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Organize
a Digital Camera Workshop
and get a FREE digital camera!
Organize
one of our hands-on training workshops to discover what an indispensable
educational tool the digital camera can be. Gather 12 attendees
and get a free 8.0 megapixel digital camera suitable for the yearbook
departments!
Digital
camera workshops can qualify for any of the following budgets:
- Training and staff
development
- Hardware
- Software
- Title 1 or NCLB
- Special education
- PTA or snack cart
Attendees
leave with their own Olympus digital camera and lots of ideas
for using it in the classroom, on field trips, and at home. Plan
your workshop around your school, district or service center's
schedule. Tell us your curriculum ahead of time, how you plan
to use the cameras we'll structure a course to fit your needs.
How
To Organize A Digital Camera Workshop
Step
1 - Set Your Date: Contact Tool Factory with interest and
set a tentative date(s) for your workshop.
Step
2 - Distribute Flyers: Download the premade Flyer
. Edit it using PowerPoint, and save the flyer as a PDF. Then
distribute by email, or make copies to spark interest from your
school, district, or service center.
Step
3 - Sign Up: Get a minimum of 10 attendees, confirm the workshop
date. Get 12 people and get a free camera!
Step
4 - Confirm Schedule: Create a PO, fax/mail to Tool Factory
and eagerly await the fun!
What
Exactly Is Included in A Tool Factory Digital Camera Training
Workshop?
Each person
pays a fee for the training. The Beginner's
School is $499/person, and the Advanced
School is $999/person. The fee includes a 5MP digital camera
(8MP for advanced), an xD picture card, 4 AA rechargeable batteries,
how-to books, online resources, project-building software and
a full day of training. The resources alone add up to more than
the cost of the workshop!
Almost
as soon as the training begins, you'll have a camera in your hands.
We encourage loud talking, heckling, and random button-pushing
during this workshop. Your
first assignment is to take a picture and then playback your photograph
on the camera's monitor. Once you've shot a few pictures, we'll
teach you about the various photography modes by trying out each
one. We'll explore resolution by first taking a picture on half
resolution, then taking a picture on full resolution.
Once you've
grasped the basics, we'll teach you about Macro photography and
send you outside (if it's sunny!) to take some close-ups using
Super Macro. Finally we'll take a panorama shot and then "stitch"
together 5 different photos into one massively long scene. By
the end of the day you will be taking shots like the one below!
Soon you'll
have many pictures to work with, so we'll turn our attention to
the computer. Be careful what you take a picture of...it just
may end up on the projector for the whole class to see! Using
the Olympus MasterSoftware which comes with every Olympus
camera, we'll transfer the pictures through the computer's USB
port. Just plug the camera cable into the computer, and boot Olympus
Master . Within 30 seconds, you'll be making slide shows,
cropping excess pixels, and adjusting your pictures for perfect
lighting. We'll even show you how to draw a mustache on your partner.
Over lunch
we typically take a field trip to a local hotspot. Get firsthand
shooting tip and take some great photos with realtime tips from
the instructor. Return to the lab, do a brief review of photo
touch-up, and start building projects.
One
Hour Workshops
Half
Day Workshops
Full
Day Workshops
Review
these links for a list of workshops we commonly run, then choose
exactly what you'd like to learn. We can create interactive worksheets,
websites and button-linked presentations using Tool Factory software
and digital photographs. Link to the Digital
Camera Projects area of Tool Factory's website, and take a
gander at all the project possibilities. You're welcome to come
back at any time for free ideas and templates to download throughout
the school year.
Select
any of the following software products for your workshop:
Tool
Factory Workshop, includes a Word
Processor, Painter,
Spreadsheet,
and Database.
With Five-Star reviews, and an Editor's Choice Blue Ribbon award
you can't go wrong. You're going to love Tool Factory Workshop!
Learn about desktop publishing. We'll create worksheets by assembling
pictures, rotating them, adding captions, clip art, and even audio
and video to your projects. This will be your first software choice
for the Elementary grade levels.
If you
selected MultiMedia
Lab V as your software, then we'll build websites or web-style
presentations. We'll show you how to build a web project in an
hour. You'll combine pictures, text, audio, and video into a web-ready
project, for easy publishing to the internet. But you won't have
to write a single line of code. The program generates the programming
for you! This is the software you will select for middle and high
school grade levels.
Beginners
School of Photography- $499 per person (includes 6.0 MP digital
camera, software and training)
Advanced
School of Photography - $999 per person (includes 8.0 MP digital
camera, software and training)
Call 1-800-220-8386
for a price quote if you need more cameras, or more than one software
package.
Look at all the great
stuff you get to keep after the workshop:
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