Rebel U 2015
September 2, 2015
Below you will find an outline of the sessions offered during the day. Click on any of the links to read more about the session or just scroll down to read all of the awesome things our presenters and facilitators will be sharing throughout the day!
Session Offerings & Descriptions |
Session 1 | Session 2 |
Session 3 | Session 4 |
Session 1 |
Making and Using QR Codes
Presenter: Heather Vernon
Website: http://mrsvernon.weebly.com
Twitter: @aubswesmom
Target Grade Level(s): K-2, 3-5
Subject Areas: All Subjects
Target Audience Level(s): Introductory
Description: You will learn how to make QR codes and how students can use them to independently learn.
Zapping Into Creative Lessons
Presenter: Chris DeMaagd
Twitter: @ChristineMDeM
Target Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
Subject Areas: All Subjects
Target Audience Level(s): Intermediate
Description: We will explore Zaption which is a web app for teachers which uses video as an interactive experience. Creators can add images, text, quizzes and discussions to private videos as well as those from YouTube and Vimeo to create a “learning tour.”
The Secrets of Google
Presenter: Ron Houtman
Website: http://www.ronhoutman.com
Twitter: @ronhoutman
Target Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
Subject Areas: All Subjects
Target Audience Level(s): All Levels
Description: What does Google know about you? What other Google tools and sites are out there that you never knew about, but might use? In this session, we’ll do an in depth tour of all the things Google knows about you and then some helpful applications that you can use in your day to day life to make you more efficient and effective.
MAISA ELA Grammar Units
Presenter: Mark Raffler
Website: http://www.protopage.com/markraffler
Twitter: @markraffler
Target Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
Subject Areas: English/Language Arts
Target Audience Level(s): All Levels
Description: Get support in embedding grammar in your literacy instruction. Come find about these free resources supporting the MAISA ELA Units. We will talk through grammar glossaries, grammar calendars, and grammar mini-lessons as well as professional learning opportunities around grammar. See you there!
Teaching Academic Vocabulary
Presenters: Erica Hilliker & Libbie Drake
Website: http://bit.ly/siopell
Twitter: @libbied
Target Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
Subject Areas: ELL
Target Audience Level(s): All Levels
Description: In this session, you will learn a multi-step process that you can use in your classroom to teach academic vocabulary to all students. This process can be used with any informational text and incorporates reading, writing, listening, and speaking tasks. We will walk you through the process step-by-step so that you can recreate it in your classroom.
Make It & Take It
Presenter: Sarah Wood
Website: http://myedtechworld.weebly.com
Twitter: @woodsar
Target Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
Subject Areas: All Subjects
Target Audience Level(s): All Levels
Description: This session is a FLIPPED session that will REQUIRE you to participate in providing some information and doing some work before you attend on the day of Rebel U. This session is structured to be personalized to your learning needs (through the flipped PD model) where you will build a lesson (MAKE IT) that you can walk away with to implement in your classroom (TAKE IT).
Benefits of Video Production for Our District and Your Building
Presenter: Kelly McGee
Website: https://sites.google.com/a/godfrey-lee.org/the-centers/
Twitter: @lukevan12
Target Grade Level(s): Administrators
Subject Areas: Technology, Video Production
Target Audience Level(s): All Levels
Description: In this session we will discuss strategies on how video production can benefit our district and enhance how we communicate and engage our educational community.
Session 2 |
Storybird
Presenter: Elayna Durso
Website: http://mrsedurso.weebly.com/
Twitter: @DaRubiaMi
Target Grade Level(s): 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Subject Areas: ELA, Social Studies, World Languages, Technology, Health, Art
Target Audience Level(s): All Levels
Description: A description and demonstration on what is Storybird, how to use, how to manage students' work and how to make it connect to your content area.
Apple Remote Desktop for Teachers
Presenter: Freddie Avalos
Twitter: @FANEAVA
Target Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
Subject Areas: All Subjects
Target Audience Level(s): Intermediate
Description: Do you have a cart of Macs in your classroom? Does your curious mind ever wonder, "geese, I wish I could view my students screens without being so obvious!" As you stroll around the classroom windows start closing and applications begin quitting and some students are looking pretty nervous (a few I'm sure). Well that doesn't help anyone.
I'd like to give teachers a demo of a tool created by Apple for Macs. Apple Remote Desktop, is an app developed and sold by Apple for $79.99 per Apple ID. This demo will be great for the curious minds and the super sleuths amongst us.
Come join my session, if you choose to accept it....
Apple Remote Desktop in the Mac App store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/apple-remote-desktop/id409907375?mt=12
One lucky participant will receive an App Store gift card, good luck! Must be present to win, and 18 years or older. Restrictions apply, and I will not be purchasing this app for every teacher in the district.
Aurasma Awesomeness
Presenter: Olivia Alkema
Website: http://mrsalkema.weebly.com
Twitter: @oalkema
Target Grade Level(s): 3-5, 6-8
Subject Areas: All Subjects
Target Audience Level(s): Intermediate
Description: In this session I will show you how to use Aurasma as an assessment tool in your classroom. I will show examples of how I used Aurasma last year for student book talks. Once you have an understanding of the basics of Aurasma, you will be able to use it in your own way for a variety of content in your own classroom. In this session we will focus on using the Aurasma App. Please bring an iPad in order to interact with the Auras and to create your own.
