Each attendee receives an Olympus FE 115 or better, 5.0 megapixel digital camera (worth $250) a detailed digital photography manual, lesson plan packet, and a free copy of Tool Factory Workshop (worth $199). You’ll be taking quality photos for yearbooks, newspapers, flyers, lab reports, worksheets, presentations, bulletin boards, and much more! We’ll cover the basics of digital photography. Edit your images, improve lighting, and eliminate red-eye. Come prepared to experiment!
NOTE: Laptops with appropriate software will be provided

This hands-on workshop is aimed at teachers who want to learn more about how visual organizers work and how to use them with their students. Using 30-day free trial software, you will learn how to use both Inspiration and Kidspiration visual organizing software. You will see how visual diagrams can reveal patterns, interrelationships and interdependencies. They also stimulate creative thinking. There are so many uses for them that you will explode with ideas. We will also discuss on-line visual organizers and free open source options. All you need for this workshop is your laptop and a willingness to explore.
NOTE: Full version trial software will be available for each participant. Participants must provide their own laptop with administrative access to install software – Macintosh or Windows

Are you looking for a low cost relatively easy way to monitor your students’ progress? In this session you will be introduced to developing a database using Microsoft Excel and then use Pivot Charts and Pivot Tables to monitor student achievement using a wide variety of variables that include NECAP results, local assessments, and relevant demographic data. If time allows, you will also learn a simple group process that will allow you to use this data to lead discussions with administrators and teachers.
NOTE: Participants must have Excel on their laptop. Participants must provide their own laptop – Macintosh or Windows

Although Apple and its products (including the I-Pod) have helped make Podcasting “hip and cool” – you don’t need a Macintosh or an I-Pod to create a Podcast. This workshop will provide participants with the training and opportunity to produce a podcast using free software available for Windows based machines. Microphones and digital voice recorders will be provided to capture audio. You’ll learn how to install, configure, and use Audacity (free) to create and edit your podcast. You will learn to publish the podcast to the web, add a link and free player to your web site, and finally create an XML file that will make your podcast available through I-Tunes. Participants should bring a Windows based laptop with administrative access to install Audacity and LAME mp3 encoder. All other software and tools will be provided.
NOTE: Participants must have administrative access to install software. Participants must provide their own laptop – Windows

In this “hands on” session we will work with some open source applications: The Gimp (an alternative to PhotoShop), NVU (a web authoring alternative to FrontPage, Go Live, etc) and OpenOffice (an alternative to Microsoft Office). Other OpneSource Applications will be available to try as well such as Scribus (Desktop Publishing program) and Audacity (a music creation program). You can come with the programs already installed. They will also be available for installation at the workshop. If you are planning on using a Macintosh, make sure X11 is installed. All of this software runs on Windows, Macs, and Linux machines.
NOTE: Participants must have administrative access to install software. Participants must provide their own laptop – Windows & Mac

In this session, participants will be introduced to Tracker, a free video analysis software application. They will use the software and existing video clips to analyze the mathematics of a dropping ball, hockey pucks colliding, a pendulum swinging, etc. After investigating Tracker’s capabilities with existing videos, participants will create their own video(s), get the videos in a format compatible with Tracker, and analyze them with Tracker. The session will conclude with a discussion of possible applications of this software in the 7th-12th grade mathematics classroom.
NOTE: Participants must provide their own laptop with wireless access with and with administrative access to download and install software. Users must have THE LATEST version of java, and Quicktime 7 to run the software. Windows only