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Professional  Development Opportunity

ActivInspire is the newest version of software for Promethean Boards.  This combination in-person and online course will teach you the basics of this updated program and how to integrate it into your daily instruction.  Participants will learn the basics of migrating to ActivInspire, how to create basic flipcharts, use actions and containers, create assessments using ActiVotes, and more.  There will be 2 required face-to-face meetings on October 9 and December 4.  The rest of the class will be held online to better fit busy schedules. 

Week 1 – Downloading ActivInspire, Introduction to ActivInspire, Migrating to ActivInspire
Week 2 – Resource Packs and Working with Images
Week 3 – Magic Ink, Spotlight, Revealer, and other Cool Tools
Week 4 – Working with Sound and Video
Week 5 – Layers and Groups
Week 6 – Containers and Actions
Week 7 – Activotes

In Person Meeting Dates: October 9, 2009 and December 4, 2009
Times:  5:00-5:30pm

Location:  6th Avenue Elementary School – Computer Lab

(New assignments will be posted online every Friday. Participants will have one week to complete and post each 2 hour assignment.)

Interested in attending?  Email your questions to Shannon Wentworth scwentworth@aps.k12.co.us at 6th Avenue.

Course registration is available on Avatar.

Thanks to Donn Martin for these directions

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Creating a filter for students in a specified period

1. Expand Ad Hoc Reporting

2. Click Filter Designer.

3. Choose Create a new Filter using the Query Wizard.

4. Choose Student for the Filter Data Type.

5. Click Next.

6. Name the filter.

7. Expand Student/Demographics. From Demographics click lastName, firstName, grade

8. Expand Learner, expand Schedule, and expand Course/Section. From Course/Section click courseName, teacherDisplay and roomName.

9. Expand Section Schedule. From Section Schedule click termStart, termEnd, periodStart, periodEnd.

10. Verify they are in the Selected Fields.

11. Click Next.

12. Enter the period start and period end parameters. Note: In this example it is for students in third period.

13. Save and test filter.

Thanks to Donn Martin for the following directions!

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Exporting epals student email list for upload into ning to invite students to private ning.

STEPS:

In epals

Click Teacher link, enter teacher name, click display results button, Under Students column click view link, Student info will display.

scroll down to bottom of page click generate report, Click on home link, Click webmail or you have new messages, Click subject link for accounts report, locate atachments, click attachment link, select open,

In Excel,

Click data tab, select text to columns, make sure Tab is selected as the delimiter, click next, click finish. Select colum header for all columns after c column and delete, change name for user@domain to email. save csv spreadsheet as teacher name.csv . (Save to desktop)

In ning- Teacher steps-

Login to ning. click the invite link, click import from address book application, click browse and locate you .csv file. click open. click upload. Click invite

The school year has begun, and you are looking for resources to provide resources for your students so that they will engage in their learning. There is a resource that is available to all staff and students that is a “One Stop Resource Mall”—Discovery OnePlace to find resources for Mondo, Discovery Education including Discovery Science, World Book, NetTrekker, CultureGrams, and Promethean Planet. Elementary, K-8, Middle School, and High School teachers can find this tool a simple resource tool for the classroom regardless of your experience level with technology. Come join fellow teachers to add resources that can support your lessons to build that engagement for student learning and support for English Language Learners. WHEN: Thursday August 27, 2009 TIME: 4:45 pm-6:00 pm WHERE: Sixth Avenue Elementary PRESENTERS: Shannon Wentworth, Sixth Ave. Elem., Gwynn Moore, Paris Elem. COST: AEA Members-A benefit of your AEA Membership, this workshop is free Non-AEA Members-$10.00 CREDIT: Credit information will be available at the workshop. So that we can plan for participant resources, please fill out the registration form and check if applicable made out to AEA to Shannon Wentworth, Sixth Ave. Elementary OR Gwynn Moore, Paris Elementary by August 26. image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcemarc/2385399277/