Lego Dacta Robotics
Hands-on introduction to kit and curriculum

Understanding by Design
• Unit design emphasizing student understanding
• Learning for understanding
• Backward design

Technical Training
Movieworks
Capturing Video

Student Product Evaluation

High School Tech Apps
Macromedia Studio MX

Web Page Design
30 hour program to develop standards for a campus site

Robo Lab - 1 day

Understanding by Design – ASCD – 
July 2002 - 3 days
http://www.ascd.org/cms/index.cfm?TheViewID=909
http://www.ubdexchange.org/
• Promote all students' capacity for deep understanding and achievement of high standards.
• Help students focus on big ideas, overarching understandings, and essential questions.
• Ensure that all students understand what they are doing, why they are doing it, and how they will be evaluated.
• Hook students' interest through engaging, thought-provoking activities.
Sample Unit by Sunshine Ogden sunshine@esc5.net
Understanding by Design Unit template

Scoring Guide for Student Products
NCRTEC
http://www.ncrtec.org/tl/sgsp/index.html 
Scoring guides based on content standards and craftsmanship standards are generated based on the type of product the student was to produce, i.e. narrative, information expository, persuasive, participatory environment.

Dreamweaver
3 days - Fall 2002
Use the Dreamweaver User Interface effectively
Create pages with well-structured HTML content
Create hyperlinks between and within documents
Add images and image maps to Web pages
Create page designs and templates using tables
Format page contents using Cascading Style Sheets
Create HTML forms to prompt for user input
Use frames to segment a browser window
Add behaviors for interactivity
Test and deploy a Web site
Flash
2 days - Fall 2002
How to design and deliver cross-platform, low-bandwidth animations, presentations, and Web applications using Macromedia Flash MX. Best practices and design, stressing the importance of usability, accessibility, optimization, and performance, were stressed in addition to how to use the program.

Web Site Design and Management
30 hour program to train campus webmasters
12 participants
Instructor: Janice Dean, jmkdean@rocketmail.com
Design Issues
Design Process/Organization
Overview of FrontPage Environment
The Editor
Prepare Your Workspace
Templates
Tables
Graphic Composition
Image Processing
Forms and Bookmarks
Publishing Website
Backing up files

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