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PC or Mac capability! Our tele lab is now equipped with brand new computers that use both Windows and Macintosh operating systems. Pick any class, and you will have the option of working either in a PC or Mac environment. We have reworked our classes in order to provide you with more ideas for classroom application using technology. Our focus is on student outcomes and developing 21st century skills. These classes provide you with:
Find out how to use new technology tools and how to integrate them into your classroom and lesson plans at the same time! |
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Microsoft Office 2007 and Your Classroom Come find out what Office 2007 is all about! Using MS Word in the Classroom MS Word is a powerful word processing program that helps teachers create lessons, tests and letters. Students can use it for creative writing, basic reports or research papers. Learn the basics along with more advanced features such as inserting graphics, clip art, and spreadsheets, transforming text to html, and word art. Participants will plan a lesson activity incorporating the use of Word such as having students create bookmarks that persuade readers to read the book. Learn how to help students create newsletters and brochures, and how you can create easy to use worksheets with imbedded hyperlinks that can help support your students as they create their own projects. Using MS PowerPoint in the Classroom Learn everything from the basics to the more advanced features that make PowerPoint a great tool for student learning. You will have the opportunity to create your own PowerPoint presentation for use in the classroom to introduce or clarify a lesson. Learn how to create photo albums, adventure stories, and Jeopardy games. During the second half of the class, learn how to design student PowerPoint assignments that require higher order thinking skills, such as a poetry analysis presentation, and examine assessment methods that will help you grade these student assignments. Walk away with your own presentation and ideas for integrating PowerPoint into your classroom! Interactive Whiteboard Classes Transforming Learning with a SMARTBoard The SMART Board is an interactive whiteboard that improves the way you teach, train and present. Come learn how to use this technology tool in your classroom—no prior knowledge of SMART Boards required! The SMART Board combines the look and feel of a whiteboard with the power and applications of a computer, so you can save and print notes, collaborate on electronic documents, share information and run multimedia materials. When combined with an LCD panel or projector, the SMART Board becomes a large, touch-sensitive screen that you and your students can utilize. Discover how to develop lesson plans that make use of this fabulous tool and motivate 21st century students. Creating SMARTBoard Lessons to Engage and Motivate Students Do you already have a SMART Board and consider yourself a user? This intermediate class is for you! Come learn the advanced features of the SMART Board and create lessons. Become adept at creating recordings of what you do on the SMART Board for future playback! Find out how to use the video player that comes with your SMART Board to annotate videos. Learn how to attach audio files to objects on the SMART Board, and how to save items that you use often and want to share to the My Content folder. We’ll show you how to find hundreds of lessons that have already been created for use on the SMART Board. You’ll be able to create your own usable lesson, either from scratch or by tweaking a downloaded lesson. VLC instructors are SMART certified. Transforming Learning with a Promethean Activboard Come learn how to use this interactive whiteboard in your classroom. Promethean Activboards combine the look and feel of a regular whiteboard with the power of a computer. In this class, you’ll discover how to develop lesson plans that make use of it and motivate students to learn. This class is for beginners; no prior knowledge of Promethean Activboards required. Terms and concepts covered include basic tools, like the magnetic pen, flip charts, menu bars, pop-up menus, and the resource library. Creating Activboard Lessons to Engage and Motivate Students Do you already have a Promethean Activboard and consider yourself a user? This intermediate class is for you! Come learn the advanced features of the Activboard and create lessons. We’ll show you how to find hundreds of lessons that have already been created for use on the Activboard. You’ll be able to create your own usable Actvboard lesson, either from scratch or by tweaking a downloaded lesson. Boundless Learning with Videoconferencing Find out how to take your students anywhere in the world, connect with experts, and collaborate with other students in different locations using this easy technology tool. Research has shown that videoconferencing can increase student motivation and learning by figuratively tearing down the walls of the classroom, providing students with experiences and relationships that they would otherwise never be able to have. In this workshop, you will have the opportunity of creating a lesson using videoconferencing that fits into your curriculum. Come learn how to design virtual field trips and collaborative projects for your students that promote higher order thinking skills and increase motivation. Participants will:
NEW! Connecting Digital and Print Literacy - Creating Book Trailers Book trailers are a great way to connect digital and print literacy in a real-world application. Learn how to create and manage a book trailer project in your classroom. We wil make book trailers using PhotoStory 3 - a FREE MIcrosoft dowload. The class will cover how to help your students select their audience, and decide how to construct their message to accomplish the persuasive goal of the trailer. We will touch on copyright compliance issues and practice finding acceptable images and music. Creating voice-overs using the free download Audacity program will be demonostrated. Skills covered can be applied to any subject area and any grade level. Wiki Your Way to a Classroom Website Want to create a class website where you can post daily assignments and pictures and upload documents for parents and students to download, but don’t have the time? Wikis were designed for you! Come learn how to use this free, Web 2.0 tool to create quick websites that contain everything you are dreaming of. In no time at all, you will have a robust website that you will be proud of and others will be impressed with. Learn the benefits of using wikis and see several examples of how they are being used in education. Participants will create their own wikis using pbwiki (a free Internet-based service) and learn basics such as setting one up, adding pages, inserting links, uploading files, inserting images and adding tables. Walk away with your own website in less time than you ever thought. “Wiki” means “quick” in Hawaiian, and they truly are! Second Life for Educators Level I Second Life, a 3D virtual world created by it "residents,” offers a range of new and exciting possibilities for educators and their students. Already, there is a broad range of prominent educational institutions and organizations exploring the use of virtual worlds for the delivery of a wide range of courses and educational events including Distance and Flexible Education, Presentations and Discussions, Historical Recreations, Multimedia and Games Design and Language Learning practice. This class will take you into the virtual world of Second Life and showcase many of the top educational uses. |
