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AAM-Colorado Newsletter • Edition 7 • June 2006

• FREE Summer Workshops for Colorado K-12 Educators, June and July 2006
• Are You Training Others in Your District to Use Primary Sources?
• AAM-Colorado Mentors Directory
• Summer 2006 Learning Activities Development
• American Memory Workshops Across Colorado

Post-News Educational Services Extreme Education Makeover — 2006 Summer Teacher Conference

Post-News Educational Services announces its Extreme Education Makeover, Friday, June 16, 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., at Arapahoe Community College. Come to a full day of seminars and hands-on workshops — more than 37 options to take you beyond your textbooks, with newspapers and technology for an extreme education makeover.

The Extreme Education Makeover will feature keynote speaker and technology expert John Kuglin discussing Navigating a Flat World with Technologies for Gen D.

Register now — space is limited! $65 registration fee includes continental breakfast, lunch, and refreshments. Graduate credit is available on site: half ($40), 1 ($60), or 2 ($120) credits.

Extreme Education Makeover
Friday, June 16, 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Arapahoe Community College
5900 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton, CO 80160

For more information and a list of workshop sessions, visit Post-News Educational Services at http://www.postnewseducation.com.

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FREE Summer Workshops for Colorado K-12 Educators, June and July 2006
AAM-Colorado Face-to-Face Workshops are coming up in June and July. Workshops are offered at no charge to any Colorado K-12 educator. The AAM-Colorado workshop series will be offered during each of the following time slots this summer:

• Tuesday, June 27 / Wednesday, June 28 / Thursday, June 29
• Wednesday, July 12 / Thursday, July 13 / Friday, July 14
• Monday, July 24 / Tuesday, July 25 / Wednesday, July 26

Participants may take a Face-to-Face workshop series for a total of 24 contact hours (21 workshop hours and 3 hours homework). This format entitles participating educators who complete Series I, II, and III to receive the American Memory Certification, possible licensing renewal credit, up to $240 in Digital Resource Certificates, an American Memory USB Flash Drive complete with AAM-Colorado Workshop materials and digital primary sources, and the eligibility to apply for a $1,500 Technology Acquisition for their school.

Workshop participants who seek three online graduate credit hours earn 45 contact hours (21 workshop hours, remainder online), the American Memory Certification, possible licensing renewal credit, up to $450 in Digital Resource Certificates, an American Memory USB Flash Drive complete with AAM-Colorado Workshop materials and digital primary sources, and the eligibility to apply for a $1,500 Technology Acquisition for their school. Graduate credit is awarded through University of Colorado at Denver or Adams State College. There is a tuition charge of $210.00 ($70.00 per credit hour) for graduate credit.

Upcoming AAM-Colorado online graduate credit workshops will be offered in Fall 2006:

• Monday, August 21 through Saturday, October 14
• Monday, October 16 through Saturday, December 16, week of November 19 - 25 off

For more information, see the AAM-Colorado summer workshop schedule at: http://aamcolorado.mscd.edu/schedulesum2006.htm.

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Are You Training Others in Your District to Use Primary Sources?
As Colorado educators complete AAM-Colorado workshops and return to their schools and districts to share their knowledge, they begin local initiatives to familiarize their colleagues with the American Memory program and digitized primary source material. Are you an educator who has completed AAM-Colorado workshops, and now share your experience with other educators in your school or district? AAM-Colorado asks that those who undertake these local initiatives let us know, so that we may include them in our reports, and share with the AAM community the progress we are making in Colorado.

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AAM-Colorado Mentors Directory
AAM-Colorado introduces its Mentors Directory, a listing of Colorado educators who have participated in AAM-Colorado workshops and would like to help promote the program in their schools and districts. The Mentors Directory Web page will be available online. Colorado educators who would like to be listed on the Mentors Directory page may contact AAM-Colorado Online Communication Developer Lisa Bradshaw at bradshaw@mscd.edu or 303-352-4989.

Summer 2006 Learning Activities Development
Learning Activities Development (LAD) brings teams content experts together to create learning activities using a template, and incorporating primary sources and other educational elements to accomplish stated learning outcomes. Learning Activities Development projects will:

• Follow a specified template.
• Be centered around a topic (unit or lesson) using American Memory primary sources.
• Propose and answer essential questions about the topic.
• Address specific state learning standards.

Learning Activities Development will begin with an introductory Professional Development Day on Monday, June 12 to explain project goals and expectations.

During the weeks of June 12 - 30, participants will complete their Learning Activities Development projects, and will have until Friday, July 14 to complete their Learning Activities Development projects. Dissemination reports for each team will be due Monday, July 16, 2007.

AAM-Colorado requires that teams of 3 or 4 include at least one librarian, media or technology specialist. A stipend of $400 will be paid to each team member upon submission of the team's completed project.

Dissemination of content developed in the Learning Activities Development project is a key element of this professional development opportunity. After a report describing and documenting how the project was disseminated to the team's peers is submitted to AAM-Colorado, each team member will receive an additional $200 stipend. Teams will have until Monday, July 16, 2007 to complete their dissemination reports.

A selection of completed Learning Activities Development projects will be made available to the educational community through links on the AAM-Colorado Web site.

For more information about Learning Activities Development, visit the AAM-Colorado LAD page at http://aamcolorado.mscd.edu/learnactSchedule0606.htm.

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American Memory Workshops Across Colorado
Although AAM-Colorado is based in Denver, its purpose is to serve the state of Colorado. AAM-Colorado workshops have reached outside the Denver metropolitan area and across the state, taking place in Grand Junction, Alamosa, Durango, Cañon City, and Colorado Springs, with upcoming workshops planned for Longmont and Greeley.

AAM-Colorado workshops may be scheduled on-location with a minimum of 15 participants. To find out how your school or district can participate in AAM-Colorado workshops, contact us at aamcolorado@mscd.edu or 303-352-4945.

AAM-Colorado Summer 2006 Workshops are in Progress!
Contact AAM-Colorado at 303-352-4945 or aamcolorado@mscd.edu
for details about enrolling in AAM-Colorado Workshops.

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An Adventure of the American Mind – Colorado
Metropolitan State College of Denver
PO Box 173362, Campus Box 35
Denver, CO 80217

Phone 303-352-4945 • Fax 303-352-4987
E-mail aamcolorado@mscd.edu • Web http://aamcolorado.mscd.edu/