A Chance to Share the IMYM Model in Your Classroom

Subject: A Chance to Share the IMYM Model in Your Classroom with Your Colleagues as a ManACE Presenter for SAG 2003!!

Hi IMYM teachers,

Are you interested in sharing your experience as an IMYM teacher? Then consider hosting a workshop at next year's SAG day on October 24!

There are many teachers who are already using technology in computer labs who would like to experience what it is like to bring computers into their classrooms.
* They want to hear about your experience in organizing learning centres and collaborative learning with your students.
* They want to spend some time in your classroom to see how you have set it up and how you schedule your learning centres both with and without computers.
* They want to hear about your grouping strategies and how you teach your students to work not only individually but as part of a group.
* They want to ask you about your assessment practices and how you evaluate different aspects of one process or product in more than one subject area.
* They want to know if you work alone or if you team with another teacher and what the benefits and challenges are when you plan together.

There is so much of your teaching practice that you can share with other Manitoba teachers! Please consider offering to host a SAG session on the IMYM model. I will help you organize this session and can provide you with materials to use in the session and to give to your participants. I will also create an IMYM SAG website that you can use during your session and that your particpants can continue to use after the day of the session.

On top of this, ManACE will pay you an honorarium of $125.00. You can also involve your teaching partner or another colleague as a co-facilitator and they will receive $75.00 (see information below).

Your session will take place in your classroom, and we are looking for classrooms all over Manitoba. This is a perfect opportunity to give back to the education community and to mentor other teachers. In fact, you will learn a lot from your participants as well!

Please give this idea your serious consideration and contact both me and ManACE if you are interested.

Hi ManACE members,

This is our initial call for presenters for the ManACE SAG 2003 - Friday, October 24.

We need people that have good technology skills (or at least in one area) and that you know would do a great job as a SAG presenters.

Many teachers in Manitoba are doing exciting work with technology in their classrooms. Now is your chance to share some of your expertise with your colleagues!

Our ManACE technology workshops have been very successful in the past mostly because educators like you are willing to give their time and share their knowledge with others.

Key Ideas
* Workshops are full day (or 2 half day sessions in the same location - registered as one unit)
* Presenters usually book and use their own labs (the school gets a coupon for admission to a ManACE workshop)
* We would like workshops in various Manitoba locations!!
* Presenters receive an honorarium of $125 (co-facilitators get $75. Hopefully they are being groomed as future presenters)
* A small amount is provided for materials and snacks

Workshops that ran last year (Winnipeg, Swan Valley, Ste Anne, St Norbert, Elm Creek, Virden):
* Flash for Beginners (3 sections)
* Easy Video with iMac, iDVD, and iMovie
* Mid-Term Report Migraines Eased with Access
* Creating a Digital Artifact Box
* What's a Mouse and Why Should I Click It?
* A Digital Camera? What Can I Do With It?
* Get Inspired With Inspiration 6 (2 sessions)
* Photoshop 6.0 - The Basics (2 sections)
* Word 97
* Hyperstudio 4
* PDA's in the Classroom
* How to Get the Most Out of Outlook Express
* Technical Music Production
* Grassroots Projects - Sorting the New Criteria
* Intro to FrontPage 2000 (2 sessions)
* FrontPage Forms and Database Connectivity
* Curriculum Navigator - Kindergarten to Grade 8
* Photoshop 5.5
* GIS in the Social Studies Classroom

We are always looking for new ideas and techniques that cover all curricular areas in Manitoba.

Other possible workshops:
* Advanced level workshops
* new versions of software - eg Photoshop Elements
* new software
* home networking
* hardware troubleshooting
* peripherals
* website creation - DreamWeaver/Fireworks (Mac or PC)
* course specific technology math/sciences
* computer maintenance
* video editing PC
* desktop publishing
* computer science
* SWISH animation
* Computer Assisted Drafting
* Powerpoint or other presentation software
* Virtual Reality
* Publisher
* Yearbook Publishing

*All ManACE SAG sessions are full day (or two half day sessions in the same location)

As well, if you have colleagues that are doing something interesting in their classroom or are proficient with a type of software, concept or technique, ask them to share via a ManACE SAG session.

We currently provide a $125 honorarium for presenters and $75 for co-facilitators (the purpose of the co-facilitator is to groom presenters for future workshops)

Following is the template for submitting workshop descriptions for ou catalogue(s). Please submit your workshop description(s) by April 21, 2003. If you would like some help completing your write-up, we would be happy to help. Contact information is listed at the end of this document.

Session Title:
Audience:
Prerequisite: Please be very specific in your descriptions and prerequisite as no level of experience will be included in the program.
Enrolment Limit: (Always leave one computer available in case of breakdown)
Location: (If this location is your own school, please include the school name, address, postal code, phone number, FAX number, and administrator's name.)
Instructor Name and Title:
Session Description: Please explain the session in one or two paragraphs. It is important to be as precise as possible in this description.
Instructor's Home Address (including postal code), and phone number
Instructor's E-mail Address (if this message was not received electronically)
Lab Fee: Are you distributing a CD of digital materials? Let us know so that the cost of blank CD's or diskettes can be listed.

We would appreciate all information in electronic format. Again, submissions should be sent in no later than April 21, 2002

Reynold Redekopp and Belinda Gladue
SAG co-Chairs
ManACE
manacesag@hotmail.com