TechAcademy

=Tech Academy XII=

//Two-day technology professional development for District 25 Staff//
 * August 19th and 20th, 2010**

=Tech Academy XII Registration System (closed)= If you must change or cancel your registration, please email techacademy@sd25.org

Thursday, August 19, 2010 - PM SESSIONS (1:00 - 4:00 PM)
**The Perfect Match: UbD and Technology Integration** This session will focus on how you can combine Understanding by Design (UbD) and technology tools to enhance student understanding through applied knowledge in authentic contexts. Examples and time will be provided to best understand the process and use specific technology to allow students to explain, interpret, apply, shift perspective, empathize and self-assess.

Discover tools for your students to use to make creative, dynamic presentations, tell stories, and showcase what they are learning. No more bullet lists and windowshade transitions!
 * Beyond Powerpoint**

Create a website in iWeb! Come prepared with ideas and electronic documents from your files* (A ‘welcome statement’ about your classroom, Classroom Rules and Expectations, Parent Night Info, photos of you and/or your classroom, etc.) and leave this three-hour workshop with a published website, using iWeb software. Already have a classroom website? Find out ways to keep your site lively… a place your students will want to visit often…. and then update your site for the coming school year.
 * Web Presence with iWeb** **- CLOSED **

Guide to setting up and creating podcasts in garageband with your students throughout your curriculum
 * Pumping up your curriculum with simple student podcasting in Garageband**

Manage your data using Excel! Learn how to use Excel as a database, merging data together and charting results. Please bring data (in any electronic form) to the class for hands-on work. We will import raw data into Excel and graph the results.
 * Excel: Managing Data**

Using Edline to post your grades? Did you spend all of last year entering information into Edline? Want to learn how to repost that stuff for next year, without retyping? Learn to take advantage of all the features of Edline. This service offers so many features, you may not have been aware of them all. Post calendars, assignments and even give tests, all online! Grades 6 to 8. Prerequisite - Edline.
 * Managing Edline**

The class will cover basic set-up and exploration of the many functions of Mimio, as well as developing presentations for the Turning Point Student Response System. Examples and ideas will be shared for incorporating Mimio and Turning Point SRS into the everyday classroom environment and time will be provided for participants to create their own.
 * Mimio and Student Response Systems (SRS)**

You know how to use Curriculum Mapper - now, make your life even simpler by learning how to use Instructional Planner! This program will allow you to view your plans as a timeline, seamlessly share plans/materials/assessments with colleagues, and reflect on lessons taught. Learning how this program works will also afford you the convenience of automatically populating Curriculum Mapper. Instructional Planner has many helpful features. For example, you will be able to see what content and skills need to be moved around on your curriculum map, track your use of differentiation techniques, and automatically link standards to units.
 * MS LA Instructional Planner**

** Friday, August 20, 2010 - AM SESSIONS (8:30 - 11:30 AM) **

Keynote can do much more than create snazzy presentations. This class will teach you how to create animated movies with images, text, video, and sound using this amazing application. Put this animation into your iMovie, use it as background with green screen video, or set up as a looping animation in your iWeb website. Learning these tricks empowers you to make animated educational videos with your students and so much more! **
 * Using Keynote to Animate Movies

DVDs are easy; learn the A to Z of DVDs, from A - editing; building, creating; to Z - ripping, converting, reformatting. And the reverse, too!
 * Deconstructing DVDs**

There are hundreds of sites on the Web that have tools to do almost anything you can think of! In this class, you'll learn about the best tools out there and how you can use them in your classroom.
 * Free Web 2.0 Tools For Your Classroom** **- CLOSED **

Explore video and video segments to integrate into your curriculum from Discovery Education (United Streaming). Learn how to set up your own content, access the Lesson Plan Library and My Builder Tools. Also, learn how to create reviews and quizzes to engage your students, assess learning, or gather data with Turning Point. Please bring curriculum resources with you to class. **
 * View It or Review It

Step by step guide and examples for using Google to create websites and forms
 * Set your Sites (and Forms) on Google!**

Teachers will learn how to use ePals email and ePals school blog with their students. There will be time for the teacher to explore and create lessons using both sites.
 * ePals and ePals Blog**

