Technology Integration Courses
Please contact Martha Hill (651/603-4981) for more information.
| SMARTBoard Training - Intermediate Level |
| Tech Integration Class: Research and Information Fluency: Advanced United Streaming This two-hour workshop will teach you how to more effectively locate, organize, and ethically use United Streaming in your classroom for teacher and student presentations. 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. |
| Tech Integration Class: Creativity Photoshop Introduction Introductory course for teachers in the 08-09 Tech Integration Initiatives with Photoshop CS3 installed on their laptops. We will cover the very basics of this extremely rich and full featured application. The focus will be on classroom and teacher use. |
| Tech Integration Class: Creating Presentations (Powerpoint) Course outline, help resources, tutorials for PowerPoint users. |
| Tech Integration Class: Collaboration and Communications with Keynote Presentations 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. |
| Tech Integration Class: Creativity and Innovation with Digital Media - Beginner Using digital media allows students to demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes. This class will look into classroom uses of video, still images, and sound for the beginner. There are many tools available to teacher and/or student use. Bring your laptop and well work with some of these to give you a working familiarity. |
| Technology Integration Class: Communication and Collaboration in the Classroom with SPPS Apps (integ2070) Digital media and environments allow students and teachers to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning. This class will explore ways to facilitate communication and collaboration within your classroom using the new SPPS Apps, including Docs and calendar. Learn how to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in the new Docs application, as well as how to share these items for collaboration. Please bring your laptop and we will work with some of the applications available for your use with students. This course focuses on the ISTE NETS Standard 2: Communicate and Collaborate. |
| 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: Research and Information Fluency: 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. |
| 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. |
| Tech Integration Class: InspireData Resource links for use of InspireData |
| Tech: New Teacher Laptop Workshop II (Lotus Notes Email and UrbanPlanet) Lotus Notes and UrbanPlanet Overviews |
| TECH: New Teacher Laptop Initiative Orientation The first of the required classes for SPPS Staff members accepted into the New teacher Laptop Initiative for 2008 - 2009. This class is only for those teachers who have received their acceptance notification. |
| TECH: 3M Board Math Class |
| 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: 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. |
| Tech Integration Clas: Podcasting in the Classroom Participants in this class will Understand what a Podcast is See examples of podcasts and how they can be used in the classroom How to create a Podcast How to distribute a Podcast |
| 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: Student projects using laptops and labs Tips, procedures, and plans for teachers who want to take advantage of their school's open lab or laptop carts. This class can be customized for a particular site to take advantage of all available resources. |
| 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. |
| 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: 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: Computer Basics |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Tech Integration Class: Student Projects Using Inspiration We will review the "how tos" of this useful graphic organizer software, and then look at a variety of teacher and student uses. Use of Inspiration in various subject areas will be modeled and lesson resources will be provided. |
| 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 hand held 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, hand held Proscopes are available for checkout from the SPPS DMC once you are trained. |
| Imaging Using Casper Directions |