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30 minute sessions (bit)
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8:30 am - 9:00 amPadletLooking for an easy-to-use tool to capture students' thoughts, ideas, creations...or a tool to organize information based on categories....or a tool to highlight innovative projects and resources? If so, join us as we explore an online bulletin board platform where you can organize and post text, pictures, graphics, videos, and more! Fun, easy, and engaging learning opportunities!LibraryCyndi Williams
Danville Public Schools
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8:30 am - 9:00 amWrite Right with Google & Mr. WrightAssign work with Google Classroom and give feedback throughout the writing process with Google Docs F115Cary Wright
Danville Public Schools
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45 minute sessions (byte)
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8:30 am - 9:15 amBringing Diverse Stories and Concepts to the Classroom Using [Free] Digital MediaHow do you make your content more engaging and relevant to today’s students? We’ll discuss the unique digital media offerings in eMediaVA, available to every Virginia educator free of charge. eMediaVA is Virginia's premier digital content library for high-quality, credible content to inspire your students and enrich learning in your classroom. Teachers have access to over 100,000 free, innovative, and SOL-aligned learning objects and content, created by PBS Learning Media, NPR, and public media stations, as well as state and national leaders in educational content. In this session, you'll learn how to use the power of digital media to guide students to make connections between content and their lived experiences.F111Lindsey Horner
WHRO Education
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8:30 am - 9:15 amK-12 Digital Citizenship CurriculumThis free comprehensive Curriculum is designed to empower students to think critically, behave safely, and participate responsibly in our digital world. This turnkey Curriculum provides educators with lesson plans, videos, student interactives, and family outreach materials. This session will provide schools and teachers with everything they need to take a whole-community approach to digital citizenship. Session will be led my IALR staff and ServeIT AmeriCorps Members. F102Jessica Beebe
Institute for Advanced Learning and Research
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8:30 am - 9:15 amTime for ... TeleSpeech! Therapy in the 21st CenturyIntroduction to Speech-Language Therapy in the schools and different models of service delivery. Teletherapy, a rising platform for providing therapy, will be explored in greater detail.F116Sharon Weisburg
Danville Public Schools/VocoVision
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8:30 am - 9:15 amUsing Google Slides to Create an Interactive and Collaborative Experience in your Classroom!Google Slides provides so many options for collaborative, interactive activities for students of any age!​ Use this powerful tool to not only deliver interactive user experiences, but to also create visually stimulating products to deliver valuable content and messages. By thinking creatively about Google Slides, teachers can create unique learning opportunities for students. This workshop will teach you new ideas on how to create lessons in Google Slides that mimic social media platforms such as Instagram and Snapchat. It will also teach you other engaging gaming and interactive activities.F113Toni Nuckols
Danville Public Schools
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8:30 am - 9:15 amPower Up Learning with Pear DeckDo you want to engage in your students in new and exciting ways? Do you already use Google Slides or Power Point in your instruction? If the answer to these questions is YES, then this is the session for you. Learn all about how Pear Deck can make your slide decks interactive and highlight your students' learning in amazing ways. In this session, we will cover how to use the Pear Deck add-on and how the web-based Flashcard Factory can help develop your students' collaboration and critical thinking skills. Please bring a charged laptop/Chromebook. E101Debbie Tannenbaum
Fairfax County Public Schools
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60 minute sessions (megabyte)
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8:30 am - 9:30 amCatalize with QuizalizeLearn to use Quizalize for targetted SOL review/remediation and track students' mastery of each SOL.E106LaWanda Ca'stle
Danville Public Schools
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8:30 am - 9:30 amText Tenacity: Reading Strategies to Build Literacy Grit for College and CareerHow can we prepare all Virginia students for the literacy demands required for success in their lives both in and out of the classroom? What strategies can we use to provoke students’ literacy growth mindset, while also building deep learning opportunities?
Join us for a workshop facilitated by the Achieve3000 team where we’ll grapple with several impactful reading strategies for students to consistently employ when they are tackling complex texts ranging from news articles to textbooks to owners’ manuals. Each strategy discussed will not only grow all learners’ reading confidence, but also prepare students to gain text-based knowledge that will enable them to engage in deeper learning that will ultimately lead to the critical thinking, communication, and collaboration required for success in all aspects of their personal and professional lives.
