LTA+PD+March+25,+2010


 * Professional Development **
 * Library Technical Assistants with Karen Urgitis – Wequonnoc School Library **

March 25, 2010

Welcome and Overview of the Day

Web Site Status Check – Google Analytics – What does the data indicate?

Parking Lot (Discussion) – What can be done that you don’t know about: prioritizing What you know can be done but don’t know how to do: acquiring What you still need to be successful: planning

Web Site Scavenger Hunt – How does our site/s compare to those of other schools/districts?

Image Optimization Overview What does image optimization mean? What are good sources of images? How do we remain copyright compliant? Why is this important for web page construction?

Lunch Break – on your own – 1 hour

Image Optimization Activity Group activity – optimizing an image in MS Paint Demonstration – determining image attributes and ways to enhance images [|Self-paced activity] – working with digital images

Parking Lot (Discussion) – How does image optimization help create better web pages? What optimization tasks are most important? How does a good starting photograph facilitate all tasks in optimization?

Sharing Images – Photo Enhancing Software – (Photoshop and Photoshop Elements)

Next Steps

Closure – 3:30 pm