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toc =**Summer Workshop Courses**= All courses begin promptly at 9 a.m. and end at noon. To attend, you must pre-register. Registration is now closed. Those who attend a course will earn 3 Act 48 hours.

**Monday, August 10:** Making a Digital Movie
Learn how easy it is to create a digital movies using simple software tools. You'll unleash your inner Spielberg in no time!

**Tuesday, August 11:** Introduction to PowerPoint
Of all the Microsoft Office applications, PowerPoint is the easiest to use. Unfortunately, it's also easy to abuse. Learn how to create a great interactive PowerPoint that will convey your message while avoiding unnecessary bells and whistles.

**Wednesday, August 12:** Analyzing Excel Data
You know how to enter data into Excel, but once it's there, what can you do with it? Learn how to sort, make lists and use auto formatting to find the answers to your data questions.

**Thursday, August 13:** What Happened to Office?
The big day is here: the school district has switched all of us to Office 2007. The menus are gone, replaced by what Microsoft calls ribbons. Take a look at the new interface and learn where the popular features have gone.

**Friday, August 14:** Activ Inspire Sandbox
In the Promethean classroom, Activ Inspire has replaced Activ Studio. Briefly find out what is new and then use the remaining time to try out the software. You'll be able to ask the instructor for help when you need it. Get ready for day one without waiting until the last minute!

**Monday, August 17:** Creating Meaningful Photostories
Microsoft's free PhotoStory software allows you to take digital images and quickly build a digital album complete with narration, transitions, titles and special effects. In this session, you will use a digital camera to take pictures. Those images will then become part of the completed story.

**Tuesday, August 18:** Basic Photo Editing with Adobe Photoshop CS3
Take ordinary digital images and make them shine with Adobe Photoshop. In this session, learners will take existing digital images and learn to crop, resize and rotate pictures. We'll also create a punchout graphic, removing the background from an image. Finally, we will use Photoshop's filters to add special effects.

**Wednesday, August 19:** What's Web 2.0?
This course is designed for teachers with little Web 2.0 experience. Learners will be introduced to wikis, social networking, blogging and other Web 2.0 tools. Discussion will focus on how these tools can be applied in a classroom.

**Thursday, August 20:** Email Excellence
Is your inbox driving you crazy? Learn how to automatically filter messages based on subject and sender. We’ll learn how to organize messages into folders and tackle attachments as well.

**Friday, August 21:** Hug a Tree! Go Paperless with Adobe Acrobat
 We’ll follow the workflow from Microsoft Word to Adobe PDF, creating electronic documents. Then we’ll look at using the PDFs in the classroom with students. Discussion topics will include peer editing, grading and comments, and electronic submissions.