Monday Sessions:
Stop Motion and iMovie Workshop
Facilitator: Carolyn Nichols
Stop motion (also known as stop frame) is an animation technique that allows the manipulation of objects, paper, or clay to appear to move on their own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. Stop motion animation using plasticine clay is called clay animation or "claymation." The animation is then imported into iMovie where it is edited, text boxes are superimposed, and sound or music is added. Go to the following website for ideas and inspiration: http://www.ikitmovie.com/187/Stop-Motion-Ideas-for-Beginners.htm
Tuesday Sessions:
Captivate with Kahoot
Facilitator: Laura Phelps
Kahoot is a game that you create to quiz students in any content area. Kids answer questions on their own device (iPad, laptop, phone - it doesn’t matter) and Kahoot keeps score. It is fun and quick! This is a unique way to assess for understanding, start conversations, and get all kids in your class participating. Excellent for all ages, all subject areas!
Can You Hear Me Now? Easy Audio Recording Tools for the Classroom
Facilitator: Laura Phelps
Are you looking for tools that you and your students can use to quickly and easily create audio recordings? In this session we will explore several simple tools, including Vocaroo, AudioBoom and SoundCloud. We’ll also discuss a variety of ways that audio can enhance learning (literacy, especially) and you might just discover how to make a QR code of your audio recordings!
Jazz Up Your Classroom Website
Facilitator: Laura Phelps
This session is designed for teachers who have a website in place and need to either update it or make it a little more inviting for student use. The specifics of the session will depend upon the participants, who may drop in at any point during the three hours to work on their website with help and inspiration from others!
Get Up to Date and Learn About OS X Yosemite
Facilitator: Tyler Patten
This course will cover many topics about your MLTI laptop. We will cover a couple of backup options you have available and we will go through them in class. We will then take your computer and put it through the custom update process we use here in RSU1 and restore your files to ensure nothing is lost. After we update we will go through some new features you will find in OS X Yosemite and we will learn how to use them in the classroom. Please come prepared with your MLTI MacBook Air which we will update during this session. If you do not have an MLTI MacBook Air issued by RSU1 and are still interested in this session please contact Tyler Patten to determine if this is course is for you.
Introduction to Google Classroom
Facilitator: Bob Jordan
The course provides an introduction Google Classroom. Participants will learn how to set up classes, post assignments, manage due dates, review submitted work and provide feedback to students through Google Classroom. The course will demonstrate the look and feel of Google Classroom from both the teacher and the student perspectives and show how the program works with Google Docs. The instructors will provide practical tips based on first-hand experience using the Google Classroom with iPad equipped high school students. The session will include both direct instruction and ample time for supported individual work with Google Classroom.
Notability
Facilitator: Kelli Rogers
No interactive whiteboard? No problem! Notability is an app that can be used as an interactive tool to support your lessons and increase engagement among students. You will walk away from this session knowing how to set up a Notability presentation; with familiarity with some of the useful features of the app; and some specific examples of how this app can support your lessons! You will only need to bring your iPad and your imagination to the session.
Wednesday Sessions:
Goin’ on a Story Walk
Facilitator: Laura Phelps
In this session, participants will learn how to design and build a Story Walk for all ages. A Story Walk takes the pages of a book and lays them out on a trail. It is a great way to blend literacy and physical movement and people of all ages can participate as creators and/or readers. On each Story Walk page you can embed a QR code that links to additional information, an audio recording of the page being read, or any web resource you'd like to highlight in conjunction with the walk. Participants will leave this session with the knowledge and inspiration to create a permanent or mobile Story Walk in their own school/community!
Motivating Readers and Podcasting...What a Team!!
Facilitator: Amy Gerrish
Whether students are reading to themselves, in a group, or to a teacher, podcasting has the potential to quickly become your favorite technology “medium” for supporting students with stamina, engagement, and response skills. In the first hour and half, we will review the project that inspired me, student work samples, and brainstorm ways podcasting can be used during your literacy block. In the second hour and a half, be ready to learn the basic steps for creating a podcast using GarageBand! Bring your iPad, earbuds/headphones, and a couple of texts that you and your students might use to launch this technique as early as the first week of school!
