Free+Contact+Hour+Workshops

To register for any of these workshops send your name, school and subject/grade level to the Rome Teacher Center using interschool mail or e-mail rometc@dreamscape.com. __All of these workshops are free.__ Please note: 15 contact hours = 1 in-service credit. Feel free to mix and match to make 15! //You do not need to submit a notification of intent to study form for these workshops//
 * Free contact hour worksho ps **

Credit: Approved for 3 contact hours for Rome teachers. Description: This workshop will focus on looking at how MS Office, in particular MS Word, has changed and why. Topics will include: the Ribbon – the three basic components, the MS Office Button, Using the new shortcuts, Sharing documents between versions, and formatting documents.
 * Finding Your Way in Office 2007,** Tuesday, May 8, 3:30-6:30 at the Rome Teacher Center

Facilitator: Jean Griffith Date/Time: See individual titles for date. All of these workshops run from 3:30-5:30. Place: Rome Teacher Center Credit: Each program is approved for 2 contact hours for Rome teachers.Description: Participants will view a 1 – 1.5 hour webinar followed by a question/answer/discussion period. Handouts of the presentations will be given to each participant.
 * PD in Action Webinars with Kathy Schrock**


 * I. Resources for Information Literacy Monday, May 7**This webinar will cover such topics as: The définition of information literacy, information literacy models, online resources and tools, assessment, information literacy across the curriculum, and information literacy as a process skill that must be practiced.


 * II. Resources for Online Tools and Strategies to Support Instruction ****Monday, May 14,** This webinar will cover tools such as: video editors, audio editors, image editors, word processors, podcast creators, survey makers, media converters, mind mappers, and citation makers. It will look at the specificity of most online tools, providing students with annotated sites, planning for back-up sites and challenging students to find other tools.


 * III. Resources for Bloom's Digital Taxonomy ****Monday, May 21** This webinar will try to answer questions such as: How can teachers design curriculum that embeds technology in a meaningful way? What tools should the classroom technology toolbox contain? What are the management strategies to facilitate this connected classroom?

Participation in virtual communities promotes: working in groups, task/guiding question, investigation à artifact, resources, scaffolding, collaboration, and reflection / transfer. This webinar will look at: strategies for online collaboration, assessment of online projects, tools for online collaboration, the focus of collaboration: real world, complex problems, and attaining a solution.
 * IV. Resources for Online Collaboration ****Monday, June 4**