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American Sign Language | | Inspiration / Kidspiration | The "Nature" of Education | Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 | Introduction to Mac OS X | Tips and Tricks of PowerPoint | Box Cars & One-Eyed Jacks | Using MarcoPolo Website for Standards | Tips & Tricks of Microsoft Word
Course offerings this winter at NCTRC…
Enroll in a workshop designed
to provide support for your professional growth!
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to hold a place in the classes you wish to register.
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Have you ever wanted to how to speak a different language? Here is your opportunity to work with Erin Burke as she and other course participants learn a basic beginners vocabulary, finger spelling and numbering in American Sign Language.
This course will cover Units 1-5 in the videotext.*
American Sign Language II will begin in January 2006, with an advanced class beginning in April.
For further information contact Erin
at:
eburke@cves.org
Open to all
Prerequisite: None
Instructor: Erin Burke, CVES
Dates: Mondays, October 17, 24, 31
November 7, 14, 21, 28
Time: 4:30pm to 7:30pm
Place: NCTRC
Cost: $180
Register by September 28
2 In-Service Credits
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Producing graphic organizers can be a helpful strategy in preparing students for the NYS Assessments.
These software programs use the computer to organize ideas and add graphics for classroom work. They are powerful visual learning tools that inspires students to develop ideas and organize thinking. Participants will receive an introduction to the Inspiration/Kidspiration software as well as applications for it use. Participants will learn how to integrate Inspiration’s concept maps, literature webs, and Venn diagrams to expand student knowledge Participants will leave with free 30 day demo copies.
Open to all
Prerequisite: Basic Computer Skills
Instructor: Diane Bonenfant, NCTRC
Dates: Tuesday, November 1
Time: 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Place: NCTRC
Cost: $18.00
Register by October 25
1/5 In-Service Credits
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The "Nature" of Education
An Outdoor Educational Opportunity for Educators
The North Country Teacher Resource Center and the PSU CAS Conference Services are presenting a program for North Country educators, facilitated by Gary “Griz” Caudle. Gary retired, after 35 years of teaching, from Rochester City Schools, and is currently an adjunct lecturer at SUNY Geneseo. Gary spent many summers hiking, paddling, and camping with his family in the Adirondacks, and now makes his home in Tupper Lake. Gary is also a certified alpine and snowboard instructor and has written a curriculum guide for providing experiential learning in adventure-based programs.
This cadre of trainings will continue through winter and spring 2006! Each session will be a minimum of 5 hours and the combination of 3 different trainings will allow the participant to obtain 1 in-service credit. The product of these trainings will be standards-based, cross-curricular lesson plans created by participants which will be useful with students at all grade levels.
Session-I
Learning to use a map and compass, each participant group will engage in skills needed to ‘find their way’ and find out how to use these same skills for teaching mathematics, geography, and science, etc. in their classrooms. Participants at all grade levels, and content areas, will create lesson plans to use in their classes.
*Compasses will be provided for participants to use.
**Maximum 12 participants
***Bring your own lunch and beverages
****Proper attire for walking orienteering trails necessary (i.e.
Sneakers or hiking boots)
Date: Saturday, October 15
Time: 9:30am to 3:00pm
Place: Point Au Roche (Plattsburgh Area)
or Mountain Area (Saranac Lake)
Cost: $30.00
Register by October 1
Session-II
Participants will experience the spirit of the Transcendentalists (Emerson among them), who came to the Adirondacks in the 19 th century to discover for themselves the wonders and spiritualism of nature. From this adventure came some of the best prose and poetry . Trail hiking will assist participants in capturing this as they saunter through the forest at Twin Valleys. Participants will be given journals to explore their own hidden literary talents, while learning how to pass these skills on to students in Science, English and Social Studies classes
*Journals will be provided for
participants
**Maximum 20 participants
***Bring your own lunch and beverages
****Proper attire for trail hiking necessary (i.e. Sneakers or hiking
boots)
Date: Saturday, November 5
Time: 9:30am to 3:00pm
Place: Twin Valleys (PSU's Outdoor
Education Center)
Cost: $35.00
Register by October 31
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Adobe Photoshop Elements is an exciting tool that allows you to create original and highly professional looking instructional aids. Colors shapes, drawing tools, and text can be woven together to command your students attention and make your message clear. This 15 hour course will help you feel confident creating and publishing your own aids. Past participants have created banners, posters, transparencies, handouts and much more. Participants wishing to continue on this winter in Adobe Photoshop Advanced/Beginner will have met the prerequisite for the course.
Open to all
Prerequisite: Basic Computer Skills
Instructor: Carol Newcomb, NCTRC
Dates: Thursday, October 20, 27, November
3, 10, 17
Time: 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Place: NCTRC
Cost: $90.00
Register by October 17
1 In-Service Credits
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Introduction to Mac OS X
A hands on approach
This course will provide individuals who are new to the Macintosh operating system OS X. This introductory course is designed to provide an overview and the basic skills necessary to utilize the many functions of the operating system and how to troubleshoot basic problems.
