Upcoming+Events

toc =Up the Learning Curve=
 * A Parent Primer for the New Digital Age**

Over 200 parents have participated in our January workshops! A great thanks goes out to parents who completed surveys--this combined with the experience have helped our faculty identify best practices and deliver more hands-on exploration as we learned together!

Additional sessions are being added based on the extensive waiting lists. Pace and Lovett had additional sessions on February 5th and 8th respectively, and Westminster has just announced an additional open session on February 22nd. These sessions are currently filled from the waiting list. We will post additional sessions and availability here as we assess the need.

=Will Richardson's Visit February 20-22, 2007= Will Richardson, a leading educational technologist and author of **Blogs, Wikis and Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms**, will be in our schools February 20-22nd presenting workshops for our faculty using the new web 2.0 tools. Each school has contracted separately with Will, and we will post the schedules here as they are finalized.

Feb 19th
Space for editing...

Feb 20th

 * Pace Academy Schedule**

Middle School 9:50-10:35 - Wiki and Blogs for Middle School Meet in MS Computer Lab

Best ways to use wikis and blogs in the Middle School grades. This session will have about 25-30 Middle School teachers.

Upper School Session One - 10:45am-12:30pm Blogs: The Next Generation Meet in US Computer Lab

A growing number of educators have been implementing Weblogs in their classrooms and schools, and that means that the uses and potentials of blogs are evolving and growing. Instead of just being about text, blogs are now about video, audio and multimedia. They’re about math and music and much, much more. We’ll take a look at how blogs are changing, talk about how the technology of blogging is changing as well, and try to envision where blogs are going next.

12:30-1:00 Lunch with Students

Upper School Session Two - 1:00pm-2:45pm RSS Meet in US Computer Lab

RSS is a powerful yet fairly untapped tool that educators can use to easily track many sources of information and knowledge. But it's also evolving into an effective way to connect people and ideas in ways that we've be unable to before. Using RSS, we can not only read what others write, we can read what they read, and even read what they create in easy, time-saving ways. This session will take a look at the tools and strategies that can make RSS an integral part of every educator's professional development and practice. " Meet in US Computer Lab

Upper School Session Three - 3:00pm-4:45pm Podcast, Vodcast, Screencast Nation. Meet in the US Computer Lab.

Multimedia content creation on the Web increased at the rate of 3200% last year, and it shows no rate of slowing down. From audiocasts to screencasts to video for the iPod, there are all sorts of ways that students and teachers can take advantage of the easy creation and publishing tools that can bring this rich media to a wide variety of audiences. This session surveys the multimedia landscape, shows how schools are already taking advantage of it, and offers some tips on how to get started.

Feb 21st
(subject to change)
 * The Lovett School Schedule**

Session One - 9:15am-11:15am Blogs: The Next Generation

A growing number of educators have been implementing Weblogs in their classrooms and schools, and that means that the uses and potentials of blogs are evolving and growing. Instead of just being about text, blogs are now about video, audio and multimedia. They’re about math and music and much, much more. We’ll take a look at how blogs are changing, talk about how the technology of blogging is changing as well, and try to envision where blogs are going next.

Session Two - 12:00pm-2:00pm Connective Writing

The ability to easily publish to the Internet has opened up all sorts of new possibilities for teachers to help students enhance their writing skills and become more effective communicators. In the age of the Read/Write Web, every reader can truly be a writer as well. Weblogs and wikis provide wide and diverse audiences from around the world for feedback and response. But they also require a more “connective writing” approach, one that can synthesize many disparate ideas from different sources, all connected together through hypertext. This is a think out of the box workshop intended to help you start exploring new ways to make your own writing and your classroom writing more meaningful and more effective.

Session Three - 3:30pm-5:30pm Podcast, Vodcast, Screencast Nation

Multimedia content creation on the Web increased at the rate of 3200% last year, and it shows no rate of slowing down. From audiocasts to screencasts to video for the iPod, there are all sorts of ways that students and teachers can take advantage of the easy creation and publishing tools that can bring this rich media to a wide variety of audiences. This session survey the multimedia landscape, show how schools are already taking advantage of it, and offer some tips on how to get started.

Feb 22nd
Meeting with Willy Kjellstrom 2:00pm - 3:00pm Meeting with faculty 3:15pm - 4:30pm
 * Trinity School Schedule**