Templates for Teachers
(offered twice)

There is a wealth of information on the Internet for teachers to use with technology projects and activities for their students. Download these templates and learn to customize for the skills your students need.

Keebook Creator

This new affordable software gives the classroom teacher a new tool to create technology activities to improve teaching and learning.KeeBook Creator enables you to gather and enhance all types of information into "books" that you can use to communicate easily. Imagine: when you start KeeBook Creator, you are entering your personal library. It contains books. All sorts of books. Books with text, colors, animation and sound. Everything that multimedia has to offer is right there at your fingertips. Perfect for teaching thematic units!! Participants must have a working knowledge of the Internet and the computer before registering for this class.

This workshop will provide templates for teachers using Microsoft PowerPoint and Word for making books of all kinds as well as some books that involve NO technology at all. Participants will leave with samples of books that their students can use for creative writing and technology projects. Basic computer knowledge is a pre-requisite for this class.

Children's Literature Pockets" is a series of technology-based activities centered around quality children's literature. Caldecott award winning books are the basis for a wide variety of projects, scavenger hunts, and enrichment activities.Participants will leave with a handout and a CD full of ideas, patterns, activities, templates as well as a constructed Literature Pocket or two.

This workshop's aim is to build your comfort zone with digital cameras and scanners and the use of their digital images within Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. Photo editing and manipulation will also be discussed. Bring to the workshop:

• a digital camera using a 3.5 disk for memory, if you or your school have one
• a couple of favorite photos you'd like to scan, old or new
• two 3.5 disks.

Inspiration 7, a software program for 4-12 and higher education, integrates an expanded range of visual learning and thinking techniques with the latest standards in graphics and Internet technology. Use it to brainstorm, organize thoughts and communicate ideas! This new version is fabulous!!

This workshop is for beginners to PowerPoint who are interested in learning the basics of creating exciting presentations. Walk away with a looping PowerPoint to use in the classroom for visual cueing and a five-slide presentation in which you apply basic slide layouts and transitions.

After mastering the basics in PowerPoint #1, this workshop take things a step farther by delving deeper into this feature-rich Microsoft Office program. Apply custom animations, rehearse timings, add sound files, and create links to other slides in a non-linear fashion.

This workshop will help the Internet user:

• learn how to set up Outlook to access your Tangischools email;
• setup and use the Address Book, Contacts, Tasks, and Notes
• manage email messages by creating folders to file messages;
• learn how to send and open attachments to email messages;
• learn how to organize and manage Favorites;
• learn how to create a personalized Links bar for Favorites;

Learn the basics of the spreadsheet program Excel, which is in the Office suite. By the end of the workshop, participants will have created a simple spreadsheet with graph and printout.

Learn to use one of the most versatile pieces of software available in today's technology world. KidPix 3 is a program for students K-adults and can be used in any subject area to teach all content standards and skills.

Timeliner 5 by Tom Snyder Productions is an excellent piece of software to use to teach students the value of sequencing events in a timeline format. The newly revised edition of Timeliner 5 allows for active links to the Internet and easy insertion of graphics to accompany the timelines. The new slide show feature allows students to make multimedia presentations with sounds, movie clips, graphics, and Internet sites. What an excellent way for students to present research projects.

The Graph Club 2.0 is an innovative, easy-to-use tool that enables students in grades K-4 to create, explore, interpret, and print graphs—helping them make the transition from graphing with manipulatives to graphing in the abstract. With the addition of over 30 standards-aligned activities, this powerful, flexible program is the perfect complement to your graphing curriculum!

Learn the basics of webpage design and Front Page 2000. Experiment with different elements and layouts to include in your webpage. Create your very own class or school webpage to post on the TangiSchools website. Then add the finishing touches to your webpage by adding graphics, favorite links, and digital pictures to make your webpage an appealing as well as content-rich site.