K12> Prof. Dev: This Week at Tapped In (March 7 - 13)
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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 23:54:59 -0500
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Subject: Prof. Dev: This Week at Tapped In (March 7 - 13)
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From: berquist <berquist@xxxxxx>
Join the Webheads community of TESOL/ESL/EFL/ELL teachers and students
on Saturday for Writing for Webheads and Sunday for Webheads in Action.
Sunday is the new School Administrators' Forum with Charles Merritt.
Tuesday's schedule includes the lively K-3+ Resources with Sue Roseman
and Nuts About Nature's Bill Hilton Jr. takes a look at the accuracy of
the groundhog's prediction for Spring. Wednesday is the Social Studies
Forum with host Michael Hutchison. Thursday's busy schedule includes a
Forum for Teacher Education Faculty followed by the Pre-service Teachers
Group, both led by Marianne Handler and Janet Naher-Snowden. Thursday's
AAMU WriteTalk with Sandy Shattuck helps you meet those pesky writing
challenges head on! Tours of the many new features of Tapped In are
scheduled for a variety of time zones on most Tuesdays and Saturdays.
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After School Online (ASO) is a forum for educators. The scheduled
events, designed for professional development, are open to everyone in
the Tapped In community and all guests. All Calendar events will be
held in the TI After School Online (ASO) room unless otherwise noted in
the description. Featured Passageways in TI Reception has a link to the
ASO and most other conference rooms. As always, please login to Tapped
In http://www.tappedin.org 10 minutes before the ASO event is scheduled
to begin to allow us to help you get where you need to be. Click on the
event on the web calendar at
http://ti2.sri.com/tappedin/do/CalendarAction to read the complete
descriptions of the individual topics.
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View the Tapped In calendar of ASO events at:
http://ti2.sri.com/tappedin/do/CalendarAction You can set the calendar
to your time zone to see events in your times.
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Saturday, March 6
* Writing for Webheads
8:00-9:00am PST
The Writing for Webheads focus is on students interacting online. Join
Maggi Doty every Saturday in Tapped In Reception at 16:00 GMT.
http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/webheads.htm.
* Tapped In Tips and Tricks
4:00-5:00pm PST
Join one of the Tapped In HelpDesk volunteers to learn about the
fabulous features of TI2. This tour and Q&A session will start in the
Reception room of the Tapped In system.
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Sunday, March 7
* Webheads in Action
4:00-6:00am PST
The focus of Webheads in Action is on teacher professional development
and forming communities of practice with CMC tools. Join Vance Stevens
every Sunday in Tapped In Reception at noon GMT (for two hours).
* School Administrators Forum on Ed Tech (SAFE-T)
4:00-5:00pm PST
Join Charles Merritt in the ASO during this new forum to discuss issues
of technology use in schools from the managers' perspective (scenarios
and policy discussions).
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Tuesday, March 9
* Oz-Time Tours and Tips/Campfire Meeting
00:00midnight-01:00am PST
Join Dianne Allen for Oz time-friendly Tours and Tips and Campfire
Meetings, an "Australian" (and NZ and Western Rim Asia) meeting place
for informal chatting about professional development issues
* Tapped In Tips and Tricks
2:30-3:30pm PST
* K-3+ Resources
5:00-6:00pm PST/8:00-9:00pm EST
Join Sue Roseman in the Comfy Conference Room for new sites, projects
and online resources for K-3 Students and Teachers.
* Nuts About Nature: Spring Has Sprung, or Has It?
6:00-7:00pm PST
Bill Hilton Jr. --an award-winning educator-naturalist from Hilton Pond
Center for Piedmont Natural History in York, SC--will lead discussions
on a wide realm of nature-based topics, including how to bring the
outdoors into your K-12 classroom, virtually and otherwise. The topic
this month is "Spring Has Sprung, or Has It?" and will take place in the
Tree House Conference Room.
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Wednesday, March 10
* Social Studies Forum
5:00-6:00pm PST
Michael Hutchison invites you to join the Social Studies discussion
group in the ASO to share resources and meet with leaders of the Social
Studies community. If you are a professor or teacher who has assigned
your students to participate in discussions in Tapped In, please contact
Michael at mhutch@xxxxxxxxxxx to let him know your group will be logging
in. This will help him prepare a topic that is beneficial to your group.
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Thursday, March 11
* Teacher Education Faculty Forum
5:00-6:00pm PST
Join Marianne Handler and Jan Naher-Snowden for this new forum for
Teacher Education Faculty. The group will meet in the Hot Tub Conference
Room
* Preservice Teachers - Moving Tech from "About" to "With"
6:00-7:00pm PST
Make the move from "Learning about the Technology" to "Learning with the
Technology". Our discussion will focus on the real life applications of
technology skills for our personal life-long learning goals. This group
meets in the Cafe on March 11.
* AAMU Writing Project - WriteTalk
6:00-7:00pm PST
Frustrated by trying to write a snazzy introduction for that grant
proposal? Polishing up a lesson plan to submit for publication?
Petrified by a smirking deadline and no clue how to begin? Come join
Sandra Shattuck at WriteTalk in the ASO, where we talk our writing
challenges into manageable moments of creativity.
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Saturday, March 13
* Writing for Webheads
8:00-9:00am PST
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Sunday, March 14
* Webheads in Action
4:00-6:00am PST
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Respectfully submitted,
BJ Berquist
Associate Educator, TAPPED IN
bjb@xxxxxxxxxxxx
http://tappedin.org/tappedin/web/staff/bj.jsp
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