Professional Development

Workshops

Digital Electronics -- Integrating Robotics into Your Classroom!

  • November 1, 15, 29, 2006 3:45-6:45 p.m.
  • Digital Electronics Lab: room 270
  • Bill Kleitz, facilitator

The topics covered will include:

  • Digital Electronics review for Concurrent Enrollment
  • Integrating the Parallax BOE-BOT robot into the curriculum to instill interest in digital electronics.
  • Assembling the robot.
  • Writing BASIC-Stamp software to perform visual and navigational tasks.

You can obtain the BOE-BOT robot and materials. (you will be leaving the TC3 website, therefore we cannot guarantee accessibility of these pages).

Skills Tutor

  • March 1, 2006 3:30-5:30 p.m.
  • TC3 College Teaching Center, Room 281A
  • Bob Yavits, facilitator

Tech Prep is happy to offer a new hands-on workshop in using SkillsTutor, a comprehensive online tool to assist teachers in diagnosing and remediating students' basic skills in reading, writing, math, and workfoce readiness. Tech Prep will provide you SkillsTutor to use with all of your classes. This is great practice for your students who are planning to take a college placement test who may need some extra preparation, and it is absoluitely free of charge!

College Success

  • March 22 and March 29, 2006 3:45-6:45 p.m.
  • Rick Grossman and Linda Bruno, facilitators

The series will prepare teachers and counselors to teach TC3's College Success course (ACAD 100 or 150) for Concurrent Enrollment. The first workshop in the series is designed for first time participants in the training; the second will provide an opportunity for those new and familiar with teaching the Concurrent Enrollment course to work together.

Intermediate Video Production

  • March 30 and April 6, 2006 3:45-6:45 p.m.
  • Don Bazley, facilitator

This workshop is best for those with some experience in video production.

Audio Production

  • May 10, 2006 3:45-6:45 p.m.
  • Don Perkins, facilitator

This workshop series is designed to improve the audio production and editing skills of those teaching video or radio production.

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