TPD Course Catalog

TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSE CATALOG

American Nicaraguan School www.ans.edu.ni - Managua, Nicaragua - 2012

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Website Design Description:

Learn how to create and edit a website to effectively get your content read and used. Enriching a website with different tools and media (images, videos, text, etc.) and easier for users to access all the content on it. Learn how to design a great website!

Length: 1 hour

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Category: Web Tools

Video Conferencing Description:

Make video conferences and videos calls to be always in constant communication.

Get in touch with the whole world!

Length: 1 hour

Level:

Category: Media

Social Learning Networking Description:

Share information easily and safely across the web for your colleagues and students to access it faster. Collaborate with one and others. Get your students engaged on school work at home and in school.

Length: 1 hour

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Category: Media

Podcast and Vodcast Description:

Digital media consisting of episodic series of files, either audio or video. Record yourself, insert sound tracks or make a video on any subject to explain it on a more intuitive way to students. Get students attention during lecturing by podcasting or vodcasting.

Length: 1 hour

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Category: Media

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Document Camera Description:

Real-time image capture devices for displaying an object or document to a large audience. It can also magnify and project the images of actual, 3-D objects, as well as transparencies.

Length: 1 hour

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Category: Devices

1 hour

Mimio Interactive Description:

Transforms any whiteboard, or projection surface, into an interactive teaching tool. Make your students interact and make learning a lot more fun. Learn how to use Mimio Studio Interactive Software for your classroom, you’ll have readyto-use video, sound, and graphics make it easy to produce multimedia interactive whiteboard lessons that engage your students.

Length: 1 hour

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Category: Devices

Mimio Vote Description:

Make multiple choice evaluations with Mimio Vote. Learn how to set up classes, add students manage collected data, and generate reports from the Mimio Vote Gradebook. You will have the opportunity to practice your new skills during the session, and to consider ways you can apply different types of assessments to your teaching.

Length: 1 hour

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Category: Web Tools

Video Editing Description:

Create and edit your own videos to explain a subject or a class.

Length: 1 hour

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Category: Media

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Graphic Design Description:

The essentials to design your own documents. Use Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc. to create a good looking document, magazine or book. Just get creative!

Length: 1 hour

Level:

Category: Software

Photography Description:

Learn how cameras work to get beautiful pictures, just the way you want them.

Enjoy framing the moment!

Length: 1 hour

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Category: Device

PowerSchool Gradebook Description:

Get to know how to get the most out of the PowerSchool Gradebook, categories, citizenship, etc. Turn in you grades on time!

Length: 1 hour

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Category: Web Tools

Word Processor Description:

Learn how to use the most common word processors software. Make your documents outstand upon other documents, using all the tools proportioned to you, by the software.

Length: 1 hour

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Category: Software

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Presentation Editing Description:

Create outstanding presentations with presentation editing software or web applications.

Length: 1 hour

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Category: Web Tools/Software

Safety Online Description:

Be safe while surfing the web. Get to know how to be protected always from any online threats.

Length: 1 hour

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Category: Devices

Blogging Description:

Understand how to communicate your ideas and experiences to others, through blogs. Get feedback from your blog readers and enjoy blogging.

Length: 1 hour

Level:

Category: Web Tools

Image Editing Description:

Learn how to correct some imperfections on your images. Crop, brighten, shadow, highlights, modify, tweak etc. you pictures to make them better than before.

Length: 1 hour

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Category: Media

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Web Tools Description:

Discover the awesome web tools that can help you enrich your class. Create uncountable things online!

Length: 1 hour

Level:

Category: Software

Google Apps Description:

A set of Google products for business and schools. Get easily in-touch with your colleagues and students through Gmail, Calendar, Contacts, Gtalk, Docs, Sites, Picasa, etc.

Length: 1 hour

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Category: Device

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Category: Web Tools

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Category: Software

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American Nicaraguan School Frente al Club de Lomas de Montserrat, P.O. Box 2670 Phone #: (505) 2278-0029 / (505) 2278-4508 / Fax: (505) 2267-3088 Managua, Nicaragua www.ans.edu.ni