MCC+Noncredit+Tech+Integration+Series

 =** MiraCosta College Noncredit Technology Integration Workshop Series 2009-10 **=

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Help bridge the digital divide by learning practical ways to integrate technology into your lessons, whether by using files you create for instructional purposes or by creating meaningful tasks in which students use computer technology to create, publish, and present class assignments. ======

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· useful ideas for materials development or student projects and examples  ======

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 · technology training through hands-on learning  ======

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 · a certificate to participants who complete all four workshops in the series  ======

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Attend all four workshops. Create and share one technology piece -- either instructional or a individual student or whole-class project -- made sometime over the course of the school year during the end-of-the-year technology showcase in the Spring.=====

=MCC Noncredit Tech Series=

PowerPoint:
A presentation software valuable for bringing lectures and explanations of course content to life. Even if there is no access to a computer in the classroom, PowerPoint can be used to make handouts, note-taking guides, and flashcards. Review Basic PowerPoint skills (adding text, inserting clip art and images) and practice more advanced skills such as narrating slides, inserting hyperlinks, adding transitions and animation, using templates, and uploading to the Web for online sharing and/or linking or embedding on Web pages, blogs, wikis, or in a Course Management System (Blackboard).

**Workshop 2:**

 * Friday, Oct. 23, 9 - 10:30 a.m., CLC Room 131 **

**Word:**
The most common word-processing program for making class materials and for students to compose written work. Review basic Word skills (spacing, fonts, margins, spelling and grammar check) and practice more advanced skills such as using templates and readability statistics and inserting images, Word Art, symbols and shapes, textboxes, borders, and Smart Art.

Workshop 3:
**Friday, Jan. 29, 9 - 10:30 a.m., CLC Room 131**

**Podcasting: **
A podcast is an audio recording broadcast over the Web. Instructors can record class lectures, announcements, information, and listening exercises for students to listen to again and again. Students can record their own voices to share ideas and practice oral skills. The audio recordings can be heard via the internet or downloaded and transported on audio devices such as .mp3 players (ipods). Learn how to make audio recordings and do simple editing with Audacity audio editor. Create your own podcast channel online, make a podcast, and see how to share and comment on podcasts.

==** Workshop 4: Friday, Mar. 19, 9 - 10:30 a.m., CLC Room 131 **==

**Digital Storytelling: **
Digital stories multimedia projects that combine audio (voice narration, music), images and/or video, titles, special effects, and transitions. Make learning outcomes memorable by creating customized video content or by giving students the ultimate opportunity to express themselves creatively -- with their own voices, images they make or choose, music, and more. Learn the steps of creating a digital story, using Windows Movie Maker, and how to render a project as a video file that can be emailed or uploaded and shared on the Web. Find out how digital stories can be used to assess attainment of student learning outcomes across the curriculum, in all disciplines. 

==**End-of-the-year Tech Integration Showcase and Certificate Ceremony, May 2010, date/time TBA **==