[LM_NET] Online Professional Development from the Univ. of Rhode Island

[Dave Fontaine <davefontaine1@GMAIL.COM>]

Hi,
    Here are our internet course offerings for Fall 09. The only way for you
to register for these courses is via an e-registration form that you

 can receive from my office. Please contact me if you are interested in
taking any of these internet courses!

Thank you,
          Christine DolanSchool of Education
714 Chafee Building
Kingston, RI 02881
Office: 401-874-4108
Fax: 401-874-5471

All internet classes run from*:* September 14, 2009- December 11, 2009

*Registration deadline, September 11, 2009  *


*Internet Courses Instructor: *Dave Fontaine, NBCT
*Registration Contact: *Christine P. Dolan at Christine@uri.edu

*EDC 586-920
USING THE INTERNET FOR TEACHING, LEARNING, & PRACTICAL APPLICATION* (3) grad
credits.
 Registration cost: *$550.00* *
(If you have never taken a course at URI before, the course cost is $585.00
which includes a onetime transcript fee charge of $35.00)

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. Students will also learn “Information
Literacy Skills” (how to develop their own ‘research and evaluation’ skills)
and transfer this knowledge to the students in their classrooms. This will
occur by continuously integrating practical application, real research
projects for their individual classrooms, and discipline specific lesson
plans.* Appropriate for grades K-12.

*This is an online, asynchronous course with no classroom meetings. 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. 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. All lessons will be completely downloadable
and, therefore, reusable in your own classrooms.



*EDC 586-921
USING BLOGS AND WIKIS TO FOSTER LITERACY* (3) Graduate Credits
Registration cost*:$550.00**
(If you have never taken a course at URI before, the course cost is $585.00
which includes a onetime transcript fee charge of $35.00.)

This course focuses on the pragmatism of using Web 2.0 (interactive tools)
in education. Participants will learn how to use interactive, online tools
to: foster literacy in and out of school; Differentiate Instruction; deepen
learning and increase student achievement; create opportunities to bring
these technologies to the larger school community; and identify assessment
tools that measure the effectiveness of Interactive Web technologies in
their personal practice as well as with their students. *Appropriate for
grades K-12

*This is an online, asynchronous course with no classroom meetings. 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. 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. All lessons will be completely downloadable
and, therefore, reusable in your own classrooms.



*EDC 922:
TOPIC:Online Texts in the 21st Century Classroom *(3) grad credits.
 Registration cost: *$550.00* *
(If you have never taken a course at URI before, the course cost is $585.00
which includes a onetime transcript fee charge of $35.00)


*This course is appropriate for grades K-12, but best suited for STEM
subject area teachers in grades 7-12 since more information in these areas
is more widely available on line. Thebenefits are also increased when this
class is taken with co-workers.

*

*Course Description:
*Participants will explore and use collaborative, online tools like wikis to
improve instruction, as well as create digital textbooks from Open Source
material. They will also contribute, and gain access, to unlimited amounts
of free digital textbooks that can be used in their classrooms, schools, and
districts and create an Open Source chapter/subsection that will be shared
with the world!

In the 21st century, teachers and students are finding traditional textbooks
less useful.  Most are out-of-date before they reach the classroom. Teachers
only use a fraction of the material, and the costs have skyrocketed; even
the smallest districts spend over $100,000/year on textbooks!

More and more teachers are beginning to access online resources like:
interactive tutorials, videos, edu-games, and podcasts to supplement their
instruction. In this economic climate, and with the proliferation of *free*,
quality content on the Internet, is it possible to create your own digital *
textbooks*?
The answer is yes and the movement is already underway!  Some of the
greatest minds are banding together to harness their Collective
Intelligence. They are collaboratively writing textbooks and giving *them
away for free for the common-good*.  Learn about this movement, share your
own knowledge, and let your district benefit from the generosity of others.
*Appropriate for grades K-12.

*This is an online, asynchronous course with no classroom meetings. 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. 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. All lessons will be completely downloadable
and, therefore, reusable in your own classrooms.

Professionally Yours,

Dave Fontaine
Internet Librarian
National Board Certified Teacher
Educational Consultant
DaveFontaine1@gmail.com
http://www.visualcv.com/davefontaine
http://www.PODetc.com/

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