HHH Instructional Technology Summer/Fall 2014
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.
Newsletters, Brochures, Certificates, Flyers and More 7.5 hour PDP Location: Candlewood Mac Lab Date: June 30 Time: 8 AM to 3:30 PM Instructor: Bea Reiser Course Description: Learn to create professional documents such as newsletters, brochures, flyers, certificates, and much more. Saving your Pages and Word documents as a PDF will allow others to view and read them on any computer. You and your students will compose professional documents that you can show off on your eBoard. You will learn to share the work to your schoolshared folder and be able to access these original creations on the Macs and any district computer. Add photos of field trips, awards, sporting events, clubs, class work, and volunteer work. Celebrate with your classes! Photo Ops for Educators 1 7.5 hour PDP Location: Candlewood Mac Lab Date: July 1 Time: 8 AM to 3:30 PM Instructor: Bea Reiser Course Description: With the use of digital photography, you can promote your class’s activities, highlight their work, publicize their creativity, create display cases, bulletin boards, and spruce up your eBoard. You will learn to add visuals to your Comic Life, PowerPoint, Keynote, Word, and Pages documents. By creating slideshows quickly and easily for back to school night or for your classes your professionalism will show through. All of the things are easily transferred to your students. Come and see how talented you can become! Photo Ops for Educators 2 *Prerequisite 7.5 hour PDP Location: Candlewood Mac Lab Date: July 2 Time: 8 AM to 3:30 PM Instructor: Bea Reiser Course Description: Prerequisite: Photo Ops For Educators 1 Utilizing advanced techniques of digital photography, you will be able to transfer more technical skills to your students. You will learn to create a slideshow on your Dell computer and on the Apple Mac’s. Professional style documents on the Mac’s will be created and then presented on the Dell computer. Programs will include: iPhoto, Comic Life, Pages, Word, PowerPoint, Keynote, and iDVD. You will also learn how to store your documents on an external drive for future use. *Prerequisite: Photo Ops for Educators 1
Pinterest 5 hour PDP Location: HS East New Mac Lab Date: July 2 Time: 9:30 AM to 2:30 PM Instructor: Danielle Reed Course Description: This course will introduce teachers to Pinterest.com and provide a brief overview of the site. Teachers will be able to set up accounts, follow educationally appropriate connections, and develop boards related to education, teaching, and common core standards. Teachers will also explore how to search, download, and modify resources to meet the needs of their students and classroom. Finally, teachers will learn how to pin ideas, upload documents, and share resources with others. The Google Suite 15 hour PDP Location: HS East Mac Lab Date: July 7, 8 and 9 Time: 8 AM to 1 PM Instructor: Patrick Kiley-Rendon Course Description: Even though Google completes 5.1 billion searches every day, few educators utilize the dozens of other Google applications that can support their instruction. Many of these apps can facilitate learning and create new, novel lessons that will engage students. We will discuss the merits and uses of Docs, Forms, Voice, Scholar, Calendar, and other functions. You’ll even learn how to search more efficiently (and teach your students that searching is more complicated than clicking on the first result). Participants will leave with projects that they begin using in the classroom. SmartBoard Level 1 15 hour PDP Location: Fran Greenspan Admin Center (CO) Rm 211 Date: July 7, 8 and 9 Time: 2 PM to 7 PM Instructor: Jolynn Sapia Course Description: From the beginner to the novice, learn how to navigate through the basics of SMART Board, create your own files, find resources to avail yourself of, and begin to integrate this tool into your existing curriculum.
Learning.com (Teachers K-8) 5 hour PDP Location: Fran Greenspan Admin Center (CO) Rm 211 Date: July 10 Time: 9 AM to 2 PM Instructor: Ellen Robertson Due to low enrollment Course Description: Teachers K-8 will learn how to use this online software program with their classes. Teachers will learn how to create classes, assignments, and the management system contained in this program. Teachers will become well-versed in the pre-assessments, creating content tailored to these assessments, and then using post-tests to evaluate the skills created for each student. Using Infographics for Instruction and Assessment 7.5 hour PDP Location: HS East Mac Lab Date: July 14 and 15 Time: 8:00 AM to 11:45 AM Instructor: Patrick Kiley-Rendon Course Description: Infographics are the graphical representations of data, facts, statistics, etc. They have been around for decades -- subway maps, USA Today polls, Electoral College breakdowns -- but they have recently experienced a tremendous surge in their presence on the Web. When designed correctly, they draw a viewer’s attention and quickly convey a message. Participants in the class will learn about the aesthetic and artistic decisions that go into infographics, sites that teachers and students can use to create them and sites that provide infographics that can supplement curricula. These can be used as teaching tools and as assessments. “Make and Take” Comic Life 7.5 hour PDP Location: HS East Mac Lab (Need Comic Life installed) Date: July 16 Time: 8 AM to 3:30 PM Instructor: Ilana Sussman Course Description: Teachers will learn the in’s and out’s of the computer program Comic Life. We will share ideas in order to create projects, activities, banners, signs and more. Teachers will create projects and/or activities for a unit of study that they will take with them for the upcoming school year.
