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Monday, May 21, 2012 Support Staff Academy Mini-Conference in June
The 20th Annual Support Staff Academy Mini-Conference takes place Wednesday, June 6, 2012 from 7:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Lindenwood University. Register now! The Virtual Learning Center will be there in full force! Not only does Karen Vaughan run this conference, several staff members will be presenting:
Free Cool Tools to Increase Productivity
Presenter: Martha Bogart, Program Coordinator, Cooperating School Districts
In this session, you can fill your technology toolbox! You’ll be amazed how many free online tools are out there for you to use in scheduling, organizing, and collaborating on your job tasks. Topics will include file conversion, sharing and storing, calendar creation, to do lists, mind mapping, graphic editors, PDF creators, screen casting and more!.
Powerful Presentations with PowerPoint
Presenter: Nancy George, Director, Cooperating School Districts’ Virtual Learning Center
Know the basics of PowerPoint, but want to jazz up your presentations with style and pizazz? Come learn how to create presentations that hold the audience’s attention and still deliver the message!
Saving Time with Online Documents: Google 101
Presenter: Stephanie Madlinger, Ed.S. – Google Certified Teacher Instructional Technology Program Coordinator, Cooperating School Districts
In this session, participants will learn how Google Documents and Google Presentations can:
• Allow you to work on files anywhere, anytime
• Make the writing process visible to anyone or everyone
• Plus more…
PRE-REQUISITE: Participants must have a Google Account and/or Gmail.
Collecting Data Using Online Forms: Google 201
Presenter: Stephanie Madlinger, Ed.S. – Google Certified Teacher Instructional Technology Program Coordinator, Cooperating School Districts
In this session, participants will focus on two of the six Google Docs available, Google Forms and Google Spreadsheets. Through these two tools, you can easily create a questionnaire or survey, invite others to respond, share the results, and then download the data into Excel for easy manipulation.
PRE-REQUISITE: You must have a Google Account and/or Gmail.
Powerful Presentations with PowerPoint
Presenter: Nancy George, Director, Cooperating School Districts’ Virtual Learning Center
Know the basics of PowerPoint, but want to jazz up your presentations with style and pizazz? Come learn how to create presentations that hold the audience’s attention and still deliver the message!
Status Update: I Need to Know More about Social Networking!
Presenter: Rebecca Morrison, Program Coordinator, Cooperating School Districts
Feel like you’ve been left in the 20th century when it comes to Web 2.0? In this session, learn about some of the most popular 21st century social media sites, like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. What’s right for you? How do you balance the sharing side of social networking with your privacy? We’ll discuss how to safely maintain a presence online while not damaging your reputation.
Tips & Shortcuts with MS Word
Presenter: Nancy George, Director, Cooperating School Districts’ Virtual Learning Center
Learn shortcuts and tips that will make you productive in creating programs, permission forms, tables & more.
The annual Support Staff Academy is a program designed to provide professional development to area schools’ educational support professionals (i.e., administrative assistants, secretaries/office personnel, maintenance/custodial, food service, security, teachers’ and library aides). To see a complete list of the sessions on June 6, click here.
Tags: Cooperating School Districts, file conversion, Google Forms, LinkedIn, MS Word, PDF, Pinterest, PowerPoint, Support Staff Academy, Tech PD, Web 2.0
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011 Microsoft Office 2007 & Your Classroom: Three Great Classes Offered
June 24, 2011 • 8:30-3:30
Using MS Word in the Classroom MS Word is a powerful word processing program that helps teachers create lessons, tests and letters. Students can use it for creative writing, basic reports or research papers. Learn the basics along with more advanced features such as inserting graphics, clip art, and spreadsheets, transforming text to html, and word art. Participants will also plan a lesson activity incorporating the use of Word such as having students create bookmarks that persuade readers to read the book. Learn how to help students create newsletters and brochures, and how you can create easy to use worksheets with embedded hyperlinks that can help support your students as they create their own projects.
June 27, 2011 • 8:30 – 3:30
Using MS PowerPoint in the Classroom Learn everything from the basics to the more advanced features that make PowerPoint a great tool for student learning. You will have the opportunity to create your own PowerPoint presentation for use in the classroom to introduce or clarify a lesson. Learn how to create photo albums, adventure stories, and Jeopardy games. During the second half of the class, learn how to design student PowerPoint assignments that require higher order thinking skills, such as a poetry analysis presentation, and examine assessment methods that will help you grade these student assignments. Walk away with your own presentation and ideas for integrating PowerPoint into your classroom!
June 28, 2011 • 8:30 – 3:30
Using MS Excel in the Classroom Learn the basics of creating a spreadsheet, making a chart from your data, formatting a spreadsheet and printing all or parts of it during the first half of the class. Then, find out how to design spreadsheet assignments for your students that require them to enter data, apply formulas, and graph and chart their data, such as graphing probability from coin tosses. This technology tool is great for teaching about the different types of charts and graphs and how data can be manipulated to look one way or another. Walk away with great lesson ideas that use spreadsheets to teach complex mathematical concepts in motivating and fun ways!
Each class is $149 for a CSD member and $189 for a non-member.
In addition, 1 gradute credit is available for each class. Register here.
Tags: MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Microsoft Office 2007 & Your Classroom
Come find out what Office 2007 is all about! Missouri & Illinois teachers, Cooperating School Districts of Greater St. Louis offers technology professional development classes on-site at your school and in the tele lab. Our philosophy is that technology integration takes many hours of training and is an on-going process. Our tele classes are designed to move you along this process. By introducing skills in the first half of the class and then immediately integrating those skills into project examples, you will develop a usable product for your classroom. Two classes we offer are MS Word and MS PowerPoint. How can you use them in your classroom? Find out here:
Using MS Word in the Classroom
offered on Sept. 17 or Jan. 21, 4-7pm at 1460 Craig Rd., Creve Coeur, MO
$68 CSD member; $102 non-member (Half Graduate. Credit Available)
MS Word is a powerful word processing program that helps teachers create lessons, tests and letters. Students can use it for creative writing, basic reports or research papers. Learn the basics along with more advanced features such as inserting graphics, clip art, and spreadsheets, transforming text to html, and word art. Participants will also plan a lesson activity incorporating the use of Word such as having students create bookmarks that persuade readers to read the book. Learn how to help students create newsletters and brochures, and how you can create easy to use worksheets with imbedded hyperlinks that can help support your students as they create their own projects.
Using MS PowerPoint in the Classroom
offered on Oct. 7 or Jan. 15, 4-7pm at 1460 Craig Rd., Creve Coeur, MO
$68 CSD member; $102 non-member (One Graduate. Credit Available)
Learn everything from the basics to the more advanced features that make PowerPoint a great tool for student learning. You will have the opportunity to create your own PowerPoint presentation for use in the classroom to introduce or clarify a lesson. Learn how to create photo albums, adventure stories, and Jeopardy games. During the second half of the class, learn how to design student PowerPoint assignments that require higher order thinking skills, such as a poetry analysis presentation, and examine assessment methods that will help you grade these student assignments.
To register for these or any other tele classes, visit: www2.csd.org/tele.
Tags: Classroom Technology, Cooperating School Districts, MS PowerPoint, MS Word, teacher training, Tech PD, tele, Virtual Learning Center
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