Come try out our cross platform computer lab!  Our tele lab is equipped with brand new computers that use both Windows and Macintosh operating systems.  Pick any class, and you will have the option of working either in a PC or Mac environment. Our focus is on student outcomes and developing 21st century skills.  These classes provide you with:

• Hands-on activities
• Focus on student outcomes
• Skill building time
• Time to create usable lesson plans with newly acquired technology skills

Find out how to use new technology tools and how to integrate them into your classroom and lesson plans at the same time!

• 14 computer workstations running both Macintosh and Windows XP operating systems and connected to the Internet
• Software applications include:
  • Microsoft Office 2007 (Win) and 2008 (Mac)
  • Inspiration, Kidspiration and SMART Ideas
  • iLife
• SMART Board & Promethean ACTIVboard
• Student response systems: SMART's Senteos and Promethean's Activotes
• Polycom 4000, interactive two-way audio and video equipment that can be used for videoconferences and distance learning
• Document camera and DVD player

We have the capability of conducting all types of staff development sessions that can be delivered either on-site or over the videoconferencing equipment. Come take advantage of this new Technology Enhanced Learning Environment!

If you see a Tele class you would like for your staff or department, please call or email the contacts listed below.

How Teaching with Technology Can Improve MAP Scores

Technology is a tool that prepares students with the higher order thinking and questioning skills needed for the workforce. When students work with technology and the Internet, they are required to use these skills. Each project they work on is, in essence, a performance task. All of the Tele classes are designed from a constructivist learning theory foundation that the Show-Me Standards are based on. The instruction is inquiry-based and project oriented.

Our philosophy is that technology integration takes many hours of training and is an on-going process. Our newly revamped Tele classes are designed to move you along this process. By introducing skills in the first half of the class and then immediately integrating those skills into project examples, you will develop a usable product for your classroom.

All Tele classes held at
1460 Craig Road
St. Louis, MO 63146

For more information, contact:
Nancy George (314) 692-1251 ngeorge@csd.org
or Martha Bogart (314)692-1258 mbogart@csd.org.