The Schenectady Collaboration is a New York State Virtual Learning Space Web Content Development (Portal) Grant Winner.  (See description below:)

Seven TLCF Consortia Awarded Web Content Grant for NYSVLS Development.

As an effort to develop a statewide educational portal: NYS Virtual Learning Space, seven Web Content Development Grant winners have been selected after two rounds of proposal reviews.  Out of 19 applications, the seven were chosen based on the quality, significance, and value criteria.  They have developed rich and quality educational content for teachers and students.  With the grants they will continue to develop their web content and increase bandwidth and hosting capacity to make their resources open and free to all New York schools.  At the same time, they will work collaboratively to develop an integrated web portal for the NYS Virtual Learning Community.

Teacher Resources site - www.nynetresources.org

Web Content Development
This three-day workshop is for prior participants to complete a project previously started or to develop and complete a new project. This workshop will focus more on independent web content development rather than teacher lead training. Trainers will be on hand to provide assistance. Usage of streaming video content will be included and encouraged within this workshop.

Web Enhanced Lessons
A three-day workshop for teachers who wish to learn the basic fundamentals of creating lessons designed to be utilized from the World Wide Web.  Participants will develop an individual or group project that will concentrate on enhancing an existing lesson with resources from the WWW.  Training will include an opportunity to examine various types of web-enhanced projects, including: Treasure Hunts, Web Quests and collaborative projects and learn fundamental elements of Microsoft’s Front Page. Participants will also learn basic Internet skills that are associated with developing web-enhanced lessons

Web Enhanced Lessons II
An intense three-day workshop similar to Web Enhanced Lessons. Participants MUST have completed the previous 5 day, Creating Multimedia Presentations workshop; or Level II training. Some components of Web Enhanced Lessons will not be covered because of prior instruction in previous workshops.  Use of streaming video content will be demonstrated and encouraged within this workshop. The workshop will concentrate on the development and completion of a lesson incorporating the NYS Learning Standards. Note: This workshop is not for participants that have previously completed Web Enhanced Lessons.

Blackboard

Learn the basic principals of developing and managing course content in web based software - Blackboard. Participants will learn the basic skills necessary to begin using Blackboard for integrating course material and communication tools. Incorporation of streaming video will be presented.

Using the NYS Virtual Learning Space   

Seven of the previous NY State Title III recipient consortiums have been chosen to be part of the NYS Virtual Learning Space Grant. Each has developed web content that has been selected by the State Education Department as having quality resources for teaching and learning.  Participants will have an opportunity to review each of the participating consortium’s resources and develop a project to disseminate this information within his/her school building and/or district.
 

Dates for Training for 2002-3 - Click here!