Workshops and Lectures
Art and Illustration
Illustrating Children's Picture Books
June 30-July 23, 2008, Mondays and Wednesdays
Designed for aspiring and published illustrators and authors of children's
32-page picture books, this course explores the visual side of writing
picture books through workshops, discussions, and critiques.
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Business and Management
NEW! The Power to Influence Workshops
Winter/Spring 2008
Influence is an art and its tools require skill and practice. The Power to Influence Workshops are designed to equip business and nonprofit professionals with the precise tools they need to influence their organization and society. Build a reliable skill base to increase your performance and career advancement potential.
These sessions are designed both to maximize learning during the workshop and enable effective application of what was learned back in the workplace. Each instructor has designed pre-work to help participants prepare and focus on their most important learning objectives. After the workshop, post-learning continues through accountability assignments and workplace application. Sponsors and HR representatives are encouraged to get involved in the post-learning application. All of this is provided in addition to the full day of engaged learning activity.
Get more information at a glance for individual participants and HR professionals, then find out more by signing up for e-mail updates or browsing the workshops below.
May 19-21, 2008: Speaking to Persuade
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Computer Networks and System Administration
Next Generation Networking: IPv6 Fundamentals
Feb. 2 and 9, 2008
The introduction of IPv6 is the next major step in the evolution of the internet. Workshop participants will have the unique opportunity to learn about IPv6, gain hands-on experience, and to prepare themselves for the evaluation of IPv6 equipment and services.
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Embedded Systems Jumpstart: Windows CE 6.0 Cancelled
April 5, 12 & 19, 2008
Windows CE 6.0 is the latest generation of Microsoft's dedicated embedded operating system. This platform offers developers a framework that accelerates the development cycle for advanced embedded systems. The workshop will cover a broad cross-section of the Windows CE 6.0 operating system, providing participants with the resources necessary to jumpstart their embedded projects with the latest in embedded technology.
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Education
Algebraic Thinking and Effective Teaching Practices - Rethinking What's Possible for All Learners
Puyallup: Aug. 4-8, 2008
Seattle: Aug. 11-15, 2008
Are you a mathematics educator ready to challenge your perceptions about what's possible for all learners? Interested in developing more effective strategies when working within a classroom of diverse learners? The Mathematics Education Institute will provide participants with instructional strategies that are effective for English language learners, students who have historically struggled with mathematics, and those who have been successful. Participants will have the opportunity to use research as a framework for reflecting on their own teaching practices. They will share insights and findings, and identify strategies to test in their classrooms during the following year.
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Ethics in the Science Classroom: An Online Workshop for Educators
October 14, 2008 – March 3, 2009
This workshop provides an introduction to incorporating ethical dilemmas into science classrooms. It is designed primarily for secondary science teachers, although other educators may find this course relevant to their needs.
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PAL II Training: Assessment-Intervention System for Reading, Writing, and Math
March 22, 2008
This workshop by the author of the PAL II Diagnostic System for Reading, Writing, and Math will introduce participants to the subtests in the PAL II Reading and Writing Test Battery, the PAL II Math Test Battery and their respective Test Manuals with norms and scaled scores for grade, and the PAL II User Guide on CD, which helps users learn the numerous applications of the PAL II to both assessment and intervention.
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Can We Talk? Summer Workshops on Leading Discussions
July 21-24, 2008
These workshops feature two successful methods for leading productive discussions. Each is unique in perspective, approach and aim, emphasizing an intellectual partnership among participants, and shared inquiry into meaty problems.
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Developing Mathematical Ideas: Patterns, Functions, and Change
June 23–27, 2008
This seminar seeks to increase teachers' appreciation of the power and complexity of student thinking to drive the classroom learning experience.
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Developing Mathematical Ideas: Working with Data
July 7-11, 2008
Participants in this seminar will work with the collection, representation, description and interpretation of data. They will learn what various types of graphs and statistical measures show about features of the data. In addition, they will learn how to summarize data to compare groups, and consider whether the data provide insight into the questions that initially led to data collection.
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The Ecuador Experience: Immersion in Spanish Language, Culture and History in Quito
July 21 – August 6, 2008
Spend two and a half weeks improving your Spanish and studying Ecuadorian culture and history in beautiful Quito.
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Literacy through Drama in K-12 Classrooms
June 23-July 3, 2008
This course provides an instructional framework for K-12 teachers interested integrating drama into their current reading instruction. Participants will focus on arming themselves with practical and engaging tools to increase students' reading skills, comprehension and oral reading fluency through actively engaging students in dramatic collaboration.
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Mathematics Coaching Institute
June 23-27, 2008
With a focus on developing reflective and purposeful practice, this institute addresses challenges math coaches encounter in a role designed to support robust mathematics instruction. The institute provides opportunities to explore the mathematics of the elementary school, and to experience this mathematics from the perspective of the student, classroom teacher, and coach. Participants consider issues of adult learning, and analyze the process of teacher change; examine the process of their own learning; engage in discussions with coach colleagues; develop a deeper understanding of, and potential for, the coaching role and its complexities; and learn a variety of approaches to working with teachers, teams and staff.
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Medical Mysteries: An Institute on Infectious Diseases for Teachers (Grades 5-9)
Summer 2008
Medical Mysteries, an institute for 5th-to 9th-grade teachers who wish to introduce microbiology and scientific research to their students, will be offered by University of Washington Educational Outreach this summer in Bellevue. This program is offered in partnership with Rice University. Instructional fees, course costs, and materials for this professional development program are covered by a SEPA grant from NIH.
