Spring 2011 Technology Course Brochure

Half Hollow Hills School District Instructional Computing Department

HHH Instructional Computing January – June 2011 Technology PDP Courses

Half Hollow Hills Instructional Computing Professional Development Opportunities Information literacy, the ability to find, analyze, manage, present and share information as well as the ability to adapt rapidly to the changes brought about by the availability of information, is a critical skill for 21st century citizens. Students need to become skilled in the use of the range of technology resources they will encounter. These skills will not come from special computer classes or from drill and practice computer use, but through the full integration of technology in their education. As 21st-century jobs become increasingly information based, workers need to: • use multimedia tools to communicate and present ideas and concepts orally and in writing • separate the important, relevant information from the vast mountain of information available • quickly learn specialized information in an ongoing fashion • work effectively in physical and virtual groups The District’s philosophy of integrating technology into the instructional program reflects these issues. Half Hollow Hills’ Professional Development courses aim to support staff members in becoming efficient users and integrators of technology within their classrooms.

Corinne Carriero, Director of Instructional Computing

HHH Instructional Computing January – June 2011 Technology PDP Courses

Supercharging Computer Integration With Learning.com (Grades k-5 and 6th Grade Computer Wheel Teachers Only) This workshop to survey different types of technology integration projects for grades k-5 and Computer Wheel classes is an especially useful resource for developing lessons for weekly computer integration time.

Learning.com’s web-based curriculum allows teachers to seamlessly integrate technology skills into their math, science, language arts and social studies instruction. The system offers engaging and interactive lessons and activities, while providing students with the skills they need to be successful in the 21st century. This workshop will also introduce teachers to new ways of developing and sharing their technology-infused lessons based on the tools and resources found within the Learning.com system.

Learning.com is the tool that is highly suggested by the District for grade k-5 teachers to use as the foundation for their computer integration lessons.

5 hours PDP Location: TBA Dates: February 1 and 2 Time: 3:45 pm – 6:15 pm Instructor: Sue Lyons, Learning.com

Google Apps 2011: Teacher and Student Online Tools With Google Apps, you’ll learn how you and your students can collaborate in real-time at school or at home and work on word processed documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and self constructed websites on many different devices such as computers and smart phones. This 7.5 hour workshop will introduce you to the collaborative opportunities of Google Documents, Google Spreadsheets, Google Forms survey and polling tool, and Google Calendar.

Learn how to instruct your students in collaborating on projects from home.

No more “we couldn’t get together over the weekend to work on the project” excuses!

7.5 hours PDP Location: West Hollow Lab Dates: February 2, 9 and 16 Time: 3:45 pm – 6:15 pm Instructor: Katie Sepp

HHH Instructional Computing January – June 2011 Technology PDP Courses Discovery Education/UnitedStreaming Video: Downloading and Integrating Video For Classroom Use Educators are always in need of helpful educational tools, and UnitedStreaming/ Discovery Instructional Video Services offer an extremely effective, highquality and interactive resource to help students and teachers meet the NYS Learning Standards. This online program of digital videos and supporting materials is designed and produced specifically for use in the classroom and covers the full range of grade levels and subjects. Instructional video can introduce, illustrate, reinforce and review content, and may be easily integrated into lesson plans within a class period. In this workshop, participants will learn how to access, download, save, and burn videos and other teacher resources for use in their classrooms and incorporation into various projects. These newly honed skills will also help teachers help their students in developing their own powerful presentations by incorporation of these materials into Word, Inspiration, PowerPoint, Timeliner, and other multimedia applications.

5 hrs PDP Location: Greenspan CO room 208 Date: February 8 and 15 Time: 3:45 – 6:15 Instructor: Corinne Carriero

Delicious and Visual Thesaurus This workshop will introduce participants to several new technology tools to use within their practice. Are your “favorites” or “bookmarks” on several different computers? Are you sometimes at home and wish you had access to all your bookmarks or favorites on your computer at school? We have the solution!! The Delicious bookmarking tool will enable staff members to save all their websites on their own webpage and then produce lists of web resources to embed into their eBoards and wikis to direct their students to Internet sites for research and enrichment. The Visual Thesaurus will be investigated as a way of helping students develop their language skills. The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch out to related words. Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning. Come and spend a “hands-on” afternoon exploring these new tools!

