RCPS Announces Its 13th Annual Summer Technology Academy
RCPS Announces Its 13th Annual Summer Technology Academy
The 13th annual RCPS Summer Technology
Academy will be held every Tuesday and Thursday this coming summer.
The Summer Technology Academy involves twenty-one 3-hour workshops
scheduled, two per day, beginning June 20. Any employee of Rockingham
County Public Schools is eligible to participate. There is no cost
for an employee's participation in the workshops and each one
attended earns three recertification points. Morning
sessions are from 9:00 - noon and afternoon sessions are from 1:00 -
4:00. The schedule is shown below.
Registration is online at this website: http://www2.rockingham.k12.va.us/academy/register.html
On the registration screen, you can click to view details of each course including a description, intended audience, skill level necessary, computer platform, and instructor. You can also click to see the current enrollments in each workshop. Those who register will receive an automated e-mail confirming your registration. You can return to this website at any time to check the roster for your workshop.
This summer's workshops are intended for a wide variety of users and include some new offerings which focus on integrating multimedia into instruction. All employees are welcome to register, but please do not be a no-show.
All workshops are scheduled at the Hulvey
Training room at the RCPS School Board office at 100 Mount Clinton
Pike, Harrisonburg.
| Date | Time | Course Title | Short description | Target Audience | User Level Required | Computer Platform | Instructor |
| Tuesday, June 20 | PM | Become an excellent Excel user | Learn to edit existing spreadsheets, create graphs/charts, and add formulas. | Anyone | Beginner | Mac or Windows | Doris Gardner |
| Thursday, June 22 | AM | Smart Use of a SmartBoard | Learn how to use a SmartBoard for enhancing instruction in your classroom. Featured will be the new 9.5 Smartboard & Notebook software with clipart. | Anyone | Intermediate | Mac or Windows | Obe Hostetter |
| Thursday, June 22 | PM | Advanced Word--Tables & Graphics | Learn to use advanced formatting techniques with tables and graphics in Microsoft Word. | Anyone | Intermediate | Mac or Windows | Doris Gardner |
| Tuesday, June 27 | AM | Inspiration | Learn how to use Inspiration, a great graphic organizing tool. | Middle & High School Teachers | Beginner | Mac or Windows | Alice Bair |
| Tuesday, June 27 | PM | Smart Googling | Learn various techniques in using Google so you can quickly find what you're looking for on the internet. | Anyone | Beginner | Mac or Windows | Bryan Daniels |
| Thursday, June 29 | AM | Creating Assessments with Exam View Pro | Efficiently create assessments in ExamView Pro, learn how to format tests, create multiple forms and add your own question banks. | Middle & High School Teachers | Beginner | Mac or Windows | Kevin Perkins |
| Thursday, June 29 | PM | Video Streaming | Learn how to use videos from the Internet in presentations. | Anyone | Intermediate | Mac or Windows | Bryan Daniels |
| Thursday, July 6 | AM | Safe Blogging | Learn how to safely and appropriately use blogs in classroom instruction. | Anyone | Intermediate | Mac or Windows | Stephanie Failes |
| Thursday, July 6 | PM | Podcasting | Learn how to make your own podcasts and audio CD's using GarageBand. Bring your own headphones. | Anyone | Intermediate | Mac | Stephanie Failes |
| Friday, July 7 | AM | Enhancing Digital Pictures | Learn how to use Adobe Photoshop Elements to enhance digital pictures and prepare them for printing or for use in a website. | Anyone | Intermediate | Mac or Windows | Stephanie Failes |
| Tuesday, July 11 | PM | Assessments with SOLMate | Create your own assessments with SOLMate. Students take the assessments online. | Anyone | Beginner | Mac or Windows | Joe Hill |
| Thursday, July 13 | AM | iPhoto | Learn how to attach cameras to your computer; download and organize your photos; photo manipulations and adjustments; exporting photos, etc. | Anyone | Beginner | Mac | Dennis Durost |
| Thursday, July 13 | PM | Using SASIxp--Basic Applications | Learn your way around SASIxp | New administrative employees including support staff | Intermediate | Mac or Windows | Oskar Scheikl |
| Tuesday, July 18 | AM | Mac OS X | Learn your way around your new classroom computer | Elementary School Teachers | Beginner | Mac | Dennis Durost |
| Tuesday, July 18 | PM | Editing Digital Movies | Learn how to use iMovie to edit your own digital movies | Anyone | Intermediate | Mac | Bryan Daniels |
| Thursday, July 20 | AM | iLife--putting it all together | Learn how to create masterpieces using the entire Apple iLife suite including Garageband, iPhoto, iTunes, iDVD, iMovie, and iWeb | Anyone | Intermediate | Mac | Joe Showker |
| Thursday, July 20 | PM | SASIxp Query | Learn to create your own basic queries to extract custom data from SASIxp. | Any administrator or office staff plus MS or HS guidance. | Advanced | Windows | Oskar Scheikl |
| Tuesday, July 25 | AM | Make your point more powerfully with Powerpoint | Learn how to make your own PowerPoint presentation | Anyone | Beginner | Mac or Windows | Joe Showker |
| Tuesday, July 25 | PM | Creating and posting your own webpage | Learn how to use NVu and Netscape Composer to create your own webpage and post it on your RCPS e-mail server | Anyone | Intermediate | Mac or Windows | Joe Showker |
| Thursday, July 27 | AM | Kidspiration | Learn how to use Kidspiration, a great graphic organizing tool. | Elementary School Teachers | Beginner | Mac or Windows | Obe Hostetter |
| Thursday, July 27 | PM | FirstClass Advanced Topics: Calendaring, Attachments, and more | Learn how to create shared calendars, send/receive attachments, and other advanced features of First Class E-mail | Anyone | Beginner | Mac or Windows | Obe Hostetter |
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