| Each TeleTech is presented three times: 1:15 to 2:05, 2:35 to 3;25, and 3:45 to 4:35. January 25 Exploring Google Sketch-Up Interested in teaching your students about ratios and proportions? How about volume, area, and perimeter? Fancy building a model of the Roman Coliseum and dropping it into Google Earth? Any and all of these activities are possible with Google Sketch-Up. Sketch-Up is a free 3-D modeling program offered by Google. Learn the basics of using Sketch-Up, how Sketch-Up meshes with Google Earth, and some fantastic curriculum integration ideas along the way! February 8 Creating Great Presentations with Free Prezi Looking for an alternative to the typical presentation applications such as PowerPoint and Keynote? Prezi might be the tool for you! You can easily create and deliver stunning presentations that zoom into details, show relationships between information, and include text, images, videos, and PDFs. Join us to learn more about Prezi and how this online presentation tool works. February 15 The Advantages of Social Bookmarking Social Bookmarking is a great way to save your bookmarks or favorites on the web. Protect your favorite sites from a computer crash, learn how to keep them organized, and make some friends on the way. All with a simple little tool that can be accessed from any computer. Join us to learn how social bookmarking can work for you! February 22 Creating ePubs for the iPad The iPad presents a wonderful opportunity to convert students' work, writing, and original stories into the ePub format for easy sharing and portability. ePub provides many advantages over PDFs including re-flowable and resizable text for reading on just about any size of device. During this session, participants will learn the ins and outs of converting Word documents and PDFs into the ePub format using the free program Calibre. We will also discuss how to sync ePub and PDF files over to your iPad and which programs you can use to read them.
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