F109Bobbi Bear
Achieve3000
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8:30 am - 9:30 amG Suite: Tips, Tricks, and Time-Savers!This session will take attendees through a series of tips, tricks, and time savers throughout much of G Suite. These will include Google Chrome, Google Search, Google Mail, Google Calendar, Google Drive/Docs Suite, YouTube, and more. This session will be run as a workshop with attendees working through the material and learning throughout. Time will be provided to explore new things as well as to ask questions on topics not covered. Regardless of your experience level, come get #geeky with G Suite!E107Patrick Hausammann
Clarke County Public Schools
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8:30 am - 9:30 amHyperDocsHyperDocs is an innovative way to put an entire interactive digital lesson into your students' hands. If you're looking for something to replace boring worksheets with something more exciting that allows students to collaborate, think critically, combine information from multiple sources, and create through technology, then HyperDocs is right up your alley.

HyperDocs allow you to create and package a lesson plan tailored to fit the needs of your students. Plus, it is inherently engaging! Each lesson includes all the elements you would typically include in a successful lesson: engage, explore, explain, apply, share, and extend. While students are busy collaborating and reflecting on their learning, you are free to connect with students!

Please bring a charged laptop/Chromebook and headphones.		E105Shannon Dudley Alsbaugh
Danville Public Schools
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8:30 am - 9:30 amAudio EnhancementTBAE110Chris Clayville
Audio Enhancement
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3 hour session (gigabyte)
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8:30 am - 11:30 amApplied Digital SkillsLooking for a way to spice up your students’ digital literacy skills? Look no further!  Google’s Applied Digital Skills is a free project-based curriculum that equips your students with practical tech skills, including how to make digital presentations, do online research, work with spreadsheets, and more! Through unique challenges and collaborative lessons, your students will engage in real-life problem-solving activities that call upon their creativity and strengthen their knowledge and familiarity of the GSuite apps. In this session to experience Applied Digital Skills as a learner and then set up your own class to use with your students. You’ll also get an overview of the curriculum and brainstorm ways to embed Applied Digital Skills into your existing lessons across the curriculum.
This self-paced, blended learning curriculum is appropriate for middle school and up.  Get ready to be inspired! (Bring headphones if you have them.) Applied Digital Skills is part of the Grow with Google initiative which aims to help everyone across America access the best of Google’s training and tools to grow their skills, careers, and businesses.		F105Molly Bennett
EdTech Team
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45 minute sessions (byte)
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9:35 am - 10:20 am Videos in Google SlidesWant to know how to add videos into your Google Slides, crop them, mute them, and more?F114Cori Sowers
Danville Public Schools
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9:35 am - 10:20 am Digital Tech Bit- NearpodNow that you have your student devices, what's next? Stop by to find out how you can use Nearpod as a collaborative learning space for your students and even staff. Whether you have a 1:1 school or a division that is in the process of device deployment; Nearpod is a great and fun way to start. With the option of both a paid or free version, using Nearpod is a sure way to enhance instructional technology experiences for all. F116Krystle Pearson
Brunswick County Public Schools
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9:35 am - 10:20 am Blended Learning for the Classroom with Engaged StudentsDigital Teacher support for K-6 promoting student interaction in class and remote. How reading becomes a part of life for struggling through advanced participants. Resulting collected data translating easily to informed instruction in an ongoing cycle.F111Wayne Thayer
Learning A-Z
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9:35 am - 10:20 am Kahoot!Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, share and play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes.

You will be introduced to Kahoot! as well as create an account and one of your own.

Please bring a charged laptop/Chromebook and headphones.		E105Shannon Dudley Alsbaugh
Danville Public Schools
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1 hour sessions (megabyte)
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9:45 am - 10:45 amClassflowClassFlow is cloud-based lesson delivery software with advanced collaboration tools for student engagement. Energize the classroom with interactive lessons, activities, quizzes, and millions of immersive resources from educators around the world. Please come with ideas of what you want to put into your Classflow. F108Elizabeth Plyler
Danville Public Schools
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9:45 am - 10:45 amText Tenacity: Reading Strategies to Build Literacy Grit for College and CareerHow can we prepare all Virginia students for the literacy demands required for success in their lives both in and out of the classroom? What strategies can we use to provoke students’ literacy growth mindset, while also building deep learning opportunities?
