Model Schools Program Calendar

Model Schools Program Calendar

Summer 2005

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The Model Schools Program of the Capital Region BOCES is pleased to offer many quality opportunities for professional development in the area of technology integration to school districts.

This is your district’s complete guide to Training and Special Programs being offered. Model Schools courses are free of chargeto staff in the Model Schools Districts: Albany Diocese, Bethlehem, Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake, Cobleskill-Richmondville, Cohoes, CTE, Guilderland, Middleburgh, Niskayuna, Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk, Schalmont, Schenectady, Schoharie, Scotia-Glenville. Descriptions, dates and the registration form for these comprehensive sessions are listed inside and on our web page at Please duplicate these materials for distribution throughout your district.

Staff in districts who do not participate in the Capital Region BOCES Model Schools Service can participate in these training workshops also. The fee for the workshops is $170.00 per full day of training and $85.00 for a half day of training (a half-day consists of 2-4 hours).

It’s easy to take advantage of these great sessions. Please complete and mail, fax or email the registration form to:

Janice Hauck

NERIC

1031 Watervliet Shaker Rd.

Albany, NY12205

Phone: (518) 862-5322

Fax: (518) 862-5378

Email:

We Look Forward to Seeing You Soon!!!

There are several extended offerings this summer for integrating technology into your classroom to maximize student success. Take a look at these exciting opportunities!

BETHLEHEM TECH CAMP 2005

August 8th,9th,10th, and 11th

Course location: ElsmereElementary School

Day 1: Monday, August 8th

Computer Basics (9:00-12:00)

Instructors: Tom Michalek, and Mike Mulcahy

Find out what Windows 98 and XP/ Norton’s Software/Spamware and OSX have to do with how your computer operates. Stay ahead of the game and protect the investment in your computer. Come find some quick, easy and less expensive ways to keep your PC at home or office running in tip-top shape. Free to Model Schools. For non-Model Schools Participants:: $170

Tech 101 Get Ahead of Your Class!!! (9:00-3:00)

Instructors: Lynn Sherich, and Mac Carlton

This day will help provide an overview of the school networks, including how to save files to your own folder from anywhere in the district or home. You’ll be shown how to access email from anywhere in the district or from home. Instructors will show you how to organize files and folders on your desktop and on your network folder to make your work easier. Instructors will present typical hardware available (computer, printer,phone). And you will be shown how you can post class assignments, student work, etc., to a website you will create in minutes on FreshPond.net.Free to Model Schools. For non-Model Schools Participants: $170

Day 2: Tuesday, August 9th

PowerPoint Basics... for Beginners, Refreshers & Intermediates (9:00-3:00)

Instructors: Matt Farnan and Suzy Hokanson

Learn the basics for creating a PowerPoint presentation: opening the program, creating blank slides, understanding the menu, backgrounds, text, word art, different views, sorting order, deleting slides, inserting images (pictures, clip art, internet images, etc.), saving the file. Then learn to use the built in templates. Instructors will provide tips for creating an effective presentation and for using a projector. This session will finish with “ bell and whistles” like adding music, recorded sound, built in sound, videos, transitions, and saving for the web. Free to Model Schools. For non-Model Schools Participants: $170

Day 3: Wednesday, August 10th

MultiMedia PowerPoint (9:00-3:00)

Instructors: Melissa DuJack and Erin Peteani

PowerPoint is a wonderful visual tool that can be used in a variety of ways to capture a student’s attention and imagination through eye-catching text, pictures, movies, graphics, flowcharts, student drawings, animations, or to link to Internet sites. This session will focus on integrating digital pictures, media sound and video clips as well as animated objects.Free to Model Schools.

For non-Model Schools Participants: $170

Day 4: Thursday, August 11th

Integrated Projects for PowerPoint (9:00-3:00)

Instructors: Darlene Cardillo and Theresa Reid

This workshop will offer participants examples of PowerPoint projects that have been successfully done with students in the middle grades and instruction to recreate these projects for your own students. Participants will learn such things as how to make jeopardy games and to add voice, music and video to PowerPoint. You will be given time to work on your own projects as well. Free to Model Schools. For non-Model Schools Participants:$170

Course location: GlenmontElementary School

Day 1 & 2: Monday and Tuesday, August 8-9th

Movie Magic (9:00-3:00)

Instructors: Jack Rightmyer and Bill Reilly

Instructors will begin by showing you camera and iMovie basics. The instructors will then show you the basics of film production in the classroom, covering classroom management, storyboarding, scripting, set design/costumes. Instructors will demonstrate movie editing with iMovie, add sound effects and a voice over, add music, and export of completed movies. Free to Model Schools. For non-Model Schools Participants:$170

Day 3 & 4: Wednesday and Thursday August 10-11th

More Movie Magic (9:00-3:00)

