Winter 2012

Class Title Instructor Date & Time Seats Available Units
Video Podcasting Steven Caringella Saturday, 1/21, 9am-3pm 30 .5 CANCELLED
This is a hands-on, introductory course on video podcast production. Using free and industry-standard editing software, participants will create a basic podcast of a presentation for education, professional, or personal contexts. By the end of this course the student will be able to:

  1. Define the attributes and uses of podcasting, in general
  2. Identify criteria for assessing the quality of video podcasts
  3. Create a video podcast
  4. Evaluate video podcast
Adobe Photoshop I Janet Davis Saturday, 9am-3pm 1/28 0 .5 FULL
Unleash the power of Photoshop. Learn to enhance image color and contrast, touch-up photos, create collages that tell stories, design layouts, paint with the paint tools, and manipulate and enhance text to create unique typographic effects with your own projects.
Blogs & Wikis Steven Caringella Saturday, 9am-3pm 2/11 12 .5 Sign Up
Are you curious about how blogs and wikis are influencing the Web user experience? In this class, participants will learn what blogs and wikis are and how to use them to support in your own work or interest. You will learn about and practice with several different types of blogs and wikis and create one or more free accounts.
InDesign I Janet Davis Saturday, 9am-3pm 2/25 0 .5 FULL
If you are new to InDesign and the Adobe suite of software, then this is the class for you. The class covers just the basics of InDesign, how to use the interface, place and edit text and images. The class is designed to be simple and fun with a number of hands-on exercises.
Google Documents Chris Heumann Saturday, 9am-3pm 3/3 10 .5 Sign Up
Watch out Microsoft Office, Google Docs is taking over your world. Google docs offers online apps similar to Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Draw, but they are collaborative, cloud-based, and free. Thousands of people have revolutionized their work by using G-docs in powerful and innovative ways.
Build Web Sites with Google Sites Chris Heumann Wednesdays, 5-8pm 2/8, 2/15, 2/29 18 1 CANCELLED
Google Sites provides one of the easiest and most powerful ways to build a web site. With Sites you can integrate all the other Google tools into their sites to make it visual, interactive, and collaborative. Imagine having a web site that can make your professional life easier!
Online Collaboration Tools Gayle Britt Online (2/1 through 3/21) 0 2 FULL
This course features online collaboration tools for educational, business, or personal use. This course will explore different collaborative technologies and shared documents using the Internet with emphasis on how these tools can be integrated with curriculum and student projects; on more effective communication and collaboration for all participants; and on how these tools can be used for planning and evaluating projects. By the end of this course the student will be able to:

  1. Identify a variety of useful online collaboration tools that are appropriate for teacher professional development, classroom student use, or professional business use
  2. Examine/explore existing purposes of online collaboration tools
  3. Create a task or project that utilizes online collaboration tools
  4. Design assessment tools or evaluation requirements for online collaborative lessons, assignments or projects
Safety, Ethics & Cyber Law Linda Ullah Online (2/1 through 3/21) no limit 2 Sign Up
Concerned about cyberbullying, keeping students safe on the Internet, and teaching kids to be ethical, responsible users of technology? This course addresses these issues and will guide you to develop pro-active solutions to help young people become informed, responsible, safe users of technology. By the end of this course the student will be able to:

  1. Analyze Acceptable Use Plans and determine how best to help your students and their parents understand their District’s Acceptable Use Plan
  2. Be Knowledgeable of current copyright and fair use laws and know how this affects classroom use of technology
  3. Protect your students from Internet Dangers
  4. Understand Child Safety and the Internet
  5. Determine the Validity of Internet Resources
  6. Develop strategies to protect your students while using the Internet