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 * **Courses Offered ** ||  **Description **  ||
 * ======A. Website Design ====== || ======Participants will learn how to create and maintain a classroom webpage, including graphics, color, navigation design, and various forms of media. Participants will leave with a classroom webpage ready to be used! Websites will be linked to the district website. ====== ||
 * ======B. Interactive Whiteboard Resources ====== || ======Elementary- Participants will learn how to use their Easiteach software to enhance their lessons. Participants will also leave with a variety of other interactive whiteboard resources for their elementary classrooms. Enhance and streamline your lessons with multimedia and clipart. ======

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Secondary – Participants will learn how to use their Promethean boards to enhance their lessons. Promethean Planet will be explored and teachers will find lessons and resource packages that they can download and use immediately. ====== || Go to Registration Form
 * ======C. Wikis ====== || ======A wiki is an editable online document that allows a group or a class of students to collaborate on an interactive project. Participants will design, maintain, and learn practical applications of using a wiki in their classroom. ====== ||
 * ======D. Blogs ====== || ======Participants will learn how to use a classroom blog, which is an online journal or log to which comments can be posted. Learn how to blog with your students and colleagues and use widgets to enhance your classroom projects. Participants will create their own classroom blog. ====== ||
 * ======E. Podcasts ====== || ======Participants will learn how to record, upload, and subscribe to podcasts, which are digital audio and video files posted to the Web for anyone to download and listen to. ====== ||
 * ======F. Digital Storytelling ====== || ======Digital storytelling is the creation and authoring of stories electronically by use of images, music, narration, and voice. Participants will learn how to use digital storytelling in their classroom and how to use Photo Story for students to create digital stories. ====== ||
 * ======<span style="font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">G. Presentation Tools ====== || ======<span style="font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Participants will learn how to “jazz up” PowerPoint presentations by embedding videos, sound, and automation. Participants will also learn how to create Prezi presentations. ====== ||
 * ======<span style="font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">H. Video/Photo ====== || ======<span style="font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Participants will learn the basics of transferring video/photo to a computer and performing conversion and manipulation tasks via easily available software. Additional objectives include converting video and photos into web ready formats such as flash. ====== ||
 * ======<span style="font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I. Microsoft Office ====== || ======<span style="font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Participants will learn the basics of Microsoft Office 2007 (Word, Excel, Power Point, Publisher) and its capacity to augment instruction and learning in the classroom. Additional objectives include using online resources available for Microsoft Office. ====== ||
 * ======<span style="font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">J. Organizational Tools ====== || ======<span style="font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Participants will learn how to use social bookmarking, graphic organizers, and Google Docs to organize their teaching tools. Participants will also explore Google Calendar, iGoogle, and methods of internet storage and backup (Net Storage and Box.net). ====== ||
 * ======<span style="font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">K. Personal Learning Networks ====== || ======<span style="font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Participants will learn how to create and maintain a personal learning network among colleagues. Participants will learn how to use RSS feeds, Twitter, and podcasts to find and share resources. ====== ||