ePD – Endorsement
This three hour, face-to-face session is a requirement before you can take other ePD. It is a professional development session designed as an orientation to JCPS Online, a virtual learning environment. Once endorsed, individuals may enroll in other ePD courses that may be completed
anytime and
anyplace electronically from their own computers. These recurring sessions will be completed for small groups of interested individuals by a JCPS eMentor on an "as-needed" basis. Sessions will be scheduled based upon having enough enrollments on the waiting list in PD Central to indicate the need. Sessions may also be scheduled for school or office staff at your location by contacting CES. To sign up for ePD Endorsement, please go to PD Central and enter your name on the waiting list. You will be contacted as sessions are scheduled.
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3 hours of credit will be issued upon completion of this session.)
ePD - Are technology tools integrated into instruction and learning in your classroom?
Prerequisite: ePD Endorsement
Participants in this session will make a virtual visit to a classroom that utilizes technology as an integrated part of the classroom environment. Through tools that support electronic collaboration, participants will identify strategies to incorporate technologies into their own learning space.
(3 hours of credit will be issued upon completion of this session)
ePD – Classroom Improvement Adventure
Prerequisite: ePD Endorsement
Classroom Improvement ePD Adventure is a web-based professional development experience designed specifically for instructional personnel in order to achieve the following:
Connect participants to research-based practices appropriate to their respective schools, content and levels.
Provide participants with practical experience in using technology to design action plans for struggling students in their respective classes.
(3 hours of credit will be issued upon completion of this session)
ePD - CLICK! offerings:
Prerequisite: ePD Endorsement
Computer Basics
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Microsoft Excel 2000
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Word
A series of courses are available for each of these topics. Search for CLICK in PD Central to view all available.
Certification in each of these topics can be obtained after successful completion of each series and passing a face-to-face proficiency test.
Please contact Sheila.Stanton@jefferson.kyschools.us for more information.
ePD - Creating a Pamphlet Using Microsoft Word
Prerequisite: ePD Endorsement
Participants will learn how to use Microsoft Word to create a pamphlet. This course assumes an understanding of Microsoft Word. Participants must have Microsoft Word on their own computer as well as Macromedia Flash, which is a free download from the Macromedia site on the the internet.
(2 hours of credit will be issued upon completion of this session.)
ePD - Creating Content in JCPS OnLine
Prerequisite: ePD Endorsement
Participants will progress through a guided, step-by-step process for creating a lesson within a course or group in JCPS Online from any place, at anytime. It is designed to guide you through the development of a course shell that includes content elements, syllabus and user enrollment process. An eMentor will be available to help you online. Having already done the ePD on Exploring Models, participants will probably be inspired to want to use JCPS Online in their own classrooms. This ePD will show you how to create that space on the web within the JCPS Online environment.
(3 hours of credit will be issued upon completion of this session.)
ePD - Creating Your Web-Enabled Space using JCPS OnLine
Prerequisite: ePD Endorsement
Participants will create an original course or a group using JCPS Online for use with students in the classroom or with school staff for sharing and gathering information. The course is designed to allow you time to apply the information learned in the first two phases of this series to create a course/group that will impact your students or fellow staff members.
(3 hours of credit will be issued upon completion of this session.)
ePD - Ethical Use of Technology
Prerequisite: ePD Endorsement
How would you handle a student who accessed an inappropriate website? Is there a "best way" to handle this or other inappropriate uses of technology? Spend time understanding the legal and ethical ramifications of integrating technology into your classroom.
(3 hours of credit will be issued upon completion of this session.)
ePD - Exploring Models of Web-Enabled Classrooms
Prerequisite: ePD Endorsement
A course designed to allow you to experience some of the existing models for utilizing JCPS Online. You will examine various classroom spaces on the web, evaluate these spaces and look at the concepts that may expand the use of technology in the classroom. While the possibilities are limitless, these models represent current best practices for student engagement and staff collaboration. (The first part of this course will include a quick review of JCPS Online.)
(3 hours of credit will be issued upon completion of this session.)
ePD - The Good, the Biased, and the Ugly
Prerequisite: ePD Endorsement
Participants will develop the ability to determine the quality of content on the WEB. Through online collaboration, learners will develop an understanding of how to identify good, biased and ugly sites. Attention will also be devoted to discussion on how to help students understand this information.
(3 hours of credit will be issued upon completion of this session.)
ePD - Google Earth
Prerequisite: ePD Endorsement
Explore a three dimensional atlas that is unlike any program you have seen before. There are many educational uses for this new, free product. Participants will also become members of a learning community that shares lessons and activities aligned with KY Core Content using this engaging tool.
(3 hours of credit will be issued upon completion of this session.)
ePD - i-Safe PDP (Professional Development Program)
Prerequisite: ePD Endorsement
Using JPCS Online participants will learn about the i-Safe Federal Initiative that focusing on internet safety for students. This training will focus on the five areas of: CyberCommunity Citizenship; Cyber Security; Personal Safety; Predator Identification; and Intellectual Property. This training will be done in conjunction with the i-Safe America Inc and will utilize real-time videos, surveys and assessment to determine learners understanding and ability to teach content to k-12 students.
(6 hours of credit will be issued upon completion of this session.)
ePD - JCPS OnLine Batch Enrollment
Prerequisite: ePD Endorsement
Participants will learn how to use the batch enrollment feature of JCPS Online to populate their course or group.
(1 hour of credit will be issued upon completion of this session.)
ePD - JCPS Online Gradebook
Prerequisite: ePD Endorsement
Participants will learn how to use the Gradebook feature within JCPS Online to manage coursework for students.
(2 hours of credit will be issued upon completion of this session.)
ePD - JCPS OnLine HTML Editor
Prerequisite: ePD Endorsement
Participants will learn how to use the HTML Editor to create pages, quizzes, surveys and discussion within JCPS Online that are able to incorporate graphics, sound, color, video and design principles to make courses and groups more engaging.
(2 hours credit will be issued upon completion of this session.)
ePD - Microsoft Word for OSX
Prerequisite: ePD Endorsement
Designed for Mac Users who want to learn more about Microsoft Word. The ePD will take you to online tutorials and you will submit a final project to demonstrate learning.
(3 hours of credit will be issued upon completion of this session.)