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Puget Sound Writing Project Invitational Institute
June 30-July 25, 2008
The Puget Sound Writing Project Invitational Institute is a yearlong program for teachers of any subject, at all levels—kindergarten through college—who are interested in writing. The institute focuses on the writing process and the teaching of writing, accomplished through research, writing and demonstration of writing instruction.
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Puget Sound Writing Project Open Institute
June 30-July 11, 2008
The Puget Sound Writing Project Open Institute is a two-week program for teachers K-12 in all subject areas who are interested in writing, including alumni of PSWP's Summer Invitational Institute and of previous Open and Advanced Institutes who want to continue their work on writing with a project of their own design.
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Young Mathematicians at Work: Fractions and Ratios
July 21 – 25, 2008
Participants use video-based materials to follow an instructional sequence over several lessons. They study the teacher's moves that support student learning, follow particular students as their understanding develops, analyze curricular design and choices, and see how teachers meet the needs of a diverse group of students. The math content will be fractions and ratios.
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Young Mathematicians at Work: Number Sense (K-3)
July 21 – 25, 2008
This program seeks to challenge teachers' beliefs about teaching and learning, and to use context to support mathematical development.
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See more programs for educators on the Programs for K-12 Educators site
Editing and Writing
MS Word for Editors
Winter: Feb. 2, 2008
Spring: April 12, 2008
This workshop provides exposure and practice in MS Word advanced editing tools, including track changes, comments, find and replace, shortcuts, toolbars, and customization.
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The Web Savvy Editor
Winter: Feb. 16 and Mar. 1, 2008
Spring: April 26 and May 10, 2008
The workshop will explore how editing and writing for the Web differs from print, and what makes a good Web site and is strongly recommended for those taking the spring course,
Advanced Editing: Non-Book Publishing in the Editing Certificate Program.
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Home Improvement
Earthquake Home Retrofit Training
May 17, 2008
A six-hour non-credit (6 CEU) program that provides a consistent, approved approach to the seismic retrofit of older, wood-frame, single-family homes. Developed in collaboration with Seattle Emergency Management and the UW Department of Construction Management. For more information on upcoming sessions, contact Trisha Dvorak at 206-685-6443.
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Independent Filmmaking
Film Directing
Nov. 8 & 22, 2008
Students meet for two, six-hour Saturday sessions conducted on campus. Students examine the role of a director in shaping a vision, the organizational and communicative qualities of a good director, and the dual responsibilities of a director as both artist and technician. Topics covered include imagination, leadership, taste, showmanship, expertise in various film-related crafts and subjects, and curiosity, as well as collaboration with producers, assistant directors, actors, and technicians.
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Film Distribution
April 18 & May 2, 2009
Students meet for two six-hour Saturday sessions conducted on-campus. Students examine the methods of marketing and distribution, including the options of film studio financing, limited partnerships, and individual investors. Also covered are various distribution contracts, such as a distribution deal, television contract, foreign sales deal, co-production deals, and DVD sales.
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Producing and Production Management
Jan. 10, 24, & Feb. 28, 2009
Students meet for three six-hour Saturday sessions conducted on-campus. Students examine the roles of a producer in choosing a film, development and packaging, and bringing a film into production through hiring a director and production manager, or selectively performing the tasks associated with these roles. Topics covered include legal responsibilities such as contracts, liabilities, unions, and insurance, as well as financial responsibilities including fundraising, fiscal compliance, and marketing.
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Sound Gathering on Location
April 4, 2009
Students meet during a six-hour Saturday session conducted at a field location, in which the instructor demonstrates the use of basic audio tools on location, including a portable DC mixer, radio lav microphones, a boom mic, headsets, and cabling. Topics covered include live mic-ing techniques, problem-solving for environmental noise challenges, selection of proper microphones for the given assignment, and proper gain-staging and level-setting for feeding various video cameras and audio recorders.
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Information Management and Services
Information Architecture Summer Institute
June 23 – 27, 2008
This five-day intensive course covers the key elements of information architecture. Each of these elements will be explored through lectures, interactive exercises and discussion led by university faculty and industry experts. If you work with information and need to connect it to users, this course provides the foundation necessary for success, whether you're designing a small Web site on a limited budget or trying to run an enterprise portal.
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Information Security Compliance and Risk Management Institute
September 10-11, 2008
This institute is designed to bring IT and information security professionals together with concerned academics and public officials for two days of discussion and advanced learning, focusing on the arts, sciences and laws of electronic information and IT use and protection.
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Knowledge Management Summer Institute
July 14-18, 2008
This institute increases participants' contributions to their organization's effective use of knowledge as a strategic resource. Participants are prepared to link information and knowledge management activities to organizational work practices and strategic objectives of their organizations.
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Learning in the 21st Century Organization
August 4-8, 2008
Learning in the 21st Century Organization is a five-day workshop style course that will identify how to engage lifelong learning in any organization, create a learning organization, and better understand how to use information technology to facilitate learning.
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Sustainability
Summer Institute in Sustainability
July 20-25, 2008
This is an intensive professional development program targeted to administrators in colleges and universities, state and local residents, and corporations who wish to learn how to develop organization-wide sustainability policies, procedures and projects.
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Travel-Study Tours
Washington State: Rain Forest, Dry Falls and Mountains
April–June 2008
Weekend excursions to explore the landscape and cultural aspects of the Evergreen State, with UW faculty and local experts as your guides.
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The Ecuador Experience: Immersion in Spanish Language, Culture and History in Quito
July 21 – August 6, 2008
Spend two and a half weeks improving your Spanish and studying Ecuadorian culture and history in beautiful Quito.
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