The 21st Century Learning Project

Sessions are on Tuesdays from 3:30 to 4:45 pm. Please use your first and last name to log in. No password. Overview and schedule available below.

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Overview

As educators, it is critical that we have the information and technological literacy required to prepare our students for the 21st century. We are no longer "content repositories", but "information guides". While at first glance, our students may seem to embrace technological change more quickly and easily than we do, they nevertheless need to be guided in making the most effective use of this technology in daily learning. We need expertise in the field of learning how to learn and we need to be able to merge this with the field of information technology. 21st Century Learning is a series of interlocking yet independent online sessions merging the fields of learning and technology. These sessions give you a great flexibility in choosing which outcomes meet your professional development needs.

Schedule

As the sessions are held, we will update this page by posting links to the recordings.

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1. Universal Design for Learning Sep 9 RECORDING
   Universal Design for Learning (UDL) offers us an amazing opportunity to proactively prepare accessible lessons for everyone, instead of reactively developing education plans for individuals.
2. Digital Citizenship Sep 16 RECORDING
   Digital Citizenship focuses on addressing appropriate technology behavior. We will examine nine areas of digital citizenship behavior.
3. Using Google Sep 23 RECORDING
   Unleash Google's full potential as a search engine and educational tool by learning a few basic tips and tricks and exploring what tools Google has to offer.
4. Office Word Basics Sep 30 RECORDING
   Gain fluency in word processing for yourself and your students.
5. Office Excel Basics Oct 7 RECORDING
   The Excel spreadsheet is more than just numbers. Learn how to harness its powers for yourself and your students.
   
6. Office PowerPoint Basics Oct 14 Sorry, due to a technical difficulty, no recording is available.
   Add power to your PowerPoints and pass on your knowledge to your students.
7. Evaluating Web Pages Oct 21 RECORDING
   Teach your students how to evaluate web pages.
8. Critical Thinking Online for Research Oct 28 RECORDING
   Students need to be able to think critically about information found online during research.
   
9. Publishing Process Nov 4 RECORDING
   Simplify your students' workloads by showing them how the publishing process is similar in all subjects.
   
10. Image Collection and Editing Nov 18
    Source, download, and edit images for your teaching and your students learning.
11. Designing Web Pages Nov 25
    Learn how to make your web pages from the ground up with special attention to accessibility issues.
12. Blogs Dec 2
    Publish your opinion to the world wide web and then share your publishing knowledge with your students.
13. Wikis Dec 9
    Tired of doing all the work? Create a Wiki and have your students research and post their findings.
14. Discovery Education Dec 16
    Want engaged learners? Find and share curriculum relevant videos, teacher's guides, blackline masters and other resources from Discovery Education.
15. Avatars Jan 6
    Avatars aren't just for gamers anymore.  Bring your virtual self into the classroom to increase retention and give your students feedback in a way they'll want pay attention to.
16. Audio Production, Podcasting, and Podcasting Rubrics Jan 13
    Podcast your favourite lessons, stories, poems, and other oral resources to make them available 24/7.
17. Video Production, Vodcasting, and Vodcasting Rubrics Jan 20
    Have audio and visual resources you want to combine? Explore the steps of making a video to be shared online with your students.
18. Screencasting and Screencasting Rubrics Feb 3
    Learn how to publish your PowerPoints or other presentation files to the Internet.
19. Smartboards Feb 11
    Visualize a touchable computer screen the size of a blackboard and you have a Smartboard. After teaching with it, you'll never want to be without it.

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