The NCS Upper School Library is expanding our Digital Literacy initiative with a new year-long faculty/staff training series: "Teaching Tools on Your Time."
Each quarter, we will focus on a different type of web tool that can be easily integrated into your classroom. Some topics will include websites that allow you to create unique content online, educational resources to enhance classroom instruction, collaboration tools, sources for multimedia, research and organization tools, and resources to enhance your Moodle class pages.
Every few weeks we will highlight and provide online tutorials for what we consider the best web tools currently available. During these weeks we will encourage teachers to come to the library for hands-on training. If you are interesting in learning more about any of the tools for which we do not provide a tutorial, please let us know and we'd be glad to train you one-on-one.
Schedule a Training Session
Trainings will be held in the Upper School Library's Multimedia lab and scheduled at the faculty's convenience, during free periods and lunches. Contact Multimedia Coordinator Chip Chase with your available times to set up a training.
2nd Semester: iPads and Department-Specific Trends
For the second semester (January 2011 - June 2011), we will focus on everything iPad. We will also solicit training requests from teachers and design new sessions based on this feedback.
For more information about department specific technology, check out the "What's Hot in Educational Technology" section. The library hopes to meet with all departments to present these technology trends and collect information from departments on where we should go next with our trainings. Also, check out our iPads at NCS website.
For the first semester (September, 2010 - January 2011), we focused on Alternative Presentation tools (now referred to as "Content Creation Tools"). While PowerPoint is a standard technology that often gets the job done, there are a slew of new sites online that can easily and effectively engage your students in the classroom.
Take a look at the detailed Alternative Presentation tutorials below:
For more great teaching resources, check out the other Teaching Tools in Your Time pages, or subscribe to our NCS Library blog. We will periodically post new Teacher Tools, video Tips in a Minute, and websites to check out labeled "Have you Seen it?"
Scale for Ease of Use
Each resource we include on these pages are given a scale based on the ease of use. This scale may not be exactly representative.
The easiest tools are designated "Teachers can do it (after training)" and the hardest are designated "Librarians can set it up for you".
