Summer 2007 Workshops

Internet Workshops

All Internet workshops meet in a computer lab and use either Macintosh or Windows environments. Each is offered for 1 graduate credit or for non-credit. Registration for each is limited.

Note: Participation for credit requires attendance until 4:45 pm on each Friday/Saturday workshop day and the completion of a one-credit assignment.

Designing Educational Activities using the Internet

MSTU4831.01/CRN
Friday and Saturday, May 18 and 19
Meeting times: 9:30am to 3:30pm for non-credit, 9:30am to 4:45pm for credit
Available for 1 credit at $975 or 1.5 CEU's at $265

Instructor: Sheila Kieran-Greenbush

MSTU 4831 introduces classroom teachers and instructional designers to a systems approach for designing Internet-specific educational activities. Participants consider issues the Internet brings into educational environments and possible ways to deal with those issues. The class is primarily hands-on with the students working in groups to design and teach activities using the Internet services as well as making presentations.

Publishing on the Web as an Educational Activity

MSTU4832.01/CRN
Friday and Saturday, June 1 and 2
Meeting times: 9:30am to 3:30pm for non-credit, 9:30am to 4:45pm for credit
Available for 1 credit at $975 or 1.5 CEU's at $265

Instructor: Alyson Vogel
Prerequisite: Experience with using web browsers. No prior knowledge about Web publishing is needed, though this class builds on concepts covered in MSTU 4831.

This inspiring workshop is for educators, administrators and faculty, wishing to design their own interactive website using Dreamweaver for their personal or professional enrichment. Learn how to integrate graphics and photos to high quality World Wide Web pages that incorporate tables, stylesheets, Java scripts, Web forms and surveys. Participants will also begin to consider various issues that arise when using the Web, such as how to make WWW sites accessible, and how to address security, privacy and copyright considerations.

Additional Offerings

The following workshops combine discussion, demonstration, and hands-on computer activity. Each is offered for 1 graduate credit or non-credit. Registration for each is limited. No previous computer experience is necessary for any of them except where noted.

Work Conference: "We Media": Empowering Students as Citizen Journalists

MSTU5814.01/CRN
Friday and Saturday, June 8 and 9
Meeting times: 9:30am-3:30pm (non-credit CEU's), 9:30am-4:45pm (credit)
Available for 1 credit at $975 or 1.5 CEU's at $265

Instructor: Judith Cramer
Prerequisite: Familiarity with basic computer operations and Internet searches.

Teach your students to be citizen journalists with no-cost or low cost technology tools: Flickr and Blogger, Comic Life and iPhoto. Flickr and Blogger's social networking features make them especially well suited to collaborative projects integrating visual and verbal reportage. Comic Life eliminates the need for student story tellers to be little Leonardos. With their own photographs or images researched on the Web, they can create powerful commentary on world or local events. Using these four easy to learn tools, participants will work together to conceptualize projects integrating civics and media literacy education. This course is designed for middle school and high school English, social studies and humanities educators, but anyone may attend.

Creating Dynamic Websites with Dreamweaver

MSTU5814.02/CRN
Friday and Saturday, June 15 and 16
Meeting times: 9:30am-3:30pm (non-credit CEU's), 9:30am-4:45pm (credit)
Available for 1 credit at $975 or 1.5 CEU's at $265

Instructor: Paul Acquaro
Prerequisite: No HTML coding or programming experience needed, though experience with MSTU 4832, Dreamweaver, or other graphic Web publishing software is strongly recommended.

Imagine creating a Website that responds to your users, is easy to update and does not consist of thousands of HTML pages to maintain. In this hands-on workshop, learn how to create forms, web pages and a database that will work together to give your website powerful dynamic features. You will be able to collect information from your users to create surveys, have people register on your website, password protect your site, and display and sort information so that one web page can replace thousands!

Work Conference: Using Video in K-12 Classrooms

MSTU5814.03/CRN
Friday and Saturday, June 22 and 23
Meeting times: 9:30am-3:30pm (non-credit CEU's), 9:30am-4:45pm (credit)
Available for 1 credit at $975 or 1.5 CEU's at $265

Instructor: Shawna BuShell

This workshop introduces participants to the creative methods for the integration of digital video in education. Students will digitize pre-recorded videos and edit them using Apple's iMovie. We will look at the surrounding community as a resource, perform research, and produce a one-minute video that will be exported to Quicktime and burned to a DVD. The topic can be something you are doing in another course, or one which will help you to prepare for teaching or future activities.