ChromeCamp Summer 2023 Sessions
August 9, 2023: 9am - 2pm
Keynote
The State of EdTech at ETHS
EdTech Team
Whether you’re newer to ETHS or a seasoned veteran, a lot has changed over the last few years in the world of technology. We’ll use this time to welcome you, give you an overview of the day, and remind you of all that EdTech has to offer for ETHS Staff and Students.
Session Descriptions
#Fun with Formatives: Tools for Gamifying Assessment
Mina Marien
Formative assessments are one of the most important and valuable tools teachers have for planning, differentiating, and supporting student growth, but they can also be tedious and boring. Come to this session to find out ways to make formatives fun while gathering useful data along the way. These tools and strategies will improve your instruction, boost morale, and have your class trending #fun.
Design Delights: Unveiling the Top 10 Tips for Crafting Engaging and Inclusive Lessons
Melanie Marzen
Learn to create visually engaging content structured to support student executive functioning. We will discuss visual accessibility, object alignment, color theory, page organization, visual content scaffolding, digital project guides and more! These concepts will be explored using a variety of tools including Canva, Google Slides, and Google Sites. At the end of the session, we will close with individual work time to polish off one of your existing course materials.
Fun with Flippity!
Margaret O’Connell
Want a quick warm-up activity? A new way to review content without resorting to Blooket/Gimkit/the usual sites? I will show teachers how to use the website Flippity, which is free, easy, and has a tremendous number of tools! Create your own board game, bingo board, digital venn diagrams, memory game, word search, digital manipulatives, an interactive timeline, and more! Content is made from my World Language/ESL teacher perspective but is applicable to teachers of all content areas!
Google Sites for Projects & Communication
Adie Slaton
Website Link: https://sites.google.com/eths202.org/slatoncamp2023-2024/home
Wanted to create a teacher website and never had the time or felt daunted by the task? Join this session to learn the basic fundamentals of creating a website. Wanted to create web portfolios with students? In this session, we will consider how to
1) Create your own teacher website for your students and families
Topics addressed: pros and cons of a teacher website, set-up and brainstorming pages for your site; talk about how to incorporating your agenda with your website; and sharing list your site on the ETHS directory for quick access for families
2) Support students in creating a web-based portfolio site.
Topics addressed: pros and cons of student portfolio, brainstorming the structure of pages for their site, how to assess, and sample student portfolios.
GSlides + Mote to create "expandable notebooks"
Michael Van Krey
This session will show you how to create a "multi-page" digital "notebook" filled with activities for a themed unit that you can update if you want to make changes after you push it out to students. This is an alternative to the "slip in slide" add on. As a language teacher, I have found it useful to add audio components to the slides for listening and speaking practice, but also as a way of scaffolding learning for students. If time allows, I will also discuss different ways Mote can be used across Google applications.
Podcasts as a Tool for Close Reading and Discussion of Literature
Josh Brown
I will share a podcast project my students worked on last year. The project I have developed over the last few years centers around the analysis of music, but I've also done other versions involving fictional texts. I will focus on integrating the technical know-how (and getting help from the EdTech team) with the critical reading skills I wanted students to develop: identification of and in-depth analysis of purpose, audience, figurative language, allusion and the writing skills involved with the connections made between these different rhetorical and literary aspects, especially the integration of evidence into students' analytical claims.
Quizizz
GionMatthias Schelbert
Provide an overview of how Quizizz can be effectively integrated into lessons, quizzes, and testing. Their suite of flexible tools allow Quizizz to be used in almost any type of lesson/assessment. With its flexible offerings of video, audio, websites, formulas (and many more) into questions, answers, and student responses, any teacher can take lessons and assessments to the next level for student engagement. Finally, Quizizz integration with Google Classroom streamlines grading, student (and parent) engagement, and pathways to assessment performance recovery that makes Quizizz an effective tool for any classroom setting.
Simplifying Screencasts
Jack Stephenson
Learn how screencasting can revolutionize your classroom by simplifying instruction, assessment, and reteaching. We’ll cover more than one screencasting tool so you can find what works best for you.
Slip-in-Slide Tool for Journaling, Goal Setting, Reflection and much more!
Luella Gesky
Come learn about and practice using Slip-in-Slide. This tool allows you to literally insert slides into multiple student presentations at one time, making distribution of new materials quick and easy. This is a great tool for daily, interactive, or project based Google Classroom assignments.
Spreadsheet Safari: Navigating the Wilds of Data with Google Sheets!
Presentation: bit.ly/CC23Safari Notes: bit.ly/CC23sheets
Jessica Don
You have an entire spreadsheet full of data. What can you do with it? We’ll cover filters, sorting, conditional formatting, format painter, notifications, and more! (AKA seeing only the data you need, putting it in the order you want, making important data stand out, beautifying your data, having it tell you when something changes, and more!)
The Top 10 Things You Can or Will Be Able to Do With AI
David Chan
Pencils, Calculators, Personal Computers, The Internet. Where will Artificial Intelligence fit within this group of technology game changers? Can AI truly deliver on promises to save teacher time, give more individualized feedback, and overcome the early label of being just a new device to facilitate student cheating? Let’s take a closer look at the differences that AI is already making in a wide variety of subjects. Specifically, we’ll review and play with various applications in use now that aim to make an impact in the delivery of education.