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If you are not teaching fifth block, an exciting two week opportunity is available to you!

Teachers can register to be a facilitator at this year's second annual Tech Camp for AGATE students to be held at Boston. The dates are May 24th-28th and June 1st-4th, from 8:00-11:30. May 24th will be a planning session, with students arriving on the 25th. Then the first hour of each morning will be professional development/dialogue. From 9:00-11:30, teachers attending the camp will help facilitate a group of students from around the district, with approximately 20 students in each group. Each group will be supervised by a district technology coach or myself.

Teachers who complete the two weeks will receive 2 continuing education credits. Register here, http://www.aps.k12.co.us/instruct/pl/avatar.html . Then click on Login to Avatar.

June 9, 2009

Students Trade Eight Days of Summer for Tech Camp

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Students Trade Eight Days of Summer for Tech CampNearly 50 students are participating in the first APS Technology Camp held at Boston K-8 this summer. Tech Camp ‘09 is an eight-day program open to fourth through eighth-grade students throughout APS.

At Tech Camp, students learn to utilize a variety of Web-based technologies such as video editing and production tools, Podcasting and Vodcasting resources, and Blogs and Wikis. Students are using these tools to produce technology projects on one of four topics-food, energy, global warming and endangered species. They also use a private social networking Web site called “Ning” to share project information, ideas and opinions with each other. Final projects will range from interactive digital posters to photo stories to videos.

Students Trade Eight Days of Summer for Tech Camp“This camp is a great way to teach kids about technology and how to work together,” said Aurora Hills Middle School student Baohan.

Students are so excited about their learning experience that they are already asking about camp opportunities for next summer.

“I can’t decide what I like best; everything that I have learned is my favorite,” said Vassar Elementary School student Faven.

Tech Camp instructor Kim Duran is hoping to expand the program next year. “Education today relies so much on technology, and we look to these students as the future,” said Duran. “Before we can even finish what we are saying, they are on to the next thing. It’s quite amazing.”

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