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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 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 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! 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. NEW! Performing Classroom Observations Using PowerWalkThrough This class helps school leaders turn their regular classroom observations into "power walkthroughs" by using a PDA, Tablet PC, Blackberry, or iPhone handhelo device loaded with McREL’s Web-based software. In just a three- to five-minute visit, observers can gauge instructional strategies, student engagement, and use of technology. Through practical, hands-on guidance, administrators learn how to use the Power Walkthrough software on their handheld devices to capture important data during each classroom visit. Participants leave the training session ready to conduct power walkthroughs in their own schools on the very next day. 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. Differentiating Instruction with Discovery streaming Discovery streaming 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. Engage today’s learner by using images and videos in your PowerPoint presentations. 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! 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. NEW! 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. NEW! Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works Are you looking for research-based instructional strategies to improve student learning? Would you like to learn how to use technology with these instructional strategies? During this workshop, you will 1) learn about Marzano’s nine research-based instructional strategies for enhancing student achievement, 2) discuss ways in which to use technology with these strategies, and 3) begin planning technology-infused lessons or units that use effective instructional practices. This class is based on the material in Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works. Participants will use this book along with a customized wiki and blog to get real, hands-on experience with technology integration. Purchase of the book is recommended, but not required. NEW! 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. NEW! Second Life for Educators
Level II This advanced class takes participants who have completed Second Life for Educators-level I into the more advanced features of the Multi-User Virtual Environment. Participants will learn how to participate in a personal learning network in Second Life and how to create their own learning environment. NEW! Tracking Student Learning with VoiceThread A VoiceThread is a free, online, collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to leave comments in 4 ways - using voice, text, audio file, or video. VoiceThread can be used for assessment, foreign language, field trips, art, language arts, social studies, math and science. In the VoiceThread environment, students and teachers can safely share their voices on the global stage. In this class, participants will create a project using photos and audio commenting using VoiceThread to document student learning across several content areas. Learn how this multi-media free resource can be used in your classroom! 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 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. 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. 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! NEW! Digital Learning Academy: The Read/Write Web for the Classroom This three-day, hands-on educational workshop is focused on helping teachers blend collaborative learning technologies into creative, powerful lessons and projects for K-12 students. Participants at the CSD site will be partnered with teachers in Oklahoma City, facilitated by Wesley Fryer, and they will interact with each other using videoconferencing technology, both Polycom and Skype. Some of the topics covered will be:
Google Academy: Search, Learn, Share! Brought to you by the producers of the Google Teacher Academy, this class is a Google Workshop for Educators (GWE). It will introduce participants to innovative ways Google tools can be used in education. This full day of fast-paced presentations and hands-on activities includes experience with advanced search techniques, collaborative web-based applications, and inspirational instructional strategies. Google Certified Teachers share ways they've implemented tools such as Google Docs, Google Earth, Google Sites, and more. Participants who complete the event are given access to the Google Workshops for Educators Network (GWEN), an online community focused on supporting educators as they learn more about the power of Google to drive student learning. Promoting Student Inquiry Using WebQuests A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation. The model was developed in early 1995 at San Diego State University by Bernie Dodge with Tom March. In this class, you will learn:
Participants experience a WebQuest as students and then will be guided to Internet sites that help them locate existing WebQuests that can be used in the classroom. Finally, with the instructor's help, they will begin working on evaluating WebQuests for use in their classrooms.
Evaluating Student Work with Differentiated Scoring What does a good scoring guide look like? How do you create formative and summative assessments 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 for and of learning that truly measure what students have learned. 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. 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! Teaching Students about Charts & Graphs (Featuring MS Excel 2007) Already familiar with how to create a spreadsheet and work with formulas and cells? This class is for you! Take your skill level a notch higher and learn how to have students gather and organize data, create a spreadsheet and then analyze it to solve problems and make decisions. Charts, graphs, and pictographs are all easily made with a spreadsheet like MS Excel, and you will learn how to design lessons that make use of these tools in the classroom. Advanced features of Excel will be taught. Bring a unit or lesson with you that requires students to gather data, and you will be able to include using a spreadsheet in no time. 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! Macintosh Classes! Using GarageBand in the Classroom The best way to record music on a Mac is now the best way to record podcasts. GarageBand puts you in the control room of your own full-featured radio station. 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, with CD quality. Come find out about multi-take recording, where you mark a region to repeat, record your part multiple times, and pick your best performance. In addition, find out how to create audio, video and enhanced podcasts with Garageband. Learn all this plus how to incorporate it all into your classroom! Using iPhoto in the Classroom Don’t be daunted by all those digital photos your students and you have been taking in the classroom, Apple users! In this half-day course, you'll learn how iPhoto automatically organizes your picture library by Events, based on dates the photo was taken. Once you’ve uploaded your photos, you'll learn the easy tools available to let you edit images like a pro. After you’ve added to your photo library, you’ll be able to search for your pictures in one place: filtered by name, date, rating, or keyword. Why not share photos with parents and staff by email or create amazing web pages, cards, calendars, and books? What a great way to incorporate technology into your creative writing lessons! With a few easy clicks of the mouse, you can create a quality, hardbound book to add to your school’s library, written, illustrated, and published by your students! In addition, you'll learn how to print high-quality, frame-worthy photos with colored textures, borders and mattes on your printer. This is a Mac class not to be missed! 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 |
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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 |
