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October : November : December
Fall 2006 Course Descriptions
Introduction to Blackboard- RESCHEDULED Oct. 26th
Most people have heard about Blackboard, but do you know what it is? Blackboard is a web content management system. What would you use it for: put your syllabus, class schedule/calendar, and homework on-line, create tests on-line, check for plagiarism, discussion forums, extra storage space for your files, communicate with students, gradebook, and much more!
Flickr - CANCELLED
Flickr is an online image management and photo sharing application where you can store, sort, search and share your photos online. There is a huge mass of photos in the world, and Flickr provides a way to organize yours. Flickr is free and its fun! Come to this training to learn what Flickr is all about and how you can use it to manage your classroom photos. Be sure to sign up for Flickr Toys, too.
Microsoft Word Horizontal Ruler - Oct. 24th
There is one area in Word where you can quickly set up margins, tab stops, and hanging indents: the horizontal ruler. The horizontal ruler is the bar across the top of your Word document with measurements marked out on it. Many people ignore it and use the various dialog boxes instead. But once you know how to use it, you'll wonder how you ever coped without it.
MS Word Table of Contents/Index - Nov. 9th
A table of contents, or TOC, gives readers a brief outline of the topics discussed in a document and helps them find their way around it. An index lists the terms and topics discussed in a document, along with the pages they appear on.
Flickr Toys - Nov. 14th
Flickr is an online image management and photo sharing application where you can store, sort, search and share your photos online. Learn how you can make motivational posters, magazine covers, trading cards, comic book pages and much more with your Flickr photos or your own saved photos.
Stop Motion Animation - Nov. 16th
Learn how to make animated movies. You won’t believe how simple it is!! It’s fun and educational. Use claymation for math word problems, creative writing, story comprehension, chemical reactions, models of cells, reenact significant moments in history, model life in another culture, or whatever you can imagine.
Flash Intro - Nov. 28st
Would you like to make those animations you always see on webpages? Are your PowerPoint presentations lacking finesse? Can’t find the animated gif you’re looking for? Do you want to add creativity to your lessons, but you don’t have a lot of time to spend developing videos and animations? Try Flash. It’s quick, easy, and brings new life to old presentations.
Cool Features of Excel - Dec. 6th
- Freeze -- keep spreadsheet titles in sight by freezing or locking them in place. That way, after you scroll past the first row or two, you won't have to guess what data refers to or keep scrolling back up the page to see the titles again .
- Compare -- compare the content in two different workbooks at the same time.
- Use status bar for quick calculations -- you'll learn where to find Excel's super-fast automatic sums and more, such as calculating the average, minimum, or maximum value in a range of numbers.
- Auto fill -- Tired of typing the same lists over and over again, or copying and pasting lists from one place to another? Instead, let Excel fill in the months of the year, days of the week, and even your schools student or employee names. You'll learn how to use the fill handle to complete lists after you type one or two entries.
- Conditional formatting -- to make certain values jump right out at you when the conditions are right.
Digital Storytelling: Photo Story - Dec. 12th
Create your own photo story with the free application Microsoft Photo Story. You can add special effects, titles, captions, music, and your own voice narration to your
photo story. Please have your own photos saved to CD or h: drive to be used for this training.
Digital Storytelling: Movie Maker - Dec. 14th
Create a movie using your own photos and words with the free application Windows MovieMaker. You can add titles, captions, effects, transitions, soundtracks, and your own voice narration to your movie. Please have your own photos saved to CD or h: drive to be used for this training. Note: this training will not include digital video editing.
The following are just a sample of possible training courses. If your team/department/unit has a specific area you would like to have training, contact Rosemary, Bill, or Julie to set up an appointment.
SMART Board & Notebook
This workshop will look at the basics functions and features of the SMART Board and Notebook. You will learn:
- How to orient the SMART board.
- How to write on the SMART board adn capture what is written.
- How to create and work with objects in Notebook.
- How to access pictures and page templates using the Gallery feature.
- much more!
