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, Apple in education, creative writing, garageband, iPhoto, Macintosh, music lesson, music production, podcasts, tele
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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.
Digital Pics for Classroom Projects Thursday, April 30, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Tech PD, VLC Programs.Tags: csd, Digital Photography, iPhoto, tele, VoiceThread
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If you are taking this summer’s Tracking Student Learning with VoiceThread class or Using iPhoto in the Classroom class, you might be interested in signing up for Classroom Projects Using Digital Photography, which is being offered the summer on July 22 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Here’s a description of …Digital Photography: A picture is worth a thousand words, so they say. Find out how to use this powerful tool in the classroom. In this class, teachers will learn about the basics of using digital cameras and photography in the classroom. Come learn the parts of the camera, its basic operation, and possible activities that you can use with your students. Find out what can be done with digital images—how they can be enhanced, manipulated, and changed using basic photo editing software. Gain information about how to integrate images into lesson plans and classroom activities. Participants will be encouraged to develop a lesson that incorporates the use of digital images. Bring your own camera and photos, or borrow from us!
All photos by pedrosimoes7, found on Flickr.
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!
February tele schedule Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Collaborations, Internet safety, Promethean Activboard, Tech PD, VLC Programs.Tags: Copyright, iMovie, Intellectual Property, Internet safety, iPhoto, iSAFE, Promethean Activboard
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Here’s some of what we have lined up for February in Cooperating School Districts’ tele:
Using iPhoto in the Classroom
Feb. 10, 4-7 pm
$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…
Using iMovie ’08 in the Classroom
Feb. 12, 4-7 pm
$68 CSD member; $102 non-member
Movie ’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…
Transforming Learning with a Promethean Activboard
Feb. 17, 9 am-4 pm
$125 CSD member; $195 non-member
The Promethean Activboard combines the look and feel of a regular whiteboard with the power of a computer. Discover how to develop lesson plans that make use of it and motivate students to learn. This class is for beginners; no prior knowledge of Promethean Activboards required…
Online “Street Smarts:” Being Legal, Literate, and Secure
Feb. 24 & 25 , 4-7 pm each night
$125 CSD member; $195 non-member
Participants will have the opportunity to learn about the iSAFE curriculum and the modules available to them in the classroom. They will create model lessons for their students that teach Internet Safety, Literacy, and Intellectual Property/Copyright…
Apple iLife classes in February Friday, December 12, 2008
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Links, Tech PD, VLC Programs.Tags: Creative Commons, csd, Flickr, iLife, iMovie, iPhoto, tele
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Using iPhoto in the ClassroomFeb 10, at Cooperating School Districts, from 4 – 7 pm CST
$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
Feb 12 at Cooperating School Districts, 4 – 7 pm CST
$68 CSD member; $102 non-member
Movie ’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 Apple got rid of the timeline!
Sign up for these tele classes at www.csd.org/tele.
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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.
Photo Essay Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Classroom Technology, Collaboration, Tech PD, VLC Programs.Tags: Big Universe, cameras in the classroom, Cooperating School Districts, digital camera, Flickr, iPhoto, photography, PhotoShop, teaching professional development, tele, Virtual Learning Center, Voice Thread
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Classroom Projects using Digital Cameras ~ July 15 tele class at CSD
taught by Karen Montgomery
Participants reviewed camera features, took photos, uploaded them on their computers, and learned different applications for the photos and how to incorporate digital photography into classroom projects. The Virtual Learning Center will offer this class again during the school year.
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!
Picture Perfect Monday, May 19, 2008
Posted by Rebecca Morrison in Tech PD, VLC Programs.Tags: Cooperating School Districts, digital cameras, iPhoto, Photoshop Elements 4.0, tele
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St. Louis area teachers- have a camera, want to use it in your classroom?
Check out this summer’s tele classes:
Classroom Projects Using Digital Cameras
July 15 9am-4pm | $125 CSD member; $195 non-member 
A picture is worth a thousand words, so they say. Find out how to use this powerful tool in the classroom. In this class, teachers will learn about the basics of using digital cameras and photography in the classroom. Come learn the parts of the camera, its basic operation, and possible activities that you can use with your students. Find out what can be done with digital images—how they can be enhanced, manipulated, and changed using basic photo editing software. Gain information about how to integrate images into lesson plans and classroom activities. Participants will be encouraged to develop a lesson that incorporates the use of digital images. Bring your own camera and photos, or borrow from us!
Editing Digital Images Using Photoshop Elements 4.0
July 9 9am-4pm | $125 CSD member; $195 non-member
Learn the easy steps to enhance your digital images while taking away your fear of editing using Photoshop Elements 4.0. Techniques covered include:
- Resize and crop image areas
- Select appropriate resolutions for different image and output types
- Select images areas using the Lasso, Marquee, and Magic Wand Tool
- Optimize image resolution for email and web pages
- Modify, retouch and prepare images for the web
- Remove unwanted subjects from photos, add someone to a photo
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