Jenny Killion and Meaghan Whitney (AKA the Dynamic Duo), the amazing teacher-leaders at Crawford Elementary have developed a great course for any one with Promethean interactive whiteboard. This is guaranteed to be worth your while. They’ve developed tech savy strategies for increasing student acheivement.

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Learn how to use and apply technology in all instructional areas of the K-5 classroom. Classes will begin with basic skills and incrementally increase in complexity. Teachers will be given time to immediately apply new learning in order to plan for future instruction.6 classes = 1.0 credit 

• Mondays from 4:00-6:30pm
• January 26th, February 2nd, February 9th, February 23rd, March 2nd, and March 9th
  • Classes will be held at Crawford Elementary in Room 41

 To register, complete the course registration form and fax it in by January 9th.http://www.aps.k12.co.us/instruct/pl/forms.html Here’s the flyer to invite your friends. 

Have you ever looked at your Promethean whiteboard and wondered, “This is pretty cool… but what else can I do?” If so (or if not), Atomic Learning is a phenomenal resource for you to use. You can access it through One Place. Check out this great Atomic Learning Tutorial that Kevin created.

Did you know that Mondo materials are available on One Place? They are! There are Mondo Flipcharts, Oral Language Pictures and Transparencies.. Here’s how you can access them. 1. Log in to One Place 2. Click on “Instructional Resources” 3. Click on the “+” to see what resources are available 4. Click on the title of the resource to open the folder.

Teachers, Here is an opportunity to develop your skills in using Activstudio. This course “Activstudio Level 1 Foundation Skills” will take place in June and will primarily be online (see attachment). So you will need access to the Internet. If you know of anyone who may be interested in this class, please forward this email to them, especially if they will have access to a board next year but have not been trained. To earn the credit, just attend to meetings, build an interactive flipchart and do the free online course. www.prometheanlearning.com This course will introduce the main features of the Activstudio version 3 software. By following this course, participants will have developed the key skills required to use the software effectively. If you’ve already taken the coarse and have received the certificate, be sure to attend the an initial meeting, final meeting and turn in a project to receive credit! This is a professional development .5 credit class. To receive .5 credit: 1. Attend one (1) initial meeting (45 minutes)@ ESC 1, Suite 113 Lab2: Monday June 2nd 10:00-10:45 OR Tuesday June 3rd 3:00-3:45 2. Complete the Activstudio Level 1 course (ONLINE 6 hours) 3. Create a flipchart to share at final meeting 4. Attend one (1) final meeting (45 minutes)@ ESC 1, Suite 113 Lab2: Monday June 16th 10:00-10:45 OR Tuesday June 17th 3:00-3:45 Please RSVP by May 30th through email to Chris EarthTree.  cjearthtree at aps.k12.co.us Seating is limited. Chris EarthTree Instructional Technology Coach Aurora Public Schools Educational Services Center, Building 1 15701 E. 1st Avenue - Suite 113 Aurora, CO 80011-9023

At every school I visit, I see teachers creating amazing flipcharts that engage students interactively with instruction! Today I saw a flipchart in a 1st grade class that recreated Calendar Time into a super interactive Calendar Time. While the entire flipchart was great, the coolest part was the daily graph. The teacher asks a different student each day to come up with a question for the next day. The next day, students graph their answers according to the question. Her students can’t wait to get to school to graph! Here’s your chance to share your work. You can start sharing your ideas and flipcharts on the APS Promethean Users Group. Please share your work even if you don’t think it’s “amazing.” Flipcharts don’t have to have to be hyper stylized renderings of dynamic interactive lessons. If you are creating flipcharts that could be used by other teachers of the same grade or subject, then that’s what we want. It could be as simple as adapting a Mondo lesson into something more interactive. So… if you are interested in sharing your flipcharts, this is how you can do so.

1. Register for a wordpress blog
2. Notify Chris EarthTree that you’ve registered, (I’ll add you as an author).
3. Log on to http://apscms.net/staffpages/pug/wp-login.php
4. Post an entry
   • Click on “Write.”
   • Write in a short description of your flipchart
   • Upload your flipchart (compressed) send it to the Editor (be sure to compress it first, right-click and “Send to Compressed File.)
5. Go to http://apscms.net/staffpages/pug to check it out!

That’s it! As James Brown says, “Get on up! Get in to it! Get involved! Get involved!”