Session Descriptions | Presenter(s) |
Google Apps Basics (Foundational)In this session, you will be introduced to the collaborative storage tool, Google Drive, Creating folders and files, as well as learning how to leverage Google Drive's powerful collaborative functions will be investigated during this session. Expected Outcomes: - Navigate the Google Drive interface - Understand sharing options - Create Google Docs (Google Documents, Google Presentations, & Google Drawings). - Managing files (ie - folders, moving, copying, deleting, incoming, etc). - Upload files to Google Drive, understanding the options for converting that are available. | Chris Trickett Director of Technology |
Formative Assessment with Google Forms (Foundational)Learn how to create and manage Google Forms effectively. This session will end with an opportunity to share ideas concerning formative assessment use in the classroom and school setting. Google Forms offer a time saving tool for anyone working in a school building. Data from the form is automatically collected into a spreadsheet for evaluation. This is a powerful tool that can streamline many tasks. Attendees will also be exposed to some advanced features as well. Expected Outcomes:
| Chris Trickett Director of Technology |
Formative Assessment using Technology (Intermediate)How can digital tools change formative assessment? In this session you will explore a variety of digital formative assessment tools from the lens of both the teacher and the student. Are you using Nearpod? Socrative? Kahoot? Forms? How can these tools and many others make gathering student data more simplistic? How can they make formative assessment more engaging to students? How do they allow us to differentiate our formative assessment? Not only will you experience many of these tools first-hand, you’ll also have time to begin developing an assessment of your own in this session. Allowing for real-time instructional shifts to personalize instruction. During this session, you will be able to create you own formative assessment from a choice of tools that fit your instructional goals. This session is differentiated for both tablet and chromebook classrooms. Expected Outcomes:
| Sara Kahl Instructional Technology Coach |
Digital Storytelling / Multimedia (Intermediate)In this session, you will participate in an App Smash challenge where you will work with a small team of teachers to create a lesson that implements digital storytelling/multimedia creation with your students. You will explore a variety of creation tools, as well as resources for developing and using rubrics and storyboarding. This session is differentiated for both tablet and chromebook classrooms. Expected Outcomes:
| Chris McCaffrey Instructional Technology Specialist |
Classroom Hubs / Digital Portfolios (Intermediate)When assessing students in a digital environment e-portfolios allow students to provide a variety of different assessment artifacts to justify and represent the learning process. Google Sites provides an easily accessible platform for creating a Classroom Hub for teachers and E-Portfolios for students. | Rick Lapi Instructional Technology Coach |
Making Google+ Work for You (Intermediate)This session will focus on using Google+ to build your Personal Learning Network (PLN). The session will start with a Google+ overview and setting up your Google+ profile. You will then build effective circles and join educational communities based on your content and focus area. You will leave the session with a firm understanding of why is it important to become connected as an educator and how you can make Google+ work for you. | Sara Kahl Instructional Technology Coach |
Blended / Flipped Learning (Intermediate)Blended Learning is a form of instruction that incorporates both traditional face-to-face instruction with web-based multimedia instruction, which overlaps with the skills of flipping instruction. Learn how to shift teaching methods, and even perspectives from a traditional to a flipped approach. Plan a flipped lesson/activity, identify instructional strategies, tools, and technologies appropriate for the topic and then create an assessment plan that includes both formal and informal measurements of student learning. | Dan Kaufmann Instructional Technology Coach +danielkaufmannwsd | @kaudan721 |
Google Maps Across Content Areas (Intermediate)Maps aren’t just for Social Studies. Learn how to utilize and create Google maps in any classroom to enhance learning, collaboration, and engagement. | Dan Kaufmann Instructional Technology Coach |
Gamify your Class (Advanced)Gamification will address the principals of gamifying your class. Teachers will learn the background of gamification in business and education, the principals of implementing gamification into their class, and strategies to manage gamification. | Rick Lapi Instructional Technology Coach |
Enhancing your Classroom with Add-ons and App-Smashing (Advanced)Are you already using Google Apps for Education? Do you wish that it had more to offer? By smashing different apps together or by using add-ons for Google Apps you can enhance how you are already using these tools in your classroom. | Chris McCaffrey Instructional Technology Specialist |