Instructors: Peter Rawitsch and Laurel Jones

Sign up for two days to witness the courtship and marriage of your digital camera to the NYS learning standards. Peter and Laurel will lead you through flirting with iMovie, making the phone call to download film, they’ll take you out to dinner with titles, and show the hug of the curricular connection, making out with sound, the transitions that happen when making friends, getting intimate with special effects, getting engaged with classroom management, and finally getting hitched to the network and making DVDs.Free to Model Schools. For non-Model Schools Participants:$170

Course location: BethlehemCentralMiddle School

Day 1: Monday, August 8th

C.P.S. –Learning the Classroom Performance System (12:30-3:00)

Instructor: Tom Michalek

Learn ways to better prepare your students for NYS testing by enhancing your teaching with new techniques for assessment. Students will use a handheld remote to answer questions for tests, quizzes and review games prepared by you or using one of the available databases from the Ieducation program. Create detailed reports and valid data that can be used to better assess and better prepare your students for future assessments. Free to Model Schools.For non-Model Schools Participants: $85

Create Your Own Online Course/Module (Blackboard 6.2)(9:00-3:00)

Instructor: Steve Janover

Are you interested in putting your curriculum online or creating professional development materials for Web access? This session will cover the design of online courses to actual course creation using Blackboard 6.2. Topics covered include: online course design, using Blackboard 6.2 , creating and importing content, online assessments and assignments, user and site management, communication and site maintenance. Participants will create a sample online course.Free to Model Schools. For non-Model Schools Participants: $170

Day 2: Tuesday, August 9th

Office Secrets of Success!!! (9:00-3:00)

Instructors: Shannon Casso and Imran Abbasi

Teachers will learn basic and advanced techniques of word processing and walk away with practical ideas to make teaching easier! Also covered will be how to save to the network to retrieve, reuse and modify your work. Learn secret short cuts such as formatting painter or shrinking to fit to get rid of those hanging words or printing a color transparency from your computer.

Teachers will learn the basics and advanced techniques of spreadsheet management and walk away with practical ideas to make teaching easier! Teachers will also learn how to save to the network to retrieve, reuse and modify their work! Learn how to make puzzles and other documents to make learning fun! Free to Model Schools. For non-Model Schools Participants: $170

Enhancing Your PowerPoint Presentations with Animation (10:00–11:30)

Instructor: Hilary Delavare

Are your presentations lacking that special something? Bring them to life! Come and learn to incorporate moving and talking characters into your slides using Vox Proxy software. Add style to informational presentations, create entertaining tutorials and lessons, engage students with sound and movement, and more. The possibilities are endless. This software is fun and user-friendly. Once you learn it, you can have your students designing their own animated presentations in no time.

Bethlehem teachers have access to Vox Proxy. Other participants can sign up for a free 30-day trial of the Vox Proxy software. Prerequisite: basic PowerPoint skills. Free to Model Schools. For non-Model Schools Participants:$85

GroupWise 6.5 Basics to Advanced (9:00-12:00)

Instructor: Rob Womble

This session is for users who are not yet comfortable with the basic sending and receiving of email. This class will include topics to expand the user’s knowledge into other areas of GroupWise. Topics will include more advanced email features, as well as address book and contacts topics, calendar functions,tasks, phone messages, folders, views, mailbox tools such as sorting/filtering, rules, customization, archiving, and web access to your GroupWise email. Free to Model Schools. For non-Model Schools Participants:$85

Introduction to Adobe Photoshop Elements (9:00-3:00)

Instructor: Steve Janover

Photoshop Elements is the consumer version of Adobe Photoshop, the standard for digital image editing. Elements is a popular and powerful product that allows for image capture, creation and editing on both PC and Mac platforms. The workshop emphasizes image creation for the web. Topics covered may include: the interface, tools and controls, basic image correction, creating a photo montage, working with layers, photo retouching, adding text to your images, and creating a photo vignette and Web photo gallery. Sample images will be supplied for the session. Free to Model Schools. For non-Model Schools Participants:$170

Days 3: Wednesday, August 10th

GroupWise 6.5 Basics to Advanced (9:00-12:00)

Instructor: Rob Womble

Integrating Office Applications into FrontPage & FreshPond (9:00-3:00)

Instructors: Suzy Hokanson and Tod Mell

Learn the basics of FrontPage (for Beginners and Returning Pros). Then learn how to integrate Microsoft Office Suite (Word (text), Excel(spreadsheets), tables and PowerPoints (presentations)) into FrontPage. Then find out how to integrate Microsoft Office Suite into FreshPond. Finish the session by learning to create interactive forms with FrontPage (creating forms that your students or parents can complete online and email to your school account), or by posting worksheets that your students can use at home, and by finding out tips for encouraging your students to use your website. Free to Model Schools. For non-Model Schools Participants:$170

