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Micki Halsey Randall
Micki Halsey Randall
(Silverton - United States)
After graduating from Oregon State University with a degree in Biology and a minor in Chemistry, I continued to work in the medical field. Three years later, I decided it was time to pursue my passion and entered the MAT program at Pacific University. I ...

FEATURED PARTNER: Atomic Learning

Atomic Learning provides Web-based software training for more than 110 applications students and educators use everyday. Our short, easy-to-view-and-understand tutorials are an integral part of a professional development program, a valuable curriculum supplement, and an anytime/anywhere software training resource.

www.AtomicLearning.com


Atomic Learning Resources

Tutorial Library
Atomic Learning training and support provides short, one to three minute tutorials that walk the user, step-by-step, through how to perform the desired task. The Atomic Learning library consists of over 35,000 tutorials on more than 110 software applications for both Macintosh and Windows platforms, available in both Flash and QuickTime. Closed captioning and tutorials in Spanish are also available.

Workshops
Atomic Learning's workshops are a valuable resource to help school faculty and staff members learn essential communication skills, covering topics such as: charting, blogging, podcasting, mail merge, Web 2.0, newsletters, PC security, wikis and Storyboard Pro.

Lesson Accelerators
Lesson Accelerators teach essential software skills while using tutorial movies to demonstrate how to create curriculum-based technology projects. Lesson Accelerators can be used in the classroom with students, or by teachers as a professional development tool. Content includes a wide range of subject areas, and can easily be adapted to others.


Atomic Training

Atomic Training is an online system that combines the benefits of Web-based hosting with a customizable platform. Atomic Training provides you with an online training platform that puts your school in complete control to manage and share digital resources.

www.AtomicTraining.com


Sample Tutorials

Family Connections Lesson Accelerator

Students will use presentation software to create a slideshow about their families. The goal of this tutorial is to provide students with a sense of their personal history and how it might connect to the history of others in their class, as well as to provide students with the basic skills necessary to use a presentation software program.

Shape the World Lesson Accelerator

Students will have the opportunity to use software tools for building a creative multimedia presentation about a subject they have been researching and/or studying.

Blogging - The New Model for Building Collaboration in the Classroom

This document outlines how blogs can be used as an educational tool and the impact that they can have in a classroom setting.

Professional Development through Just-in-Time Learning Webinar

There are many challenges schools face when developing effective Professional Development programs — lack of time, high cost and limited follow-up resources, to name only a few. This Webinar will illustrate the Professional Development strategies of two districts that both culminate with the same approach — just in time learning.
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