Beaufort Middle School
Home of the Chargers
100 Carraway Drive Beaufort, NC. 28516 Phone 252-728-4520 Fax 252-728-3392
Principal: Mr. Greg Guthrie

BMS Teacher Staff Development
Using Technology for Instruction
2010-2011

Technology credit in Black, R=Reading credit in Red, Other

Course Description for Teachers (facilitator)	CEU Credit	Who: Date Time Location Optional or Mandatory
My EGrades: setup, enter grades, maintain online grades	.4 T	August 19th 1pm-2pm During Planning Mandatory
Paideia Year 1 - Seminar Training and Coach Projects (Tilley)	1.2 R	Aug. 23rd All New Staff or Staff if you don't have coach training. Media Center 8am Mandatory
Google: Gmail, Calendar, Sites, Docs	.4 T	Workdays (Aug. 18, Aug. 20, or During Planning first week of school) Mandatory
Using Data for to Improve Reading Instruction	.5	8:30-1:30 1/12/11
NCWISE Gradebook Setting up and using NCWISE the Gradebook (McLendon, Thompson)	.2 T	Workdays (Aug. 18, Aug. 20, or During Planning first week of school and just before end of each 9 wks) All Teachers classroom teachers Mandatory
Paideia Year 5 - Review of Coach Projects	.6 R	Feb. 12th All Certified Staff Media Center Mandatory
Book Study (Marzno)	1 R	During each Faculty meeting Mandatory
Best Practices in Technology (Show and Tell)	.3 T	During each Faculty meeting Mandatory
Teacher Evaluation Instrument	1 Other	Teacher Planning, Faculty Mtg. Home
SIP - Faculty working on SIP	TBD	Faculty Meeting, Teacher Planning
OCEA online courses	TBD	Own Time
ClassScape - Content Reading Assessments in the curriculum areas.	.1R	September During Planning 3-4pm Mandatory
SharePoint/Google Sites: Setting up your webpage for 10/11 school year(Check SCOS, how to add photos, clear out the old and set up for the new year) (McLendon)	.2 T	During Planning or 3:10pm-4:10pm General Computer Lab Optional
Editing your Photos using Microsoft Picture Manager (McLendon)	.1 T	TBA Optional
Video Editing (Movie Maker or Photo Story)	.3	During class instruction Projects Optional
Just in Time Technology: Any time a teacher needs to know how to use individual technology peripherals. example: webcams, upload digital movies, edit them, Google Earth, etc. that would not warrant a formal staff development. (McLendon)	.05 T per visit	During Planning All Certified Staff 8:00am - 3:30pm Optional
Integrating Technology into Core Curriculum (Teachers go to the lab while ITF models how technology is integrated into their SCOS using the Balanced Curriculum lesson planned over the summer. Teachers learn the vocabulary, ethics lessons, and software used during the instruction time. Half way through the project (if not sooner, teachers begin team teaching and helping students troubleshoot their products).	.6T	All during the year
Internet Safety (McLendon)	.1 T	TBA during classes McLendon during instructional classes

What Great Teachers Do Differently - Todd Whitaker All of us!

Blooms Tax

Writing a learn units using the Revised Blooms Taxonomy

Topic

Theme

Taxonomy (see book)

Verbs (was nouns)

Levels of knowledge

Units

Challenge

Assessment

Focus on teaching and not the standards

The BIG move in standard based education is from memorize to meaning.

Shodor:
http://shodor.org

Free
Grades 3 through 12.
This website is dedicated to improving math and science education through computational science. It has interactive sites that is search skill, by NCSOS, or by textbook!
Try these:

	General Coordinate Grid: http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/GeneralCoordinates/
	Fractions http://shodor.org/interactivate/activities/FractionPointer/
	Order of Operations: http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/OrderOfOperationsFou/
	Plotting http://shodor.org/interactivate/activities/PlotIt

Smartboard:

	60 Sec Tutorials: http://www.60sectech.com/Tutorials/Archive.html
	Kelly Hines already created Smart lessons. http://delicious.com/search?p=Kellyhines1&chk=&context=main\|&fr=del_icio_us&lc=
	Pre made lessons: http://exchange.smarttech.com/#tab=0

Wordle:
http://www.wordle.net/
"Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends."

Tagxedo
http://www.tagxedo.com/
Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.

Google Earth Pro for Educators
Use Pro account is free for teachers

http://earth.google.com/outreach/program_details.html

Google Earth Pro for Non-profits Application

https://services.google.com/fb/forms/googleearthgrantapplication/

Use Google Earth for

	Weather patterns
	Country Maps - with and without borders

Shelfari - Great for Booktalks
http://www.shelfari.com/

Shelfari is the premier social network for people who love books. Create a virtual shelf to show off your books, see what your friends are reading and discover new books - all for free!

Teenage Brain - Joe, Janet and Max

Stategies for meaning the different

Reading Brain - Pat and Norma

	Music and Movement
	Bilingual Brain - Max

Media Literacy - Norma

Math Brain - Joe, Max

Math Loops - Joe and Max

Poverty - Joe and Norma

Differentiation - Kyle, Tim and Kathy

Non-negotiables

How?

Content - process - product

Reading in the Content Area - Pat, Fran and Norma

QAR