FOR-PD Chat Transcripts

FOR-PD offers monthly chats on topics ranging from using the technology in the course to timely reading issues that impact teachers. Each chat is transcribed and posted to this web site for public viewing.

Note: Beginning with the 2008 chats, the chat transcripts are provided in PDF format. In order to view these files, you will need Adobe Reader. This software can be downloaded for free from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.

Tech/Course Chats

The tech/course chats offered by FOR-PD cover technology and course content questions about the FOR-PD course. These are held by our Help Desk Manager and/or Technology Specialist as well as our Reading Specialist. The first 30-minutes are dedicated specifically to technology help/questions and the final 30-minutes include time for specific questions about the course in general or the content of the course.

• December 6, 2007 - End-of-course Wrap-up Chat for the FOR-PD Course
• October 4, 2007 - Technology/Content Questions about the FOR-PD Course
• October 2, 2007 - Technology/Content Questions about the FOR-PD Course
• September 6, 2007 - End-of-course Wrap-up Chat for the FOR-PD Course
• August 7, 2007 - Technology/Content Questions about the FOR-PD Course
• July 10, 2007 - Technology/Content Questions about the FOR-PD Course
• June 14, 2007 - Technology/Content Questions about the FOR-PD Course
• June 12, 2007 - Technology/Content Questions about the FOR-PD Course
• May 22, 2007 - Technical Support for the FOR-PD Course
• April 10, 2007 - Technical Support for the FOR-PD Course
• March 20, 2007 - Technical Support for the FOR-PD Course
• February 1, 2007 - Technical Support for the FOR-PD Course

Content Chats

Our one-hour content area chats are offered twice a semester as a way to provide current participants additional information and insight on a variety of literacy topics. We often have literacy experts and researchers from across the state and country to participate and lead our chat. We offer a transcript of the event once the chat has completed for those not able to attend.

• November 8, 2007 - Content Chat with Mary Adler and Eija Rougle - Building Literacy Through Classroom Discussion
  Mary Adler and Eija Rougle, authors of Building Literacy Through Classroom Discussion: Research-Based Strategies for Developing Critical Readers and Thoughtful Writers in Middle School, share thoughts and ideas on how to develop discussion in the classroom while encouraging and building literacy skills.
• October 9, 2007 - Content Chat with Professor Arthur Hyde - Comprehending Math in a K-12 Setting
  Arthur Hyde is a professor of mathematics education at National–Louis University. While a high school mathematics teacher in Philadelphia, he obtained doctorate in curriculum and instruction from the University of Pennsylvania. He has conducted extensive professional development programs in Chicago and surrounding school districts.
• July 25, 2007 - Content Chat with Professor Susan Landt - Multicultural Literature: Choosing and Using Quality Text
  Students are in schools with a great deal. They need to have an understanding of the multiplicity of people and perspectives and they can gain great insight by reading multicultural literacy. Professor Susan Landt discusses ways to use multicultural literature in the K-12 classroom.
• June 20, 2007 - Content Chat with Susan Kelly - Building Text Sets
  Susan Kelly offers suggestions and ideas on how to motivate striving readers with text sets. Ms. Kelly discusses how to choose texts and build a resource for any teacher's classroom.
• March 8, 2007 - Content Chat with Dr. Bruce Murray - Phonics and Phonemic Awareness Instruction for the K-12 Educator
  Dr. Bruce Murray, associate professor of Reading Education at Auburn University, discusses the importance of phonemic awareness instruction for all teachers. Dr. Murray also maintains The Reading Genie website.
• February 7, 2007 - Content Chat with Dr. Jeffrey Kaplan- Reading Writing Connections
  Professor Kaplan describes the Reading Writing Connection, a program designed by the National Writing Project, that brings all the elements of teaching - reading, writing, comprehension, - together in classroom instruction. He shares thoughts on the importance of writing in every classroom.