November Learning: Expanding the Boundaries of Learning

Jim Wenzloff

About Jim Wenzloff
Learning Mentor, November Learning, Macomb, MI

Before joining the November Learning team, Jim was a teacher, Technology Director and Interactive Media Consultant at Macomb Intermediate School District in Michigan. As a consultant with our team, he works with districts in providing teacher and administrative trainings and conducts curriculum evaluations at a school and district level.

Jim has presented keynotes and workshops at local, state-wide and national conferences, including the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) and our annual Building Learning Communities Conference (BLC). He has also received awards for curriculum integration projects from Apple, the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), the Great Lakes Governors Association and the Michigan Association of Computer Users in Learning.

Pre-conference Session

Building Learning Communities: Putting It All Together

In this four hour session you will learn the basics of information literacy, plus have the opportunity to work with members of our team as you explore how to build a blog, create a podcast or start a wiki. Learn how to integrate all of these tools together in meaningful and effective ways. Our team will show you how it all fits together and will be available during the course of the conference week to work on projects and integrate new ideas. The results will be expanded opportunities for authentic work, global audience and your students making a knowledge contribution.

Main Session Workshops

Read It, Write It, Say It

Reading, writing and speaking are three essential skills for language arts students. This workshop will explore ways that elementary, middle and special education teachers can use technology to engage students in writing and speaking for an authentic audience. It will also share ideas for using audio files in the classroom to support reading. We will take time at the end of the workshop to allow participants to share their ideas.

Web 2.0 for Newbies

Confused by blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS, and all the new technologies? Then this is the session for you. We will discuss what Web 2.0 is and how you can use these new web tools for collaboration, publishing, and classroom projects. We’ll avoid jargon, try to answer your questions and have some fun.