Professional Development

By Instructional Technology Staff • March 22nd, 2012

This summer IT Services will offer a variety of technology professional development opportunities for teachers of all grade levels.  In addition to GRITC, our two day summer technology conference, we’ll be offering the following training sessions:
Introduction to iPads in the Classroom
K-12 Teachers and Administrators will be introduced to iPads, their basic functions, and discussion of [...]

Registration is now open for the 3rd annual Gulf Regional Instructional Technology Conference (GRITC) on July 26 & 27 at Robertsdale Elementary School. This conference brings state and local presenters to Baldwin County teachers and administrators to provide professional development on a variety of technology integration topics.
Conference sessions include innovative technology integration ideas and content [...]

The popular and FREE gallery360 – ALEX’s podcast treasury is NOW available on iTunes U for teachers and students.
The Gallery 360 podcast collection includes video and audio podcasts produced by teachers and students from across the state.  For example, Fairhope High students teach about Newton’s 2nd Law, Types of Friction, and Forces.  Their Tune in [...]

One of the main ideas we have been working on here in IT Services is how can we do more training that fits the time schedule of our customers (teachers)? We still use the face to face method as well as online classes and virtual meetings.  These all work great but they don’t hit everyone we need [...]

Registration for the fall online PD coursese is now open.  The sessions being offered are:
Session 1 – Begins Sept 15

Creating a Class Website with School Insites – IT-TEA-129
United Streaming – IT-TEA-128
Promethean Basics- IT-TEA-144
SMARTboard Basics – IT-TEA-142
Using Moodle 1 – IT-TEA-130
Using Moodle 2 – IT-TEA-136
Using Moodle 3 – IT-TEA-137
Graphic Organizers – IT-TEA-140

Session 2 – Begins Oct [...]

In addition to the summer conference (GRITC), we’ve also schedule a variety of other technology training sessions this summer. Registration for these summer sessions is handled through SARIC.  The 2010 SARIC catologues should have been delivered to your school this week.
2010 Summer Technology PD

Creating a Class Website with School Insites
United Streaming
Smartboard Basics [...]

A Moodle work session has been scheduled at IT Services to help teachers prepare their Moodle courses for the new school year.  During this session, you’ll work on your existing Moodle course to clear out old student data and get your course ready to be used with your new students.  We’ll also have a variety [...]

It’s almost that time of year again. The Gulf Regional Instructional Technology Conference is right around the corner. Last year was a wonderful success and thanks to some returning presenters and a few new ones we are looking forward to great conference again this year.  One of those new presenters this year is Katie Nettles.
At GRITC this summer [...]

You many not know it yet, but all Baldwin County teachers have an iSAFE account to help them teach digital citizenship. In the fall of this school year IT Services trained the School Technology Mentors on how to share this resource with their teachers. During the course of this year the STMs have been doing just that. [...]

As a person who presents a lot of professional develop and attends a lot as well, I know the value of having information that is spot on for what you need when you need it. Sometimes a three hour session on a topic is required to fully understand the concepts presented. Then again sometimes it’s [...]