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Subject: SMARTT, Technology
Description: This is a fully online course with minimal moderation. Take it at your own pace. You will learn how to access Performance Standards Reports in Cognos. Suitable for new users of Cognos.
Subject: Technology
Description: This study group focuses on issues of persistence among adult learners. The course follows a seminar model in which a facilitator guides participants as they read and discuss selected literature on persistence and explores ways to apply this knowledge to keeping their own distance students engaged. This course is for second year CALC staff only, is limited to the first 15 participants and is limited to staff from Distance Learning funded ABE programs only.
Subject: SMARTT
Description: Registration for this course is now closed. We expect to offer it again in FY2014.
Subject: Assessment, ESOL
Description: Registration for this course is now closed. We will offer it again in July or August.
Subject: ABE, Counseling, Curriculum Development, ESOL, GED
Description: During this session, practitioners will expand on what was learned during the first face-to-face session. Practitioners and learners will explore the many career web sites available in order to better understand options to prepare for the world of work and beyond.
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Subject: ESOL
Description: This hybrid training (four hours online and six hours face-to-face) offers participants an introductory research based introduction to second language acquistion (SLA).
Subject: Technology
Description: Here is a listing of some things thatwill have available for you to try out during this technology demonstration workshop. Links are provided in the details section for you to investigate before coming to this workshop. You’ll be able to get right to work at the workshop knowing what you want to try out.
-Flip Video cameras – Taking videos and uploading to your PC’s.
-Photo Story - a FREE photo presentation program for Windows XP by Microsoft.
-Voicethread - presentation saving and voice annotation. A neat web tool that allow video camera recording and slideshow creation, but what makes this tool different is that allows other multimedia interactivity, so students could use their cell phones to respond or critique what is in the slide show.
-NorthStar Digital Literacy Project: Basic Computer Skills Self-Assessment
-Use Digital Technology Sample Tasks and Activities – A Canadian website that has lesson plans for the very low level student to the group projects for students.
-DropBox a Cloud File Sharing solution.
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Subject: Curriculum Development
Description: A six-hour, interactive workshop to examine the underlying research-based foundations for teaching writing and ways to build our own classes on these foundations.
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Subject: Trainings for Directors
Description: The Program and Staff Development Process in an important mechanism to help ABE practitioners.
Subject: ABE, GED
Description: Preparing Students for College-Level Math is a LINCS offering
Subject: SMARTT, Technology
Description: An introduction to Cognos. Participants will logon, run reports drawing on data from SMARTT, customize favorite reports, locate and run common performance reports, and save customized reports to personal folder. Synchronous Distance Learning.
Subject: ABE, ESOL, GED
Description: This six-hour, interactive workshop will examine the underlying research-based foundations for teaching writing and will demonstrate ways to build our own classes on these foundations.
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Subject: SMARTT
Description: Open online session to review DL reports in Cognos and data entry in SMARTT for currently funded ESE DL programs
Subject: Other Curriculum & Instruction
Description: This workshop looks at the ABE Professional Standards and program improvement data as a part of a personal self-assessment process for staff development needs.
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Subject: Other Curriculum & Instruction, Share Group, Volunteer Coordinators
Description: This group is intended for Volunteer Coordinators. Participants share ideas, materials and more related to volunteer management issues.
Subject: Work Force Development
Description: Forget everything you thought you knew about teaching resume writing! This workshop is not about writing a resume; this workshop will guide you through the process of helping your learners build his/her personal 21st century resume.
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Subject: Trainings for Directors
Description: This meeting is intended for ABE Directors and Program and Staff Development Facilitators.
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Subject: SMARTT
Description: Get guidance on ending the fiscal year. This workshop is both face to face (UMass Boston) and for a limited number available by distance learning technology (desktop sharing and phone conference).
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Subject: Technology
Description: This will be an online synchronous program showing you how to use Weebly to create a simple website/page for your program.
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Subject: ABE, Counseling, Curriculum Development, ESOL, GED
Description: During the third session, participants will share experiences using Labor Market Information tools and websites.
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Subject: SMARTT, Technology
Description: This training, delivered online and using telephones, will review the steps needed to end the fiscal year in SMARTT.
Subject: Counseling, Share Group
Description: This session of the Counseling and Advising Seminar and Sharing Group will focus on conflict management and will be lead by Susan Hackney, a trainer and mediator from the Mediation and Training Collaborative.
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Subject: SMARTT
Description: A refresher on the steps to end the current fiscal year - rollover
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Cognos Update: Accessing Performance Standards Reports (online) (start: 08:00 am - Mar 1, 2013 | end: 04:00 pm - May 30, 2013)