New to District 25 or interested in using more technology to support curriculum? We will start by learning how to use the access server to share and get resources. Be interactive! Learn to use more technology that supports curriculum: the online student edition, teacher edition, and leveled reader database for Treasures and the online instructional and planning materials for Everyday Math on esuite. We will explore Easy Grade Pro to make calculating grades easier and more time efficient! If possible, bring your class list.
 * Tech for New Teachers and Teachers New to Tech! (for K-5 teachers)**

See how a digital portfolio can help your students use critical thinking skills to plan, manage a project, and make decisions. In the creation of an electronic collection of their work, students learn to assess their learning; and both teacher and students benefit from the experience of using appropriate digital tools, resources, and 21st Century skills. Discover how easy and fun learning can be with a digital portfolio!
 * iPortofolio : Preserving Student Work in Today’s Digital World**

This session will look at how to create a challenge based learning project and how to integrate technology into the project.
 * Challenge Based Learning**

Aug 19 PM • Aug 20 AM • Aug 20 PM

 *  Friday, August 20, 2010 - PM SESSIONS (1:00 - 4:00 PM) **

Teachers will learn to use a flash video camera, green screen, and iMovie to create videos that put their students "on Location". Use these techniques to create newscasts, reports, or to interact their their own illustrations.
 * Students on Location~Using Green Screen and iMovie**

You have music, videos, photos, and podcasts on your desktop, flash drives and CDs. However, you want them ready when you are ready to engage students and transform your classroom. This session will help you search for, collect, manage, organize, and display your digital assets so that you can pull up files for on-demand learning and presentations. **
 * Managing Your Digital Assets

In this session you will get a chance to see how iPod Touches and iPads are providing alternatives in the classroom for research, data collection, student engagement, participation, and consuming and producing content. Time will be provided to explore devices, research best practices, and experiment with apps.
 * iPod Touch/iPad in the Classroom** **- CLOSED **

In this session you will be introduced to examples of blogs, wikis and podcasts. See how these are used in an educational setting as a way to communicate, collaborate and share. You will be given time and instruction to create a blog, wiki or podcast.
 * Blog, Wikis and Podcasting** **- CLOSED **

SOLO is a literacy suite of the most popular assistive technology accommodations, including a text reader, graphic organizer, talking word processor, and word prediction. The new version (SOLO 6) was completely redesigned to be simple to use, yet powerful for students who struggle to read and write. For these students, SOLO 6 places all of the right tools at their fingertips. The accommodations in SOLO put students in charge of their own learning. This class will focus on CoWriter, Write Outloud, Read OutLoud and accessing digital text on Bookshare.org. Participants will work hands on to learn all the new Solo 6 features and how to best integrate its usage into the classroom.
 * Living the Solo Life: Refreshed.**

Ease your communication with other departments, team members and more with Google Docs. Track student progress, modifications, behavior and more without leaving the comforts of your laptop.
 * Crazy Collaboration and Communication**


 * Digital Curriculum Warehouse

Using online curriculum resources like Thinkfinity, you can transform your ordinary classroom into an interactive learning space. In this class, we will explore interactive websites to fit into your curriculum; learn how to find, use and organize the multitude of resources available. There will be time in class to work on your own, gathering sites and lesson plans you can use right away. **

Using Big 6 research, teachers can develop curriculum related projects where students could use Google Docs in small groups to create shared Keynote or Powerpoint Presentations. (This is just an idea that I worked through this year that I think other teachers would be able to create and use over the summer)
 * Google Docs to Create Group Presentations**

This class will explore various methods of online assessment and data collection. The class will look at online quizzes and tests, automatic rubrics, and using spreadsheet and grade applications.
 * Electronic Assessment - CLOSED **

Files for Tech Academy XII
Tech Academy XII Participation compensation guidelines -

Tech Academy XII Presenter Handouts

 * Coming August 2010 **

Format for Morning Session of Day One - Subject to Change for 2010 8:30 - 8:40 Welcome and Overiew 8:40 - 9:10 Keynote 9:10 - 9:15 Orientation and Transition 9:15-9:45 Mini-Session I 9:45 - 9:50 Transition 9:50 - 10:20 Mini-Session II 10:20-10:25 Transition 10:25 - 10:55 Mini-Session III 10:55 - 11:00 Transition 11:00 - 11:30 Mini-Session IV