Wednesday, March 14, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Ready, Set, Create! Transform your Classroom with Photoshop Elements 

Registration Code: WE67

Sara Martin/Technology Coordinator and Teacher

Hart-Ransom School District

Co-Presenter: /Technology Coordinator and Teacher

Role of Presenter: Teacher

Description: Receive hands-on training on the use of Photoshop Elements 7, including specific lesson ideas that integrate technology with middle school curriculum and standards. Lessons can be adapted to upper elementary and high school.

Prerequisites: Not Required

Outline: The objectives of this workshop are:

1. Provide practical training in the use of this software program

2. Introduce the program via mini projects that give participants time to practice skills as they are presented.

3. Motivate teachers to use the program by sharing specific lesson ideas and student examples of those ideas.

Agenda:

Introductions

Learning Basic Elements Tools (through simple projects)

Selection Tools, Layer and Shapes, Filters and Text, Drawing Tools, Digital Art

Digital Images, Photo Editing and Digital Picture Repair

Composite Pictures, Changing File Formats

Ideas for Integrated Projects

Photoshop can be an intimidating program to learn. Using this step by step method of training, teachers leave excited and equipped to begin using and teaching with this versatile software program. Basics of the program are presented via mini projects that give participants time to practice skills as they are introduced. In addition, participates will have access to step-by-step instructions for each lesson covered in the workshop, including screen shots.

Audience: Grades 3-12

Expertise: Novice

Strand: Curriculum/Technology Integration

Presenter Background: The presenter, Sara Martin, has been teaching with Adobe software in her middle school classroom for the past 13 years. She is also an Adobe Education Leader who received Adobe's Education Impact Award in 2010. She presents regularly at local and national conferences including ISTE (formerly necc), FETC, CUE, ISMF, NETA, NMSA, and more. In 2006 and 2008 she received necc's "Best of Show" award for her workshops in San Diego and San Antonio. Sara was runner up for Teacher of the Year for Stanislaus County in 2009. She received her master’s in Educational Technology in 2006 from Sacramento State University.

http://www.hartransom.org/NCCE/PEPE_2012.html