If a teacher brings another teacher instead of two kids to a Y2K workshops there is an additional cost of $45.00 per teacher.
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Click here to view a map to The Idea Center. All workshops are 1-day unless otherwise noted in the description. Graduate Credit Special: Receive one graduate credit hour from Ashland University or for every 15 hours of workshops attended for the additional fee of $180. |
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Creating A Game Using PowerPoint(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $100 (includes flash drive) Presenter(s): Lynette McCall Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Learn how to turn what you are already teaching into game that will capture and hold the attention of your students. Explore different templates and walk away with a game similar to Who Wants to be a Millionaire and Jeopardy that you can use in class the very next day.  | ||
Put a Palm in Your Pocket(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $285 (Includes PalmPilot) Presenter(s): TBA Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Handhelds are now being used extensively by teachers and students at home and in the classroom. They can sync data with desktops computers, Smart Boards, and cell phones, and “beam” data to other users. Download word documents, spreadsheets, Inspiration, and PowerPoint. Download and read books, and keep track of student attendance and grades. | ||
Help Kids Get Smarter with SMART Boards(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $90 Presenter(s): Donna Langenderfer and/or Jeff VanArnhem Audience: All Teachers and Administrators, Emphasis on Grades 9-12 Learn how you can use the SMART Board to improve attention, retention and test scores in your classroom by making computer usage an interactive and collaborative experience. This workshop includes information how you can receive a mini-grant to help purchase a SMART Board for your school. | ||
Internet Safety - a must course for all educators(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $130 (Includes lunch and parking) Presenter(s): Deborah Quarles Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Become a certified trainer by attending a full day of training using the i-Safe curriculum. As a certified trainer you will be eligible for free curriculum material that can be used in your school district. i-SAFE is dedicated to implementing a standardized Internet safety education program throughout the nation that provides kids and teens with essential tools to reduce the risk of their being victimized while engaged in activities via the Internet. | ||
A Digital Camera For You(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $285 (Includes Camera) Presenter(s): Richard Gore, Bobbie Muhlbach, or Charles Burket Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Learn the complete operation of a digital camera: download digital pictures into various applications, and clone, print and add text to a digital picture with Photo Editing Software. Leave with a quality digital camera and the skills to use it as a teaching tool. | ||
3R's Workshop: The Right Topic at the Right Time delivered Right to Your School (Digital Camera) SCHOOLS ONLY. VIDEO CONFERENCING EQUIPMENT REQUIRED.(Register)
Place: Your school Cost: $50 per site Presenter(s): Bobbie Mulhbach Audience: All Teachers and Administrators WVIZ/PBS ideastream brings expertise right into your school with technology training sessions via videoconference. These two-way interactive sessions will be broadcast from 3:15 to 4:15 pm on the dates listed. Each session will give the participants an overview of how that technology or hardware can be used in the classroom. Gather a group of educators together in front of your video conferencing unit for the Right Topic, at the Right Time, Right in your School! For more information or to register, call Eric Siler at 216-916-6358 or eric.siler@ideastream.org Once you register, please include your IP address in the comments section of the registration page. | ||
3R's Workshop: The Right Topic at the Right Time delivered Right to Your School (Pocket-Sized Learning: An ipod for You) SCHOOLS ONLY. VIDEO CONFERENCING EQUIPMENT REQUIRED.(Register)
Place: Your school Cost: $50 per site Presenter(s): Mark Quinn Audience: All Teachers and Administrators WVIZ/PBS ideastream brings expertise right into your school with technology training sessions via videoconference. These two-way interactive sessions will be broadcast from 3:15 to 4:15 pm on the dates listed. Each session will give the participants an overview of how that technology or hardware can be used in the classroom. Gather a group of educators together in front of your video conferencing unit for the Right Topic, at the Right Time, Right in your School! For more information or to register, call Eric Siler at 216-916-6358 or eric.siler@ideastream.org Once you register, please include your IP address in the comments section of the registration page. | ||
iPod 101 (for beginners)(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $245 (includes ipod) $90 (without iPod) Presenter(s): Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Learn the complete operations of your iPod and how to download files to use in your classroom. Empower your students to study at their own pace by using audio and video to give multimedia lessons that span music, art, and literature. | ||
iMovie ‘08(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $90 Presenter(s): Scott Schlosser Audience: All Teachers and Administrators If you have a mac, then it’s time to learn how to edit your videos with iMovie ‘08, an easy-to-use digital editing system. In this hands-on workshop you will actually edit together a digital story from start to finish. Using our footage you will learn how to arrange a video, create a voice over, put in special effects, add text, music, and sound effects. Leave with a finished product and a valuable skill that will last you a lifetime. | ||
