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: 20 SCECH Equivalency
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.

Prerequisite: Microsoft PowerPoint
Pace: Instructor-facilitated
Credit: 20 SCECH Equivalency
Length: Approximately 20 hours to be completed within 21 days.

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.

This course will teach you advanced Blackboard features. Upon completion of the course, learners will be able to use the assignment tool, set up discussion threads, place tool links into course, use the performance dashboard, and have a working knowledge of the grade book.

Blackboard offers a tremendous set of features to make testing and record keeping easy for instructors. Most K-12 teachers will use these features to create question pools, quizzes and exams, or surveys. In this fully online course learners will learn how to develop quizzes, exams and surveys inside Blackboard´s Test and Pool Managers.

Blogging is a simple yet power way for enhancing teaching and learning through technology integration. 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.

Course Objectives: Upon completion, learners 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
• Create your own blog by performing a few basic steps
• Recognize the options for administering your blog

Outcomes:

• Choose a strategy for using blogging in your teaching that best suits your students’ needs
• Use a Web-based tool for both searching and subscribing to blogs
• Create your blog site by subscribing to Blogger and adding a few static as well as multimedia content elements to it
• Become familiar with the basics of administering your blog

Prerequisite: Basic computer skills
Credit: 10 SCECH Equivalency (Michigan)
Length: Course requires 10 hours of contact time and must be completed within the designated timeframe.

Create new opportunities for student collaboration that takes place anywhere, anytime using free online tools. Engage your students in approaching writing as a process which includes peer review and multi-stage revision, rather than procrastination and a single night of crammed writing. Provide instant feedback through real-time editing and commenting functionality. Explore these options and more, using the Google Docs software suite.

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.

UM-Flint has developed a course that helps K12 teachers meet the new requirements for an online experience. Learn how to build a web page using a free online tool, design a basic blog and create an online quiz while reviewing current issues regarding online copyright and ethics in today's classroom.

• Build a basic web page;
• Create a blog;
• Develop online quizzes.

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.

• 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 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 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 to obtain the most relevant information.
• Evaluate information portrayed on various websites.
• Develop and implement rubrics for evaluating WebQuests.

This is a 10-hour course that will introduce learners to the most common terminology used in discussing graphics, and will provide step-by-step lessons in graphics search, capture and editing using popular, free software. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to identify sources and types of images; conduct Web searches and obtain graphics from the Web; capture and edit a screen image.

• Identify sources and types of images
• Conduct Web searches and obtain graphics from the Web
• Capture and edit a screen image
• Perform basic image editing

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

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.

Have you ever had the feeling that using text to express yourself through online conversation is too cumbersome yet not enough? Do you wish sometimes that instead of typing at people you could show them what you are talking about? Now there is an easy way to do this. There are both free and commercial screencasting software programs which enable you to record everything happening on your screen; point, click, scroll, navigate and such an application can follow your every action. This online class introduces you to ways of how you may use screencasts in educational or training settings and enables you to put your skills into action by learning how to use Jing, a free screencasting program. This course requires 10 hours of coursework that must be completed during the allotted time-frame.