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= = Technology Enrichment Workshops
 * all staff- certified, classified, administrators
 * professional development hours
 * CPDU's
 * credit for lane advancement (per collective bargaining agreement*)
 * All workshops are from 3:45-5:45
 * Locations -TBD

Getting to Know Your Mac
-11/4/09 This is definitely the basics. Do you know how to change your Energy Saver? Do you know how to add something in your Dock? Do you understand where things go when you save them? If you are having trouble with these questions, the basics are for you. In this class, we will explore the basics of our computer including but not limited to system preferences, saving documents, changing settings, and force quitting an application. This is a confidence builder for you to be one more step toward a Mac whiz.  - Caren Kimbarovsky and Jim Finedore

Blogging in the Classroom 1
(Session 1 of 3) -12/9/09 This three-day workshop will teach you what a blog is and how it can be used in the classroom. Attend these sessions to create a blog that can be used immediately to convey classroom information to parents and students. Let the conversation continue beyond the classroom walls! Attendees will be expected to begin using their blog before the second session of the workshop. If you attended Blogtastic Blogs I at Tech Academy and/or Blogs and Wikis on Institute day, you will only need to attend session 2 and 3.  - Bill Steinbach and Craig Lucci

<span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Blogging in the Classroom 2
<span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(Session 2 of 3) 2/08/10 <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> This is Day 2 of a three-day workshop. This session will go into more depth from Session 1. <span style="color: #160b99; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">To register for Session 2, you must have attended Session 1, Blogtastic Blogs I at Tech Academy, and/or Blogs and Wikis on Institute day. <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> -Bill Steinbach and Craig Lucci

<span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Intro to Wikis
<span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">12/16/09 <span style="color: #170aae; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Learn how to use wikis to collaborate online with your colleagues and students. Discover how wikis can be used to share information with your team or building, and how they can be used in the classroom for lessons, projects, assessment, etc. Attendees will have the opportunity to create their own wiki for whatever purpose best meets their needs. - Craig Lucci and Briana Allen

<span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Advanced Wikis
<span style="color: #140990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1/11/10 <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Learn how to use wikis to collaborate online with your colleagues and students. Discover how wikis can be used to share information with your team or building, and how they can be used in the classroom for lessons, projects, assessment, etc. Attendees will have the opportunity to create their own wiki for whatever purpose best meets their needs. <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> -Craig Lucci and Briana Allen

<span style="color: #140990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Google
<span style="color: #140990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(docs, iGoogle, searching, calendars) <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">02/10/10 <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Have you heard the expresssion "just Google it" ? Now, you can do that and much, much more! Google has tons of tools for the educator and their students. Learn how to collaboratively share documents, create and develop a Google home page for the class- Google docs, iGoogle, Google custom search, and Googles more! <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> - Craig Lucci and Bill Steinbach

<span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">More Google
<span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(Earth, Reader, FastFlips, Sketchup) - 5/12/10 <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Have you heard the expresssion "just Google it" ? Now, you can do that and much, much more! Google has tons of tools for the educator and their students. Learn how to use Google Earth, Google Reader, Google FastFlips, Google Sketchup, and Googles more! <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> -Bill Steinbach and Craig Lucci

<span style="color: #160b93; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Online Tools for Presenting and Creating
<span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1/13/10 <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> This session will focus on online tools that you can use with students for presenting and creating. The possibilities of using tools online is limitless. We want to start you with just a touch. <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> -Caren Kimbarovsky and Jim Finedore Presentation Wiki

<span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Discovery Streaming
<span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(formerly United Streaming) <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1/20/10 <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> United Streaming has been upgraded to Discovery Streaming. This powerful service offers over 5,000 full-length videos tied directly to the state standards. Easily share videos and assignments with your students. During this workshop you will learn how to harness the power of this site by finding videos tied to grade-specific standards. In addition, you will have the opportunity to explore the 23,000 royalty-free images available for both teacher and student use. <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> -Bill Steinbach and Briana Allen

