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Recorded Session
Get the Word Out
From free range to helicopter, do you find parents need communication more individualized than their children's curriculum? We're here to help. See how Gradelink's Email Blast feature can help you target just the right individuals or groups of students or parents. Learn about new separate student and parent logins. See how easy it is to build your own teacher and class web pages, announcement boards, and more. Understand best practices for email alerts, and know what's been sent.
Iowa / CogAT Post-Test Workshop on Interpreting Results and Navigating DataManager
The session will present various Iowa and Assessment reports that can be used to inform and improve instruction and learning. Participants will learn or review different reporting functionalities of DataManager.
Just Technology for Learning Justice
This session will explore how to use technology as an educational tool that promotes justice in learning and learning justice.
Teaching that is Inspired Not Tired
Teachers will learn a few technology based techniques that will cut down their paper load for grading. We Will explore Google Docs in cooperation with Edmodo. The focus subjects will be on language arts and religion.
Schoology Top Ten
An exploration of the top 10 features of the Schoology Learning Management Solution. This session will not only highlight feature functionality, but will discuss successful use of LMS's in the classroom, including best practices.
How to Use Social Media as Our Global PLC
Our world is growing smaller and teachers are working together globally, have you jumped into social media yet? Come see how easy it is to use Twitter, IG, Periscope, Facebook, and Blogging to learn from teachers around the globe. The world is one social media wave away, come catch a wave for one epic ride
Six Steps to Digital Learning
Lays out why we need to move to digital learning. Shares documented impacts and use cases, and articulates a six-step program plan for successful implementation.
Creating 21st Century EdTech-based Projects
This session will take teachers through the process and decisions centered around designing EdTech-based projects. It will include discussions that: - Evaluate tech-based projects. - Methods of submitting digital products. -Strategies regarding offering student tech support. - Delivering project directions. - Designing quality EDTech-based projects.
The Good, The Bad, and The Data: Effectively Using Data to Increase Student Learning
We think we are being effective; we hope we are being effective, but how do we know that we are being effective? Only through gathering, analyzing, and interpreting student data can we improve our classrooms or our schools. In this presentation we will examine the ins and outs of Data Driven Decision Making (D3M) debunking myth, demystifying the process, and developing strategies that can be used at all levels of school management.
Path to Proficiency: How Mastery Learning is Supercharging Student Growth
With so much emphasis being placed on testing and accountability, many educators may be missing the single greatest opportunity to drive student outcomes—teacher-created formative assessment with timely, targeted interventions. But can truly personalized learning become a reality when faced with limited classroom time? With innovations in technology and teacher practice, implementing mastery-based learning on a school or district level is possible. And it may hold the key to what matters most—personalizing learning and driving student growth.
Technology in Early Childhood Education
Calling all early childhood teachers! In this session we will discuss the many technologies I've used in my classroom to deliver the standards while making teaching easier and fun! We will also explore opportunities to incorporate technology depending upon your level of access to tech tools.
GeoMentors Bring Maps Alive in the Curriculum
We all grew up with paper maps and atlases. Modern maps are digital, updated, and relevant not just to our daily commute, but also to understanding and managing the planet, the country, the city, the neighborhood…even the school grounds. Come learn about today’s maps, geographic information systems (GIS) and how you can find, or perhaps be, a “GeoMentor” at your school – no mapping experience required.
Teaching the Past in Light of the Future: Technology and Tablets in the Social Studies Classroom
This session will explore practical skills and ideas for creating and instructing Social Studies content through the medium of technology and projects/activities. Some topics included in the discussion are: iPads/Apple-TVs, Digital-workflow, "Flipped-class”, video-lecture and distribution, web resource development, technology and tactile artifact activities, etc.
Practical Tools to Help Learners & Educators Digitally Transform Their School
This session focuses on models and resources for transforming your classroom or school into a digital teaching and learning space, regardless of student or staff skill level. The presenter will discuss solutions for a variety of school settings (computer lab, classroom station, classroom mobile carts, one-to-one, and other hybrid and blended models). Learning.com’s solutions are designed with teachers in mind, making the transition from teaching kids computer basics up to group collaboration in project-based learning easy.