Get Started with Digital Assessments Using Formative
Presenter: Andrew Steinman
Website: http://www.kentisd.org/instructional-services/educational-technology/
Twitter: @steinman
Target Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
Subject Areas: All Subjects
Target Audience Level(s): Introductory, Intermediate
Description: Formative is a new assessment tool that allows you transform paper/pencil assessments into online assessments where students can actually draw and show their work! Bring one of your old assessments to this hands-on experience because you will not only learn how to use Formative, you will build an online assessment that can be used with students the very next day. This session is device agnostic and welcomes both beginners and experts of online assessments.
What Font Should I Use?
Presenter: Andrea Hall & Deedee Stasiak
Website: http://missstasiak.weebly.com
Twitter: @AHallELL & @MissStasiak
Target Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
Subject Areas: All Subjects
Target Audience Level(s): Introductory
Description: Learn the secrets of finding the best free fonts, backgrounds, and graphics! We will also explore the brain-based research behind font selection including which fonts to use and which fonts to avoid (looking at you, Comic Sans). Time will be given to download free files and to begin experimenting with suggested font pairings to create super-cute TpT-worthy documents of your very own.
Google Classroom
Presenter: Dan Townsend
Website: http://tech.godfrey-lee.org
Twitter: @dtownsend20
Target Grade Level(s): 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Subject Areas: All Subject
Target Audience Level(s): Intermediate
Description: Google Classroom, a new tool in Google Apps, has the potential to improve instruction and learning for everyone. Learn what Google Classroom is, how to get started, and how to incorporate it into your instruction. Explore how to give authentic, immediate feedback and how to create a virtual dialogue with your students.
Handouts: https://goo.gl/Jz6T8W
What Connected Educators Do Differently
Presenter: David Britten
Website: http://rebel6.blogspot.com/
Twitter: @colonelb
Target Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels, Administrators
Subject Areas: Professional Learning
Target Audience Level(s): All Levels
Description: What do connected educators -- teachers and administrators -- do that sets them apart from their less-connected colleagues, helping them perform more effectively and efficiently as a result? This session will define what getting connected means, why it matters and how it looks. Based on recent work by Todd Whitaker, Jimmy Casas and Jeffrey Zoul, we'll explore how to invest in a P(2)LN; use social-networking tools to learn what you want to know, when you want to know it, and how you want to know it; embrace the 3 C's of communication, collaboration and community; and, be a "giver" as well as a "taker" in your online community of personal and professional learners.
Session 3 |
SAT Today, What's Tomorrow?
Presenter: Gab Snyder
Website: http://www.snydersworld.edublogs.org
Twitter: @gbriels
Target Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
Subject Areas: All subjects, ELA
Target Audience Level(s): Intermediate, All Levels
Description: Take a focus in what the SAT will look like for our students in 2015/16.
Interactive Notebooking
Presenter: Melissa Gill & Amanda Hicks
Website: http://bit.ly/gill6ela & http://bit.ly/hicks6math
Twitter: @mjgill6 & @awigent
Target Grade Level(s): 3-5, 6-8
Subject Areas: All subjects, ELA, Math
Target Audience Level(s): All Levels
Description: Learn the basics of how to make interactive notebooks work in your classroom. Everything from preparation, execution, and tips and tricks we have learned along the way!
Please bring a "practice" notebook so you can work hands-on with these strategies.
Be a Student Information Superhero!
Presenter: Christi Gilbert
Website: http://zonesmath.com
Twitter: @cgilbert
Target Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
Subject Areas: All Subjects
Target Audience Level(s): Introductory
Description: Student conferencing, small groups, and all types of assessments - oh my! How do you collect and organize all of this information in a format you can USE? This session will cover four different {free} websites that enable you to easily collect, analyze, and use the the data you gather on a daily basis. You can use these technology resources whether you have one device in your classroom, or you are 1:1!
Action Learning
Presenter: Craig Steenstra
Twitter: @csteenst
Target Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
Subject Areas: All Subjects
Target Audience Level(s): Intermediate, Advanced
Description: This session will focus on strategies for involving students in creating, submitting, and responding to content-related work (AKA action learning). Participants will contribute to various activities that demonstrate how to use Google Forms, Blogger, and social media to gather student work in different ways and then act on the collected products in meaningful ways.
Using Desmos and Geogebra in the Math Classroom
Presenter: Rusty Anderson
Twitter: @randerson_math
Target Grade Level(s): 9-12
Subject Areas: Math
Target Audience Level(s): Introductory, Intermediate
Description: We will engage in using technology to model and represent mathematical situations. Specifically, we will focus utilizing Desmos and Geogebra.