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Graphic Organizers
<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(and other study tools) <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 2/3/10 <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This session will focus on online tools for the classroom. You will look at tools that are teacher driven and for student use. You will be able to walk away with many resources up your sleeve. <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> -Caren Kimbarovsky and Jim Finedore

[] - Click here for Websites to use in the classroom with students and for your teaching for organizing thoughts and ideas.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Computer Center/Lab Websites and Activities
<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2/24/10 <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Excited about taking your students into the computer lab, but don’t know what to do when you are there? During this workshop you will have the opportunity to pool the resources of both the presenters and attendees as we explore numerous websites available for student use in the lab or a computer center. We will also show you how to add these websites to your wiki or blog to allow easy access for students. <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> -Jim Finedore and Bill Steinbach

<span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Social Bookmarking
<span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Diigo and Delicious, Simply Box <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1/6/10 <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Ever go to the Internet and realize that great web site you bookmarked was on your home computer? Find the solution to that dilemma by learning how to access bookmarks from any computer! Also, find out how to share all of those great websites with your students, how to collect and organize bookmarks for a project and how to collaborate with colleagues and students. Tools presented are useful for K-8. <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> -Briana Allen and Jim Finedore

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Global Collaboration
<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3/3/10 <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Come learn how we used Skype to connect with the community and the a world around us. In addition, we will look at other collaborative places for your professional growth and for connecting your kids in the classroom. <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> -Caren Kimbarovsky and Jim Finedore

<span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">VoiceThread
<span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4/21/09 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Come learn about this online media album that can hold essentially any type of media, allowing people to make comments and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world. See examples from K-college and beyond. It is a powerful tool. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> -Caren Kimbarovsky and Jim Finedore

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Images, Video and Audio Resources
<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2/22/10 <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Video games, YouTube, on demand, iPods and the like are what capture the attention of your students. Don't compete with all of the media, use it to educate them! Join us as we uncover a plethora of images (NOT clipart!), videos, and audio files that you can use to hook your students and spice up your lessons. Also learn about resources your students can use to create presentations, digital stories, podcasts and much more. <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> -Briana Allen and Caren Kimbarovsky

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Podcasting in the Classroom
<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3/8/10 <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Let's start to tap into those auditory learners. We will create a simple podcast and publish it. In addition, we will explore iTunes and the great resources that come with it. <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> -Caren Kimbarovsky and Jim Finedore

<span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">iMovie '08
<span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3/10/10 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Drag, drop, slide, publish! iMovie really is QUICK! Join us in this hands-on workshop as we take a trip through the basics of iMovie. Learn to import existing video, images and sound to create your directorial début! Participants will also learn tips, tricks and ideas for using iMovie in the classroom. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> -Briana Allen and Craig Lucci

<span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Animoto for Teachers and Students
<span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3/24/10 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Let your students' creativity shine and teach them the impact of images and music using Animoto. This easy online tool allows users to create videos by combining existing video, images and sounds. Students can create book trailers, visual poetry, content raps, PSAs, historical reports, demonstrate concepts and much more using this free on-line tool. Videos can be added to your blog or wiki to share with parents and classmates! <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> -Briana Allen and Caren Kimbarovsky

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Xtranormal, Myths and Legends
<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4/7/10 <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Creative learning online is fun and exciting. We will explore these gems in order to create animated, narrated movies and build a myth or legend online. Time to get our creative juices flowing. <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> -Caren Kimbarovsky and Jim Finedore

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Comic Creation & Fun with Photos
<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4/14/10 <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A picture is worth a thousand words, so why not use them to encourage student writing or differentiate assignments and assessments? Online comic makers, ComicLife and other fun photo tools allow students to be creative and have fun (shhh...don't tell them they're learning, too). In this session, participants will learn how to make comics, trading cards, movie posters, magazine covers and other fun photo items that will excite students. <span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> -Briana Allen and Caren Kimbarovsky

<span style="color: #260986; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> *If taking courses for lane advancement, courses must be pre-approved by Trisha Kocanda. Please sign up for multiple course offerings using one form.

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