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This introductory course discusses “best practices” in web site design including: download times, browser differences, monitor resolution, color and font issues and special tags. The participants will design and create a simple web page and upload this page to the internet.  This course is designed specifically for participants who design and maintain school web site.

FrontPage is Microsoft's Web site builder and editor. In this beginning class you will learn the following: How to work with text and hyperlinks; add pictures, animations, clip art, and files; format lists; position objects; design a feedback form; make a photo gallery; design a Web structure, and create a Web site.

FrontPage is Microsoft's Web site builder and editor. In this Intermediate class you will learn how to do the following: set up navigation, add shared borders and link bars to pages, insert page banners, apply and customize a graphical theme, check spelling and replace text across the Web site, sort and organize files and folders, view Web site reports, and preview and publish the finished Web site.
Prerequisite: Introduction to FrontPage or 6 months experience with FrontPage.

Dreamweaver is the industry standard for WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web editors.  This class explores the basic functions of Dreamweaver including: text formatting, inserting graphics, creating hyperlinks, mailto links, image maps and proper use of tables. This course is designed specifically for participants who design and maintain school web site.

Dreamweaver is the industry standard for WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web editors. This class builds on the beginning course with a discussion of defining a local site, rollover images, drop down menus, insert Flash or other objects and basic email form creation. Finally, a discussion of file transfer to a web server is addressed.
Prerequisite: Beginning Dreamweaver or 6 months experience with Dreamweaver

Adobe Photoshop Elements is the "baby brother" of Photoshop. It offers many of the features that Photoshop offers, but it is designed for the non-experts among us. It is still a very powerful graphic editing tool, and you will learn how to retouch and manipulate images. You will also create a photo panorama and optimize images for the web.

Photoshop is the industry standard for graphic production. This hands-on course will cover the tool palette, navigation bar and button creation, manipulating images, manipulating layers, and photo retouching. You will also learn how to optimize your graphics for web pages.

Part of the Macromedia web development suite, Fireworks is one of the most exciting graphic production tools on the market today. Firework incorporates the best of drawing (vector) and painting (bitmap) technologies to produce first class graphics for the web or other multimedia applications.

Add dynamic content and cool effects to your web pages with the inclusion of Java Scripts and Java Applets.  Discussed are many high-end technologies currently used on the web.  This class will explore many JavaScript and customize the scripts for your own web pages.

Flash allows the creation of complex animations delivered in a very small file format. Students will learn to create animated content, publish a Flash Movie and add it to an HTML page. Topics include frames, libraries, movie properties, layers, tweening and sound. You will also learn to use the excellent drawing tools that are part of Flash.

This two day class will center on the use of HTML V4 and compliance with the W3C standards. Participants will create fully functional web pages with the use of a text editor and a browser. Participants will begin by learning the terminology associated with hand coding a web site as well as the benefits of the web creation process.

Adobe Premiere Elements is a low cost, highly effective video editing solution that is very simple to learn. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced digital video user or creator, you will enjoy learning some easy and powerful video editing techniques.

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Windows XP Complete
(MCP)

This 4 day course provides a comprehensive hands-on look at Windows XP.  Participants will learn to navigate, manage, and control the Windows XP environment, in a stand-alone and networked environment.  This course is excellent preparation for the XP MCP exam.

Hackers are out there trying to break into your Windows workstations and servers. Do you know how they do it? Would you like to prevent them from succeeding: this two day course will examine the weaknesses that exist in Windows operating systems. See how it is done and you will know how to stop it! REQUIRED: One or more years of Windows experience.

This course is designed for administrators or technology specialist wanting a powerful means of securing workstations. Policies allow system managers to create secure workstations and customize them for individual users or groups. Prerequisite: Windows Server experience.

This hands-on class will allow attendees to see and use the important features of Windows Server 2003. You will learn about domain and active directory configuration, users and group management, group policies, application issues, permissions, and printer setup and management. This is a great class for anyone planning to implement Windows Server 2003 in their schools or take a Windows 2003 certification test.

Participants will learn the basics of Server 2003  administration. This hands-on course will teach you to create and manage accounts, install and secure software, and setup and maintain printers. Experience with Windows is required.

In this 2-day course, participants will examine internal hardware components and operating system functions of a PC. Participants will learn to solve common hardware and software problems, and perform preventative maintenance. Participants will work hands-on with PCs and learn how to manage memory, explore data recovery, and optimize disks using diagnostic utilities.

This hands on class will allow attendees to see how easily Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 can work together. you will learn about domain and active directory configuration, policies, application issues, permissions, and printer setup and management. A great class for anyone planning to add Windows XP to a school with Windows Server 2003.

Ghost is used by many school systems as the way to load many PCs at once with an operating system and applications. Learn about the features of Ghost and how to use Ghost to YOUR full advantage.

This course provides entry-level training for those IT professionals who are new to wireless networking but who want to come up to speed quickly.  In a hands-on format, we cover wireless network fundamentals, configuration, SECURITY, and troubleshooting. This course also helps prepare the student for the CWNA certification test. The CWNA (Certified Wireless Network Administrator) certification shows proficiency in installing, managing, and troubleshooting wireless networks.

Participants will learn the basics of Server 2008  administration. This hands-on course will teach you to create and manage accounts, install and secure software, and setup and maintain printers, and more. Experience with Windows is required.

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The Georgia Framework for INtegrating TECHnology in the Student-Centered Classroom is Georgia's professional development model designed to use modern technologies to advance teachers skills in five critical areas: Georgia QCCs, use of modern technologies, new designs for teaching and learning, classroom management, and enhanced pedagogy. The systemic changes inherent in the change process require that effective administrators understand and support the change efforts of teachers. This class offers an overview of the Classroom Module.

