Learning through Learning Centers

Whether you have one computer or four computers in your classroom, learning centers can be an  integral part of the learning environment. Come explore a collection of learning center ideas and learn to create some of your own.
Recommended for: K-6 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.
Recommended for: All Teachers

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SMART Board for Beginners

Get the most out of your SMART interactive whiteboard.  Learn how to use the great features in the latest version of SMART Notebook 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 SMARTboard.

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

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SMART Response Assessment Strategies

We need to find out what students do and don't understand without waiting for test results or homework assignments or the end of a lesson. We need to make formative assessment part of instructional practice so that we can adjust teaching and learning while they are happening. See how this can be done with SMART Notebook software. SMART’s Response, interactive clickers, and accompanying Teacher Tools, providing a more complete system of formative and summative assessment. Learn how to use the clickers, create question sets, set up class records, and establish effective assessment strategies to raise student achievement. Modify your lessons based on quick and easy responses from your students. Target your lessons for success while engaging students of all ages.
Recommended for: Intermediate and Experienced users

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 Smart Response, SMART’s interactive clickers, to provide instant classroom assessment data to inform your instruction. You will have time to create a lesson using these exciting tools.
Recommended for: Advanced SMART board users. This course is not for beginners.

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.

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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

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

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.
Recommended for: K-12 teachers and digital camera enthusiasts.