Techno Savvy Teacher

*Online Assessments (see below) Most educators will report spending upwards of three to six hours in creating, administering, and grading assessments. Transition from traditional paper assessments to online electronic assessment. Benefits? Maximize time management by minimizing time spent on grading quizzes and assessment. Provide students with immediate feedback as they answer each question or at the end of the assessment period. Promote highest student achievement by using line item analysis data to tailor your curriculum. Finally, cut associated printing costs by performing assessments online. Linking assessments to classroom web pages will also be addressed.	*Online Collaboration (see below) Most web users recognize Google as a search engine, not as an answer to educators online collaborative dreams. With over three years of school and classroom implementation, participants will be exposed to an abundance of educator ideas using Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Notebook, and Google Video. Learn how to create an iGoogle page to pull together classroom resources. Finally, discuss ideas for creating a paperless classroom by using Google GMail to send and receive classroom documents.
*Online Posters (see below) Engage your students by inspiring creativity as they weave digital photographs, sound, video, text, and graphics all into one online poster (splash page). Traditional classroom posters can serve as a way of having students summarize information in pictorial format. Yet online posters allow for student work to be viewed among other classmates, students in a different class, or even with the world by embedding posters onto a classroom web site. Learn how to create a closed network of online posters that allow students to creatively express what they have learned while sharing their ideas with other classmates through online social collaboration. Tap into the tools that today's students so easily relate to while being environmentally friendly.	Podcasting Geared toward the classroom that has only one workstation and a cell phone, learn how to motivate students by creating podcasts while increasing their writing abilities. Participants will learn how to effectively and efficiently facilitate this technology project in a classroom setting while creating sample work themselves. Tips and tricks as well as teacher and student testimonies will be shared. Audio file conversation, file hosting, and publishing for classroom web site will be discussed.
Stop Motion Using only a digital camera and a workstation, help students visually demonstrate content concepts using Stop Motion projects. Participants will take individual digital photographs as they manipulate the project then stitch the pictures together to make a movie. Both Mac (iMovie, iStop Motion) and PC (Microsoft PowerPoint) platforms will be presented while discussing project implementation in the classroom.	Video Casting Take podcasting to the next level by adding digital photographs and video - video casting. Participants will be exposed to video capturing technologies such as Flip Video camcorders, digital cameras, and web cams. After, armed with an assignment prompt and a video capturing device participants will create example work to use as a model for students. Participants will also learn about easy ways of converting video files to various file types. Video hosting and embedding on web pages will be discussed.

* This workshop is part of Techno Savvy Teacher TECHNO GREEN series - using technology to go green. This workshop will emphasize reducing paper usage and associated printing costs to help maximize school budgets. Energy/resource saving tips and tricks will be shared throughout the workshop.