Digital Camcorder in Solon, OH(Register)
Place: Solon: Cuyahoga County Public Library, Solon Branch, 34125 Portz Parkway Cost: $295(Includes Digital Camcorder) Presenter(s): Audience: All Teachers and Administrators WVIZ’s Off-Site Workshops: available at a location near you! | ||
Creating Effective Digital Portfolios(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $90 Presenter(s): Deborah Quarles Audience: All Teachers and Administrators This workshop will introduce teachers and administrators to ways to “build” a digital portfolio through technology. You will examine examples of student portfolios and learn how to ”read” them, using a rubric to evaluate the student or teacher work against a set of standards. You will also explore what makes an assignment “portfolio worthy” as well as strategies for its design, implementation, and assessment. | ||
3R's Workshop: The Right Topic at the Right Time delivered Right to Your School (Palm Pilot) SCHOOLS ONLY. VIDEO CONFERENCING EQUIPMENT REQUIRED.(Register)
Place: Your school Cost: $50 per site Presenter(s): Bobbie Mulhbach Audience: All Teachers and Administrators WVIZ/PBS ideastream brings expertise right into your school with technology training sessions via videoconference. These two-way interactive sessions will be broadcast from 3:15 to 4:15 pm on the dates listed. Each session will give the participants an overview of how that technology or hardware can be used in the classroom. Gather a group of educators together in front of your video conferencing unit for the Right Topic, at the Right Time, Right in your School! For more information or to register, call Eric Siler at 216-916-6358 or eric.siler@ideastream.org Once you register, please include your IP address in the comments section of the registration page. | ||
Teacher Resources(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $90 Presenter(s): Bobbie Muhlbach or Deborah Quarles Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Discover and practice skills to use to find Internet resources that will work for you and your students. Explore different materials online, lesson plan sites, interactive sites, and ways to integrate them into your curriculum. Match websites with standards to use as tools for increasing student achievement. Discuss ethical and legal issues that arise with classroom internet use. Learn to organize websites that are accessible to you anywhere online. | ||
Tom Snyder TimeLiner(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $170 (includes software) Presenter(s): Ann Ebersole Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Presenting information in a way that is easy to understand and remember is critical to classroom learning.Tom Snyder TimeLiner helps you and your students tackle challenging concepts by visually organizing the sequence of information on a time line or number line. Use this versatile and effective tool across all curriculum areas and grade levels. TimeLiner is an invaluable instructional tool that helps you create, illustrate, and print time lines with ease! | ||
Create iPod Videos Using Camtasia (intermediate level workshop)(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $300 (includes software only) Presenter(s): Mark Quinn Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Bring your iPod and learn how to create videos on your iPod. Prequisite: Familiar with creating a podcast. | ||
A Digital Camcorder for Your Classroom(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $295, $325 after May 14 (includes camcorder) Presenter(s): Mike Berman Audience: All Teachers and Administrators This session will explore the interactivity and motivational aspects of integrating video into the classroom. The integration of a digital camera into the classroom is another tool to engage the students into their learning and will create higher level of thinking. Teachers will learn how to fully operate a digital camcorder and capture a clear and steady image. You will also learn the basic principles of taping classroom activities and school events, and become introduced to in-camera editing. See demonstrations on effective use of video in the classroom and take a quality digital camcorder back to your school. Standards across the curriculum will be addressed. | ||
Photoshop Elements(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $180 (incldues software) Presenter(s): Keisha Pitts-Bullard or Mark Quinn Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Does your yearbook or newspaper staff need assistance? At this hands-on workshop, participants will learn the basic Photoshop tools and techniques needed to prepare digital images for electronic media and print. Topics will include cropping, resizing, color adjustment, retouching, clipping and adding text to images. Attendees will learn how to transport images from other programs, use paths, scan images, and use Photoshop as an Art tool. Participants will learn how to use a wide range of manipulation techniques for photos and graphics. | ||
Introduction to Camtasia(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: Presenter(s): Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Record virtually any type of on-screen activity and create a video file in an instant. Camtasia Recorder captures audio narration, mouse movements, scrolling windows, typing and drop down menus. Supplement your videos with Text Notes, audio narration, cursor tracking and highlights, watermarking and time stamping. Camtasia Recorder's full-screen, full-motion video capture capability enables you to record everything, from your PC Clock to dynamic enterprise software modules. Your recording can be edited with Camtasia Producer and a menu can be created that allows the user to select the parts to play. This creative software is user friendly and provides the user with a powerful instructional tool. (Camtasia recorder, producer, menu maker, and player are all part of Camtasia Studio Suite) | ||
