What's New
NEW FACILITATOR MANUAL FORMAT 
The Facilitator’s Manual has a new format! The first thing you will notice is the ‘Last Revision’ date at the top of the page (in the PDF version as well). This will assist you in knowing you have downloaded the most recent manual when you save a copy.
In order to make this tool more user-friendly and provide further support, the information in the manual has been rearranged and additional information has been added. You will see sections on how to update your personal information, requirements for professional development, tips for time management, and more.
Please share any feedback you may have with the FOR-PD office including anything you think needs to be added. We look forward to hearing from you!
UCF, College of Education 11th Annual Literacy Symposium
Multiliteracies: Students and Teachers Reading, Writing,
Communicating, & Learning in a Digital World
On April 3, 2009 (from 8 AM-3:30 PM), the UCF College of Education will be holding its 11th Annual College of Education Literacy Symposium! Location: The UCF College of Education (Gymnasium). This event attracts an average of 500 educators from across the state. We hope that you mark that date on your calendar and also share it with fellow educators. Admission is free but we require that attendees register. We welcome proposals from educators.
Our theme this year is on: Multiliteracies: Students and Teachers Reading, Writing, Communicating, & Learning in a Digital World. Join us as we address the following:
- How is literacy changing in the 21st century?
- How can we prepare students to meet the literacy demands of the 21st century?
- How can we motivate the "digital-natives" generation to read?
- How can we read, write, communicate, and learn using technology, multimedia, and a variety of texts?
- What does it look like in the classroom when you are working on 21st century skills?
- How can we help students critically evaluate learn from information they access on the Internet?
- How can we incorporate multiliteracies across the content areas?
- How (and what) do students read and comprehend when they read online texts or using the Internet?
- What are other teachers (K-12) doing to integrate new literacies in their classrooms?
- How about reading across the content areas and multiliteracies?
- Can multiliteracies help with my ELLs and students with exceptionalities?
This is a free professional day for all elementary and secondary educators, including literacy coaches, library media specialists, reading specialists, and administrators.
Our morning keynote speaker will be Douglas Hartman, Ph.D. Douglas K. Hartman, is Professor of Literacy & Technology in the College of Education at the Michigan State University, Senior Editor of the Journal of Literacy Research, Co-Director & Principal Investigator in the Literacy Achievement Research Center, and Research Fellow with the Center for Health Intervention & Prevention. His key research and teaching focus is on new literacies and adolescent literacy. The title of his keynote address is: “Preparing a New Generation of Teachers and Students for the New Literacies of the Internet”
Our afternoon keynote speaker will be Johanna Riddle. Johanna Riddle, a National Board Certified FL teacher, an art teacher, an arts administrator, a media specialist, and an author. Author of Engaging the Eye Generation: Visual Literacy Strategies for the K-5 Classrooms(2009, Stenhouse Publishers). The title of her keynote address is: "Engaging the Eye Generation”.
Enrique Puig, director of the FLaRE center, will speak on “Literacy Leadership Teams”. Other literacy symposium topics include: Reading and Writing for K-12 grades; Motivation; Reading Across the Content Areas; Engaging Students with Texts; Media, Technology, and Literacy; Vocabulary & Comprehension; Math/Science & Technology; Children’s and Young Adult Literature; Learning Exceptionalities; ESOL /ELLs; Leadership Literacy Teams.
For more information on the event, please see: http://education.ucf.edu/litsymposium/details.cfm
For an event flyer, please see: http://education.ucf.edu/litsymposium/docs/flyer.pdf
For agenda, please see: http://education.ucf.edu/litsymposium/agenda.cfm
For registration information, please see: http://education.ucf.edu/litsymposium/register.cfm
For proposal submission, please see: http://education.ucf.edu/litsymposium/proposal.cfm
* Deadline for proposal submission: March 16, 2009
We hope to see you on April 3rd, 2009 at UCF! For more information, please contact Devon Mattingly, Event Assistant
(ddmattin@mail.ucf.edu) or Vicky Zygouris-Coe, Ph.D. at vzygouri@mail.ucf.edu or at 407-823-0386.
Facilitators, please consider submitting a proposal! How are you addressing this in your classroom?
CELEBRATION OF COMPLETION RATES
Congratulations to those facilitators who achieved a completion rate of 80% or above in their fall 2008 sections!
Beth Brabant |
Gail Choice |
Margaret Williams |
Sarah Parnell |
An extra special round of applause goes to the ONLY facilitator who had a 100% completion rate!
Kim Pearson |
Excellent job! We have truly wonderful and dedicated facilitators! Thank you for your efforts to support and motivate your participants during the course. Your hard work contributes largely to the success of your participants and FOR-PD!
Our overall completion rate for the fall 2008 term was 77.5%.
Great work!
This semester, one option facilitators have for meeting the professional development requirement is to participate in discussions on the FOR-PD Literacy Blog! In order to participate, you will need to be registered for the blog. In order to receive credit for participation you will need to identify yourself. This can be done by registering with your full name and the title “Facilitator”.
Below are the directions for new users. However, if you have already registered remember to indicate that you are a facilitator either by including it when you post or editing your username once you log in.
If you HAVE NOT previously registered for the FOR-PD Literacy Blog follow these directions:
1. Go to http://forpd.ucf.edu/literacyblog/ , scroll down to the bottom right of the screen and click on “Register”.
2. In the box labeled “Username” please type in your FULL NAME - FACILITATOR. Then put your primary e-mail address in the box labeled “E-mail”.
3. You should receive a password in your primary e-mail inbox with a link at the bottom. Click on that link and proceed to the log-in page.
4. Log in using your original username and password that the e-mail states.
5. To change your password, you may go to “Profile” on the left side of the screen. Scroll to the very bottom and change your password.
6. To leave a comment on a blog post, go to “Visit Site” which is always located in the top left of the screen.
7. Click on “Leave a Comment”. You do not need to fill in anything except for the main comment box with your comment and click on “Submit Comment”.
8. Your comment will not appear right away, because it will first need to be approved by the administrator.
Contact Us
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Dr. Vicky Zygouris-Coe (Principal Investigator)
Richard Scott (Registration)
Candace Whitehead (Facilitator Specialist)
Lourdes Smith (Reading Specialist)
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Last Updated:
February 15, 2009