Join us for a workshop facilitated by the Achieve3000 team where we’ll grapple with several impactful reading strategies for students to consistently employ when they are tackling complex texts ranging from news articles to textbooks to owners’ manuals. Each strategy discussed will not only grow all learners’ reading confidence, but also prepare students to gain text-based knowledge that will enable them to engage in deeper learning that will ultimately lead to the critical thinking, communication, and collaboration required for success in all aspects of their personal and professional lives.
F109Bobbi Bear
Achieve3000
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9:45 am - 10:45 amAnimoto | Infuse Your Classroom with VideoThis session will help teachers and other educators learn to easily create powerful, professional-looking videos for the classroom. . . for free! Animoto provides an easy drag-and-drop video editor, a library of stock images and video/audio clips, and the ability to upload photos/videos, as well. Teachers will learn how to sign up for an Animoto Classroom account, how to create sub-accounts for students, and how to teach students of all grades and content areas to use the system while differentiating instruction, increasing engagement, stimulating creativity, and providing concrete evidence of learning. Participants should bring a charged laptop/Chromebook and headphones.E110Jo Hawke
Danville Public Schools
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9:45 am - 10:45 amUsing Google Forms and Sites to Create Digital BreakoutsIn this session you will learn to create your own content-specific Breakout activities using Google Sites and Google Forms. Come prepared with a Chromebook/laptop and content materials to create your very own Breakout.E106LaWanda Ca'stle
Danville Public Schools
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9:45 am - 10:45 amAmplifying Thinking Routines Using Technology ToolsProject Zero’s Thinking Routines promote students' thinking by taking what students have read or learned about and have them synthesize their thoughts to make their thinking visible. Haven’t heard of them yet? Come to this session and learn all about them. Discover when and how using technology tools, such as GSuite, Padlet and Flipgrid can amplify the use of these routines. Empower your learners to new levels as you learn to combine thinking routines and technology tools.E101Debbie Tannenbaum
Fairfax County Public Schools
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30 minute sessions (bit)
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10:00 am - 10:30 amEverfiEVERFI's free digital curricula empowers teachers to bring critical skills education into their classrooms, setting students up for success in the real world. Courses available in High School Financial Literacy, Digital Wellness and Safety, College and Career Readiness, Marketplace- Investing Basics, Prescription Drug Safety, Mental Wellness Basics, Bullying Prevention, Empathy and Compassion, STEM Career Exploration, Entrepreneurial Expedition, Alcohol Edu, Healthier Me, African American History, and Financial Literacy for Elementary Education.F102Megan Nipper
Danville Public Schools
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10:00 am - 10:30 amTweetDeckTake charge of your own professional learning by taking Twitter to the next level -- join us to learn how to use your Twitter account to expand your professional learning network! Try this new tool to organize topics and connect with professionals across the globe with just a few clicks of a button!LibraryCyndi Williams
Danville Public Schools
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10:00 am - 10:30 amBeginner QuizletThis beginner session of Quizlet will teach you the power of using this tool for student engagement to transform the learning environment in your classrooms! Quizlet is a resource that allows you to create classroom flashcards study sets on the content you are teaching, or you can choose from millions of study sets already created by other educators. I will teach you how to use these study sets in a gaming platform so you can ignite a fire for learning in your classrooms.F113Toni Nuckols
Danville Public Schools
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45 minute sessions (byte)
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10:35 am - 11:25 amBringing Diverse Stories and Concepts to the Classroom Using [Free] Digital MediaHow do you make your content more engaging and relevant to today’s students? We’ll discuss the unique digital media offerings in eMediaVA, available to every Virginia educator free of charge. eMediaVA is Virginia's premier digital content library for high-quality, credible content to inspire your students and enrich learning in your classroom. Teachers have access to over 100,000 free, innovative, and SOL-aligned learning objects and content, created by PBS Learning Media, NPR, and public media stations, as well as state and national leaders in educational content. In this session, you'll learn how to use the power of digital media to guide students to make connections between content and their lived experiences.F111Lindsey Horner
WHRO Education
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10:35 am - 11:25 amChoose Your Own AdventureUsing Google Forms, let students create their own adventure by choosing their own path through different obstacles, decisions, and choices that determine the outcome to their story.F114Cori Sowers
Danville Public Schools
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10:35 am - 11:25 amExplore EdpuzzleWant to increase student engagement and active participation? Edpuzzle is a platform that consists of video-lessons with the ability to embed questions, comments, and audio within the video. We will explore Edpuzzle and features it offers to help create a self-paced and blended learning environment. F115Kelly Sherrill
EdPuzzle
