• Butterfly Projects

• What Parents Need to Know about the Virtual World
• Parent Quick Starts
• Computer Cop Software (free)
• FBI Parent's Guide to Internet Safety

• OnGuard Online

• Parent Tech Use Survey

• Parent Input Survey

• Student Video of One-to-One Initiative

• Kid-Friendly Search Engine

• Proxy Settings - How to change

• Spread the Word! Internet and Cell Phone Safety from InfoSource Learning on Vimeo.

• Free Virtual Field Trips
• Animal Planet Videos
• Social Studies Sites

• Free Software for Online Teaching

• HP Mini 2140 Laptop

  • Support Center for Laptops

  • Proxy Settings - How to change

• Using Komposer (Example Online Course)

• SWAT Team Materials http://www.genyes.org

• SWAT Team Resources: Technology Corner

• TFORCE Team Resources: Atomic Learning

• T-FORCE Form
• Mentor Contract
• Laptop Care and Contract
• Mentor Training Sessions
  • Session 1

    • Movie Maker and Netbook Webcam

      Digital Storytelling

      Open Office Introduction

    • Digital StoryTelling
    • Why Podcasting & Blogging?
  • Session 2

    • Review Microsoft Movie Maker

      Add Document Camera Video, Text, and Transitions to Movie Maker

      Converting Movies to QuickTime Videos.

      Free Software for you to volunteer to try in small groups to enhance your Blogs.

    • Audacity

      Text Generators

      Image Editing

    • Why Wordle

  • Session 3
    • Download GIF Animator

    • Animation for the the Web - Gif Construction Set

      Converting Files for Podcasting -- FreeStudio

    • Atomic Learning

    • Unique Web 2.0 Tools

  • Session 4

    • Getting to know your laptop

      Open Office and Shockwave Flash Slides

      The difference between iSpring and Open Office

      How your wireless laptop works away from school

      Keeping your laptop virus freePROTECTION

• Free Software for Online Teaching
• 8 Free Tools for the Classroom
• Free Training Videos
• Teachers' Favorite Instructional Sites
• New Tech Tools
• Blogger's Tool Kits
• Differentiated Instruction & Learning Styles Index
• Project-based Video
• Project-based Instruction
• Blog 101
• http://live.classroom20.com/resources.html Blog Ex.
• GIS: Geography
• Office 2007 QuickStarts
  • http://www.customguide.com/courseware.htm
• Free Virtual Field Trips
• Animal Planet Videos
• Social Studies Sites

Reflective practice:

• Identity and Integrity in Teaching

Assessment:

• Professional Learning Calendar Guidelines
• Assessment in a Constructivist Classroom
• Assessment vs. Grades

• Module 1 (Research & Online Resources)

  • Agenda

  • Research Skills

  • Information Skills (SCANS)

  • Resources for the Classroom

  • Arp ISD Technology

  • Module Maker

  • Whole-Part-Whole Instruction

    • WPW

  • Dyslexia Resources

  • Differentiated Instruction

  • Multiple Intelligences

  • Lab vs Group

• Module 2 (21st Century Skills)

  • Agenda

  • What is a school?

  • Retention Pyramid

  • Motivational Instructional Strategies

  • Levels of Thinking

  • TA APPS

    • PowerPoint Plus

  • Role of Teacher

  • 5 Levels of Mastery

  • Engaged Learning

  • Updating Skills

  • SCANS

  • How to Teach

    • Concrete to Abstract

• Module 3 (Project-base Instruction)

  • Agenda

  • What Employers Want

  • SCANS Chart

  • Collaborative Learning

    • Collaborative Classroom

  • Whole-Part-Whole

  • Rubrics for Education

  • Rubric Assessments

  • Portfolio Assessments

  • Data-Driven Instruction

  • SCANS

• Module 4 (Audio Recording & Editing)

  • Agenda

  • Audio/Sound Tools
    • Audacity
    • Tutorial
    • Video
    • http://podcast.arpisd.org/users/tech/

• Module 5 (Video & Editing)

  • Agenda

  • TigerVision Charter

  • TigerTube

• Module 6 (Podcasting & Blogging)
  • Agenda
  • Blog in Plain English
  • Posting Policies
  • Citation Guidelines
  • Information Skills (SCANS)
  • Podcasting Technologies
  • Online Tools
  • Blogger's Tool Kits
  • Project-based Curriculum
  • Using Audacity
  • Using Document Camera
  • Recording with Doc Camera
  • Using MIMIO or Smartboard
  • Blogging Best Practices
  • Blog 101
  • CIPA & DOPA Quiz
• Module 7 (Moodle Basics)
  • Agenda
• Module 8 (Moodle Intermediate)
  • Agenda
  • Planning a Course
  • NCREL Tool Kit
  • SEDL Took Kit
• Module 9 (Joomla Basics)
  • Agenda
• Module 10 (Portfolios Assessment)
  • Agenda
• Module 11 (Class Server)
  • Agenda
  • QuickStarts