Instructional Technology

Our first in a series of webinars on Web2.0, Overview of RSS,  will be offered next week on October 14th!  This sesssion will lead you through the exploration of what RSS is and how it can benefit your personal-professional life and classroom communication.    

To register, email BrianC_Smith@boces.monroe.edu

Check out other webinars planned for this fall here. 

Webinar Learning Series

We are now offering a series of one hour webinars that overview a variety of online tools.  This series focuses on social media (better known as Web2.0) tools that are easily accessible to you and your students.  Each webinar is online, one hour in length and all you need is a computer and Internet connection.  A weblink will be emailed to you at least 24 hours prior to the webinar. 

SMART Boards Are Here!

Here are some great resources to access when using SMART Board technology:

Last week at our ITS Town Meeting we asked that you bring a book or list of books to add to a Summer Reading list for educators.  Well, we've got an Educator Library started on the wiki that you might find helpful when you visit Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble.  If you are wondering why the list resides on the wiki, it is because the list will be added to in the future by our community members.  If you haven't started an account on the Model Schools Wiki, here's you chance to contribute.  It's easy.

You've heard about it. You've seen it demonstrated time and again. So what's holding you back from using RSS? Maybe you just don't have time to learn it or maybe you're too busy searching for information on the web. Consider that fact that RSS can do the searching, the filtering, and the storing of relevant and timely information for you. Consider these features of RSS:

The Summer/Fall 2008 catalog of courses for Monroe #1 BOCES Staff Development is now available.  The BOCES ITS have many offerings under the Educational Technology heading including several courses on Blogging, Podcasting, Wikis, Using Digital Media in the Classroom, Community Projects with Technology, and the summer Technology, Learning and Technology Conference.  

Take your class out of this world by using the Global Positioning System (GPS).  You will learn the basics of using GPS, experience a classroom outdoors and learn ways you can implement GPS outside your classroom. 

GPS and GIS are two powerful applications in the real world of science. Come and see how you might be able to incorporate GPS into your curriculum. The goal of this class is to use and generate ideas on how to use GPS to frame learning experiences that will create hands-on learning experieneces for students in a real-world context.