iBet You’ll Want to Know about This! Friday, May 8, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Tech PD, VLC Programs, podcast.Tags: Apple, tele, iPhoto, Macintosh, garageband, podcasts, creative writing, music production, Apple in education, music lesson
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Macintosh Classes in Cooperating School Districts’ Virtual Learning Center!
Using GarageBand ‘08 in the Classroom on June 1 from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Just $69 for a CSD member and only $107 for non-members.
The best way to record music on a Mac is now the best way to record podcasts. GarageBand puts you in the control room of your own full-featured radio station. With GarageBand, you can create your own virtual onstage band and play along on your favorite instrument. You can record, edit, and mix a song exactly as you want it, with CD quality. Come find out about multi-take recording, where you mark a region to repeat, record your part multiple times, and pick your best performance. In addition, find out how to create audio, video and enhanced podcasts with Garageband. Learn all this plus how to incorporate it all into your classroom. Music teachers, you’ll be especially interested in this course!
Using iPhoto ‘08 in the Classroom on July 24 from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Just $69 for a CSD member and only $107 non-members.
Don’t be daunted by all those digital photos your students and you have been taking in the classroom, Apple users! In this half-day course, you’ll learn how iPhoto automatically organizes your picture library by Events, based on dates the photo was taken. Once you’ve uploaded your photos, you’ll learn the easy tools available to let you edit images like a pro. After you’ve added to your photo library, you’ll be able to search for your pictures in one place: filtered by name, date, rating, or keyword. Why not share photos with parents and staff by email or create amazing web pages, cards, calendars, and books? What a great way to incorporate technology into your creative writing lessons! With a few easy clicks of the mouse, you can create a quality, hardbound book to add to your school’s library, written, illustrated, and published by your students! In addition, you’ll learn how to print high-quality, frame-worthy photos with colored textures, borders and mattes on your printer. This is a Mac class not to be missed!
Sign up today at: www.csd.org/tele.
upgrade Thursday, April 23, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology.Tags: Apple, Bootcamp, Virtual Learning Center
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Today was the start of the Virtual Learning Center’s tele makeover! Out with the old (computer desks) and in with the new (with lots of keyboard, mouse, and computer moving plus vaccuuming in between)! Class participants will now have a much clearer view of the teacher station and the interactive whiteboards. The Apples still have Bootcamp on them, so tele participants can choose which platform- Mac or PC- to conduct the class in. Look for more changes in the tele as the spring progresses! The summer class schedule is up on the website, so sign up today!
Learn how to incorporate iPhoto into your classroom Thursday, April 23, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Tech PD, VLC Programs.Tags: Apple, iPhoto, tele
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From 8:30-11:30 a.m. on July 24, come to CSD and take our class Using iPhoto in the Classroom! This half day course is $69 CSD member; $107 non-member. Read on to learn more about this class.
Don’t be daunted by all those digital photos your students and you have been taking in the classroom, Apple users! In this half-day course, you’ll learn how iPhoto automatically organizes your picture library by Events, based on dates the photo was taken. Once you’ve uploaded your photos, you’ll learn the easy tools available to let you edit images like a pro. After you’ve added to your photo library, you’ll be able to search for your pictures in one place: filtered by name, date, rating, or keyword. Why not share photos with parents and staff by email or create amazing web pages, cards, calendars, and books? What a great way to incorporate technology into your creative writing lessons! With a few easy clicks of the mouse, you can create a quality, hardbound book to add to your school’s library, written, illustrated, and published by your students! In addition, you’ll learn how to print high-quality, frame-worthy photos with colored textures, borders and mattes on your printer. This is a Mac class not to be missed!
ARRA and Technology Education Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology.Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Apple, ARRA, DESE, instructional technology, Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Stimulus Opportunities, white papers
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Are you interested in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)? Curious about how it will provide for technology integration in schools? Here a couple useful resources to review:
- Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), March 2009: Volume 10, Number 5 of Instructional Technology Newsline.
- DESE webpage featuring ARRA information
- Apple white papers: Stimulus Opportunities for Integrating Technology with Educational Goals
SMART Board Sessions @ METC Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Collaboration, Conferences, Links, Promethean Activboard, SMART Board, Tech PD, VLC Programs.Tags: Apple, Cooperating School Districts, iLife, METC, Midwest Education Technology Conference, SMART Board, SMART Notebook 10, SMART technologies
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While Promethean Activboard sessions will take place at the Midwest Education Technology Conference (see previous post), we will also be offering SMART Board sessions (as well as general sessions on interactive whiteboards). Here are some sessions you might want to consider:
- SMART Software
- Beginning SMART Board
- Writing Interactive Lessons Using SMART Notebook 10
- SMART Boards and iLife, an Engaging Combination
Also:
- Using Your Interactive White Board (IWB) Throughout the Day (K-5)
- Replacing theTextbook with Technology
METC is held at the St. Charles Convention Center in St. Charles, MO- just across the Missouri River from St. Louis. The 2009 conference will be its 26th year, and we’re anticipating over 1,500 educators from across the country to attend in January. For more details, including registration information, visit: http://www2.csd.org/metc2009.htm.
ibelieve you’ll love these classes Thursday, September 18, 2008
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Collaboration, Tech PD, VLC Programs.Tags: Apple, iMovie, iPhoto, Tech PD, tele, Virtual Learning Center
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The Virtual Learning Center has two classes at the beginning of 2009 you should take! The focus of these classes is iLife from Apple. Learn how to master iPhoto and iMovie for classroom projects. For details on these tele classes, see below!
