University of Michigan - Flint

Learn to add special features to your movies such as animation and interactivity.

• Add sound to your movies
• Design interactive quizzes.
• Create buttons to aid navigation through your movie.
• Learn to use text entry boxes
• Create question slides.

Prerequisite: Intro to Captivate
Pace: Instructor-facilitated
Credit: 2 SB-CEUs
Length: Approximately 20 hours to be completed within 21 days.

Learn to add special features to your movies such as animation and interactivity.

• Create a sophisticated slide presentation that demonstrates good creative principles.
• Create an interactive and/or branching study lesson for use in case studies and experiential application.
• Add narration, sound files, movie clips, hyperlinks.
• Create graphs and charts that incorporate animation.
• Compress and package a presentation.

This is an online, instructor-facilitated course for K-12 teachers interested in the online classroom. It will immerse them in the online learning just as their students would experience it.

Course Objectives: Upon completion, learners will:

• Understand the basic concepts and procedures inherent in online teaching.
• Be able to use the Blackboard components to add, edit and delete information
• Communicate with students using the discussion board, virtual classroom and e-mail.
• Create exams, assignments and online gradebooks.

Blogging is a simple yet powerful way for enhancing teaching and learning. This self-paced, instructor-facilitated online course focuses on the implications of blogging in educational settings. Participants will study how other educators are using blogs to deepen learning and increase student achievements, explore Web-based tools for finding and subscribing to educational blogs, identify strategies for implanting a blog into their content area and create their own Weblog. This is a 10 contact-hour Web-based course delivered through Blackboard.

Course Objectives: Upon completion, you will:

• List ways of implementing blogs into teaching.
• Identify free online services that allow for searching and subscribing to education-related blogs.
• Apply any of the available strategies or find a new way for using blogs in your teaching.
• Setup your own blog by performing a few basic steps.
• Recognize the options for administering your blog.

This course provides an overview of copyright issues for educators at all levels, and includes information specific to the online environment. Topics include instructors’ responsibilities regarding student work, graphic sources and rules for Web-based course content, fair use, database and digital rights protection, and such legislation as The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Public Domain Enhancement Act and the TEACH Act.

Using an Excel-based tool, faculty, teachers and trainers can assess the quality of their courses according to 60 standards and sub standards related to technology usability and instructional design. This tool provides measurement criteria, benchmarks, ratings and a weighting system to provide an overview that is as objective as possible.

This online course targets middle school and high school teachers and administrators who are considering development of an online curriculum. It is a self-paced, instructor-facilitated course addressing the major factors that must be considered prior to creating an online program.

Course Objectives: Upon completion, you will be able to:

• Identify the underlying factors that are driving online learning today.
• Name and describe the Michigan high school graduation requirements approved in 2007 for the class of 2011.
• Explain teacher, student issues, infrastructure, and course content issues.

This is an instructor-facilitated course designed for K-12 teachers. It is designed to help you learn the basics on acquiring pictures with a digital camera, with a scanner, by screen capture, and from the Internet and learn the basics with regard to file types, file size issues, resolution, layers, and transparency.

• Briefly describe the history of the use of images in curriculum.
• List major roles of images in teaching and learning.
• Compare the attributes of printed and digital images.
• Describe the different techniques of obtaining and creating digital images.
• List ideas for integrating a scanner and a digital camera into curricular activities.
• List and briefly describe some popular image-editing software.
• Do basic image editing.

In addition, teachers will be able to integrate the use of a digital camera into the classroom.

This instructor-led, online course is a hands-on course for educators preparing to teach online. The course will lead instructors through the process of developing their own online course. Different types of content will be examined, and tools for evaluating your course will be discussed.

• Experience first-hand what it is like to be an online learner.
• Develop a full understanding of the principles and methods of developing a course to be delivered online.
• Master the components of the Blackboard Learning Management System (LMS).
• Create the core of an online course, including learning objectives, syllabus and course material for at least two complete weeks of instruction.

The Intro to K-12 Online Teaching is an online course that is teacher-facilitated, which is level of student-instructor interaction between a totally self-paced course and one that is instructor led. You can go through the course at your own pace but an instructor is available to help whenever you need it along the way.

This is a basic-level course and will prepare you to begin to develop an online course or course supplement. It is also a prerequisite to the UM-Flint Intensive Course Development class.

• Understand the pedagogical concepts, trends and mechanics of online teaching and learning.
• Recognize the types of learning tools and resources available online.
• Be able to assess your abilities and interest in teaching online and using technology.
• Be able to apply the principles learned in this course to begin creating an online course or supplement.

Learn to create Flash-based demonstrations and simulations using Macromedia Captivate. Using a task-based approach, learners will create their own demonstrations and simulations while learning key features and best practices.

