Title
| Description
| Day
| Time
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W1-Beginning Angel Course Management (16)
| Begin to develop your on-line course to deliver instructional content and assessments. Your students have the opportunity to participate in interactive chats, discussion groups, and link to reference materials and planning tools. Be ready to deliver your course when school starts! (Mac/Win)
| June 9
| All Day
|
W2-Advanced Angel Course Management (16)
| Topics include: assessments, grade management, student teams, surveys and other advanced features. (Mac/Win)
| June 10
| All Day
|
W3-Creative Curriculum (10)
| Creative Curriculum is designed for early childhood serving children ages birth to 2 and ages 3-5. The program helps teachers plan a program with explicit guidance about what /how/why to teach.
| June 9
| PM
|
W4-Photoshop Elements (15)
| Learn how to use PS Elements 6.0 to save some of the pictures you've taken. A few adjustments can make a huge difference.
| June 9
| PM
|
W5-DL Strategies and Equipment
| What do you do when the ≥lights go out≈, someone ≥cuts the fiber≈ and/or you don≠t have ≥Internet≈ access? These technical problems might not affect a traditional classroom teacher but they are significant problems for a distance learning classroom teacher. Your distance learning panel will discuss how they deal with these problems and much more. The step-by-step use of distance learning classroom equipment and the proven instructional strategies that will drive your curriculum content across a large geographic area to multiple sites.
| June 9
| PM
|
W6-Virtual Field Trips (30)
W7-Virtual Field Trips (30)
| Are budgets tight? Ever consider taking a field trip opportunity to visit the National Archives? All of this can be done with video conferencing equipment. This session will review the steps to contact an agency to use for a "virtual" field trip, and bring a field trip to your classroom. Equipment from a static room or from a portable unit can be used for these classroom enrichment activities.
| June 10
| AM-45
|
W8-GarageBand (12)
| Informational demonstrations and handouts. Hands-on with the application based on the info presented during the demonstration. (Mac)
| June 9
| AM
|
W9-OpenOffice (13)
| Never buy Microsoft Office again! Learn more about OpenOffice, a free open source software suite that rivals Word, PowerPoint and Excel. (Mac/Win)
| June 9
| PM
|
W10-Nebraska Access (13)
| Do you and your students regularly exhaust your local resources? Are you always on the lookout for additional material to support and customize your curriculum? If so, be sure you're taking full advantage of NebraskAccess! NebraskAccess offers free online access to current magazines, journals, newspapers, genealogy and business information to all Nebraska residents. NebraskAccess is brought to you by the Nebraska Library Commission, with funding from the State of Nebraska. Don't start the school year without it!
| June 9
| AM
|
W11-Podcasting (15)
| Learn the tools and techniques to create your very own podcast and tap into other podcasts from around the world. (Mac)
| June 10
| AM
|
W12-PhotoShop Elements (15)
| Learn how to use PS Elements 6.0 to save some of the pictures you've taken. A few adjustments can make a huge difference.
| June 10
| PM
|
W13-Podcasting (15)
| Learn the tools and techniques to create your very own podcast and tap into other podcasts from around the world. (Mac)
| June 9
| AM
|
W14-GarageBand (12)
| Informational demonstrations and handouts. Hands-on with the application based on the info presented during the demonstration. | June 9
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