Summer Offerings

Teaching with Technology

2010 Summer Offerings

In order to be paid for these trainings, participants must be currently employed or recently hired BVSD teachers. Participants will be compensated for each class at the curriculum rate as well as earn CDE credit.

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Classes with less than seven participants will be cancelled.

The New Amazing Art of Search Learn the newest Google techniques for online searching that will cut the time you spend searching in half, and double the quality of your search results. Teach these techniques to your students to maximize research time. Date: Thursday, June 3 or August 5 Time: 1:00 - 3:00 pm Location: Monarch K8 Instructor: Len Scrogan	Mixcraft: Audio Editing Software Interested in recording yourself for podcasting or creating music with no copyright issues? Come learn the basics of recording and creating music with Mixcraft! Date: Time: Location:
Applying GoogleFORMS in the Classroom Learn about the “swiss army knife” of free Google applications. We will explore GoogleFORMS as a management tool, an assessment tool, and a data collection tool for the classroom teacher. Date: Thursday, June 3 or August 5 Time: 3:15 - 4:15 pm Location: Monarch K8 Instructor: Len Scrogan	Maps 101 ???? Learn practical and immediately usable strategies, best practice and research-based approaches when teaching with media—MediaCAST, DVDs, streaming media, youtube, or cable TV—don’t get stuck in the last century! Date: Time: Location: Class Prerequisites: MediaCast Instructor: Len Scrogan
21^st Century Teaching with Video Learn practical and immediately usable strategies, best practice and research-based approaches when teaching with media—MediaCAST, DVDs, streaming media, youtube, or cable TV—don’t get stuck in the last century! Date: Thursday, June 3 or Friday, August 6 Time: 11:30-12:30 Location: Monarch K8 Class Prerequisites: MediaCast Instructor: Len Scrogan	Grant Writing Secrets Shhhhhssshhh! We're hunting for the secrets of writing grants for technology. Plus we'll unearth the rules and common sense advice for grant writing within a BVSD context. Date: Thursday, June 3 or Friday, August 6 Time: 10:30 - 11:30 am Location: Instructor: Len Scrogan
Document Camera; It’s more than an overhead! Learn the practical and immediately usable strategies on how to use a document camera in your classroom in advanced and innovative ways. It is more than an overhead, come learn how! Date: June 8th or June 9th Time: 8:30-10:00 Location: IT Lab	MediaCAST: On-Demand videos in the classroom MediaCAST houses thousands of educational videos for BVSD grades K-12 in all subject areas. Come learn the power of the system. You will also learn how classroom instruction can be enriched with video! Date: June 7th or June 10th Time: 8:30-10:00 Location: IT Lab
Geometer's Sketchpad in the Classroom Learn how to use GSP in class on a projector to help students conceptualize ideas in class. This is very helpful because instead of drawing a picture on the board, figures can be constructed using GSP to show that the theorems or properties hold up even after the figure is moved around. This helps students to see how relationships work for all figures, not just for the specific examples that are typically drawn on the board. Date: Time: Location:	Comic Life: Come learn a fun new piece of software and gather ideas for using comics with students 4^th grade and up. Date: Time: Location:
Web Blender This program created by Tech4Learning, the same company that created Pixie and ImageBlender, is a WYSISYG ("what you see is what you get") web page editor. It's fun and easy to use for elementary and middle school students (ages 6-13). You can easily add text boxes, colored shapes, clipart, animations, and hyperlinks to the following: other pages on your website, other websites, or files on your computer; such as Office documents, executable programs, Flash movies, Windows Media files, audio files, and other formats. One push of a button allows you to publish your website to the Internet. Date: Time: Location:	Flash Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform that is popular for adding animation and interactivity to web pages. Many students enjoy learning Flash purely for creating animations that will not be published on a website. In this introductory class, we will explore the extensive creation tools that Flash offers and learn how to create motion between animations. We will also discuss layering and objects. The focus will not be on website creation, but animations. We will also explore Flash templates for creating specific projects in class. Date: Time: Location:

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Summer Offerings

To register for any of these classes, register through Avatar:

Search for classes in Avatar under "Technology: Summer" and the class hours. For example, a 2-hour class will be found under the course "Technology: Summer (2 hrs)".

Classes with less than five participants will be cancelled.

Teachers will be paid curriculum rate for all June classes!

Teaching with Technology

2011 Summer Offerings

Clickers in the Classroom I

Description: Learn the basics of the clicker software while introducing higher level questioning strategies that teachers can use with clicker
technology to increase learning, retention and understanding.

Date: June 8th

Time: 9:00-11:00 am

Location: Arapahoe Ridge Library Computer Lab

21^st Century Teaching with Video

Learn practical and immediately usable strategies, best practice and research-based approaches when teaching with media—MediaCAST, DVDs, streaming media, youtube, or cable TV—don’t get stuck in the last century!

Date: June 8th

Time: 1:00-3:00 pm

Location:Arapahoe Ridge Library Computer Lab

BRAINcasting: Powerful teaching with Projectors

Description: Employ powerful and creative new strategies when teaching with projectors in your classroom, based on brain research about how students learn. This session is practical, immediately usable, highly relevant for the classroom teacher, and transformational.

Date: June 7th

Time: 1:00-3:00 pm

Location: Arapahoe Ridge Library Computer Lab

Interclass

Description: Come learn about the new lab management software available for middle and high school computer labs!

