Title Short Description Long Descripton Looking to increase student engagement and collaboration? Want students to gain resilience, build grit and become independent problem solvers? A Challenge for Success In this interactive session you’ll experience how challenge based learning can transform teaching within the classroom and beyond. Learn the fundamentals of how to use Adobe Spark as a learning tool in your classroom. Students can create Learn the fundamentals of how to use Adobe Spark powerful presentations with their voice as the star of as a learning tool in your classroom. Students can the show! Spark is a free web based application that Adobe Spark create powerful presentations with their voice as the teachers and students can use to create social star of the show! graphics, web stories, and animated videos. This session will focus on creating animated videos. Bring a device and create your own animated story. Through the use of mini challenges students and staff tackle learning Google Apps for Education in a Are you up for the Google fun, engaging technique that will even convince your Challenge? most reluctant learners to come aboard. The workshop will take you through several popular Google apps. Harvard’s Project Zero, Making Thinking Visible (Ritchhart, Church, and Morrison) provides a set of strategies designed to help teachers SEE and ENCOURAGE process thinking as well as help students Based on Harvard’s Project Zero, Making Thinking build on each other’s thinking and foster a community Assembling a Critical Visible (Ritchhart, Church, and Morrison) provides a of thinkers. Thinking Toolbox set of strategies designed to help teachers SEE and The session will include routines for Introducing and ENCOURAGE process thinking. Exploring Ideas, Synthesizing and Organizing Ideas, and Digging Deeper into Ideas. Come ready to EXPERIENCE and PRACTICE these routines and leave with ideas to implement them! When mostly all of the materials are paper-based, theories have stayed the same and the science is the Being tech-savvy in the science classroom is hard! same from before, how can you make your lessons Being Techsy in the Science This session will show you how to engage with your more engaging? This course will show how I helped my Lab! students on their level (tech) and have fun with students want to come to my chemistry and physics science! classes, instead of dreading them! All through the power of tech apps, videos and hands-on tech activities! Beyond the Red Pen: Learn how to use Google tools to provide feedback Providing Meaningful your students can use to improve & stop wasting Feedback for Students your weekends on "grading" papers. Book Creator: It's All About the Thinking Teaching and using the old Google Sites was quite difficult and hard to learn. The New Google Sites is Building your digital much easier for the everyday teacher and student to "House" with the NEW use for housing information, building online digital Google Sites portfolios, and creating awesome websites. Let me show you how to take your website development tools to the next level with the New Google Sites! Title Short Description Long Descripton Chrome extensions help navigate your chrome Chrome Extensions You experience! Let me show you some of the best Can't Live Without extensions to increase productivity and efficiency when planning or leading a class. Google Draw is an incredibly powerful tool that is underutilized in most school districts. This session Classroom Implementation will dive deeper into a quick tutorial, followed by of Google Draw! tons of ways to incorporate into your classroom instruction. Learn to access your digital pictures across multiple devices. This free hidden gem app can be Click In A Snap to Google downloaded on Android or iOS is ready to help you Photos backup, store, and organize your photos in a few clicks. Search all your photos by faces, names, and locations. You will be amazed at all the features. Coding applications workshop will emphasize the advantages and process of working with free coding resources provided in this session. Additionally, In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn how to educators can incorporate these resources into their launch coding applications in your school using the Coding applications classrooms to expose their students with a fun and free sharing resources and robots loan learning basic programming environment. More opportunities. importantly, educators will be able to interact with other educators in case a problem or question arises using the support networks on Twitter. Design in Canvas using technology tools that enhance the feel and overall navigation of our course. This Building with design ideas in mind, for the blended session will look at how to visually change the look and fully online courses. Leverage instructional Course Design with Canvas and feel of your course within the Learning design in Canvas, using technology tools to enhance Management System of Canvas. Bring your devices the structure of your course. with you as we explore the possibilities and new design ideas. Share how to use the power of social media tools, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and more to connect with parents and community members while Every campus has a story. Who's telling yours? telling your campus' story in an effective, 21st-century Creating a Connected Participants leave this session with a variety of tools manner. This session will provide insight and tips into Campus to create a stronger home-school connection and the journey one school took as they rebuilt their improve communication for all stakeholders. campus' brand through a hashtag, as well as created a culture of pride and family among teachers and parents. This course will cover the benefits of using Canvas as your LMS in your classroom. From there we will show This course will help you customize the LMS Canvas users how to do a basic course template they will be to work with your classroom. This will include Customizing Canvas for able to use year after year. The last part will focus on course settings, menu setup, and an overview of your Class tools that Canvas has available that will help you run tools in Canvas that can save you time in your your course. Throughout I will also be sharing how I classroom. customized my course for a Project Based Learning Environment. Title Short Description Long Descripton Let me share with you some amazing digital Feedback and Assessment tools that you can Digital Feedback and implement into your classroom instruction. Seperate Assessment Tools from the awesome G-Suite tools you already have, these feedback and assessment tools can add a lot of instruction to your digital classroom. Participants will: • learn how curated collections across disciplines at HippoCampus can save valuable time in the search for high quality, relevant digital media to support personalized instruction. Jumpstart efforts to personalize learning with open • create custom playlists that can be used for engaging Discover Open Tools for access to a wealth of digital media and a tool lesson plans Personalized Learning designed to engage students on their own path to • discuss how stronger connections between academic success. educational/career aspirations can motivate learners • discover EdReady, an application designed to evaluate college readiness and offer a personalized study plan to fill knowledge gaps in core skills areas. This session will showcase the Google Apps for DRIVErs Ed: Task Oriented Education training with have been using for our G Suite for Education teachers during Summer Professional Learning Training workshops. Effective and Speedy Learn more about several new features of Google FORMative Assessment Forms that lend themselves to extremely easy and with Google Forms fast formative assessment strategies. A technology smackdown is a fast-paced exchange of ideas, with each presenter taking no more than 5 Join Tarleton preservice teachers as we present minutes to share an app, website, technology Elementary Technology several favorite literacy technology tools for resource, web 2.0 tool, or recently discovered Smackdown elementary. technology integration idea. Join us as Tarleton preservice teacher present their favorite literacy technology tools for elementary. Not ready to take the leap into a full PBL environment? Learn how technology-based mini- challenges can quickly and easily transform your Engage Students and Staff lessons. From students to staff, engage your learners with Mini-Challenges in an authentic, hands-on, experience. Leave with knowledge and examples to take back to your district. Explain Everything with EE Information is traveling at lightning speed, the more sensational, the more shares, the more misinformation is spread and becomes accepted as How do we teach our students about fake news and truth through repetition. This has recently been how to avoid it? Join me in an active learning coined the "Post-Truth Era." How do we protect our Fake News experience that will outline steps for efficiently students from this phenomenon? We must empower discerning credible resources. them with tools to seek out the real truth and help them discover reliable resources. Join me in an active learning experience that will outline steps for efficiently discerning credible resources. Title Short Description Long Descripton Ed Puzzle is a wonderful tool for flipping your classroom. Turn any video into an interactive lesson Ed Puzzle is a wonderful tool for flipping your with a built-in assessment. You’ll learn tips and Flip Your Classroom with Ed classroom. Turn any video into an interactive lesson resources perfect for all levels as well as see both the Puzzle with a built-in assessment. You’ll learn tips and student and teacher side of Ed Puzzle. In this session resources perfect for all levels. you will leave with at least one ED Puzzle ready to be assigned to your students.