Videoconferencing
How would you like to take your students on a field trip to Africa or China ? Video conferencing allows teachers and students to go places they normally wouldn't be able to except in a book or movie. The difference with video conferencing is students are able to participate interactively with people from all over the world, asking and responding to questions in real time. Come learn how to expand the borders of your classroom through video conferencing.
Maintain Your PC
The objective of this course is to learn some tricks of the trade and basic techniques for maintaining your office or classroom computer: delete junk files and cookies, perform disk error check and defragmentation, download Windows Updates, virus tips, check your computers for adware, data mining, advertising and tracking programs.
Cool Features of Microsoft Outlook
Learn how to manage junk email, create rules to manage your email flow, apply a cool looking stationery background to your email messages, create a professional signature for your email messages, keep track of important bits of information with Outlook notes, keep your email account clean and streamlined by using auto archive.
Gallaudet WebMail
WebMail has a whole NEW look! There is a user friendly design and
it's fast! The only problem is…how do I use it. How do create groups
in the address book? How do I setup my email to auto reply? How do I
access my folders/add folders? This workshop on web mail will answer
all of these questions and more.
"For Clerc Center Personnel" Web Page
Learn how the “For Clerc Center Personnel” web page is a fast and
easy way to find information. In this session you will learn
where to change your passwords, the academic calendars,
leave request forms, and much more!
Gallaudet HelpDesk
Gallaudet HelpDesk is a very easy and efficient way to report problems. It
works like this:
you log in to HelpDesk via the internet, provide a little information about
yourself (your name, building,
room #, etc.), provide a brief description of your problem or need
and submit it. Your request is assigned
to one of the ISCS staff depending on the type of request. You can expect
to be contacted within one
day of submitting the request and the problem should be solved within
three days. We hope you can
join us to learn about this new system. All participants much have a GDOC password
before coming to class.
NOTE: You must have a GDOC password to use the HelpDesk tools.
Microsoft Access
Roll up your sleeves and learn the nuts and bolts of designing a database from scratch. This class will teach you how to design and use all the parts of Microsoft Access: Table, Form, Query, Report, and how to merge some of your data into form letters and mailing labels.
Beginning Microsoft Excel
If you are new to spreadsheets you will want to take this course. You will learn numerous Excel spreadsheet basic functions: arithmetic operators to add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers. You will learn how to quickly total a column of figures by using Autosum. You will insert and delete rows and columns, learn how use SUM, MAX, COUNT, MIN, and AVERAGE. In addition you will learn how to format cells and use the Autofill feature.
Advanced Microsoft Excel
This course builds upon the skills you learned in beginning Excel. You will learn how to use Excel graphs to display and analyze data. You will export Excel data to a database and Microsoft Word, work more deeply with formulas and functions and learn techniques for customizing and changing the appearance of your spread sheet.
Beginning Microsoft Outlook
This course will teach you the basics of Outlook. It will be especially beneficial for people who have recently moved from Netscape to Outlook. You will learn how to set up your email account in Outlook, read, send and delete messages. You will learn about the calendar, tasks and contacts features. In addition you will learn how to attach files to outgoing email messages, different ways to customize your Outlook screen and different techniques for formatting your email messages.
Advanced Microsoft Outlook
This class builds upon the skills you learned in beginning Outlook. In this course you will learn how to create folders and distribution lists. You will also learn how to import an external address book into your Outlook account, manage your email by using Outlook rules, work with Favorites and learn techniques to eliminate or reduce junk mail.
Microsoft PowerPoint
Impress your audience with professional presentations that sizzle! Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program that displays your work on the screen as slides. This basic course will introduce simple "how to" of presentation design and production. You will learn how to create a multimedia presentation using a template and add graphics, animation and sound.
PowerPoint Games
Learn how use and manipulate pre-made PowerPoint game show templates (Jeopardy, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Weakest Link, Hollywood squares) to teach math and language concepts and just have some fun! Each participant will receive a floppy with all templates.