A Technology Concierge at Your School(Register)
Place: Your school Cost: $300 for the first three hours and $50 for each additional hour Presenter(s): TBA Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Is your staff experiencing trouble with tasks in Word, PowerPoint, or Excel? Why not have a WVIZ staff member visit your school for three hours and answer your computer questions. The staff member can visit classrooms or maintain a presence in your teacher’s lounge. Learn tips and trick that can cut down on your workload. Everybody who takes advantage of this workshop learns something new. | ||
Team TRACK (Troubleshoot, Repair, and Assistance with Computers by Kids)(Register)
Place: Your school Cost: $180 per participant (includes toolkit and supplies) Presenter(s): Rob McCarley Audience: All Teachers and Administrators One of our fundamental goals in education is to empower learners to become problem solvers and critical thinkers in the real world. In this three hour workshop, a teacher and three students will learn how to develop a team of student technology experts who will learn how to troubleshoot basic technology problems. An IT professional will come to your school and train students how to identify and solve common computer problems encountered in the classroom. Documentation, maintenance and cleaning procedures will be explored through the use of the included toolkit and training materials. | ||
Get Money for Your School-Become a Grant Writer(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $90 Presenter(s): Nicole Vitale Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Imagine in less than three hours learning how get started or move on to the next level of obtaining funds for your classroom or school. Lean proven methods that have attracted funds in all content areas and for all grades. Complete interactive exercises and activities supported by technology resources that will put your techniques into practice. And plus, find out about the many grant opportunities that exist. This course is designed for the beginner and intermediate person looking to create professional grant proposals. | ||
SMART Board Airliners(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $90 Presenter(s): Nicole Vitale Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Learn how to use the latest SMART Board tool that has become the talk of the town. If you have a SMART Board, this is a must have addition. | ||
Keynote ‘08(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $90 Presenter(s): Scott Schlosser Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Mac Users: Obtain a complete overview of Keynote and learn how to create stunning cinema quality presentations. | ||
iWorks ‘08(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $90 Presenter(s): Scott Schlosser Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Mac Users: Obtain a complete overview of iWorks ’08: Pages, Numbers and Keynote. | ||
ILife ‘08(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $90 Presenter(s): Scott Schlosser Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Mac Users: Obtain a complete overview of iLife ’08: iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and, Garage Band. | ||
WebQuest Make-and-Take(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $90 Presenter(s): Audience: All Teachers and Administrators This workshop provides a review of the WebQuest as a teaching tool. Participants will design a WebQuest, create a webpage for the quest, and post it to the Web. Participants should come prepared with a lesson idea and should be familiar with the WebQuest instructional strategy. | ||
Wild About Wikis and Blogging for the Classroom(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $90 Presenter(s): Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Develop an understanding of wikis; discuss ways wikis can be used in the school environment. Then develop an understanding of blogging; discuss ways blogs can be used in the school environment; locate a blog service; and setup an account. | ||
Edit Your Videos With Windows Movie Maker(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $90 Presenter(s): Mike Berman Audience: All Teachers and Administrators If you have a PC with a Windows operating system, you already have Movie Maker. Lean how to edit your videos with this standard windows application. | ||
Podcasting Academy (Up to 2 Graduate Credits Available)(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $375 (includes iPod, microphone, and lunch) Presenter(s): Mark Quinn Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Invest in two summer days and receive knowledge that will last for a lifetime. Learn all there is to know in creating a podcast. The first Saturday you will receive a brand new silver Apple 4GB Nano Video iPod along with a Logictech USB microphone. With this equipment, you will learn how to create a podcast that can directly impact your classroom or district. The next week you will edit and fine tune your podcast and learn how to share with others via websites. Also, explore tons of free resources that you will be able to download on to your iPod. An excellent workshop for those who want to exceed in technology! Graduate credit will be available through Ashland University for an additional amount of $180 per credit. Limited space available. *Attend the open lab and do an additional assignment for a two graduate credits. **Upgrade to an 8GB Nano and specify a silver, blue, green, red, pink, or black iPod for an additional $60. You must register one week in advance to take advantage of the specific color | ||