This course is designed for school administrators using the Georgia Framework for INtegrating TECHnology in the Student-Centered Classroom as a tool for overall school improvement. Participants will focus on identifying and assessing teacher behaviors that indicate instructional changes in five critical areas: Georgia QCCs, use of modern technologies, new designs for teaching and learning, classroom management, and enhanced pedagogy.  All participants will receive performance rubrics that can be used as a guide for assessing a teacher’s migration toward new instructional practices.

This seminar sequence consists of six days with an ETTC member working side-by-side with districts to assist them in constructing a working three-year technology plan. The schedule includes the following sessions: Day 1 (Sept.15): Index, Planning, Needs Assessment; Day 2 (Oct. 12): Vision and Mission, Gap Analysis; Day 3 (Nov. 16): Goals, Benchmarks, Action Plans; Day 4 (Feb. 8): Continue Day 3; Day 5 (Mar. 8): Communication, Marketing, Appendices; Day 6 (Apr. 5): Revising and wrap-up.  All six days included in $50 fee.

Georgia's Consolidated Application provides the opportunity for LEAs to submit one comprehensive application for funding for several federal and  state programs. LEAs are required each year to submit a consolidated application to the Georgia Department of Education in order to receive federal funds. The LEA?s application provides a plan for improving student achievement and sign-off by the local school superintendent signifies that all federal and state program assurances have been accepted. This training class will review the workflow, add programs, complete application data, review award process, budget sheets, and much more. ** Two people complimentary per system. Of those two, one has to either be the primary or backup Consolidated Application Coordinator
(CAC). Additional people per district are $50/person. If districts choose to attend an ETTC that is not their primary center, everyone pays.
Their will be NO PLUs or SDUs offered for DOE courses.

The one day Overview of Cognos will introduce you to the basic Cognos data reporting tool. This course is designed for the "number crunchers" in school systems who deal with student information.

Participants will:

• highlight key capabilities of the GaDOE Data Warehouse

• use GaDOE Data Warehouse web portal to manage, and organize content,

• use Analysis Studio to find, interpret, and report business data

• create and modify reports and charts

• enhance reports by highlighting exceptions, filtering data and formatting a report

• customize ad hoc reports using templates

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Review the format of the SAT, identify the major components of the SAT Online Course, identify goals of the SAT Online course, practice manipulating the available features of the SAT Online Course by: creating an account, reviewing organization of website, composing messages, using SAT Question of the Day, managing a class- adding/deleting students, using interactive lessons in critical reading, math, writing, activating the online essay scoring service, completing reports, understanding the SAT Online Course from the student’s point of view, and devising strategies that will enhance students’ use of the course. The training also includes information about assigning  access codes to students, utilizing the Official SAT online course with in the classroom or as a self-paced independent study, and monitoring the high school’s use of the program.

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Do you own a Palm device and want to maximize its uses? This hands-on class will teach you the basics of the calendar, graffiti, beaming, contacts, to-do-lists, and memo pad. You are required to bring your Palm operating system device to class (Palm III, V, VII, Sony and Handspring).

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Brainstorming, Mapping & Webbing with Inspiration and Kidspiration

Developing ideas, building curriculum maps, planning projects and teaching outlining skills becomes easy with Inspiration as the tool. Learn to create and integrate colorful cluster diagrams, idea maps, concept maps and outlines.  This tool will assist you and your students in the planning and creation of clear and concise curriculum projects. Participants will also be given a brief introduction of Kidspiration.

GA Library of LEarning Online (GALILEO) is available to all K-12 educators and can be accessed via the Internet. This session will provide the training necessary for media specialists and classroom teachers to utilize GALILEO as a valuable resource for research projects for elementary, middle, and high school levels. Search strategies will include natural language, Boolean, proximity, truncation and broadening, wild cards, and limited search strings using fields.

This course offers concrete methods for introducing the computer to the primary student. Participants will engage in hands-on computer activities that are curriculum focused and which model management in the technology-connected classroom. Participants will choose software and excellent primary web sites that meet the needs of their students. Lesson plans will be created for use in their classrooms.

Curriculum content expands through the use of Internet resources. Through hands-on practice, participants will browse Internet sites locating lesson plans, curriculum resources and instructional projects that will enhance the existing curriculum. An introduction to the Internet, with a focus on using e-mail and exploration of the World Wide Web will provide users with the ability to access other teachers and students worldwide for collaborative educational projects.

In this hands-on course, participants will rotate through workstations while you discover CD-ROMs, laser disc players, scanners, digital cameras and record and playback sound and video. Participants will leave the basic knowledge of multimedia and its hardware requirements.

Accountability in Georgia's educational system is no longer an option. Student test data are a major component of accountability and the ability to accurately use these data will be a significant factor in improving education. Test data analysis is a skill that will benefit educators from the state level to the classroom level. Teachers and administrators who can effectively analyze their own test scores will be able to identify areas of need, address the needs and improve student learning at a much faster pace.

This course is designed to assist teacher education students, P-16 educators and administrators in the development of a professional teaching E-folio. Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to understand portfolio assessment and explore the benefits of using an E-folio as documentation for professional skills and student learning. Participants will utilize the E-Portfolio design and development process to begin creating their professional or academic electronic portfolio.

The Georgia Educational Technology Training Centers are proud to announce the development of WebTech--a follow-up program to InTech! WebTech focuses specifically on the use of Web Technology in the classroom. Participants are required to create and implement a variety of Web-based projects and activities including a Scavenger Hunt, WebQuest and their very own Class Home page. In addition, teachers participate in a variety of exciting Internet projects and activities! For more information, visit http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/traci/webtech/.