The Connected Educator Technology Symposiums

The Innovative Educator Consulting team believes that new, innovative forms of teacher professional development are the cornerstone to building teacher capacity in the 21st century. To excite the next generation of students, we are offering educators and administrators from all sectors a unique opportunity to re-envision your curriculum with transformative technology integration best practices. At this time, we are personally inviting you and your district team members to the summer technology events of the "The Connected Educator Technology Symposiums.”  (Scan the QR Code to the left for all the technology symposium event details and you can share the QR Code with your colleagues!)

LOCATIONS AND DATES: 

This year, we have three Wisconsin locations and three different time-frames to choose from to best meet your scheduling and traveling needs. 

Register for any of the events through this link: http://naomiharm.org

Event #1: July 10th - 12th hosted at Holmen Prairie View Elementary 

Event #2: August 7th - 9th hosted at WI Dells High School 

Event #3: August 21st - 23rd hosted at West Salem High School 

Click on anyone of the event titles listed above to gain access to the e-brochure, workshop titles, descriptions, cost for the events and online registration access through http://naomiharm.org Up to three graduate credits will be made available at each of these technology events this year. 

QUESTIONS: Please feel free to contact Naomi Harm, “The Connected Educator Technology Symposiums” events coordinator, and she will assist you with questions you may have about the upcoming technology events. 

Email: naomi@naomiharm.org 

Twitter: nharm 

Cell: 608-386-2018 

Home/Business: 507-750-0506 

We hope you can join us for three fun-filled days of inspired technology integration teaching and learning!

2012 UK Google Teacher Academy

I was introduced to a new video challenge last month and full heartily accepted the challenge and entered the 2012 Google Teacher Academy in the UK. This event will take place in London, England UK on April 4, 2012. The task at hand was to complete the online application and produce and submit an original one minute video on EITHER of the following topics: "Motivation and Learning" OR "Classroom Innovation." and to be as creative as you like. Love the open endlessness of this challenge!

This video is a very important part of the application. The task is designed to demonstrate your technical ability, your resourcefulness, your commitment, and your unique personality and interests. I chose a creative element of using the video creation tool of One True Media, an edgy urban sound track and a multimedia look and feel of London, England. My message was posed to infuse the message of "Classroom Innovation." I personally feel very good about the final production.  It provided me an opportunity to be highly creative, feel the motivational edge of competition, and meet the deadline with two weeks of lead time

Here is the final video production- please let me know how I did.  Feel free to share a comment or suggestion with me through a comment at the bottom of this post- much appreciated.

Or here is the direct link from my YouTube Educator Channel

Adobe Digital School Collection Twitterview on Friday, Feb 24

You’re officially invited to the Adobe Digital School Collection Twitterview on Friday, Feb 24, from 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. PST. Meet product evangelist Johann Zimmern and learn more about the Adobe Digital School Collection.  Join in and you’ll be entered for a chance to win a $150 Amazon gift certificate (North America residents only)!

Adobe Digital School Collection empowers students to create projects and classroom presentations that include polished photos, compelling movies, and media-rich documents and ePortfolios, and includes the recently announced Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 and Adobe Premiere Elements 10 software, as well as Adobe Acrobat X Pro.

If you’re not familiar with Twitterview, the process is simple.  Join the discussion on Twitter (@AdobeEDU) and include the hashtag #ADSC when you tweet.  If you can’t make it on the 24^th, please leave your questions or remarks in the comments section of this post or send @AdobeEDU a Twitter message in advance and we’ll make sure Johann answers it.

Don’t forget:  North American residents will automatically be entered for a chance to win a $150 Amazon gift certificate when you join in the conversation. 

We hope you’ll join!

2012 Spring Educator and Youth Grants

Greetings Educational Leaders,

I am providing you a flip ebook below of "2012 Educator and Youth Grant Opportunities" for my most prized school districts and educational associates I have worked with this past year. This, is once again my special give back to all of you, and to say thank you for partnering and/or working with my consulting company once again.  It has been three years at the end of this month since I have started my Innovative Educator Consulting corporation, and it is because of all of you that have contributed to our team's success.  By this summer, I will have 12 part-time Master educator consultants who will be working for my company over the summer and two full-time employees.  These dynamic individuals are the most prized educators and tech integration trainers in the tri-state area. 

Open publication - Free publishing - More educators

Keith Schroeder Winner of ASCD Suite & 20 Ways HS Are Using Twitter

Good Morning Everyone!

I want to make a NEW  announcement today that we have a winner for the ASCD suite.  Keith Schroeder from the Bay Port School District in Green Bay, Wisconsin is the lucky winner of the Adobe Digital School Suite. Keith is a dynamic High School Library Media Specialist providing his staff professional development training incorporating information & technology literacy standards into their curriculum, team teaches lessons with his staff, oversee the operation of the Library Media Center, maintains the Bay Port High School website, and assist High School students in the LMC.

I am hoping I can have Keith provide a guest blog post to share his new learning experiences with Adobe Digital School Collection with our readers. Congratulations Keith!!!  I also know that Keith is an avid Twitter user and utilizes Twitter in his High School library Media position to enhance his own professional development, but also shares a multitude of critical insights with others, and thought this next lead in- would tie in quite nicely.

 “20 Innovative Ways High Schools Are Using Twitter” (http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2012/01/30/20-innovative-ways-high-schools-are-using-twitter/)

According to the provided article of  “20 Innovative Ways High Schools Are Using Twitter” many colleges are utilizing Twitter to provide students with new and interesting ways to learning, but unfortunately, we still have many high schools - even in the Midwest- that are restricted from using a social media resource such as Twitter due to acceptable use policies. Those that are allowed to in k12 environment are taking great advantage of Twitter, and  are already doing amazing things. "Chatting with students in Pakistan, reporting high school football on the fly, and supplementing classroom discussion are just a few of the great ways high schools have made use of Twitter." 

How are you integrating Twitter into your High School classroom instruction to support and extend learning for each and everyone of your students? Or are you tapping into the stream to enhance your own professional development?   

Please share with me by February 6th ways or innovative  ideas of how you are utilizing Twitter, and I would like to create an infographic to visually display our learning results form the collection of responses with your name as a contributor to this new curated innovative ideas collection. You may add your thoughts to this blog post or tweet out your shared responses with noting the following hashtag #nharm in your tweet for easy retrieval of your innovative ideas.

Thanks for your contributions!!!