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Winter/Spring Catalog 2010
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Using What You Have:
Features in Windows & Word that Support Struggling Readers and Writers
Even on a tight budget, school districts can use technology to help their
students with disabilities succeed in the regular classroom. This hands-on
session will explore specific features in Microsoft Windows and Word that enable
teachers to differentiate instruction to meet students’ varying needs in
reading, writing, studying and testing.
Recommended for: Regular and special education teachers, child study team
members, parents
Supporting
Students with Reading and Writing Challenges with Free Software Applications
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With tight school budgets and more students in the classroom with reading and
writing challenges it is nice to know that there are many free and open source
applications to help support them in the classroom. In this workshop you will
have a chance to learn how to use and access theses free tools to support
students and provide them with the text to speech support. You will find out how
you can access these applications and use them to your advantage with your
students.
Recommended for: Regular and special education teachers, child study team
members, parents
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Differentiating
Instruction with Technology
Participants will learn about and explore technology resources, tools, and
activities available that vary approaches to content, process, and product.
Bring a colleague to help plan!
Recommended for: All educators
Make your
Research Reports Painless with Noodlebib!
Are you tired of your students losing their note cards and bibliography
cards? Is it difficult for them to keep their research organized? Then you NEED
to use Noodlebib in your classroom! Noodlebib helps students create bibliography
cards in the correct formatting and creates Works Cited/Consulted pages easily.
It allows the users to create Note cards and organizes them into clusters by
keywords and by source. Come spend a few hours to learn how to use this exciting
tool in your classroom!
Recommended for: 6th - 12th grade teachers.
Thinkfinity: Free
Resources for Your Classroom
Thinkfinity, Verizon's education portal, provides the highest quality
educational resources to teachers and students. Developed by world-renowned
organizations who are experts in their fields, these standards-based resources
include lessons plans, student materials, reviewed Web resources and
interactives. Learn more about Thinkfinity's free teacher resources and how to
effectively integrate online educational resources into your curriculum to
increase student achievement. Receive a small technology gift, too.
Recommended for: All Teacher
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Talking Books
Here’s a simple technology project for the classroom. Using Microsoft
PowerPoint students can make interactive talking books that can be used in the
classroom or uploaded to the Internet to be shared by all. In this workshop, you
will learn how to make a PowerPoint book with sounds, animated graphics and
hyperlinks.
Recommended for: Teachers of grades k-8, special education teachers
GarageBand for Non-Musicians
Any teacher who has access to a Mac computer can get rolling with GarageBand,
no talent or musical training required. Participants will learn to harness the
power of GarageBands built-in music creation, recording and podcasting features
in one fun-filled session. Integrate music, record lessons, make new songs &
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
Recommended for: All teachers
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
Bells and Whistles for Your
SMART board
You are in for a treat with the SMART recorder. As you lecture record your
voice and every pen stroke and action on your Smart board to create tutorials,
provide lessons for absent students, or establish an archive of teaching
activities. Learn how to use Senteos, SMART's interactive clickers, to provide
instant classroom assessment data to inform your instruction. Try out the
AirLiner, SMART's remote graphic tablet. You will have time to create a lesson
using these exciting tools.
Recommended for:Advanced SMART board users. This course is not for
beginners.
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Incorporating
Publisher in the K-8 Curriculum
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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. Lear
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.
Puzzlemaker
Create, print and save customized word search, crossword, and math puzzles
using your own word lists. In this workshop, teachers will make Word Search
puzzles, Criss-Cross puzzles, Mazes, Hidden Messages, Number Blocks, Math
Squares, Double Puzzles, Cryptograms, Letter Tiles, or Fallen Phrases. You bring
the content and together we will create puzzles for student practice.
Recommended for: Anyone who needs puzzles for student use.
Incorporating Publisher in the
K-8 Curriculum
NEW
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. Lear
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.
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"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.
Recommended for: Real beginners
Intermediate Microsoft Word
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.
Recommended for: Users comfortable working in MS Word.
