This document outlines training topics for teachers on various technology tools and resources including Integrade Pro for grading, videoconferencing, creating online lessons using Filamentality, using email, concept mapping with Inspiration, searching state standards and online lesson plans, library databases and the hidden web, bookmarking with iKeepBookmarks, searching the internet, using Blackboard for online classes, making PowerPoint presentations, editing videos with iMovie, designing web pages, utilizing the Utica Learning Interchange, and implementing brain compatible project-based learning supported by technology.

1. Integrade Pro
 Setting up a class
 Adding/editing tasks
 Changing grading rules
 Using individual and class reports &
graphs

2. Videoconferencing & the IRC
 Technology & capabilities of the
Instructional Resource Center
 The vision for the IRC
 How to find & work with established
videoconferencing sites.

3. Filamentality
 Create and post on the internet a web
based learning page in under an hour
 Exploring the formats of hotlist,
scrapbook, sampler, webquests
 How to be prepared with internet sites &
guiding questions to make the whole
process go smoothly

4. E-mail
 Sending messages
 Checking messages
 Attachments
 Address Book
 E-mailing from home using the Internet
 Forwarding & Carbon copying
 Automatic notification of a new message

5. Inspiration
 Visual learning tool
 Concept mapping
 Basics to get you started
 Linking to the internet/other programs

6. State Standards
 Using MICLiMB to understand the framework
for the state benchmarks.
 Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies,
Science
 See what other grade levels are learning in
your subject area
 Plan, align, or improve classroom curriculum,
instruction, and assessment across content
areas

7. Lesson Plans Online
 Searching the internet for lesson plans
 Exploring established sites
 Evaluating lessons & sites
 Adapting lesson plans to your needs

8. Library Databases & The
Hidden Web
 Introduction & use of library databases from
school and home
 Integration of databases into established
curriculum
 Reference databases such as the AP
Multimedia Archive, Gale Group, Lexis-
Nexis
 Newspaper databases such as the New
York Times, Wall Street Journal


9. www.ikeepbookmarks.com
 Using your bookmarks at work & at
home
 Creating bookmarks on more than one
computer
 Sharing of favorite pages with co-
workers/friends
 Create favorite lists for students

10. Searching the Internet
 How to effectively search
 How to narrow your searches
 Where to search/different search
engines
 How to access previous searches

11. Blackboard.com
 Setting up your account with the MISD
 Using to create online tests & surveys
 Uploading files for students to view at
home
 Putting assignments online
 Setting up your classes/adding users
 Digital drop box

12. PowerPoint
 Creating slides & inputting information
 Adding transitions between slides
 Linking to the internet/other programs
 Adding animation & sounds to slides
 Changing backgrounds

13. iMovie
 Using the digital camera
 Importing clips, audio, existing video
 Editing and publishing
 Integration into curriculum

14. Web Page Creation
 Using programs on the computer to
design a web page
 Adding text & graphics
 Formatting
 Evaluating student learning

15. Utica Learning Interchange
 Updating your personal profile
 Searching for and adding Units of
Practice
 TTI FAQ
 Teacher Tools section

16. Brain Compatible Learning
 Designing instructional practices in a
project based format
 Using technology to help this design
 Moving away from lecture and toward
student work
 Instructor as facilitator not information
provider
 Learning stations