CAP's

=PA GIAE, Content Area Partners (CAPs) - July 13-18, 2008 = [|The KeyArts Website] [|The KeyArts Survey] [|The KeyArts Forums]

By the end of the week, you will know how to: Use iPods in the arts classroom. Engage student learning through Japanese arts and culture. Adapt and enrich the curriculum for your special learners, gifted and ESL/ELL students. Take a leadership role in your school and community in planning for and implementing standards-based arts programs. Incorporate arts and humanities standards and math and reading strategies into your arts instruction. Assess and evaluate student performance in the arts. Lead your students in critical response to works in the arts. Facilitate data collection in the arts and analyze the resulting data. Produce and evaluate podcasts & vodcasts.

What you will know:

 * Leadership styles and strategies
 * Networking and communication
 * Information Management and Resources
 * Locating survey data
 * Collecting data
 * Process of producing a podcast or vodcast
 * Creating new and original audio using digital recording technology
 * Creating digital video
 * Publishing podcasts/vodcasts
 * Protocols to cite a podcast
 * Criteria for assessing the quality of podcasts
 * Accessing podcasts/vodcasts for review
 * Critiquing podcasts/vodcasts

What you will do:

 * Work with regional teams to develop and implement a local leadership action plan
 * Participate in data gathering as a resource for the state-wide arts education survey
 * Access the data
 * Download data statistics and graphs
 * Exhibit collected data
 * Create and transmit a podcast or vodcast using iPod technology (focusing on Abraham Lincoln, as content)
 * Pre-compositional planning and research
 * Creating sketches and drafts
 * Assessing and revising via rubric
 * Publishing (uploading) to the Internet
 * Develop and use a rubric for peer and self-assessment before posting podcasts
 * Review existing podcasts
 * Identify positive and negative aspects
 * Identify desirable missing aspects
 * Create assessment tools
 * Create an assessment holistic rubric

To receive 2 graduate credits, you must:

 * Actively participate in the week’s learning, including all presentations and CAP sessions
 * Produce at least ONE podcast or vodcast and upload it to the Keyarts website
 * Evaluate your own or a peer’s podcast using a rubric
 * Develop a regional plan
 * Lead your team in implementing the regional plan and write a summary of your accomplishments, due to Julia Centeno julcen@berksiu.org no later than **MARCH 1, 2009**