Learning A-Z (Teachers K-5) 5 hour PDP Location: Fran Greenspan Admin Center (CO) Rm 211 Date: July 17 Time: 9 AM to 2 PM Instructor: TBD\Outside Vendor Course Description: This is aDue wonderful online resource to support the to low enrollment language arts and science curriculum. Reading A to Z encourages independent and guided reading at all levels. This website offers lesson plans, leveled books, and developmentally appropriate comprehension & phonics worksheets. RazKids provides access to hundreds of animated leveled books – ideal for emerging and challenged readers. This site offers interactive audio books and quizzes for students to utilize at school and at home. Vocabulary A to Z and Science A to Z also promote interactive learning and resources for students at teachers that correlate to curriculum guidelines. Participants will be given time to build rosters, assign books and learn how to track student reading activities. SmartBoard II *Prerequisite (This is rescheduled from July 14, 15 and 16) 15 hour PDP Location: Fran Greenspan Admin Center (CO) Rm 211 Date: July 21, 22 and 23 Time: 2 PM to 7 PM Instructor: Jolynn Sapia Course Description: Take it to the next level… take everything you learned in SMART Board Level 1, and take it to the next level… learn cool tips and tricks, how to master the Lesson Activity Toolkit and create exemplar lessons. *Prerequisite: SMART Board 1 THE IPOSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS 15 hour PDP Location: HS East Mac Lab Date: July 22 and 23 Time: 8 AM to 3:30 PM Instructor: Ilana Sussman Course Description: Having an iPad in the classroom is a both a motivational tocourse low enrollment tool and an invaluable resource.Due This will show teachers how to maximize the use of their iPad, while exploring new and exciting apps to use with their class. We will demonstrate different ways to use the iPad with the whole class, small groups or individually. Teachers will find apps to enhance their curricula and create projects, lessons and/or plans using these apps.
Google Lit Trips 5 hour PDP Location: HS East Mac Lab Date: July 23 Time: 8 AM to 1 PM Instructor: Michelle Jacobs Course Description: Google Lit Trips will allow educators, especially English and Social Studies instructors to take a virtual journey and bring literature and/or history to life. Google Lit Trips interfaces with Google Earth to create a literary or historical map that plots a virtual course of the life and events of a character in literary works or history. Teachers can provide their students with a visual support and hands on interaction while combining history, geography, and literature. In this course, educators will explore shared Google Lit Trips and learn the basic skills to create their own Google Lit virtual tour. Pixie (Teachers K-8) 5 hour PDP Location: Fran Greenspan Admin Center (CO) Rm 211 Date: July 24 Time: 9 AM to 2 PM Instructor: Denise MacDevette Course Description: Pixie is exciting creativity software students similar to Kid Pix, which can be used to share ideas, imagination, and understanding through a combination of text, original artwork, voice narration, and images. NO SMARTBOARD‌ NO PROBLEM 7.5 hour PDP Location: HS East Mac Lab Date: July 29 Time: 8 AM to 3:30 PM Instructor: Ilana Sussman Course Description: Teachers will learn programs we all have on our computers, such as SMARTnotebook, Board Tools and many others that they can use with JUST a projector. We will share ideas in order to create projects, presentations, and more. Teachers will create projects and/or activities for units of study that they will be able to use for the school year.
STUDENT ONLINE PORTFOLIOS USING WEEBLY FOR EDUCATION 15 hour PDP Location: HS East Mac Lab Date: August 5 and 6 Time: 8 AM to 3:30 PM Instructor: Ilana Sussman Course Description: Teachers will learn how to create a class website as well how to instruct their students to create their own websites. Student websites will be used to track and collect student work throughout the school year. It’s easy and fun to do. PREZI PRESENTATIONS 7.5 hour PDP Location: HS East Mac Lab Date: August 11 Time: 8 AM to 3:30 PM Instructor: Ilana Sussman Course Description: Teachers will learn the in’s and out’s of the online computer program “Prezi”. We will share ideas in order to create projects, presentations, and more. Teachers will create projects and/or activities for a unit of study that they will be able to use with them for the school year. EDMODO 7.5 hour PDP Location: HS East Rm 906 Date: August 20 Time: 8 AM to 3:30 PM Instructor: Becky Merejo Course Description: Teachers will learn how to use www.edmodo.com to enhance student learning inside and outside of the classroom. Teachers will create online homework assignments, online quizzes/tests, provide student resources (online video links, websites, etc.), and network with other colleagues. This incorporates 21st century skills. Great for teachers who wish are looking to utilize a new tool with their classes. Students can download free application onto their smartphones. Course can also help teachers collaborate with others in their grade level in and outside of their building through the use of networking with other teachers who currently use www.edmodo.com.
CREATE AN ONLINE PROFESSIONAL/STUDENT PORTFOLIO OR CLASS RESOURCE WEBSITE 7.5 hour PDP Location: HS East Rm 906 Date: August 28 Time: 8 AM to 3:30 PM Instructor: Becky Merejo Course Description: Teachers will learn how to create a website that showcases their work, samples of students work, classroom, etc. Teachers will provide a sample for each of the domains per HHH portfolio requirements that incorporates 21st century skills. Great for probationary and tenured teachers who wish to update their portfolios or have an online portfolio. Course can also help teachers create a model so that they can have students create online portfolios to showcase work done in your class. Teachers can create a website that contains resources and online activities.