Hi Valerie, I am interested in being involved. Thanks for sharing!
I am currently working as an Education Specialist for Canada's Information and Communications Technology Council - www.ictc-ctic.ca - and we are focusing on STEM skills for Youth as a high priority. I have cc'd to my colleagues Sandra and Tracy as a FYI - Randy On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Valerie Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > I volunteer with the New Smyrna Beach Boys & Girls Club. We have been > awarded a NASA Summer of Innovation mini-award. > http://www.soi-mini-awards.com/ > > Over the next 8 weeks we will be doing hands-on STEM activities with the > middle school kids (going into grades 5-9). We will be recording the > activities - pictures, drawings, and having kids blog about their ideas. > > As part of our proposal, we want to provide professional development > workshops for other educators - teachers, parents, community volunteers,... > As most of the material is available online, we can extend our educator > workshop to the virtual community through WikiEducator. This will be a > Professional Learning Community or Network. We are working out the details > now, and would love to hear from you. > > Do you teach STEM to middle school kids? Are you interested in > "participating" in a virtual workshop? What can we provide to help you in > your teaching and learning? How would you like to participate? > > We are planning to use > * Google Groups - email updates, notification > * WikiEducator - activities, schedule, links to resources, teaching ideas > > Still thinking about how to have "discussions" - Twitter, discussion > forum, WE Talk, links to participant blog posts, ?? we are open to > suggestions. > > We will be starting in the next week or so. Please join us on this > adventure. > > ..Valerie > > -- > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "WikiEducator" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- - Randy ________________ *Randy Fisher, MA *(Fielding) *Learning, Organization Development & Performance **Ottawa Learnery * - Website *- *http://ottawa.learnery.org - Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/OttawaLearnery - Twitter - https://twitter.com/ottawalearnery - Teach-A-Course @ Ottawa Learnery: http://on.fb.me/Xt55MA ** +1 613.722.5577 (EST, GMT - 5) - home/office +1 613.899.0475 (EST, GMT - 5) - cell (seldom on, I do not check messages frequently) *iCentro Learning -* http://www.icentro.ca* *Open to consulting, marketing, mentoring and coaching opportunities. *Free E-Book*: Visit: www.CommunityEngagementExpert.com<http://www.communityengagementexpert.com/> Skype: wikirandy LinkedIn Profile<http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=112703&trk=tab_pro> Wordle <http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3991918/Randy_Fisher_-_Experience> Yoga Flowers.ca <http://www.yogaflowers.ca> -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
