Join us for an exciting monthly series that focuses on the sciences, from earth science to biology to scientific visualization to chemistry and more! Explore the world of science through hands-on tools and activities developed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. Learn new ways to enhance your curriculum.
Web Programming for Science: Second in a High School Programming Workshop Series
Coming January 2010
In this workshop, students will explore object design. How are objects used in science? Students will also learn about software methodologies and discover how software teams build scientific applications. Finally, students will receive an introduction to web applications and go behind the scenes of several common scientific search engines. This workshop builds upon the first workshop in the series: Accessible Scientific Programming Using Java.
Presented by Jeff Milton, Managing Director, Tissue Network LLC
Earth Science and Earthquakes: 150 Years of a Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On
Saturday, November 21, 2009, 9:00am - 1:00pm
Explore USGS earthquake and plate tectonic data to help students visualize earth processes and interact with real-world data. Using just an Internet browser, open up a world of interactive learning possibilities for your students.
We will examine shakemap data from Indonesia to California and map information on earthquake distortion, magnitude, and depth.
We will also study the “treasure trove” of USGS data for the historic 1868 Hayward California quake and the Hayward fault region as it is today.
In this four-hour workshop you have the opportunity to apply free Internet tools and data to the study of earthquake hazards.
and will examine earthquake data in three dimensions to gain a better understanding of earth forces.
Presented by Eileen Goff, San Diego Mesa College
UCSD And TSRI’s SMART Team Program for High School Students
RasMol Training: Saturday, October 24, 2009, 9:00am- 12:00pm
The San Diego-based SMART Team program is a new Howard Hughes Medical Institute-supported pre-college science outreach program aimed at introducing high school students to basic concepts of protein structure and function. The program aims to involve students in a series of innovative activities focused on protein structure in which students work with research labs to design and build a physical model of the protein being investigated in a local research lab.
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Around Town and the Country- Training Opportunities for Teachers
TeacherTECH Begins a Collaboration with UCSD-TV
This exciting new collaboration will enable our workshop content to be disseminated to viewers around the world via UC-TV and local cable channels. There are one million viewers in San Diego and an estimated 22 million viewers worldwide. We will begin with this month’s Science Series presentation, which will be recorded for television broadcast and web viewing. In all, we plan to broadcast 11 workshops throughout the coming academic year. Stay tuned for upcoming televised dates!
K-12 Professional Development Offered by the San Diego County Office of Education
Are you up for a little professional learning to sharpen your skills? Data Intensive Science, Environmental Education, Robotics, Science Fair, Family Science, High School Science Forums and more are all offered to interested teachers by the San Diego County Office of Education, Science Department!. Log on today and enroll in an opportunity for youand/or your students! For additional information, please contact Nancy Taylor, K-12 Science Coordinator, ntaylor@sdcoe.net.
Moodle II: Intermediate Moodle for Educators
Consecutive Tuesdays, December 1, 2009 and December 8, 2009, 4:30pm- 6:30pm
Participants should be familiar with the basics of Moodle, including how to add activities and files, and
how to navigate a Moodle course. This course will teach you strategies on how to implement online collaboration
and interaction in Moodle. Covered in this course will be glossaries and online assignments, online discussion
and collaboration, data driven decision making, construction of online self-graded quizzes and collection of data to
help drive your instruction.
Presented by Jeff Sale, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Using Quia in the Classroom
Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 5:00pm- 7:00pm
Quia is a web-based tool for educators that lets you create games, assessments, study materials, and surveys for any classroom setting. Students can be given a unique login, so results and usage of Quia can be recorded and displayed in reports. Quia also houses shared activities on a variety of content areas.
Presented by Kelly Smith, The Nativity School
Bringing Open Source Multimedia Applciations to the 21st Century Classroom
Saturday, December 5, 2009, 9:00am- 3:00pm
Participants will be exposed to many of the basic techniques and common approaches to development and conceptual art, including the familiar skills of drawing, painting and composition as synthesized through the digital medium, but also silhouette/contour design, using abstraction in development, and using photographic reference and the basics of image sampling. At the end of this exciting, intensive workshop, participants can expect to have generated their very own original character/creature design and will be well on their way to developing their skills as a contemporary illustrator with an above average working knowledge of digital art creation software
Presented by Scott Flanders, Long Beach State University
TeacherTECH on the Road Technology Tools Web Workshops
TeacherTECH on the Road in collaboration with ReadyTalk™ will begin providing a web seminar of each of our popular technology tools workshops held at SDSC. Unable to join us in person? No problem! Join us from the comfort of your home or school computer. All you need is a phone and an internet connection and you will be able to hear the workshop presenter and see the presenter’s computer screen as you are guided step by step in learning each new software we present.
Look for Exciting New Workshops Coming in 2010!
If you are interested in virtually participating in this workshop, please let us know.
