NYSCATE+Offerings+for+Admins+and+Teachers

NYSCATE Summer Offerings

July 28 Genesee Valley BOCES, 80 Munson St, LeRoy, NY (Rochester)

August 11 Long Island - site tba

August 15 NYC - site tba


 * __Getting Data onto My iPad and Into the Cloud (Half Day) __**

*Cost $50

With the iPad, moving files, photos, videos, and more to your computer, other iPads, or the web are one of the most important tasks to master. During this session, you will learn some of the specific apps and techniques to make this process as seamless and easy as possible in no time!

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 * __ELA Instruction using the iPad (Half Day 8:30-11:30) __**

*Cost $50

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Dates:

August 11 Genesee Valley BOCES, 80 Munson St, LeRoy, NY (Rochester)

August 18 NYC - site tba


 * __Science Classrooms Enhanced by using iPads (Half Day) __**

*Cost $50

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<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Dates:

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">August 11 Genesee Valley BOCES: 8:30-11:30, 80 Munson St, LeRoy, NY (Rochester)

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">August 17 NYC: 12:30-3:30 - site tba


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">iWorks in Education (Full Day 9:00-3:00) __**

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">*Cost: $150 includes iWorks Suite Software

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">iWorks is one of the best reasons to get an iPad. It provides an opportunity to create great looking presentations, documents and spreadsheets right on the iPad. At this workshop you will learn about the iWork productivity applications — Keynote, Pages, and Numbers. In addition to creating great documents, you can open Microsoft Office files, edit them and send them back to your computer or share with any Mac or PC user. **Registration INCLUDES a copy of the iWork Suite for iPad.**

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">The iWork productivity applications are completely redesigned to use with the unique operating system of the iPad. You will discover how easy they are to use and what makes them the most powerful productivity apps ever built for a mobile device.

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Keynote comes with many built in themes. It creates presentations complete with slide-to-slide transitions, text effects, and animations. Spell checking is also included. More importantly, it allows you to open, edit and present Keynote or PowerPoint presentations from your PC or Mac.

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Pages also includes templates, including letters, projects, resumes, and page layout offerings like a poster, party invite, and more. A toolbar and style ruler appear when the iPad is in Portrait mode; you can use this to adjust paragraph and character styles, text alignment, tabs, pages and column breaks, custom fonts and colors, or to activate features like spell checking. It also includes a built in dictionary. More importantly, it allows you to open, edit and view Pages or Microsoft Word documents from your PC or Mac.

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Numbers is a full functioning spreadsheet. You can zoom in and out of spreadsheets by pinching; create charts instantly by selecting the type you want to use and then just selecting the cells you want to chart and dragging and dropping them into place; and rotate between landscape and portrait modes to get the best view. Numbers includes more than 250 mathematical functions, and you can create your own formula based on those functions. You can also create simple input forms using Pages--helpful for taking inventory, counting attendance, or performing various other tasks where you have to enumerate or categorize based on specific input criteria. Most importantly, it allows you to open, edit and view Numbers and Excel documents from your PC or Mac.

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Dates: July 11 Erie 1 BOCES, 355 Harlem, West Seneca, NY


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Using the iPads in Special Education Environments (Full Day 9:00-3:00 & Half Day 12:30-3:30) __**

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">*Cost $100 for full day or $50 for half day

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Useful to Everyone Right from the Start: //Seven million students with disabilities are supported with federal funding. The bottom line is that these students are in your care.//

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">The iPad has proven to provide a wealth of possibilities for assistive technology with their brilliant graphics, audio and multi-touch interface. Participants in this workshop will learn about applications that could make a difference for their students. Participants will learn how to use iPad and learn about hardware and applications solutions. The content focuses on iPad operations, device features, native apps, and third party apps from iTunes.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Overview: **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Understand iPad basic navigation, native applications, and accessibility features.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Discover the role of Applications in the special education classroom.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Practice using iPad as a personal learning device to improve student achievement.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Learn how to download applications on the iPad
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Learn about resources available for the use of iPads


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Introduction to the iPad **

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Native Apps


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Accessibility features
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Learn to use Safari as a resource for you and your students
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Learn to use Mail for you to communicate with parents/teachers/administration
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Learn to use Photos and help students use digital literacy to improve their learning.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Learn to use You Tube as a resource for students
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Let Your Fingers Do the Walking as you become familiar with gestures
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Learn to use Notes, a simple but powerful word processor
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Learn to use Maps in the classroom
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Learn to use iPod on the iPad to manage spoken words
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">See how the iPad can Improve reading fluency
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Learn to download and use Apps
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Learn to use iBooks, a most powerful tool for your students
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Learn how to help your students become organized with Calendar


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Apps to download before the workshop **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">:


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Dragon Dictation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Dragon Search
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">IEP Checklist
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">SonicPics Lite
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">QuickVoice or Reader or any free voice recorder.

