Cattaraugus Allegany Professional Development Courses

In my efforts to make quality professional development opportunities more widely available to our teachers, I signed up for Alan November's "Teaching Zack To Think" technology course. I'm taking it now, and I'm very impressed with the quality. If you take this course, the Teacher Center will pay for it. I'm hoping that local administrators allow teachers to earn in-service credit of some type for taking the course. This is very good quality and could easily count toward a teacher's 175 hour requirement.

From the November Learning website:
The Teaching Zack to Think course is designed to prepare educators to be webliterate and fully fluent in the Grammar of the Internet. Written in partnership with UK and US educators, this course introduces a full range of skills including search techniques and advanced cross referencing of web sites for critical thinking.
What can I expect?
The course is composed of Modules and Lessons. Each lesson introduces a new concept, provides step-by-step instructions, activities and assessment. Many activities are suitable for immediate use in the classroom with students of all ages.

Whether relatively new to the Internet or an advanced user, the course offers a range of Internet teaching materials designed to help educators stay current and informed about information literacy skills and issues.
Hosted by November Learning and powered by MOODLE, Teaching Zack is under constant development and is updated as new tools and techniques become available.

Is this a new government program or what?

Are you good at helping your
students understand good sources from
not-so-good ones? This important
skill (along with many others) is taught
as part of the course.
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May I preview course materials?
Visit the November Learning site at www.novemberlearning.com. Here you will be able to listen to a Video Introduction from Alan and click the link How do I get started? This link will provide you with an orientation and a look at the Table of Contents. Sample lessons will be ready for viewing soon.

Remember: Your buddies at the Teacher Center are picking up the tab. This is a very high quality course that is worthy of your professional development time.

How do I sign up?

STOP!!

Do not sign up until you email your request to the Teacher Center first. We can't guarantee any stipend if you don't sign up first.

Step 1
Go to http://nlcourses.com

Step 2
Click Create new account in the Login box.

Step 3 Enter your desired username and password in the Login and New User Account form. If the username you choose has already been taken the system will prompt you to try another.

Step 4 Click Login

Step 5 Fill out the New User Form and click the Update Profile button.

Step 6 On the homepage of the course, click the course title Webliteracy for Educators.

Step 7
You will be asked to enter an enrollment key. The key is cateach08 (cateach zero 8).

(The key is one word and case sensitive)

You are now registered and enrolled. If you need help, contact christine@anovember.com.