TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTCOURSE CATALOG

American Nicaraguan Schoolwww.ans.edu.ni - Managua, Nicaragua - 2012

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Description:Learn how to create and edit a website to effectively get your content read and used. Enriching a website with different tools and media (images, videos, text, etc.) and easier for users to access all the content on it. Learn how to design a great website!

Length: 1 hour Level:

Website Design

Category: Web Tools

Category: Media

Description:Make video conferences and videos calls to be always in constant communication. Get in touch with the whole world!

Length: 1 hour Level:

Video Conferencing

Description:Share information easily and safely across the web for your colleagues and students to access it faster. Collaborate with one and others. Get your students engaged on school work at home and in school.

Length: 1 hour Level:

Social Learning Networking

Category: Media

Category: Media

Description:Digital media consisting of episodic series of files, either audio or video. Record yourself, insert sound tracks or make a video on any subject to explain it on a more intuitive way to students. Get students attention during lecturing by podcasting or vodcasting.

Length: 1 hour Level:

Podcast and Vodcast

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1 hour

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Category: Devices

Description:Real-time image capture devices for displaying an object or document to a large audience. It can also magnify and project the images of actual, 3-D objects, as well as transparencies.

Length: 1 hour Level:

Document Camera

Category: Devices

Description:Transforms any whiteboard, or projection surface, into an interactive teaching tool. Make your students interact and make learning a lot more fun. Learn how to use Mimio Studio Interactive Software for your classroom, you’ll have ready-to-use video, sound, and graphics make it easy to produce multimedia interactive whiteboard lessons that engage your students. Length: 1 hour Level:

Mimio Interactive

Description:Make multiple choice evaluations with Mimio Vote. Learn how to set up classes, add students manage collected data, and generate reports from the Mimio Vote Gradebook. You will have the opportunity to practice your new skills during the session, and to consider ways you can apply different types of assessments to your teaching.Length: 1 hour Level:

Mimio Vote

Category: Web Tools

Category: Media

Description:Create and edit your own videos to explain a subject or a class.

Length: 1 hour Level:

Video Editing

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Description:The essentials to design your own documents. Use Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc. to create a good looking document, magazine or book. Just get creative!

Length: 1 hour Level:

Graphic Design

Category: Software

Category: Device

Description:Learn how cameras work to get beautiful pictures, just the way you want them. Enjoy framing the moment!

Length: 1 hour Level:

Photography

Description:Get to know how to get the most out of the PowerSchool Gradebook, categories, citizenship, etc. Turn in you grades on time!

Length: 1 hour Level:

PowerSchool Gradebook

Category: Web Tools

Category: Software

Description:Learn how to use the most common word processors software. Make your documents outstand upon other documents, using all the tools proportioned to you, by the software.

Length: 1 hour Level:

Word Processor

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Category: Web Tools/Software

Description:Create outstanding presentations with presentation editing software or web applications.

Length: 1 hour Level:

Presentation Editing

Category: Devices

Description:Be safe while surfing the web. Get to know how to be protected always from any online threats.

Length: 1 hour Level:

Safety Online

Description:Understand how to communicate your ideas and experiences to others, through blogs. Get feedback from your blog readers and enjoy blogging.

Length: 1 hour Level:

Blogging

Category: Web Tools

Category: Media

Description:Learn how to correct some imperfections on your images. Crop, brighten, shadow, highlights, modify, tweak etc. you pictures to make them better than before.

Length: 1 hour Level:

Image Editing

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Description:Discover the awesome web tools that can help you enrich your class. Create uncountable things online!

Length: 1 hour Level:

Web Tools

Category: Software

Category: Device

Description:A set of Google products for business and schools. Get easily in-touch with your colleagues and students through Gmail, Calendar, Contacts, Gtalk, Docs, Sites, Picasa, etc.

Length: 1 hour Level:

Google Apps

Category: Software

Description:

Length: 1 hour Level:

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Length: 1 hour Level: Category: Web Tools

American Nicaraguan SchoolFrente al Club de Lomas de Montserrat, P.O. Box 2670

Phone #: (505) 2278-0029 / (505) 2278-4508 / Fax: (505) 2267-3088Managua, Nicaragua

www.ans.edu.ni