Morris County ETTC

Educational Technology Training Center Professional Development Registered Provider #5

Microsoft Word PLUS
Course Description: This workshop is intended for users of Word, who want to enhance their skills beyond Word basics. Areas covered are Tables, Forms, Mail Merge, Footnotes and Captions, Shortcuts, Inserting Media, Labels and Envelopes.
(Prerequisite: Basic computer skills and general understanding of Microsoft Word)

Tell Stories and Communicate with VoiceThread
Course Description: VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too. With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install!
(Prerequisite: General understanding of how to use the computer and Windows.)

Share Your PowerPoint with Everyone Using SlideShare and AuthorStream
Course description: Upload and proudly share your presentations anywhere!
Your students, parents (and you) will be able to access it from any computer connected to the Internet. Bring your PowerPoint presentations with you to post. It is free. It is easy, and it is powerful.
(Prerequisite: Basic computer skills)

PowerPoint- Movies, Sounds and Hyperlinks
Course description: Go beyond the uninspiring PPT presentation. Keep your audience engaged with embedded movies, hyperlinks, and sounds.
(Prerequisite: An understanding of how to use Microsoft PowerPoint, and Windows.)

Tapped In-Building Your Online Classroom
Course description: Tapped In brings educators together both locally and worldwide to cultivate a community that supports each teacher as a professional.
K-12 teachers, librarians, administrators, and professional development staff gather here to learn, collaborate, share, and support one another.
In Tapped In, educators:
• Plan and conduct learning projects with colleagues and K-12 students.
• Participate in or lead topical discussion and groups.
• Attend online courses offered by TPD providers.
• Mentor other educators or find a mentor.
• Try out new ideas in a safe, supportive environment.
• Find a career-long home.
(Prerequisite: General understanding of how to use the computer and Windows.)

Activities and Games for Your Classroom Using Smart Board
Course Description: Come and learn how to find Smart Notebook activities, modify them to suit your teaching styles, then create beautiful, interactive lesson activities in no time at all. Leave fully armed with expertise in creating lessons in SMART Notebook Software, version 10.
(Prerequisite: Smart Board basics)

Web 2.0 Tools in the Elementary Classroom
Course Description: Remember the good old days when kids just bought pencils, crayons, paper, glue and their lovable lunch boxes to the classroom. Well, times have changed! Even in elementary school, they now come with laptops, iPods, digital cameras, iPhones, etc…. Teachers need to keep up with, and accommodate their world. In addition to cut and glue activities, they need to engage their students with interactive web applications, webcams, online games and books, social bookmarking, networking, and whatever is out there, appropriate for the classroom.
We will explore some of the gazillion FREE interactive web tools.
(Prerequisite: None)

Podcasting in Education Using PC’s
Course description: Imagine running your own broadcasting station—but without the hassle of expensive hardware, or training. With Podcasting, it’s that easy. Recording a podcast is about capturing audio. You may record your voice, include a song, or play sound effects. Students can create podcasts to conduct interviews, tell stories, record commentaries, create weather reports, sportscasts, plus a lot more! All you need is a computer, a microphone, a free sound editing program, some ideas and you are ready to turn your students into newscasters, literary critics, learning consultants and problem solvers.
(Prerequisite: Basic computer skills)