• Plan a recording.
• Set initial recording options and movie preferences.
• Recording movies. Capture onscreen action of all kinds.
• Add captions, images, and other options to your movie.
• Change movie and object timing using the Timeline.
• Publish and Preview movies in any of a variety of formats.

This course is designed for educators who would like to use digital photos and Flash in the classroom. This four-week course will cover design fundamentals and their practical applications for educators; technical, practical and legal aspects of using clip art, stock photography and sound; digital imaging including file extensions, resizing and retouching; and using a scanner and digital camera to capture images.

Learners will create their own digital images and flash files and will learn the basics of PhotoShop Elements and Flash software.

This online course is instructor-facilitated. Designed for K-12 teachers, this course introduces a popular software used to help students organize and develop their ideas.

• Understand the importance of visual learning techniques.
• Have a working knowledge of Kidspiration.
• Have a working knowledge of Inspiration.
• Create hands-on activities using Inspiration and Kidspiration.
• Learn how to integrate Inspiration and Kidspiration into lesson plans.

Introduction to Respondus course is a self-paced, online course that focuses on the Respondus software as a test generation tool, and helps you discover how to integrate online assessments into your classroom.

• The different types of test items.
• Which type of test item better suited for measuring particular learning objectives.
• The major differences between computer-assisted and traditional testing.
• How to use the major program menus of Respondus.
• How to use Respondus to create tests and surveys for printed and/or computerized assessments.

Introduction to WebQuests is a self-paced online course created for K-12 teachers. You will learn the basics involved in developing a WebQuest for your own classroom use. You will have the opportunity to evaluate other WebQuests based on a set list of criteria.

• Encourage inquiry-based learning using the Internet.
• Develop and assess an online curriculum (WebQuest) delivered via the Web.
• Fine-tune Internet searches in order to obtain the most relevant information.
• Evaluate information portrayed on various websites.
• Develop and implement rubrics for evaluating WebQuests.
• Have a solid understanding of the WebQuest design process.

This is a self-paced introduction to Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel, two popular software programs used in the business and education fields.

This is an instructor-facilitated course designed to help you learn basic database design and operation.

• Create tables.
• Input data.
• Set field properties.
• Sort and find information.
• Create queries.
• Design forms and reports

Teachers will also learn how to use a database in classroom activities.

This is an instructor-facilitated course designed to help you learn basic spreadsheet development.

• Understand the fundamentals and common uses of spreadsheets.
• Understanding how to use Excel to create a worksheet and enter data, use formatting tools, create formulas and use functions to perform calculations, and create charts from worksheet data.

• Transfer their knowledge to students and help students demonstrate their proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Incorporate Excel into classroom assignments.

This is an instructor-facilitated course in which you will learn the basics of creating slide presentations using MS PowerPoint. This course is based on the XP version, but most explanations will apply to several of the more recent versions.

• Create new presentations using templates or designing from scratch.
• Use the more popular PowerPoint features to format text, set tabs, use word art, insert graphics and animation, format text and move slides.
• Work with slides in different views.
• Check for style consistency.

Teachers will learn how to integrate PowerPoint in their teaching, such as creating presentations to present vocabulary, concepts, new lessons, reports, etc.

This instructor-facilitated course will help you learn the basics of using Microsoft Publisher to create simple publications such as flyers, newsletters, calendars, certificates, etc.

• Use the workspace, toolbars and templates effectively.
• Create publications using templates and styles.
• Locate additional resources and templates on the Web.

Teachers will also be able to integrate this software into their teaching.

This instructor-facilitated course presents the basic concepts of Word 2002, although most of the concepts apply to several recent versions of Word.

• Create, format, edit and save documents.
• Use automatic text features.
• Format text, paragraphs and document pages.
• Use the "find and replace," spell check, grammar check, proofing tools, and templates.
• Use the move and copy commands
• Set margins and tabs.
• Print documents, envelopes and labels.
• Teachers will have the opportunity to learn how to integrate MS Word into their classroom teaching.

This is a self-paced course for K-12 teachers that will help you develop online research skills and gain knowledge on Grolier Online and GaleNet resources.

• Prepare and conduct online research.
• Identify major types of Web-based resources.
• Use different online search features.
• Evaluate information found in online resources.
• Appropriately cite electronic sources.
• Integrate Grolier Online and GaleNet databases into your curriculum.

This 40 contact-hour course is available to all learners but was designed for educators who would like to use Web technology in the classroom. Learners will have weekly readings, participate in online discussions, research Web design topics, explore the steps required to build an effective Web site, and use SeaMonkey Composer, an open source Web development tool, to design their own site.