Clicker 5 resources

This post is meant to assist my fellow District 287 coworkers as a follow-up to my Clicker Demonstrations and installations. There are many fine resources available to you to get you started with Clicker 5.

You can start by going through the "Quick Tour", which is accessible via the Home grid when you start Clicker 5. This will give you a good idea what you may be able to do with Clicker.

I've also copied the complete user manual onto your hard drives in your documents folder. It is very well organized, well written, and very helpful!

Since we have a subscription (District 287) to Atomic Learning and you may be a very visual/auditory learner, you are in luck! There is a great wealth of tutorial info available for us right here: http://www.atomiclearning.com/clicker_5_mac

Lastly, there is a wonderful site full of on-line training courses (recorded for you!) located here: http://www.setbc.org/psap/default.html?refpage=/setbc/psap_lc/docs/05_clicker4_resource.html

Have fun. Clicker 5 is great!

PowerPoint Training 3/9/07

This post is for supporting the Hosterman in service on PowerPoint. You can check out the links provided below to get all the support and resources you need to follow up on your basic training.

Many of the tutorials you will find on the web are based on PowerPoint on a PC. The differences are few, but the general idea is the same. Our version at school is PowerPoint 2004: Mac

There are only a few Mac specific tutorials that I could find on the web. One of the best ones is from Atomic Learning. Check out the video tutorials. This is a subscription service, but if accessed from within a district computer, you can view them all for free since we have a subscription.

Atomic Learning PowerPoint 2004 Mac

Below is the link from Microsoft. Helpful links and how-to info. However, not very school friendly. This material would be most helpful for traditional business type presentations

Microsoft

Educational Resources supporting PowerPoint in school:
OK, here is all the good stuff. You can literally spend hours and hours looking through all this great material. I've provided links that have many directories of other links to explore. Find tutorials, educational lesson plans, games, student projects, etc.....All using PowerPoint!

Parade of Games: Be sure to check out the Jeopardy and Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Great templates you can use to add your own content for reinforcing what you are teaching!

PowerPoint Resources: An educators dream! Tons of tutorials and school based projects and ideas for using PowerPoint in your classroom. Good resources for creating and adapting talking books as well.

Nebo School District: Teachers put these together as part of a class and are kind enough to share with us! Check out these projects to get some ideas or use there projects and adapt them to suit your needs.

Margaret's links: another huge resource for PowerPoint in the classroom. Spend hours here finding great stuff!

PPT Games: More ultra-high quality games that are templates for adding your own info. Not as easy, but once you get the hang of the program, this could prove to be quite valuable for you!

PowerPoint books: Here's a great place to find many adapted PPT books. I've used these to spark my own ideas. Or, download a book from here and practice jazzing it up with audio and transition effects!

Talking PowerPoint books: A good place to find a ton of information on how to create your own adapted talking books using PowerPoint.