Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
The Center for Applied Special Technology, CAST, coined the term Universal Design for Learning. The CAST website states, "Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework for designing curricula that enable all individuals to gain knowledge, skills, and enthusiasm for learning. UDL provides rich supports for learning and reduces barriers to the curriculum while maintaining high achievement standards for all." This workshop will help you incorporate UDL principles in your classroom and show you wonderful free tools and resources that you can use. Make learning accessible for every student.
Recommended for: K-12 educators

Data Literacy with InspireData™
Make sure your students have data literacy. InspireData™ builds critical data literacy skills and engages students. As students organize and analyze data they ask meaningful questions and dig deeper to solve problems. They move beyond simply memorizing facts and start acquiring the skills of reasoning, inquiry and communication. They actively explore and analyze data using dynamic Venn, bar, stack, pie and axis plots to interpret information and draw conclusions. This process builds data literacy and makes learning a richer, more meaningful experience. Participants will receive a free trial version of Inspire data so they can begin building data literacy, developing analytical skills, and strengthening critical thinking as soon as they return to the classroom.
Recommended for: Math teachers, elementary school teachers, science teachers and special education teachers.

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Interactive Curriculum
Enhance your curriculum with a collection of interactive webpages made by you using a Word template. Participants will develop Bloom-style questions focused on quality Internet resources for students to explore, respond, and then submit to you with the click of a button!
Recommended for: Teachers of Grades K-8

Literature in the Math Class
Add another tool to your mathematics teaching by using literature in your math class. Children's literature can help your students realize the variety of situations in which people use mathematics for real purposes and help them see how math will be useful to them in the "real world." Come and learn about some of the best books available to explore mathematical concepts and leave with a set of excellent, grade appropriate, ready to use lessons.
Recommended for: Math teachers Grades 4-8

Audio Software & Podcasting for Music Teachers
Recording practice and performance tracks is just the beginning… explore the possibilities for you and your students with free audio recording software and web-hosting. Learn to edit and mix favorites from your own library, as well as create new, custom recordings. Leave with new ideas for yourself and engaging projects for your students.
Recommended for: K-12 music teachers

Incorporating Technology into Physical Education
Looking to spice up your PE program? Why not add some technology to it. In this workshop learn from a master technology-using physical education teacher how to enhance your current PE program through the use of programs including: Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, Movie Maker, and podcasts.
Recommended for: Physical Education teachers

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PortaPortal and Wiki: Two Fabulous Free Tools the Internet Connected Classroom Sure, the internet has great resources but how can you keep track of them all and get your students online and on task in a matter of seconds? Portaportal is the answer.(And it is even better than Delicious.) You will create your own free web portaland organize the very best in free interactive sites into sections for specific content areas where they will be easily accessible from any internet connected computer. Then you will create your own WIKI where you can post any type of file, homework, hand-outs, pictures, audio & video all in one place. You can use your WIKI to post files and links for your students use or your WIKI pages can become e-portfolios for your class. Your students will be able to create and post or respond to material, depending on the level of access you provide them. Recommended for: Educators who want to find out about and/or create their own Internet collaborative classroom.

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.

Digital Storytelling with Photo Story 3
Use your digital photos and Photo Story 3 to tell your stories. Photo Story 3, a free program from Microsoft, makes it easy to add music, narration, titles, and special effects to turn your photos and images into movies. Come see how you can promote literacy skills across grade levels and content areas by becoming a digital story teller. It is easy and it is fun. Bring your own digital photos or you can work with sample files that will be provided. Take home your digital story on a CD and start checking submission deadlines for the Sundance Film Festival.
Recommended for: Participants who have basic computer skills

SMART board for Beginners
Get the most out of your SMART interactive whiteboard? Learn know how to use the great features in the latest version of SMART software? Be able to use a SMART board with confidence by attending this workshop. Learn how you can create interactive lessons that will make teaching and learning more engaging for you and your students.
Recommended for: Anyone interested in using a SMART board.

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SMART board Across the Curriculum : A First Course
Make the most of your SMARTboard and watch class participation and engagement soar. First you will master SMARTboard 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 SMARTboard. We will provide a list of websites that are particularly SMARTboard "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

Advanced SMARTboard 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.
Recommended for: Participants who took SMART board for beginners or SMART board Across the Curriculum or who can create SMART notebook lessons and use a SMART board. This class is not for beginners.

Internet Resources to Support State Math Testing
How can you make sure your students are prepared for New Jersey’s standardized math tests?  Where can you find practice materials that meet your needs?  How can you establish a successful test-prep program for your class?  Answers await you at this ETTC workshop.  We will analyze the structure of New Jersey’s testing program (NJ ASK, NJ ASK 8, and HSPA). Then we will explore the excellent interactive Internet activities and practice test materials.  All these activities and materials are free!  Other states have kindly posted banks of sample questions that correlate with New Jersey’s test. You will leave with all the tools you need to build test taking confidence and success, yours and your students. 
Recommended for: Math Teachers of Grades 3 – 8 and High School Basic Skills.

