Colorado Springs School District 11 SharePoint 2010 Training

This is a training on SharePoint 2010. SharePoint is a tool that you can use to expand your classroom, organize, distribute, and communicate resources with/to your students, utilize a digital platform to model digital age work, and prepare your students for a collaborative world. By taking advantage of the following training you will satisfying manyof the ISTE NETs for Teachers and will learn how to use SharePoint to help students with many of the NETs for Students. Welcome to a powerful learning platform!

What is SharePoint?

In the video below you will learn about the ways that SharePoint provides a teacher with a powerful learning/content management platform that will help facilitate communication, collaboration, critical thinking, digital age learning experiences, and data organization.

Sections of the Course:

1. Course Overview	8. Adding/Editing Links
2. Logon Information	9. Adding/Editing Photos
3. Overview of SharePoint Workspaces	10. Sharing Documents with Students
4. Organizing Principles	11. Adding/monitoring Online Discussions
5. Editing Information on Your Main Page	12. Dropboxes
6. Adding-Editing your Calendar	13. Adding/Editing Multimedia Files
7. Adding/Editing Announcements	14. Adding/Using the Content Editor Webpart (For advanced users)

1. Course Overview

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2. Logon Information

By the end of this video users will be able to:

Navigate to the District 11 SharePoint site
Log on to their specific SharePoint site
Logout appropriately at the end of their session

NOTE: Remember that when logging on you must put CSSD11\ in front of your regular district username. Please make sure that you use a backslash ( \ ) and not a forward slash ( / ). When students log into your site they will need to put INSTRUCTSEC\ as this is the domain that they are assigned to.

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3. Overview of SharePoint Workspaces

By the end of this video users will be able to:

Identify the various parts of the main SharePoint interface
Navigate through the various functions of the site
Find the page editing tool
Locate tools on the ribbon
Explain what webparts are and how they add functionality to SharePoint
Find and access the site settings area

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4. Organizing Principles

Coming soon!

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5. Editing Information on Your Main Page

By the end of this video users will be able to:

Use the editing features on the main page
Use the editing features of the ribbon
Find the webpart modification menu
Modify webparts using the side editor

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6. Adding/Editing your Calendar

By the end of this video users will be able to:

Explain why an online calendar is valuable in the classroom
Add items to their calendar
Edit items on the calendar
Delete items on the calendar

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7. Adding/Editing Announcements

By the end of this video users will be able to:

Explain the difference between an announcement and a calendar posting
Explain the uses of announcements for students and parents
Add announcements to the homepage
Edit announcements
Delete announcements

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8. Adding/Editing Links

By the end of this video users will be able to:

Identify ways that links can be used to speed up student/teacher workflow
Add links to the main page of the site
Delete links from the main page

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9. Adding/Editing Photos

By the end of this video users will be able to:

Explain the size requirements for pictures on the main page
Create image folders
Post photos to the photo web part on the main teacher page
Post photos on a web page in SharePoint

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10. Sharing Documents with Students

By the end of this video users will be able to:

Explain the purpose of a shared document library
Create folders in the shared document library
Browse and upload files from a desktop computer
Create links to files in the document library on calendar postings

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11. Adding/monitoring Online Discussions

By the end of this video users will be able to:

Explain the educational benefits of different types of online discussions
Identify best practices for online discussions
Post initial discussion board topics
Explain what threading and collapsing threads are
Set email alerts for discussion boards

Resources:

Improving Discussion Boards

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12. Dropboxes

By the end of this video users will be able to:

Explain what a dropbox is and how dropboxes work in SharePoint
Set up the dropbox workflow
Explain to students how they would use a dropbox to turn in assignments
Access the submitted assignment folder to check student work

Coming Soon!

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13. Adding/Editing Multimedia Files

By the end of this video users will be able to:

Explain how embedded multimedia files can enhance instruction
Explain file requirements and limitations of SharePoint
Upload videos to document library
Embed those videos in media web part
Modify media webpart using ribbon

Resources:
Instructional Media: Chalkboards to Video
This is a good primer for how to use different types of technologies including video in the classroom. The discussion of video begins on page 108 (or 6 in the PDF).
Florida State University. (2010). Instruction at FSU: Teaching and Learning Practices. Center for Teaching and Learning. Retrieved from
http://learningforlife.fsu.edu/ctl/explore/onlineresources/i@fsu.cfm

Web-Based Video in Education: Possibilities and Pitfalls
This is an interesting piece that discusses the widespread adoption of online video in education and lists resources as well as additional questions for thought and study. This resource is included because it also explains the various ways that video is currently being used in different educational situations.

Snelson, C. (2008). "Web-based video in education: Possibilities and Pitfalls". Technology, Colleges & Community Worldwide Online Conference 2008. Retrieved from http://etec.hawaii.edu/proceedings/2008/Snelson2008.pdf

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14. Adding/Using the Content Editor Webpart (For advanced users)

By the end of this video users will be able to:

Explain the potential issues with html/script content editing
Add the content editor webpart to a page
Modify the content editor webpart to use widgets
Embed html/scripted widgets or videos

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