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FALL 2011 WORKSHOPS — YEAR-ROUND WORKSHOPS — WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS

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WHAT and WHERE: Through a generous grant from AT&T, KET offers free workshops for Kentucky educators and students in the KET Media Lab at the KET Network Center in Lexington. We hope you'll join us in the KET Media Lab to explore ways to make learning exciting, meaningful, and memorable through multimedia production.

WHO: Workshop instructors include KET education consultants as well as other education and production staff.

HOW AND WHEN: Select from a list of pre-scheduled workshops for educators, or if you'd like to make a workshop date for your school's teachers or students from the workshops available by request, e-mail or call at 800-432-0951 ext. 7271. Schools who plan to visit KET for a student workshop might also want to schedule a tour of KET.

KET Media Lab workshops:

For more information and to make workshop reservations, e-mail or call at 800-432-0951 ext. 7271.

Scheduled Fall 2011 Evening Workshops for Educators

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Here are the latest KET Media Lab professional development evening workshop dates for K-20 educators. We will add additional dates as needed and new workshops as they are developed. If you're interested in attending one of the scheduled trainings, please contact at 800-432-0951 ext. 7271. Seating is limited to 25 participants per workshop.

Workshop Title

 Audience Content Area(s)

Date and Time
Basic Camcorder Video Production Teachers, K-20; students, grades 4-20 All Monday, Sept. 19, 5:30-7:30 pm ET
Monday, Oct. 10, 5:30-7:30 pm ET
Thursday, Nov. 3, 5:30-7:30 pm ET
Basic Video Editing Teachers, K-20; students, grades 4-20 All Thursday, Sept. 1, 5:30-8:30 pm ET
Wednesday, Sept. 14, 5:30-8:30 pm ET
Do It Yourself Electronic Field Trips Teachers and students, grades 3-20 All Tuesday, Oct. 4, 5:30-8:30 pm ET
Google Earth and Google Sketchup Intro (New!) Teachers and students, grades 5-20 All Wednesday, Dec. 7, 5:30-7:30 pm ET
Google Picasa Graphics Application (New!) Teachers and staff, K-20 All Thursday, Oct. 27, 5:30-7:30 pm ET
Google Resources for Educators Teachers and staff, K-20 All Wednesday, Oct. 12, 5:30-7:30 pm ET
Thursday, Nov. 17, 5:30-7:30 pm ET
Greenscreen Video Effects Teachers, K-20; students, grades 4-20 All Wednesday, Sept. 7, 5:30-8:30 pm ET
Thursday, Sept. 15, 5:30-8:30 pm ET
Online Graphics Making and Sharing (New!) Teachers and students, grades 5-20 All Wednesday, Nov. 16, 5:30-7:30 pm ET
Online Video Making and Sharing (New!) Teachers and students, grades 5-20 All Thursday, Sept. 8, 5:30-7:30 pm ET
Wednesday, Sept. 21, 5:30-7:30 pm ET
Wednesday, Sept. 28, 5:30-7:30 pm ET
Wednesday, Nov. 9, 5:30-7:30 pm ET
SMART Board Classroom Use with KET Media (New!) Teachers, K-20, grades K-20 All Tuesday, Sept. 13, 5:30-7:30 pm ET
Tuesday, Nov. 15, 5:30-7:30 pm ET
Stop Motion Animation for the Classroom Teachers, K-20 All Wednesday, Oct. 5, 5:30-7:30 pm ET

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Workshops for Educators and Students Available by Request Throughout the Year

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In addition to attending the pre-scheduled workshops for educators and staff, all are welcome to schedule individual workshop dates throughout the year for teachers, media students, or community organizations. Please contact at 800-432-0951 ext. 7271 for an appointment. Seating is limited to 30 participants per workshop.

Teachers or school staff members are also encouraged to bring students to the KET Media Lab for workshops during regular weekday, daytime business hours. Seating is limited to 30 students per workshop. We'll add new workshop titles for year-around workshops as they become available or after new evening teacher workshops have been presented. Schools bringing students for a workshop might want to also schedule a tour of KET. Tours usually last from 30 minutes to an hour.

Workshop Title

 Audience Content Area(s)

 Length
Basic Video Editing Teachers and staff, grades 3-20; students, grades 6-20 All

2-3 hours
Basic Camcorder Video Production Teachers and staff, grades K-20; students, grades 4-20 All

2-3 hours
Photo and Graphic Resources Teachers and staff, grades K-20; students, grades 6-20 All

2-3 hours
Photo Panoramas for School Projects Teachers and staff, grades K-20; students, grades 6-20 All

2-3 hours
Create a Virtual Art Gallery Teachers, K-12 Arts and Humanities, more

2-3 hours
Do It Yourself Electronic Field Trips Teachers and students, grades 3-20 All

2-3 hours
Greenscreen Video Effects Teachers and staff, grades 3-20; students, grades 6-20 All

2-3 hours
Photoshop Elements Graphics Program Teachers and staff, grades K-20; students, grades 6-20 All

2-3 hours
Stop Motion Animation for the Classroom Teachers and staff, grades K-20; students, grades 4-20 All

2-3 hours
Design Your Own Workshop: Ask us if we can tailor a workshop to your needs.

