SESSION 1 -- 9:15 A.M. TO 10:15 A.M.

Joli Boucher

Virtual Field Trips and Digital Storytelling using Tour Builder

Virtual field trips mashed with digital storytelling at its finest! Participants will use Tour Builder with Google Earth to create engaging presentations for an authentic audience. Tour Builder allows you pick the locations right on the map, add in photos, text, and video, and then share your creation.

Resources: Tour Builder Presentation

All Levels, Session 1, Room 338

Suzy Brooks

Cooperative Publishing with Google Slides

What can Google Slides do for you (and your students!)?? Come see how Slides can be used to create collaborative books, websites, presentations and auto-run slideshows. Slides is a great entry-level tool for students to become acquainted with and eventually grow in expertise as their skills develop. Bring your creative ideas and see where they take you with Google Slides!

Resources: Cooperative Publishing Presentation

Beginner/Intermediate, Session 1, Room 348

Sarah Perkins

Creating Dynamic Worksheets in Google Docs

Tired of searching through Google to find the perfect worksheet for your upcoming lesson? Start the new school year right by using Google Docs to create more dynamic and engaging worksheets to meet your teaching style and student learning needs in a variety of subject areas. Using Google Docs allows you to design worksheets through incorporating Google Drawings, images, unlimited web fonts and more! We will explore different tools, such as add-ons for math and foreign languages, built into Google Docs to spark your creativity so you can begin making your own worksheets. By utilizing hyperlinks, teachers will learn how to build interactive worksheets to enrich the content and differentiate for students.

Resources: Creating Dynamic Worksheets in Google Docs

Beginner/Intermediate, Session 1, Room 339

Julie Spang

DocStickers - Old school feedback using Google Keep, Draw and Docs

Do you want to make providing student feedback a little cheerier? Try DocStickers! This hands-on workshop will show you how to use 2 lesser known GSuite tools (Google Draw and Google Keep) to provide custom stickers. You will be guided through the process of designing your own colorful sticker using Google Draw. Then see how easy it is to place your sticker onto a student assignments using the new Keep Notebook sidebar.

Resources: Old fashioned feedback with Doc Stickers

Beginner/Intermediate, Session 1, Room 349

Audra Kaplan

Game On!

Through a shared presentation, participants will walk through some of the basic tools that Flippity offers, e.g. Quiz Show, Random Name Picker, Hangman, spelling quizzes and more. In this hands-on workshop the Google Sheet will allow participants to work collaboratively as we build an interactive Jeopardy style web game, "Quiz Show" using Flippity. Using the project file we can add text, YouTube videos, images, and more. Once published, multiple players can access individual copies of the game to play on their own or in group settings. Participants will leave with practical experience and a game to boot. Join me!

Resources: http://goo.gl/XYEft5

All Levels, Session 1, Room 352