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Dates:

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">August 9 Erie 1 BOCES: 9:00-3:00, 355 Harlem, West Seneca, NY

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">August 18 NYC: 12:30-3:30 - site tba


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Using Mobile Devices to Differentiate Instruction (Full Day 9:00-3:00) __**

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">*Cost $100

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Discover how mobile devices can be utilized in the classroom to provide effective differentiated instruction. Learn how to utilize these devices to provide multiple resources based on student interest and skill level, while exploring the benefits of having instant access to material based on students’ individual needs and abilities. You will also learn how to increase student engagement through learning opportunities that supplement your lesson with interactive activities, support material, and content that meets the needs of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners.

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<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">August 19 Erie 1 BOCES, 355 Harlem Rd, West Seneca, NY


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Setting up Google on School Domains (Full Day 9:00-3:00) __**

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">*Cost $100

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<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Dates:

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">July 18 Nassau BOCES, One Merrick Ave, Westbury, NY


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Using iPads and Interactive Whiteboards Together (Half Day) __**

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">*Cost $50

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Interactive whiteboards are everywhere in education today. During this session, you will learn how the iPad is a perfect mobile extension to any interactive whiteboard. You will learn how you can annotate files, draw, playback media, and more on any IWB using your iPad from anywhere in the room! This is a must attend session for those looking to maximize the investment of IWBs and iPads in your school.

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<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">July 8 NYC - site tba

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">July 26 Genesee Valley BOCES, 80 Munson St, LeRoy, NY (Rochester)

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">July 28 Hudson Valley - site tba

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">July 29 SAANYS, 8 Airport Park Blvd, Latham, NY (Albany)

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">August 19 Long Island - site tba


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Creating Powerful Presentations with the iPad (Half Day) __**

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">*Cost $50

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Presentations are a huge part of the work of any modern administrator, educator, or student. During this session, you will innovative design techniques, great apps, and other skills for creating, editing and delivering amazing presentations using only your iPad.

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Dates:

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">July 8 NYC - site tba

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">July 26 Genesee Valley BOCES, 80 Munson St, LeRoy, NY (Rochester)

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">July 28 Hudson Valley - site tba

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">July 29 SAANYS, 8 Airport Park Blvd, Latham, NY (Albany)

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">August 19 Long Island - site tba


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Delivering Communications & Conduct Mobile Meetings with iPad (Half Day) __**

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">*Cost $50


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Mobile Computing on the Android Platform (Full Day 9:00-3:00) __**

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">*Cost: $799 includes Dell Streak 7 Tablet Device

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Learn first hand how mobile computing can help create a dynamic learning environment by improving productivity, collaboration, and interaction for students, teachers, and administrators. Discover how to utilize these devices in your school by developing new ways to deliver lessons, monitor progress, and communicate results with parents, students and colleagues. You will learn how to take advantage of all these devices have to offer from downloading and managing apps to exploring ways to increase productivity and student engagement. As part of this course, you will be provided with your own Dell Streak 7 Tablet to take back to your school.

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Dates:

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">July 11 Nassau BOCES, One Merrick Ave, Westbury, NY

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">July 22 Erie 1 BOCES, 355 Harlem, West Seneca, NY

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">August 4 Brighton CSD, 2035 Monroe Ave, Rochester, NY


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Google Apps for Educators (Full Day 9:00-3:00) __**

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">*Cost: $100

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<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Dates:

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">July 12 Genesee Valley BOCES, 80 Muson St, LeRoy, NY (Rochester)

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">July 15 Long Island - site tba

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">July 27 Hudson Valley - site tba

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">August 4 SAANYS, 8 Airport Park Blvd, Latham, NY (Albany)

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">August 12 NYC - site tba


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Google Apps on the iPad (Half Day 8:30-11:30) __**

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">*Cost $50

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<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Dates:

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">July 13 SAANYS, 8 Airport Park Blvd, Latham, NY (Albany)

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">August 1 Genesee Valley BOCES, 80 Munson St, LeRoy, NY (Rochester)


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Creating & Using ePubs in Education (Half-Day) __**

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">*Cost $50

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Using the iPad as an ereader is a natural fit for the device. During this session, you learn how easy and powerful it is to create your own eBooks for the iPad. Using a variety of software, design techniques, and more you will how and why eBooks can greatly leverage the iPad for virtually anyone in eduction. After this session, you will be able to create your own textbooks instead of playing thousands for them!

