Monday
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:50
- Digitizing Collaboration: Leveraging Technology to Share Best Practices
- Carla Amacher, Mandy Estes & Tracy Rieger - Round Rock ISD
- https://todaysmeet.com/rrisdtots
- rrisdpd.blogspot.com
- bit.ly/rrisdpd
- #rrisdpd
- Using Google+ to break down walls between campuses
- Leveraging power of Google Apps integration … especially Google+
- This IS A BUSINESS TOOL! Not just a “share what you had for lunch” tool
- RRISD has over 150 Google+ communities - IMPRESSIVE!
- The expectation is … just join it. The rest will happen naturally.
- “Professional Facebook”
- A community is not a website - it’s a conversation. Once your start using a tool for something it wasn’t designed to do, it’s not going to work.
- Using communities with principals, forms for quick feedback, sharing celebrations across the district, creating community with leaders
- Commitment to principals - no new information will be posted this year (pilot) in the Google+Communities … non-threatening
- “Link Leadership to Student Learning”
- Vertical Learning Teams for feeder campuses - break down walls, increase communication
- Get upper management on board for success - beyond grassroots with pockets of teachers
- Communication ---> Collaboration ---> Creativity --->Critical Thinking
- Tips
- Post to celebrate or illicit a response
- Conversation is the goal
- Be mindful
- Google+ Bullies - don’t say anything mean, but take over the stream and dominate the conversation
- Contracting with Professional Developers to join RRISD Google+ communities for ongoing PD between the teachers and the experts
- Some are even offering “office hours” via Hangouts within the communities
12:00 - 12:50
- Ten Tools for the Effective Elementary Principal
2:40 - 3:30
- Creating a Global Classroom Using Google+
- Zack Snow (@zacksnow), Susan Snow (@suziesnow)
- I tell good teachers to keep teaching and keep writing good lesson plans. But when you get your assessment data back and you know Johnny should have done better, consider that you might need to up your engagement.
- Check out these Google+ Communities
3:40 - 4:30
- Get Googley without Going Google
Tuesday
8:00 - 8:50
- Your Happy Classroom: 10 Tips for Successful Tech Integration
- Terice Schneider, Vicki Ventura
- Terice Schneider Pinterest Site
- Everything you do with technology is about the work before the kids walk in the door.
- Routine and training are ESSENTIAL.
- Think about … how are the kids going to “hand something in” when using technology?
- Tip #2 - Signal for “Hands off and listen”
- “Apples up” - if using iPads, teacher has to see the Apple logo
- Practice BEFORE you get the devices out! (Can practice with paper with an apple)
- Tip #3 - Have spaces for the kids to move FREELY.
- Tip #4 - Classroom Norms: Few and Effective
- Use “norms” instead of “rules”
- 3-5 things that are positive instead of “Don’t do this!”
- Kennedy Powell (KP” High Five
- Be prepared.
- Be responsible.
- Be respectful.
- Give my best effort.
- Be positive.
- Tip #5 - Practice EVERYTHING with role playing.
- Tip #6 - Allow the camera to be used!
- Tip #7 - Collaboration is key.
- Let the students teach each other. It’s ok!
- Tip #8 - Protect the device (inside and outside)
- Tip #9 - Courage and vulnerability are your friends.
- Research shows you cannot have innovation without vulerability - you have to be willing to fail!
- Tip #10 - Things don’t work … now what?!
- Failure is not a bad thing. Have a plan b!
10:00 - 10:50
- Technology: A Second Look
- Joanne Baham, Lisa Taylor Cook, Sharla Schneider
11:00 - 11:50
- Get Googley without Going Google
12:00 - 12:50
2:00 - 2:50
- Your Kids Face to Face with Experts via Google Hangouts
- Autumn Pulling, Matthew Lahey