Camp Plug and Play 5.0: Be Active with Your Whiteboard

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Camp Plug & Play 5.0 offers a world-class professional development experience where participants dive into one of five topics for the week. Strands offered in July are: Be Active with Your Whiteboard, Enhance Writing through Digital Storytelling, Fantastic Films with iMovie ’09, Get Going with Google, and Visuals, Photography & Design. Each strand is taught by knowledgeable and patient trainers who have a strong passion for empowering teachers and students with technology.

Registration includes your own room Monday until Friday and delicious breakfasts, lunches and breaks at the Westward Look Resort. Most importantly, you receive practical instruction and lots of hands-on time so that you leave with new knowledge, skills, and confidence to use what you’ve learned in your classroom.

The week kicks off Monday afternoon with an opening presentation from Dean Shareski, Digital Learning Consultant for Prairie South School Division in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. Much of Dean's work with teachers and students is documented on his blog, ideasandthoughts.org. After the keynote, participants meet in their learning strands where they will spend the rest of the week learning, playing, and creating. In addition to direct instruction and work time, Camp Plug & Play offers evening breakout sessions about popular topics like productivity and iPods. Another evening session is Pecha Kucha. Campers are invited to make presentations consisting of exactly 20 slides which are shown on the screen for exactly 20 seconds each. Those that present these fast-paced speeches are entered to win terrific prizes.

To make sure the technology works smoothly, the Arizona K12 Center provides a MacBook for each participant to use during the day. Although you might not be a Macintosh user, what you learn at camp will certainly be applicable to computers running Windows. Watch for email from the Arizona K12 Center in the weeks leading up to Camp Plug & Play for information about the camp's online social network, your learning strand, Pecha Kucha, and breakout sessions.

Camp Plug & Play is a great way to spend some of your summer! This is your opportunity to join a group of Arizona educators who, like you, are passionate about engaging today's students in their learning.

Be Active with Your Whiteboard

Want to get more out of your Promethean ActivBoard? Are you ready to key into your students' learning styles and add pizzazz to your instruction? Your ActivBoard can be more than a modern-day overhead projector. It can play an important role in engaging your students and meeting their learning needs. Learn about tools, techniques, and activities for making your ActivBoard truly interactive and your lessons more engaging. Be Active with Your Whiteboard features practical classroom applications and instructors who use interactive whiteboards everyday.

Participants will work with software like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on interactive whiteboards. Particular attention is given to the effective use of PowerPoint as a presentation tool. In addition to common software, participants will discover websites that are terrific for use with interactive whiteboards, including the zooming presentation editor and viewer at Prezi.com. Plenty of time is reserved for learning about and using ActivInspire software, and even more time is dedicated to working on activities and flipcharts to be used during the upcoming school year. Be prepared to leave with dozens of curriculum integration ideas.

In Be Active with Your Whiteboard you will:

•    Effectively use PowerPoint with an ActivBoard.
•    Create non-linear presentations using the free Prezi.com website.
•    Understand the basic and advanced features of ActivInspire software.
•    Record video of a whiteboard for later playback.
•    Find pre-made lesson activities and templates.
•    Learn about the best resources for interactive whiteboard-using educators.
•    Take time to build, collaborate, and share lessons.

Note: Please bring materials for three lessons for which you would like to create interactive lessons. Participants receive a flash drive to save their files. ActivInspire software also works with the SMART brand of interactive whiteboards.

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