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Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend VHS Online PD Details  - Instructor-led courses - Cohorts of < 25 students - 6-week duration - PDPs & Grad Credit Available  -  2013 Sessions: - April 24th - July 10th - October 9th  - Member Cost $175 - Non-Member $275 Available PD Options 21st Century Teaching and Learning Web-Enhanced Classroom Blended Teaching and Learning Web 2.0: Collaborative Instruction Becoming an Online TeacherHave you taken VHS pd already? Let us know what you thought. Know anyone that would benefit from our online pd courses? Pass it on. Keep Up with Your Tech-Savvy Students Take online professional development that will help you teach digital natives a thing or two about technology! Less than one week left and space is limited. Register now – courses start April 24th. Just getting started using the Internet in your classroom? Check out our 21st Century Teaching & Learning course to kickstart your blended learning environment. Familiarize yourself with online teaching standards and practices, and then begin to use blogs, wikis, and other online resources to turn your lesson plans into engaging and exciting class projects.Got the basics down already? Then grow your digital toolbox and learn how to use new techniques including virtual field trips for students, or how to use social media to build student engagement rather than distract them from classwork. Explore Google Apps, social bookmarking, and more in our Web-Enhanced Classroom course. Hybrid learning is within your reach. Take Blended Teaching and Learning  and redesign a traditional classroom course to integrate online learning strategies and techniques with resources like Connexions, Exploratorium, and MIT OpenCourseWare. Learn how to develop performance and assessment objectives in an online space to gauge the progress of your students. Online collaborative projects help prepare students for college and careers. Get them started using Google Docs and wikis, and multimedia tools including Voicethread, Glogster, and Animoto.  Web 2.0: Collaborative Instruction teaches you how to create project-based, collaborative lessons for students – a steppingstone for successful teamwork in a virtual environment. Register Now – Starts on Wednesday, April 24th Learn more about about our PD options.

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Teachers Find Creative Ways To Fulfill Intellectual Curiosity. Do You Know Where To Look? | Online PD Starts 4-24-13

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Sign up for online professional development to teach your students to use more collaborative and engaging tools in their coursework.

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Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend VHS Online PD Details  - Instructor-led courses - Cohorts of < 25 students - 6-week duration - PDPs & Grad Credit Available  -  2013 Sessions: - April 24th - July 10th - October 9th  - Member Cost $175 - Non-Member $275 Additional PD Options Web-EnhancedClassrom Blended Teaching and Learning 21st Century Teaching and Learning Becoming an Online Teacher Have you taken this course already? Let us know what you thought. Know anyone that would benefit from our online pd courses? Pass it on. Do you Fotobabble, Toondoo or Jing?  Today’s lesson plans call for more creativity to fulfill students’ intellectual curiosity. Answer the call by teaching students how to use these and other interactive online applications that introduce new ways of collaborating, creating, and sharing. Sign up for Web 2.0: Collaborative Instruction Starts April 24th, space is limited Podcasts, Prezis, Wikis and Wallwishers may sound like a foreign language now, but by the time you complete this 6-week online professional development course you’ll be able to show tech-saavy students what they’ve been missing. Whether you teach online or in a face-to-face classroom, this course lets you create project-based, collaborative lessons that give students the opportunity to work together and create. You will explore: Digital communication tools such as Glogster, Mixbooks and Voicethread Critical thinking and sharing resources such as RSS feeds, Newsstand and Diigo Social media and collaborative learning tools including wikis, Google docs, and Edmodo Multimedia and creative educational tools like Animoto, Museum Box and Timeline Sign up for Web 2.0: Collaborative Instruction – Starts April 24th Learn more about this course today.

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From Whiteboards To Wikis – Blended Learning Is Here To Stay. | Get started | Online PD 4-24-13

From Wednesday’s inbox…

Are you prepared to teach in a hybrid learning environment? Online professional development starts April 24th.

