For more information: http://www.urbanschool.org/cit
Of particular interest - note the 3-day Integrated Technology Symposium for School Leaders: Digital Tools & Practices to Enhance Learning Across the Curriculum - designed specifically for school leaders (Principals, heads of school, division leaders, curriculum leaders). The Symposium will highlight visionary practices to help leaders vision for a future of a technology-rich school designed to support, enhance and extend the learning experience. The 2008 Symposium FILLED last year with attendees
from over 20 states.
Please forward this on to your colleagues. These sessions will likely fill in the next several weeks and I wanted you all to be the first to have a crack at the available spots.
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Integrated Tech Symposium: Technology Rich Learning Across the Curriculum
Monday â€" Wednesday, August 3 - 5, 2009, with optional add-on, August 6th
9:00 a.m. â€" 3:30 p.m.
Full Description at: http://www.urbanschool.org/techsymposium
Overview: Spend three full days exploring models for designing, constructing and implementing technology-rich learning environments across the curriculum. Building off The Urban School's reputation as a national leader in seamlessly integrating digital tools and practices, this symposium delves into various transformative implementations, both school-wide and in all key secondary school department areas (math, science, history, language, arts, English). Presentations and hands-on workshops will
emphasize strategies and techniques to enhance and extend student learning via increased collaboration, organization, information access, varied production and assessment.

Facilitated by:Â [ https://www.urbanschool.org/page.cfm?p=177#Levin ]Howard Levin, Director of Technology, The Urban School, ISTE Board Member, with presenters from all academic areas.
Cost: $600 (optional add-on day +$200 + discounts available)
Optional Add-on Workshop: Moving to 1:1 â€" Visioning Laptops in Your School
Thursday, August 6 2009
9:00 a.m. â€" 3:30 p.m.
Overview: This optional fourth day invites a subset of Tech Symposium attendees to spend additional time more fully exploring the potentialities of implementing a 1:1 laptop program. What are the key questions that need to be asked in the exploration phase? Who are important constituents to bring into the process? What are the associated costs and benefits? What infrastructure is necessary to support a laptop program? What are options to fully support student and teacher technical needs? How does
a Faculty develop digital practices in a coherent and manageable fashion? What have we learned along the way and what missteps can you avoid? The presenters will lead a combination of presentations, group discussions and targeted workshop planning time. The bulk of the day will be devoted to an open consultancy model where attendees will have time to begin their own planning process with constant access to expert advice.
Full Description at: http://www.urbanschool.org/techsymposium
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Telling Their Stories: Producing Web-Based Digital Video Interviews
Monday â€" Friday, July 27-31, 2009 (5-days)
9:00 a.m. â€" 3:30 p.m.
Full Description at: http://www.tellingstories.org/workshop
Instructor: [ https://www.urbanschool.org/page.cfm?p=177#Levin ]Howard Levin, Director of Technology, The Urban School of San Francisco, ISTE Board Member

Cost: $650
Overview: This hands-on workshop explores the production and web publishing of digital video interviews. The publishing of student-conducted interviews has efficacy far beyond oral history. Consider the benefits of interviews with local authors, scientists, mathematicians, community leaders, artists and musicians. Using The Urban School's award-winning projectâ€"Telling Their Stories: Oral History Archives Projectâ€"as an example, participants will learn and practice production techniques,
including interview preparation, creating and using a mobile studio, and post-production leading to a public website, complete with digital video and full transcription. See [ http://www.tellingstories.org/ ]www.tellingstories.org for examples. Participants in small groups will conduct interviews at the home of local elders drawn from the current topics of Holocaust survivors, camp liberators and Japanese-American relocation camp internees. Participants will complete all stages of production,
from preparation to interview to publication.
Full Description at: http://www.tellingstories.org/workshop
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Howard Levin
Director of Technology
aka - "Director of Digital Tools and Practices that Support,
Enhance, and Extend the Teaching and Learning Process"
The Urban School of San Francisco
415-593-9525
hlevin@urbanschool.org
www.howardlevin.com
Apple Distinguished Educator - Apple Distinguished School
Board of Directors - International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
Telling Their Stories: Oral History Archives Project
www.tellingstories.org
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