Day 1 - Google

Day 2 - Devices - Multimedia

Day 3 - Teaching with Technology

Chris Scott

Google Voices in My Head 

You've heard of gmail. You've heard of Google Docs. Now it's time to tap into Google Voice. With Google Voice you can communicate with your students, get voicemail converted to text. In this session you'll set up your Google Voice account and find out loads of ways to use it with your students. Oh and did I mention there's an App for that?

Ubermix: The Dark Horse of 1:1

Chromebooks? Macbooks? Tablets? and Ubermix. In this session you'll find out why Ubermix solves all your needs in a 1:1 program. Ubermix has over 60 apps built in to take your school to Common Core and beyond. Ubermix is a linux distro built specifically for schools. It's FREE, open source and easily customizable. It turns your OLD machines into new animals. What are you waiting for?

MinecraftEDU: Flipping with Stevie

Your students play Minecraft. You've wondered about Minecraft. Now it's time to take your awesomeness to a new level with MinecraftEDU. You'll learn how and why you must start using MinecraftEDU in your classroom. Once you've tried it, you'll see how awesome your class will become.

Lisa Nowakowski

Outta Site

Google Sites is a great way to share information, lessons, and curate students’ work. Learn to create a site for your classroom, student ePortfolio, or collaborative student Site. This session will guide you through the process of creating a website to suit your needs. The 4 C’s of CCSS can be met through Sites. All Google Products seamlessly integrate with Sites. By the end of the workshop, attendees will have created a website that meets their needs.

If You’re Appy and You Know It

There are several great Apps available. We will look at creation and Augmented Reality Apps. Lego Movie Maker is creative, FREE, stop-animation movie maker. This workshop provides hands-on experience with creating a short stop-animation movie (props will be provided). These Apps allow students to use the 4 C’s in a fun and creative way. Beginner to Advanced

Outside The Bubble

Deeper understanding, it’s what we’ve been asking for. So let’s take advantage of it, and think outside of the bubble - the testing bubbles. Using Apps like Socrative are useful to get a pulse on your class or to use as an exit ticket, but we need to think BIG when it comes to assessments. Projects and Web Tools provide the perfect opportunity for teachers to incorporate alternative assessments in their classrooms. Simple videos from flip cams and iPods are a great beginning. Or take it up a notch with creations using We Video, Voki, or Animoto.

Rachel Diephouse

Group Essays: Less Grading, More Feedback

Tired of stacks of 40 essays? Group essays in Google Docs lighten your load while teaching students to collaborate. Beginning in the brainstorming process, students work together to outline ideas. As they write within the same document, they push each other into deeper levels of critical thinking. Suddenly, peer editing becomes authentic, and students naturally write and use comments of praise and criticism. Small groups allow the teacher to be on every document daily, allowing for more formative assessment. This session only requires beginner skills, but will help create advanced writers.

Debate with Google Docs

Learn, experience, and plan a Google Docs debate. Get each of your students involved in the discussion and build classroom community as your students (learn to) create and support arguments. After carefully crafting arguments, students debate! Each student has a device which he or she can use participate in the conversation. Watch as teams use the chat feature to encourage one another and plot their next move. Give a voice to critical thinking through both written and spoken words and prepare students to calmly and confidently express their opinions in the real world.

Cultivating a Culture of Innovative Creators: iBooks & the CCSS

Cultivate a culture of innovative creators by working with your students to create an annotated iBook. Using Google Docs and a teacher computer with iBooks Author, help students think critically about a text. Mentor them as they curate and create resources for future readers. Come to this session to see an example student-teacher collaborative iBook and to receive practical resources to help you begin creating a product with your students. Combine fiction and non-fiction resources that meet the CCSS, and empower students to synthesize and create for an authentic audience.

Rebecca Wildman

Create and Innovate with iTunes U

iTunes U is an incredible FREE tool that empowers both teachers and students alike. iTunes U allows educators to create amazing courses to be shared with their students that are filled with videos, books, documents, apps, web links and podcasts. Come join the conversation and learn the many educational benefits and innovative power of iTunes U!

Dave Tchozewski

Google Apps: A View from the Clouds

Google Apps inherently support Common Core State Standards with their ease of creating, sharing and collaborating. There is no better single suite of apps that make cooperative creation so simple.

If you are new to Google Apps, this session is for you. Get a brief introduction and overview of some Google Apps basics including Gmail, Calendars, Drive (Docs, Forms, Spreadsheets, Presentations and more).

While this session will focus on Google Apps basics, several tips and tricks will be shared to help you to work smarter, not harder.

Skill Level: Beginner

iPad Apps to Enhance Teaching and Learning

In this session, we will share and work with a number of apps that support and enhance teaching and learning. Focusing on collaboration and creation, these apps will certainly be geared toward supporting Common Core State Standards.

Rather than a typical app smackdown, we will take time to dive a little deeper into each app to learn how it can help teachers teach and students learn.

