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REMC Courses

REMC Courses provide an opportunity to enhance personal or professional learning by exploring technology tools and instructional practices. 

Optional SCECHs are available for each course. Participants may also pursue a REMC Microcredential for deeper learning through one of 7 pathways.

Each course is FREE, 3 weeks in length and requires 10 hours of time to complete. Work includes new learning and application in the classroom or teaching practices. Courses require at least 1 live interaction with the instructor. All courses are facilitated by Michigan educators. 

Selecting a course name below provides a description and link to register. First time users of REMC Association's registration system will need to create an account.

Upcoming Events

  • 9 Oct
    • Assessment Tools for the Classroom
      Registration ends October 5
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      Assessment Tools for the Classroom
      Registration ends Oct 5
      Date: Oct 9
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      Formative Assessment is an essential part of the learning process leading to student success. Using Formative Assessment, teachers involve students in ongoing self-assessment so they are aware of expectations, gauge where they are in their learning, and then adjust to close the gap between them. Learn about digital tools to support this process. Explore and use quiz and polling tools, interactive and video assessments, portfolios, interactive lessons, and online bulletin boards. Leave with new tools to engage and assist your students in taking responsibility for their learning and achievement.
    • Creating a Digital Makerspace for your Classroom
      Registration ends October 5
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      Creating a Digital Makerspace for your Classroom
      Registration ends Oct 5
      Date: Oct 9
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      Just because you might not have a physical Makerspace in your school, that doesn't mean the learning, creating, and innovating is limited.  You will learn about why digital making is important, how to structure engaging and creative work for students, how students can develop critical 21st-century skills - and discover a myriad of resources that can be used.
    • Digital Citizenship - Practical Implementation
      Registration ends October 5
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      Digital Citizenship - Practical Implementation
      Registration ends Oct 5
      Date: Oct 9
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      In a digitally connected world, students need guidance to navigate the world safely and professionally. Learn the ISTE indicators for Digital Citizenship to build a knowledge foundation. Present practical applications for students. Guide students in developing plans to navigate high speed communication, job opportunities, social media, personal security and more.


    • Effective Online Classroom Communication Strategies
      Registration ends October 5
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      Effective Online Classroom Communication Strategies
      Registration ends Oct 5
      Date: Oct 9
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      Make the most of your online presence while complimenting your traditional classroom! Effectively use your district’s course management tool and/or a classroom website for organized communication with students and parents.  Learn how to organize your online classroom/website, best methods for communicating online with students and parents, and how to create or locate online quality resources that will make your online presence successful. 
    • Energize Student Writing Through Author Craft
      Registration ends October 5
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      Energize Student Writing Through Author Craft
      Registration ends Oct 5
      Date: Oct 9
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      Energize students to level up their writing across all styles and content? Explore author’s craft through the writing process structure. Help writers improve their craft through immersive experiences where they explore and sculpt ideas into meaningful drafts to share with various audiences. Join us on this writing journey.
    • Igniting Student Curiosity with Inquiry and Technology
      Registration ends October 5
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      Igniting Student Curiosity with Inquiry and Technology
      Registration ends Oct 5
      Date: Oct 9
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      What makes YOU curious? Students who ask questions engage themselves in learning to find answers as curiosity is the simplest and most effective way of learning. Join other educators as we spark our curiosity about the importance of asking questions. Explore how to nurture a culture of inquiry in the classroom by helping students formulate great questions in their learning and how to integrate technology to ignite and sustain critical thinking.

    • Increasing Efficiency and Productivity
      Registration ends October 5
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      Increasing Efficiency and Productivity
      Registration ends Oct 5
      Date: Oct 9
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      Become more productive, efficient and organized in your professional and personal life. Increase and improve productivity using apps and other simple technology.  Tech Tip 1: When selecting an app, learn to use it regularly. For example, update and check a calendar each day. Or create tasks in a list app, then complete and check them off.Tech Tip 2: Don’t try using everything at once. Start with one or two applications and then add more as needed.


