Summer+Technology+Workshops

=Angleton ISD Summer Technology Workshops=




 * Summer 2014 Tech Workshops Frequently Asked Questions
 * Register by 5/20. Any classes with less than six participants on 5/20 will be cancelled **.**
 * Angleton ISD employees that attend these classes will have the opportunity to win technology goodies.
 * Attendance at Intel Blended Learning is GREAT for anyone seeking to integrate technology in the classroom, and mandatory for those Angleton ISD educators that want to participate in the Angleton ISD Classroom 2014 - 2015 Technology Grant Program (Similar to the AISD Pilot Program. Details will be published by 5/7).
 * Having an iPad is not required for attendance at iPad classes. We will have a few available for use during class if you don't have an iPad or iPhone, just let us know ahead of time so we can plan accordingly.
 * Educators that will be receiving a district-issued iPad are required to attend four hours of iPad training prior to receiving an iPad and an additional four hours of iPad classes within the following year.
 * Facilities are not available for children during classes.
 * Questions about classes or registration? Contact Heidi Crist.



**Workshop Schedule**
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 * **June 2014** ||  ||   ||
 * Course || Description || Date/Time ||
 * Intel Designing Blended Learning || Do you wonder how to bring technology into your classroom? This three session course (8 AM - 12 Noon, 6/9 - 6/11) helps teachers transition to blended learning experiences (learning with technology) and provides the background rationale, planning strategies, and suggested technology tools. It offers suggestions for assessing student learning in a blended course and managing the day-to-day blended environment. A minimum of six participants are required for the class to make.
 * iTunes U Browse and Create || What is iTunes U? Did you know that you can browse other teachers' courses on iTunes? Did you know you can take a course? How about create your own? Come and learn about iTunes U courses and collections. Create your own course for your students. Or, teach your students create their own course to show the world what they know. || 6/9/2014
 * You Can Record Anything on Your Computer Screen Today: Screencasting 101 || Ever wish you could just record your presentations and computer-based lessons? Now you can. Learn how to add narration to PowerPoint presentations, record yourself working on the computer screen with ScreenCastomatic and Screenr. We will also discuss and demonstrate how to use your Promethean or SmartPodium to create dynamic lessons through recording. iPad options will be discussed and demonstrated, but bringing and iPad is not necessary. It is helpful to bring a PowerPoint or lesson you want to record. || 6/10/2014
 * OneNote: Getting It All Together || Ever wanted to have all of your lessons organized online in a multimedia rich format so you and/or your students can organize and access all of your videos, links, and documents from one location? Microsoft OneNote can get you there. Collaborate, share, and create resources in OneNote with other teachers. Students, too, can use OneNote to create group or individual multimedia projects and portfolios, or to just take notes for themselves or with a group in a shared file from different computers, smartphones, tablets, or iPads. || 6/11/2014
 * Weebly Classroom Website || Create your own free website with Weebly to communicate with parents, showcase your students' work, create assignments, attach files, and share links to web-based activities and other websites. You will learn to copy, paste, edit, add pictures, add links, embed videos, and set up a working webpage. See great examples from other teachers in our district. || 6/18/2014
 * Bring Your Class to the Web with Edmodo || Learn to use Edmodo to organize your classes, create online quizzes and polls, make assignments, have online discussions, and bring student and family communication to the web. || 6/18/2014 10 - 12 AM ||
 * ActivInspire I: The Basics || Learn the basics of creating flip charts in ActivInspire to get you well on your way to being an ActivInspire/Promethean genius. Figure out the difference between the menu, browsers, profiles, toolbox, and marquee. Learn to make objects appear and disappear with the translucency slider and magic ink. Drag objects and lock objects. Add pictures and other media through the Resource Browser and Resources on Promethean Planet website. Create your own flip chart activities and learn where to find some you can already use or adapt. || 6/19/2014
 * ActivInspire II || Add to the foundation skills learned in ActivInspire I. Insert media(video, photo, links, etc), create a magic eraser, change object layers, internet integration, best practices, and more. ActivInspire I, or a good understanding of ActivInspire basics is recommended before taking this course. || 6/19/2014
 * iPad 101: The Basics || You have your iPad and gone through the steps to set it up so that it is ready to use. Now what? The workshop iPad 101 is targeted at the new user who needs help doing the basics, like navigating the iPad, finding apps, downloading them, organizing them, exploring the facets of iPad settings and how to use it with the presentation station. || 6/23/2014
 * iPad Apps for All || Explore some basic iPad apps that are great for the classroom, no matter the grade level. Learn about iPad workflows, and ways to evaluate app effectiveness. || 6/23/2014
 * iPad Whiteboard: Explain Everything and Screenchomp || Learn to use an interactive whiteboard tool Explain Everything to screencast and annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere. Screenchomp, a simpler whiteboard tool, will also be taught. For all grade levels. || 6/24/2014
 * iPad Apps for Elementary || Explore some basic iPad apps that are great for the Elementary classroom. Learn about iPad classroom management, workflows, and ways to evaluate app effectiveness. || 6/24/2014 11AM - 12 Noon ||
 * iPad Apps for Secondary || Explore some basic iPad apps that are great for the Secondary classroom. Whiteboard, subject-specific ideas, learning games, research and organization tools. || 6/24/2014 11AM - 12 Noon ||
 * Pictures on the iPad || Learn how to take, edit, share, and manage pictures on the iPad. Learn about some great apps that use pictures and to create student-centered projects, like Pic Collage, Comic Books, and Book Creator. || 6/25/2014
 * Appy Hour || Share and learn about the best Apps for the classroom from the best teachers at Angleton ISD--YOU! Come to listen, come to share, or come to collaborate. || 6/25/2014 12 Noon-1 PM ||
 * Revize Basics: Create your own Classroom Webpage || Procedures and directions for publishing a classroom webpage using Revize will be taught with a direct link from inside the AISD website. Adding a freeform document, links, and images will be demonstrated. Leave with a good communication tools for students and parents. This time can also be used for updating an existing classroom web page with assistance if needed.

