PowerTeacher
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Learn how to take attendance, launch the gradebook, setup your class weights, and add assignments.

Moodle Beginner
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Learn about Blended learning and what an online learning experience could mean for your students.  Create online syllabi, attach content, allow for digital submission, and create online tests and quizzes

Moodle Intermediate
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Continue to work with the Moodle Learning Management System.  Learn how to create quizzes and have students upload files for assignments.

iTunes University
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Access hundreds of hours of free video from Shakespeare to Physics, art museums, and public radio to use in your classrooms.  Learn to search and download the videos to your computer for later use.

Google Earth Beginner
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Take your students on virtual tours throughout the world.  Take advantage of historical maps, travel ancient Rome, discover shipwrecks on the ocean floor, and explore Mars and the galaxy around us!

Google Earth Intermediate
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Continue your travels around the world by creating custom tours and integrating your own content on top of Google Earth.

Google Docs
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Take advantage of online tools to create text documents, presentations, and spreadsheets that are accessible online.  Learn how to share and work on documents collaboratively.

Blogs
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Continue classroom discussions outside of school, have students keep online journals, and allow students to collaborate with each other online by assessing each other’s works

Wikis
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Allow students to collaborate outside of class using simple authoring tools.  Have students work together on essays and stories, keep notes about class time activities, or work together with other teachers on curriculum.

PhotoStory Digital Storytelling
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Combine photography and audio to create compelling digital stories.

Excel Beginner
Facilitator:
Learn the basics of Microsoft Excel. 

Excel Intermediate
Facilitator:
Learn more advanced techniques of Microsoft Excel 

PollsAnywhere
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Use web tools to take advantage of mobile phones in your classrooms.  Take surveys, polls, solicit answers and have live data populate into a PowerPoint presentation.

How to Write a College Recommendation NEW
Facilitator: Beth Walton
Many of you have reached out to the Guidance Department recently about what to include in letters of recommendation for college admission. Beth will be presenting a professional development workshop on this topic.  

They're Coming! New Language Arts Core Standards in Social Studies, Science and Technology NEW
Facilitator: Mary Hassenplug
In July 2010, New Jersey adopted new Common Core Standards in Language Arts and Mathematics. The Language Arts standards include reading and writing strands that must be incorporated into Social Studies, Science, and Technology courses. This workshop will introduce you to the standards, reassure you that many of these standards are already embedded in to your courses, and offer suggestions on how to revise courses to meet the state mandate.

Get on Track for Retirement NEW
Facilitator: Michael Hingston
This workshop is for you if:
• Your financial plan is in need of a check up
• You are interested and clearly understanding investment options such as 403b, 401k, Traditional IRA, Roth IRA ...
• You would like to go from feeling overwhelmed and move toward a sense of confidence that your financial goals are well defined and sustainable.

The following items will be covered:
• Setting clear and sustainable financial goals
• Retirement options and their tax implications
• Automating your jnvestments
• The surprising impact of saving even small amounts on a regular basis

Learning Styles and Strategies NEW
Facilitator: Mark Wallace
Help to improving AYP by figuring out your students’ learning styles. And, build relationships by teaching to various learning styles.
Participants will study the Felder/Soloman method of identifying different learning styles of students and teachers so that instruction can be modified to help students learn. A survey will be demonstrated and a discussion on various learning styles and what to do with the knowledge will follow.
ACTIVE AND REFLECTIVE LEARNERS
SENSING AND INTUITIVE LEARNERS
VISUAL AND VERBAL LEARNERS
SEQUENTIAL AND GLOBAL LEARNERS