Chapter Excerpts from the 2008 Summercore Primer

This 2008 edition is called the 5 + 20 + 34 = 17 edition since it is our hope that Kevin Garnett (#5), Ray Allen (#20) and Paul Pierce (#34) will help the Boston Celtics win their 17th NBA championship!
Last revised 6/1/08

If you are thinking of coming to Summercore or bringing Summercore to your school -- but not yet decided -- browsing these pages should help you realize that Summercore is a unique and original 5 day professional growth workshop. If you are coming to Summercore, browsing the chapter excerpts below will give you an excellent overview of topics, themes, skills and vocabulary to provide you with a head start in our marathon week.
Steve Bergen

The homework preparation for Summercore is to pick any 6 of the 16 chapters from The Summercore Primer and read, browse, peruse the excerpts that are posted here ... this is important!

p.s. the 2008 Table of Contents is at the bottom!
p.p.s. regarding the PDFs below, you can drag the link to your desktop (or right mouse click on a PC or CTRL-click on a Mac as a tip to get the file onto your Mac or PC ... alternatively, click here for one 1.8 meg zipped file that contains all 16 of the chapter excerpts

  1. Chapter 1 ... 4 pages of the 16 page chapter called "Computer Hardware and Vocabulary"

  2. Chapter 2 ... 3 pages of the 8 page chapter called "Nothing But Net: Get Connected!"

  3. Chapter 3 ... 10 pages of the 20 page chapter called "Educational Software and Web Sites"

  4. Chapter 4 ... 3 pages of the 88 page chapter called "Humanware"

  5. Chapter 5 ... 4 pages of the 22 page chapter called "Ideas and Samples from Three Schools: Concord, Nobles, and Chapin"

  6. Chapter 6 ... 3 pages of the 25 page chapter called "Get on The Web "

  7. Chapter 7 ... 3 pages of the 12 page chapter called "Useful One Page Handouts "

  8. Chapter 8 ... 3 pages of the 18 page chapter called "Thinking Outside the Box"

  9. Chapter 9 ... pages 3 pages of the 14 page chapter called "Mac & Windows JV Skills"

  10. Chapter 10 ... 3 pages of the 10 page chapter called "Mac & Windows Varsity Skills"

  11. Chapter 11 ... 4 pages of the 14 page chapter called "To Copy or Not to Copy"

  12. Chapter 12 ... 3 pages of the 14 page chapter called "Word Processing"

  13. Chapter 13 ... 3 pages of the 16 page chapter called "Spreadsheets"

  14. Chapter 14 ... 3 of the 10 page chapter called "Blogs, Wikis, and RSS"

  15. Chapter 15 ... 3 pages of the 42 page chapter called "Software Tips: Step By Step"

  16. Chapter 16 ... 6 pages of the 10 page chapter called "Web 2.0"

  17. Click here for the INDEX page 341 ...www.summercore.com/hell

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