Classroom Tools For Music With Project Ideas

Shannan Williams, Educational Consultant WOUB

Join us for tips and tricks for creating music with digital tools in the classroom. Support and guide students in creating music that can be used for classroom projects (like podcasts or video sound tracks), self expression, or just for fun.

Creating Competent And Engaged Readers Using Google Forms

Bill Mooney, WOSU Classroom Educational Technology Consultant

Flipgrid is an online digital discussion platform that can be used in the classroom in a variety of ways. Join us for this session as we explore how to create groups and topics, share with students, record responses and explore the platform.

Creative Technology Pedagogy

Shannan Williams, Educational Consultant WOUB

In this session, we will explore strategies for using technology to facilitate creativity in students and teachers. Discover what does creativity looks like in the classroom, along with reviewing sample projects, tools, methods, and ideas.

Empowering Digital Learning A "Virtual Educational Session"

Judy Tucker, Consultant NWOET

In this quick overview, learn about how HyperDocs can transform your teaching! Known as HyperDocs, your assignments become much more than digital worksheets, and facilitate instruction for face-to-face, blended, flipped, and remote learning. Examples will be shown for multiple subject areas as well as how to get started using a HyperDoc.

Explain Everything

Kara Hutchinson, SOITA/CET Educational Consultant

Explain Everything is an online whiteboard that allows real-time collaboration with students. Learn what explain everything is and ways it can be used in the classroom to create lessons.

Getting Started With Video Blogging

Fred Barrett , PBS Western Reserve Emerging Media Manager

• Discover strategic ways to drive engagement to your digital content and platforms with vlogging

• Learn the different platforms and effectiveness of vlogging in digital storytelling.

• Learn how vlogging helps connect individuals and their communities.

• Discover tools and resources needed to begin a vlog.

Getting To Know Your Students And Google

Tina Bossenbroek, WGTE Educational Services Coordinator

Do you want to make learning all the tools in Google engaging for the students? Are you always looking for ways to learn more about your students? Discover ideas of how to teach the Google tools as well as learn more about your students at the same time. Specific examples of projects will be shared for Docs, Forms, Draw, Slides, Jamboard and Maps.

Interactive Timelines With TimelineJS

Caryn Kelley, SOITA/CET Educational Consultant

TimelineJS is a fantastic free tool that allows anyone to create dynamic, interactive multimedia timelines. In this session we will discuss tips for creating an engaging timeline, how to organize your content to make timeline creation a breeze, and detail the process of creating a professional looking timeline using TimelineJS.

Jammin' And More With Mr. J To Promote Well-Being

Ellen Cahill, Ph.D., WOSU Classroom Educational Technology Consultant

When you are able to name your emotions, something magical happens. Explore a free new web video series, Drawing with Mr. J, produced by WOSU featuring 2018’s Ohio’s Educator of Year Jon Juravich. The video series includes12 episodes introducing a drawing challenge to guide a conversation on emotions commonly faced by children. Extend the conversation with the companion guide, storybooks, and templates using Google Jamboards and Slides to help students grow a stronger vocabulary to help recognize and regulate their emotions. Participants will take away oodles of templates to use tomorrow!

Let’s Get Pixelated!

Caryn Kelley, SOITA/CET Educational Consultant

Pixel art offers a great opportunity to introduce students to spreadsheets in an interesting way, while also providing teachers an opportunity to wax nostalgic about their old Atari and Nintendo games. Using just Google Sheets and a bit of creativity, anyone can make an engaging activity that will have their students excited to be working with spreadsheets. In this session, we will explore everything from setting up your spreadsheet to create simple pixel art and paint by number activities to employing conditional formatting to build self-checking assignments. Join us as we look at spreadsheets through a fun new pixelated lens.

Make YouTube Yours

Kara Hutchinson, SOITA/CET Educational Consultant
Matt Gerberick, SOITA/CET Educational Consultant

YouTube is one of the most popular destinations for people to search for video content. The content available can be used for entertainment, how-to ideas, sharing of memories, and much much more. Typically, YouTube videos are searched for using a computer browser, or by using the YouTube mobile app. It’s a relatively simple process to search for videos, but what else can you do with YouTube? But did you know that you can save, organize, and even create your own content with YouTube? During this session, we will explore the many different features that can help you be more efficient, and creative with YouTube. Let’s get started!

Making-It to MakerSpaces: We Are Born Entrepreneurs

Jeanne Goldberg, WVIZ Education Facilitator/Coach

"Because educators are responsible for preparing young people to build successful lives in ever-changing environments where learning never stops, entrepreneurial education must be cultivated. From Making-It to MakerSpace, explore ideas and resources that promote change in the learning domain."

Nearpod: It's All You Need

Tonya Sanders, NWOET Associate Director

Nearpod is a powerful tool that combines all the assets of presenting content along with the ease of interactivity and collaboration. Nearpod assists teachers in creating insane interactive lessons that will make their students beg to come to school. The negativity connected to learning lessons will dissipate while Nearpod creates the opportunity to engage your students with videos, activities, and assessments in an interactive gamified environment. 

PBS LearningMedia In Your Classroom

Tina Bossenbroek, WGTE Educational Services Coordinator

Are you looking for some new resources for your classroom? PBS Learning Media has thousands of free, online resources for teachers and students. Learn about the variety of resources offered, how to find the resources you need, and how to integrate them into your digital learning platform and classroom.

Project-Based Learning: A Journey Into Transformative Instruction

Tonya Sanders, NWOET Associate Director
Roger Minier, Ph.D., NWOET Executive Director
Judy Tucker, NWOET

Problem or Project-Based Learning can be an effective way to start students on their journey to a collaborative and creative way of learning. Students engage in a journey to solve a challenging problem or question. Through this student-driven and collaborative learning environment, the students investigate and build a response to a complex question or problem. This investigation generates student leadership skills, creativity, critical thinking, and ultimately a voice that is witnessed by an audience of their peers and community. Join us to learn the basics of project-based learning and design thinking as it relates to implementing innovative instructional techniques in your classroom. 

Starting Up With Audio Podcasting And Interviewing

Fred Barrett , PBS Western Reserve Emerging Media Manager

Audio Podcasting/Interviewing Takeaways:

• Learn audio podcasts statistics, and discover who is producing and consuming podcasts.

• Discover tools and tips to produce podcasts.

• Learn the industry formats, and popular software for producing podcasts.

Using The News To Support The Ohio Standards

Michael Edelman, WVIZ Director of Education

NewsDepth is produced with teachers in mind. As an instructional tool it supports a multi-curricular instructional approach. The content of the show is intentionally selected and produced to support the Ohio Learning Standards in several content areas. This session explores how NewsDepth can be used to support classroom instruction.