The Learning Curve Online Professional Development

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Free! March 6 at M.I.T. Professor Richard Larson will lead this excellent workshop including the availability of multimedia content for teachers. Topics include Donkey Cart Physics, Fabulous Fractals, The Secrets of Soap Bubbles, and many more. Workshop hours are from 9:00 - 1:00.
Details about the workshop. Partnership with MIT (video).

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Share Fair March 25: Save the date. The next Share Fair will be hosted by the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology at M.I.T. It will feature digital content available to Moodle teachers at no cost. Learn how these resources can enrich your Moodle course sites. Get access to multimedia content and learn from some of the developers of these tools. There is no charge for teachers from The Learning Curve member districts, but advance registration in required. More details soon . . .

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Earn a Master's Degree in Instructional Technology: Framingham State College offers a Master's Degree in instructional technology completely online. Hundreds of teachers have successfully completed this program to strengthen their teaching or to obtain licensure in instructional technology. This is a ten course program that can be completed from the convenience of your own home. Interested? Contact romeo@romeomarquis.com or 978-606-7023.

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The Moodle course: The current section of the Moodle course includes 190 participants. This is the largest group ever. The course is taught by a team of four experienced Moodlers. This section will end on May 14. The summer section of the course will run from June 7 - July 30. Course outline.

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Moodle manuals: Two new Moodle manuals are available to our members. What Will Caleb Learn? is an instruction manual for teachers. Guidelines for Local Moodle Administrators is being developed but is available in draft form. Download.

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Moodle statistics: Did you know . . .

• There are more than 45,000 registered Moodle sites in the world.
• Moodle sites can be found in more than 200 countries.
• There are more than 32,000,000 Moodle users worldwide.
• More than 1,000,000 teachers are using Moodle.
  

Available Courses

• Technology Applications for School Leaders

  • Teacher: Romeo Marquis
• Moodle Teaching Team

  • Teacher: Romeo Marquis
  • Teacher: Deborah Donohue
  • Teacher: Ann Morgan
  • Teacher: Linda Post
• Integrating Moodle into Your Teaching - Spr2010

  • Teacher: Ann Morgan
  • Teacher: Linda Post
  • Teacher: Romeo Marquis
  • Teacher: Deborah Donohue
• Social Studies Curriculum

  • Teacher: David Ng
  • Teacher: Julie Elkan
• 21st Century Teaching & Learning

  • Teacher: Julie Elkan
• Integrating Moodle into Your Teaching (Nov 10 - Feb 13)

  • Teacher: Deborah Donohue
  • Teacher: Romeo Marquis
• Maximizing Student Learning Styles in the Classroom: Differentiating Instruction

  • Instructor: Deborah Donohue

    

  
  

• Children's Literature in the Elementary Classroom
• Video tutorials for Moodle

  If your school is a member of Moodle Schools at The Learning Curve you can enroll yourself in this course site that includes Moodle tutorials.
  
• Thinking Skills and Engineering: An integrative perspective for the preK-5 grade curriculum.

  • Teacher: Gerry Brody
  • Teacher: Karen DeRusha
  • Teacher: Grace Magley
  • Teacher: Bill Wolfson

    

  Course Description:

  This professional development course will introduce PreK- 5 grade teachers to engineering and thinking skills (tools for engineering) in an interdisciplinary project based learning environment. The program uses the engineering design process, as defined in the Massachusetts Science Framework, as a connector between students’ literature and their mathematics and science curricula. It infuses the development of thinking strategies with creative and critical thinking, provocative questions and meta-cognitive reflection, skills that are part of the engineering process. This approach is based on the definition, “Engineering is about designing useful products & processes for society using all disciplines, but mainly science & mathematics”.

• Mr Leo's ESL for Adult Learners

  • Teacher: Leo Coleman

    

  Mr. Leo's English for Speakers of Other Languages class will stress writing and center around the Journal which is part of the Moodle course site.  I will correct your writing and base grammar work for you based on my analysis of your writing.  I have constructed a series of 23 mini-tests which will be helpful in this process.  The course comes as close to individualized instruction as I can make it.  Therefore enrollment must be restricted to no more than ten students.