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New this summer! 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 2003 and Your Classroom Take all four, or just one! Practice ideas for using MS Office in your classroom and learn skills at the same time. Using MS Publisher in the Classroom Newsletters, fliers, signs, tickets, calendars, invitations, brochures, banners, and certificates are staples in the classroom. This software application enables you to create all of these and more through easy-to-use templates that are already set up for you. No more guessing about attractive layouts, colors, etc. With this program, you are a graphic artist! Publisher makes it easy with PageWizard that walks you through the process for making publications. During this workshop, you will create from scratch, so come with ideas for projects you want to develop, and you will learn how to design student assignments that require the use of this technology tool. Using MS Excel in the Classroom Learn the basics of creating a spreadsheet, making a chart from your data, formatting a spreadsheet and printing all or parts of it during the first half of the class. Then, find out how to design spreadsheet assignments for your students that require them to enter data, apply formulas, and graph and chart their data, such as graphing probability from coin tosses. This technology tool is great for teaching about the different types of charts and graphs and how data can be manipulated to look one way or another. Walk away with great lesson ideas that use spreadsheets to teach complex mathematical concepts in motivating and fun ways! 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! Transforming Learning with a SMART Board Come learn how to use this new technology tool in your classroom. The SMART Board is an interactive whiteboard that improves the way you teach, train and present. It combines the look and feel of a regular whiteboard with the power 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. Discover how to develop lesson plans that make use of this fabulous tool and motivate students to learn. This class is for beginners; no prior knowledge of SMART Boards required. Creating SMART Board Lessons to Engage and Motivate Students Already have a SMART Board and consider yourself a user? This class is for you! Come learn the advanced features of the SMART Board and create lessons that you can use over and over. Become adept at creating recordings of what you do on the SMART Board for playback and 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, how to save items that you use often to the My Content folder and share with others. Find hundreds of lessons that have already been created for use on the SMART Board and create your own usable lesson, either from scratch or by tweaking a downloaded lesson. In addition, you will be introduced to Senteo, the SMART Board “clicker system” and the Airliner, a device that allows you to manipulate objects on the SMART Board from any location in the room. 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. Using Digital Media in the Classroom (Featuring Google Earth) Google Earth is an excellent tool for schools to teach all content areas, as well as imbed videos and images from unitedstreaming to further enhance these areas. Examples of practical uses include: Earth Science: mountains, volcanoes, glaciers, weather patterns; History: Visit the sites of famous battles; Literature: Visit the sites of famous novels, settings and authors; Math: Measure distances and areas, determine travel time, study angles and intersecting lines; World Languages: Visit the landmarks and cities of foreign countries; Geography: See the cities, countries and geographic features of the world; Civics: Learn about the layout and businesses of your hometown. This workshop will enhance your curriculum with good uses of Google Earth for your classroom. Cross-Curricular Lessons Using Concept Mapping The MAP test requires the use of graphic organizers. Come find out about software and online resources that make it easy to create webs, Venn diagrams, timelines, outlines and flow charts and customize them with pictures, colors, arrows, etc. Kidspiration, Inspiration, and SMART Ideas are all software programs that help students assimilate new information using visual learning techniques. Through these applications and graphic organizer websites, students can organize and categorize information, brainstorm ideas, make connections, understand concepts and express and share their thoughts. This workshop will show you ways to use these technology tools in all content areas at all grade levels. Transforming Learning with a Promethean Activboard Come learn how to use this new technology tool in your classroom. The Promethean Activboard has a copper metal grid sandwiched inside it. Through the use of a special magnetic pen, the board can detect where it is touched based on the metal grid. This is aligned with the projected picture on the board, and the pen in effect becomes the mouse. It combines the look and feel of a regular whiteboard with the power of a computer. 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. 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! Differentiating Instruction with Discovery Streaming Discovery Streaming (formerly unitedstreaming) is not just videos. Come find out how to use this resource more effectively in your teaching. Discover ways to develop curriculum based Writing Prompts, Quizzes and Assignments through the use of the Teacher Center. Learn new ways to save time and make your teaching easier by creating common assessments and sharing them with your school and your district through the use of My Content. Bring a lesson idea, its objectives or GLE’s, and be ready to develop easy to use resources for more differentiated instruction. Walk away with a lesson ready to use with your students! 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:
Movie-Making in the Classroom: Creating Digital Stories and Photo Essays Wondering if movie-making is too difficult? This class is for you! Help your students create their own digital stories through by experiencing the process yourself. This three-day workshop teaches the pre-production, production and post-production phases of movie making. You will have an opportunity to choose one of three easy software programs to use: Windows MovieMaker (PC), iMovie (Mac), or PhotoStory 3 (PC). The class is a cross between a writer’s workshop and a movie-making symposium. Bring a story to share, or select from one of the stories provided. Participants will walk away with their own 3-5 minute movie and lots of ideas about how to help students create one. |
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. Creating Technology-Rich Lessons to Increase Student Achievement This three-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.
