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Dates Workshop Time
10/1/10 Mystery Festival: CSI in the classroom 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
10/4/10 Microsoft Access for Absolute Beginners 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
10/5/10 SMART board Across the Curriculum: A First Course 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
10/5/10 Using What you Have: Features in Windows & Word that Support Struggling Readers and Writers 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
10/7/10 Introduction to Dreamweaver 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
10/7/10 SMART Notebook for English and World Language             4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
10/7/10 Free Wikis for Everyone 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
10/8/10 Collaborative Tools for Educators 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
10/12/10 Presentations I: Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Docs 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
10/12/10 Digital Storytelling with Photostory 3 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
10/13/10 UDL- What is it and When Can I Start Using These Strategies in my School 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
10/13/10 Holidays and Thinkfinity 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
10/14/10 Intermediate SMARTboard Users: Creating Interactive Lessons  9:00 am - 3:00 pm
10/14/10 Screencasting for Beginners 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
10/15/10 From Evaluation to Tools to Implementation day 1 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
10/18/10 Microsoft Access: An Introduction  9:00 am - 3:00 pm
10/19/10 Spreadsheets I: Microsoft Excel and Google Docs 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
10/20/10 Creating 21st Century Schools  day 1 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
10/20/10 Inquiry based Science with Thinkfinity 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
10/20/10 Audio for the classroom- Music, Podcasting & more 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
10/21/10 Adding Interactivity to your Smart Board lessons 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
10/21/10 Kidspiration in the K-5 Classroom 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
10/22/10 Learning Styles - Activities to Reach All Learners 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
10/26/10 Word Processing II: Microsoft Word and Google Docs 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
10/26/10 Effective use of Google Search 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
10/26/10 PowerPoint -- Tips and Tricks with Video Clips  4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
10/27/10 Creating 21st Century Schools  day 2 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
10/27/10 Labels and More with Microsoft Word 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
10/27/10 Using PowerPoint to Play Jeopardy 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
10/28/10 Exploring SMART lesson Activity Toolkit 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm

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

From Evaluation to Tools to Implementation a cost-effective, educationally sound seminar for prescribingappropriate technology tools for struggling students

Attend From Evaluation to Tools to Implementation and develop your own Assistive Technology  Evaluation Team. Meet educational needs before they become problems (due process, lawsuits, missed educational opportunities) and build capacity within your district. Your AT Team will effectively and efficiently assess students with mild to moderate learning disabilities to determine how and if assistive technology can help them. Experiment with a range of assistive technology tools and learn how to match student needs to device features, creating personalized solutions. Make the most of the technology resources you already have. Be a part of the process of helping students achieve ducational goals and reaching their full potential.
Recommended for:
District teams (Special education
supervisors, technology director, teacher, occupational therapist, learning consultant, and psychologist)

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Creating 21st Century Schools Building Technology Resources and online Collaborations in the Content Areas.

During this two-day workshop series, participants will actively explore free and accessible content and grade level-specific resources; learn how to cultivate successful global online teacher and student collaborations in their content area; apply effective search techniques; and build content resource search engines.
Recommended for:
Content area supervisors, department chairs,
lead teachers, teachers

Learning Styles - Activities to Reach All Learners

What is your learning style? Come have some fun investigating how you learn in order to better  understand your students’ strengths and weaknesses. We will then explore some activities that are aligned to these learning styles and develop lessons specific to your students’ needs.
Recommended for:
Interested teachers
 

UDL-What is it and When can I Start Using These Strategies

Would you like to learn what the acronym UDL means and why so many grants want this type of model in your curriculum? Learn the “ins” and outs” of how to use Universal Design for Learning in your classroom. Begin to see how these techniques allow all students to learn and grow academically as well as socially and emotionally. Perfect your use of menus to promote learning.
Recommended for:
All teachers.

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Inquiry based Science with Thinkfinity

Use Thinkfinity's 55,000+ FREE resources to strengthen classroom science programs and to enhance the way students learn science by making connections to fundamental scientific concepts and principles. Discover how Thinkfinity’s innovative and comprehensive resources will advance students’ science practices and content knowledge. Find out how to use Thinkfinity to extend science learning beyond the classroom and to create scientific communities involving students, teachers, administrators, and parents.
Recommended for:
Grades K-8

Holidays and Thinkfinity

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. 
Recommended for: Teachers of grades k-8, special education

Digital Storytelling with PhotoStory 3

Use your digital photos and PhotoStory 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. Bring your usb drive to take home your digital story and start checking submission deadlines for the Sundance Film Festival.
Recommended for: Participants who have basic computer skills

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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

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.
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.
 

