discussions the following day. Who needs a filing cabinet when you can use Protopage.

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NETS Standards/NMSTE

This session will provide you with information regarding the updated NETS( Nationdal Educational Technology Standards), an update on the International Society of Technology in Education, and information on the newly formed New Mexico Society for Technology in Education (NMSTE).

Additional Information (Excel)

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Google Educator: Google Earth

Learn how to navigate through different cities across the world, interpret maps, and investigate your final destination and all the continents, countries, cities, roads, buildings, and lakes in between. Begin building a curriculum rich in culture!

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Screen Cast-O-Matic

Screen capture tools are very helpful for creating how-to videos. Unfortunately, most of those tools are either a bit difficult to use or they cost a lot of money. Come join us for this Brown Bag Byte and learn about this free screen capture tool that requires no software download and is so easy to use you’ll be creating a how-to video in minutes!

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