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Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend VHS Online PD Details  - Instructor-led courses - Cohorts of < 25 students - 6-week duration - PDPs & Grad Credit Available  -  2013 Sessions: - April 24th - July 10th - October 9th  - Member Cost $175 - Non-Member $275 Additional PD Options Web-Enhanced Classroom Web 2.0: Collaborative Instruction 21st Century Teaching and Learning Becoming an Online Teacher Have you taken this course already? Let us know what you thought. Know anyone that would benefit from our online pd courses? Pass it on. A little bit of this and a little bit of that. Today’s classrooms are not only filled with books, posters and diagrams, but also iPods, tablets and laptops. Technology is no longer an option – it’s a requirement in lesson plans. Are you ready to teach in a hybrid learning environment? Sign up for Blended Teaching and Learning Starts April 24th, space is limited Start to mix things up with new techniques and learning modules that teach students how to use fun and exciting online educational tools like Gliffy, Voicethread, Scriblink and Wetpaint. From whiteboards to wikis, blended learning offers the best of both worlds to students. Enroll in our online professional development course to turn your classroom into a technology-friendly learning environment. Course includes: Developing learning, performance and assessment objectives in an online space Observing web components of existing hybrid curricula Redesigning a course to integrate blended strategies Learning to post online teaching and learning modules with resources that include Connexions, Exploratorium, MIT OpenCourseWare, Hippocampus and Intute Students expect to learn something new when they walk through the door, and now that includes programs and applications online. Sign up for Blended Teaching and Learning Starts April 24th, space is limited. Learn more.

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Digital Natives Expect More From Classroom Lessons. Get Up To Speed Now. Online PD 4-24-13

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Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend VHS Online PD Details  - Instructor-led courses - Cohorts of < 25 students - 6-week duration - PDPs & Grad Credit Available  -  2013 Sessions: - April 24th - July 10th - October 9th  - Member Cost $175 - Non-Member $275 Additional PD Options Web-EnhancedClassrom Blended Teaching and Learning Web 2.0 Collaborative Instruction Becoming an Online TeacherHave you taken this course already? Let us know what you thought. Know anyone that would benefit from our online pd courses? Pass it on. The (digital) natives are getting restless – and now you are the one that needs to come to class prepared. Are you going to be ready? Today’s students crave more than lectures in the classroom. They expect their assignments on message boards, as well as whiteboards; homework in class and lessons on videos outside of school (aka Flipped Classrooms); and libraries filled with computers rather than books  - as their scholastic references are found primarily online. Keeping up with today’s students means keeping pace with technology. Get up to speed now! Sign up for 21st Century Teaching and Learning Starts April 24th This online professional development course can help turn your classroom into an exciting blended learning environment that will engage tech-savvy students. 21st Century Teaching and Learning will have you using online resources with confidence. Learn online teaching standards and practices, evaluation techniques, internet safety, plagiarism and copyrights Use bibliography tools such as: Noodle Tools, Citation Machine, Easy Bib and ottobib.com Start to use blogs, wikis and collaborative learning resources Encourage students to add flare to presentations through sound, animation and interactivity Introduce project-based learning into your lessons Become a digital storyteller through audio, escrapbooking and virtual field trips Enroll in online professional development that fits your schedule and your lesson plans. Sign up for 21st Century Teaching and Learning Now Starts April 24th, space is limited.

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Take a Virtual Field Trip with Your Class | Learn How | Starts April 24th | Register Now

Also from yesterday’s inbox…

Take professional development that does more than just teach, it inspires learning and elevates your classroom lessons to new heights….

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Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend VHS Online PD Details  - Instructor-led courses - Cohorts of < 25 students - 6-week duration - PDPs & Grad Credit Available  -  2013 Sessions: - April 24th - July 10th - October 9th  - Member Cost $175 - Non-Member $275 Additional PD Options 21st Century Teaching & Learning Blended Teaching and Learning Web 2.0 Collaborative Instruction Becoming an Online TeacherHave you taken this course already? Let us know what you thought. Know anyone that would benefit from our online pd courses? Pass it on. A Web-Enhanced Classroom Lets You… Create a virtual field trip for your class. Use social media to engage (rather than distract) digital natives. Define, develop and demonstrate “real-world” learning Enroll in online professional development that will transform your classroom into an exciting and stimulating learning environment. Sign up for Web-Enhanced Classroom Now Starts April 24th, space is limited. Breathe new life into classroom lessons through resources that can turn your classroom into a virtual science lab, a government cabinet meeting, an art museum, or even a space station. Give your students the chance to visit foreign countries without leaving their desks, experience the age of enlightenment in the present day, or preside over supreme-court proceedings. The Web-Enhanced Classroom professional development course will teach you how to use specific tools, and create a lesson plan that incorporates resources such as: Google Apps for classroom studies Popular social bookmarking sites such as Delicious and Diigo Slideshare, Animoto and screencasts for more interactive presentations You’ll also have the opportunity to explore online scrapbooks, timelines and survey tools. Enroll in our next online professional development session, and take a course that does more than just educate, it inspires. Sign up for Web-Enhanced Classroom Now Starts April 24th, space is limited.

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