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Exploring SMART Notebook Lesson Activity Toolkit

See why SMART Notebook Lesson Activity Toolkit 2.0 is such a wonderful asset to SMART Board users. Learn how to navigate and edit, check for updates and of course – tips and tricks. See some great Toolkit examples and take back a slew of resources. Remember to bring a USB drive to transport your files.
Recommended for:
Intermediate SMART notebook users

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 of 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 Notebook for English and World Language

Create lesson plan templates with the latest NJ Core Content Curriculum Standards and incorporate interactive activities to teach vocabulary, idea sequencing, and spelling. Use Venn diagrams, T-charts, and graphic organizers to assist the writing process.
Recommended for: English and world language teachers. 

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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.
Recommended for:
K-12 teachers, all subjects

Kidspiration in the K-5 Classroom

Kidspiration is a visual learning tool especially for K-5 students. Designed for emerging readers and writers, Kidspiration helps students develop confidence as they learn to organize information, understand concepts and connections, create stories, and express and share their thoughts. In this session you will learn how to create visual outlines and dynamic graphic organizers. You will also learn practical methods for integrating Kidspiration into your language arts, science, and social studies lessons.
Recommended for:
All teachers and parents of grades K-5.

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Mystery Festival: CSI in the classroom

Mystery Festival uses a classroom learning-station format; students study a "crime scene," then conduct crime-lab tests on the evidence, analyze the results, and try to solve the mystery. These forensic science activities absorb students from the start and keep them intensely involved throughout. In this workshop, teachers will play the role of students/detectives to uncover the mystery.
Recommended for: K- 8 teachers interested in spicing up science

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.
Recommended for:
Users comfortable working in Microsoft
Word.

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.
Recommended for:
Participants who have completed Introduction to Word processing I, or who can create and edit using Word.

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Spreadsheets I: Microsoft Excel and Google Docs

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. Upload spreadsheets to Google Docs for your private use or share and collaborate with others.
Recommended for:
Anyone interested in creating spreadsheets. Experience using a mouse is needed.

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

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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.

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.
Recommended for: Anyone who wants to create dynamic presentations. Some computer experience is required.

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Presentations II: Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Docs

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. Use Google Docs to make your presentation interactive and collaborative.
Recommended for: Participants who have completed Presentation I

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!
Recommended for:
Those comfortable with basic PowerPoint & interested in adding Pizzazz to their presentations

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!
Recommended for:
Those comfortable with basic PowerPoint & interested in adding pizzazz to their presentations.

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Using PowerPoint to Play Jeopardy

Want to play Jeopardy so that your students can review for a test or exam? Bring your review content. At this workshop you will receive a Jeopardy template and prepare it for use with your students. You can use your template to create games for different concepts. Lot’s of fun with a SMARTBoard.
Recommended for:
All teachers

Collaborative Tools for Educators

Learn how to access and integrate free Web 2.0 collaborative tools to reshape your classroom and help you rethink lessons and projects. We will use Etherpad, Google Docs, MindMeister, Skype and Webspiration to make online collaborative group projects possible. Use these tools in your classroom to boost engagement and achievement in any content area while meeting New Jersey’s technology standards.
Recommended for:
All teachers

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Effective use of Google Search

Web search is one of the most popular online activities and, for an increasing number of students, a primary starting point for research and learning. This session will offer some fundamental concepts, strategies, and tools to help you teach your students search more effectively. The session will cover techniques to search smarter, assessment of search results credibility, and advanced Google search features.
Recommended for:
Internet searchers

Free Wikis for Everyone

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.
Recommended for:
Educators who want to find out about and/or create their own Internet collaborative classroom

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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.

Screencasting for Beginners

Learn how to create compelling demonstrations and training videos right from your computer using Jing Project and ScreenR. If you have ever been in the situation where you find yourself having to explain to your students or colleagues how to do something on the computer over and over again then this is the workshop for you. Come and learn how to create videos from your computer screen. Learn the techniques of screen-casting and create video tutorials that are both informative and educational. Imagine being able to create video tutorials that you can have up on the web or on an iPod in minutes.
Recommended for: Special and general education teachers, technology and professional development facilitators.

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