Technology+Mini-Sessions+(SPRING)


 * **Workshops** || **Specific Skills** || **Date** || **Video** ||
 * SMART Response Clickers (Part 1/4) || Creating the questions (5 question types), importing questions, on screen simulation || 1/21/2010 ||  ||
 * SMART Response Clickers (Part 2/4) || Performing your first assessment, hooking up the SMART response system || 1/25/2010 ||  ||
 * SMART Response Clickers (Part 3/4) || SMART response RTI, Setting up your class roster in Excel, Importing your class roster || 1/27/2010 ||  ||
 * SMART Response Clickers (Part 4/4) || Follow up/Review/Questions? || 1/29/2010 ||  ||
 * Engaging Students with Photography || Integrating student created digital photography projects (with or without manipulation) to ehance lesson activities || 2/2/2010 ||  ||
 * SMART Board Basics || Ink layer, board connected, cleaning board, how it works, pen tray, floating tool bar, right clicking, orienting the board, Notebook || 4-Feb ||  ||
 * Web Design for Everyone || Using Microsoft Publisher to create websites. || 2/8/2010 ||  ||
 * Saving SMART board class notes for absent students || File save as PDF option || 10-Feb ||  ||
 * Inserting U-Tube Video into Notebook software || search U-Tube, keep vid, inserting into Notebook || 12-Feb ||  ||
 * Notebook Software (Getting Started) || new file, slides, page properties, insert picture, text || 16-Feb ||  ||
 * Gallery Tab || Basic look at all the Gallery tab has to offer, fun ways to get volunteers || 18-Feb ||  ||
 * Self Checking Activities for Students || erase and reveal, color reveal, ordering || 22-Feb ||  ||
 * Where's that File Again? || File Management topics include folders, shortcuts, manipulating multiple windows, saving files, naming files, file extensions, renaming/moving/deleting files, window views, searching for files, and backing up files. || 2/24/2010 ||  ||
 * Customizing floating tools/ Open House presentation || adding/subtracting, hiding tools || 26-Feb ||  ||
 * Using SMART video player || inserting videos into SMART player, special features || 2-Mar ||  ||
 * Language Arts Activities || Presentation borrowed from Heather Lamb, SMART board rep. || 4-Mar ||  ||
 * Small Group break out activities for students on the SMART board || Ideas for quick student assessment, collaboration, getting students up to the board || 8-Mar ||  ||
 * Manipulating objects in Notebook || clone, infinite clone, locking, flip, rotate, resize || 10-Mar ||  ||
 * Notebook Software (More Tools) || Shapes, eraser, magic pen, etc. || 23-Mar ||  ||
 * Integrating Discovery Education materials || signing up with Discovery Education, student accounts, searching for videos, pictures, text || 25-Mar ||  ||
 * Gallery Tab (more ideas) || Look at Gallery materials and decide which games are appropriate for your subject, brainstorm ideas || 29-Mar ||  ||
 * Animation & Hyperlinking in Notebook || Animation and hyperlinking slides in Notebook, internal and external links (websites) || 31-Mar ||  ||
 * Exporting My Content from Notebook Software || Organizing, Saving and Exporting || 5-Apr ||  ||
 * Creating a game in Notebook || linking slides, types of games, linking websites, finding games on the Internet || 7-Apr ||  ||
 * Screen capture recordings using SMART recorder || Advantages of screen recordings, Recording your screen movements, producing, ways to deliver your recordings (online, CD, email) || 9-Apr ||  ||
 * What is Wikispaces? || Learn how useful (and easy) it is to create a wiki for student projects, hyperlinked writing, and a teacher webpage. It's what I use to deliver my training videos to you! || 4/13/2010 ||  ||
 * Getting Social with Social Bookmarking || Explore what the Web 2.0 tool Delicious has to offer for assisting students with Internet searches || 4/15/2010 ||  ||
 * Listen to Their Stories || Integrating digital storytelling (pictures and audio) into the curriculum (How to get started, Equipment, and Lesson Ideas). We will use Windows Movie Maker. || 4/19/2010 ||  ||
 * Let's Get Blogging || More Web 2.0 Tools-- Educational Blogs (Setup, activities, staying safe). We will be using edublogs. || 4/21/2010 ||  ||
 * It's Raining Word Clouds || More Web 2.0 Tools-- Wordle (pasting text, creating word cloud, displaying project, ideas for using word cloud in your subject) || 4/23/2010 ||  ||
 * Purposeful Web quests || Internet scavenger hunts utilizing problem solving skills (Questgarden) || 5/3/2010 ||  ||
 * Hyping up PowerPoint Presentations || Creating hyperlinked presentations and ideas for student projects. || 5/5/2010 ||  ||
 * Easy Desktop Publishing || Print design projects in Microsoft Publisher (multi-page flyers, newspapers, book jackets, menus, magazine covers, brochures and calendars || 5/7/2010 ||  ||
 * Sweetening Up Excel Graphs || Presentation on M&M project and the basics of creating graphs || 5/11/2010 ||  ||
 * SMART Response Clickers (Part 1/4) || Creating the questions (5 question types), importing questions, on screen simulation || 5/13/2010 ||  ||
 * SMART Response Clickers (Part 2/4) || Performing your first assessment, hooking up the SMART response system || 5/17/2010 ||  ||
 * SMART Response Clickers (Part 3/4) || SMART response RTI, Setting up your class roster in Excel, Importing your class roster || 5/19/2010 ||  ||
 * SMART Response Clickers (Part 4/4) || Follow up/Review/Questions? || 5/21/2010 ||  ||