Managing Research
Learn practical skills for managing a classroom of students engaged in Internet research.

Workshops:
Introduction to @School Anytime
Searching for Teachers
Classroom Management
Introduction to Trackstar
Preventing Plagiarism

Publishing for a Wider Audience
Learn where technology can impact brainstorming, outlining, drafting and publishing to a wider audience, and use technology throughout the writing process.

Workshops:
Introduction to Student Publishing
Digital Mind-mapping
Managing a Classroom Publishing Center
Hyper-Authoring
Publishing on the Web I
Publishing on the Web II

Using Primary Sources
Teach your students to think like historians! Learn how to locate and review major online primary source collections. Participate in lessons that model the use of sources including documents, data sets, photographs and other documents. Learn skills required to create your own Document-Based Questions.

Workshops:
Introduction to Primary Sources
Integrating Primary Sources
Data Sources for Social Studies Investigations
EPals for Collaborative Projects
Guiding Questions
Creating Online Activities

Scientific Process with Technology
Streamline the scientific process with technology including: a) hypothesizing, b) observing and researching, c) data sources, d) data management (organizing, analyzing, and testing data), and e) concluding and presenting results. Activities emphasize the major content science areas (Earth Science, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics).

Workshops:
Hypothesizing with Inspiration
Live Data Sources
Analyzing Data
Sorting and Graphing Data
Science Simulations
Communicating Science

Building Effective Lesson Plans
Select topics of interest for the teacher who believes in hands-on learning.

Workshops:
Creating WebQuests
Guiding Questions
Assessment and Rubrics