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Free Thinkfinity Online Courses

Free Thinkfinity Online Courses

Posted on Wednesday, November 4, 2009

The ETSC program is partnering with Verizon Thinkfinity to offer professional development opportunities for Washington educators. The first 10-hour online course, Introduction to Thinkfinity, starts November 16. Other courses to follow:

  • Thinkfinity Science Resources
  • Thinkfinity and the Arts
  • Thinkfinity and Science
  • Thinkfinity and Reading
  • Thinkfinity and Social Studies
  • Thinkfinity and Elementary Music
Information about our first course, Introduction to Thinkfinity:

Clock Hours: 10 clock hours

Cost: Free, clock hours extra

Registration Limit: 25 participants

Dates: November 16 – December 18; class is self-paced, but all assignments must be finished and all documents submitted before December 18th!

Description: Thinkfinity is an online collection of over 55,000 standards-based K-12 lesson plans, student materials, interactive activities and other instructional content tools that have been reviewed and endorsed by the nation’s leading education organizations. Equivalent to ten hours of on-site workshop, this structured online course is self-paced for the participants, providing them an overview of the rich educational teaching and learning resources that are offered on the Thinkfinity web site that they can complete at their own pace.

Registration Instructions: Go to www.esd112.org and click on courses.  This will take you to ESD 112's escWorks site.
  1. Search for “Thinkfinity” and click on the course.
  2. If you are a new user, you will be asked to create an escWorks account.  If you already have an account on the ESD 112 escWorks site, you will need to login.
  3. Once you are logged in, you will be taken to the registration page.
For more information, contact Anne Allen at 425-917-7939 or aallen@psesd.org.

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