Professional
Development Offerings
KMS Professional Development (1 day)
Date:
August 6, 2009 (Thursday)
Basic Training for Teachers
Come ready to learn about the revisions to our Laptop Guidelines and receive more information about our grade level student laptop roll-outs.
Facilitator: Renee Teraoka
Copyright Basics and Information Technology Ethics
What are the legal/institutional responsibilities of teachers with respect to copyright and the 1:1 Learning Program? What is Fair Use? What protection do teachers and students have for intellectual property? How do we seek clarification regarding copyright questions from our legal department in the future? This session on Copyright Basics and Information Technology Ethics will provide background information from our legal counsel to help to guide you as you seek ways to integrate information technology into your instructional practices.
Facilitator: Paul Lucas, Education Legal Division
Microsoft Office 2008 Basics
This session will highlight the new and improved features in the Microsoft Office 2008 suite of applications that will be loaded onto all Mac Laptops for SY 2009-10. Learn more about the new features in Entourage, Word, Powerpoint, and Excel during this session.
Facilitator: Alan Tamayose, ITS
Advanced Microsoft Office 2008
Learn advanced tips and features for the Microsoft Office Suite 2008 suite of applications.
Facilitator: Alan Tamayose, ITS
Basic Photoshop Tutorial
Adobe Photoshop is an industry standard for graphic design and image editing. We are fortunate to have this robust software loaded onto our Mac laptops. Learn tips and tricks for using Photoshop and how to use the basic Photoshop tools.
Facilitator: Palani Williams
Blackboard Upgrade
Come to this session to learn about the new features of Blackboard 7, an upgrade from our current Blackboard 6 version, straight from our KS Blackboard administrator! It is highly recommended that current Blackboard users attend this session.
Facilitator: Darrell Kim
Chicken of the VNC
A VNC client allows one to display and interact with a remote computer screen. In other words, you can use Chicken of the VNC to interact with a remote computer as though it’s right next to you. This training is required before teachers can use this application.
Facilitator: Deb Tsutomi, ERD
Going Green!
What is one way teachers can use the technology we have on campus to practice sustainability in their own class? Through the paperless collection and return of student work! See the various tools we have at KMS to reduce paper consumption and make a difference for our environment.
Facilitator: Liz Castillo
iWeb ‘06
Designing a website may seem difficult, but with iWeb, it’s easily within your reach! Come to this session to learn how easy it is to design your own website and customize you’re your own photos, movies, and more!
Facilitator: Renee Teraoka
KS Connect and EGP
Want to get a head start on the school year by setting-up your Easy Grade Pro Gradebook and reviewing KS Connect essentials like downloading class lists into EGP and creating a Basmati file to upload grades to KS Connect, then this workshop is designed just for you. Other EGP features can be discussed as time allows.
Facilitator: Don Kroessig
More Web 2.0
This session will give you an overview of the latest web 2.0 apps for teachers, students, and everybody else. Find out what’s “out there” and how this next generation of web tools can revolutionize your teaching and learning!
Facilitator: Darrin Sato, ITS
Senteo Interactive Response System
The Senteo interactive response system provides a direct wireless connection between you and your students. Now you no longer have to wonder if students understand what you’ve taught them. They can tell you with the click of a button! Come to learn more about this revolutionary technology that we now have on our campus!
Facilitator: Kim Terai
Smartboard
Learn more about how to use this interactive whiteboard to energize presentations and motivate learners! Also learn about the latest version of their Smart Notebook interactive software and how you can take your lessons to the next level!
Facilitator: Eric Kane
Apple Professional Development (APD) - Project Based Learning (2 days)
Dates: January 14-15, 2009
The Project Based Learning workshop provides participants with pedagogical foundations, professional skills, and knowledge to develop engaging student-focused effective projects using digital resources. Workshop participants work collaboratively to develop an authentic, standards-based curriculum project that incorporates essential questions anchored in real-world situations and cognitive tools for facilitating higher order thinking skills, and that uses digital and technology resources.
KMS Professional Development (1 day)
Date:
August 8, 2008 (Friday)
Basic Training for Teachers
Come ready to learn about the revisions to our Laptop Guidelines and see our new KMS Classroom Expectations.
