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 * New Year: New Ideas 2015 **


 * Monday, January 5, 2015**
 * 7:00 - 8:30pm (EASTERN)**

**After the session:** > Add these addresses to your address book so your certificate will not go to "SPAM": > **teachersfirst@sflinc.org** > **admin@adobeconnect.com** >
 * ==** YOU MUST COMPLETE this __[|FEEDBACK SURVEY]__ ** **to receive a PD certificate. This is NOT the only requirement for a certificate.** Please take the time to tell us about this session. Thank you.==
 * ==Read more about Prof Dev Certificate requirements here.==
 * **Certificates will be sent to you via email in approximately 3 weeks.** We are sorry, but we cannot honor requests for "express service" on certificates.
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 * Recordings for all archived OK2Ask sessions since March, 2013 are [|available here>]**. Please wait a day or two for the recording of this session to be posted.**


 * Please read this information about professional development certificates. ** The requirements include active participation during this live session and completion of the online Feedback Survey within one week of the session. We STRONGLY encourage you to complete the survey as soon as you leave the session while things are fresh in your mind. We value your feedback!


 * Unfortunately, we will not be able to accommodate **
 * requests to complete the survey after it closes
 * requests for duplicate or replacement certificates once we send them out for a session

OK2Ask® is a ** //free// ** service from a non-profit, the Source for Learning, Inc. Our small staff and limited budget require us to streamline administrative tasks as much as possible in order to maintain OK2Ask as a free service. We use our resources to develop and share the highest possible quality professional development, while keeping administrative costs as low as we can.
 * Why? **

Just as you, as a teacher, feel strongly about verifying that your students have completed objectives, we feel very strongly about issuing certificates only to those who meet OK2Ask session objectives. This verification process requires significant time. Relaunching the survey and/or  reopening the process to re-verify and reissue a certificate is simply not possible, given limited resources.

**Links/files mentioned or used during this session:**


 * Share 1 - Exploring TeachersFirst Basics **

**[|TeachersFirst.com]**

[|EDGE on TeachersFirst]


 * Share 2 – Save your Sanity, get organized, and see our “best kept secrets” **

[|Ready to Go] -- from pod bottom center on home page or from Classroom Resources

[|Instruction Units] - Classroom Resources Tab

[|Lesson Plans] - Classroom Resources Tab

[|XW1W] - Classroom Resources Tab

[|Timesavers and Handy Tools] - Professional Tab

[|Bulletin Board Hangups] - Ready to go printable quotes for your classroom (in Timesavers and Handy Tools)

[|TeachersFirst Help for Subs and Newbies] - Professional tab

[|Special Topics Page] - Classroom Resources Tab - TONS here to explore!

[|Study Skills] - ONE of TeachersFirst Special Topics

[|Special Occasion Sites] (Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Graduation, family vacation memories, etc..) - Another Special Topic on TeachersFirst

[|Help I Lost My Media Specialist] Professional Tab - Budget may cut it out, nothing can truly replace the media specialist

[|Reading for All] - Professional tab

[|Classroom Planning Calendar] - On Homepage

[|CurriConnects] – Classroom Resources Tab - booklists with connections to the curriculum

[|Online Tools] - Create something quickly and easily on the Internet (calculator, list maker, blog creator, and so much more)

[|PreK Tag] - Sites designed for preschool and early elementary.

[|Differentiation] - Professional Tab - Don't miss Top Ten Tips and Adapt a Strategy for ESL/ELL

[|Must-Know Special Topics] - Professional Tab (Cyberbulling, copyright, and more)

[|Organization Tools from the Edge]

[|TogetheRead] - Monthly "themed" reading list for ages.

[|Important Outside Sources] (Common Core, standards, and more) - Professional Tab

A full Collection of [|Professional “Exclusives”] - Professional Tab

Resources “tagged” for [|Common Core]


 * Share 3 – Communication and Tech-Tastic Technology **

Tips for [|Working with Parents] - Professional Tab

[|Professional Resources] (all) - Stay FRESH this year!

[|Blog Basics]

[|Wiki Walk-Through]

[|Twitter for Teachers]

[|Skype Tag]

[|Tech How and Why] - Professional Tab

[|BYOD Dream Tools]

[|OK2Ask] Main Page

[|Dates That Matter] - Social Studies Grades 6-12

[|Brain twister] - Elementary and middle school

[|Audio Books] - Find audio books with text and also interactive audio books