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Internet Safety and Cyber Bullying This informational workshop discusses one of the hottest topics today: Keeping our Family and Students "Safe" on the World Wide Web. Topics include: What the dangers are out there; How you can keep up with your teens and students; Understanding on-line lingo; On-line predators; Social Networking Sites; Cyber-Bullying and Stalking and Resources for parents and teachers. NO COMPUTER EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY. Recommended for: Teachers, parents wanting information on cyber bulling Top of Page Differentiating Instruction with Technology Participants will learn about and explore available technology resources, tools, and activities that vary approaches to content, process, and product. Bring a colleague to help plan! Recommended for: All educators Digital Day Learn how to use a digital camera throughout your day to build your students’ reading and writing skills. See how you can use these digital pictures to create personalized books for each student or activity in your room. You will learn to crop your photos, add text and print. Each participant will complete a short book (2-3 pages) to bring back to the classroom. Recommended for: Teachers, therapists, parents. 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 Recommended for: Anyone interested in using a SMART board . Real World Math: Credit, Coupons, and Money Management Show your students the real-world value of knowing math; how to manage their personal finances to get the most for their money. This workshop will provide you with activities involving banking and compound interest, comparison shopping, use of coupons, credit cards, check books and much more. All activities are correlated to middle school math content. You will leave this workshop with lessons your students will profit from for the rest of their lives. You may learn some things yourself. Now that’s a good return on your investment.Recommended for: Teachers of math, consumer education, middle school economics 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. Recommended for: Classroom teacher, secretaries, school newspaper staff. 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. Recommended for: Experienced users of Microsoft Excel Create More with Photoshop 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. Recommended for: Participants that have taken Time Travel with Photoshop or Advanced Photoshop users Just for PreK- through Second Grade Teachers: PowerPoint and the Internet Would you like to learn how to make PowerPoint lessons to enhance your teaching? Would you like to use websites that are designed for your classroom curriculum? Are you interested in viewing software that will address just the needs of your fist grade 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 first grade including free worksheets and motivating classroom activities. We’ll conclude with a review of “must have” software. In one afternoon, you’ll make important additions to your Technology Toolbox. Recommended for: PreK- Second grade teachers new to PowerPoint Lesson Plans that “Rock”: from Thinkfinity Are you in a rut? Do you feel like you have no time to breathe? Take a day for yourself and your students by learning how to use the incredible FREE Educational Resource, Thinkfinity. Bring your curriculum guides and your lesson plan templates and start to explore the Thousands of LESSON PLANS available for you any time you need them. This fabulous resource will enhance every aspect of your classroom. You will walk away from this workshop refreshed and ready to begin that new unit or week with lesson plans that will “rock”. Recommended for: Grades pre K - 5 Thinkfinity and Testing Do you want to have a plethora of student test prep sites and resources? Attend this workshop and you will be able to direct your students to an amazing supply of reinforcing materials that will enhance their abilities and skills. Spend a few hours and come away with a variety of ways to help your students. Recommended for: All Teachers Enhancing your UDL Treasure Chest with Thinkfinity Are you using the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) model to teach your students? If you are, you are constantly adding to those Treasure Chest activities. Let’s add some more materials using the Thinkfinity portal. Spend a few hours and come away from this workshop ready to put more treasures in that chest for your students. Recommended for: Teachers of grades K-8, special education teachers Top of Page Adding Interactivity to your SMART Board lessons In this session we will focus the learning on how to increase student involvement by providing strategies that will allow students to have more touches on the SMART Board. Some o f the topics that will be covered include: an overview of the Lesson Activity Toolkit, demonstration of the infinite cloner, introduction to pull tabs, discussion of Dual Page display and Pin the Page features and attaching sound files. Participants should be familiar with SMART Notebook software prior to attending the session. Recommended for: Intermediate and Experienced users SMART Board in the Math Class For teachers who are familiar with SmartBoard basics, this course will focus on hands-on activities specifically designed to show you how to incorporate “SMART” math lessons into your curriculum. Bring your planning guide and text book and design a Smart Notebook unit for use with your curriculum. You will also have time to find ready-made interactive enhanced lessons directly correlated to the new common core math standards that you can use as it, or modify. Recommended for: Teachers of math Top of Page Writing for Success on the NJ ASK: 3 – 8 This workshop will provide guidelines and practice for evaluating student writing based on the NJ RHSR and Open Ended Scale. When writing needs have been determined, specific strategies to enhance text production and address student weaknesses will be provided. Writing in response to Open Ended prompts as well as the Speculative, Explanatory/Expository and Persuasive Essay prompts will all be addressed. Recommended for: Grades 3-8 teachers 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. Recommended for: Anyone interested in learning Microsoft Access BYOIP: Bring Your Own iPad for Beginners Do you need to learn how to use your iPad? We will start at the beginning … no prior knowledge required. Then we'll move on to making use of your iPad in and out of the classroom. Join us for a day of iPad learning. You will need to bring an iPad to this workshop. Please make sure that your iPad is running iOS 4.3 Recommended for: iPad users Teaching Math in the 21st Century Classroom Are you looking for: § an understanding of the new math standards? § free resources to make mathematics “come alive” in your classroom? § free tools to engage students in their own learning with hands-on activities that will both motivate and improve learning? This series is designed just for you! Each class will begin with a comparison of the old and new standards followed by hands-on discovery based activities that can be used with teacher directed lessons with one computer and projector or/and then by students with individual computers to help build proficiency based on a better visualization of mathematical concepts. Online resources for student activity sheets that can be printed out and used offline will also be provided. Choose your grade level and apply for the day/s. Bring your math textbook and a flash drive and you will leave with marvelous free resources. You'll also have time to develop an interactive unit to use with your students. New standards, old standards, these classes will give you the valuable tools needed to teach today’s students who live in such a “multi-media” world. Measurement and Geometry to support the new (and old) standards Grade level appropriate activities including real world applications and problem solving Recommended for: Classroom teachers, special ed math teachers, math coaches and math supervisors |
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