CFSID Digital Learning Conference 2019
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Tuesday July 30
In this session we will have a little BIT of fun using micro:bits to make compliment machines, play cooperative games, and make each other laugh! This amazing SIMPLE little device is inexpensive and can be used from Grades 1-12
8:00 - 9:00 am and 9:10 - 10:10 am (Repeat Session)
We teach our students how to use maps and memorize places, but have they arrived at geographic thinking? Help students go from finding their house online to understanding the world around them and becoming a global citizen. Learn about the powerful and engaging tools available online such as Google Earth, Google MyMaps, VR Tour Creator, Streetview, and Google Expeditions that will help your students get where they need to be in the world.
10:20 - 11:20 am
Designing for the Future Unknown; Learn Today and Lead tomorrow with a Makerspace
We are preparing students to learn today and lead tomorrow! Come and explore how and why we can use collaboration, innovation, and design thinking in a makerspace to open our classrooms to a world of possibility like we have never seen before!
12:45 - 1:45 pm
Do you have struggling writers in your class who need to be inspired? Come and experience an opportunity to let the words come to life in your English Language Arts classes with simple makerspace activities that will inspire the most reluctant writers! You will leave with no tech, low tech, and high tech lesson ideas to use right away with your students of any age or ability!
3:00 - 4:00 pm
Wednesday July 31
Learn how to hack and electrify learning in your classroom with the Makey Makey! Imagine being able to make your word walls talk, create quick reaction quiz games, turn your stories into interactive adventures and more! Students of all abilities and ages can become innovative designers using everyday classroom objects!
8:00 - 9:00 am and 9:10 - 10:10 am (Repeat Session)
Frustrated with glitter glue and dried out markers? You can make anything amazing with Google Drawings! This crafty tool will help you take images, colour, text and more to the next level in your classroom and help students of all abilities make something Pinterest worthy! We can create real world examples and take learning off the page!
10:20 - 11:20 am
Are you ready to use the Google Tools for more than just slideshare and word processing!? This session will help you explore intentional creativity in the classroom using Google Apps as well as give you the gift of hundreds of new templates and tools to use in the classroom!