Teachers and students, grades K-20 All

TBA

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Descriptions of KET Media Lab Workshops

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We'll be adding new workshop titles from time to time, so if you have an idea for one you'd like us to develop, please let us know by contacting , KET.

Basic Camcorder Video Production

This hands-on workshop introduces the basics of video production using a camcorder and pc, along with the basic jobs and procedures of a video news gathering crew. Help your students learn how to plan and record events and news stories, interview students and teachers, and get useable and interesting video and audio every time!

Topics include:

Audience: Teachers, grades K-20; students, grades 3-20
Length: 2-3 hours
Content Area: All

Basic Video Editing

This hands-on workshop shows how to edit using inexpensive video editing software (PCs used, but the basic methods and techniques also apply to Mac editing software). Laptops, video camcorders, and other equipment are provided in the KET Media Lab.

Topics include:

Audience: Teachers and staff, grades K-20; students, grades 3-20
Length: 2-3 hours
Content Areas: All

Create a Virtual Art Gallery

This workshop focuses on using images and KET Arts Toolkit resources in the classroom. Using Microsoft PowerPoint, KET resources, and your own images, you'll learn how to create a virtual art gallery to show your students' work or other classroom projects you'd like to share.

In this workshop, you’ll:

Audience: Teachers, grades K-12
Length: 2-3 hours
Content Areas: Arts and humanities (particularly visual arts), social studies
Software/tools: PowerPoint, PowerPoint template, KET Virtual Art Museum on CD-Rom, online resources

Digital Storytelling: Methods for Projects

The Center for Digital Storytelling describes the Digital Storytelling method of video production as, "A short, first person video-narrative created by combining recorded voice, still and moving images, and music or other sounds." There are several ways to make digital stories using video cameras, still digital cameras, computers, scanners, and various titles of software. Our workshop shares how to easily build digital stories and other classroom multimedia projects with easy-to-learn and use resources.

Topics include:

Audience: Teachers and students, grades 3-20
Length: 2-3 hours
Content Areas: All

Do-It-Yourself Electronic Field Trips

Have you used one of KET's exciting electronic field trips in your classroom? In this training, you'll analyze one of these productions and then learn the multimedia skills needed to produce your own original trips for viewing online!

Topics include:

Audience: Teachers and students, grades 3-20
Length: 2-3 hours
Content Areas: All
Web tools: Wikis, Vokis, Slideshare, Glogster, and more

Google Earth and Google Sketchup - Introduction

Google Earth is known as a very useful and fun online tool for visualizing geographical areas and details. Satellite imagery captured from high above Earth, along with pictures from camera-equipped vehicles on the ground, are used to provide a zoomable view of a location down to street level. Once zoomed-into a general area, one can easily move one's view from building to building, along city streets, or overland to other destinations and geographical features. And that's just the beginning. Google Earth offers many educational resources such as views of how ancient Rome might have looked. See Google's Ancient Rome 3D Curriculum Competition, which yielded useful lesson plans, for example.

One of the most exciting new and free resources from Google that works closely with Google Earth is the free downloadable Google Sketchup program for 3D modeling, used to make Google's Ancient Rome. Models of buildings made with Google Sketchup can be submitted to Google Earth for inclusion in the online Google world mapping system, and many schools have found that modeling their school and local historic buildings makes for great social studies, math and science, and computer projects. Join us in the KET Media Lab to try out these fun and useful programs.  Please open a free Google account in advance of this workshop.

Audience: Teachers and staff, grades 5-20
Length: 3 hours
Content Areas: All

Google Picasa and Web Albums — Free Graphics Editing Program and Sharing

Picasa is a free, downloadable photo editing, organizing and sharing software program from Google.  This workshop will help you to understand the Picasa interface, how to use the editing and enhancement tools, and how to share your photos online using the free online Google Web Albums service.  Images will be provided, but you are encouraged to bring a few personal or school related images of your own, either on a USB or by uploading them to a site that you can access in the lab. Please be sure to open a free Google account in advance of this workshop.

Audience: Teachers and staff, grades K-20
Length: 2 hours
Content Areas: All

Picasa is a free, downloadable photo editing, organizing and sharing software from Google.  This workshop will help you to understand the Picasa interface, to use the editing and enhancement tools, and to share your photos online using Picasa Web Albums.  Images will be provided, but you are encouraged to bring a few personal or school related images of your own, either on a USB or by uploading them to a site that you can access in the lab. Please be sure to open a free Google account in advance of this workshop.

