|
||||||
|
|News| |
|E-Rate| | |Directions| | |Resources| | |Workshops| | |Home| | |
|
|
||||||
|
Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade Teachers: PowerPoint, the Internet and More.
Would you like to learn how to make PowerPoint lessons to enhance your
teaching? Would you like to use websites designed for your classroom
curriculum? Are you interested in viewing software that will address just
the needs of your young students? Then this is the workshop for you. We will
begin by making PowerPoint presentations designed to use immediately with
your students. Next, we will look at the wonderful Internet resources for
PreK to 1st grade including free worksheets and motivating classroom
activities. We’ll conclude with a review of “must have” software.”. In one
day you’ll make important additions to your Technology Toolbox. Centers from Heaven...and Thinkfinity
Are
you stuck trying to develop centers for your classroom? Do you have at least
one computer enter? Then this is the class for you. Using the FREE (yes,
FREE) site, Thinkfinity.org, you will leave this workshop with more
interactive sites, lesson plans and ideas than you ever have at any
workshop. This is a must for the first year teacher to the very seasoned
teacher. Think Green with Thinkfinity: Inquiry based Lessons and Resources
Use
Thinkfinity’s 55,000+ FREE resources to create a comprehensive environmental
program that teaches earth friendly behaviors including sustainable
practices for how to live, work, and play. Understand the value of
environmental stewardship through the use of practical activities such as
recycling, composting and reducing waste, inside and outside of the
classroom. Be inspired by Thinkfinity resources that will create
environmental partnerships involving students, teachers, administrators, and
parents that align with existing curriculum and state mandated standards.
This workshop will give
you lessons for every holiday that you celebrate with your students.
Included with this workshop will be the first weeks of school, first 100
days, and testing tips. You will walk away with lesson plans, web
interactives, worksheets, and a variety of other resources. Have this
information available for your use as the holidays approach and enhance your
curriculum. Thinkfinity and You: Perfect Together
Are you looking for
some new innovative interactive teaching materials to obtain for FREE? Would
you like to have 55,000 lesson plans available for you any time? Do you need
to find the national, state, or curriculum standards for your lesson plans?
If you have said yes to any of the above questions this half day workshop is
for you. Thinkfinity is a
FREE
educational
resource for everyone. Bring your lesson plans and your curriculum and walk
out of this workshop with weeks and weeks worth of activities (paper and
interactive), resources, and further information to enhance every aspect of
your classroom. You will be WOWed! SMART Board Across the Curriculum: A First Course
Make the most of your SMART board and watch class participation and
engagement soar. First you will master SMART board basics. Then you will
learn how to plan and prepare your SMART lessons on any computer using SMART
notebook software. Come and take back interactive enhanced lessons to use
with your SMART board. We will provide a list of websites that are
particularly SMART board “friendly.” No more fumbling for transparencies,
hyperlinks, diagrams, or files. Your lesson will flow seamlessly and
learning will increase as students participate as active learners. Please
bring your curriculum materials. Note: Smart board software is free to Smart
board users and can be purchased for use on other boards. Intermediate SMART Board Users: Creating Interactive Lessons
You’ve been using your SMART board for a while and you and your students
really like it. Now thanks to the latest upgrades in the SMART notebook
software there is more for you to learn. And thanks to the growing community
of SMART board users you will access terrific Internet sources for
ready-made Smart notebook lessons. Use the downloaded lessons as is or
modify. During this workshop you will learn to use action buttons, insert
video clips, and create your own interactive manipulatives for the content
area and grade that you teach. After learning advanced skills and examining
Internet resources in the morning the afternoon will be a SMART notebook
lesson studio, providing time for you to prepare a dynamite lesson that will
inspire your students your colleagues, and you. If you like bring SMART
notebook files you’ve created and raise the lesson to new levels. Integrating Multimedia into your SMART Board lessons
In
this session we will define multimedia, discuss and demonstrate the
different SMART Board tools and techniques that can be utilized to deliver a
rich multimedia lesson. Some of the topics that will be covered
include: introduction and demonstration of the SMART Recorder tool, SMART
Video Player and Page Recorder, inserting FLASH Video into SMART Notebook
software, attaching sounds to objects in Notebook and different methods to
reveal text on page. Participants should be familiar with SMART Notebook
software prior to attending the session. No technical experience required. Scaffolding the Research Process: A must take class Research projects give students an opportunity to integrate and develop an entire range of academic skills, but writing a research paper is an enormously complex cognitive task, requiring the disparate skills of information-seeking, reading comprehension, note-taking, analysis, problem-solving, time management, and expository and persuasive writing. Students who lack proficiency and confidence in these areas may struggle with the project and produce poor results, or may be tempted to plagiarize rather than suffer the frustration of having to learn too much all at once. Some of our students find it difficult to use even one source intelligently and ethically, so teachers and librarians must collaborate to build students’ skill levels throughout the year and throughout the four-year high school cycle to enable them to write a multi-source, inquiry-based, thesis-driven paper.This two-day workshop covers all aspects of scaffolding the research paper process. Day 1 focuses on Information Seeking: search theory, online databases, advanced web searching, interlibrary loan, and the structure of information seeking.
