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During the 2020-2021 school year, I was part of the inaugural class of RISE 20/20 (Redefining Integration for Student Engagement with a 20/20 Vision for the Future).
RISE 20/20 is a group of educators dedicated to creating an environment in which teachers will have built-in connections to help them navigate uncharted waters to develop new, engaging and meaningful opportunities that will expand our impact beyond our walls.
Details:
● RISE 20/20 is a three-year cohort commitment
● 4-5 trainings per year, primarily held on regularly scheduled district professional development days
● Innovative coaching experiences
● RISE 20/20 is centered on best practices utilizing built-in tools to create engaging experiences for students and redefine how technology is used in the School District of La Crosse.
● Content is based on Apple's leadership series, including the Elements of Learning, Innovation in Schools and Leadership in Schools books.
This has been a unique year of teaching and learning for our students and staff. Thankfully, it has been filled with unexpected challenges as well as new opportunities for growth. Our RISE 20/20 cohort has become a community in which we can lean on to listen, to inspire, to learn from, while also engaging with when we need a boost to our academic and emotional well-being.
As part of the cohort we were asked to create a project. The ultimate goal of this project is to not only impact our classrooms, but also help teachers throughout my building and/or the district to further integrate technology integration in a meaningful way.
As part of my RISE 20/20 I created a collection of videos on how to use the databases specific for the students of Hamilton/SOTA I. I plan to create videos for my school (Hamilton/SOTA I) featuring the databases paid for the School District of La Crosse (Tumblebooks, PebbleGo, etc). These videos are showcased here and on my Youtube account.
In the future I would like to create general videos that can be used by any teacher across the district and go beyond the school walls. I would also like to think about how to curate and collect in one location all of the many videos, links, and resources that we have created in the district in one easy-to-use location to better assist our students and staff across the School District of La Crosse.
It was my honor to be a part of this group led by Maggie McHugh and Bethany Nugent.
BrainPop:
Animated Educational Site for Kids - Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, and Technology. Teachers should set up their BrainPOP account using the generic Hamilton/SOTA I School code and then add students their class. Students then can login to BrainPOP using their Google accounts once they've been added to a class by the teacher.
Destiny Discover: https://youtu.be/-UkNnkxsMuQ
Destiny Discover is the more visual online card catalog which allows staff and student to find a book in our library and place them on request.
Encyclopedia Brittanica through BadgerLink: https://youtu.be/y7snXEZS-Rc
Explore the fact-checked online encyclopedia from Encyclopedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of objective articles, biographies, videos, and images accessed through BadgerLink.
Flocabulary:
Flocabulary is a learning program that uses educational hip-hop music to engage students. Flocabulary currently has over 900 videos to support classroom curriculum. Teachers make accounts for themselves and a class for their students. Student joins the class using a class code provided by their teacher. Students can then sign in using Google.
Learn360: https://youtu.be/6HNgtQ1WNwM
Learn360 provides access to a web-based digital video library comprised of thousands of K-12 core-curriculum videos, video clips, newsreels, audio and video speeches, still images, and audio files.
MackinVia: https://youtu.be/XKwo4gShRZw
MackinVia is how students access our school's digital resources of audiobooks and e-books.
PebbleGo: https://youtu.be/Mq8uEVW7GyM
PebbleGO is a curriculum connected research tool for elementary school educators. Categories include: Science, Biographies, Animals and Social Studies.
TumbleBooks:
https://youtu.be/tWStl91VK7s (youngers) https://youtu.be/LLSZdDN4Uzg (olders)
Learn how to use Tumblebooks, animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. They are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sounds, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book (and some classics) which you can read, or have read to you. There is a link on the students' iPad directly to Tumblebooks.
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