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Description of Classes

Schools Wires for Website Design

Accessing and using web-based information and learning, communication and community are acknowledged by Summit School District as essential ingredients of success. Attend the SchoolWires website session and learn how to make this utility extend your classroom into the virtual world. Participants already familiar with SchoolWires website basics can spend the time improving their websites, and newbies will learn to:


 * Navigate, sign in and edit your SchoolWires website
 * Learn the how-tos of student sign in
 * Organize and design your website
 * Post blogs, podcasts and video to your website

Google Docs Level I Edit and upload your existing documents. Create new ones. Access these documents and edit them from anywhere. Share changes in real-time and invite people to your documents to make changes at the same time. It's free, easy and FANTASTIC for students and teachers to create, collaborate and communicate information.

Google Forms Forms are a useful way of collecting information in an easy, streamlined way. Give your students a quiz, assignment or collect parent/student information. When you send a form to recipients, their responses will automatically be collected in that spreadsheet.

Voicethread for Collaboration With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. No software to install. A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds [|images, documents, and videos] and allows people to navigate slides and leave [|comments in 5 ways] - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). [|Share] a VoiceThread with students and colleagues for them to record comments too.

Care and Feeding of your PC

Building your PLN with Twitter A PLN is a reciprocal network that you create to learn from, connect with, gather information or resources, create with and finally share what you have learned. A PLN can occur in your school, face-to-face, online, at conferences or through reading, reflecting and sharing. Twitter is a very important part in growing your PLN. It's clearly much more than Ashten Cucher and Demi Moore or teachers would not call it, "the most effective form of Professional Development they have experienced" in YEARS. Check it out before you decide if it's for you and your students. http://edtechvision.org/?p=790

LiveBinders LiveBinders is a free web tool that allows you to create virtual binders and organize websites around a central topic. It is a great tool for elementary teachers, as it allows students to simply click on the tabs access websites -- no typing of URLs required. It is also useful as a professional resource -- you can organize websites related to reading strategies, world history events, science topics, etc., in a virtual binder that can be accessed from anywhere. Learn more about LiveBinders.