|  | | Technology Integration Courses | | This is a complete list of the technology integration courses offered by Technology Integration Services. Click on the course title for a complete class outline. For the current calendar, log on to PD Express. All classes are open to all SPPS employees. Most of these classes are available to buildings and programs at your site.
Please contact Martha Hill (651/603-4981) for more information.
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Technology Integration: ISTE NETS Standard 4. CriticalThinking and Problem Solving
Specifically, workshop participants will complete example activities
using software titles that are especially suited to performing
mathematical calculations, gathering and organizing data, assisting in
managing experiments and/or research, simulating experimental settings,
and assisting in the interpretation of data and the drawing of
conclusions in scientific investigations. |
Technology Integration Class 1: Orientation (High School)
This is the first of the required classes
for high school teachers participating in the Technology Integration Initiative who
have submitted an application and have been accepted into the program.
This
class will cover the basic "care and feeding" of the MacBook computer and
LCD projector, included software, pre-packaged activities, and the
opportunities and obligations related to the initiative. |
Tech Integration Class: Creating Newsletters, Newspapers, and Brochures
Motivate and engage your students in the writing process while they
create polished and professional looking newsletters, newspapers, or
brochures for their class projects. Learn to create these professional
documents using Word. Come to class prepared with an idea for a student
project; community, parent, or staff communication; or other project
idea. After an introduction to the tools, you will be able to begin
working on your own project. Bring your laptop and any electronic
copies of text or digital images you wish to include in your document. |
Tech Integration Class: Urban Planet Work Session for Teachers
This drop-in session is designed to provide you with one-on-one assistance as you develop your class webpage. Bring your laptop and any digital images, podcasts, newsletters, lists of website links, and Word documents that you want to add to your webpage. You must register in pdexpress. Please Note: This workshop does NOT count as one of the required Tech Integration Initiative classes.
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Tech Integration Class: iMovie
Making movies in the classroom. This class covers operation of digital
video cameras as well as using iMovie to edit. There will be hands-on
practice of iMovie and using the editing functions. We will also share
tips to make your student movie more successful and less stressful. |
Tech Integration: Online Word Processing Tools
Are you tired of hearing your students use the excuse that their printer is out of ink or it isn't working every time an assignment is due? Learn how to use online word processing tools and eliminate these excuses. Learn how to write, share, edit, and collaborate from any computer with an internet connection using either Google Docs or Zoho Writer.
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Tech Integration: Google Earth in the Classroom
Google Earth is a free, downloadable application that can be used in your classroom for a variety of purposes. It's not just for geography and social studies. Use Google Earth to take your students on Lit Trips; study natural and political maps; learn map reading and navigation; visually explore historical events and locations; and create background knowledge for your students. In this class we will focus on the basics of Google Earth and learn how to use virtual tours, placemarks, measure distances, and use layers to bring the world into our classrooms.
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Tech Integration Class: Comic Life
Comic Life is an award winning application for creating not just comics (obviously), but also annotated images, dynamic photo albums, greeting cards, scrap books, story books, and instruction guides and brochures. In the classroom, it is an excellent tool for creating reports of almost any kind. Comic Life is available on both Mac and PC.
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TECH: New Teacher Laptop Initiative Orientation
The first of the required classes for SPPS Staff members accepted into the New teacher Laptop Initiative for 2007-2008. This class is only for those teachers who have received their acceptance notification.
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Tech Integration Class: Creating and Managing Research Projects
This class will cover strategies for managing research projects from your one or two classroom computers or a lab. We'll look at online resources for students and for teachers. Using electronic graphic organizers to collect information. Various student products such as written reports, slide shows, interactive presentations, web sites, and movies. |
Tech Integration Class: Digital Storytelling
Looking for ways to engage your students in their writing and research projects and to help them produce exciting products that demonstrate their learning? Come learn about digital storytelling and how it can be implemented with your students as a by product of writing and research projects. Digital storytelling can be used in all content areas and will engage your students in ways to develop 21st Century Literacy and Learning Skills as a part of developing dynamic products related to your content focus. |
Tech Integration Class: einstruction Classroom Performance System
Come learn how to use the eInstruction Classroom Performance System software and response pads available at each middle school. Learn how to set up questions and answers in advance or use the software to create question on the fly during class to assess student understanding. How to access and export report data will also be covered.
Each middle school received a classroom set of eInstruction CPS response pads in the fall of 2006 as part of the ELA textbook adoption.
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Tech Integration Class: iPhoto in the Classroom
iPhoto is a great program to catalog, organize, and display digital photos. With iphoto 5 you can also do some simple editing as well as some neat ways to integrate images into your instruction.
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Tech Integration Class: Profcasting
Podcasting is a terrific way to distribute content to parents, students, and your school community via your website. ProfCast is a versatile, powerful, yet very simple to use tool for recording lectures and presentations including PowerPoint and/or Keynote slides for creating enhanced podcasts. All teachers who attend will receive a Profcast license to use this product in their classrooms. More information on Profcast is available at http://www.profcast.com
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 Profcast_Class_Podcast.m4b
How to use Profcast to create podcasts for your class.
podcast_to_UP.m4b
How to upload a podcast to your Urban Planet website.