Editing Digital Images Using Photoshop Elements 4.0 Learn the easy steps to enhance your digital images while taking away your fear of editing using Photoshop Elements 4.0. Techniques covered include:
21st Century Learning Tools: Online Communities Students are participating in online communities outside of school everyday. They instant message with their friends and update their blogs all the time. How can we as educators get in on using these new devices in the classroom? Blogs, wikis, online chat rooms, discussion boards, and classroom management systems—come find out what these are all about and how you can take advantage of them as learning tools! Learn the essentials of how to create online educational communities to meet your students' needs. Students experienced in working in collaborative online environments have the advantage when entering the workforce. We will examine exemplary online communities and discover what makes them effective. Participants will be able to create their own blogs and/or discussion boards for use in their classrooms. Classroom Projects Using Digital Cameras 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! Evaluating Student Work with Differentiated Scoring What does a good scoring guide look like? How do you create one for use in today’s classrooms or for use with student created multi-media projects? Learn how to create rubrics, scoring guides, checklists, and other forms of assessments that truly measure what students have learned in the process of participating in student-centered activities. Find out how to develop holistic and analytic scoring guides for your specific instructional needs. In addition, take a look at how to use these assessments to differentiate instruction. Models will be shown, and online access to information about scoring guides will be given. Participants will have an opportunity to create their own scoring guides and have them critiqued by their peers and the teacher. NEW!! Special Macintosh Classes! This summer we are launching six new classes created especially for the Macintosh user. Each class will introduce one application. Come learn about all the innovative things you can do on your Mac and how you can help your students be more productive and have fun at the same time! Using iPhoto in the Classroom Don’t be daunted by all those digital photos your students and you have been taking. Share them by email or create amazing web pages, cards and calendars. iPhoto automatically organizes your photo library and makes editing as easy as clicking your mouse. In this course you'll learn how iPhoto automatically organizes your library by Events, based on dates. you'll learn the new tools to let you edit like a pro. Build a stunning online gallery using .Mac, where visitors can view and download your photos, and add their own photos from a Mac or PC. Search your photo library in one place — filtered by name, date, rating, or keyword. You'll learn how to print high-quality, frame-worthy photos with colored textures, borders and mattes on your printer. Using iMovie ’08 in the Classroom Movie ’08 makes viewing and working with video as intuitive as enjoying your photos. A built-in library automatically organizes your video, so all the clips you’ve captured and movies you’ve created are just a click away. With its revolutionary interface, iMovie makes it quick and easy to browse your library and create new movies. And iMovie is built for sharing. In just a few steps, you can add movies to your website, publish them on YouTube, and create versions for iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV. And we got rid of the timeline ! Using GarageBand 3 in the Classroom Welcome to your personal recording studio — where it’s easy to make a song whether you’re a first-time musician or a seasoned pro. With GarageBand, you can create your own virtual onstage band and play along on your favorite instrument. You can record, edit, and mix a song exactly as you want it, in pristine CD quality. It’s the perfect place to get your act together. you'll learn about multi-take recording. Mark a region to repeat, record your part multiple times, and pick your best performance. and you'll learn how to create audio, video and enhanced podcasts with Garageband. Using iWeb in the Classroom iWeb makes it easy to create a website that’s stunningly beautiful, and yet easy enough to do that even third graders can do it. Start with an Apple-designed theme, then customize it with your own text, photos, blogs, movies, and podcasts until it’s exactly what you want. And switch themes with a click anytime. Using iDVD 6 in the Classroom Learn how to quickly create a Hollywood-style disc with iDVD, using Apple-designed animated themes to give your DVD a gorgeous style from main screen to chapter selection. Ten new themes and snappier performance make iDVD more fun than ever. New button library, drop zone editor, and dynamic alignment guides provide total control. See how to combine video and photos in your slideshows and use higher-quality photos. Using Leopard in the Classroom Introducing Mac OS X Leopard, the sixth major release of the ideal computing platform for education. Since Mac OS X was first introduced, Apple has provided educators and students a stable and secure computing environment for 21st-century learning. With over 300 new features, the latest incarnation of Mac OS X provides even more power and flexibility, with many built-in tools for accessibility, digital authoring, collaboration, and content management. Mac OS X Leopard scales well, meeting the needs of students and teachers – from elementary schools to colleges, universities, and research institutions. Learn how Leopard fits into the classroom. NEW! 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. Prerequisite: Moodle Basics class OR prior knowledge of Moodle. |
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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 |