Day 2
is devoted
to Pedagogy, including information literacy standards, scaffolding the
research process throughout the year, teaching ethical scholarship, and
designing assignments to integrate students’ research skills Audio for the Classroom – Music, Podcasting and More
Powerful FREE software and web-hosting can bring you and your students some
powerful new tools. From meeting the needs of auditory learners, to
student-produced projects and classroom radio, we’ll look at how you can use
audio and podcasts simply and effectively to create excitement about your
subject in and out of school. Using free software and web-hosting, you will
leave knowing how to load all of the software and gear, and produce/post
your own podcasts and audio projects.
Any
teacher who has access to a Macintosh computer can get rolling with
GarageBand, no talent or musical training required. Participants will learn
to harness the power of GarageBand’s built-in music creation, recording and
podcasting features in one fun-filled session. Integrate music, record
lessons, make new songs and podcasts, or create exciting, motivating student
projects. Pump up your classroom in person or on the web! Participants are
encouraged to bring CD’s of favorite music to use during the session.
SESSION TO BE HELD AT EBHS D-11 MUSIC LAB. Incorporating Publisher in the K-8 Curriculum
So
you think Publisher is only for making cards. Spend some time exploring the
program and you will see that you can use this exceptional resource for
making newspapers, pamphlets, newsletters, brochures, flyers, postcards and
more. Learn how to use hundreds of templates that will boost your students’
knowledge and abilities. You will leave this workshop with a variety of ways
to incorporate these tools into your daily curriculum. Yes, I Can ... Learn to Use a Computer
Everyone around you is sending email, surfing the web, downloading pictures
but you haven’t embraced technology yet. Here is your chance. Come to this
nonthreatening and unintimidating workshop and learn computer basics in a
friendly, low stress environment. Learn how to turn a computer on and off,
type a letter, create an email account if you don’t have one, and find
things on the Internet. Use a computer mouse to ‘point’ and ‘click’ your way
into the digital age. Organizing Your Computer Files
You
know you saved that file … somewhere. How can you find it? This workshop
will teach you how to organize your computer desktop and hard drive to make
locating files quick and easy. You will learn how to make electronic
folders, remove unwanted files, use the Search feature to find missing
documents, and even change the look of your desktop. Word Processing II : Microsoft Word and Google Docs
Move beyond the basics of Microsoft Word. In this workshop you will learn
how to import pictures and other objects, create and customize tables,
generate personalized letters to replace form letters, and create and use
templates. Learn more about sharing, collaborating, and storing using Google
Docs. Labels and More with Microsoft Word
If
you have Microsoft Word you have all you need to create labels, pencil
flags, signs, certificates, and letters all personalized with your students’
or parents’ names. You’ll add photos or graphics to add flair to your
creations. Bring a class list to use when we learn ‘mail merge’ and a USB
drive to take back your completed projects. Spreadsheets II: Microsoft Excel and Google Docs
Take Excel to the next level. First, get some tips to increase your
efficiency: keyboard shortcuts, handy functions, and pitfalls to avoid.
