[LM_NET] Online Graduate Courses-Please forward to your peers

[Dave Fontaine <davefontaine1@GMAIL.COM>]

*Hi Everyone,
    The deadline (May 15th)  to sign up for these courses is fast
approaching. If you are interested in more information or want to register
for these 2courses, please send me an email.

Thanks,


Christine P. Dolan
Education Specialist
URI/School of Education
714 Chafee Building
Kingston, RI 02881
Office:(401) 874-4108
Fax: (401) 874-5471
christine@uri.edu


EDC 920: Workshop for Teachers  *(3 grad credits)
*TOPIC: Using the INTERNET FOR TEACHING,  LEARNING, & PRACTICAL APPLICATION
*
*Registration Deadline: May 15, 2007
*Students will learn how to find relevant information among the abundance of
raw data found online, evaluate its worth and credibility, and effectively
use it to solve an issue or problem. This is an on line, asynchronous course
with no classroom meetings.Students will interact completely through a blog,
as well as learn what a blog is, how to use one, and how to access
educational blogs from teachers around the world.
*Course costs:* $500.00
*Class meets completely on line.*This is an asynchronous classes. There is
no designated time that you have to be on line.  Each week's lesson is
posted on line and participants have 7 days to complete and post their
assignments.
*Contact:*  Christine P. Dolan at Christine@uri.edu
*Class Meeting Dates: *May 21-July 27,2007
*
EDC 921: Workshop for Teachers
TOPIC: USING BLOGS AND WIKIS TO FOSTER LITERACY* (3 grad credits)
*Registration Deadline: May 15, 2007
*This course focuses on the pragmatism of using Web 2.0 tools in education.
Participants will learn how to use the Read/Write Web to foster literacy in
and out of school, to deepen learning and increase student achievement, to
create opportunities to bring these technologies to the larger school
community, and to identify assessment tools to measure the effectiveness of
Read/Write Web technologies in their personal practice and with their
students.* *(*Updated version of PowerPoint required*).
*Course costs:* $500.00
*Class meets completely on line.* This is an asynchronous classes. There is
no designated time that you have to be on line.  Each week's lesson is
posted on line and participants have 7 days to complete and post their
assignments.
*Contact:*  Christine P. Dolan at Christine@uri.edu
*Class Meeting Dates: *May 21-July 27, 2007
* *




Christine P. Dolan
Education Specialist
URI/School of Education
714 Chafee Building
Kingston, RI 02881
Office:(401) 874-4108
Fax: (401) 874-5471
christine@uri.edu


-- 
Professionally Yours,

Dave Fontaine
Internet Librarian
National Board Certified Teacher
Educational Consultant
DaveFontaine1@gmail.com
http://ProfessionalDevelopmentCredit.com

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