Microsoft Publisher
Publisher is a destop-publishing program that can be used to create newsletters, calendars, business cards, flyers, and so much more using professionally designed templates or by creating your own.
Microsoft Word Form Fields
The objective of this course is to learn how to make a tamper proof document or template using Microsoft Word form field features.
MovieMaker 2
This workshop teaches how to create a movie using
Windows MovieMaker. Participants learn how to use a digital camcorder,
transfer digital video to computer, edit video clips which are put
together to create a finished movie. This movie will be saved to a
CD-ROM.
Blogs
Weblogs or "blogs" are
public journals that are easy to set up and use. Teachers use blogs
to create a classroom or personal web page without the need to learn
html or web publishing software. Students can use blogs
for self-expression and reflection or to collaborate with other students.
Learn creative ways to channel your
student's motivation towards active reading and better writing.
Document Camera ("Elmo")
Document cameras use technology to involve the whole class.
Entire books, papers, or objects can be displayed on a screen allowing
everyone to see and participate in class discussions. Come see how a document
camera could benefit your class discussions.
e-IEP Pro (http://www.e-iep.com/clerc/) -
Review & Practice
In this class we
will review the various features and continue becoming comfortable with
e-IEP Pro - our new on-line IEP program. Among other things you will
learn how to enter the e-IEP Pro program and locate students, add goals,
objectives and criteria. You will learn how to add services and print
the IEP in it's entirety or just a few sections.
Gradekeeper
Learn how easy it is to keep track of your grades with Gradekeeper. This program is installed on all the Clerc Center computers and is real simple to learn and use.
Inspiration
Inspiration 7 is a visual learning tool that supports achievement for students in grades 6-adult. Learn how to use Inspiration 7 for brainstorming, webbing, diagramming, planning, critical thinking, concept mapping, organizing and outlining.
Kidspiration 2
Learn how to use Kidspiration 2 to help young readers and writers to develop and organize their ideas, creatively and confidently. We will also look at some K-5 classroom examples of reading and writing, science and social studies activities.
MovieMaker 2
This workshop teaches how to create a movie using
Windows MovieMaker. Participants learn how to use a digital camcorder,
transfer digital video to computer, edit video clips which are put
together to create a finished movie. This movie will be saved to a
CD-ROM.
Skillport
Skillport is a new, very comprehensive Gallaudet supported web-based training tool that allows you to learn on your own time and at your own pace. Learn the ins and outs of this very helpful program. In this course you will how to enter Skillport to begin your training, how to take pre-tests and post tests and how to choose the subject area or topic you want to learn about.
SMART Board & Notebook
This workshop will demonstrate the SMART Notebook
technology and its use with the SMARTBoard in a classroom or meeting
environment.
Taking Photos with your camcorder
Learn how to use your digital camcorder to take still
images. The camcorder uses memory card to store images and can be used
like a digital camera.
Turnitin (http://turnitin.com)
With the internet becoming the main resource
for students' research, plagiarism is becoming much more difficult
for teachers to detect. TurnItIn is a web based program that allows
teachers and students to check work for plagiarism. Teachers are
able to see which students are copying and pasting information
off the web or copying it out of books. Students are able to monitor
themselves and develop a better understanding of what plagiarism
is.
UTILITIES.... ZIP, FTP & PDF
In this class the following questions will be answered. Someone sent me a .pdf file…I tried to read it in word and it didn't work? What should I use? My file is too big. I need to compress it, so that I can save it on my disk. What can I use? I would like to share my files with another teacher. Right now…we are using a zip disk, cd or floppy. Is there another way?
WebQuests
Take your students on exciting Internet Expeditions by creating dynamic learning environments that put your students at the center of the action. WebQuests provide an authentic environment for problem solving, information processing, and collaboration. In this hands-on workshop, you will explore ways to build a WebQuest learning environment including using existing resources, and adapting or modifying a webquest. In addition, you'll examine instructional and classroom strategies for successfully integrating these activities in the K12 classroom. |
