20 Webtools in 20 Days–Certificate

$750.00

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Description

Participants in this four-week online class will explore twenty popular digital tools educators use in their classrooms to extend learning and differentiate for student needs. Participants will review between one and four during the class (by themselves or in groups; this depends upon enrollment) and present their review to classmates in a weekly virtual meeting. Participants will respond to the reviews of their classmates with comments, suggestions, personal experience, and questions. All tools can be used by participants in their classroom during the upcoming school year.

At the end of this course, participants get 24 hours of professional development credit and a Certificate of Completion itemizing their accomplishments.

This is a high-energy, innovative, and motivating class that can be reproduced in a Professional Development setting or with students in your classroom. Assessment is project-based so participants should be prepared to be fully-involved and eager risk-takers.

This is a group enrollment for five+ and delivered via Google Classroom.

Course Objectives

At the completion of this course, you will be able to:

  • use twenty new webtools that integrate technology into classroom learning
  • evaluate webtools to find the best fit for classroom needs
  • present an overview of webtools to stakeholders (such as admin, students, parents, and colleagues) as a screencast, annotated screenshots, exemplar, or a combination. Overview includes a summary, pros and cons, educational applications, step-by-step how-to details, and a sample
  • leave with a library of twenty webtools to kickstart the new year
  • collaborate with classmates on using webtools even after the class has ended

What You Get With Enrollment

  • Online, rigorous learning
  • Weekly virtual training sessions
  • Unlimited questions/coaching during virtual meetings and pre-arranged times. We stay until everyone leaves
  • Certificate of Completion

Registration includes all necessary materials.

Course Highlights

Students spend about five hours a week on class materials and about 90 minutes at the weekend virtual meeting discussing the webtools classmates explored

Need help on a topic? Arrange free-of-charge 1:1 time with instructors.

At the course end, receive a certificate of achievement to validate accomplishments including all the topics in which you completed required work.

How Class Works

Students teach classmates how to use between one-four webtools (depends upon enrollment) at the weekend virtual meeting. Each takes about ten minutes and includes a summary, pros and cons, educational applications, step-by-step how-to details, and a sample. This may be presented as a screencast (or annotated screenshots) or video. Presenter posts an example of the webtool project and the screencast/ screenshots to a community board as a resource for classmates.

When students are not preparing a presentation, they comment on the posted ones of classmates and create their own projects using them.

The goal is to share your knowledge with others so we all leave this experience smarter, more informed, and more resilient.

Who Needs This

This course is designed for educators who:

  • are serious about integrating tech into their class
  • worry about integrating tech into their class
  • want creative approaches to using tech
  • want to go to the next step of tech-infusing their classroom and/or school

What Do You Need to Participate

  • Internet connection
  • Google account; various web-based tools (if any)
  • Commitment of 5-10 hours per week for 4 weeks
  • Risk-takers attitude, inquiry-driven mentality, passion to optimize learning

NOT Included:

  • Software and webtool membership (if there are any)
  • Assistance setting up hardware, network, infrastructure, servers, internet, headphones, microphones, phone connections, software.

Curious? Here’s a sample:

20 Webtools in 20 Days 2017 Preview

Price

$750 for a group of 5

We take PO’s–contact Zeke Rowe for details–zeke rowe at structuredlearning dot net

What People Say About Ask a Tech Teacher Classes

I would like to close by saying how much I enjoyed this class. I truly learned so much. As a technology teacher I was not sure what to expect from this course. I found that much of what I currently do in the classroom has been validated. However and more importantly, I learned many new instruction and assessment strategies (along with some new tech tools) that I can now use and apply to improve the learning in my classroom. Thanks everyone!

Now I’m enrolled in this awesome class to take the learning to another level.  … I’m learning so much right out of the gate.  We have some amazing people in the class to collaborate with and share ideas. Everyone has a blog and we have been assigned to read them and get to know each other.  This builds our PLN – Professional Learning Network.  We are going to learn so much from each other.

This class has already taught me so much about: Google Drive, Google+, Google Hangouts, and much more.

As I look back on the five weeks of this class, I am amazed how my attitude towards the weekly projects has changed. The first week I felt overwhelmed and unsure of my abilities. Once I took each project one step at a time, I gained confidence. I loved that I had to take responsibility for my learning. The resources were there; I just had to find them. I definitely had to be an active participant. My week 1 project wouldn’t have got completed any other way.

I am amazed how comfortable I am using all the creative ways I can use both of these tools. As I talk about them with my colleagues, they assume that I have had much more experience with them than just five weeks. I know that I still have a lot to learn, but this is a start.


About the Mentors

Ask a Tech Teacher© is a group of teachers, passionate about technology in education, who run the an award-winning resource blog Ask a Tech Teacher © with more than 75,000 visitors a month in search of teaching materials and advice. It offers oodles of free lesson plans, pedagogical conversation, website reviews and more. Its free newsletters and website articles are read by thousands, including teachers, homeschoolers, and anyone serious about finding the best way to maneuver the minefield of technology in education.

Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 35 years. She is the editor of a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum, and creator of dozens of technology training books and webinars for how to integrate tech into ed. She is webmaster for four blogs, Master Teacher, an Amazon Vine Voice reviewer, CSTA presentation reviewer, adjunct professor, freelance journalist on tech ed topics.

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