    • Integrating Technology with the Foundational Elements of Literacy Instruction
      Registration ends Oct 5
      Date: Oct 9
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      Learn the foundational elements of literacy development from kindergarten through high school, uncovering why some students might struggle with reading content. You will also explore ways technology helps amplify critical thinking in reading, writing, speaking, and listening. The final deliverable in this relevant course is a tech-integrated literacy lesson that you can use in your classroom this year. (For secondary teachers who teach other disciplines besides English Language Arts, you will design a lesson based on the disciplinary literacy that supports your content.)
    • OER to Support Personalized Learning
      Registration ends October 5
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      OER to Support Personalized Learning
      Registration ends Oct 5
      Date: Oct 9
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      Open Educational Resources (OER) are free, editable classroom resources that can be used in curriculum. Competency-Based Education (CBE) personalizes learning for students by focusing on content mastery. Combining OER and CBE supports the flexibility of time, place, and pace while enhancing student agency through choice, voice, and authenticity. Participants will either create an authentic lesson or project incorporating an OER to enhance personalized learning, or develop a plan for personalized professional development in their professional context.
    • Power Up: Meaningful Data
      Registration ends October 5
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      Power Up: Meaningful Data
      Registration ends Oct 5
      Date: Oct 9
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      During your career, you will have many new experiences utilizing teaching strategies and methodologies to achieve goals for yourself and your students. This course will expand your ability to effectively use data to increase the chances of reaching those goals. 
  • 6 Nov
    • Designing Learning Opportunities with Google Tools
      Registration ends November 2
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      Designing Learning Opportunities with Google Tools
      Registration ends Nov 2
      Date: Nov 6
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      Create learning activities to promote critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, agency and voice. Use frameworks such as the SAMR model and Depth of Knowledge (DOK) as a guide for successful technology integration. Utilize Google Classroom, Meet, Slides and Forms to design engaging learning experiences for students of all ages.
    • Developing Student Media Literacy
      Registration ends November 2
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      Developing Student Media Literacy
      Registration ends Nov 2
      Date: Nov 6
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      We are all immersed daily in media and exposed to various types of messaging from the time we get up until we go to bed.  Help your learners access, analyze, evaluate, create, and even interact with media messaging to become effective communicators and critical thinkers.  You will use REMC’s Media Literacy Toolkit to build your knowledge around media literacy, discover resources for use with your learners, and create practical applications to integrate media literacy in your classroom, regardless of the grade level or content area(s) you teach.
    • Dynamic Presentations
      Registration ends November 2
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      Dynamic Presentations
      Registration ends Nov 2
      Date: Nov 6
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      Learn best practices for using a variety of presentation applications. Gain dynamic performance insights. Build your presentation confidence! Learn about the different presentation programs available for FREE to educators and students. By the time the course is done the participant will have either enhanced a presentation created beforehand or create a new presentation to share with students or colleagues. Learn how to connect with your audience by using polling, interactives, video and images from the public domain.
    • Fostering the 4Cs with Literacy and Technology Integration
      Registration ends November 2
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      Fostering the 4Cs with Literacy and Technology Integration
      Registration ends Nov 2
      Date: Nov 6
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      Explore how literacy and technology can help deepen each of the 4C's for our learners: critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and communication. Through a series of lessons, reflection, and meaningful interactions, you will create four lessons. Many technology tools and resources will be available to explore and possibly integrate with one or more of your lessons. For secondary educators who teach a content area other than English Language Arts the lessons will be based on the disciplinary literacy that supports your content. 
    • Leading a Culture of Change in Your School
      Registration ends November 2
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      Leading a Culture of Change in Your School
      Registration ends Nov 2
      Date: Nov 6
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      Explore the essential needs of Leadership and Culture. This course is designed for school, district, and teacher leaders who wish to implement a change effort in their school or schools. Leaders is a broad category, and can include coaches, teachers, technology specialists, aspiring leaders, or other interested in supporting school change. This course will focus on technology initiatives and other ideas that incorporate change.
    • Media Literacy: Fake or Real?
      Registration ends November 2
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      Media Literacy: Fake or Real?
      Registration ends Nov 2
      Date: Nov 6
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      Which media sites are reporting the truth? How to discern the difference between real and “fake” or false information? More importantly, can students differentiate between real and fake news? Most children have a difficult time discerning between what is real or fake, how to differentiate between an advertisement and a news article, and identifying where they got their news. We need to stop the cycle of passing forward news and information that has not been substantiated. This course will help educators and their students become smarter consumers and producers of information.
    • Multimedia Tools to Engage Students
      Registration ends November 2
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      Multimedia Tools to Engage Students
      Registration ends Nov 2
      Date: Nov 6
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      Participants will learn about technology tools that help students communicate their ideas creatively and clearly, and that demonstrates their knowledge and competency skills. Experience how the application of digital animation and video tools can enhance your lessons and engage your students. Expand the opportunities for creative communication, collaboration, and expression while meeting Michigan Technology Competencies for Students (MITECS). Experience and try-out free multimedia resources that present opportunities for building digital portfolios and as an assessment that demonstrates learning. Explore free media creation options that students can use to create digital artifacts.
    • OER to Support Michigan’s Literacy Essentials