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10:35 am - 11:25 amSMART Learning Suite 101Come learn about about what is new in the world of SMART. This session is great for beginners or anyone that has not used SMART in the last the last few years.E107Sean Galligan
SMART Technologies
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60 minute sessions (megabyte)
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11:00 am - 12:00 pmCreate Individualized Learning Paths with Google FormsLearn how to create individual student-centered assessments by adding customized feedback, links to remediation materials, hints, or enrichment activities to Google Forms quizzes.E106LaWanda Ca'stle
Danville Public Schools
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm Flip your Classroom with Screencastify Use Screencastify to record lectures and add them to forms for students to listen and work through to flip your lectures and make them interactive. F108Elizabeth Plyler
Danville Public Schools
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11:00 am - 12:00 pmMake Data Collection Fun with VernierThis session will provide an introduction to data collection with Vernier equipment. Vernier probes and interfaces provide a painless way for students to collect, visualize, and analyze data. The Institute for Advanced Learning and Research provides Vernier equipment, training, & lesson planning assistance through it's Loaner Lab program.F116Jessie Vernon
Institute for Advanced Learning and Research
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11:00 am - 12:00 pmEscape RoomDo you dare see if you can escape in time?E105Shannon Dudlely Alsbaugh
Danville Public Schools
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11:00 am - 12:00 pmLeveraging Promethean’s newest Activity Builder to Enhance Collaboration"Activities” is the newest addition to ActivInspire that allows educators to transform simple content into something a professional App builder would make! The Activity Builder was first introduced as part of ClassFlow and has now been added to ActivInspire as well as a new Activities App installed on Promethean’s ActivPanels. Types of Activities include Matching Games, Crossword puzzles, Flash Cards, Labeling Diagrams, Memory Games, Timelines, Sequencing, Venn Diagrams and Word Search! This session will model beautifully made Activities and then walk you through step by step how to make your own in no time. Easy to Learn, Fun to Teach with, and the Activities may be shared to whole classrooms or small groups at one time onto the student devices! Don’t have access to ActivInspire or Promethean hardware? That’s ok, still come and we will share how you can take advantage of Activities too without those!
***This is a Make & Take Session!! Bring Your Laptop!***		F109Chad Schnell
Promethean
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11:00 am - 12:00 pmEmpowering Student Voice with Technology ToolsWhat opportunities do you provide for your students to share their voices? Are you communicating that their voices matter? How do you create learning experiences that empower learners? In this session, you will learn easy ways using technology tools such as Wixie, Flipgrid and Padlet to give your students opportunities to share their voices in interactive ways. Please bring a charged laptop/Chromebook to this session.E101Debbie Tannenbaum
Fairfax County Public Schools
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30 minute sessions (bit)
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11:30 am - 12:00 pmCode CombatCodeCombat is an educational video game for learning software programming concepts and languages. Students learn to type coding languages like JavaScript or Python, as well as learning the fundamentals of computer science. Learn how to engage your students with games while they learn how to code.F102Megan Nipper
Danville Public Schools
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11:30 am - 12:00 pmA Look at Google ExtensionsWe will touch base on a few Google Extensions and learn how to navigate the Chrome Webstore and add extensions to your Google profile.F114Cori Sowers
Danville Public Schools
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11:30 am - 12:00 pmHelp Us Master Our Attitudes Now (HUMAN)If we don't become better at living together as humans, the robots and AI will win. How can we work on being more aware of attitudes in the classroom, in the lab, in the auditorium and on the sports fields?F115Cary Wright
Danville Public Schools
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11:30 am - 12:00 pmThe Power of InfographicsInfographics are multimodal tools that integrate text, data, and images. They can also be powerful teaching tools for all grades and content areas. Using infographics in the classroom can increase student engagement and enable more efficient evaluation of learning. Learn how to create free and easy infographics for your classroom, as well as how to teach your students to create their own infographics. Participants should bring a charged school laptop/Chromebook. E110Jo Hawke
Danville Public Schools
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12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
Lunch Break
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3 hour session (gigabyte)
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1:00 pm - 4:00 pmApplied Digital SkillsLooking for a way to spice up your students’ digital literacy skills? Look no further!  Google’s Applied Digital Skills is a free project-based curriculum that equips your students with practical tech skills, including how to make digital presentations, do online research, work with spreadsheets, and more! Through unique challenges and collaborative lessons, your students will engage in real-life problem-solving activities that call upon their creativity and strengthen their knowledge and familiarity of the GSuite apps. In this session to experience Applied Digital Skills as a learner and then set up your own class to use with your students. You’ll also get an overview of the curriculum and brainstorm ways to embed Applied Digital Skills into your existing lessons across the curriculum.
