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The Education group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) offers a wide range of community outreach programs that bring cutting-edge research and science curriculum to students, teachers and parents. SDSC provides support to both local and national entities that promote mathematics and science education for K-12, undergraduate, and graduate level students. The San Diego Supercomputer Center invites you to explore our site and see what exciting programs we offer to teachers and students. Upcoming TeacherTECH Workshops(Visit the TeacherTECH Home Page for registration details)
Beginning SMART™ Interactive White Board Training
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 - 5:00pm -7:00pm
This is a beginning workshop for teachers who are ;starting to use or who are interested in using a SMART™ Interactive Whiteboard. This workshop will introduce you to SMART™ Board hardware and software. You will learn how to create engaging interactive lessons to meet the needs of your students, as well as find lessons and templates that correlate to the standards. This workshop, appropriate for teachers of all grade levels, will give practical ways on how to keep students focused and engaged while learning key components of the curriculum.
Presented by Kelly Smith, The Nativity School
Google: Web Page Creator and Calendar
Thursday, October 23, 2008- 5:00pm -7:00pm
Organize, Update and Share With Google Page Creator and Google Calendar. With this you can create functional, attractive web pages in just minutes—without having to learn code. This session is for educators interested in creating a simple easy to use web site that can be easily published with a click of a mouse. This is a great tool for educators because Google will host your page for free.
Simplify and get organized with Google calendar. This calendar allows you to set up separate calendars for each of your classes and share each one with a designated group of students, parents or the entire community. You can use Google Calendar to share info about class topics and descriptions for each session; assignment deadlines; test and quiz dates; and field trips and other activities. You can also use calendars to organize your schedules with other teachers and administrators.
Presented by Nicci Krey, Innovation Middle School
Moodle II: Intermediate Moodle for Educators
Wednesdays, October 29, November 5, November 12 and November 19, 2008 - 5:00pm -7:00pm
Participants should be familiar with the basics of Moodle, including how to add activities and files, and how to navigate a Moodle course. This course will teach you strategies on how to implement online collaboration and interaction in Moodle. Covered in this course will be glossaries and online assignments, online discussion and collaboration, data driven decision making, construction of online self-graded quizzes and collection of data to help drive your instruction.
Presented by Mike Senise, San Diego Unified School District
Course fee: $45.00
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Intermediate SMART™ Interactive White Board Training
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 5:00pm -7:00pm
This two-day SMART™ workshop will be lead by a SMART™ exemplary educator and is intended for teachers who want to master the fundamentals of the SMART™ Notebook software. By the end of the two days you will have learned how to incorporate SMART™ notebook and ideas into you existing curriculum while having the time to prepare lessons and or a unit to be used in your classroom.
Presented by Kelly Smith, The Nativity School
TeacherTECH on the Road Technology Tools Web Workshops 
TeacherTECH on the Road in collaboration with ReadyTalk™ will begin providing a web seminar of each of our popular technology tools workshops held at SDSC. Unable to join us in person? No problem! Join us from the comfort of your home or school computer. All you need is a phone and an internet connection and you will be able to hear the workshop presenter and see the presenter’s computer screen as you are guided step by step in learning each new software we present.
Past Events and WorkshopsCyberinfrastructure Internship Experiences for Graduate Students
April 23-27, 2007
This was a very successful workshop for 16 graduate students from all over the U.S. View the workshop schedule Monday, November 5, 2007 Introduction to MPI/So.Cal AAP workshop
This class covered introductory topics of parallel computing, parallel programming and specifically introductory MPI programming. View Workshop Overview SuperComputing 2007 Conference Education Program The SC07 Education Program occurred November 10-13, 2007 in Reno, Nevada. Participants engaged in hands-on activities to support them in applying computational science, grid computing and high performance computing resources in education. Water Conservation: A Timely Topic for the Classroom
Saturday, January 12, 2008, SDSC Introduction to iPhoto for Educators: A Great Tool for the Classroom
January 22, 2008, SDSC
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