Day Two
Day Two
Join us in the Cafeteria!
United Breakfast Pizzas, Sonic French Toast Stick and Cinnabon Cinnasnacks, Shipley's Donuts, and Fruit will be provided.
The Java Jet truck will be out front from 7:30-10:00, check out their menu in the app and grab you a drink or two on us.
Presenter: Jess Powell-Allbright
Room: BTR
Digital activities and hybrid learning can overwhelm both teachers and their students with a sea of visual clutter. In this session, get creative with iconography and color schemes to design Google Slides and Drawings that will help visually delineate digital activities for learners and make teacher expectations SUPER clear. Participants will walk away with templates they can use immediately to rock their own classrooms.
Presenter: Courtney Watson
Room: Orchestra Room
Creating resources in your Google Workspace tools has never been easier. Whipping up a quick visual resource is a breeze with Slides, Docs or Draw, but when do you use one over the other? During this session, participants will not only learn ways to use these tools for creative expression, but also WHEN to use them. Walk away with a renewed understanding of your favorite Google tools as well as tips for using them to their creative strengths!
Presenter: Amy Storer
Room: Band Hall
Create learning for students that minimizes their open tabs. That's right fewer tabs, fewer worries. Digital learning can be organized and easy to navigate with the right tools. In this session, we will create hyperlinks, utilize the explore tool, embed outside sources, and other engaging single tab activities!
Presenter: Shantel Lott
Room: LTR
Teaching in the traditional classroom often requires the use of manipulatives for modeling and demonstration of understanding. In this session, learn to use Slides & Drawings as digital manipulatives and for ALL contents. This is Google Tools for ALL! (Even Fine Arts)
Presenter: Samuel Brouse
Room: 152
Ready to take your Edpuzzle skills to the next level? In this hands-on session, attendees will learn how to create engaging and effective video lessons with Edpuzzle. Participants will experience Edpuzzle Live Mode, learn specific strategies to level up embedded questions, discover how to create original content with the new Edpuzzle Extension, and explore engaging and rigorous content options in our digital library.
Whether in-person, virtual, or hybrid…this powerful platform is a must-have for your EdTech toolkit, come find out how you can get the most of Edpuzzle!
Presenter: Sarah Gibson and Chad haskins
Room: 156
Needing some enrichment inspiration for GT services? Come see some technology-inspired enrichment activities aligned to core standards, including interactive coding and Google integration!
Presenter: Lauren Smith
Room: 165
This session will support teachers in creating lessons that support student pacing and differentiation. We will dive into peardeck, flash card factory, lumio, and google tools that help teachers support their students learning!!
Presenter: Angela Rajcic
Room: 170
The presentation is for beginners who are wanting to use tangible and virtual technologies in their classroom or library. We will take a look, and play with, TelloEdu drones, Green Screen, SpheroEdu, and dable in a little bit of 3D Printing. Participants can take a quick peek at an Online Makerspace or virtual space created with Google Sites and with links that use Google Docs, Google Slides, and Website apps. Links in all subject areas will be provided so participants can create their own Virtual Space. Laptop/Chromebook recommended, iPads/iphones are useful to fly drones and control Spheros, however some will be provided so everyone can enjoy a hands on experience.
Presenter: Meagan Wiethorn
Room: 155
Heard of Kami but haven't made the leap to check it out? In this session, the Kami team will introduce learners to the document markup tool that has helped to transform instruction and meet the needs of our students through the digital age. Participants will discover the tools available in Kami, and learn what it means to adapt their already amazing lessons.
Presenter: Apple Trainer
Room: 157
Build new skills. Inspire your students.
Discover new ways to enhance students’ early literacy skills with the power of iPad and Augmented Reality. Explore the built-in features on iPad and education apps to support early reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. Discover innovative teaching strategies for personalizing learning for primary students.
Toward the end of this session we will unlock the power of iPad, Mac, and Apple apps in your classrooms with Apple Teacher, a free professional learning program. Explore the Apple Teacher Learning Center where you can earn badges and track your learning journey.
Presenter: Kacie Germadnik
Room: 154
Become a Lumio Leader for your school and/or district. During this session, you will get a look at this asynchronous course, where you will gain expertise to effectively integrate Lumio as well as develop skills to deliver high-quality training. This cohort moves beyond features and functions, aligning purposeful integration to best instructional practices. As a part of this course, we will complete Module 1 together.
Presenter: Jess Powell-Allbright
Room: BTR
Providing students with timely feedback is vital for their progress, never more so than during this time of distance learning. In this session, you will learn to offer feedback for your students using Google Workspace and other free tools to meet students' needs AND save time.
