Fall 2020 Friday PD Materials

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Addressing D/Fs through Student Engagement

Addressing Ds and Fs Through Student Engagement

Let's Get Students Talking! Discussion Strategies and Tech Tools.

Let's Get Students Talking - Discussion Strategies

Loom - Easy Screen Recording

Copy of Loom

Make your own recordings or have students record and share presentations.

Low and No Tech Tools to Use When Teaching Online

Low Tech Distance Learning Strategies Slide Show

Nicole will show you how low tech and no tech tools will get you and your students engaged while getting everyone out of their seats and away from the screen.

Virtual Escape Rooms using Google Forms - Engaging Assessment is Possible.

Copy of Escape the Syllabus!!!! Using Google Form Virtual Escape Rooms for Assessment and Engaging Learning.

Michelle will show you how you can use Google Forms to create virtual escape rooms and/or create-your-own-adventures. Assess and engage students all at one time! Included in the slides are fillable Google Forms templates for a virtual escape room. All you have to do is change the questions and answers, and if you want the pictures. All the programming has been done for you!

Nearpod

Use this link to take you to our Nearpod page. Learn the basics of assigning, presenting, accessing the Nearpod library of lessons, and modifying those lessons to create your own Nearpod. MORE INDEPTH TRAININGS ON NEARPOD TO COME!!!

Here are step by step instructions for taking a Youtube video and adding your own questions. Nearpod and Youtube

Kami - Let Kami turn your PDFs into interactive texts. Let Kami make work easier to turn in. A nice tool in all disciplines, but especially useful for Math and Science.

Here is a Youtube video made by our own amazing librarian, Fred Bautista! Creating Interactive Documents with Kami

Table of Contents for the Video:

0:00 Introduction to the Presentation (Why Kami?)

1:19 How to Install Kami as a Chrome App and Use Kami from the Web

4:37 Sample Doc: History (Making a Document Interactive)

8:06 Basic Tools of Kami

13:33 Sample Doc: Math (and Screencasting)

20:11 Integrating Kami with Google Classroom (Saving, Viewing Shared Doc in Real Time, Viewing Contributors)

29:10 Opening Docs with Kami, Using OCR

31:50 Creating Tailor-Made PDFs with Split and Merge

Google Classroom

Syncing Google Classroom with SchoolLoop

Copy of Grading with Google Classroom
How to connect Classroom and SchoolLoop.mp4

This video will show you how to import the scores from a Google Form to your Google Classroom.

Basic Google Classroom and Drive Organizing

Google Classroom and Drive Organizing Basics

Learn how to organize your Google Classroom using topics, how to control Google Classroom Notifications, and how to use folders to organize your drive.

More information on Google Classroom can be found on the Google Classroom Page.

Learn how to Support our ELs while Teaching Your Content

Supporting ELs in the Content Areas through Integrated ELD