[Nesabes] Save the date - register asap Summer Technology Event

[Ball, Patrice]

It's finally here! The Second Annual Summer Technology mini-conference. For details and to register, please go to http://calendar.sabes.org/statewide



Summer Technology Event on August 29th 9:30 am to 4:00 pm - UMass Boston SABES is pleased to announce the 2nd Annual Summer Technology mini-conference to be held at UMass Boston on Weds August 29.
Please join the SABES Technology Team and ABE practitioners from across the state for these informative, hands-on technology workshops. The day will begin at 9:00 am with coffee and bagels. Lunch will be provided between sessions. 
For more detailed information, directions and to register for these workshops, please go to http://calendar.sabes.org/statewide ASAP. Last year the workshops filled quickly and most had waiting lists. 
Please register for only 1 morning session  and 1 afternoon session. 
Workshops are limited to 15 participants. First come, first served.
If you have any questions please give your regional SABES Tech a call
BOSTON Akira Kamiya 617 287-4075 
CENTRAL Eunice Snay 508 854-4514 
NORTHEAST Patty Ball 978 738-7303 
WEST Charlie Herbert 413 552-2019 
SOUTHEAST Dan Chisholm 508 678-2811 x2731
Save the Date: 
August 29th  from 9:30-4:00 at University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA (100 Morrissey Blvd., ALRI Library, 4th Floor, Wheatley Hall Room 167) 
Planned Workshops Include:
TITLE: Creating a Web Site with your class with Online Resources 
Presenter: Eunice Snay
TIME: 9:30 - 12:00 
Details: Ever thought you'd like your own Web site? Maybe you'd like to build a web-site with your students?  Don't know how to get started?  We will demonstrate some online, template products that you can use to get your website up on the web in no time at all with hands-on opportunity to create your own basic website.  Learning Objectives:
Know online resources that offer fill-in templates that teachers and their students can use for class activities 
Build a simple web site 
Share thoughts on how you can use a web site with and/or for your students 

TITLE:  Wicked Good Websites and Search Techniques
Presenter: Patty Ball
TIME: 9:30 - 12:00 
Details: Looking for great websites that will provide you with information, lesson plans, ideas and resources for your classes? It is getting increasingly harder to find the right web sites for your needs without having to wade through hundreds and hundreds of sites that may or may not be what you are looking for. This workshop will point you to some excellent sites and resources for educational information as well as teach you effective search techniques for finding further information on your own.Learning objectives: 
To be able to access specific content-specific web sites for target audience (ABE, GED, ESOL) 
To be able to find other useful sites through specialized search techniques and search engines 

TITLE: Intro to Using Excel in the Classroom
Presenter: Dan Chisholm
TIME:   9:30-12:00 
Details: This 2.5 hour class is designed to show teachers the basics of Excel using examples that they can bring back to their classrooms. This workshop is designed with first time Excel users in mind, but each example will also include additional topics for more advanced users to investigateLearning Objectives:
Understand basic terminology associated with Excel 
Start the Excel program and open sample files on a diskette 
Perform the basic functionality of each example on the provided diskette, such as: 
Resize columns and rows 
Basic formatting: font & color 
Simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division 
Creating a simple budget 
And much more.... 

TITLE: Integrating Computer Basics in the Class Room
Presenter: Akira Kamiya
TIME: 9:30 to 12:00 
Details: This 2.5 hour class is designed to help take what you know about computers and basic office application programs, email and internet and put this knowledge to use with your students. This is not just about technology for technology¹s sake. Find out about what teachers is doing that is truly useful in the class room.Learning Objectives:
After successful completion of this class users will be able to: 
Know how to help first time users in class or lab 
Know web resources helpful to students and teachers 
Be able to carry out a lesson plan using E-Mail with their class. 
Be able to carry out a lesson plan using MS Excel with their class. 
Know about other model uses of Project Based Learning that use the 
Internet and World Wide Web 

TITLE: Computer Graphics & Using A Digital Camera
Presenter: Cindy White
TIME: 1:00 - 4:00 
Details: This fun workshop will guide you through using graphics in your documents. How you can massage, shrink, crop and make pictures fit into your document. Take digital pictures with a digital camera, upload them to the computer and print or publish on the web. Understand that graphics and digital pictures are managed using the  same methods.Learning Objectives:
Use freely accessible software to do basic digital photo-editing. 
Take digital pictures with a digital camera.Upload pictures from camera and storage devices to computer. 
Identify methods for printing photographs or publishing to the 

TITLE: Introduction to PowerPoint 
Presenter: Eunice Snay
TIME: 1:00 - 4:00 
Details: Want to add pizzazz to your classroom?  This workshop will introduce you to one of the most popular and powerful, yet easy to learn and use presentation programs available.  You will create slides in various formats, then go on to create a slide show complete with animation and transition effects.  Find out just how easy it can be to create professional quality presentations.Learning Objectives::
Use PowerPoint to create, save retrieve and modify presentations. 
Identify appropriate uses of PowerPoint in the classroom 
Use PowerPoint with students to enhance student learning 

TITLE: Creating Newsletters, Brochures, Flyers & Other Publications with MS Publisher
Presenter: Patty Ball
TIME: 1:00 - 4:00 
Details: Learn how to use the various features of Microsoft Publisher, a desktop publishing software, to create professional-looking publications easily. This workshop teaches you how to create, edit and print publications such as flyers, newsletters and brochures using templates and designs that are included in Microsoft Publisher.Learning Objectives:
Create different publications including newsletters, brochures and flyers from  Designs Templates 
Modify layouts and content of publications, including text and graphics 
Insert, resize, move, and wrap text around graphics within publications 
Insert, format, move, and connect text boxes 
Preview, Print/Email a Publication 

TITLE: Wikis, Blogs and Podcasts
Presenter: David Rosen and Akira Kamiya
TIME: 1:00 to 4:00 
Details: What do these things mean ? Feeling left behind with all the media going on and on about the wonders of this and that technology ? Well in this workshop we will have the opportunity to explore these three web based tools hands on. In the first part, we will look at the best examples of how these tools can be used in the class. How they can allow you to add sound and text in a way that is accessible anytime and anywhere.Learning Objectives:
After completing this workshop one will be able to: 
Describe and differentiate model educational uses for Wikis, Blogs and Podcasts Be able to use a Wiki, Blog, or Podcast in class that has already been created by another third party 
Be able to create a simple blog or Podcast for students to access via the web 




Patty Ball, Technology Coordinator
NorthEast SABES c/o NECC
45 Franklin St
Lawrence MA 01840
978-738-7303  pball at necc.mass.edu

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"Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks." 
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