Tech4Educators: a summer intensive at Marlboro College Graduate School:

With Web 2.0 - the offering of applications online - technology for educators has never been easier to learn and apply to the classroom. Gone are the days of learning complicated software to bring one’s curriculum into cyberspace. This blended course is taught both online and face-to-face. Pre-class online technology tips you'll read and respond to online (once a week reading/response: May through mid-June.) plus a one-week summer hands-on residency in either Wilmington or Brattleboro will follow (see dates below). The final project, a personal technology integration plan, will be created and submitted online in the 2 weeks following the residency.

Students must register by May 7th, 2010 in order to complete online pre-residency reading and response requirements.

Choose the dates and location of your residency when registering. For more information email instructor, Lisa Brooks, at: lbrooks@marlboro.edu

3 graduate-level credits.

Cost: $1,464 ($488 per credit, equal to UVM and the Vermont State reimbursement amounts)

Dates

• Wilmington, VT: May 10-June 18, online - June 21-25 in person, 9am-4pm - final project due: July 9

• Brattleboro, VT: May 10-June 18, online - July 5-9 in person, 9am-4pm - final project due: July 23

Learn to:

• Use blogs and wikis for student journaling and communication with parents.

• Learn how to make a Webquest for students; safe and structured browsing of websites.

• Build simple websites for delivering content that are free to host online.

• Understand learning environments such as Second Life, and the Vermont Young Writers’ Project.

• Learn about and use an industry-standard Learning Management System (LMS), Moodle, the environment in which the class is taught.

• Experience the benefits of blended learning by taking a blended class yourself (meets both in person and online).

• Manage and manipulate photos and graphics using online tools.

• Create podcasts and basic video screencasts as learning tools.

• Discover multimedia presentation applications that make PowerPoint obsolete.

• Add animation and avatars, online drawing, photography, and other multimedia tools & applications, to your teaching strategies.

Tech4Educators is a 3 graduate-level credit course that also counts towards Marlboro's MAT Masters degree, Instructional Technology Certificate, and the Vermont Educational Technology Specialist Endorsement #42. See: http://gradschool.marlboro.edu/academics/mat/

Instructor Bio

Lisa Brooks is a 28-year veteran public school art and technology teacher who fell in love with technology when it first slipped into her art room in the 1980s. She currently teaches art and technology courses online to students at Community College of VT, as well as face-to-face courses for Bennington College’s Graduate Second Language program. Lisa is a working artist and Web designer. She holds a BA is from the University of Montana in art and education and an MA in Teaching with Technology from Marlboro College Graduate School. Lisa has taught local teachers how to integrate technology in their curriculums (WSSU and WSESU) since 2003. She has presented at state and New England conferences as well as teaches Virtual High School teachers how to use contemporary Web 2.0 tools and apps.