Second Chance Workshop(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $45 Presenter(s): Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Have you taken a workshop at WVIZ within the last 12 months and did not have an opportunity to utilize the equipment you received or put into practice your newly acquired knowledge? Well, here is your opportunity to take the same workshop again at an incredible price. Register for the any workshop you took in the last 12 months and enter ‘Second Chance’ in the comments section. Then bring your equipment and/or notes to the workshop and learn again. It’s just that easy. | ||
Take CYBERCHASE into the Classroom(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $95 (includes DVD and resource guide) Presenter(s): Theresa Carlin Audience: All Teachers and Administrators CYBERCHASE is an award winning interactive animation that airs on PBS and is designed to support interest and achievement in mathematics for children in grades 2-5. Each episode focuses on a math concept identified by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). In this workshop you will receive hands-on training in harnessing CYBERCHASE’s broadcast, online, and print materials to support dynamic math instruction. You will also explore age-appropriate connections between mathematics and the creative process of invention. Leave with an activity guide, DVD episodes, and a CD-Rom with graphics and handouts. These resource materials will make a valuable addition to your media center or classrooms. | ||
Electronic Picture Book(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $90 Presenter(s): Lynette McCall Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Create your own electronic book filled with pictures you find, text you write. Learn how to educate and delight your students with pictures you took moments ago and form them into an electronic book to read and share. | ||
Digital Camera Workshop at Progressive Field, home of the Cleveland Indians (Graduate Credit Available)(Register)
Place: Wednesday, August 6, 2008 (WVIZ and walk to Progressive Field) and Wednesday, August 13, 2008 (WVIZ) Cost: $345 (includes camera, 2gb memory card, tour, lunch, and bottled water) Presenter(s): Bobbie Muhlbach Audience: All Teachers and Administrators August 6: Learn the complete operation of a digital camera and leave with the skills to use it as a teaching tool. Learn about the unique design of Progressive Field as well as classroom resources available for teachers. Get the inside scoop on the stadium. Walk onto field, sit in the dugout and visit the locker room and batting cage Use your digital camera to take capture this all. Activities discussed support the Ohio State Physical Education Standards. August 13: At WVIZ, learn how to download digital pictures into various applications, how to clone, print and add text to a digital picture with Photo Editing Software, and how to place documents and pictures on-line that will be accessible from the Internet. You will be required to develop a presentation that contains pictures and documents of your visit to Progressive Field. This will become a resource that you will be able to use in your class and will be accessible on-line. You will receive complete hands-on instruction on organizing your on-line presentation. Graduate credit will be available through Ashland University for an additional amount of $180. | ||
Copyright and Fair Use(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $90 Presenter(s): Audience: All Teachers and Administrators This workshop presents copyright law and fair use policy. Participants will discuss what is and what is not “fair use.” The format includes a PowerPoint presentation followed by small group work on copyright and fair use scenarios. | ||
Searching Your Genealogy (Up to 2 Graduate Credits Available)(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $225 Presenter(s): Deborah Abbott Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Reconstructing your family history can be a daunting task. Where do you begin? Start with WVIZ by researching your family history through the use of on-line resources. Learn how to research census records and other data bases how you may be related to someone else. Trace your history back decades and maybe even centuries to foreign countries. Learn where to begin, what to use, and how to file your information. If you have been putting off creating your family tree, now is the time to begin. An insightful workshop that could change your life as well as your students! *Attend 15 lab hours and do an additional assignment for a two graduate credits. | ||
Using Outlook to Optimize Communication & Time Management(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $90 Presenter(s): Audience: All Teachers and Administrators This workshop provides an introduction to the Mail, Calendar, and Contacts components of Microsoft Outlook. Learn how Outlook can help you become better organized. Everyone’s using it. Why aren’t you? Best presented in a lab with user accounts already set up. | ||
Intro to Genealogy(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $90 Presenter(s): Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Learn how to begin to research your own genealogy and learn how to teach your students to do the same. | ||
Hands-On SMART Board(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $125 (includes lunch) Presenter(s): Donna Langenderfer and/or Jeff VanArnhem Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Learn how you can use the SMART Board to help improve attention, retention and test scores in your classroom by making computer usage an interactive and collaborative experience. Plus you will get to spend time actually using the SMART. Hurry, limited space! | ||