      Registration ends November 2
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      OER to Support Michigan’s Literacy Essentials
      Registration ends Nov 2
      Date: Nov 6
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      The Essential Instructional Practices in Early Literacy (aka Literacy Essentials) aim to improve children’s literacy in Michigan. Open Educational Resources (OER) are free, openly licensed, high-quality collaborative tools that allow users to retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute them for educational purposes. Combining these powerful practices provides educators with the resources needed to enhance literacy skills for school-aged youth. Participants will explore various OER and build a plan to support one or more of the Literacy Essentials in their classroom or school context. 
    • Power Up: Learning Environment
      Registration ends November 2
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      Power Up: Learning Environment
      Registration ends Nov 2
      Date: Nov 6
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      Learn to be intentional with how you establish your learning space to facilitate the day-to-day interactions with and among your students. Start with designing the space itself, move on to building classroom culture, and then mold that culture into a community. Create a learning environment that meets the needs of today’s learners in ways that fully traditional classrooms may not.
    • Searching Safely and Strategically
      Registration ends November 2
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      Searching Safely and Strategically
      Registration ends Nov 2
      Date: Nov 6
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      It has become essential for teachers and students to know how to search safely and efficiently to retrieve reliable information. The course provides educational database links to safe, accurate sites. Participants will also learn to evaluate information from the internet to determine its authenticity. Participants will also leave with a good grasp of what is available in Michigan eLibrary; FREE resources for every resident in Michigan. 
    • Social Media: Strategies for Designing Learning Experiences
      Registration ends November 2
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      Social Media: Strategies for Designing Learning Experiences
      Registration ends Nov 2
      Date: Nov 6
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      Social media tools and platforms can enable educators to lead and learn with other professionals from where they stand in classrooms, offices, and buildings. Explore how social media tools aid with building and expanding professional networks and create opportunities for building authentic learning experiences for our students.
  • 4 Dec
    • Blended Learning Environments with Google Workspace
      Registration ends November 30
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      Blended Learning Environments with Google Workspace
      Registration ends Nov 30
      Date: Dec 4
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      Personalize your classroom experience with Google Workspace. Using Google Classroom, Meet, Slides, Forms and Docs, participants will create new digital classroom routines that support struggling students, build robust blended learning environments, design assessments, and learn how to provide valuable feedback. Take your teaching to the next level. 
    • Coding in the Classroom
      Registration ends November 30
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      Coding in the Classroom
      Registration ends Nov 30
      Date: Dec 4
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      Coding is becoming an essential classroom skill. It inspires critical thinking, engages students' problem-solving skills and promotes creativity. By combining coding and technology to tell stories and create, STEM becomes STEAM! Teachers and students can learn to code using several introductory coding programs designed for K-12 students. We will introduce several free coding platforms, hardware, plus teaching strategies and lessons so that participants will be comfortable coding by the course conclusion.
    • Creating Instructional Videos for the Classroom
      Registration ends November 30
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      Creating Instructional Videos for the Classroom
      Registration ends Nov 30
      Date: Dec 4
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      Video has made an impact on learning for decades. Now it is easy to create and edit your own instructional videos to teach a concept to students and colleagues using FREE online applications. Learn about best practices for video creation, various video creation applications that fit the educational need, basic video editing, and sharing videos.
    • Empower Student Agency While Building Global Professional Skills
      Registration ends November 30
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      Empower Student Agency While Building Global Professional Skills
      Registration ends Nov 30
      Date: Dec 4
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      Explore how to build a set of structures and guides that empower student agency so students can best take ownership of their learning.  Learn how to have students lead their learning using skills such as teamwork, communication, problem-solving and initiative.  These same skills are identified by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) as preferred skills for incoming college students and employees. 
    • Energize Student Writing Through Author Craft
      Registration ends November 30
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      Energize Student Writing Through Author Craft
      Registration ends Nov 30
      Date: Dec 4
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      Energize students to level up their writing across all styles and content? Explore author’s craft through the writing process structure. Help writers improve their craft through immersive experiences where they explore and sculpt ideas into meaningful drafts to share with various audiences. Join us on this writing journey.
    • Engaging Students in a Personalized Classroom
      Registration ends November 30
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      Engaging Students in a Personalized Classroom
      Registration ends Nov 30
      Date: Dec 4
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      This class focuses on personalizing content delivery to support student achievement by giving students control over their own learning environment. Participants will learn about student voice and choice, using tools that customize student’s strengths and needs. The course offers fun and engaging interactive resources for educators to use with their students. Classroom structure and flexible seating options are also shared, these strategies impact student behavior and learning outcomes. 
    • Gamification for Student Engagement & Learning
      Registration ends November 30
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      Gamification for Student Engagement & Learning
      Registration ends Nov 30
      Date: Dec 4
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      Student engagement is a key element for learning and academic achievement. Gamification is a system of tools such as badges, achievements, levels, and leaderboards to engage participants. Explore how to combine strategies to inspire students to practice, study, and learn more academic content. These gamification strategies result in increased student-led learning, critical thinking, creativity, and collaborative problem-solving.