This is not for AHS or JJAEP || 6/25/2014 1 - 3 PM || 9 - 10 || 10 - 12 AM || 1 - 3 PM || 8 AM - 12 Noon || 12 - 1 PM || 1 - 3 PM || 1 - 3 PM || 9 - 11 || 12 - 2 PM || 9 - 11 || 1 - 3 PM || 9 - 11 || 11 - 12 AM || 11 - 12 AM || 9 - 11 || 12 - 1 PM || This class is for those that have used Revize before and need a refresher course and/or time to update your website.
 * Graphing Skills in Elementary || ==CANCELED == || 6/26/2014
 * Top Ten Tech Tools for Teachers || Interested in techin’ up your classroom lessons? Join me as we look at ten teacher sites and apps that will capture your students’ interest and get them motivated! This class will help you fill your teacher tool box with classroom ideas, creative lesson starters, and teacher utilities. || 6/26/2014
 * Are you up for some Mouse Mischief? || Want to keep your students' attention. Try a little Mischief! That is, Microsoft Mouse Mischief which integrates into Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint, letting you insert quetions, polls, and drawing activity slides into your lessons. Students can actively participate in these lessons by using their own mice to click, circle, cross out, or draw answers on the screen. Several mice will be given away. || 6/26/2014
 * **July 2014** || [[image:ivak_Decorative_Sun.png width="28" height="28" align="center"]] ||  ||
 * Intel Designing Blended Learning || Do you wonder how to bring technology into your classroom? This three session course (8 AM - 12 Noon, 7/7 - 7/9) helps teachers transition to blended learning experiences (learning with technology) and provides the background rationale, planning strategies, and suggested technology tools. It offers suggestions for assessing student learning in a blended course and managing the day-to-day blended environment. A minimum of six participants are required for the class to make. || 7/7 - 7/9
 * If You Can E-mail, YOU Can Blog! Kidblog: Create and Manage a Class Blog || Ever wondered what a blog is and what it can do for your students? Learn from a teacher that has successfully taught her students using Kidblog. A blog is an online log or journal. Blogs can be used to post videos, pictures Learn the basics of creating a classroom blog on Kidblog. Create assignments, have students turn in assignments and write. Moderate and check comments. Students sign in with a class access code, rather than with an e-mail. Teachers can moderate (check) comments before they are posted. || 7/7/2014
 * OneNote: Getting It All Together || Ever wanted to have all of your lessons organized online in a multimedia rich format so you and/or your students can organize and access all of your videos, links, and documents from one location? Microsoft OneNote can get you there. Collaborate, share, and create resources in OneNote with other teachers. Students, too, can use OneNote to create group or individual multimedia projects and portfolios, or to just take notes for themselves or with a group in a shared file from different computers, smartphones, tablets, or iPads. || 7/8/2014
 * Add a Little Skype to your Life! || Use Skype to video conference with guest speakers, authors, scientist or take a virtual field trip to anywhere in the world. Learn the basics of skyping in an educational setting, including parent permission, setting up the camera, sound, and using the Skype for Education website to find resources and people with whom to skype. || 7/9/2014
 * ActivInspire I: The Basics || Learn the basics of creating flip charts in ActivInspire to get you well on your way to being an ActivInspire/Promethean genius. Figure out the difference between the menu, browsers, profiles, toolbox, and marquee. Learn to make objects appear and disappear with the translucency slider and magic ink. Drag objects and lock objects. Add pictures and other media through the Resource Browser and Resources on Promethean Planet website. Create your own flip chart activities and learn where to find some you can already use or adapt. || 7/10/2014
 * ActivInspire II || Add to the foundation skills learned in ActivInspire I. Insert media(video, photo, links, etc), create a magic eraser, change object layers, internet integration, best practices, and more. ActivInspire I, or a good understanding of ActivInspire basics is recommended before taking this course. || 7/10/2014
 * iPad 101: The Basics || You have your iPad and gone through the steps to set it up so that it is ready to use. Now what? The workshop iPad 101 is targeted at the new user who needs help doing the basics, like navigating the iPad, finding apps, downloading them, organizing them, exploring the facets of iPad settings and how to use it with the presentation station. || 7/14/2014
 * iPad Apps for All || Explore some basic iPad apps that are great for the classroom, no matter the grade level. Learn about iPad workflows, and ways to evaluate app effectiveness. || 7/14/2014
 * iPad Whiteboard: Explain Everything and Screenchomp || Learn to use an interactive whiteboard tool Explain Everything to screencast and annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere. Screenchomp, a simpler whiteboard tool, will also be taught. For all grade levels. || 7/15/2014
 * iPad Apps for Elementary || Explore some basic iPad apps that are great for the Elementary classroom. Learn about iPad classroom management, workflows, and ways to evaluate app effectiveness. || 7/15/2014
 * iPad Apps for Secondary || Explore some basic iPad apps that are great for the Secondary classroom. Whiteboard, subject-specific ideas, learning games, research and organization tools. || 7/15/2014
 * Pictures on the iPad || Learn how to take, edit, share, and manage pictures on the iPad. Learn about some great apps that use pictures and to create student-centered projects, like Pic Collage, Comic Books, and Book Creator. || 7/16/2014
 * Appy Hour || Share and learn about the best Apps for the classroom from the best teachers at Angleton ISD--YOU! Come to listen, come to share, or come to collaborate. || 7/16/2014
 * Revize: Update Your Classroom Webpage || Review procedures and directions for publishing a classroom webpage using Revize. Update your existing web page and leave with a good communication tools for students and parents.

