Your training can continue after today! If you have questions next week or even a month from now, just send an quick e-mail to Rick: rickreece@mac.com

If you would like to schedule customized web design and/or technology integration training you can also drop Rick an e-mail at: rickreece@mac.com

Participants will be able to download most of the materials used as well as the handouts in .pdf format. With these handouts and practice files, they will be able to extend their workshop experiences by repeating the activities on their own computers at their own pace.

Learn all about the features of the latest web communication, like how to harness the power of RSS, utilize blogs in education, and share knowledge through Podcasts. Participants will create and post an actual podcast during the workshop and leave with step-by-step handouts and sample files to use in their classrooms.


TOPICS
Utilizing Blogs and Wikis in Instruction – Set up your class blog and provide a place of student collaboration as well as writing practice.

Harnessing the Power of RSS – Utilize RSS to gather information for you to make your web time more efficient..

Sharing Knowledge with Podcasts– Communicate with others by creating a podcast.

MEET THE PRESENTER
Lifelong educator Rick Reece has been involved in using technology in the classroom for more than twenty-five years. He recently retired from his position as an Instructional Technology Specialist for Broward’s Department of Instructional Technology, but stays busy with a variety of web-related and staff development duties.

In fact, he is now busier than ever. He trains for Apple, does web consulting with Broward Schools and delivers many technology-related and project-based learning workshops.

Although Rick retired from Broward Schools, he spent most of his career in Miami-Dade Schools holding various District-level positions. He developed and coordinated Dade's Apple Web Design Academies, designed and managed both Districts' Education Portals, was Dade's District Webmaster, and a District technology trainer in both Districts. Before the district level, Rick spent 17 years in schools. He coached Cross Country and Track and taught senior high Language Arts for 9 years before receiving his Computer Science Education MS in 1983. After that he taught computer related courses at both the high school and university levels.

Rick has received recognition for his efforts, having been named both an Adobe Education Leader and an Apple Distinguished Educator. He has conducted workshops at the last 20 Florida Educational Technology Conferences (FETC), at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), at the Inovative Learning Conference (ILC), and at the ISTE Tel-Ed Conference.