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September 2010– June 2011

Queens Office of

Educational Technology

82-01 Rockaway Boulevard

Ozone Park, NY 11416

Contact:

Winnie Bracco Technology Innovation Manager

Wbracco@schools.nyc.gov

NEW YORK CITY

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCAT ION

Joel I. Klein, Chancellor

The Office of Educational Technology

Diane Kay Community Superintendent CSD 25

Dr. Philip Composto Community Superintendent CSD 30

Title IID “Enhancing Education

Through Technology” EETT Grant

“Voices In History” Program

2010 - 2011

Online Sessions Limited size and pre-approval required.

October — Blogging in Your Classroom November — Online Environments for Education December — Graphic Novels January — Digital Movie Making I March — Digital Movie Making II May — Finalizing and Publishing Student Projects June — Share Fair / Festival

Face-to-Face Sessions Saturday sessions from 9am—3pm. Training Rate will be paid. 10/30/10 — Blogging for 24:7 Communication 11/6/10 — Online Environments for Education 12/4/10 — Graphic Novels 01/29/11 — Digital Movie Making I 03/19/11 — Digital Movie Making II 05/21/11 — Digital Movie Making III 06/11/11 — Share Fair / Festival

All Participants Will Attend 2 hour Orientation on 9/21 or 9/22 from 4 pm—6 pm

4 days of Project Based Learning workshops on 9/28 & 9/29 and 11/2 & 11/3

Participants will choose to attend Face-to-Face or Online technology integration workshops.

Blogging for 24:7 Communication

Online Environments for Education

Graphic Novels for Writing Instruction

Digital Movie Making

Title IID

Voices In History Professional Development Program

in Project-Based Learning and Technology Integration into the Classroom

This program is designed to blend project based learning and technology into the classroom to empower students to use innovative tools to demonstrate their understanding of social studies and history while increasing student achieve-ment in English Language Arts.

Voices in History (VIH) - is an intensive profes-

sional development program that focuses on improv-

ing student achievement in ELA by integrating tech-

nology into the Social Studies curriculum. VIH serves

the goals of the Enhancing Education Through Tech-

nology theme, ―Technology Infusion into Instruction

through Professional Development,‖ by empowering

educators to engage students in interdisciplinary pro-

jects that develop writing, critical thinking, and prob-

lem solving skills. The VIH program aims to train

teachers to use technology as both an instructional

tool for the Social Studies curriculum and

as a way to reinforce fundamental ELA

skills.

Twenty New York City public and eight non-

public schools within Community School Districts 25

and 30 will be participating. These schools have been

identified as SINI, SRAP or Corrective Action.

Dist 25

IS185, IS189, IS237, John Bowne HS, and Flushing HS

Dist 30

IS10, PS76, PS92, PS111, PS112, PS127, PS151, IS126, IS141,

IS145, IS204, IS230, William Cullen Bryant HS, Long Island

City HS and Newcomers HS

Non-Public Schools

St. Mel, St. Kevin School, Muslim Center Elementary

School, Shevach HS, El –Ber Islamic School, St. Francis of

Assisi School, Queens Lutheran School,

VOICES IN HISTORY

Goal

The ultimate goal of the VIH Program is to improve

academic performance in ELA by enhancing teachers’

abilities to effectively infuse technology into their

Social Studies instruction. Throughout the three-year

cycle, participants and school Inquiry Teams will

identify and target English Language Learners for

whom traditional instruction has failed. Teachers will

develop strategies to address the specific needs of

these students in order to fill instructional gaps and

carefully monitor the results of each strategy. For

each consecutive year of the program, it is proposed

that 80% of target students will achieve at least one

year of growth on their scale score of the NYS ELA

exam.

Technology Infusion

Students will conduct research by reading literature,

historical fiction, biographies and use primary sources

around selected topics. Through the use of technol-

ogy students will incorporate their non-fiction writing

into multimedia presentations using graphics, audio

files and video. Culminating projects will be collected

in e-portfolios with student reflections of the project-

based learning process and their understand-

ing of the specific content.

Support

Teachers and school leaders will receive on-going

professional development — face-to-face and online

and in-school mentoring support. Workshops will

take place throughout the year to allow for teacher

experimentation and online collaboration using re-

cently learned content between sessions.

receive professional development using multi-

media tools to create lessons and videos that

are aligned to the NYS Social Studies and Eng-

lish Language Arts standards. In addition, the

lessons will align to the National Educational

Technology Standards for teachers and stu-

dents and the Professional Teaching Standards

develop and strengthen their collaboration

with other Social Studies teachers while inte-

grating technology into instruction to advance

ELA skills

incorporate the project-based learning process

within their content area and use technology

to enhance research and writing skills

Utilize a blog and wikispace as a professional

learning community.

create non-fiction graphic novels, slide shows

based on history and multimedia videos based

on social studies .

collaborate within ARIS Connect and use a

variety of virtual community tools, such as

email, blogs, wikis, the web portal and synchro-

nous communications

and more.