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Technology Courses
5/1/08
Gain recertification credit at your own convenience this summer! The SC Department of Education offers
online courses for teachers with SC professional teaching certificates. Registration for summer online courses is
now open! There is a $30 registration fee for renewal credit courses
(20 and 40 renewal point courses) and 2 hr graduate courses cost $54 plus $30
registration fee = $84 total. Courses
are filling up quickly.
The
following courses are being offered this summer (course start date June 9th-
July 28, 2008):
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Approaches and Tools for Developing Web-Enhanced Lessons (40 renewal credits)
Click here for the syllabus.
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Classroom Assessment Enhanced by Technology (40 renewal credits)
Click here
for the syllabus.
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Reading First: Supporting Early Reading
Instruction with Technology
(40 renewal credits)
Click here
for the syllabus.
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South Carolina Online Resources- Streamline (40 graduate credits: 2 hrs)
Click here
for the syllabus.
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Word Workshop for Teachers, Part 2
(20 renewal
credits)
Click here
for the syllabus.
To
register for a course, you will need to create a free user ID in the
Electronic Registration Online (ERO).
To access ERO, go to https://elearning.ed.sc.gov/
and click on the Catalog & Registration tab at the top.
You can
access directions to register at https://elearning.ed.sc.gov/bbcswebdav/institution/e-LearningSouthCarolina/e_learning_regis_directions.doc.
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Important Teacher Notes
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ePortfolio
The first group of
teachers needing to recertify their technology proficiencies completed their portfolios
this month and lived to tell about it!
Expect to hear from your School Technology Leaders before the end of
school to learn how to get started in the ePortfolio
system.
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Student Engagement Conference
On July 30 & 31, our district is sponsoring
a conference featuring many of our own engaging teachers as presenters as
well as visiting presenters.
Concurrent sessions will run both days, during which time there will
be eight technology integration sessions!
Registration begins May 5th. Click here
for the agenda and here
to register.
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Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack
for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats
Have you had the
opportunity to try to open a document created in Word 2007 with your Word
2003? If not, it will only be a matter
of time before you do! By installing
the Compatibility Pack in addition to Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, or
Office 2003, you will be able to open, edit, and save files using the file
formats new to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007. The Compatibility Pack can also be used in
conjunction with the Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003, Excel Viewer 2003,
and PowerPoint Viewer 2003 to view files saved in these new formats. To download the Compatibility Pack, click
here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en
Site Survey:
Websites that Educate,
Enlighten, Entertain, and Engage
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NOAA’s Ocean Service Education (3-5; 6-12)
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/welcome.html
This site offers
teachers a wealth of resources about oceans, coasts, and charting and
navigation. Topics covered include: corals, currents,
estuaries, geodesy, nonpoint source pollution, and
tides and water levels. Student and
teacher guides, interactive quizzes, exercises with real data and interviews
with NOS scientists are part of each lesson.
Each lesson also includes focus questions, objectives, background
information, evaluations, and extensions.
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NRICH
http://nrich.maths.org/public/index.php
Free online mathematics enrichment resources,
designed to develop subject knowledge and problem solving skills for students
from 8-19. New content is published
each month and there is also an archive of past months. The problems are selected each month to offer
a variety of skills at different age levels along with supporting materials
such as articles, games, and other resources.
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The Gilder Lehrman Institute of
American History
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/
The GLI of American History offers primary source documents and educational
resources from all eras of American history available for free online. Features include podcasts of historians
discussing their work, lesson plans on major topics in American history, a
searchable database of primary source documents, featured documents with printable
images, and transcripts for classroom use, and online exhibitions.
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