Microsoft FrontPage 2000(9:00-3:00)

Instructor: Steve Janover

FrontPage is a popular Web management and authoring tool. This session will focus on using FrontPage to create Web home pages. Some of the topics to be covered include: the FrontPage interface, formatting text, creating hyperlinks, tables, graphics and image maps, frames, importing documents, themes, navigation bars, page banners and uploading your home pages to a server. Participants will leave the session with completed pages on disk. Free to Model Schools. For non-Model Schools Participants: $170

Introduction to Palm Handheld Computers (10:00-12:00)

Instructor: Hilary Delavare

Do you have a handheld computer that you would like to start using, but you are not sure where to start? Discover the basic features of your Palm OS handheld, including the Address Book, To Do List, Note Pad, and Date Book. You will also learn to locate, download, and install software on your handheld from the Web. Ideas for integrating this technology into your classroom will also be discussed.

Participants should bring a Palm OS Handheld 3.1 or later, or let us know at registration that you need to borrow one. Quantities are limited. Free to Model Schools. For non-Model Schools Participants:$85

Day 4: Thursday, August 11th

Internet For Educators (9:00-3:00)

Instructors: Shannon Casso and Imran Abbasi

This day will focus on opportunities that the Internet offers educators. Instructors will show websites that offer lesson plans and ideas for lesson plans and sites that allow teachers to submit their own lessons for other teachers to use and review. Instructors will show how to find clip art and pictures online that can be added to Word documents. The instructors will show how to created rubrics online. There are numerous sites that teachers can access that will allow them to create a customized rubric for different assignments. The instructors will finish up by showing United Streaming to access digital videos online from the classroom. Free to Model Schools.

For non-Model Schools Participants:$170

Using the Digital Camera (9:00-3:00)

Instructor: Steve Janover

This workshop is designed for educators who are somewhat familiar and comfortable with using digital cameras and Photoshop software. The session emphasizes in-depth techniques and image creation for the web. Topics covered may include: getting more out of your digital camera, levels, using filters and masks, adjustment layers, drawing tools, web photo gallery, and photo repairing and restoration. It is suggested that participants bring their own images on CD-ROM and a digital camera (if possible) to the session. Sample images and digital cameras will be supplied for the session. Free to Model Schools. For non-Model Schools Participants:$170

ALBANY DIOCESE TECH CAMP

for TEACHERS 2005

August 15th, 16th, 17th

Location: St. Pius X School, Latham

Computer Labs

*Lunch included! 12:15-12:45

August 15th

Computer Basics (9:00-12:00)

Instructor:Jeanette Langan

A nuts and bolts introduction into the components and operating systems of the computer, including navigation and everyday usage; topics will be determined by the needs and experience levels of the attendees. Free to Model Schools.For non-Model Schools Participants:$85

Introduction to Digital Photography (9:00-12:00)

Instructor: Fred Festine

This course will introduce participants to the world of digital photography. Participants will learn all the components of a digital camera and how to take the best pictures. If you or your school owns a Sony Mavica camera, please bring it with you. Every button and function on your camera will be explained. Picture editing software will also be explored. Free to Model Schools.

For non-Model Schools Participants:$85

Kidspiration – Grades K-5 (12:45-3:45)

Instructor: Beth Cash

This course is an introduction to the graphic organizing software, Kidspiration . This software allows students to create pre-writing activities, record their voices, visualize ideas, and organize information that they have read. There will be time devoted to developing a project for classroom or organizational use. This software is most appropriate for grades K-5. Free to Model Schools.

For non-Model Schools Participants:$85

Digital Camera Uses in the Classroom (12:45-3:45)

Instructor: Fred Festine

This course is designed for K-12 teachers. It will demonstrate 75 different ideas for incorporating the use of a digital camera in your classroom. You will also have time to try to create one of these projects. Free to Model Schools.

For non-Model Schools Participants:$85

August 16th

Introduction to Smartboard & Elmo (9:00-12:00)

Instructor: Kim Greiner

Learn to use an interactive whiteboard (SMARTBoard) to turn your computer and data projector into a powerful tool for teaching and learning. Simply use the touch-sensitive surface to control the computer from the projected image. Learn to use a document camera (Elmo) as a presentation tool to display a variety of media such as slides, transparencies, text, photos, and three-dimensional objects in full color. Two cool ways to engage your students in the learning process. Free to Model Schools. For non-Model Schools Participants:$85

Simple Projects with MS Word (9:00-12:00)

Instructor: Theresa Reid

Teachers will learn to incorporate Microsoft Word into their every day schedule. Learning to use MS Word to design templates for plan books, and tests using MS Form applications. Free to Model Schools. For non-Model Schools Participants: $85