This self-paced, blended learning curriculum is appropriate for middle school and up.  Get ready to be inspired! (Bring headphones if you have them.) Applied Digital Skills is part of the Grow with Google initiative which aims to help everyone across America access the best of Google’s training and tools to grow their skills, careers, and businesses.		F105Molly Bennett
EdTech Team
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45 minute sessions (byte)
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1:00 pm - 1:45 pmK-12 Digital Citizenship CurriculumThis free comprehensive Curriculum is designed to empower students to think critically, behave safely, and participate responsibly in our digital world. This turnkey Curriculum provides educators with lesson plans, videos, student interactives, and family outreach materials. This session will provide schools and teachers with everything they need to take a whole-community approach to digital citizenship. Session will be led my IALR staff and ServeIT AmeriCorps Members. F102Jessica Beebe
Institute for Advanced Learning and Research
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1:00 pm - 1:45 pmAutoCratAre you interested in merging your data from a Google Sheet into a Google Doc and it automatically sending out that information...just like your Techpalooza schedule was sent to you? Then this session is for YOU!F114Cori Sowers
Danville Public Schools
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1:00 pm - 1:45 pmBlended Learning for the Classroom with Engaged StudentsDigital Teacher support for K-6 promoting student interaction in class and remote. How reading becomes a part of life for struggling through advanced participants. Resulting collected data translating easily to informed instruction in an ongoing cycle.F111Wayne Thayer
Learning A-Z
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1:00 pm - 1:45 pmExplore EdpuzzleWant to increase student engagement and active participation? Edpuzzle is a platform that consists of video-lessons with the ability to embed questions, comments, and audio within the video. We will explore Edpuzzle and features it offers to help create a self-paced and blended learning environment. F115Kelly Sherrill
EdPuzzle
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1:00 pm - 1:45 pmTime for ... TeleSpeech! Therapy in the 21st CenturyIntroduction to Speech-Language Therapy in the schools and different models of service delivery. Teletherapy, a rising platform for providing therapy, will be explored in greater detail.LibrarySharon Weisburg
Danville Public Schools/VocoVision
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60 minute sessions (megabyte)
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Flip your Classroom with Screencastify Use Screencastify to record lectures and add them to forms for students to listen and work through to flip your lectures and make them interactive. F108Elizabeth Plyler
Danville Public Schools
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pmAnimoto | Infuse Your Classroom with VideoThis session will help teachers and other educators learn to easily create powerful, professional-looking videos for the classroom. . . for free! Animoto provides an easy drag-and-drop video editor, a library of stock images and video/audio clips, and the ability to upload photos/videos, as well. Teachers will learn how to sign up for an Animoto Classroom account, how to create sub-accounts for students, and how to teach students of all grades and content areas to use the system while differentiating instruction, increasing engagement, stimulating creativity, and providing concrete evidence of learning. Participants should bring a charged laptop/Chromebook and headphones.E110Jo Hawke
Danville Public Schools
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pmMake Data Collection Fun with VernierThis session will provide an introduction to data collection with Vernier equipment. Vernier probes and interfaces provide a painless way for students to collect, visualize, and analyze data. The Institute for Advanced Learning and Research provides Vernier equipment, training, & lesson planning assistance through it's Loaner Lab program.F116Jessie Vernon
Institute for Advanced Learning and Research
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pmEscape RoomDo you dare see if you can escape in time?E105Shannon Dudley Alsbaugh
Danville Public Schools
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pmLeveraging Promethean’s newest Activity Builder to Enhance Collaboration"Activities” is the newest addition to ActivInspire that allows educators to transform simple content into something a professional App builder would make! The Activity Builder was first introduced as part of ClassFlow and has now been added to ActivInspire as well as a new Activities App installed on Promethean’s ActivPanels. Types of Activities include Matching Games, Crossword puzzles, Flash Cards, Labeling Diagrams, Memory Games, Timelines, Sequencing, Venn Diagrams and Word Search! This session will model beautifully made Activities and then walk you through step by step how to make your own in no time. Easy to Learn, Fun to Teach with, and the Activities may be shared to whole classrooms or small groups at one time onto the student devices! Don’t have access to ActivInspire or Promethean hardware? That’s ok, still come and we will share how you can take advantage of Activities too without those!
