Educreations - Nicole Sarich Room 2253
Share video lessons with students in a safe and private classroom environment. Have students show what they know by creating their own videos. Provide rich feedback on student work.
Grade levels and Contents: PreK-12, All content areas
PearDeck: More Than Just a Presentation Tool! - Patty Gilham Room 2240
Explore the different ways you can bring your presentations to life with formative assessments and interactive questions in real time! An invaluable tool for the 1:1 classroom & all MPCS teachers have a subscription; make it work for you and your students!
Grade levels and Contents: PreK-12, All Content Areas
Exploring the World with a Virtual Lens - Kayleigh McCann Room 2233
Are you interested in immersing your students in culturally rich experiences while teaching content and integrating technology? In this session, we will learn how to create virtual field trips with Google Tour Creator to allow our students to experience places all over the world, even outer space! Using already created templates, you can even have students explore the process of photosynthesis, the human anatomy, and electronic circuits. Come explore the world through virtual reality!
Grade levels and Contents: PreK-12, All content areas
Robots Do Core Content, Too! - Lisa Wolf Room 2232
STEM Labs and Tech Ed classrooms are typical places for robots to live. But, robots love core content, too. From geometry and algebra to multiplication, sequencing and storytelling! Come see how to use coding platforms and robotic devices to teach basic skills across content areas. Discover ways to teach your SOLs using robots and coding tools to keep students engaged and ready for the new world where robotics plays a part in all that we do.
Grade levels and Contents: K-8, Math and Literacy
Getting Organized with Google Drive (Plus Some Bonus Tips!) - Kyle Reimer Room 2254
Is your Google Drive a hot mess? Come learn some easy ways to get that Drive clean so the next time you have to find a document, you're not scared. You will get to see some different ways to keep your Drive clean, and then have a chance to start organizing!
Grade levels and Contents: PreK-12, All content areas
Get Hooked on Hyperdocs - Darcie Priester Room 2231
We want students to be creative, collaborative, critical thinking communicators. Hyperdocs will provide opportunities for them to be curious and become amazing problem solvers through creating rather than consuming information. It's more than just adding links to a Google Doc! Come to this session to learn what hyperdocs are, search through examples and see how to create your own!
Grade levels and Contents: K-12, All content areas
LEGO - Let's Explore Great Occupations (LEGO) - George Valletti Room 2255
Who doesn’t enjoy playing with Lego’s? These creative toys are powerful for any classroom! Join us as we create our own LEGOs to explore multiple career fields in unique ways. We will adventure through Tinkercad, then spin through the world of 3D printing, and add our final touches using 3D pen technology. Using the power of Google, our session will end as we travel back into our childhood creativity and build our own business infrastructure using nothing more than LEGO bricks.
Grade levels and Contents: PreK-12, All content areas
Flying into the Twitterverse - MaKenzie Rupert Room 2230
Sometimes it is hard to find the courage to spread your wings and fly into the Twitterverse! Throughout this session, you will learn the basics of Twitter and get you start flying! This session will help you learn how to take flight by posting your own tweets, exploring Twitter lingo and how you can use Twitter to go to new heights in your own professional development. Are you ready to fly through the Twitterverse?
Grade levels and Contents: PreK-12, All content areas
Canvas for Young Students (Thursday only) - Becca Shaw Room 2240
Many teachers think Canvas is too difficult for their young students. In this session, you will learn some ways to make Canvas user-friendly, interactive, and fun for young students. Come see how to create modules and assignments that will, not only work for early elementary students, but will enhance learning in your classroom.
Grade levels and Contents: Elementary, All content areas
Virtual Math Manipulatives - Nicole Sarich Room 2253
Teach math using virtual manipulatives. We will use fractions strips and circles, money, base 10 block and much more.
Grade levels and Contents: Elementary, Math
Graphic Organizers with Google - Shannon Wozniak Room 2233
Learn how to create and use graphic organizers using Google Docs and Google Slides.
Grade levels and Contents: K-12, All content areas
What's in Your Library? - Carolyn Frankeberger, Andrea Barbuzza & Beth O'Connell Room 2230
As secondary school librarians, we'll introduce you to the newest and most current digital resources available to support active learning in your classroom. We'll co-teach research skills, source evaluation, MLA and use of online databases and digital resources. We want to demonstrate how we can support you with books in print & eBook formats, request specific resources via print or digital, and learn about tools used in our schools to promote academic and professional success for all students and staff.
Grade levels and Contents: Secondary, All content areas
Remaining Aloft in the Twitterverse - Darcie Priester Room 2231
You’ve taken flight with Twitter and now you’re ready to take the next steps! In this session, we’ll look at how to become an advanced user by learning about Twitter analytics, third-party apps such as Buffer and TweetDeck, and participate in a live Twitter Chat!
Grade levels and Contents: PreK-12, All content areas
Using Your Canva Compass to Explore New Trails! - MaKenzie Rupert Room 2230
Have you ever wanted to make classroom flyers, your canvas page or your twitter more pleasing to the eye but you’re not sure where to start? Canva is a design website that is makes it easy to create engaging and attractive media designs. In this session, attendees will learn about Canva, explore the various trails of Canva and have the opportunity to explore and spark their own Canva campfire!
Grade levels and Contents: PreK-12, All Content Areas
Quizzes.Next in Canvas - Chris Konig Room 2254
In this session, participants will learn how to use the new assessment tool in Canvas, called Quizzes.Next. This tool will soon replace the current quiz tool within Canvas. Learn how to create new question types, including hot spot, sequencing and categorization, and multiple response questions, in addition to the traditional multiple choice and short answer questions. This is a beginner session, and will allow time to try out and play with the product.
Grade levels and Contents: K-12, All content areas
Flipgrid: Rock the Grid - Ashley Bajohr Room 2255
Want to give all your students a voice? Come learn tips and tricks to engage and extend the learning of students using Flipgrid. We will dive deeper into best practices for using Flipgrid and highlight unique ways you can engage learners with Flipgrid in the classroom and globally. “All learners have a voice….lets amplify it!”
Grade levels and Contents: PreK-12, All content areas
Personalized Communication - Krista Kelly Room 2232
Learn how combining Excel and Word can help you generate everything from labels to personalized letters or e-mails in a snap. Using data in Excel and the Mail Merge feature in Word, participants will learn how to create individualized mailings in record time.
Grade levels and Contents: K-12, All content areas