_Spend 2.5 hours with us to explore apps that will engage your students to be more independent as well as collaborative learners.  A variety of learning activities will be shared using Bloom's Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation categories. These apps will truly begin to transform learning for you and your students.

Date:           Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Time:           4:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Place:           Cherry Creek Schools' Student Achievement Resource Center
                   14188 East Briarwood ave, Centennial, Colorado 80112
Fee:             $20
Prerequisite: Basic operational skills in using an iPad.
50 Ways to Love your iPad recommended but not required.

Upon completion of this course, participants will receive a Colorado State Relicensure Certificate for 2.5 hours.


Register here.

We are happy to announce our new online class, SMART Response Basics, in our Get SMART Series. In this 5 hour online class, you will learn how to set up your class with the SMART Response System. You will also learn how to design Instant, Embedded, and Question Sets.  Create engaging formative and summative assessments for your students!

Colorado State Re-certification credit for 5 clock hours is included.
$30 Registration Fee

_Spend 2.5 hours with us and your iPad to learn 50 very helpful and fun tips to make the most of using your iPad.  Become familiar with the many cool features of the iPad that can be customized to make this a truly personal device.   You will learn about organizing apps, finger gestures, keyboard shortcuts, Safari tips and many, many more.  After this class you will REALLY love your iPad!
Participants must bring a fully charged iPad with updated version iOS 5.
Date:  Monday, March 5, 2012
Time:  4:30 - 7:00
Place:  Cherry Creek's Student Achievement Resource Center
14188 East Briarwood Avenue, Centennial, Colorado 80111

Colorado State Re-certification credit for 2.5 clock hours is included.
$20 Registration Fee

_Evernote is an easy-to-use app that helps you remember everything across all of the devices you use.  It lets you take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders--and makes these notes completely searchable, whether you are at home, at work, or on the go. Great for adults and students!  Add it to all your devices. This App is free.

This thought-provoking article, Shifting the Classroom, One Step at a Time, offers ideas to create an inquiry classroom using small steps.  It also suggests resources to support your mindshift and technology ideas to engage you and your students! It's all about knowing how to get started!

There is a variety of research that supports creating brain-compatible learning environments.  One of our favorite resources is John Medina's book, Brain Rules, that offers 12 rules to consider. These are applicable for our personal lives and learning in the classroom.  Try a few with your students!

Collaborize is an online format to have discussions, facilitate online learning groups, and provide students with space to engage in collaborative learning. Questions can be posted easily including multiple choices, yes/no, and vote or suggest. Collaborize has great teacher features including a library to share and receive ideas for discussions.  We really like the fact that students can become a member without an email address and login with a user name.

This activity supports NETS Standard 2- Communication and Collaboration
     Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information_

_ Join our next SMART Camp designed for educators who have completed a Level One Basics Notebook or Response Class or have equivalent experience.

When:      Saturday, January 14th:  8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Where:     Cherry Creek Schools' Student Achievement
Resource Center, 14188 East Briarwood Avenue, Centennial, Colorado 80111
Cost: $50  

Colorado State Re-certification credit for 7.5 clock hours is included.
Registration Open Now
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Need credit while exploring free Web 2.0 applications and ideas?  Join our
Take on the Challenge ONLINE Class! 
This class begins January 10th.
Cost: $90
Colorado State Re-certification credit for 15 clock hours is included.

_Listen to these 2 episodes,  Part 1 and Part 2, as Alan November speaks to Eric Marcos, a middle school teacher in Santa Monica, CA. Eric explains how one individual screencast tutorial made to help a student with homework blossomed into a robust tutorial site called MathTrain TV. Through this site, students have been empowered to create math tutorials for students.  This is a great idea for any classroom to support summarizing the learning. The power is the voice of the students as they provide follow-up and reinforcement to support their peers.

(This podcast may also be accessed through iTunes - November Learning Podcast Series).

As we have had wonderful opportunities working with so many of you this past year, we are giving back to kids!  We are donating iPads to kids at Brent's Place which is located near the Children's Hospital at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Denver, Colorado.  It is a place for kids to stay with their families while they are being treated for life threatening cancer which often includes a bone marrow transplant.  Its program and facility was created by the Brent Eley Foundation to bridge the gap between the hospital and going home.
We invite you to join in our effort to create a community of support for the kids and their families.  We will keep you posted on our kids' progress!_