Tech Integration Class: Smartboard Users Group
Lisa deRoy, Education Specialist from Smart Technologies will be hosting this session for current SmartBoard users. She will present lessons and ideas using the SmartBoard. Lisa will also answer questions and help you to make the most of this valuable instructional tool. Participants are encouraged to bring examples and resources to share. Don't miss this chance to see Smart Technologies' top trainer. |
Tech Integration Class: Spreadsheet Magic
Learn to use spreadsheets (Excel and AppleWorks) for math instruction and student activities. A spreadsheet is a terrific tool for students to use to interpret data and for performing calculations. You will learn how to create and use spreadsheets, including entering data, creating charts, and utilizing formulas. Leave this workshop with several activity ideas to use with your students immediately. |
Tech Integration Class: Teacher Web Resource
Using the District supplied digital resources to explore, expand and excite your classroom. |
Tech Integration Class: Using Interactive Presentations in Math Instruction
Learn how to use NNS Interactive Teaching Programs (a collection of open-ended, stand-alone programs built in Flash and designed for presentation of key concepts.) In addition, we will quickly review the Keynote presentations that we have available on our Downloads page to supplement Everyday Math instruction.
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Tech Integration Class: Vernier Probware in Science
Learn to use Vernier hardware in small-group and interactive group settings in your classroom. Students will be able to conduct a variety of experiments and watch live as data is graphed. Available sensor hardware include Go!Motion, PH, Voltage, Light, and Temperature. The SPPS DMC has necessary hardware, including class sets of laptop computers, available for check-out for your project. |
Tech Integration Class: Advanced United Streaming
This two-hour workshop will teach you how to more effectively use United Streaming in your classroom. We go beyond learning how to download and stream videos, and focus on the other tools available through United Streaming. Learn to use the Teacher Center, calendar, image library, clip art gallery, quiz center, lesson plans, and writing prompts. You will also learn to embed video segments in PowerPoint presentations, post them to your Urban Planet page, or use them in iMovie.
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Tech Integration Class: Better Searching Skills for Students and Teachers
Too much information is one of today's challenges. Teachers and their students need to know how to find the information they need, whether it is the best information available, and, how to use it. We will learn strategies and tricks for making your searches more effective, examine the resources available to you and discuss student management when doing research. |
Tech Integration Class: Creating Presentations (Keynote & Powerpoint)
Learn how to create eye-catching, attention-grabbing, and interactive presentations to engage students in your curriculum and allow you to move away from the overhead to monitor your students. All the basics of how to create a presentation as well as how to import United Streaming videos will be covered. Creating interactive review activities will also be included.
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Tech Integration Class: Databases for Learning
Learn to create database files for student and teacher use: creating fields and layouts, switching between views, sorting and filtering data, and using mail merge with word-processing documents. |
Tech Integration Class: Reader's Workshop Technology Integration
Technology websites, applications, and resources designed to support and reinforce vocabulary, phonics, phonemic awareness, read aloud, and shared reading during reader's workshop independent work time or skill block instruction.
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Tech Integration Class: Spreadsheets in Math: Formulas and Rational Numbers
Learn to use spreadsheets in teaching rational numbers. In the Integration Initiative Series: Class 2 we learned quickly how to enter data and create charts. This class takes spreadsheets one step farther by introducing students to formulas and how students can use formulas to perform math functions with fractions, decimals, and percent. |
Tech Integration Class: Student Learning Station Ideas
You are using your eMac and projector in your instruction, but still aren't sure how to get all the students in your class in front of the computer to complete a task. We will look at project ideas and resources, and then discuss the particulars of managing your students in front of the computer.
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Tech Integration Class: Tech Integration in Writer's Workshop
How can teachers easily and efficiently integrate technology into Writer's Workshop? In this class we will look at way to use technology resources within the Writer's Workshop structure and format. An extensive resource list, aligned with Writer's Workshop Curriculum will be provided. |
Tech Integration Class: Using Digital Microscope and Proscope
Learn to use digital microscopes and handheld Proscopes in small-group and presentation, interactive group settings in your classroom. With both of these tools you will be able to present live images/video to your students. Digital microscopes and student-use, handheld Proscopes are available for checkout from the SPPS DMC once you are trained.
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Tech Integration: Urban Planet for Classroom Teachers
A teacher's Urban Planet website can be a very effective and efficient instructional tool. Come to this 2 hour workshop to learn how to set up and manage a website that your classroom or grade level team uses to direct your students to resources, literacy and skill building activities, United Streamaing videos and more.
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TECH: Math and Technology Integration Orientation
For Middle School math teachers who previously signed up for this initiative. We cover the care and use of the LCD projector and 3M Interactive Whiteboard. Teaching ideas and classroom uses will be demonstrated.
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