Facilitator: Renee Teraoka
Copyright Basics & Information Technology Ethics
Are you in copyright violation if you show the movie “Happy Feet” to your students during advisory? How about using your scanner to digitize a map of New Zealand from a recent National Geographic magazine and posting it on your class website? What do schools need to do and teach to encourage ethical behavior? This session on Copyright Basics and Information Technology Ethics will help to guide you as you seek ways to integrate information technology into your instructional practices.
Facilitator: Charlene Hamaguchi
Internet 101: Evaluating Internet Sources and Effective Internet Searches
There is proliferation of information on the Internet. Are we training students to access, evaluate, organize, and use information from a variety of sources on the Internet? Are we teaching students to be discerning learners? Learn how to guide students to the kind of information they need from the Internet and to critically evaluate information found on the web.
Facilitator: Darrin Sato, ITS
Introduction to Web 2.0
Are you a web 2.0 newbie? You’ve come to the right place. This session will give you an overview of essential web 2.0 apps for teachers, students, and everybody else. Find out what’s “out there” and how this next generation of web tools can revolutionize your teaching and learning.
Facilitator: Alan Tamayose, ITS
Chicken of the VNC
A VNC client allows one to display and interact with a remote computer screen. In other words, you can use Chicken of the VNC to interact with a remote computer as though it’s right next to you. This training is required before this application can be used by teachers.
Facilitator: Deb Tsutomi, ERD
Smartboard
Learn more about how to use this interactive whiteboard to energize presentations and motivate learners! Also learn about the latest version of their Smart Notebook interactive software and how you can take your lessons to the next level!
Facilitator: Willy Baum and Thaddeus Ordono, The AV Company
Senteo Interactive Response System
The Senteo interactive response system provides a direct wireless connection between you and your students. Now you no longer have to wonder if students understand what you’ve taught them. They can tell you with the click of a button! Come to learn more about this revolutionary technology that we now have on our campus! This training is required before you can use the Senteo system in your classroom.
Facilitator: Willy Baum and Thaddeus Ordono, The AV Company
KS Connect and EGP
Want to get a head start on the school year by setting-up your Easy Grade Pro Gradebook and reviewing KS Connect essentials like downloading class lists into EGP and creating a Basmati file to upload grades to KS Connect, then this workshop is designed just for you. Other EGP features can be discussed as time allows.
Facilitator: Don Kroessig
Blackboard R & D (Review & Development)
Various teachers and teams began to explore the possibility of incorporating Blackboard’s assorted features into their classroom/team operations. This session will be devoted to a “quick” review as well as provide an opportunity to further develop works-in-progress with one of our resident experts available to assist as needed.
Facilitator: Cy Reyes, ITS
Flip Camera/iMovie
Need an easier way to make and share videos? Come by to see this revolutionary shoot and share camera by Pure Digital! We have 12 cameras available in the Computer Lab to use with your students. Learn how to capture video, upload to your blog, or even edit your video in iMovie using an application loaded onto all teacher and student laptops! This training is required if you plan to reserve the Flip Camera.
Facilitator: Nate Javellana, ITS
KMS Professional Development (2 days)
Dates:
August 3, 6, 2007 (Friday, Monday)
Basic Training for Teachers
How well do you know the Acceptable Use Policy, Laptop Guidelines, and Printing Guidelines? Do you know how to properly use and care for your laptops? This session will review these topics and allow you to preview the material that will be covered during the 7th grade Basic Training for Students.
Facilitators: Liz Castillo and Renee Teraoka
Copyright Basics & Information Technology Ethics
Are you in copyright violation if you show the movie “Happy Feet” to your students during advisory? How about using your scanner to digitize a map of New Zealand from a recent National Geographic magazine and posting it on your class website? What do schools need to do and teach to encourage ethical behavior? This session on Copyright Basics and Information Technology Ethics will help to guide you as you seek ways to integrate information technology into your instructional practices.
Facilitator: Grace Omura
21st Century Learning in a Digital Age
Twenty-first century children are the first truly digital generation. They live and learn differently than children from even a few years ago. They live within and respond to the rapidly transmitted sights and sounds of the digital world - from television, computers, video games, and the Internet, to cell phones, PDAs, email, and instant messaging. Unfortunately, many classrooms don’t work that way. Pencil, paper, lecture, textbook, review, and test are still the norm. To digital kids, therefore, school has become less engaging, interesting, or relevant. There is a way to bridge the digital divide. This session will demonstrate current tools to engage students and make education relevant once again.
Facilitator: Don Zundel, K-12 Development Executive, Apple, Inc.
