Dates: August 2 & 4, 2011
8:30 - 3:00 pm

Location:
LAPDA Meeting Space, Montpelier, VT

Cost: $225 for LAPDA members
$300 for nonmembers

*Additional $95 for 1 graduate credits from St. Michaels College

* Participants must purchase textbook

Registration: http://www.lapdavt.org

The course is appropriate for educators in any content areas, grades 4-12, school media specialists, and school administrators who are looking for free, engaging tools to integrate technology in their classrooms and schools.

Down Load the Syllabus here

Course Description

This 1 credit course introduces teachers to a variety of online Web 2.0 applications which support critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity. Students will explore web 2.0 tools which meet each of these 21st goals and reflect on the impact they have on their professional practice.  Additionally, participants will each develop a tutorials for a specific web 2.0 tool resource wiki to be shared by the class.

Course Objectives

Students completing this course will be able to:
• Understand their roles in creating 21st century learners
• Create a student tutorial for a specific web 2.0 tool
• Critique new web 2.0 tools for appropriateness in the classroom
• Incorporate web 2.0 tools into existing classroom content.
• Reflect on the issues raised by web 2.0 tools like online safety, digital equity, copyright and intellectual property.

Required Readings
Text:
** NEW TEXT ** Schrum, Lynne, and Gwen Solomon, Web 2.0:  How To for Educators.  ISTE, 2010.  (Available from Amazon:  approximately $25.11)
Prensky, Marc. "The role of technology in teaching and the classroom." Educational Technology (Nov 2008). (available online at http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/default.asp ).

About the Instructor

Linda McSweeney is a 'Digital Immigrant' who took her first computer course in 1982 at Rutgers University where she received her master’s degree in Library and Information Studies. Since then she has directed the Reference and Law Division at the Department of Libraries, has been an academic librarian at VTC and Norwich University, and is currently the School Media Specialist at Spaulding High School in Barre, VT. Past president of the Vermont Library Association, her conference presentations and research interests include academic integrity, information literacy, and Web 2.0 applications