Technology Training Workshops for Adult Learners

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15 hour workshops for in-service credit -- Learn how to integrate technology and learning. Create lessons/projects to use in your classroom.

Web-Tech Connect – 15 hours
Create webquests, scavenger hunts, and class web pages to integrate technology with your curriculum. Web navigation templates will be provided. Locate the Internet resources and/or create your own, and plug them into the templates. Many excellent curriculum-related web sites will be provided for you to review. Gain strategies to improve web-researching skills. Learn how to create hyperlinks, use tables to format pages, and insert digital images to personalize content. We will use both the Microsoft Word and FrontPage applications. This will be easy, painless, and you will find GREAT resources that you can really use.

MS Office XP for Classroom Learning – 15 hours
Discover strategies for using MS Office XP with students (K-12) to enhance learning, and get them involved with technology. We will review many excellent student lesson/project ideas and templates designed to involve students with Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint. Adapt the provided templates or create your own to customize learning opportunities for your students. Learn how to manage and master those “glitches” that slow you down. (Bring your list of annoyances).

Connect with Kidspiration – 15 hours
This course will demonstrate how the program works to develop and reinforce literacy skills. Students see connections between words and their meanings, as they switch back and forth between the “picture” and “writing” mode in the Kidspiration program. Kidspiration uses visual learning techniques to help students brainstorm, organize, plan, and create. It is a concept mapping software program designed for K-5 learners.  Many examples of ways to use Kidspiration will be explored. Participants may customize many of the available templates to fit their own curriculum needs, as well as create their own excellent resources. Other topics covered will include: Creating custom symbol libraries to personalize learning in your classroom, adding links to Internet resources in your Kidspiration activities.

Digital Photography Workshop: Multimedia in the Classroom -- 15 hours
This workshop will cover the basics of utilizing digital photography in the school environment. Digital photography provides teachers with a valuable tool to customize and personalize learning in their classrooms. Pictures clarify and add depth to the educational process. Topics covered include exploring ideas for using a digital camera, scanner, image editing software, and how to insert digital photographs into PowerPoint and documents for publishing. There will be an opportunity to create a presentation or project for use in your classroom.  There will be a limited number of digital cameras available to use during the institute.

Digital Scrapbooking In the Classroom -- 15 hours
Learn how to get your students to use computers, digital cameras , scanners, multimedia components, and graphics software to create imaginative photos, backgrounds, and layouts for  theme-based digital scrapbooks.  Projects can be designed around  a variety of curricular topics, including biographies, autobiographies, travel journals, historical events,  or even imaginary adventures.

Digital Movie Production In the Classroom -- 15 hours
Learn how to get students plan, shoot, and edit their own movies. They will create a storyboard, construct sets, develop  characters, and then rehearse, shoot, and edit their movies. Students can choose one of three basic formats for their movie -- design and construct miniature characters and sets for their movie using polymer clay and other assorted art materials;  use LEGO® bricks and figures to build  their sets and characters; or plan their scenes to use other students as actors in their movies.

Primary Projects Workshop -- 15 hours
Learn to create elementary computer lab projects using PowerPoint, MS Word, a digital camera, scanner, and the Internet. Participants will plan learning tasks that connect technology with the elementary curriculum. Participants will have the option of creating a web page.

Balanced Literacy Workshop -- 15 hours
This is a hands-on workshop and lesson exchange! Participants will explore web and other text resources to create "guided reading" lessons/tools that will become part of a "Guided Reading Online Lesson Bank". Come with ideas to share. Prerequisite: familiarity with "guided reading".

Tech Camp -- One and Two Day Workshops

XP/Office XP: Explore some of the new features in Microsoft’s new XP Operating System /Office XP productivity suite. Learn a few strategies for using these applications with students to enhance learning, and get them involved with technology. Other topics include: how to attach and open files in email programs, and understanding where and how to save and retrieve files in a network environment.

Kidspiration: Kidspiration is a visual learning (concept mapping) software program designed for K-5 learners.  This workshop will demonstrate how the program works to develop and reinforce literacy skills. Students see connections between words and their meanings, as they switch back and forth between the “picture” and “writing” mode in the Kidspiration program. The program uses visual learning techniques to help students brainstorm, organize, plan, and create. Kidspiration is a more kid-friendly version of Inspiration.

WebQuest and Scavenger Hunts: Explore sample Webquests and Scavenger hunts and learn how to set them up and locate good information. WebQuests are inquiry-oriented activities where the information used by students is taken from the web. Scavenger hunts involve developing a series of questions around a topic or theme and providing students with links to resources for answering the questions.

Digital Photography and Imaging for the Classroom: Explore ways to use digital photography/scanners in the classroom, learn a few basics about using image-editing software to optimize pictures, and how to insert images into a presentation, web, or print document.

Power Point:
Explore ways to create electronic presentations for classroom use. Learn how to insert graphics, format text, and add animated elements to enhance learning.

Publisher:
Learn what this intuitive desktop publishing program has to offer for the classroom. Get your students creating brochures, flyers, newsletters, websites, and much more to reflect learning. Make communicating with parents easy.

Excel:
Explore the possibilities for using spreadsheets in the classroom. Learn how to organize information to create tables, charts, to compare or make calculations.

 

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