Then, learn to use the database analysis functions of Excel such as sorting
and filtering. Finally, learn to create and use macros to automate those
repetitive tasks. Learn how to collect data using Google Forms. Microsoft Access for Absolute Beginners
Microsoft Access is a wonderful database tool but you just never got around
to learning it or found it too confusing and frustrating. You are not alone
and that is why we are offering this workshop that will start from the very
beginning and establish a strong foundation of basic skills so that you will
be ready for more complex tasks. Learn how to create a database, how to use
the database to answer questions, and how to create reports - just the
basics. See how Microsoft Access can help you get the most out of all that
data that you have been collecting. No advanced topics will be covered. Presentations I: Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Docs
This full-day workshop will enable participants to create multimedia
presentations to support all aspects of teaching and learning. Participants
will explore features in PowerPoint, which bring slides to life. You will
learn how to animate your slides and how to add interesting transitions
between slides. To help with the creation of your own PowerPoint
presentation you might want to bring a textbook or other curriculum
materials. Test drive the PowerPoint like presentation part of Google Docs.
Share your presentations via the internet with students, parents, and
colleagues. PowerPoint — Tips and Tricks with Music
Stretch your PowerPoint presentations to the max with music …learn how to
add music to enhance your presentations … learn how to time musical
selections so that you can add more than one musical selection to a longer
presentation or loop the same musical selection throughout your presentation
… Fun and easy! PowerPoint — Tips and Tricks with Video Clips
Create PowerPoint presentations that wow audiences with video clips you make
with your digital camera … learn how to add, activate and time your own
digital video clips … feel free to bring your own camera (don’t forget the
wires needed to transfer into the computer) or use one of ours … Fun and
easy!
Tapping the powerful potential of Adobe Photoshop, we will explore and apply
some advanced techniques and tools. We will explore color in sophisticated
ways that will make Andy Warhol jealous. Come learn hand colorization and
apply special effects such as shadows, glows, and lighting angles to
typography and photographs. This workshop is highly experiential; you will
be working and having fun throughout the session. Scratch: Create Interactive Media
Treat yourself and your students (ages 8 and up) to a new, free way to
create your own interactive stories, music, and art using Scratch, invented
at MIT. Student creations can be shared via the Internet ( check out
scratch.mit.edu). See why November Learning says, "The Scratch website has
become the YouTube of interactive media." While your students are
programming and sharing with Scratch, they will "learn to think creatively,
plan systemically, and work collaboratively, while also learning important
computational ideas.” Building Schoolwide Literacy with FREE Web 2.0 Tools
Looking for ways to use Web 2.0 tools for elementary literacy skills safely
and effectively? Concerned that Web 2.0 tools may be too “difficult” or
unsafe for elementary students and teachers? TeacherFirst shares a model
where students focus on one new tool per year in grades K-5 or K-8 to build
literacy skills from basic phonics to the subtleties of writing. Find
inspiration in specific, grade-by-grade project ideas, and enjoy
TeachersFirst’s unusual pragmatic details to leverage the power of Web 2.0
for literacy learning in your school. Why not explore this model as you plan
professional development for yourself and your colleagues? Here is the link-
http://www.teachersfirst.com/schoo;widelit/index.cfm Google Docs and more: Connect, Create and Collaborate
Take advantage of Google's powerful, free, collaborative tools in your
classroom and beyond. Learn how to make the most of what Google has to offer
and have your students working with 21st century skills every day. Become a
21st century educator
You
can launch a totally free, password-protected, no advertising WikiSpace for
your class today! An educational WikiSpace can replace or supplement your
existing TeacherWeb, Blog, or Podcast site, or become a new forum for school
collaboration. You can post documents, homework, hand-outs, pictures, audio
& video all in one place, for free. Your students will be able to create and
post or respond to material, depending on the level of access you provide
them. |
|
|