Amy Provano

Welcome

Welcome.  I hope this site will be of benefit to the teachers I support within CCSD.  Many of the entries are in support of the workshops I conduct. Others are FAQs.

If you are a PC user, click on the category to the left for PC Users for the posts pertaining to that platform.  If you are a Mac user, click on the category to the left for Mac Users for the posts pertaining to that platform.  All other postings my pertain to both platforms and will be accessible within both categories.

My recent posts will be accessible from the right column and the archive of my posts are found below on the right.  Please contact me with any comments or suggestions.

SMART Board Lesson Tool Kit

Did you know the latest version of SMART Board that has been approved is 9.7?

If you do not have this version, then place a request for your local TSS to install this version. 

Did you know that the Lesson Toolkit has been approved for download?

Click this Lesson Toolkit link and follow the on screen instructions.  The gallery download is 67 mg, so it will take some time.

After the download is complete, open your SMART Board notebook, and in your gallery you will see the Lesson Toolkit.

Download this notebook to see some of the new tools available with the Lesson Toolkit.

Download examples.notebook

Download this Quick Reference Guide for using the Lesson Toolkit

Quick Reference Guide for Lesson Toolkit

Photo Story 3

Beyond PowerPoint but before Movie Maker user Photo Story 3.  Here is a handout on how to organize a project using PowerPoint as your story board and importing your slides into Photo Story.

Photo Story Project Using PowerPoint Slides

Preview this example a project saved as an email attachment

Download PhotoStory0.wmv

Direct link to Photo Story Download

Adobe Elements

The following document will assist you in using Adobe Elements in your classroom and with your students

Adobe Elements

MS Publisher

Quick Reference Guide for MS Publisher 2003

Sample of Calendar created in Publisher and saved as a jpg

   

Sample of Brochure created in Publisher and saved as a jpt

Video of 21st Century Learners

Great video about the 21st Century Learner

http://segatech.us/archives/2247

Excel Basics

The following document is a how-to manual for Excel 2000

Excel2000 Basics

The following document list great websites to learn, plan, and use Excel in your classroom

Excel Websites

Microsoft Office Tools - Picture Manager

Editing Photos

You can use Microsoft Office Picture Manager to make corrections to your pictures such as fixing brightness, color, or removing red eyes. To save time, select all the pictures you want to correct at one time, then use Auto Correct or one of the individual picture editing tools.

The editing tools available in Office Picture Manager include:

• Brightness and contrast   Allows you to adjust the difference between light and dark tones. You can use this feature to correct pictures that appear too light or too dark.
• Color   Allows you to adjust the hue and saturation.  You can use this feature to correct pictures with colors that are tinted or dull.
• Crop   Allows you to crop out unwanted parts of a picture. You can use this feature to correct pictures that contain distracting elements.
• Rotate and Flip   Allows you to rotate pictures or flip them on the current axis of the picture. You can use this feature to correct pictures that you have taken sideways for a portrait orientation.
• Red eye removal   Allows you to remove the red from your picture subjects' eyes caused by the camera's flash. You can use this feature to correct red eyes wherever they appear.
• Resize   Allows you to change the dimensions of a picture. You can use this feature to enlarge a picture for printing or reduce it to send in e-mail messages or share on the Internet.

Download the following pictures to practice editing some photographs

Windows Media Player 10

Clip art licensed from the Clip Art Gallery on DiscoverySchool.com"

Windows Media Player 10

You can use Microsoft® Windows Media® Player 10 to play and organize digital media files on your computer and on the Internet. In addition, you can use the Player to play, rip, and burn CDs; and play DVDs

The following document is a basic how-to guide for working with or creating audio CDs.

Download introducing_windows_media_player.pdf

Video of my lesson

Here it isDownload november_12_2007_01.avi

GPB/Video Streaming Website

GPB/Discovery Education (unitedstreaming) - Video Resource

Discovery Education ( unitedstreaming) is the comprehensive K-12 library of digital video resources that have been available to CCSD teachers for 3 years.  These resources are provided for Georgia schools through Georiga Pubic Broadcasting.  The site is located at:

http://gpb.unitedstreaming.com

There are several new features of GPB united streaming, along with a new process for logging into the site to access the videoes.  Each teacher must create an individual username and password, which will provide capabilities to utilize some exciting new features.  The process for creating your username and password will require a passcode.  You can obtain your passcode from your local media specialist.

Please remember that this is a teacher resource.  This passcode is to be used only by the teachers and staff at your school to establish an individual teacher account.

Download the following Quick Start User Guide retrieved from the website on 10/30/2006. Download QuickstartGPB.pdf . This guide will cover the following topics:

Search Tools - Use a variety of dynamic search tools to quickly locate video segments, images, encyclopedia articles, audio giles, quizzes, events, lesson plans, animations and clip art.

Viewing Videos - How to play and download/save videos for PC or Mac.

My Content - Collect, organize, share and retrieve unitedsteaming media resources

Teacher Center - Build dynamic, interactive multimedia projects for your students.