Presenter: Courtney Watson
Room: Orchestra Room
Batman has one, your favorite construction worker has one, and every school administrator should have one too. This session is all about tools, and we're not talking about grappling hooks or shark repellent. Learn how Google Workspace for Education tools can be deployed to help you solve problems and fight the monster of managing your time as a school administrator.
Presenter: Amy Storer
Room: Band Hall
Providing student learning accommodations is vital to their ability to comprehend and interact with the learning material. Using some truly amazing Chrome tools and extensions, teachers can learn to provide these accommodations and other learning support using audio, interactivity and more.
Presenter: Shantel Lott
Room: LTR
Sheets are AMAZING. They can be embedded into Slides and will auto-update. Make a simple budget and other files useful for everyday applications, and fear Sheets no more! This session is for beginners . . . if you want to learn how to put oomph in your pivot tables, this session is NOT for you, but if you want to get started with Sheets, don't miss this engaging session with friEdTechnology. (Beginners / New to Me)
Presenter: Scott Firenza
Room: 156
Come play with the fun side of Google. It may be educational. It may not be. But you'll leave this session with plenty of fun things to try with students. Chromebook or Laptops needed, but some activities will work with a mobile device.
Presenter: Kristi Starr
Room: 167
Live your best Chrome life with these tips, tricks, and extensions. Look at your Chromebook and browser in a whole new light as you explore features you didn't know existed. A Chromebook is recommended but a laptop with the Chrome browser will allow you follow most applications.
Presenter: Courtney Parum and Paige Duran
Room: 170
This will help primary teachers to get quick and simple engaging ways to integrate technology into their daily instruction during small group times across the content areas, intervention blocks, and for early finishers. This will encourage high quality rigorous independent work while the teacher is pulling small groups.
Presenter: Meagan Wiethorn
Room: 155
Kami is always listening to teacher feedback and adding new and useful features. In this session, the Kami team will go beyond the Kami basics and share all the latest and greatest Kami features as well as a few hidden Kami gems.
Presenter: Chris West
Room: TBD
This session is a discussion where best practices for starting an esports program is explored: interest, personel, competition opportunities, and establishing support systems for a program.
Presenter: Kacie Germadnik
Room: 154
Discover how to leverage Lumio to foster deeper classroom discussion, assess student understanding, provide real-time feedback Come see the newest features and ways to level-up the learning in any lesson. This session will be fun and interactive! You don’t want to miss it!
Presenter: Courtney Downum and Paige Robinson
Room: 1165
We will be presenting through google slides and showing how to use daily slides inside the classroom for K-5. Attendees will need their individual chromebooks to create their own slides.
Join us for lunch in the cafeteria. We will be having box lunches from Chick-Fil-A with Tea and Lemonade.
Presenter: Jess Powell-Allbright
Room: BTR
Digital activities and hybrid learning can overwhelm both teachers and their students with a sea of visual clutter. In this session, get creative with iconography and color schemes to design Google Slides and Drawings that will help visually delineate digital activities for learners and make teacher expectations SUPER clear. Participants will walk away with templates they can use immediately to rock their own classrooms.
Presenter: Courtney Watson
Room: Orchestra Room
Creating resources in your Google Workspace tools has never been easier. Whipping up a quick visual resource is a breeze with Slides, Docs or Draw, but when do you use one over the other? During this session, participants will not only learn ways to use these tools for creative expression, but also WHEN to use them. Walk away with a renewed understanding of your favorite Google tools as well as tips for using them to their creative strengths!
Presenter: Amy Storer
Room: Band Hall
Create learning for students that minimizes their open tabs. That's right fewer tabs, fewer worries. Digital learning can be organized and easy to navigate with the right tools. In this session, we will create hyperlinks, utilize the explore tool, embed outside sources, and other engaging single tab activities!
Presenter: Shantel Lott
Room: LTR
Teaching in the traditional classroom often requires the use of manipulatives for modeling and demonstration of understanding. In this session, learn to use Slides & Drawings as digital manipulatives and for ALL contents. This is Google Tools for ALL! (Even Fine Arts)
Presenter: Brenda Olden
Room: 170
Teachers will be introduced to various ways to connect to teachers online internationally. Bring your Chromebooks and get registered and see how you can get your kids to make friends across the ocean!