    • My Classroom in the Digital Age
      Registration ends November 30
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      My Classroom in the Digital Age
      Registration ends Nov 30
      Date: Dec 4
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      Don’t let your digital life consume you, cause you to lose your perspective, or sidetrack you! Learn and teach your students how to manage life’s digital demands and use digital tools efficiently to meet your responsibilities and goals. Examine your Digital Footprint, learn about tools to improve online safety and security, and customize your digital device(s) to manage your life. Gain knowledge to make smart choices about your digital environment, establishing efficiency, control, and balance. 
    • Power Up: Digital Leaders
      Registration ends November 30
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      Power Up: Digital Leaders
      Registration ends Nov 30
      Date: Dec 4
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      Learn about resources and practice with job-embedded exercises to extend your and your students’ digital citizenship.  Explore how you can extend this impact beyond the classroom by moving beyond digital citizenship to a digital leader in your school and community, and encourage your students to do so as well. 
    • Using Virtual Reality in Education
      Registration ends November 30
      12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
      Using Virtual Reality in Education
      Registration ends Nov 30
      Date: Dec 4
      Time: 12:00 AM to 12:02 AM
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      Virtual Reality (VR) brings learning to life! Using VR, students can explore natural habitats, experience a beating human heart, or visit other planets. Explore the what, why, and how of integrating VR into classroom instruction. Discover how VR is changing classrooms and engaging students. Learn how virtual reality can unlock potential, personalize learning, and allow students to become content producers rather than just content consumers. Create a VR experience to support teaching or professional development.