5 hours PDP Location: Greenspan CO room 208 Date: March 1 and 2 Time: 3:45 pm – 6:15 pm Instructor: Corinne Carriero

HHH Instructional Computing January – June 2011 Technology PDP Courses “Create an HHH Wiki” Workshop; Developing Your Wiki On the New HHH Wiki Server Half Hollow Hills now has its own wiki server!

Participants in this workshop will be guided in developing a wiki for use in their classes as a collaboration and/or information site for their students. Using this unique web-based tool, staff members will create a private internet space where ONLY their specifically chosen students/colleagues can collaborate on such activities as • Developing study /review guides---Great for AP collaborative course reviews!

• Project development with peer review • Group authoring • Tracking a group project • Data Collection • Presentations • Group/team collaborations for Professional Learning Community work **prerequisite: This is a workshop session and participants must have an understanding of what a wiki is and a concept of what activity they will create with the wiki.

5 hours PDP Location: Greenspan CO room 208 Date: March 8 and 9 Time: 3:45 pm – 6:15 pm Instructor: Corinne Carriero

Voicethreads Workshop: A Multimedia Commenting and Collaboration Tool A Voicethread enables you to transform visual media into collaborative spaces. This Internet-based technology allows every contributor to easily record audio commentary about ideas, topics and experiences that are important to them--an event, a project, or a milestone. Students then “invited in” can comment through their computer’s microphone or by simply typing. In a classroom setting, students can tell their story in their own voice, and then share it with the world. For teachers, a Voicethread offers a single container to capture and then share all the diverse personalities of an entire class, allowing each student to tell a story in their own voice and then share it globally. The second session of this workshop will allow teachers to develop their own Voicethread for a class project. Come prepared with ideas! Visit the Vociethread gallery for project examples at: http://ed.voicethread.com/#q 5 hours PDP Location: Greenspan CO room 208 Dates: March 15 and 16 Time: 3:45 pm – 6:15 pm Instructor: Corinne Carriero

HHH Instructional Computing January – June 2011 Technology PDP Courses iLife 9: Investigate the NEW iMovie, iPhoto, iDVD, iTunes, and GarageBand Applications for Creative Assessments This summer, all Mac computers in the District will undergo a major multimedia upgrade in the form of iLife 9. Just as Microsoft Office is a suite for word-processing, calculating and presenting, iLife is a suite for various multimedia projects. In this workshop, participants will touch upon all components of the series for use as tools in their instruction and as ways creating creative student assessments: • iPhoto for photo archiving, simple photo editing, and slideshow and book development • iMovie (a MAJOR application upgrade—more like a NEW application) for video editing and movie production • iDVD for DVD authoring of videos and slideshows • GarageBand for development of enhanced podcasts Participants will utilize the new FLIP camcorders during this session and will create a short video on a theme selected by the instructor. The workshop also includes demonstrations of how to then create a DVD from the video as well as a podcast. If you are a newbie to the use of multimedia in your classes or if you have used the old iLife 6 multimedia suite and need to know about the vast amount of changes in iLife 9, this course is definitely for you!

5 hours PDP Location: Greenspan CO room 208 Date: March 22 and March 23 Time: 3:45 pm – 6:15 pm Instructor: Corinne Carriero

Make and Take: Create a “School Year Highlights” DVD in TWO Easy Sessions Calling all Speilberg and Lucas “wannabes”! In these two sessions, you will create a “master” DVD of events that took place in your class/club/team during the past year using iPhoto or iMovie, iDVD and iTunes. At this session’s end, your DVD master will be ready for to show and/or duplicate for distribution to your students.

Video is quickly becoming the medium of choice for collecting images and sound for educational and social science learning. This course will also investigate the various roles students can undertake in producing this type of digital yearbook by aligning Gardner’s multiple intelligences to the tasks at hand. **participants absolutely MUST bring their collection of photos on CD or “disk on key” to the first session as well as any background music (CD or MP3 file) they will use—a minimum of 50 photos is suggested.

5 hrs Location: HS East Art Room Date: June 7 and 9 Time: 3:45 pm – 6:15 pm Instructor: Allyson Uttendorfer