Presenter: Carole Harbison
Room: 167
What do hammers, screwdrivers, pliers, and wrenches have in common with the science of learning and teaching? They are 4 simple tools anyone can use. It has been said, “We change our tools and our tools change us.” Come learn how to leverage the power of four simple tools based on over a century of research by cognitive scientists. You will learn how retrieval practice, spaced practice, interleaving, and feedback can increase learning and as a result, increase scores. You will leave with an understanding of these tools and ways technology can be used to easily implement and benefit from these tools. You will also be provided with free resources from Lone Star Learning to support these powerful teaching tools in your classroom. From the greenest to the greatest, all teachers can find great success by simply implementing four powerful teaching tools. These strategies won’t leave you overwhelmed by anything other than their enormous impact. They are as easy to learn to use as a screwdriver!
Presenter: Tori Gaona
Room: 156
Using Google Slides and Classroom to make testing review engaging, meaningful, and memorable for students! Transform your classroom using technology that you already have!
Presenter: Brittany Lawrence, Katelynn Willeford, and Vanessa Valdez
Room: 154
Charged laptop, Google applications/tools (preferred) or Microsoft applications
Presenter: Suzanne Newell
Room: 168
Librarians are teachers of EVERY child in the school. Their role is critical to the culture of campus, the literacy of students, and the maximization of district resources. Join this session to celebrate this multifaceted role and ensure that it is seen by peers, teachers, leaders, students, and families as indispensable to public education!
Presenter: Meagan Wiethorn
Room: 155
In this session, learn how the Kami + Google Classroom integration works and how it can compel your students to demonstrate learning with more than text. Teachers will also learn how to provide learning feedback with the Kami Tools like Screen Recorded and Voice Comments.
Presenter: Jess Powell-Allbright
Room: BTR
Providing students with timely feedback is vital for their progress, never more so than during this time of distance learning. In this session, you will learn to offer feedback for your students using Google Workspace and other free tools to meet students' needs AND save time.
Presenter: Courtney Watson
Room: Orchestra Room
Batman has one, your favorite construction worker has one, and every school administrator should have one too. This session is all about tools, and we're not talking about grappling hooks or shark repellent. Learn how Google Workspace for Education tools can be deployed to help you solve problems and fight the monster of managing your time as a school administrator.
Presenter: Amy Storer
Room: Band Hall
Providing student learning accommodations is vital to their ability to comprehend and interact with the learning material. Using some truly amazing Chrome tools and extensions, teachers can learn to provide these accommodations and other learning support using audio, interactivity and more.
Presenter: Shantel Lott
Room: LTR
Sheets are AMAZING. They can be embedded into Slides and will auto-update. Make a simple budget and other files useful for everyday applications, and fear Sheets no more! This session is for beginners . . . if you want to learn how to put oomph in your pivot tables, this session is NOT for you, but if you want to get started with Sheets, don't miss this engaging session with friEdTechnology. (Beginners / New to Me)
Presenter: Janie Curl
Room: 167
A variety of robotic devices will be presented with lesson ideas, skills, and usage in the Elementary classroom. Come explore different ways to incorporate technology and robotics in your daily lessons.
Presenter: Stacey Bilberry
Room: 154
Attendees will receive step by step training to enable them to create their own Google Slide games/classrooms and transfer those to Boom Cards. Attendees will be given youtube links showing them exactly how to create these activities. Attendees will be given time to try to create their own games/classrooms during the training session using their own device.
Presenter: Traci Ward and Mandi Patton
Room: 165
Using your device, we will explore resources and ideas for station rotations in intermediate grades. We will take the first 30 minutes for explanation and conversation. The last 30 minutes will be used for creating templates to be used in the classroom.
Presenter: Ethan Strange
Room: 156
This session will help you learn to taylor Seesaw to your students' needs. We will go over the tools in detail, both for you as a teacher and for your students' use. A touchscreen chromebook or tablet will be needed.
Presenter: Kelsie Dreiling and Kyle Miller
Room: 170
In this session we will show you how to use Google Docs to make a planning calendar that can be shared with other teachers. This helps collaboration for teachers who do not have time to meet in person or who may be the only teacher for that content on their campus to plan and share with others. This also helps organize all of your resources by linking them directly on your planning calendar from your Google Drive for easy access.
Presenter: Suzanne Newell
Room: 168
In this session, teachers will take what they've learned from both remote and in-person experiences during the past 2 years and find new ways to conduct blended learning in classrooms. The session will focus on the work of Dr. Catlin Tucker and be applicable for all grades and subjects.
Presenter: Meagan Wiethorn
Room: 155
Because Kami is web-based, that means that you can take it anywhere you have a web browser. That also means that you can work in Kami not just on your computing devices like Chromebooks and laptops, but your front-of-the-classroom display as well. In this session, learn how to lead instruction with Kami and your classroom display. Please bring any device you are comfortable with for this session.
Let's wrap up with some sodas from Soda Shack and sweets from Kurbside. Both trucks will be in the courtyard area along with our DJ and some fun yard games!