A video tutorial done by two members of the Holyoke Boys and Girls Club. The Microsoft PowerPoint tutorial covers topics such as how to create a text box, how to change fonts, how to insert slides, how to change the format of slides, how to view the slide show in presentation mode, and many other basic functions of the software.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Web Browser Tutorial
In an effort to make tech help available 24/7 to members of the Holyoke community, we enlisted the help of the Holyoke Boys and Girls Club to make a number of technology tutorials. Here is the Web Broswer tutorial done by two members of the HBGC. The tutorial covers topics such as how to use the navigation bar, how to create new tabs, how to use bookmarks, how to set a homepage, and other elementary functions of Internet Explorer.
Our first workshop!
Good morning,
Today is going to be the first of 4 in our workshop series for the Holyoke Public Schools faculty. Today we will be working on Smartboard skills and their application in the classroom. Our visiting expert Kelley Sullivan will be presenting for an hour and a half starting at 3:30 in the Peck School cafeteria. Refreshments will be served at the beginning of the workshop so get there early. For those of you who aren't able to make the presentation, we will be videotaping the workshop and posting it on the web (look here for further updates on location/download link). There promises to be upwards of 20 teachers from schools around Holyoke at this workshop and even more at the coming ones - we are very excited to meet all of you and help you better utilize the technology available to you.
All the best,
The TAP team
Today is going to be the first of 4 in our workshop series for the Holyoke Public Schools faculty. Today we will be working on Smartboard skills and their application in the classroom. Our visiting expert Kelley Sullivan will be presenting for an hour and a half starting at 3:30 in the Peck School cafeteria. Refreshments will be served at the beginning of the workshop so get there early. For those of you who aren't able to make the presentation, we will be videotaping the workshop and posting it on the web (look here for further updates on location/download link). There promises to be upwards of 20 teachers from schools around Holyoke at this workshop and even more at the coming ones - we are very excited to meet all of you and help you better utilize the technology available to you.
All the best,
The TAP team
Monday, April 4, 2011
Hello and Welcome to the TAP Tech Help Blog!
Who we are: We are team of IT Capstone students known as the Tech Ambassadors Program (TAP) from the Commonwealth Honors College at UMass Amherst and our goal is to improve the use of technology in the Holyoke public school system. In order to do this, we sent out a survey to all of the teachers at Peck School in order to assess their technological needs. Next, we held four technology-related instructional workshops during the first and second week of April at the Peck School. We chose which topics to cover in each workshop based on the results of the survey. Here is information on each workshop:
SMART Boards Workshop for Grades K-3 Teachers
Tuesday, April 5th from 3:30-5:00pm
An instructional workshop on how to use SMART Boards for teachers of grades K-3. Kelley Sullivan, a 3rd grade teacher at Deerfield Elementary School and professional development coach, led this workshop.
SMART Boards Workshop for Grades 4-8 Teachers
SMART Boards Workshop for Grades 4-8 Teachers
Wednesday, April 6th from 3:30-5:00pm
An instructional workshop on how to use SMART Boards for teachers of grades 4-8. Jessica Greene, an 8th grade Science teacher at West Springfield Middle School, led this workshop.
Microsoft Excel Workshop
Microsoft Excel Workshop
Tuesday, April 12th from 3:30-4:30pm
An instructional workshop on how to use Microsoft Excel. Excel is an extremely useful spreadsheet application that can be used to organize data, such as student grades and test scores, and then display it in charts and graphs. The Tech Ambassadors Team led this workshop.
Technology Basics Workshop
Technology Basics Workshop
Wednesday, April 13th from 3:30-4:30pm
An instructional workshop that will give a basic overview of many different technologies such as ELMO projectors, Email, and Microsoft PowerPoint. New technologies such as Google Docs and Doodle will also be introduced. The Tech Ambassadors Team led this workshop.
The main purpose of this blog is to serve as a resource center for tech education in the Holyoke public school system. Teachers and staff that went to our workshops can refer to this blog to refresh their memory about what they learned. In addition to this, staff that were not able to attend our workshops can use this blog to teach themselves about SMART Boards, Microsoft Excel, or other topics that we discussed in our workshops. Lastly, this blog will allow teachers and staff in the Holyoke public school system to comment on blog posts. They may want to ask questions or post interesting resources related to technology and education. This creates an online conversation about tech education in Holyoke which can benefit everyone in the community.
Enjoy!
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