***This is a Make & Take Session!! Bring Your Laptop!***		F109Chad Schnell
Promethean
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pmAmplifying Thinking Routines Using Technology ToolsProject Zero’s Thinking Routines promote students' thinking by taking what students have read or learned about and have them synthesize their thoughts to make their thinking visible. Haven’t heard of them yet? Come to this session and learn all about them. Discover when and how using technology tools, such as GSuite, Padlet and Flipgrid can amplify the use of these routines. Empower your learners to new levels as you learn to combine thinking routines and technology tools.E101Debbie Tannenbaum
Fairfax County Public Schools
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30 minute sessions (bit)
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2:00 pm - 2:30 pmCode.orgLearn how to use code.org in your classroom to expand access to computer science. Code.org provides the leading curriculum for K-12 computer science and can easily be used in the classroom as an educational tool or reward.F102Megan Nipper
Danville Public Schools
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2:00 pm - 2:30 pmPadletLooking for an easy-to-use tool to capture students' thoughts, ideas, creations...or a tool to organize information based on categories....or a tool to highlight innovative projects and resources? If so, join us as we explore an online bulletin board platform where you can organize and post text, pictures, graphics, videos, and more! Fun, easy, and engaging learning opportunities!LibraryCyndi Williams
Danville Public Schools
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2:00 pm - 2:30 pmWrite Right with Google & Mr. WrightAssign work with Google Classroom and give feedback throughout the writing process with Google Docs F115Cary Wright
Danville Public Schools
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2:00 pm - 2:30 pmBeginner QuizletThis beginner session of Quizlet will teach you the power of using this tool for student engagement to transform the learning environment in your classrooms! Quizlet is a resource that allows you to create classroom flashcards study sets on the content you are teaching, or you can choose from millions of study sets already created by other educators. I will teach you how to use these study sets in a gaming platform so you can ignite a fire for learning in your classrooms.F113Toni Nuckols
Danville Public Schools
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45 minute sessions (byte)
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2:00 pm - 2:45 pmChoose Your Own AdventureUsing Google Forms, let students create their own adventure by choosing their own path through different obstacles, decisions, and choices that determine the outcome to their story.F114Cori Sowers
Danville Public Schools
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2:00 pm - 2:45 pmSMART Learning Suite 101Come learn about about what is new in the world of SMART. This session is great for beginners or anyone that has not used SMART in the last the last few years.F111Sean Galligan
SMART Technologies
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60 minute sessions (megabyte)
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2:15 pm - 3:15 pmCatalize with QuizalizeLearn to use Quizalize for targetted SOL review/remediation and track students' mastery of each SOL.E106LaWanda Ca'stle
Danville Public Schools
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2:15 pm - 3:15 pmText Tenacity: Reading Strategies to Build Literacy Grit for College and CareerHow can we prepare all Virginia students for the literacy demands required for success in their lives both in and out of the classroom? What strategies can we use to provoke students’ literacy growth mindset, while also building deep learning opportunities?
Join us for a workshop facilitated by the Achieve3000 team where we’ll grapple with several impactful reading strategies for students to consistently employ when they are tackling complex texts ranging from news articles to textbooks to owners’ manuals. Each strategy discussed will not only grow all learners’ reading confidence, but also prepare students to gain text-based knowledge that will enable them to engage in deeper learning that will ultimately lead to the critical thinking, communication, and collaboration required for success in all aspects of their personal and professional lives.
