SMART Training and Professional Development
This is an introduction video to a new format of training videos.
http://smarttech.com
The SMART Exchange
http://exchange.smarttech.com
Facebook
http://facebook.com/smartclassrooms
http://twitter.com/SMART_Tech
http://downloads.smarttech.com/media/services/promo/SMART_Summer_Institute_FSO.pdf
Duration : 0:2:13
Control Your Professional Development
This programme takes a look at how teachers can decide the direction of their own careers, right from the outset.
Lorne Charles explains how he has avoided the isolation that a classroom can bring by taking on CPD with the help of the General Teaching Council.
In the studio, Peter Curran talks to Anne Jasman from the General teaching Council and Alison Kitson from the Training and Development Agency. Peter is also joined by Patrick Nash from the Teacher Support Network, and all discuss how to judge what CPD to take on and when.
The programme also explains how to put the skills into practice, while various teachers discuss the benefits that CPD has brought them.
http://www.teachers.tv/video/20474
Duration : 0:13:59
Master of Science in Instructional technology
The Online Master’s program in Instructional Technology (MSIT) develops expertise in the use of leading edge media and technology for teaching and learning. Graduates of the program work as master teachers in P-12 classrooms, and as school or district instructional technology leaders, staff developers, and curriculum designers. Courses enhance teachers’ expertise with a wide range of media and applications and set the stage for understanding how instructional technology can fulfill its potential to Entice, Encourage, Enable and Empower learners. The online MSIT program leads to NYS educational technology Specialist certification for New York teachers.
Duration : 0:9:56
Foreign teacher teaching English
Foreign teacher teaching English
in Guang-Zheng public elementary school,
Taichung city, Taiwan.
This is a demo teaching for foreign teacher.
光正外師示範教學
Duration : 0:4:52
Intro to Educational Technology: Visual Concept Map
This is my Spring 2010 visual concept map for educational technology. It is also my first attempt to use Windows Movie Maker.
Duration : 0:4:48
Teacher Professional Development Workshops and Keynote Speakers for Schools
Finally, teacher professional development training workshops that cover what your teachers really want: immediate solutions for classroom management and behavior problems. We’re Youth Change Workshops and you’ve never seen professional development inservices like this before. Your staff name the problem areas, then we deliver hundreds of innovative, powerful strategies to turnaround school violence, ADHD, Asperger’s issues, work refusal, truancy, bullying, gangs, depression, withdrawal, and family problems. Working with difficult students doesn’t have to be so difficult.
Duration : 0:5:58
Educational Technology: Not Just Computers
This is the VOA Special English education Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com
We received a question from a listener about how American schools use educational technology. There is not a simple answer.
It depends on the subject and level of students, of course. But it also depends on the interest and training of the teachers, and the goals and budgets of the schools.
Schools are almost all connected to the Internet. But some have more technology, and use it more, than others. For example, some schools use computers for activities like video conferencing, to bring the world into the classroom.
And some classrooms are equipped with things like a Smart Board, a kind of interactive whiteboard. Interactive whiteboards are large displays for presentations.
They connect to a computer and can operate by touch. They can be used for documents or writing or to project video.
Some teachers are trying creative new ways to teach with devices like iPods and mobile phones.
But educators say the most important thing, as always, is the content.
Yet technology can have special importance in some cases.
Cosmobot is a therapy robot. It stands about half a meter tall and has a blue body and a friendly face with big eyes.
One child who works with it is six-year-old Kevin Fitzgerald. Kevin has developmental dyspraxia; he has difficulty moving his mouth and tongue.
He works with Carole Semango-Sprouse as he uses a set of buttons attached to a computer. He can make the silent robot move forward, backward or around in circles.
Kevin’s mother thinks the robot has had a calming influence, helping her son get along better with his friends.
Cosmobot was developed by AnthroTronix. Corinna Lathan started the company ten years ago to work with children with cerebral palsy, Down’s syndrome, autism and other developmental disabilities.
Children become friends with the robot, she says. That can have a big effect on their behavior, helping them work harder and longer in therapy sessions.
Corinna Lathan is currently working with a British company to develop other socially assistive robots.
She says they are still considered research tools in the United States. They are not used as much as in places like Britain and Japan. But she hopes to change that.
And that’s the VOA Special English Education Report. You can comment on our reports at our Web site, voaspecialenglish.com.
(Adapted from a radio program broadcast 17Dec2009)
Duration : 0:4:0
Educational Technology Integration Makes the Difference
A video I made about the positive impact that the integration of technology into teaching practices makes in student learning and engagement.
Duration : 0:2:31
EMB HK NSS Teacher Professional Development
The New Senior Secondary Curriculum being introduced in Hong Kong public schools is causing quite a stir, and fright, amongst the ranks of teachers. The professional development seminar which I attended, sponsored by the Education and Manpower Bureau, intended to mollify the fears of educators while sharing best practices established by pilot schools and their respective programs – the government’s objectives, I believe, were successfully achieved.
Hong Kong’s public education system certainly needs reform, and the new curriculum, I hope, shall break the obstinacy that plagues the local pedagogy. The curriculum will hew the old into the relevant and prudent, quickly, please.
That said, I am fiercely critical of these government-sponsored courses whose objectives include promoting obsequiously their agenda. Though I did gain, I freely admit, a few worthwhile, practical module ideas, I was more interested in what was not being shown than what, in fact, was presented during the afternoon meeting. I, as an educator, need to balance my perspective in teaching and learning, particularly since my most profound learning moments have struck me while in the analysis of failure, not victory. I was disappointed, although unsurprised, that the government and its test schools painted a ridiculously rosy picture of a thousand flowers in full bloom across this Chinese territory, sparing me timorous thoughts of struggle, success, and failure. I indeed like my pedagogical development to be framed in a realistic, balanced manner.
I’ve spoken with EMB agents in regard to my concerns, but their ideological zealotry matches my own educational ardor step-for-step in the race to win the hearts and minds of a society in transition – might I add, I was told that there would have been a more reflective, realistic account of each school’s pilot actions had there been more time! Hence, for the public whose time is less penurious, I present an unduly critical video that captures the essence of a typically fawning, government-sponsored showcase series.
http://misterwoo.blogspot.com
Duration : 0:6:31
Using Technology in Education
As mental health becomes the number one challenge for the future, the Inspire Foundation’s Reach Out! service is working with teachers to deliver innovative web based curriculum resources that equip young people with the knowledge and skills to improve their mental health. These tools are available via the Reach Out! teachers‘ Network. Watch the video to learn more.
Duration : 0:6:46