CTAP 3 Summer Professional Development

Join us for a summer full of new learning around web-based tools and technologies!

Google Tools for Teachers

June 21-22, 2012

8:30 am - 4:00 pm

Cost: $199 - Register by June 7

You will receive a detailed overview of the free, online Google tools that you and your students can use to communicate, collaborate, and create exciting online projects. Google apps to cover include, but are not limited, to Google Docs, Advanced Google search, Picasa, iGoogle, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Google Maps, and Google Sites.

Can You Haiku? Creating Your Own Online Class

June 25-26, 2012

8:30 am - 4:00 pm

Cost: $159 - Register by June June 11

Learn how to use Haiku, a learning management system, to take your traditional classes online. In this two-day workshop, we will use sound online pedagogy and Haiku to create a class to deliver your content online. Features covered include creating assignments, assessments, wikiprojects, discussions, embedding web applications, and setting up a gradebook.

Meeting the 4C’s with Social Media

June 28-29, 2012

8:30 am - 4:00 pm

Cost: $149 - Register by June 14

You will examine the role of social media in the lives of students and how it can be used to meet the 4C’s in 21st century learning: communicate, collaborate, critical thinking, and create. You will learn to use Web 2.0 tools such blogs, Twitter, wikis, social bookmarking, YouTube, Facebook, and more for creating and exchanging teacher and student created content in a practical and safe manner. (Image is from http://barbarabray.net/tag/21st-century-skills/)

The Flipped Classroom: Transforming How Kids Learn

July 30-31, 2012

8:30 am - 4:00 pm

Cost: $199 - Register by July 16

In this two-day workshop, you will develop the skills needed to flip your classroom. The “flipped classroom” inverts traditional teaching methods, delivering instruction outside the class via teacher created videos and moving the “homework” into the classroom. We will examine the conceptual framework for the flipped classroom, strategies used for instituting flipped classrooms across multiple disciplines, and hands-on experience with screencasting and media production tools that allow you to create your own content. Includes ISTE book: Flip Your Classroom: Talk to Every Student in Every Class (Image is from http://mathfour.com/general/the-flipped-classroom-getting-back-to-traditional-education)

Moodle Me This . . . Take Your Class Online

August 6-7, 2012

8:30 am - 4:00 pm

Cost: $299 - Register by July 23

Take your classroom online with the popular open-source
learning management system, Moodle! You will receive your
own hosted Moodle course to create and customize using the various tools available in Moodle. We will examine online pedagogy and strategies for taking your traditional classroom
and delivering it in an interactive, online environment.

Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are available through CSU Chico at a cost of $60 per unit. Each workshop is 1 unit.

Registration is not complete until payment has been received at CTAP. Minimum number of participants to avoid cancellation is 12.

Questions? Contact Kim Harrison at (916) 228-2337 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it