This workshop will cover the basics of Photoshop Element's edit tools and features to make your photos look their best and share them in imaginative ways.

Target Audience: All teachers K-12 and executive staff.

Course Outline: Participants will learn how to…

• Use basic photo correction and manipulation techniques
• Organise photos by tagging with key words
• Experiment with different layout options
• Share photos in a variety of ways

Details:

• Macintosh and Windows, A maximum of 15 participants per session.
• Morning tea and lunch is provided for these half day workshops.

Cost: $50 per person (includes GST)

Participants are required to bring to this workshop:

• Thumb Drive (minimum capacity 2GB) if you would like to save your work
• Images saved as jpeg files to manipulate (optional)

This workshop will cover the basics of Dreamweaver's tools to enable you to design, develop and maintain standards-based websites.

Target Audience: All teachers K-12 and executive staff

Course Outline: Participants will learn how to…

• Plan and build a simple website with a navigation structure linking to multiple pages
• Add interactive features and animation
• Experiment with different deisgn tools, layouts and style sheets

This workshop will cover the basics of Microsoft Access, a relational database management system that allows you to create and edit reports that display sorted, filtered, and grouped information in a way that helps you make sense of the data for informed decision-making.

Target Audience: All teachers K-12 and executive staff.

Course Outline: Participants will learn how to…

• Design a flat file database
• Explore and work with database objects such as tables, forms, reports and queries.

This workshop will introduce you to Stu’s Eduweb, a free software tool that uses Oasis data to create an instant school intranet that hosts students’ customized homepages. It couldn’t be easier!

Target Audience: All teachers K-12 and executive staff.

Course Outline: Participants will learn how to…

• Create individual student websites where students publish their own work and maintain an electronic learning portfolio
• Use and create different templates
• Edit pages using FrontPage
• Build a school intranet that can showcase student work, school information, photos, links and staff pages

Sony ACID XPress 5.0 (a free download for Windows XP computers) and Audacity (included on the 2008 T4L rollout computers), allow users to create original music and podcasts using loop-based music software, sound effects and narration.

Target Audience: All teachers K-12

Course Outline: Participants will learn how to…

• Choose loops to create an original music score
• Add narration and sound effects to create a podcast
• Share music and podcasts on the Internet
• Develop a lesson (or series of lessons) that integrates this ICT application into teaching and learning programs

These creative programs come installed on all T4L Mac computers and laptops. Podcasting is included with GarageBand and allows for communication and distribution of educational content. GarageBand is perfect for creating, performing and recording music and podcasts, with real-time notation and a library of pre-recorded loops to make composing a breeze.

Target Audience: All teachers K-12

Course Outline: Participants will learn how to…

• Create original music scores using GarageBand loops
• Create podcasts using sound effects, loops and narration
• Share podcasts and music through iTunes
• Develop a lesson (or series of lessons) that integrates this ICT application into teaching and learning programs

Web 2.0 is a term used to describe the evolution of the Internet, which now provides users with applications that facilitate globally connected, social interactions.  No longer are Internet users simply passive consumers of information as Web 2.0 allows the active, simple creation of information.

Target Audience: All teachers K-12

Course Outline: Participants will learn how to…

• Create, subscribe, receive and post podcast episodes
• Create a web page using an online editing application
• Create a blog site and publish posts
• Investigate interesting 2.0 applications