Using iPhoto in the Classroom
February 10 from 4-7 pm in the tele
$68 CSD member; $102 non-member
Don’t be daunted by all those digital photos your students and you have been taking. Share them by email or create amazing web pages, cards and calendars. iPhoto automatically organizes your photo library and makes editing as easy as clicking your mouse. In this course you’ll learn how iPhoto automatically 
organizes your library by Events, based on dates. you’ll learn the new tools to let you edit like a pro. Build a stunning online gallery using .Mac, where visitors can view and download your photos, and add their own photos from a Mac or PC. Search your photo library in one place — filtered by name, date, rating, or keyword. You’ll learn how to print high-quality, frame-worthy photos with colored textures, borders and mattes on your printer.
Using iMovie ’08 in the Classroom
February 12 from 4-7 pm in the tele
$68 CSD member; $102 non-member
iMovie ’08 makes viewing and working with video as intuitive as enjoying your photos. A built-in library automatically organizes your video, so all the clips you’ve captured and movies you’ve created are just a click away. With its revolutionary interface, iMovie makes it quick and easy to browse your library and create new movies. And iMovie is built for sharing. In just a few steps, you can add movies to your website, publish them on YouTube, and create versions for iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV. And we got rid of the timeline!
To register, visit: www.csd.org/tele.
Make a Movie Opportunity Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Tech PD, VLC Programs.Tags: Apple, Apple TV, csd, iMovie, iPhone, iPod, movies in the classroom, Show Me a Movie, student films, Tech PD, technology in education, tele, Virtual Learning Center, YouTube
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Did you miss CSD’s Movie-Making in the Classroom class in June? Don’t worry! You still have a chance to work with one of the applications covered in that course- iMovie.
Here’s the scoop: Using iMovie ’08 in the Classroom
Tues., July 22 | 1-4 pm | $63 CSD member; $89 non-member 
iMovie ’08 makes viewing & working with video as intuitive as enjoying your photos! A built-in library automatically organizes your video, so clips you’ve captured and movies you’ve created are just a click away. With its revolutionary interface, iMovie makes it quick and very easy to browse your library and create movies. You can add movies to your website, publish them on YouTube, and create versions for iPod, iPhone, & Apple TV.
Apple’s Morrie Reece teaches this class step by step, allowing for plenty of time for you work with the application. By the end of the afternoon, you will feel confident in creating a film using iMovie!
To sign up, go to www.csd.org/tele.
Movie-Making at CSD Thursday, June 26, 2008
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Collaboration, Distance Learning, Tech PD, VLC Programs.Tags: Apple, Cooperating School Districts, digital storytelling, iMovie, mac, movie making, pc, photo essays, PhotoStory 3, tele, Virtual Learning Center, Windows MovieMaker
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Today was the final of three days in Movie-Making in the Classroom: Creating Digital Stories and Photo Essays (June 23, 24 & 26 in the tele). Martha & Stacey taught the class, and Karen Montgomery was on hand. Participants had their choice of using Windows MovieMaker (PC), iMovie (Mac), or PhotoStory 3 (PC) to create their movie.
Apple & tele Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Tech PD, VLC Programs.Tags: Apple, Cooperating School Districts, garageband, iDVD, iMovie, iPhoto, iWeb, Leopard, mac, Tech PD, tele, Virtual Learning Center
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Teachers, don’t forget that in July the Virtual Learning Center is launching tele classes created especially for Apple users! Each half-day, hands-on, interactive class (held at Cooperating School Districts) will examine one application. Come learn about all the innovative things you can do on your Mac- and how to apply it in your classroom!
Course options (take one, or take them all, or anywhere in between):
- Using iPhoto in the Classroom and Using iMovie ’08 in the Classroom, both on July 22
Using GarageBand 3 in the Classroom and Using iWeb in the Classroom, both on July 23- Using iDVD 6 in the Classroom and Using Leopard in the Classroom, both on July 24
(iWeb & iPhoto images taken from my iMac using Grab utility).
iWant to learn more Thursday, May 29, 2008
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Blogs, Classroom Technology, Links, SMART Board, Tech PD.Tags: Apple, Cooperating School Districts, Dashboard, garageband, iDVD, iLife, iMovie, iPhoto, iWeb, mac, Morrie Reece, PhotoBooth, podcast, SMART Board, Tech PD, tele, Virtual Learning Center
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Morrie Reece from Apple came in today to give the Virtual Learning Center staff a great tutorial on the updated iLife. Here are some snapshots of our professional development day in the tele:
During the course of the day, we put together podcasts, learned how to turn our iPhoto library into a published book, and how to create an iDVD. We also worked with PhotoBooth, GarageBand, iMovie, iWeb, and the Dashboard. Along with some cheerleaders, John Hodgman and Justin Long even made a brief appearance at the beginning of the morning. Just a day in our iLife!
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