Participants should bring a lunch. The time spent with the instructors is your time to ask questions, review concepts, and receive strategies and tips for test taking. The time slotted for computers, is for individual practice, giving you a chance to answer real test questions with various levels of help and track your progress. Please bring a calculator, notebook and a pen and pencil. This session will be beneficial for those people who would like to learn how to use this product and yet have little time with which to self-teach.
Blackboard is a very popular product used extensively by educators.
Curriculum materials, communications, and assessments can be easily managed with this product. We will use the templates offered as a free service to educators while exploring the tools in this e-learning platform. Participants may bring along handouts, quizzes, projections, schedules which they normally give to students. Sites that incorporate weather, writing, vocabulary, reading, math and theme based lessons will be discussed and explored. Learn how to evaluate sites and to incorporate their content into the curriculum frameworks.