This session will be applicable to all skill levels. Attendees must have an iPad and an iTunes account to be able to download these FREE apps.

Strengthening Teaching and Learning with Web Tools

Interactive and engaging web tools are abundant but which ones are appropriate for the classroom? In this session, we will take a look at number of terrific, but lesser known, web resources that can quickly and easily enhance the classroom experience for both teachers and students.

Many of these tools will allow students to collaborate and create, thus satisfying many Common Core State Standards. Other tools will allow teachers to quickly assess student learning which can lead to adjustments for individualized learning.

This session applies to all skill levels and subjects.

Tammy Lind

Got Google? Using Google Apps to Assist Struggling Learners

"Going Google" can make a huge difference for all kids--especially those that struggle in the classroom! This fast-paced session will highlight tips and tricks that we can use to assist all students using the many tools available in Google Apps for Education. Chrome Apps and Extensions that are specifically targeted for students will be shared as well as tips on using Drive, Docs, and Forms to help our struggling learners. Connections to specific ELA standards will be made throughout the session and participants will leave with plans in hand to assist our kids that struggle in the classroom.

Tablets Everywhere!

Nothing is more exciting than to see the light bulb come on for our little ones as they make connections not just to content, but to other students in their classrooms. Using tablets in the classroom is a great way to see this exciting development happen more often and in all content areas. This session will focus on the use and deployment of Android-based tablets in the Primary classroom. Apps to use with students in writing will be shared. Specific connections to standards and to classroom management will be addressed.

Create, Connect, Collaborate! Ideas to Get Our Students Connected

Students all over the world are getting connected and learning from each other on a variety of topics. What if we helped students “make the connections” and then got out the way to let the learning happen? What if we have our students write collaboratively with others around our local districts, other states and the world? Join me for this interactive session where we look at creative ways to get our kids connected. Participants will leave with plans to get connected the very next day!

Ben Rimes

DIY Online Book Club

Do you enjoy tinkering with tools, and playing with systems until they break? Not satisfied with "pre-made" applications? Come explore how you can create your own DIY Online Book Club using an assemblage of Google Tools, including Google+, Hangouts, Moderator, Sites, and more! The communications, collaborations, and publishing requirement being asked of us by the Common Core Standards allow for some creative tinkering within Google's ecosystem.

Video Story Problems

Traditional math and science problems are often dull and disconnected from the real world. Video allows us to bring the real world into our classrooms, and let us wrestle with tangible math and science curiosities from the real world. This is a hands on session that reinforces the Common Core Math Practice Standards as well as the Next Generation Science Standards' Conceptual Shifts. Bring your mobile device, your curiosity, and be prepared to shoot some video!

Redefining the Learning Environment

Technology is at the heart of the Common Core, but many school districts are spending so much time aligning to the new core standards, many amazing technology related standards are going unnoticed. The College and Career Readiness Standards, as well as digital media and technology standards within ELA are laying a foundation for technology-rich, student-driven digital publishing environments. Let's explore what's possible when we begin to redefine the learning environment and what publishing means today.

Dave Prindle

Learning Learning Anywhere Anytime

In this session we will use Schoology, Google Apps For Education and content building apps to create a Flipped/Blended/Online class that students can access on any device anywhere anytime they have an internet connection. Play time will include making your own content with a variety of fun, easy to learn and use web apps. All I can say a dachshund, a thing, a chomper, haiku’s, a bird, and much more may be involved in this session. We will give you tools to grab and hold your students attention. Everything is applicable to all K-20 subjects. Bring all devices!

Brad Wilson

Crowdsource a Community Blog!

If your students can send an email, they can post to your blog! It's seriously that easy to have students use technology to publish writing every day (a CCSS anchor standard). Create an 'online window' to the learning going on in your classroom using Blogger as a moderated class, school, or group blog where all members of your learning community can contribute. No matter your role, subject or grade.. this is the year to start sharing your story! BONUS: Now featuring the Easy Blogger Jr iPad app which simplifies shared posting even more! (even Kindergarten can do this!)

Playing with Media on the iPad

It is the age of digital CREATION in the classroom and the iPad is the perfect tool for students to produce a wide range of media (CCSS) to communicate and represent their knowledge! Be ready to have fun creating movies, mashups and more using your own media and ideas. Leave ready to facilitate engaging and relevant projects that will turn your classroom into a learning studio with students as the directors!

Padding with a Purpose

Padding with a Purpose description:

Students can do remarkable things with iPads, but only if the classroom structure and pedagogy provide those opportunities. In order for students to “explore and deepen their understanding of concepts” (CCSS), teachers need to know how to make the tools work with day-to-day learning while opening up new opportunities for students to be in control of the process. What does that look like? How can you start? Using a Digital Learning Community approach and the SAMR Model to guide our thinking, experience how to maximize student impact and leave with strategies to put Eventful Learning into practice.