Join Kim as she whisks you through the ins and outs of OS X.
Open to all
Prerequisite: Basic Computer Skills
Instructor: Kim Myers, CVES
Date: Tuesday, October 18
Time: 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Place: NCTRC
Cost: $18.00
Register by October 18
1/5 In-Service Credits
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Make your PowerPoint presentation come alive with animation, music, imported pictures, and links to the Internet! Organize and format your material easily and illustrate your points by inserting hyperlinks, creating tables and importing music.
Open to all
Prerequisite: Basic PowerPoint Skills
Instructor: Kim Myers, CVES
Date: Tuesday, November 8
Time: 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Place: NCTRC Computer Classroom
Cost: $18.00
Register by November 1
1/5 In-Service Credits
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Mineville Workshops
Basic Math Manipulatives Workshops
Here¹s a "deal" for
you! Come and play with us and we¹ll have
you ³on a
roll² to making Math fun and motivating for
your students!
Participants will play a selection of math games from the award winning
Box Cars & One Eyed Jacks series.
The workshop will focus on basic cards, regular dice and multi-sided dice games and will cover ideas for teaching numeration, mental math, all operations, place value, and more.
Strategies are provided throughout. Problem solving is integrated into the games and can be adapted to suit the needs of all students to complement any existing math program.
Ideas for resource and classroom
management will be provided as well as
great ideas for math journals. Get back to the
basics.
Come prepared to play!
Two sessions $15.00 each
Date: Wednesday, October 19
Location: Yandon Dillon
Time: 8:30—11:30 am for Grades
PreK– Grade 3
or
Time: 12:30– 3:30 for Grades 4-6
Register by: October 12
Open to all
Prerequisite: Basic Computer Skills
Instructor: Diane Bonenfant, NCTRC
Date: Tuesday, November 1
Time: 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Place: NCTRC Computer Classroom
Cost: $18.00
Register by October 25
1/5 In-Service Credits
NCTRC Workshops
PIECE IT TOGETHER WITH FRACTIONS
The BOX CARS authors have done it again! Come
prepared to play with unique fraction dice and fraction
circles. Games to teach fraction names, comparing
fractions, operations with fractions, equivalence, and more will be
taught. This unique, new manipulative and our newest
games will bring fraction concepts to life for your students.
Open to all
Prerequisite: Basic Computer Skills
Instructor: Diane Bonenfant, NCTRC
Date: Tuesday, November 1
Time: 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Place: NCTRC Computer Classroom
Cost: $18.00
Register by October 25
1/5 In-Service Credits
DOUBLE DARE YOU
This strategy based workshop focuses on the newest dice to hit the math
manipulative world. DOUBLE DICE are highly
motivating to students and have a wide range of mathematical
uses. Come prepared to play games that cover the
following areas: operations, fractions, place value and
probability.
Unique double regular dice, double 10 and 12-sided dice, and
three-in-a-cube dice will be used. We
³double dare you² to add some fun into your math
program. Come prepared to play!
Date: Thursday, October 20
Time: 12:30—3:30 am for Grades K
- 3
Place: NCTRC
Fee: $15.00
Register by: October 12
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Using MarcoPolo Website for Standards
The MarcoPolo Education Foundation: Internet Content for the Classroom is a consortium of nine of the nation’s leading education organizations, and hundreds of education and training experts from across the country. Whether you are looking for science projects or innovative tools for your Math A classroom, teaching research skill, constructing CRQ’s and DBQ’s, or you need to develop assessments and appropriate rubrics for assessing student work, this web portal contains materials that can be integrated into project, and/or lessons for the classroom. If you have never really been “Internet savvy”, this training is for you!
Open to all
Prerequisite: Basic Computer Skills
Instructor: Kathleen Fessette, NCTRC
Date: Thursday, November 17
Time: 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Place: NCTRC
Cost: $18.00
Register by November 10
1/5 In-Service Credits
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Tips & Tricks of Microsoft Word
You know how to create Word Documents, now become skilled at creating documents that have pictures from the web, text and hyperlinks! Learn how to combine all three elements to enhance your documents. Gain valuable information on inserting tabs, and adding tables and bullets. You will leave this workshop with an improved knowledge of the capabilities of Word.
Open to all
Prerequisite: Basic Computer Skills
Instructor: Kim Myers, CVES
Date: Tuesday, November 29
Time: 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Place: NCTRC Computer Classroom
Cost: $18.00
Register by November 22
1/5 In-Service Credits
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North Country Teacher Resource Center
State University of New York College at Plattsburgh
Sibley Hall Room 322
Plattsburgh, NY 12901
Phone: (518) 564-5000
Fax: (518) 564-5001
E-mail: nctrc5000@excite.com
February 18, 2007