University of Michigan-Flint

Learn the basics of the Internet, from browsing to searching. Demonstrate your skills with electronic mail and learn important points of online etiquette. The social impact of the Internet is also discussed.

• Understand the concept behind networks and the Internet.
• Be able to use and perform basic e-mail functions.
• Be able to identify Internet resources and search tools.
• Recognize the social impact of the Internet.

Learn “How Things Work Inside the Box”. Students become familiar with different storage options and find out how to customize settings to make a computer work for them. Discover ways to speed up a computer and how Microsoft Windows interacts with your PC. Review the Control Panel and recognize key components of this powerful feature. Also learn keyboard shortcuts that every user should know. All of this and lots more including ways to organize and personalize your computer in this online course.

• Define and recognize a variety of storage options.
• Use the Control Panel.
• Use Keyboard Shortcuts for common tasks.

This five hour course is designed for educators who wish to use Microsoft Outlook to help manage their day-to-day activities and schedules electronically. This course covers email basics, using the calendar for personal and group functions, e-mail folders, using the contact list and synchronizing with a handheld.

• Be able to customize the Outlook interface
• Create and send e-mail messages
• Create and save Contacts
• Create folders and file e-mail messages
• Be able to schedule meetings and set up reminders using the Calendar features

This course will teach you the basics of using Blackboard. Upon completion, learners will be able to develop a course shell complete with announcements, course information and course documents. Learners will also be instructed on how to enter staff information, create external links and manage the course design.

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 there options to your movie.
• Change movie and object timing using the Timeline.
• Publish and Preview movies in any of a variety of formats.

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.

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.

Blackboard offers a tremendous set of features to make testing and recordkeeping 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.

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.

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.

• 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 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.

• 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

• 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

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 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.

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.

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

Course Objectives: Upon completion, learners will:

• 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.

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

Course Objectives: Students will learn how to:

• 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 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

Introduction to Respondus course is a self-paced, nline 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 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 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.

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.