Elanco's Technology Professional Academy is holding various workshops over the summer of 2011 to train teachers on educational technology. The workshops will cover topics such as using Moodle 2.0, Google Applications, blogs and wikis, interactive whiteboards and document cameras, social media for education, digital storytelling, organizing files with Windows 7, and using Microsoft Office 2010. Teachers can sign up for the workshops by searching the district catalog on MyLearningPlan and contacting Tim Leister with any questions.

1. Elanco’s Technology Professional Academy
Summer 2011
All of the Workshops will be held in the Garden Spot LMC
Date Time Workshop Workshop Description
Moodle is our district’s Learning Management System
Creating a (LMS) for teachers to post lessons, resources, as well
as collect and grade student work, administer quizzes.
B l en d ed Over the summer, the district will be upgrading to
Monday 8 – 3 pm
Classroom and Moodle 2.0. Along with the upgrade, there will be a new
August 8th
Teaching Online template for all Elanco courses to follow. This session
will focus on how to best utilize the new format and
with Moodle 2.0 provide you time to develop and post lessons and
resources for the upcoming school year.
With Google Applications, students can contact
Teaching with teachers using email, create their own websites, and
Wednesday collaborate with teachers and other students using
8–11 am Google
August 10th Google Documents by sharing documents and
Applications spreadsheets. Come see how using Google
Applications can transform your classroom.
Blogs and Wikis are tools that provide our students with
Blogs & Wikis for a voice in the classroom. Both have the potential to
the High School allow students to practice their writing and
Wednesday communication skills, while also providing an
12–3 pm and Middle
August 10th opportunity to display an ongoing portfolio of work. This
School session will teach you how to effectively manage
Classroom Wikispaces and Elanco’s new Wordpress program for
blogs for you and your students.
Effective Use of Interactive White Boards and Document Cameras can
Monday Polyvision IWB and create an interactive classroom when used effectively.
8–11am This session will provide you with the opportunity to
August 15th Document learn the proper setup and use of both, while sharing
Cameras resources and best practice uses for the classroom.
Connect to This session will explore the use of various social
media tools to connect, collaborate, and communicate
Monday Learn: Social with students and among colleagues. Tools include
12–3 pm
August 15th Media Use in the Edmodo, Twitter, and other applications that can help
develop a community of learners.
Classroom
TO SIGN UP, PLEASE FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS:
Go to MyLearningPlan, click on “District Catalog” along the left-hand side, find and click on
the desired workshop. Contact Tim Leister at tim_leister@elanco.org, if you have questions.
Turn over for more workshop offerings

2. Date Time Workshop Workshop Description
Blogs and Wikis are tools that provide our students
with a voice in the classroom. Both have the potential
Blogs & Wikis for to allow students to practice their writing and
Wednesday communication skills, while also providing an
8–11 am the Elementary
August 17th opportunity to display an ongoing portfolio of work.
Classroom This session will teach you how to effectively manage
Wikispaces and Elanco’s new Wordpress program for
blogs for you and your students.
Join us for this digital storytelling session to learn how
easy it can be to help even our youngest learners
share their stories! Digital storytelling is the use of
Wednesday Digital interactive multimedia (images, audio, video, text) to
12–3 pm
August 17th Storytelling tell a story. We’ll explore the capabilities of
VoiceThread, Little Bird Tales, and more! Examples
will be provided for all grade levels.
Window 7 is a new operating system for the
Getting Elementary teachers and has some new ways of
Organized with saving and organizing computer files. This workshop
Monday will be designed for new Windows 7 users to
8–11 am Your New
August 22nd customize their laptop and learn the most effective
Windows 7 ways to manage files before starting the new school
Laptop year. Teachers must bring along their own
Windows 7 Laptops for this session.
Microsoft Office 2010 is now on all district employee
computers. Office 2010 includes Word, Excel,
Tuesday Microsoft PowerPoint, Outlook and Publisher. This session will
8–11 am
August 23rd Office 2010 focus on the effective use of these four programs and
will provide you with the opportunity to learn both the
basic and advanced features of each.
TO SIGN UP, PLEASE FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS:
Go to MyLearningPlan, click on “District Catalog” along the left-hand side, find and click on
the desired workshop. Contact Tim Leister at tim_leister@elanco.org, if you have questions.
Turn over for more workshop offerings