How Do I Use the Highlight Hub?

Select your school from the dropdown.

This helps us organize your ideas into the school-wide portfolio, and it helps your school move up the leaderboard!

Which tech tool did you use in this lesson to help your students learn your content?

Your idea will be added to the tool-specific digital portfolio, and FCPS teachers will be able to search for lesson ideas by tech tool on the Highlight Hub.

Can I submit more than once for the same tool? Sure! If you have used the same tool in a different way, be sure to add that new idea to your portfolio. For example, you used Flipgrid as a bell ringer and now you are using it for homework discussion. Submit both of those ideas.

With a few quick sentences, describe how you utilized the tech tool in your lesson.

You don't need a formal lesson plan format, just a quick description of what your students did with the tool and how it helped them learn.

If you used the tool in a new way, submit that new idea to the form as well.

Great Examples:

"Students in the Senior English Classes use Adobe Spark to create a video legacy of the things they want the underclassmen to know/wish they had known as a freshman."

"We used interactive Google Slides with draggable items to help students learn to sort money"

"Students used Flipgrid to discuss homework. Each student explained a problem from last night's homework on camera. Other students comment and like."

"Students created Flipgrid book talks by discussing their outside reading with quick video descriptions."

Bad Examples:

"Students used Flipgrid in English class."

"We used Minecraft a lot."

After using this tech tool in your lesson, would you recommend it to other teachers?

On a scale from 1-5, how would you rate your overall experience with the tool in this scenario?

Where did you acquire the skills needed to use this tool in your lesson? Did you learn from our FCPS Office of instructional technology or from a teacher in your building? Did you learn online, attend a conference, or from an OIT training?

• FCPS OIT Training: You attended a training led by a member of the FCPS Office of Instructional Technology

• FCPS OIT Online Resource: You didn't attend a training, but you learned from a video or resource that was created by the Office of Instructional Technology

• Online Resource (not OIT): You learned the skills online from a source outside of FCPS. Perhaps you saw the idea on social media or the tech tool's website.

• Teacher Colleague: Another teacher in your building helped you learn this tool or gave you the idea for using it in your room.

• School DLC/TRT: Your school's Digital Learning Coach / Technology Resource Teacher helped you integrate this technology into your instruction.

• Conference: You attended a conference and picked up some creative tech ideas.

• Training (Outside District): You attended a training that was conducted by someone outside of FCPS.

• Other

(Optional) Snap a picture of the activity to add to your digital portfolio.

This is quick & easy if you are submitting the form on your phone!

You can include an image of the students completing the activity or a screenshot of the activity itself.

(Optional) Do you have link to a lesson resource or example student work that you would like to share?

If this item is stored on your Google Drive, be sure that sharing permissions are set to "anyone with the link can view."