Professional Development Opportunities sponsored by UVM/VI
Partnership
Professional
Development Opportunities
Online
Courses Six online courses in
educational technology will be offered through The University of
Vermont's College of
Education & Social Services. Courses align with Vermont State
Educational
Technology
Specialist
endorsement
criteria. For application information, see the Vermont Department of Education Educational Technology website.
Vermont Institutes (VI)
Training & Support Services VI offers a number of support services
and training opportunities for
schools. See this link for a brief list.
For more information, contact pdrescher@vermontinstitutes.org.
Web-Based
Resources
We will continue to add links to
resources that provide the most
useful and up-to-date information related to educational technology
that we can
identify. Lots of FREE tutorials & downloadable open-source
software
can be found from our "Free Tools"
page.
TechConnect
I - April
2005
The first in a series of offerings provided by the
University of Vermont & Vermont Institutes partnership for
professional development, TechConnect I was a FREE 3-hour
mini-conference designed for teachers, technology
coordinators,
administrators and other employees of Title II-D grant-recipient
schools. Held
April 6 (Lyndonville) & April
13 (Dummerston),
2005 from 2:00 - 5:00
p.m., attendees chose from a series of
one-hour sessions that
focused on technology integration resources and strategies.
ILN
Sessions
Vermont's Interactive Learning
Network (VILN) has been used for
occasional meetings. For example, see January
24, 2005 @
3:30 - 5:00 p.m., Introductory Meeting
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on schoolhouse for
minutes from that session.