This is not for AHS or JJAEP. || 7/16/2014 11 - 12 AM || 9 - 11 AM || 12 - 2 PM || 9 am - 12 noon || 1 - 3 PM || 8 - 10 AM || 10 - 12 AM || 1 - 3 PM || 8 - 10 AM || 10 - 12 AM || 1 - 3 PM || 9 - 11:30 AM ||
 * Technology Time for PreK and Kindergarten || Technology ideas, activities, and websites for teaching young children. || 7/17/2014
 * Weebly Classroom Website || ==CANCELED == || 7/17/2014
 * Google Morning || Google Drive, Forms, Docs, Sheets, Slides and more. With Google, your students can work together on a project in one file. Teachers can have students turn in files (not paper) in shared folders. Grade a quiz automatically with Flubaroo in Google Forms. Come and learn the basics of what Google can do for you and your class. || 7/21/2014
 * Make Your Presentations Zoom with Prezi || Looking for a creative way to make your presentations more amazing? Learn how to zoom, spin, and show off with Prezi, a free and easy web-based presentation program. || 7/22/2014
 * **August 2014** || [[image:ivak_Decorative_Sun.png width="28" height="28" align="center"]] ||  ||
 * Weebly Classroom Website || ==CANCELED == || 8/4/2014
 * Bring Your Class to the Web with Edmodo || ==CANCELED == || 8/4/2014
 * You Can Record Anything on Your Computer Screen Today: Screencasting 101 || ==CANCELED == || 8/4/2014
 * Revize Basics: Create your own Classroom Webpage || ==CANCELED == || 8/5/2014
 * School Center Web Page || ==CANCELED == || 8/5/2014
 * Using TECH to TEACH...AISD Classroom Devices || Learn about the technology equipment available in many AISD classrooms, how to operate them, and ideas for using them in the classroom. Equipment to learn about will include the presentation station, document camera, interactive display monitor (touchscreen), Airserver (project an iPad on the presentation screen), webcams, and digital projectors. || 8/5/2014
 * Discovery Education Streaming || Explore the rich capabilities of Discovery Education Streaming (DE Streaming). Conten available for teachers of all subjects includes lesson plans, videos, blackline masters, maps, calendars, STEM connect, assessments, and more. || 8/7/2014