Empowering Students with Podcasting Come find out what all the talk is about! You don’t have to own an iPod or even a MP3 player to create and listen to your own podcasts. Learn how to record digital audio broadcasts, edit them and upload them to the web. Teachers can use this new technology to create podcasts of their lectures and class discussions so that students can listen to them again for reinforcement, or, students who were absent can catch up on work missed. Participants will also create lessons for their students that require them to create their own radio broadcasts, performances, interviews and more. Learn how this using this tool in the classroom can help auditory learners and motivate reluctant learners. Walk away with your own original podcast! Classroom Projects Using Digital Photography A picture is worth a thousand words, so they say. Find out how to use this powerful tool in the classroom. In this class, teachers will learn about the basics of using digital cameras and photography in the classroom. Come learn the parts of the camera, its basic operation, and possible activities that you can use with your students. Find out what can be done with digital images—how they can be enhanced, manipulated, and changed using basic photo editing software. Gain information about how to integrate images into lesson plans and classroom activities. Participants will be encouraged to develop a lesson that incorporates the use of digital images. Bring your own camera and photos, or borrow from us! Teacher Timesavers: FREE Online Resources Want to make your life as a teacher easier? Learn how to access resources such as lesson plans, rubric makers, web page creators, worksheet makers, online quizzes, Internet bookmark storage, etc., all for free online! Why spend time recreating the wheel when someone else has already done it for you? You’ll be amazed how many online tools are out there for you to use. Knew they were there, but didn’t have the time to find them? Then this class is for you! Take the time during this class to explore the wealth of online resources available for teachers and come away with tips and techniques to make your life easier. Online “Street Smarts:” Being Legal, Literate, and Secure What dangers lurk online for our children? We teach them how to be safe within the physical community, but what about safety in the cyber community? Learn the Internet Safety concepts of:
Do students know how to validate information found on the Web? Too often, information published on the Internet is viewed as truth, but is it really? Also, what about copyright? Do students have the legal right to copy and paste information from a website into their multi-media presentations and/or their own documents and websites? In addition to Internet Safety, learn the new grammar of the Web and how to:
Participants will have the opportunity to learn about the iSAFE curriculum and the modules available to them in the classroom. They will create model lessons for their students that teach Internet Safety, Literacy, and Intellectual Property/Copyright. Using SMART Response in the Classroom What's all the buzz about "clicker" systems in the classroom? SMART Response (formerly called Senteo) is an interactive response system combining handheld wireless remotes (or clickers), a receiver and powerful assessment software that allows you to create tests and manage, track, and evaluate the results. This system integrates seamlessly with the SMART Board, but must be purchased separately. Come learn how to set up formative and summative assessments for your students and obtain immediate results that can be used to guide instruction. In the first half of the class, learn the basics of the hardware and software. In the second half, you will have an opportunity to create your own assessments either from scratch or by tweaking downloaded qustions sets. Creating Technology-Rich Lessons to Increase Student Achievement This four-day workshop is for people already familiar with "surfing the Net" but unsure about how exactly to use it and other technologies such as Microsoft Office applications in their classes. The focus of the workshop will be to help you create an entire lesson plan from lesson objectives and assignments to teacher and student support materials, all the way to a scoring guide for technology projects. Get tools and a model for technology integration in your classroom.
Beginning and Intermediate Moodle Training Moodle Basics: Using a Course Management System to Increase Teacher/Student Connections Heard of Moodle, but don't have a clue what it's all about? This workshop is for you! Come find out what this powerful course management system is, how to use it as the one stop website for your class, and how to get your own for free. Participants will have an opportunity to see how other teachers are using Moodle, and try their hands at setting up various features of this powerful course management open source software. This is for beginners with no prior knowledge of Moodle. Intermediate Moodle: Creating Your Own Course Already familiar with Moodle and have a pretty good idea how it works? Now it’s time to practice developing your own course. Learn the advanced features of this open source course management system and have time to practice them. Lots of hands-on time provided to create your own sample class and organize it the way you want. Prereqisite: Moodle Basics class OR prior knowledge of Moodle. FREE! Once a Month Full-Day Discovery Education streaming Training at CSD! Receive on-demand streaming and downloading of videos for your classroom, and lesson plans, quizzes, images, sound effects, encyclopedia articles, and more! Using DE streaming, students are engaged in their learning experiences, and teachers have the abiity to use or create standards-based lesson plans, assignments, quizzes and writing prompts online. CSD offers FREE training for CSD and CSG members the second Monday of the month during the school year from 8:30 am to 3: 00 pm a the Craig Road location. Nonmembers pay $214. Space is limited, so register early! Sep 14 For more information, or to schedule personalized workshops at your location on Discovery Education streaming, contact Stephanie Madlinger at smadlingert@csd.org or 314-692-1212. Learn more about other instructional technology offerings:
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information, contact: Nancy George (314) 692-1251 ngeorge@csd.org or Martha Bogart (314)692-1258 mbogart@csd.org. |
 All Tele classes held at 1460 Craig Road St. Louis, MO 63146 |
Technology Leadership Academy
Show-Me a Movie: Digital Storytelling Contest for Missouri Students
Midwest Education Technology Conference