Google About Google(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $90 Presenter(s): Keisha Pitts-Bulard Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Did you know that google has over 40 free tools that can be useful in your classroom? Learn how to use google earth, google scholar, google images, google toolbar, and many more features and find out why everyone is google about google. | ||
TI-83/84 Emulator Software/Ti-Nspire Calculator(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $225 (includes Emulator software) $250 (includes calculator) Presenter(s): Donna Langenderfer and/or Jeff VanArnhem Audience: All Teachers and Administrators The TI-SmartView software package from TI provides a virtual TI-84 calculator on your Windows or Macintosh personal computer. Enhanced graphing capabilities include: link representations of a problem to see how changes to one affect others; “grab-and-move” graphed functions in real time to observe relationships and patterns. Select calculator or software when you register. | ||
Digital Photography(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $90 Presenter(s): Charles Burkett Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Bring your working digital camera to this class and learn how to take a better picture. Explore websites and learn tips and tricks to create that perfect photo. Learn time and money saving tips to make you the best photographer around. Note: Participants must have a basic understanding of their camera. | ||
Writing in a Wired World (NEW)(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $90 Presenter(s): Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Participants are introduced to strategies using technology to teach writing across the curriculum. Online resource will be shared. This workshop can be directed toward a specific grade level. | ||
Computer Forensics and Data Recovery for Educators(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $90 Presenter(s): Rob McCarley Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Learn some of the most effective ways to recover data you think you may have lost from your computer. One of the best methods for not losing data is prevention. Explore software that will protect your computer from pop-ups and viruses. Learn how to recognize and recover from viruses. Furthermore, learn how to quickly go through cookies and history of websites visited by your students. Plus learn tips and tricks for saving data and what not to do on public computers and much, much more. This is an extremely useful workshop for everyone. No advanced computer skills are needed. | ||
Technology Integration Academy (Graduate Credit Available)(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $215 Presenter(s): Richard Gore Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Become an expert on the technology you already have on your computer. Teachers will receive advance instruction of MS Word, MS Excel, and MS Power Point, and learn how to integrate these three software packages. One hour will be spent on each MS package. Participants will learn strategies for integrating all three technologies. You must have some basic understanding of each of the software in order to participate in this workshop. *Attend 15 lab hours and do an additional assignment for a two graduate credits. | ||
Using a SMART Board for Literacy and Math in the Primary Grades(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $90 Presenter(s): Theresa Carlin and Nicole Vitale Audience: All Teachers and Administrators This session will demonstrate and showcase the many effective ways to integrate the use of the SMART Board in a primary classroom. Many activities will be demonstrated—including projects and lessons that integrate Ohio’s math and English language arts standards. Participants will gain many ideas and resources for acquiring and using SMART Boards in the primary classroom. | ||
Can You See What I See? Using a GPS(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $270 (Includes a handheld GPS) Presenter(s): Keisha Pitts-Bullard Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Join us as we explore how GPS has made its way into today’s classrooms. Learn about geocaching - hiding and finding treasures in local, state or national parks, or anywhere in the world. Discover all the innovative activities being used by teachers across the curriculum. Learn how a GPS operates and how to integrate it into your own classroom. | ||
Kidspiration- a software package for the young learner(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $160 (Includes software) Presenter(s): Ann Ebersole Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Created for K-5 learners, Kidspiration® provides an easy way to apply the proven principles of visual learning. Students build graphic organizers by combining pictures, text and spoken words to represent thoughts and information. Younger learners develop early literacy skills, and more advanced students improve comprehension skills and better organize ideas for writing. K-5 learners use Kidspiration to: Categorize and group ideas, express and organize thoughts, and comprehend and communicate. Learn how to use this software to get students to think, write and comprehend. | ||