VoiceThread: Digital Storytelling Made Simple
You don’t need any software or advanced technical skills to create and post your own collaborative stories and projects on the Internet. If you are a K-12 educator you qualify for a free Voicethread account. Ed.VoiceThread, VoiceThread’s site just for educators, is a "secure K-12 network for students and teachers to collaborate and share ideas with classrooms anywhere in the world." Create and post your own VoiceThread and show your students how easy it is to use this free and safe tool.
Recommended for: K – 12 educators

Video Content in Your Classroom: Unitedstreaming, PowerPoint, and Google Earth
Learn how to make the most of Unitedstreaming. Discover the features of Unitedstreaming that you haven't had time to investigate like themed lessons, lesson plans, interactive quizzes, and calendar of events. After you have had a chance to identify video resources that relate to your curriculum we'll show you how to insert Unitedstreaming clips into your PowerPoint presentations. You'll also learn how to use the free, interactive program, Google Earth, and see how you can add Unitedstreaming videos to your own Google Earth trips. Make your multimedia lessons visual. If you do not have a Unitedstreaming subscription you can use a 30-day trial account.
Recommended for: All Teachers

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Technology in the Classroom: Knowing Where I Stand, Knowing Where I’m Going So you’ve got computers in your classroom and you are wondering what to do next. Or perhaps you are wondering where you stand regarding technology implementation. In this workshop you’ll start off by taking the free LoTi Digital-Age Survey. The LoTi Digital-Age Survey provides each participant with an empirically-validated tool that creates a personalized digital-age professional development profile aligned to the NETS for Teachers (NETS-T). This profile offers recommendations aligned to five popular instructional initiatives including (1) Level of Teaching Innovation (LoTi), (2) Partnership for 21st Century Skills, (3) Marzano’s Research-based Instructional Practices, (4) Daggett’s Rigor & Relevance, and (5) Webb’s Depth of Knowledge. Participants will receive a separate Level of Teaching Innovation (LoTi), Current Instructional Practices (CIP), and Personal Computer Use (PCU) score. After all participants have received their results the remaining portion of the workshop will focus on gaining a better understanding of how these results can be used to further your professional development in regards to technology. This workshop is given by a LoTi certified mentor.

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

From Excel to Access and Back
Do you have lists of information in an Excel spreadsheet? Do you have to download NJDOE reports using Excel? Are you limited in how you can extract specifics within Excel? Then this workshop is for you. We will show how to import Excel worksheets into Access, design simple select queries and reports, and then export back to Excel for analysis. Bring your spreadsheets with you and leave with the reports you need.
Recommended for: Participants familiar with Excel and basic database design.

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Intermediate Microsoft PowerPoint: Movies, Sound and Hyperlinks
Come and expand your PowerPoint skills. You will learn how to add hyperlinks, sound, and action buttons. Bring your own curriculum materials and/or an existing PowerPoint presentation and you'll take back an amazing classroom-ready slide show.
Recommended for: Participants who have completed Introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint.

Introduction to Adobe Photoshop Elements
This workshop is for anyone who needs to learn the basics of correcting digital and scanned picture files using Photoshop Elements, the less complex photo editing program from Adobe.  Learn how to use automatic color correction and image enhancement and dabble with the panoramic feature included with the software. Create an original work of art and save a copy for the Internet.   We will have fun with picture filters creating several images from just one photo.   Participants are urged to bring images to scan and/or their own digital pictures to work on. 
Recommended for:  K-12 teachers and digital camera enthusiasts.

Digital Portfolios Using PowerPoint and PhotoStory
See the possibilities offered by digital portfolios in capturing what your students have learned. Use a microphone to capture a singer’s talent or a new reader's abilities, use a digital camera to record a sculpture or science project, use a scanner to bring in a finger-painting or watercolor piece. Then pull it all together with software and produce a CD-ROM that brings that student's accomplishments to life in a way that a letter grade never can. Participants will choose either PowerPoint or PhotoStory to produce a finished digital Portfolio.
Recommended for: Participants familiar with digital media file creation.

Using Microsoft Movie Maker as a Presentation Tool
If your district has Microsoft Windows XP operating system then you have Movie Maker at your fingertips.  Come in and learn a new way of presenting information to your class, district and/or community.  Utilizing still pictures, video, sound recordings, and original artwork, you will create a 21st century presentation that will change the way you use your computer. 
Recommended for: Participant familiar with the digital process and basic computer skills.

Blogs, Podcasts and the Classroom
Blogs and podcasts form a new partnership in communications media. Students and teachers can become personal publishers and broadcasters in ways that connect the subject area with writing and speaking skills. In the morning we will explore the world of blogs and how a blog can relate to your instructional goals. You will establish a blog on the Internet for future use. The afternoon will be devoted to the world of podcasting. You will learn the vocabulary, the tools and the process used to locate, download, create and publicize your own podcasts. Find out what all the buzz is about and learn how these new tools can amplify student projects as well as your own listening interests.
Recommended For: K-12 teachers, all subjects

Classroom WebPage using Microsoft FrontPage
Want to create your own web site? Not sure where to begin? This workshop will take you step-by-step through the web site creation process using Microsoft FrontPage. Begin with a simple page. Add links, color, images, a background, sound, animation, and a message banner. Create a professional layout using tables. We will search and evaluate free background, graphic and sound sites, free web server space, and a free web-based e-mail address to help fill out our web site.
Recommended for: Participants familiar with word processing

Design a Treasure Hunt on the Internet
Learn to design an Internet treasure hunt loaded with activities that will get your students searching for specific information. Your students can have fun while they are learning some critical thinking skills. In this workshop you will surf the Internet for appropriate sites, download pictures, generate questions/clues and put it all together using Microsoft Word.
Recommended for: Anyone experienced with Internet surfing and word processing software.

Introduction to Macromedia Dreamweaver
Get started with Dreamweaver by exploring the palettes and preferences. We'll set up a Web site by creating and organizing files, building and managing site structure, and checking links. We'll examine Dreamweaver properties, horizontal rules, lists, background and text colors. Learn to insert and position your images and setup both internal and external hyperlinks.
Recommended for: Users with a working knowledge of HTML, the Internet, Web Design techniques and word processing software.

Real World Math: Credit, Coupons, and Money Management NEW
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