F109Bobbi Bear
Achieve3000
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2:15 pm - 3:15 pm30 Amazing Tech. Tools for Student Creation & InnovationSo many tools and so little time! Save yourself some precious time by attending this session packed with 30+ amazing tech tools for your students to create and innovate. Tools will span the spectrum of creating websites, videos, podcasts, custom map tours, cartoons, animations, and more! Coding, G Suite for Education, Adobe Spark, and many others will be featured. Links to tutorials and examples will be provided for further aid in integrating these game-changers into your classrooms of the future!E107Patrick Hausammann
Clarke County Public Schools
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2:15 pm - 3:15 pmEscape RoomDo you dare see if you can escape in time?E105Shannon Dudley Alsbaugh
Danville Public Schools
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2:15 pm - 3:15 pmAudio EnhancementTBAE110Chris Clayville
Audio Enhancement
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2:15 pm - 3:15 pmEmpowering Student Voice with Technology ToolsWhat opportunities do you provide for your students to share their voices? Are you communicating that their voices matter? How do you create learning experiences that empower learners? In this session, you will learn easy ways using technology tools such as Wixie, Flipgrid and Padlet to give your students opportunities to share their voices in interactive ways. Please bring a charged laptop/Chromebook to this session.E101Debbie Tannenbaum
Fairfax County Public Schools
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30 minute sessions (bit)
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3:00 pm - 3:30 pmCode CombatCodeCombat is an educational video game for learning software programming concepts and languages. Students learn to type coding languages like JavaScript or Python, as well as learning the fundamentals of computer science. Learn how to engage your students with games while they learn how to code.F102Megan Nipper
Danville Public Schools
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3:00 pm - 3:30 pmTweetDeckTake charge of your own professional learning by taking Twitter to the next level -- join us to learn how to use your Twitter account to expand your professional learning network! Try this new tool to organize topics and connect with professionals across the globe with just a few clicks of a button!LibraryCyndi Williams
Danville Public Schools
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3:00 pm - 3:30 pmThe Power of InfographicsInfographics are multimodal tools that integrate text, data, and images. They can also be powerful teaching tools for all grades and content areas. Using infographics in the classroom can increase student engagement and enable more efficient evaluation of learning. Learn how to create free and easy infographics for your classroom, as well as how to teach your students to create their own infographics. Participants should bring a charged school laptop/Chromebook. F114Jo Hawke
Danville Public Schools
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45 minute sessions (byte)
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3:00 pm - 3:45 pmExplore EdpuzzleWant to increase student engagement and active participation? Edpuzzle is a platform that consists of video-lessons with the ability to embed questions, comments, and audio within the video. We will explore Edpuzzle and features it offers to help create a self-paced and blended learning environment. F115Kelly Sherrill
EdPuzzle
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3:00 pm - 3:45 pmDigital Tech Bit- NearpodNow that you have your student devices, what's next? Stop by to find out how you can use Nearpod as a collaborative learning space for your students and even staff. Whether you have a 1:1 school or a division that is in the process of device deployment; Nearpod is a great and fun way to start. With the option of both a paid or free version, using Nearpod is a sure way to enhance instructional technology experiences for all. F116Krystle Pearson
Brunswick County Public Schools
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3:00 pm - 3:45 pmBringing Diverse Stories and Concepts to the Classroom Using [Free] Digital MediaHow do you make your content more engaging and relevant to today’s students? We’ll discuss the unique digital media offerings in eMediaVA, available to every Virginia educator free of charge. eMediaVA is Virginia's premier digital content library for high-quality, credible content to inspire your students and enrich learning in your classroom. Teachers have access to over 100,000 free, innovative, and SOL-aligned learning objects and content, created by PBS Learning Media, NPR, and public media stations, as well as state and national leaders in educational content. In this session, you'll learn how to use the power of digital media to guide students to make connections between content and their lived experiences.F111Lindsey Horner
WHRO Education
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3:00 pm - 3:45 pmUsing Google Slides to Create an Interactive and Collaborative Experience in your Classroom!Google Slides provides so many options for collaborative, interactive activities for students of any age!​ Use this powerful tool to not only deliver interactive user experiences, but to also create visually stimulating products to deliver valuable content and messages. By thinking creatively about Google Slides, teachers can create unique learning opportunities for students. This workshop will teach you new ideas on how to create lessons in Google Slides that mimic social media platforms such as Instagram and Snapchat. It will also teach you other engaging gaming and interactive activities.F113Toni Nuckols
Danville Public Schools
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