Pathway Descriptions

Boosting Productivity: Strategies for Busy Educators (available starting Fall 2023)

Any five of the following sessions can be applied to this pathway.

From Chaos to Order: Google Calendar for Busy Schedules: Have you found yourself double-booked? Forgotten a recent appointment? Stressing because you can’t visually see everything that’s coming up next? Meet your new best friend: Google Calendar!

Digital Curation Tools for Teachers: Digital curation (the process of collecting, organizing, and sharing digital content) can be a powerful tool for educators to enhance student learning. This session will provide teachers with practical tips and tools for effective digital curation using platforms such as Wakelet, Chrome, Padlet, YouTube, and more.

Google Drive: Beginner to Expert in One Session: All things Google are connected to Drive! This session will instruct participants how to efficiently navigate and manage (add, organize, find, and share) content in this Cloud-based storage platform.

Streamlining Individualized Feedback: In this session, you will learn to leverage amazing, free, digital tools that can make your individualized feedback to students personal, easy, and highly effective.

Essential Chrome Extensions for Educators: In this session, we will dive in and explore some of our must-have Chrome extensions for productivity, communication, creation/design, accessibility/differentiation, and more!

Diffit: Adapt, Generate, and Export Leveled Texts Instantly (and more!): Explore a powerful AI tool that simplifies the process of creating leveled texts for students. Discover how Diffit empowers educators to adapt existing content, generate customized reading materials, and seamlessly export them to suit various proficiency levels and learning needs.

Google Tools for Professional Collaboration: Google Workspace is the ultimate real-time and asynchronous collaborative environment. Learn tips and tricks about all the ways we, as professionals, can be more effective and efficient in Workspace.

Mastering Google Classroom Data with Schoolytics: If you would like to make better use of the data you are generating in Google Classroom, then Schoolytics is your answer! Learn how this program can help you make more data-informed instructional decisions by quickly analyzing student engagement data, effortlessly generating progress, missing assignments, or need-to-grade reports, and even evaluating student progress on tagged skill sets! 

Using Rubrics in Google Classroom: Learn how to create, implement, reuse, export, and share the built-in rubric feature in Classroom.

HyperDocs: All-in-One Digital Lesson Plans: HyperDocs are transformative, interactive digital lesson plans designed by teachers. They provide access to all content in one organized digital space, easily providing opportunities for student voice, choice, and active learning.

Google Workspace for Education

ANY five, full-length (one hour+) Google-based sessions found at bit.ly/edtechbcoe-sessions will apply to this pathway. The five sessions below are the most commonly-used products in Google Workspace.

Google Drive: Beginner to Expert in One Session: All things Google are connected to Drive! This session will instruct participants how to efficiently navigate and manage (add, organize, find, and share) content in this Cloud-based storage platform.

Creating, Sharing, and Collaborating: The Art of Google Docs: Learn how to navigate Google’s renowned word processor. We’ll cover paragraph and font options, columns, tables, images, etc. as well the amazing collaborative features that Docs holds.

Google Slides: Workspace’s Most Versatile Tool: Slides is one of Workspace’s most versatile tools and everyone should know how to use it to its fullest. This session will set you up to soon be a master of this fantastic program!

Google Sheets Bootcamp: Basic Training: Learn how to create a spreadsheet and add data, format text and data, use basic mathematical functions, insert images, hyperlinks, and charts, and share, protect, and move data.

The ABCs of Google Forms: Essential Elements: Learn all that Forms can do on its own (surveys, sign-ups, quizzes, etc.) and about its amazing connection to Sheets for data analysis.

Self-Selected EdTech Sessions

Any five, full-length (one hour+) sessions found at bit.ly/edtechbcoe-sessions will qualify for this pathway. "Mini Sessions" are not applicable.

Deeper Learning Through Student Voice (ended Spring 2023)

Introduction to Flip: Flip is a social media-style video platform that enhances student voice by encouraging conversation, justified debate, and open discussion within your learning community, as well as providing a venue for showcasing and sharing student work. This session will provide suggestions and examples for classroom use in addition to covering the basic skills needed for launching this very engaging and motivating tool.

Screencasting with Screencastify: Video is powerful in the classroom for both teachers and students. Learn about screencasting and how this easy and effective tool can make your classroom more engaging and informative!

Creative, Non-Traditional Uses of Google Slides: Slides is one of Workspace’s most versatile tools. Come see a multitude of alternate use examples and walk away with a variety of templates to get your creative juices flowing!

HyperDocs: All-in-One Digital Lesson Plans: HyperDocs are transformative, interactive digital lesson plans designed by teachers and given to students. They provide access to all content in one organized digital space, easily allowing teachers the ability to provide opportunities for student voice, choice, and active learning.

Introduction to Seesaw or Student Portfolios Using Google Sites: Enhance engagement, showcase learning in meaningful ways, and connect to the families in your classroom through Seesaw’s digital portfolios, activity library, and messaging service. or There’s no need to purchase a special portfolio program. Instead, leverage Google Sites to have students showcase and share their work!