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Tutorials and Professional Development
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TUTORIALS
One of the major complaints of educators is "not enough time". Web tutorials can assist in developing the necessary skills needed to become tech savvy teachers and students. Tutorials can be completed in one's own time, in the classroom as well as outside of the classroom.
Adobe Training for Educators
Photoshop, Photo Elements, Illustrator, Acrobat, In Design, Go Live
Technology Tutorials Found on the Web
Office, Appleworks, Inspiration, Kidspiration, KidPix, Hyperstudio, iMovie, Photoshop, Digital Cameras
Online Practice Modules:
PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Macintosh, Windows, Webquest, Works, Inspiration, Hyperstudio.
Electric Teacher Power Point
New to PowerPoint? Use this easy tutorial to get you started. Also gives activities for classroom use.
Digital Cameras
Learn everything from the basics of using a digital camera to capturing digital video, calculating image size and more.
Kidspiration
Inspiration
Download these manuals and print for your reference. These manuals provide a step-by-step guide to creating work using these programs.
Keyboarding
Learn 2 Type for Kids is aFREE Web site that helps you master the skills of touch-typing. Interactive exercises automatically adjust to your skill level. The better you get, the more challenging the exercises become. You can come and go as you please and pick up right where you left off.
Take the online Typing Test to check your speed.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Tapped In
Scheduled in-service programs and informal collaborative activities are held on-line by an international community of education professionals, K-12 teachers and librarians, professional development staff, teacher education faculty and students, and researchers.
Teacher Tap
A free, professional development resource that helps educators address common technology integration questions by providing practical, online resources and activities.
Thirteen/Ed Online
Free workshops that cover all types of hot topics in education today.
Online Classes - Learning Center
Free online courses taught by experts and offered at different levels. Courses include: Word, Excel, PageMaker, desktop publishing, Adobe Photoshop to name a few.
PBS TeacherLine
Funded by a grant by the USDOE, this site offers 65 courses re: tech integration. You may search by grade level for an appropriate course.
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