• February 10: Glogster
  Presenter: Rachel Davis (Van Duzen Elementary School)
  Rachel demonstrates how to create digital posters / collages using pictures, videos, audio files, and text.  Participants will explore the use of these multi-media collages to share, to inform, and to persuade.
   

• February 24: VoiceThread
  Presenter: Nicolette Amann (Humboldt State University)
  Nicolette helps participants view samples and compose a VoiceThread: a "free, collaborative, multi-media slideshow system that allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in five different ways."  To this session, please bring headphones/earbuds and a USB drive with (or digital/online access to) several images.
   

• March 10: WordPress Blogs
  Presenter: Tracy Duckart (Humboldt State University)
  Tracy introduces teachers to the pedagogical possibilities of blogging.  Participants will analyze selected educational blogs, review technology resources, consider applications for their own classrooms, and then build a blog of their own.
   

• March 24: Wikispaces
  Presenter: Anne Sahlberg (McKinleyville High School)
  Anne demonstrates how Wikispaces can be used to create virtual communities and foster reflective and persuasive writing opportunities.  Specifically, Anne will share an example in which high school and college students interacted in a collaborative Wikispace.
   

• April 14: The Elements of Digital Design
  Presenter: Catherine Arnold (RWP Technology Team)
  Catherine explores principles of visual design and demonstrates the use of online tools to promote effective use of typography, color, and layout choices.  Participants will explore several websites and identify criteria to analyze their own designs.
   

• April 28: Google Docs
  Presenters: Vicki Kurtz (Hoopa Valley High School) and Tracy Duckart (Humboldt State University)
  Vicki and Tracy teach participants how to use Google Docs--a free, online application--to create documents and, more importantly, to explore the opportunities for collaborative writing.  This session will be theoretical--how we can teach students to provide good feedback--as well as practical: how we can take full advantage of the co-authoring, responding, filing- and color-coding systems Google offers.
   

• May 12: The Virtual Classroom: Developing Digital Literacies through the New Writing
  Presenter: Sue McIntyre (Humboldt State University)
  Sue demonstrates online forums as a classroom application to promote critical thinking, writing, reading, and responding.  Participants will explore ways to build a writing community using digital spaces, multimedia texts, and linked conversations while also reducing instructor workload and encouraging authentic student writing.
   

• May 26: Moodle / Global Classroom
  Presenters: Mauro Staiano (Eureka High School) and Nicolette Amann (Humboldt State University)
  Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS) that is available to educators as a free web application.  During this session, Mauro and Nicolette will share their experiences with Moodle, provide examples from their own classes, guide participants as they construct their own Moodle course, and ask participants to consider further possibilities for their own classrooms.

About the Presenters

All presenters are experienced practitioners: teachers with advanced training through the Redwood Writing Project that has earned them the status of Technology Teacher-Consultant.  Plus they love having fun with computers.

About the Series

• To earn a full unit of professional development credit, a participant must attend all eight sessions and produce a comprehensive lesson incorporating technology (for a total cost of $185).  Lessons will be published on the RWP website/blog.
   

• The workshop takes place in a computer lab, so computers will be available.  Personal laptops are welcome, but please note that only laptops registered by HSU staff, faculty, and students will have access to the Internet.  We recommend leaving the laptops at home and bringing a jumpdrive (flashdrive, thumb drive, USB drive) instead.  On that (optional) jumpdrive, you may wish to bring photos, graphics, assignments, or text that you might wish to see on a blog or a digital collage.
   

• The workshops are designed for teachers who whish to use technology with their students in their classrooms; however, all of the workshops' content transfers to personal and professional use as well.
   

• This series is designed for beginners although tech-savvy participants will also be comfortably engaged.  Ongoing professional development can be made available to build upon this initial experience.
   

• All workshop materials and the fruits of those sessions will be available at the workshop series blog.  Look for updates following each session, and avail yourself of its resources long after the series closes.

 

To Register Online:

We encourage you to register and pay online.  However, if you prefer to register by mail, please follow this link.  Please note that the online registration and payment process involves two steps.

 

Online Registration, Step One: Payment

You can still opt to mail a check if you register online (please include a note informing us of your choice when you mail your check to the address below), but we recommend PayPal, a simple, secure payment option available to everyone—even those without a PayPal account of their own.

You can pay for as many workshops as you wish: one workshop or all eight.  Please use the drop-down menu (below) to make your selection before you press the "Buy Now" button. The only thing you can't do in advance is pay for university credit: units must be purchased on the first day of the series, on February 10.  Please do register and pay for the event now, however.

For how many workshops are you registering? One Workshop $20.00 Two Workshops $40.00 Three Workshops $60.00 Four Workshops $80.00 Five to Seven Workshops $100.00 All Eight Workshops $100.00

 

Online Registration, Step Two: Registration Form

Once you have completed your payment, you will be directed to a new page that provides the registration form.  Before you sign off, please be sure to complete that form and then hit the "Send" button at the bottom of that final page.  Thank you.

 

To Register by Mail:

While we urge you to take advantage of the preferred online registration, we also understand that some applicants prefer a non-electronic option.  To register by mail, please download the registration form available by following this link, and please send that completed form and the appropriate payment to the address listed below.  Registration and payment for professional development units can only be accepted on site, on the first session of the series, but please register and pay for the event now.  Thank you.

Redwood Writing Project
Humboldt State University
Nelson Hall West 234
Arcata, CA  95521-8266

Please mail no later than one week prior to the event(s) for which you are registering.  If you miss this deadline, you are still welcome to attend; we just need you register on site rather than by mail.  We hope you can pre-register, however, because we would love to share that workshop's door prize.

Please note that refunds are available only upon RWP cancellation of the event.  If an emergency prevents a registrant from attending, all but the non-refundable portion can be applied toward a future RWP event.

For more information about this event, please contact RWP Technology Programs Director Tracy Duckart (tracy.duckart@humboldt.edu or 707.826.5958) or the Redwood Writing Project office (rwp@humboldt.edu or 707.826.5109).