The North Carolina Central University School of Education will hold a special technology workshop for teachers on June 23 and 24.

The event will offer training on:

• Using Smartboards to teach mathematics, science, social studies and language arts.
• Google apps in the classroom.
• Using Hyperstudio 5 to create digital content.
• Using iPads and and smartphones to enhance instruction.
• Using social networks to support instruction and teaching with Elluminate.

Anthony Tata, superintendent of the Wake County Public School System, and Bruce Friend, director of SAS Curriculum Pathways, will offer keynote addresses.

The workshop will be held both days at the H.M. Michaux Jr. School of Education from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and will include lunch.

Registration ends June 14.

For further information, contact Edith Thorpe at 919-530-6689 or visit the website at <http://www.nccu.edu/academics/sc/soe/>.

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Winston-Salem State professor to study health disparities

Sylvia A. Flack, director of the Center of Excellence for the Elimination of Health Disparities (CEEHD) at Winston-Salem State University, has been selected to participate as a scholar in a National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) course this summer.

Flack is one of 54 investigators from major research institutions, federal funding agencies, colleges and universities from across the nation who will take part in “Integrating Principles of Science Practice and Policy in Health Disparities Research” course, June 20 through July 1 at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She was selected to participate based on her work in addressing health disparities.

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2 Winston-Salem State students win Schweitzer Fellowships

Clinton Serafino and Timothy Serrano, students in the physical therapy doctoral program at Winston-Salem State University, have won Albert Schweitzer Fellowships for 2011-2012.

Timothy Serrano, left, and Clinton Serafino

They will join approximately 240 other graduate students who will serve as Schweitzer fellows at 13 program sites throughout the country.

Using the school’s mobile unite and iPad technology, Serafino and Serrano will seek to bring pediatric physical therapy screening services to underserved populations in eastern Winston-Salem.

“These students will be working with infants and pre-schoolers in the mornings and with children up to 18 years old in the afternoons when they arrive back from school,” said Dr. Dora Sole, who helped Serafino and Serrano develop the project. “In addition to evaluating such things as motor skills, they will be working with older children in such areas as healthy lifestyles and recommended physical activities.”

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