Bring the World into Your Classroom - This session has been canceled, but the material will be covered in It's Elementary, Integrating Technology in the Primary Grades
Facilitator: Tanya Pomerleau
You look outside the classroom window and see yet another in a long string of gloomy days. Inside the classroom, eager students seem ready for an adventure. It must be time for a field trip! No money, you say, for buses or admission fees? No time for travel? Then why not a virtual field trip? The Web provides the resources; you provide the fun. Every day is a beautiful day for a virtual field trip! Included: This workshop will offer tips for planning your own virtual field trip, as well as, an opportunity to use virtual fieldtrips to enhance note taking, writing, and science and social studies curriculum.
Introduction to Class Website Design with Google Sites
Facilitator: Bob Jordan
This course provides an introduction to website design using Google Sites. Participants will learn how to create an organized class web site that provides online access to permanent class information, updated daily announcements, class materials and links to other websites. Google Sites integrates smoothly with Google Docs and provides simple ways to embed documents, forms, images and videos into web pages. View an example of what you will be able to produce at http://bit.ly/rsu1sample15. The session will include both direct instruction and ample time for supported individual work creating a website.
iPad Basics or, Getting to Know Your iPad
Facilitator: Damien Austin
This course is an introduction to the features of your MLTI iPad. We will go over the basics such as navigating your device, installing apps, etc. We will also take time to answer any questions you may have in regards to your iPad. Please come prepared with an iPad fully updated to the most recent version of iOS 8. If you are unsure of how to do this please contact Tyler Patten for assistance.
Get Up to Date and Learn About OS X Yosemite
Facilitator: Damien Austin
This course will cover many topics about your MLTI laptop. We will cover a couple of backup options you have available and we will go through them in class. We will then take your computer and put it through the custom update process we use here in RSU1 and restore your files to ensure nothing is lost. After we update we will go through some new features you will find in OS X Yosemite and we will learn how to use them in the classroom. Please come prepared with your MLTI MacBook Air which we will update during this session. If you do not have an MLTI MacBook Air issued by RSU1 and are still interested in this session please contact Tyler Patten to determine if this is course is for you.
Thursday Sessions:
Digital Storytelling
Facilitator: Emily Dittmann
Digital storytelling is the practice of combining narrative with digital content to create a short movie. Create your own basic digital story using iMovie and discover how it can be useful in your classroom. Participants will will leave with their own completed story along with resources to recreate the experience in their classroom. Required: bring an iPad or MacBook with iMovie. Recommended: bring an assortment of favorite photographs, digital or print.
IT’s Elementary: Integrating Technology in the Primary Grades
Facilitator: Tanya Pomerleau
Join us for a hands-on workshop especially designed to effectively integrate technology in the Pre K-5 classroom. Elementary educators will walk away with the technology tools, techniques, and lessons that address the standards and beyond. If you are looking for new ways to engage students, want specific ideas for using technology to enhance your current teaching practices, and need to guide your students towards success with the the new technology standards, make plans to join us at the beach for this exciting workshop.
Electronic Signage to Display Student Work and Announcements
Facilitator: Matt Frey-Davis
Want to show off student work? Think it would be cool to have your own digital sign showing what's going on in your building or classroom? Come build a digital sign controller and get some hands on experience using the powerful credit-card sized Raspberry Pi computer. Each school team will keep the Raspberry Pi computer they configure, and be provided a flat screen display and wall mount for their school. Limit : 5 teams. 1 team per school, first come, first served so register early!
Get Up to Date and Learn About OS X Yosemite
Facilitator: Damien Austin
This course will cover many topics about your MLTI laptop. We will cover a couple of backup options you have available and we will go through them in class. We will then take your computer and put it through the custom update process we use here in RSU1 and restore your files to ensure nothing is lost. After we update we will go through some new features you will find in OS X Yosemite and we will learn how to use them in the classroom. Please come prepared with your MLTI MacBook Air which we will update during this session. If you do not have an MLTI MacBook Air issued by RSU1 and are still interested in this session please contact Tyler Patten to determine if this is course is for you.
Multi-Day Workshop- ThinAirMusic
Facilitators: Odds Bodkin and Mary Moran
This summer RSU1 will be hosting Odds Bodkin's ThinAirMusic program for teachers. In this program a small group of teachers will learn to create their own music and sound effects to "score" a story, using GarageBand iOS. It is creative and fun, and easily approachable, but with meaningful impact on student literacy. The skills learned will be applicable across many grade levels and content areas. 5th Grade Teacher Mary Moran will facilitate discussion about the experience of her students during the ThinAirMusic pilot last December.
Class sessions with Odds and Mary will be Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.