Morris County ETTC

Educational Technology Training Center Professional Development Registered Provider #5

Create a Classroom Newspaper with Microsoft Word
Course Description: Are you looking for ways to teach diverse skills and use technology at the same time? Help your students to:
- Develop and demonstrate leadership skills.
- Practice writing, teamwork and organizational skills.
Make your students feel important by assigning jobs, such as editors, reporters, photographers, etc to create a classroom/school newspaper for all. Share the paper with your school community and parents, even post it online.
Come and learn how easy it is to create a professional-looking newspaper with Word, using tables, drawing toolbar, page layouts, columns, etc…
(Prerequisite: General understanding of how to use the computer and Microsoft Word)

More Web 2.0 Tools for the Classroom
Course Description: Welcome to the new age of using the web, where concepts change every day. Come and explore the newer web 2.0 applications, such as Animoto, Glogster, Voki, Jingproject, Create a Graph, etc…Your students are already virtual learners- create an environment to suit their optimal learning potential.
(Prerequisite: General understanding of how to use the computer)

Ride the Communication and Collaboration Wave-Google Wave
Course description: Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration.
A wave is equal parts conversation and document.
A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants.
A wave is live, allowing participants to have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.
There are many ways to use Google Wave, such as:
Organizing Events
Group Projects
Photo Sharing
Meeting Notes
Brainstorming
Interactive Games
(Prerequisite: General understanding of how to use the computer)

Google in the Classroom
Course Description: Welcome to the new web, referred to as web 2.0! It’s all about FREE tools!!!
Google has compiled a group of its programs into a collection of tools appropriate for educators. Called Google for Educators, it is the teacher’s guide to such tools as Google Earth, Maps, Video, Book Search, Docs, Notebook, Calendar, Picassa, and much more. Google also provides Google Apps, which allows technology administrators to provide e-mail, instant messaging, sharable online calendars, and more! Come and explore this collection of free tools.
(Prerequisite: Basic computer skills and general understanding of Office applications)

Smart Board-Be Creative with Lesson Activity Toolkit
Course Description: Go beyond Smart Board basics- learn a new way to create eye-catching lesson activities, full of customizable tools and templates that you can use to create professional-looking lessons. The Toolkit helps you create engaging content like word games, quizzes, crossword puzzles and sorting tables. It also offers Adobe Flash tools like hide-and-reveal, drag-and-drop, plus lots more….
(Prerequisite: General understanding of how to use the SmartBoard)