Engagement 101
Presenter: Dan Townsend & Sarah Wood
Website: http://tech.godfrey-lee.org & http://myedtechworld.weebly.com
Twitter: @dtownsend20 & @woodsar
Target Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
Subject Areas: All Subject
Target Audience Level(s): All Levels
Description: Get your creative juices flowing and spark student engagement! Through the Makerspace concept, you will explore creative, do-it-yourself activities that can helps students come together to create, invent, and learn. Makerspaces are a great way to bridge into STEM/STEAM and to reignite students' love of learning, tinkering, and inventing through creating.
Leading for Blended Learning
Presenter: Jamie DeWitt & Jeff Gerlach
Website: http://www.myblend.org
Twitter: @jamiedewitt & @JGer1
Target Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
Subject Areas: All Subject Areas
Target Audience Level(s): All Levels
Description: Blended learning is the concept of combining face-to-face and online learning opportunities for students within a single course. One question that teachers ask themselves as they begin to design a blended course is what aspects of the course are best served by the face-to-face environment and which are best served online? This will be an energetic, hands-on workshop with a focus on how to think through this process, approaching each environment as synergistic parts of a whole course. Together, we will consider which environment best serves the intended instructional outcomes and the unique needs of each of your students (collectively and individually). Participants will get a chance to apply this holistic approach by analyzing mock lesson scenarios and they will leave the session with an understanding of how they can apply this approach to their own blended environment.
Session 4 |
Assessment, Data, and the Daily 5: The structure for starting your year off right
Presenter: Sara Dewey & Rita Buck
Target Grade Level(s): K-2, 3-5
Subject Areas: ELA
Target Audience Level(s): All Levels
Description: Participants will take a close look at how to effectively start the first 30 days of Daily 5. They will understand what data they should be looking for and how to use it to drive whole group, small group, and one-on-one instruction.
MS Grade Book Work Session
Presenter: Melissa Gill, Sonna Pohlson, and Beth Brumels
Website: http://bit.ly/gill6ela / http://bit.ly/pohl6sci / http://brumels.weebly.com
Twitter: @mjgill6 / @spohlson / @bethbrumels
Target Grade Level(s): 6-8
Subject Areas: All Subjects
Target Audience Level(s): All Levels
Description: A work session on how to set up your middle school standards based grading grade book for the year.
RebelNet: Your Unified Workspace
Presenter: Dan Verwolf
Website: http://www.stone-ware.com
Twitter: @dverwolf
Target Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels, Administrators
Subject Areas: All Subjects
Target Audience Level(s): All Levels
Description: RebelNet gives teachers and students a single place to go to access all of their digital resources from anywhere on any device using a single username and password. This session will show you how to access, utilize, and customize your workspace in the cloud.
Learn a Gazillion with LearnZillion
Presenter: Andrea Hall & Debbie Schuitema
Website:
Twitter: @AHallELL & @dschuitema
Target Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
Subject Areas: All subjects, ELL
Target Audience Level(s): Introductory
Description: Teach like the experts! LearnZillion provides visual, conceptual explanations of the Common Core State Standards, supplemental math resources that stimulate problem-solving, perseverance and the "math talk" required by the new standards; close reading plans that help students become confident readers and precise writers; and interactive "WriteAlong" writing intervention videos and worksheets.
This session is appropriate for teachers who facilitate learning in grades 2-12.
Genius Hour & Providing Opportunities for Creativity
Presenter: Deedee Stasiak
Website: http://missstasiak.weebly.com
Twitter: @MissStasiak
Target Grade Level(s): K-2, 3-5
Subject Areas: All Subjects
Target Audience Level(s): All Levels
Description: Allow for students to explore their own passions and encourage creativity in the classroom! Learn about ways to provide your students with choice and make learning fun!
Conversation & Demonstrations
Presenter: Jason Faasse
Twitter: @JasonFaasse
Target Grade Level(s): 6-8, 9-12
Subject Areas: All Subjects
Target Audience Level(s): All Levels
Description: This is a session where you will have the opportunity to see students paired with teachers, showing off learning experiences and projects. This session will include small group conversations where you are encouraged to speak to students (and teachers!), ask questions, watch demonstrations, and be inspired.
Note: This is open to all, but will feature high school students and projects.
Featured Pairs:
Brian McKanna & Selena Knutson
Jim Jensen & Valeria Marin
Andrea Donovan & Meleny Salvatierra
Blending Holistically
Presenter: Jeff Gerlach & Jamie DeWitt
Website: http://www.myblend.org
Twitter: @JGer1 & @jamiedewitt
Target Grade Level(s): All Grade Levels
Subject Areas: All Subject Areas
Target Audience Level(s): All Levels
Description: Blended learning is the concept of combining face-to-face and online learning opportunities for students within a single course. One question that teachers ask themselves as they begin to design a blended course is what aspects of the course are best served by the face-to-face environment and which are best served online? This will be an energetic, hands-on workshop with a focus on how to think through this process, approaching each environment as synergistic parts of a whole course. Together, we will consider which environment best serves the intended instructional outcomes and the unique needs of each of your students (collectively and individually). Participants will get a chance to apply this holistic approach by analyzing mock lesson scenarios and they will leave the session with an understanding of how they can apply this approach to their own blended environment.
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