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Director's Notes
Dr. Mary Ford of Granite State College met with Special Education Directors at NCES to inform them about a North Country GSC program to assist special education teachers to earn additional certifications such as LD, EH, and IDD to expand their professional resume. If any teachers are interested in this opportunity, please email me about your interest at charlie@ncedservices.org. If a cohort of ten to twelve, or more could be established, then classes could be scheduled at sites in Gorham, Conway and Littleton.
NCES is still in need of either an Occupational Therapist – Registered or a Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant to serve throughout SAU 58 (Groveton, Stark, and Stratford).
A Teacher of the Deaf, preferably with elementary school experience in teaching, will be needed by January to work with an elementary school youngster in SAU 7 (West Stewartstown). Please share this information with anyone qualified to provide such support to our students.
On November 25 the landscape at NCES changed dramatically as Mother Nature’s wintry weather provided us with at least ten inches of snow. Our elevation of over 1,800 feet on Gorham / Randolph Hill provides us with some unique conditions during the winter. At our NCES webpage http://www.ncedservices.org/webcam.htm you can access a live web cam that films from our front, south-facing windows out to Route 2 if you’d ever like to see what we see. Another interesting feature is the webpage with meteorological information provided by small weather stations located at NCES, Freedom Elementary School and Haverhill Cooperative Middle School. These three sites form a perfect equilateral triangle with Mount Washington serving as the central point, and it is astonishing to view the differing weather patterns at these sites – a useful tool for math and science teachers and students.
All associated with NCES extend sincere best wishes to you and your families to enjoy a festive holiday season. For all of you skiers and other snow lovers, may you enjoy a winter like we experienced last year.
Happy Holidays
Charles F. Thibodeau, Jr.
Executive Director
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Upcoming Professional Development
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Teaching Geometry Inductively
Students will deepen their understanding of geometry and how to teach it inductively. The course will be driven by activities and experiences that use inductive reasoning to help students better understand geometry. Students will leave with ready to use activities for their classrooms and practice finding and writing such activities. The course will span most traditional geometric topics including basic principles found in the middle school through more challenging concepts found in upper level high school geometry courses.
Dates: Thursdays, January 8, 15, 22, 29 and February 5 & 12, 2009 from 4:00 to 8:00 at NCES, Gorham, NH
Register: Download registration form at www.plymouth.edu/graduate and use course registration number (CRN): 20076.
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A Powerful, Yet Simple, Device for Teaching Science & Math
Join us on December 3, 2008 and January 7 and February 4, 2009 from 4:00 to 8:00 at NCES for a hands-on experience with LabQuest. This breakthrough technology for science education (with plenty of mathematics applications too) puts power into a rugged interface designed for simplicity. With a color touch screen to display and graph data immediately, Vernier's LabQuest can be used as a stand-alone. That's right; you no longer need to hook up at LabPro interface to a computer. The "computer" is right in the hands of students. Simply attach the necessary sensors and probes and you're ready to begin collecting data.
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Text to Speech (TTS) and Sound Recording Basics
Would you like your struggling readers to be able to have a web page or word document read to them for better understanding or struggling writers to record what they want to day and then write it? This session gives you the tools (yes, they are free) to record voice and have text read back. All students will be able to be more independent and self supporting in their literacy after they learn these strategies. This is a valuable tool for classroom teachers, reading specialists and special educators.
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Digital Image Editing: The Basics
Bring your own camera or use one of ours and learn how to take better pictures and get them off the camera easily. Topics discussed will be resolution, using the flash, photo editing software, and the basics of cropping and enhancing photos.
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Digital Image Editing: Part 2
Using your camera to capture video, setting the resolution on the camera, and a few more editing tools to really make your life easy. Knowing how you plan to use the images and setting your camera for that purpose makes using those images much easier.
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Digital Storytelling: Animation
Use a simple web cam setup to create innovative and engaging animations that students can use to show what they learned and to teach others.
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Digital Storytelling: MovieMaker Part 1
Just the basics for those who are new to movie making. Take what you learned from sound editing and photo editing and put it to work in MovieMaker.
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Digital Storytelling: MovieMaker Part 2
Step up your movie making skills. Learn to use various types of imaging sources, video and complex audio in MovieMaker.
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PowerPoint Unleashed
Learn how to use custom animation, motion paths and triggers in PowerPoint to create animated sequences. Basic knowledge of PowerPoint necessary for this workshop.
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Newscasts, Podcasts…What’s all the noise about?
Learn to create an audio only activity incorporating writing, social studies or science. These skills could be used to create an interview with someone from the past.
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Educating the 21st Century Learning
Save the Date!
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at the
Inns at Mills Falls, Meredith, NH
The Local Education Support Center Network (LESCN) will be hosting a conference on Educating the 21st Century Learner.
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Performance Pathways Users Group
These video conferenced sessions are to provide a context for users to ask questions of each other and to share experiences including tips, tricks and best practices regarding the development and support of Performance Pathways applications including TechPaths, Assessment Builder and Performance Tracker.
Dates: January 9, February 13, April 10 and June 12 from 9:00 to 11:30. Contact Becky Ring to register for the NCES location at 466-5437 or becky@ncedservices.org
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Differentiating Professional Development
Save the date, January 26, 2009. Details will be posted www.ncedservices.org/profdev.htm as soon as they are available.
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North Country Students at Merrowvista
Camp Merrowvista counselors welcomed students from the five North Country high schools. Merrowvista's programs are designed to enhance not only a participant's skills, but their confidence in themselves and their future. Through experiential education and activities, students discover who they are and what they are capable of achieving. Merrowvista's programs encourage students to take on challenges and real responsibility as they live, play and learn together while practicing the motto, "My own self, at my very best, all the time."
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Masters of Education in Curriculum & Instruction
Attend class just one weekend a month at Lesley University. Enjoy career benefits that last a lifetime.
Learn more about the M.Ed. Literacy: Language, Reading, and Writing program offered in North Haverhill at an Information Session near you:
Monday, December 08 | 3:30-4:30
North Country Education Services | 300 Gorham Hill Rd, Gorham, NH
Saturday, December 13 | 10:00
The Village Book Store | 81 Main Street, Littleton, NH
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 | 3:30-4:30
North Country Education Services | 300 Gorham Hill Rd, Gorham, NH
For more information or to RSVP please contact:
Bruce Labs | 603.787.2113 ext. 18 | blabs@sau23.org
Tracy Davis | 866.781.3899 | tdavis@lesley.edu
More information: http://www.lesley.edu/newhampshire
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