Google Resources for Educators

This fast-paced workshop is focused on four Google tools: Documents (including forms), Calendars, Picasa, and Sites.  These tools, used in combination, give any educator the ability to create a dynamic and useful class site that can serve as a gateway to information, class materials, and important online resources.  Attendees will leave this workshop with a Google Site that they can continue to develop.  Please open a free Google account and a Google calendar in advance of this workshop.

Audience: Teachers and staff, grades K-20
Length: 3 hours
Content Areas: All

Greenscreen Effects for Video Production

This workshop provides basic introduction to use of the popular chroma key (green screen) video effect commonly found in basic editing programs such as Pinnacle Studio. This hands-on group workshop explores the use of the effect in projects such as school news programs and announcements. Laptops, software, and other equipment are provided in the KET Media Lab.

Topics include:

Audience: Teachers and staff, grades K-20; students, grades 3-20
Length: 2-3 hours
Content Areas: All

Online Graphics Making and Sharing Resources

Cloud-computing is developing fast, and there are already many impressive new online multimedia processing programs and services for schools to take advantage of. During this workshop, we'll try some very exciting new (and mostly free) online graphics editing and sharing programs and resources. Using PCs in the KET Media Lab, we'll check out sites like Aviary's fun and powerful suite of programs, sites for effects, for file display and sharing, and more.

Audience: Teachers and staff, grades K-20; students, grades 5-20
Length: 2-3 hours
Content Areas: All

Online Video Making & Sharing Resources

Cloud-computing development also includes resources for video production. This workshop investigates new (many free) online video editing and sharing programs and resources. We'll check out web sites for online video editing; resources for pc editing programs; websites for video sharing like the KET School Video Project; websites for free streaming of school video programs; Google's free "Sites" website building and hosting resource that can be used for video sharing, and as much more as we can pack into the workshop.

Audience: Teachers and staff, grades K-20; students, grades 5-20
Length: 2-3 hours
Content Areas: All

Photo and Graphics Resources

This workshop explores using inexpensive or free digital still photography and graphics software for classroom projects.
Laptops, Adobe Photoshop Elements and other software, digital still cameras and other equipment are provided in the KET Media Lab. Topics and skills covered translate well to most graphics programs and computer systems.

Topics include:

Audience: Teachers and staff, grades K-20; students, grades 6-20
Length: 2-3 hours
Content Areas: All

Photo Panoramas for School Projects

It's fun to view photo panoramas. We've found some easy ways to make them for use in classroom projects using free and inexpensive software and online resources. Panorama photos, especially 360-degree ones, are great for making online galleries and virtual tours. Here's an example 360-degree photo panorama of our KET Media Lab's courtyard. It's not hard to do once you know a few basic guidelines and try some free-to-inexpensive resources. You'll soon be able to show students how to use panoramas to make or enhance classroom photo projects that are unique and useful, such as a photo tour of your school. Laptops, software, digital still cameras and other equipment are provided in the KET Media Lab.

Topics include:

Audience: Teachers and staff, grades K-20; students, grades 6-20
Length: 2-3 hours
Content Areas: All

Photoshop Elements Graphics Program - Introduction

This workshop covers the basic use of Adobe Photoshop Elements (Win/Apple) photo/graphics software for editing digital still photographs and graphics for classroom projects. Laptops, Photoshop Elements and other software, digital still cameras, PC drawing tablets, and other equipment are provided in the KET Media Lab. Topics and skills covered translate well to most graphics programs and computer systems.

Topics include:

Audience: Teachers and staff, grades K-20; students, grades 6-20
Length: 2-3 hours
Content Areas: All

Photoshop Elements Graphics Program - Using Layers for Photo Adjustments and Graphic Effects Projects

This workshop covers the use of the powerful and fun tools in Adobe Photoshop Elements (Win/Apple) editing software to build layered photo/graphic compositions for reports, flyers, posters, web pages, and more. Laptops, Photoshop Elements software, digital still cameras, PC drawing tablets, and other equipment are provided in the KET Media Lab. Topics and skills covered translate well to most graphics programs and computer systems.

Topics include:

Audience: Teachers and staff, grades K-20; students, grades 6-20
Length: 2-3 hours
Content Areas: All

Stop-Motion Animation for the Classroom

This fun hands-on workshop introduces the basics of stop-motion animation and how it can be used in a classroom setting to engage students and help them learn. In this workshop you will produce your own short animation from story board to finished video using PC-based equipment in the KET Media Lab.

Topics include:

Audience: Teachers, grades K-20
Length: 2-3 hours
Content Area: All

Design Your Own Workshop

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If none of our workshops addresses your particular needs or those of your students, KET may still be able to help. Contact us to talk about setting up a customized workshop. Possibilities include advanced video production and applications in other content areas.

Audience: Teachers and students, grades K-20
Length: TBA
Content Areas: TBA

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