Make and Take 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 take back a disk of
completed projects.
Recommended for: Participants who have completed Introduction to Word, or
who can create and edit using Word.
Introduction to Microsoft Excel
Ready for the next step beyond calculators? This full-day workshop will
cover the skills needed to create basic spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel.
Learn to create, save and open spreadsheets; enter and edit data in a
spreadsheet; build formulas and create charts. This course fulfills the
"Introduction to Spreadsheet and Graphing" requirement for NJDOE’s Beginner
Technology Proficiency Level Certificate.
Recommended for: Anyone interested in creating spreadsheets. Experience
using a mouse is needed.
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Intermediate Microsoft Excel
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.
Recommended for: Experienced users of Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Access: An Introduction
This workshop will introduce you to Microsoft Access database software. Learn to
create and maintain tables to track a variety of classroom, district, state and
testing information. We will focus on the principles of sound database planning,
design and implementation. Working with a small sample of raw information
throughout we will complete and populate a basic database file as well as create
a simple report.
Recommended for: Participants with basic computer skills.
PowerPoint --- Tips
and Tricks with Video Clips
Stretch your PowerPoint presentations to the max 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!
Recommended for: Those comfortable with basic PowerPoint & interested in
adding Pizzazz to their presentations.
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Introduction to Microsoft
PowerPoint
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.
This course fulfills the "Introduction to Multimedia" requirement for NJDOE’s
Beginner Technology Proficiency Level Certificate. To help with the creation of
your own PowerPoint presentation you might want to bring a textbook or other
curriculum materials
Recommended for: Anyone who wants to create dynamic presentations. Some
computer experience is required.
Introduction to Adobe Photoshop
This workshop is for anyone who needs to learn the basics of correcting
digital picture faux pas and has an interest in learning techniques to embellish
reports, plans, documents and letters. Learn how to use color correction and
image enhancement tools. Create an original work of art and save a copy for the
Internet. We will learn red eye correction and scanned picture restoration
procedures. 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.
Intermediate Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop is a very powerful and prolific program for the web enthusiast and
designer alike. There are many layers to this program and this workshop goes
ever deeper to tap into all the resources available. Bring your curriculum ideas
and leave with graphics fit for a virtually art gallery. Specific questions will
be encouraged and addressed.
Recommended for: Participants who have completed Introduction to
Photoshop
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Moodle –Phase II -
Moving Beyond the Basics
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In this workshop, you’ll learn how to better utilize your Moodle in your
classroom. We’ll spend time collaborating with other workshop attendees to
discover how to make your Moodle site a more student-centered focus. Moving
beyond simply being a repository for classroom materials, you’ll discover how
you can setup discussion forums, add assignments, reflective journal writing,
live chats, and other creative ways to make your Moodle a more dynamic
experience for your students. Recommended for: Teachers that are familiar
with working with a Moodle.
Podcasts in the Elementary
Classroom
All you need is a computer, a microphone, a free sound editing program, some
ideas and you are ready to turn your students into newscasters, literary
critics, learning consultants and problem solvers. Your students will record
radio-like programs to be shared with your school or the world via the Internet.
Podcasting is a motivating tool which strengthens language arts skills while
deepening knowledge in any curricular area. This workshop will show you how to
get the software you need and how to get started. Bring the excitement of
podcasts to your classroom.
Recommended for: Elementary teachers
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Web Sites within Minutes!
Explore the power of using a Web authoring tool in the classroom to share
academic content and school information and see how motivating it is for
students to make their own websites. Learn how they can create rich web sites
with text, graphics, and sound to share school reports, field trips, photo
galleries, hobbies, and more. Leave with project ideas, lesson plans, tutorials,
and more so that you can implement web authoring in your classroom. Tech 4
Learning will give a complimentary copy of WebBlender 2 to each participant. You
will be able to practice and use what you have learned immediately.
Recommended for: All Levels ‘vendor presentation’
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.
Recommended for:
All teachers grade K-8
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