This course examines five of Shakespeare’s tragedies in relation to the culture and politics of both Shakespeare’s world and our contemporary one. Special emphasis will be placed on the tragedies in regard to history, power, politics, leadership, and literary aesthetics.

This course is designed to introduce the digital interactive classroom. Participants will use the Smart interactive whiteboards and Smart Notebook software to explore and create interactive lessons by content level. This course will show teachers how to use the new Smart Senteo interactive response system that will be used as an assessment tool to support the classroom instruction. Other emerging technologies such as the tablet pcs, document cameras, classroom management software, ipods, and other web tools such as blogs and wikis will be used to support the interactive classroom.

This interdisciplinary History/Art/Spanish course will examine Mexico’s history and culture and look at why and how Mexico is very different from the US. Historical topics emphasized: social revolution and struggles for social justice, heroes and heroines, Mexico as a Latin American and Third World country, Mexican-American history, culture, problems, and influence on the US. Cultural topics include holidays, recipes, indigenous crafts, great art and architecture, mutual stereotypes. Several hands-on arts and crafts activities for use in teachers’ own classroom will be practiced, including pinatas, "tin ornaments", bark paintings and paper flowers.

This course will delineate instructional and managerial strategies that can be used in classrooms to address the individual learning needs, strengths, and styles of all students. Emphasis will be placed on best practices that maximize student learning within the regular classroom. The most current and promising practices, as well as relevant research, will be presented. Areas of specific study will include special education, second language learners, learning style and brain research, gifted and talented, technology and rubric design. The varied learning environments, content, processes and product for the course strive to reflect the best practices in differentiated instruction.

Learn how to create an effective and attractive educational website for students and your community. This course will focus on creating web pages with Web authoring tools. Using these tools, you will be able to publish to the World Wide Web without having to do any programming. Upon completing this course, you will have your own website on the Internet. Prior to enrolling, you should have general experience with the Internet and specifically the World Wide Web.