Efficient Internet Search Strategies
What search strategies do you teach your students that enable them to quickly locate valid, appropriate information when researching online? Do they “google it” and thumb through the first 20 out of 2 million results hoping to locate the information they’re looking for? In this session, you will learn how to help students pinpoint the search results they’re looking for by applying efficient Internet search strategies.
Facilitator: Mimi Wong, ITS
KS Connect and EGP
Low down on the EGP to the KSC! Do those acronyms sound familiar? If you’d like to learn the new features of Easy Grade Pro v. 4.0.1a and review KS Connect essentials like downloading class lists into EGP and creating a Basmati file to upload grades to KS Connect, then this workshop is designed just for you. Get ahead of the “curve” with EGP and KSC.
Facilitator: Don Kroessig, ITS
Creative Student Publishing
Looking for fresh ways to incorporate technology into your classroom? This session will introduce you to a fun and innovative application on your new Mac Book called Comic Life. Besides being able to create your own comics, this application can be used for various classroom projects in all content areas. Consider the possibilities! Participants will be using Comic Life to produce an original comic while also working with Inspiration, Photo Booth, and iPhoto. Bring your laptop and come prepared to have fun!
Facilitators: Liz Castillo, ITS, Renee Teraoka, KMS and Darrin Sato, ITS
Exploring Online Curriculum Resources
Are you looking for ways to supplement and enhance your existing curriculum to support the ways our digital learners learn best? NetTrekker di, Discovery Learning’s Unitedstreaming Plus, and other tools like Visual Thesaurus, are a few of the wealth of online resources that we’ll be exploring in an interactive, hands-on environment.
Facilitator: Darrin Sato, ITS
Powerful Web Publishing Made Easy
iWeb is a fun and easy way to publish professional-looking websites with content ranging from text and photos to blogs and podcasts. Your web pages are created with existing themes and templates and are viewable as you design them, literally “What you see, is what you get” (WYSIWYG). iWeb takes the guessing out of knowing programming or web-authoring languages such as HTML. iWeb uses the iLife Media Browser to integrate other iLife applications. In one simple step, iWeb can be published to the World Wide Web. iWeb makes web publishing a seamless, sophisticated experience.
Facilitator: Cy Reyes, ITS
Creating Copyright-Free Music
Music can definitely enhance and enrich a multimedia product. Original, copyright-free digital music files can be usefully integrated into a variety of projects and presentations. The concept of “musical tracks,” musical arrangement, “loops,” software instruments, recording, editing, mixing, and publishing will be covered. This session will enable participants to create copyright-free music using Apple’s GarageBand.
Facilitator: Alan Tamayose, ITS, Alan Akaka, KMS
Blackboard R & D (Review & Development)
Various teachers and teams began to explore the possibility of incorporating Blackboard’s assorted features into their classroom/team operations. This session will be devoted to a “quick” review as well as provide an opportunity to further develop works-in-progress with one of our resident experts available to assist as needed.
Facilitator: Alan Akaka, KMS
Podcasting & Blogging at KS
Easily communicate with students and parents. Archive and publish student work. Foster collaboration amongst students. These are examples of how blogging and podcasting can enhance the educational experience. Podcasting is a powerful tool that allows for communication and distribution of educational content in a variety of rich media formats including pictures, text, and video. In this session, we’ll demonstrate how easy it is to get up and running with your own KS Blog, take you step-by-step through the process of uploading your podcast, and show you how students can subscribe to your podcast using iTunes.
Facilitator: Darrell Kim, ETS Ops
Apple Professional Development (APD) - Technology Infused Learning (2 days)
Dates:
May 30-31, 2007 (Wednesday, Thursday), grade 7 teachers
June 2-3, 2008 (Monday, Tuesday), grade 8 teachers
With the offerings in this strand, educators familiar with the basics of technology in the classroom learn how to leverage digital tools to engage students, enhance learning, and meet state content standards. Participants will develop effective classroom management strategies and focus on the use of digital resources to increase productivity, enhance research and creativity, and promote communication and collaboration in teaching and learning. Additionally, participants learn how to develop rigorous, relevant lessons that infuse technology, engage students in the learning process and encourage the development of 21st century skills. For the middle school level and higher, an emphasis is placed on supporting the curriculum standards of specific subject areas such as math, science, English language arts, and social studies.
Apple Professional Development (APD) Catalog (PDF)
