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>>> Ivan Douthwright <[log in to unmask]> 10/19/2006 12:19 PM >>> >>> Education Institute <[log in to unmask]> 10/19/2006 11:40 AM >>> ON-LINE COURSE....Back by popular demand!!! " Web Activities to Spark Literacy and Learning in Schools" with Carol Koechlin ________________________ Focus on the design of Web literacy and learning experiences that support curriculum from Kindergarten to Grade 8. See outstanding Web sites that support curriculum and provide you with ready-made Web-based activities. Learn how to decide whether what you see is what you need. Here are expert ways to evaluate their usefulness. You will have opportunities to apply the elements of good design to your own curriculum objectives as you review and evaluate these existing Web-based activities. Our goal is to engage students in sound curriculum activities where they build understanding while thinking critically and creatively. When Begins Monday, Oct. 30th, 2006 6 week on-line course REGISTER AT www.THEPARTNERSHIP.CA and scroll down to the 'Education Institute' The Benefits You will become familiar with sites that help build student reading skills and support curriculum content for K-8 students. You will understand various types of Web-based learning activities and learn how to separate the good from the not-so-good. You will gain strategies to tackle plagiarism as we explore the criteria for designing engaging and effective Web-related student activities. Who Should Participate? Teachers and teacher-librarians serving the K-8 grades, computer teachers, information literacy consultants, and key literacy teachers and coordinators will find the content of this course relevant and timely. Key Topics You Will Explore * Strategies that develop Web literacy * Web resources to promote independent reading * Exploration of curriculum-based learning activities on the Web * Evaluation of activities in respect to personal curriculum need * Design of Web-related learning activities to achieve higher order thinking Method of Instruction OEach week, you'll receive an e-mail with the lesson for that week, plus practice exercises that will help you work through the week's sources and reinforce your learning. A Web-based bulletin board will enable you and other participants to ask questions of the instructor and to provide on-line feedback about problems incurred. The course will include a teleconference call with you and your fellow participants, hosted by the instructor, to give advice and clarify the learning experience. Fees Member: $149.00 + GST Non-Member: $194.00 + GST REGISTER AT www.thepartnership.ca. Scroll to Education Institute and click on this course! About the instructor..... Carol Koechlin recently retired as an Instructional Leader for the Toronto District School Board. Carol has co-authored (with Sandi Zwaan) five bestselling internationally recognized books on the teaching of information literacy, and has written many articles for professional journals. She continues to consult in the fields of information literacy and school librarianship, and is a popular conference presenter and workshop leader wherever she appears. Developed for the Education Institute by the Ontario School Library Association. ____________________________________________________________ The Education Institute, brought to you by The Partnerrship The learning programs of the LAA-APLA-BCLA-MLA-NLLA-NSLA-NWTLA-OLA-ABQLA-SLA Partnership http://www.thepartnership.ca If you have questions please contact the appropriate Association or Meredith Gilbert for the Partnership and the Education Institute at the Ontario Library Association at [log in to unmask] Professional development of librarians and information professionals _____________________________________________________________ Atlantic Baptist University Website: www.abu.nb.ca Atlantic Baptist University Website: WWW.abu.nb.ca