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Coach Mentoring

Are you aware that the SRI & ETTC offers coach mentoring?  That is correct, you can use your ETTC hours for a personal learning experience in a one-to -one setting, either in your district or at one of our locations. Teachers and office professionals can request this service. Simply tell us what skills you are seeking and we will select the best mentor to assist you from our retired educators and experienced classroom teachers and trainers.  Topics, content, pace, and scheduling are at the mutual conveience of the participant, the mentor, their organization/school and the ETTC.

Learn more about the Common Core

Learn more about the Common Core - from faculty at Stanford University - for free!  Have you ever wanted to try a MOOC?  Here's your chance to try this Professional Development delivery model that has been written about, talked about, and made available across the world.    https://novoed.com/common-core . If you do register and complete this online course, please share your experiences with us!

Seven Free Tools for the Creation of Podcasts

If  you are going to create with your class by podcasting, we propose some free tools to achieve them.  Podcast are important resources in teaching, learning and displaying mastery of content. Podcasts are very useful tools for children with specific learning disorders. Here we provide a list of seven programs, to create and distribute podcasts. Audacity       ------------- MP3 Encoder: LAME  Once you create your podcast in audacity, you need to convert it to MP3 format before you upload it to the internet. Converting your audio to MP3 makes the file size smaller and easier for others to download and listen to. LAME is a program that works with Audacity to convert your audio to MP3. You can download LAME here . -------------- MP3myMP3   -------------- Podbean    -------------- Podomatic -------------- Odigo   --------------- Yodio  Record audio from...

How much is 1 Gigabyte?

by chatsky . Explore more infographics like this one on the web's largest information design community - Visually .

Bring images to life with Thinglink

So many wonderful projects are being made recently using Thinglink.  It is time to showcase some of them here for you.  Perhaps they will spark a creation of your own! They are embeddable and so much fun for students and teachers alike to work on. We appreciate the ability to integrate formal writing and opportunities for further engagement with images and links that are revealed through mouseovers. Kelsey Vroomunn uses Thinglink in her High School AP European History and French Language Classes and her blog post " Using Thinglink to prepare for the AP Cultural Comparison " exhibits some student samples.

Online Workshops Available at the SRI & ETTC!

Check out our online workshops and learn from the comfort of your home or classroom. At this time, we have five offerings with very competitive pricing. Online Workshops Child Abuse/Child Neglect Copyright and Fair Use in the Classroom Web-based Workshop iMovie for the Classroom, Web-based Workshop Windows Movie Maker, Online Course