iPad opens up new ways to teach and learn. Out of the box, iPad is ready to help you do everyday things — and not-so-everyday things — in ways that are intuitive, simple, and fun. Transform iPad into a book, a camera, an assistant, a sketchpad, and more to help you throughout the school day. Specific app focus: Various native iPad apps (Safari, Settings). 2 SCECHs. Registration.

Intuitive tools in Pages make it easy to customize fonts and add images, movies, audio clips, shapes, and your own drawings to any document. Create reports, newsletters, posters, and more using a variety of beautiful templates. You can even make interactive books that readers can view on virtually any device. 2 SCECHs. Registration.

Learn to use Keynote as an effective tool for storytelling. Create a scene with shapes and images. Learn to bring your scene to life with animations, transitions, and audio. 2 SCECHs. Registration.

The flexible canvas in Numbers lets you organize and explain data through colorful charts, summary tables, photos — even video — in lab reports, budgets, project plans, and reports. 2 SCECHs. Registration.

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Create movies that include titles, music, and effects — all with videos and photos taken on your iPad. Then share them to introduce new lessons, reenact historic events, demonstrate lab procedures, or document a community event. 2 SCECHs. Registration.

Intuitive tools make it simple to play instruments and add your voice, loops, or sound effects. Make songs that reinforce vocabulary, record poetry verses, or compose soundtracks for your own documentary films. 2 SCECHs. Registration

Clips is a fun app that lets educators and students easily create and share fun and engaging videos. We’ll show you how educators can use Clips to create instructional videos for exploring new skills and ideas — and how students can make videos to share what they’ve learned. 2 SCECHs, Registration.

For educators wishing to explore options bringing creative art ideas into core content areas. This session covers Apple's Everyone Can Create resources for primary classroom integrations ideas. Specific book reference: Everyone Can Create Books. Specific app focus: Camera, Photos, GarageBand, iMovie, Clips, Sketches School. 2 SCECHs. Registration.

For educators wishing to explore options bringing creative art ideas into core content areas. This session covers Apple's Everyone Can Create resources for middle school classroom integrations ideas.
Specific book reference: Everyone Can Create Books. Specific app focus: Camera, Photos, GarageBand, iMovie, Clips, Sketches School. 2 SCECHs. Registration.

Learn synchronous and asynchronous strategies for engaging early elementary students (grades K-2). Grow in their phonological awareness, build their phonics skills, develop their vocabulary, deepen their comprehension, and provide a variety of interactive reading and writing experiences. 2 SCECHs. Registration.

Apple’s notes is a fun and efficient way for educators and learners to collect, organize, and analyze content. This session offers educators opportunities to discover how easy it is to leverage information from other apps, collecting them all in Notes, and easily share them with learners. 2 SCECHs. Registration.

With Maps, you and your students can take virtual trips to locations all over the world. And with 3D views and the stunning Flyover feature, Maps can help you add global context to learning experiences in any subject. 2 SCECHs. Registration.

Explore technology resources and strategies to help students in grades 3-6.  Build reading and writing stamina, increase understanding of complex and diverse texts, develop fluency, and support meaningful discussion of literature. 2 SCECHs. Registration.

For those who like to doodle when capturing ideas and concepts, learn how sketchnoting is becoming more of the preferred way to showcase understanding. Specific app focus: Notes, Sketches School. 2 SCECHs. Registration.

Explore technology resources to engage students in grades 6-12 in higher-order discussions of increasingly complex and diverse text. Support the delivery of standards-aligned instruction in disciplinary reading and writing, and develop authentic interactive experiences. 2 SCECHs. Registration.

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The REMC Virtual Courses are free and open to Michigan school personnel. You can take courses “just to learn” or complete the course and assignments and earn SCECH credits. 

All the courses are facilitated by Michigan educators.  Each course session lasts three (3) weeks and requires 10 hours of time to complete by participating in two, one (1) hour webinars OR listening to the recording of the webinar plus eight (8) hours for the reading, participation in discussion boards and written reflection. 

10 SCECHs are available at no cost for successful completion of a session.

Explore key planning factors for synchronous and asynchronous learning. Help students successfully learn by providing purpose and context to academic content. Gain insight from proven instructional strategies for virtual and blended learning. 2 SCECHs. Registration.