Flying into the Twitterverse - MaKenzie Rupert Room 2240
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
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
A Semester of Gamification: Lessons Learned (Friday only) - Kathy Maurer Room 2255
Gamification is the application of gaming techniques (points, quests, story) to the classroom. This past spring, the MPHS Science Department gamified the new freshman offering, Environmental Science. Come hear about how we did it and the lessons we learned.
Grade levels and Contents: K-12, All content areas
Intro to Elementary Research - Theresa Hayden Room 2233
Want to start research right away with your elementary students in the beginning of the year? Do you feel overwhelmed by the process and don't know where to start? In this session we'll explore how your school librarian can lead you and your students to resources for projects across all grade levels/content areas. We will look at World Book Online and several free resources to help you start your students on a path of engaging, thoughtful research. (Research, Digital Citizenship, Collaboration, Chromebooks)
Grade levels and Contents: Elementary, All content areas
Excel-erate Worksheet Generation - Krista Kelly Room 2253
Ever get tired of trying to find or create another set of worksheet problems for students to practice with? Want to generate new quiz sheets in an instant to support mastery learning? Then this session is for you. Learn how Excel can make you a generation whiz.
Grade levels and Contents: K-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
Crack the Code to Student Engagement (Friday only) - Lisa Hill Room 2231
Learn how to create escape room-inspired lessons that your students will love using Google Forms. You will participate in a (mostly) digital escape room and have time to begin creating one of your own.
Grade levels and Contents: K-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
LEGO - Let's Explore Great Occupations - 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
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
Using Google Applied Digital Skills in your Classroom - Andrea Barbuzza Room 2230
Did you know Google has a series of video lessons that teach everything from basic coding to resume-writing to creative writing in digital form and more? Google Applied Digital Skills is an amazing way for you to get students using Google Apps in your classroom in the various SAMR tech levels. No need to be a techie yourself because the short video tutorials take each student (and YOU) through the process step by step.
Grade levels and Contents: K-12, All content areas
Flipgrid; Rock the Grid - Ashley Bajohr Room 2233
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
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
Using Your Canva Compass to Explore New Trails! - MaKenzie Rupert Room 2240
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
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 2230
Learn how to create and use graphic organizers using Google Docs and Google Slides.
Grade levels and Contents: PreK-12, All content areas