TI-83/84 Emulator Software(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $225 (Includes software) Presenter(s): Donna Langenderfer and/or Jeff VanArnhem Audience: All Teachers and Administrators The TI-SmartView software package from TI provides a virtual TI-84 calculator on your Windows or Macintosh personal computer. The software enables a large version of the calculator to appear on a computer screen or interactive smartboard. You can actually operate the calculator image on your computer by using the mouse. With a projector, students will be able to see each key stroke the teachers uses to solve any problem. This helps students follow along and stay on track. With a smartboard, you can have students come to the board and interact directly with a crisp, clear image of the calculator. At this workshop you will receive a copy of the TI-SmartView software and will learn how to use it as a classroom tool. This workshop is targeted for math teachers grades 8 to 12. | ||
Pocket-Sized Learning: An iPod for your classroom (intermediate level workshop)(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $285 (includes iPod and microphone) Presenter(s): Mark Quinn Audience: All Teachers and Administrators, Intermediate Level Course Podcasting is a way to automatically download and synchronize digital audio and video files from the internet to your own iPod. An iPod in a teacher's hand can record notes and podcasts and transport digital files back and forth to school. | ||
Up Close with the Computer Microscope(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $175 (Bring another teacher or family member for an additional cost of $30.00) - Software is not Mac compatible. Presenter(s): Bobbie Muhlbach Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Learn how to use this versatile and highly interactive QX5+ microscope. It plugs into your computer's USB port and puts some of the latest digital imagery technology at the fingertips of even very young children. The microscope comes with software that captures the images so that they can be made into a slide show, resized, or otherwise manipulated. | ||
Scanning in the Classroom(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $170 (includes scanner) Presenter(s): Gary McPherson Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Discover how valuable a scanner can be as a resource and teaching tool. Scan and import images, photographs and documents into other applications. Receive instruction on how to use Photo Editing software as well as how to add text to your scanned pictures. | ||
Creating Your Own Website (RWLO)(Register)
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue. Cost: $90 Presenter(s): Deb Vasenda Audience: All Teachers and Administrators Learn how you can use documents, images, video clips, and websites to create a lesson that can be accessible to students, parents and colleagues. You will also be introduced to teacher resources from the internet to assist you with the development of your website. At the completion of the rwlo (real world learning objectives) workshop, leave with your own website. A website called (rwlo.rwlo.org) will assist you with follow up. | ||
Digital Camera Workshop at the Zoo (Graduate Credit Available)(Register)
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| Date: | June 18, 2008 (Cleveland Metroparks Zoo) AND Wednesday, June 25, 2008 (WVIZ) |
Place: The Idea Center at Playhouse Square - 1375 Euclid Avenue and The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Cost: $335 (includes camera, 2GB memory card, lunch and bottled water)
Presenter(s): Bobbie Muhlbach
Audience: All Teachers and Administrators
June 18: Learn the complete operation of a digital camera and leave with the skills to use it as a teaching tool. Learn about the various exhibits at the Zoo as well as classroom resources available for teachers. Get the inside scoop on the Zoo animals and the role they play in global conservation and science. Use your digital camera to take various pictures of the exhibits. June 25: Learn how to download digital pictures into various applications, how to clone, print and add text to a digital picture with Photo Editing Software, and how to place documents and pictures on-line that will be accessible from the Internet. You will be required to develop a presentation that contains pictures and documents of your visit to the Zoo. You will receive complete hands-on instruction on organizing your on-line presentation. The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo will retain the rights to use any of the photos for publication purposes. Graduate credit will be available through Ashland University for an additional amount of $180.
The Big Dig(Register)
| Date: | June 16-20, 2008 |
Place: Burrell Orchard, Lorain County, Ohio-Site of a prehistoric Native American Settlement.
Cost: $400.00 (includes water and daily snacks) (Please bring your own brown bag lunches.)
Presenter(s): Archaeologists: Dr. Brian Redmond, Curator and Head of Archaeology
Brian Scanlan, Supervisor of Archaeology Field Program
Instructor: Rosemary Nemeth, Master Teacher from WVIZ/PBS
Audience: All Teachers and Administrators
The Big Dig is a collaborative project between WVIZ/PBS ideastream and the Archaeology Department of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. The Course interweaves Social Studies, Science, Mathematics, Archaeology and Technology. Field Course is designed to give the teachers a comprehensive introduction to archaeological field work. All participants will be introduced to the methods of archaeological survey, techniques of hand excavation, artifact identification, and the preparation of field notes and supplemented by formal and informal lectures and discussions about archaeological methods and regional prehistory. In addition, Technology will be interwoven. Please join us for the BIG DIG that will take place in Burrell Orchard in Lorain County, Ohio!
Purposes: To learn about Native Americans and their settlement. To experience hands on Archaeology. To work with the experts. To collaborate with other Teachers. Join us on THE BIG DIG!
Credits: 1, 2 or 3 Graduate Credits for an additional charge are available through Ashland University.
http://www.wviz.org/edsvcs/k_12/teaching_resources/Big_Dig/
