The ITC Workshop focuses on the role and use of educational technology in the curriculum and classroom.

The Integrating Technology and Curriculum (ITC) workshop is a comprehensive, three day professional development opportunity designed to help classroom teachers understand how to effectively integrate technology into their curriculum and classroom. The workshop focuses on the how's and why's of incorporating video, the Internet, and multimedia resources into lesson plans and classroom environments.

Day One
Includes an indepth look at video resources for the classroom--commercial video, instructional television, and digital video. Teachers will also learn how to find and save pictures, sounds and videos ideally suited to teaching.

Day Two
Includes an indepth look at Internet resources for the classroom. Teachers will become intimately familiar with and skilled at accessing resources from eMedia, Curriculum Search, Thinkfinity, eThemes, ThemePark and much more; also, Pioneer's World Book Encyclopedia, CultureGrams, EBSCO, Visual Thesaurus, and SIRS Discoverer and Knowledge Source.

Day Three
Includes an indepth look at multimedia with an emphasis on PowerPoint as a tool for incorporating educational technology into the classroom and curriculum. Participants will review the primary skills associated with content integration, slide design, and transitions. Time will also be spent on handouts; toolbars; inserting pictures, sounds and videos; backgrounds; hyperlinking, buttons and action setting; and animation techniques.

Food
Lunch is provided each day.

Credit
Two credit hours or 32 recertification points are available from SUU or USOE.

Substitutes
Payment for substitutes is provided for participants who are teaching.

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