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Dates:

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">August 15 NYC: 8:30-11:30 - site tba


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Moviemaking on the iPad (Full Day 9:00-3:00) __**

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">*Cost: $150

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">With it's built-in cameras in the iPad 2 or even the iPad Camera adapter to import video on the original iPad along with some of the incredible apps for working with video, the iPad is be the perfect mobile editing studio. During this session, you will how fun and easy it is to edit, enhance, and share videos with your iPad.

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Dates: <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">The iPad is a fantastic companion at meetings for taking notes, reviewing documents and more. During this session, you will unlock the techniques to see how easy and efficient this can be with the iPad. In addition to hep you participate in meetings, you will also learn how the iPad can be a great device to lead meetings, video conference online, and more anywhere you are!

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Dates:

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">August 1 Genesee Valley BOCES, 80 Munson St, LeRoy, NY (Rochester)


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">iPad Applications focusing on Elementary Grades 4-6 (Half Day ) __**

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">*Cost $50

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Learn about some of the benefits that using an iPad can bring to an elementary classroom. Participants will examine how to use an iPad and take a look at some of the native hardware and native apps which come pre-loaded on the device. Through taking a close look at some third party apps from iTunes, participants will also learn ways to integrate the iPad in different content areas include English/Language Arts, Math, and Social Studies at the Grade 4 -6 levels.

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Dates:

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">July 26 NYC - site tba


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">iPad Applications focusing on Elementary Grades K-3 (Half Day) __**

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">*Cost $50

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Learn about some of the benefits that using an iPad can bring to an elementary classroom. Participants will examine how to use an iPad and take a look at some of the native hardware and native apps which come pre-loaded on the device. Through taking a close look at some third party apps from iTunes, participants will also learn ways to integrate the iPad in different content areas include English/Language Arts, Math, and Social Studies at the Kindergarten through Grade 3 levels.

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Dates:

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">July 26 NYC - site tba


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Certificate of Internet Integrity (2 days) __**

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">*Cost $250

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">As communities across our country deal with communication challenges resulting

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">from students’ use and abuse of the Internet, social media, and mobile devices, we are

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">faced with an increasing need to model responsible use in our educational settings. A new workshop sponsored by the NYSCATE addresses the need to foster personal

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">responsibility and academic integrity in light of changing cultural norms. Participants in

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">the workshop engage in the following five activities/modules related to a Certificate of

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Internet Integrity:

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">· Module 1: Internet Safety

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">What is Internet safety and how can we address it with our students? Learn about

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">the resources that are available to educators and how to model safe surfing.

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">· Module 2: Cyber-bullying

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">This module provides a general overview and definition of cyber-bullying, the

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">different modalities of cyber-bullying and how they are used, factors of what

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">motivates children to cyber-bully, awareness of the prevalence of cyber-bullying

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">and how it differs from bullying in general.

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">· Module 3: Accessing & Evaluating Online Resources

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Educators learn strategies to efficiently and effectively search, evaluate and

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">document online educational resources. Participants will engage in a hands-on

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">exploration of educational search engines and related materials that are available

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">online.

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">· Module 4: Copyright & Academic Culture

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Participants will be introduction to basic copyright law, including 'fair use' and

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">'public domain' issues. Learn about the Creative Commons (CC), an alternative

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">to copyright, including the value of CC licenses, the policy implications in

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">education, tips, tools and practical skills of using CC licensed work, and how to

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">publish your work under CC.

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">· Module 5: Responsibility & Accountability

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Participants examine what it means to move from acceptable use to responsible

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">use. Topics of study include legal and ethical issues of responsible use, digital

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">citizenship, and netiquette.

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Dates:

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">July 11-12 SAANYS, 8 Airport Park Blvd, Latham, NY (Albany)