An ever increasing list of short and to-the-point courses for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) teachers, addressing classroom and out-of-classroom applications that make use of standard office programs: Word processors, Spreadsheets, Presentations softwware, etc.
This course includes short tutorials on various applications for science teachers, and the corresponding Q&A (questions and answers) forum. For example, how to make crosswords and concept maps. The contents will be updated with further applications and contributions from teachers, coming  particularly
from the Q&A section.
This course addresses producing graphs in three different applications: making graphs in general, and adding trend curves to the graphs. These are essential applications for science teachers. A Q&A (questions and answers) forum completes the course. The contents will be updated with further applications and contributions from teachers, coming in particular from contributions to the Q&A section.
This course contains three short applications for science teachers and the corresponding Q&A (questions and answers) forums. We shall learn to prepare a table for drawing a circle, then we shall answer the question "How many students have the same birthday in your class" and finally we¡ll learn to build histograms. The contents will be updated with further applications and contributions from teachers, coming in particular from contributions to the Q&A section.
This course includes short tutorials on file conversion and file sharing. We shall see how to convert texts and presentations, for instance, to PDF (and other formats) and make them immediately available via Internet. You may also download them. And we shall learn how to share files from your computer with colleagues and students. Each tool includes a Q&A (questions and answers) forum. The contents will be updated with further applications and contributions from teachers, coming particularly from the Q&A section.
On top of being rigorous, well paced and adequate for the learning audience, teaching materials in STEM and all subjects have to look attractive to students. This course touches briefly upon two aspects of materials design: the harmony of colors used in text and images, and the question of headers in presentations. This complements the course "Letters and colors in teaching materials”.
A Q&A (questions and answers) forum allows for suggestions from participating teachers. The course contents will be updated with further applications and contributions from teachers, specially those coming from the Q&A section.
A recurrent task for Science Teachers is to edit, modify, manipulate images, etc. The free software GIMP is a very powerful and easy-to-use tool. We shall learn the basics of this program.
The contents will be updated with further applications and contributions from teachers, coming  particularly from the Q&A section of the course. 
Teachers routinely prepare materials for their students. A few basic ideas and resources concerning letter types and colors are quite useful to have. This course includes short tutorials on letters & colors and some examples for teachers. A Q&A (questions and answers) forum completes the course. The course contents will be updated with further applications and contributions from teachers, specially those coming from the Q&A section.


This course includes a short tutorial on a free software that allows to capture full or partial screens. This is a very useful tool for techers preparing teaching materials and exercises. Other options are also considered. A Q&A (questions and answers) forum for teachers' exchange completes the course. The course contents will be updated with further applications and contributions from teachers, specially those coming from the Q&A section.
It is a VERY short but equally useful course that may surprise some teachers who are not aware of the partial screen capture possibilities.
With the advent of the Web 2.0, especially with the possibility of communicating and collaborating easily, the necessary development of Personal Learning Environments has emerged in the Educational context. We shall develop this concept and see various examples of PLEs. Our students will welcome out guidance in the development of their personal digital environments.

This is a simple course to create posters. We will explain how to create the content of a scientific-type poster and how to do it with PowerPoint.

We will divide the course in 2 main parts: Content of the poster and PowerPoint use with some tips and hints on how to create easily your poster.