Date: June 6th

Time: 1:00- 3:00pm

Location: Arapahoe Ridge Library Computer Lab

Geometer's Sketchpad in the Classroom

Learn how to use GSP in class on a projector to help students conceptualize ideas in class. Also learn how to create assessments using Geometer's Sketchpad. (?)

Date: June 6th

Time: 1:00- 3:00 pm

Location: Boulder HS (rm 3311)

Presenter: Brian Donaldson, BHS Math teacher

Social Studies Teachers: EarthPoint

Daniel Rirdan will come and do a training session on EarthPoint: the interactive visual environment of maps, graphs and charts spanning the entire gamut of Social Studies. Mr. Rirdan will walk the teachers through all of EarthPoint's features and also will familiarize teachers with units that hold particular interest to them--be it in world history, economics, civics, human geography or whatever other topic may be of relevance.

Date: June 6th

Time: 9:00-11:00 am

Location: Arapahoe Ridge Library Computer Lab

Introduction to SharePoint Teacher Websites (2 hours)
Prerequisites: Basic computer and MS Word skills.

Learn how to create your own BVSD SharePoint teacher website! This class provides an introduction to the SharePoint teacher website template. Students learn to navigate through their websites; change titles, contact information and images; create folders and upload documents; add and edit homework assignments; and add events to a calendar.

Dates: June 2       9:00-11:00am or
             June 6      9:00-11:00am or
             August 4 9:00-11:00am
Location: IT computer lab

SharePoint Teacher Websites: Open Lab
(1 hour)
Prerequisites: Participants must have already completed the class SharePoint: Introduction to the Teacher Website.

This work session provides an opportunity for teachers to gain confidence and experience while working independently on their SharePoint websites. Instructors are available to answer questions and provide guidance. You must already have a SharePoint teacher website page.

Dates:  June 2       11:00am-12:00pm or
             June 6        11:00am-12:00pm or
             August 4   11:00am-12:00pm
Location: IT computer lab

BVSD Technology Basics: (1 hr)
Prerequisite: None

Learn how to save documents in your BVSD server folders to protect against the permanent loss of files if your computer crashes or is attacked by a virus. Outlook Web Access allows BVSD teachers and staff to check email from anywhere internet access is available. EZ Access is the program used to securely access BVSD server folders from home or another off-site location.

Dates: May 31 11:00-12:00am or
June 8 10:00-11:00am
Location

Windows 7 (1 hr)
Prerequisites: Basic computer skills.
Preference will be given to teachers who will receive a new computer in 2011-12.

Learn tips and shortcuts to work more efficiently and get the most out of Windows 7. This course includes personalizing the display, pinning items to the taskbar and start menu, working with utilities and much more.

Dates: June 1 9:00-10:00am or
June 6 1:00-2:00pm or
June 8 9:00-10:00am
Location: IT computer lab

What’s New in Office 2010? (1 hr)
Prerequisites: Basic computer skills.
Preference will be given to teachers who will receive a new computer in 2011-12.

This class provides an overview of the Office 2010 navigation including the Ribbon and Quick Access toolbar. You will learn how to create, save and print documents and use new graphic features to create professional-looking documents.

Dates: June 6 2:00-3:00pm
Location: IT computer lab

MS Outlook 2010 (2 hrs)
Pre-requisite: Basic computer skills. Preference will be given to teachers who will receive a new computer in 2011-12 and who use the Outlook client (not Outlook Web Access) for their email.

Come and explore Outlook 2010 and learn about the new format and features. We will review how to compose, send and reply to messages, attach files, manage your mailbox by deleting and organizing messages, create contacts and distribution lists, schedule appointments and meetings, share calendars and manage tasks and handle junk e-mail.

Dates: May 31 9:00-11:00am or
June 7 1:00-3:00pm
Location: IT computer lab

MS PowerPoint 2010: Level 1 (2 hrs)
Prerequisites: An understanding of basic computer functions (how to use the mouse and keyboard) and MS Word 2007 or 2010.

Learn to create dynamic and informative presentations. The class will cover how to create, add, modify and delete slides; insert pictures, clip art, video and more; work with animations and transitions; and use themes to easily create professional-looking and dynamic presentations.

Dates: June 1 1:00-3:00pm
Location: IT computer lab

MS Excel 2010: Level 1 (2 hrs)
Prerequisites: An understanding of basic computer functions (how to use the mouse and keyboard).

This course provides instruction in the basic features of Excel 2010. Students will learn to create, edit and format a workbook; navigate worksheets; insert, delete and adjust rows and columns; use cell styles and document themes; and preview and print worksheets. An overview of formulas and AutoSum is also presented.

Dates: June 2 1:00-3:00pm
Location: IT computer lab

MS Word 2010: Level 1 (2 hrs)
Prerequisites: An understanding of basic computer functions (how to use the mouse and keyboard).

Students will learn to create, save, modify and print documents; check spelling and grammar; cut, copy and paste text and use the Office clipboard; format characters (font type, size and color), paragraphs (alignment, borders, shading, tabs), and pages (margins, page orientation, columns, page breaks); and use styles and themes to create professional-looking documents.

Dates: June 1 10:00-12:00pm
Location: IT computer lab

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