Animate Your Learning with iMovie
Are you looking for something that is fun, free, and fabulous to do with your students? Come learn how to use a simple app Telegami with iMovie to create animated movies unlike anything that you have made before. Not only can you create something unique, your students can share their learning in a creative format. Two amazing applications equals unlimited possibilities for learning.
Microsoft in the Classroom
Explore the free tools, technologies, and resources Microsoft has made available to bring 21st century teaching and learning into the classroom. Experience rich learning that demonstrate how technology can enhance teaching and learning. Learn where to get free resources taht spark imagination and inspire learning, and find out how to access free professional development for educators.
The Power of Public Relations in Schools
Learn ways to build and promote the image of your school using the mass media...radio television, newspapers, magazines, and social media. Find out what the media wants, learn how to set your own agenda, choose the best medium for the message, learn how to frame the message, develop and refine your message so that it is concise and relevant to your audience
Beginning Teachers Using Technology
This will be a class introducing technology into the classroom. We will look at how to use ipads in the classroom. We will look at how to use them within our teaching methods.
Mixing It up With Blended Learning
Participants will discover various models of blended learning and how this instructional method can address some of the challenges that educators face, including integration of technology and differentitating curriculum. Discover new software to enhance your blended instruction and discover how to select the software that is right for you.
Getting to Know Your Chromebook
You got a new Chromebook - Yea! But wait, it’s not a laptop and it’s not a tablet...What is this thing? In this session we will look into the amazing things that you can do with your new device as well as how to personalize your experience and some hidden treasures to help you with productivity and workflow.
Google Classroom for Your Classroom
Come and explore the Google Classroom. In this session we will explore how Google Classroom can ease your document management as well as workflow and increase student productivity. Learn the latest updates and be ready to use this tool on Monday!
Google Docs Can do That?!?
Ready to take Docs to the next level? Sure Docs is a great word processing tool but Docs can do so much more. In this workshop we will explore some of the not so obvious uses and tools baked right into Google Docs as well as sharing workflow and productivity tips and tricks.
Using Games to Redefine the Learning Experience (Video Conference)
Strengthening student engagement starts with creating a learning environment that’s fun, collaborative and completely immersive. Using the same mechanics that make video games so compelling, we can transform the classroom so that students have a great time, help each other thrive and keep coming back for more! Classcraft is an online platform that transforms any classroom into a giant RPG played through the school year and redefines the classroom experience. We’ll look at what makes a good video game, at how those concepts went into Classcraft’s design and why it’s gained incredible traction in the last year, transforming the lives of hundreds of thousands of students worldwide.
Do Gradebooks Still Matter
Whether you're new to Gradelink or a seasoned vet, there's probably features you didn't know existed. We'll cover core features like assignment weighting, extra credit and grade codes, then move on to options like discipline, student/parent view, term comment history and birthday alerts. Learn how the new Assignment Collections can save you from ever having to retype assignments . Open Q&A session to follow.
Building a Culture of Great Digital Citizenship
Kids today grow up in a digital world with potential for communication, collaboration, and creation at school and home. In this session, join Common Sense Education to learn about the necessary elements to create a positive culture around digital citizenship and how to become a Digital Citizenship Certified Educator.
Implementing Standards Based Grading (without losing your mind)
Date-driven teaching can help provide a clear picture of student mastery of standards. But as a teacher how can you easily manage the process? See how to accomplish this in Gradelink without learning a whole new skill set. Identify gaps in learning any time, not just during assessment. Schools can review detailed student and class performance metrics internally, and optionally produce highly customized standards-based report cards.
Managing the iPads in your Classroom
I will be covering how Airwatch addresses mobile management needs in the classroom. I will go over how to use the management console; go over how to easily configure the iPads, push out apps, and will cover classroom management tool, Teacher Tools, which gives teachers the ability to lock students into specific apps, documents, or websites for a specified amount of time.
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