EdPuzzle is a free, easy-to-use platform allowing you to engage every student, one video at a time. Participants will learn how to take videos that are already created, as well as their own videos, and make them interactive for students by embedding assessments. Explore the teacher and student views, the grading options, and integration with Google Classroom.

This workshop will be presented live via Zoom. The session will include an opportunity to interact and ask questions during the session using Zoom. Participants need a phone or device with internet access in order to participate in the event.

Cost: $82.00 or 3 ETTC Hours. For information on membership, call the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850.

Imagine the Atlantic Ocean as a cultural hub connecting African cultures in various forms to that of Europe and the Americas. The Black Atlantic highlights the importance African contributions to the Atlantic region. We will explore the lives and identities of Africans and their descendants, examine communities they built, and trace cultural retention, transformations, and disconnections that resulted from these histories.

Presented by Dr. Kameika Murphy, Assistant Professor of Atlantic history at Stockton University.

This workshop will be presented live via Zoom. The session will include an opportunity to interact and ask questions during the session using Zoom. Participants need a phone or device with internet access in order to participate in the event.

Cost: $50.00 or 2 ETTC Hours. For information on membership, call the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850.

Are you looking for ways to incorporate coding and computer science for your students? Are you looking for free resources that can be integrated into your current curriculum? If yes, then join us for a FREE one hour session to learn more about Google's CS First.

Session is free; however, registration is required.

Kick off CSEd Week by joining us to learn more about Carnegie Mellon's FREE curriculum for coding and computer science. Are you looking for ways to offer coding and computer science opportunities for your students? This is a great option for in-person, hybrid and virtual learning environments. The program is web-based and works on any device.

Session is free; however, registration is required.

This hands-on workshop is designed to increase teachers' awareness of questioning techniques and strategies in order to create cognitive challenges in their classrooms through their questions. In this workshop participants will learn to understand the different reasons and purposes of questioning such as assessing understanding, building understanding, and explaining learning.

Participants will explore how to utilize higher-level questioning, give appropriate, meaningful, and specific feedback, allow for appropriate wait time, use follow-up questions, promote student created questions, understand the difference between open and closed questions. Participants will also examine how to use Bloom's Taxonomy and incorporate Costa's Levels of Questioning to promote student cognitive engagement.

Audience: Educators, Grades 4-12

This workshop will be presented live via Zoom. The session will include the opportunity to interact and ask questions during the session using Zoom. Participants need a phone or device with internet access in order to participate in the event.

Cost: $106.00 or 4 ETTC Hours. For information on membership, call the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850.

Teaching Financial Literacy in the Classroom, Virtual and Back Again! Presented by The New Jersey Council for Economic Education

REGISTRATIION INFORMATION: REGISTRATIONS GO THROUGH NJCEE. There is no registration fee but pre-registration is required. Register by December 8, 2020-Certificates for 2 CEUs will be provided.

To register visit https://njeconomics.wufoo.com/forms/w1ozd62l0joj2og/

For more information, contact Alana Coleman at acoleman@njeconomics.org

Join us for a FREE panel discussion to learn about strategies and resources that are being used by other educators. We will discuss resources used, how to support students in our current educational environment, as well as recommendations that can be used immediately.

Session is free; however, registration is required.

Teachers and students can create their own VR experiences and stories with Google Tour Creator, which uses Google Street View or their own 360 photos. With Google Tour Creator, students add cover images, scenes, points of interest, voice narrations and overlays. Choose from a variety of templates too! Tours can be shared with a link or embedded into websites.

This workshop will be presented live via Zoom. The session will include an opportunity to interact and ask questions during the session using Zoom. Participants need a phone or device with internet access in order to participate in the event.

Cost: $82.00 or 3 ETTC Hours. For information on membership, call the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850.

MIT's free online coding application provides students in Middle and High School with an interface for developing small Android apps that can be tested and used on their devices. This user-friendly, drag and drop interface starts with basic concepts but allows for growth into Javascript programming. Don't have access to an Android? No problem. The app inventor provides a free Android emulator for Mac or PC. AND… for your iOS users, we will cover Thunkable which is virtually the same thing but for the iOS platform. This content can be applied to an Hour-of-Code session. It is most suitable for advanced Middle School and High-School learners.

This workshop will be presented live via Zoom. The session will include an opportunity to interact and ask questions during the session using Zoom. Participants need a phone or device with internet access in order to participate in the event.

Cost: $82.00 or 3 ETTC Hours. For information on membership, call the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850.

Are you ready for fresh ideas for those Zoom meetings and Google sessions? This webinar will discuss ways to help speech-language specialists address IEP goals and objectives through virtual instruction. Let's brainstorm some ideas to get those 2021 sessions off to a good start.

The workshop will be led by Dr. Amy Hadley, Associate Professor of Communication Disorders at Stockton University.

Cost: $82.00 or 3 ETTC Hours. For information on membership, call the SRI&ETTC at 609-626-3850.

The Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway is a conference where educators hone their creative writing skills and expand their teaching strategies. Now in its 27th year, the Getaway is known for challenging and supportive workshops featuring small classes led by award-winning professionals. Award-winning poet Ross Gay will read and participate in a Q&A session. Additional faculty include Dilruba Ahmed, Barbara Daniels, Celeste Doaks, Catherine Doty, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Emma Copley Eisenberg, and more.

Participants will:
-Engage with the New Jersey Student Learning Standards by practicing different types of writing for different purposes and audiences.
-Choose from workshops including novel writing, memoir, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Each offers craft discussion, writing prompts, writing time, feedback, motivation, and inspiration.

The conference was founded by veteran teacher Peter E. Murphy in the belief that when writers leave behind the distractions of their busy lives to gather in an encouraging community, they are able to make important breakthroughs in their art. The author of ten books, Peter has received numerous awards and fellowships.

Workshops are available for both beginning and experienced creative writers. Session time will vary by selection.

Technical Requirements: Workshops and activities will take place via Zoom. Participants need a laptop, tablet or smart phone with Internet access as well as a webcam and microphone. You also need to have access to email and be relatively comfortable using a word-processing software like Microsoft Word.

Cost: 20 ETTC Hours-ETTC Hours Accepted for ETTC Members only. Registrants using check, cash, credit card, or Purchase Order should register through www.stockton.edu/wintergetaway
Once your school district approves your ETTC registration, Murphy Writing of Stockton University will contact you to confirm your workshop choice and finalize your registration.

This is a test workshop entry for the SRI&ETTC.