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**Join us as we extend beyond the Institute with these innovative, just-in-time professional development opportunities!**
 * NC 1:1 LEARNING COLLABORATIVE AND FRIDAY INSTITUTE E-LEARNING PROGRAMS[[image:OPD_BUBBLE.jpg width="240" height="240" align="right"]] **

**Professional Development Online Courses --offered by the Friday Institute** Teachers—Learn to leverage the power of 1:1 computing with our innovative online courses, led by expert online facilitators. Learn online, at a time most convenient for you! These high quality 7-week online professional development courses, available in core content areas, are offered as part of the Golden LEAF funded, North Carolina Learning Technology Readiness Initiative, the IMPACT-PD Initiative and the North Carolina e-Learning for Educators Initiative. The curriculum for our online courses follows a designated scope and sequence model, allowing you to build the skills you need to infuse your pedagogy with the power of Web 2.0. These dynamic online courses are available fall and spring. With a scope and sequence model founded on teaching standards, you will develop proficiency and expertise, as you go from Getting Started to integrating Web 2.0 tools in core content areas in your classroom. Learn more!

Let the Friday Institute 1.1 Learning Collaborative team coach you as you discover new ways to engage students through the effective use of classroom technology. Learning how to utilize web 2.0 and other technology tools is just the beginning! Today's educators must also understand how to use these tools to effectively impact learning and to increase student achievement. In our post-institute webinar series we'll explore topics ranging from classroom management in a 1:1 setting to cyber-safety and responsible technology use. Using Elluminate, a web conferencing tool, and NING, an online social network community, teachers will engage in real-time collaboration, discussion, and reflection as they implement classroom best practices, responsible technology use, and Web 2.0 tools in their 1:1 lesson plans.
 * Post-Institute Webinar Series: The Professional Development on Demand Portal (PDoD) **

This fall the Friday Institute's professional development team is introducing just-in-time, on demand e-learning with micro-courses! The micro-course concept was created by Dave Cormier and George Siemens, and the concept is simple, but powerful. Take content that can be taught in a week or two, add a small but meaningful amount of work, and meet several times online to answer questions and be supported in your learning. While the concept is simple, the learning outcome for you is substantial!
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**NC 1:1 NING - A Learning Technology Collaboration** - Click this link to sign up and join! Face-to-face workshops and institutes like this one provide invaluable opportunities to connect with colleagues you may not have the opportunity to communicate and/or collaborate with during the normal course of your day. These face-to-face encounters can help to build connections for a strong online knowledge-sharing community. Online communities can then be used to continue conversations and collaborations initiated in person. The NC 1:1 Ning provides an online community in which 1:1 educators can share and discuss ideas related to planning, implementing and sustaining effective 1:1 learning technology programs.

The NC 1:1 Ning Source (“The Source” for short) is a blog series in which members of the NC 1:1 Learning Collaborative answer questions that are forefront on the minds of educators who are planning for and implementing 1:1 programs. The Source series draws on the wealth of experience and wisdom of 1:1 educators within the Learning Collaborative and across the state. During professional development workshops, institutes, and coaching visits, Learning Collaborative staff members hear many recurring questions – What are the most important things I need to know about classroom management? Which comes first, the lesson or the tool? What do I do if the technology fails in the middle of my lesson? What is cloud computing and what does it mean for instruction in my classroom? How can the challenges inherent in BYOT (bring your own technology) initiatives best be addressed and planned for?
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Through narratives, interviews, tip lists, and links to more in-depth resources, this series is designed to answer frequently asked questions, address hot topics in 1:1 implementation, and more widely disseminate knowledge and experience garnered through years of planning for and implementing 1:1 programs. Members of the larger 1:1 community are invited and encouraged to chime in with additional advice, perspective, and lessons learned. The Source series can be found on the main page of the NC 1:1 Ning. In addition to being able to search past blog topics, 1:1 community members are invited to submit their own questions to be answered by Learning Collaborative members in a future blog and/or answered by fellow members of the community.

//E-Learning Graduate Certificate Program ONLINE!!//
**[|Graduate Certificate in E-Learning]** The Graduate Certificate in E-Learning, a fully online program offered through NC State's Department of Curriculum, Instruction & Counselor Education, is designed to provide e-leaders and learners with the knowledge and skills necessary to assume roles in integrating e-learning and the latest Web 2.0 tools into their school's curriculum or to deliver instruction entirely online. Course work is applicable for those who are currently involved in e-learning activities and those desiring to enter into the e-learning realm to model innovative, 21st century teaching skills. Teachers interested in developing e-learning would select the K-12 track.

** CICE/IT AND FI INTERNSHIP PROGRAM **

The internship program is a collaborative initiative between the Department of Curriculum, Instruction and Counselor Education and the NC 1:1 Learning Collaborative. Graduate students in the Instructional Technology Program are invited to participate. Interns are involved in a host of online professional development opportunities, including co-instructing online courses, developing and presenting webinars as part of the post-institute webinar series, and contributing to PD efforts as part of the NC 1:1 Learning Collaborative.

For information, contact Sophia Stone.


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