Engagement Expo

Presenters: Chelsie Borbon & Amanda Devos

Kick off our session with learning a fun 5-10 minute math skill intervention that students love! Do you love letting your students show what they know through their own creativity? Learn to set up assignments and create fun and engaging activities for any content for your students. Students will love all the choices! 

Presenters: Mayra Pelayo & Justine Segura

Canva is a great educational tool and resource for creating class slides, parent reminders, posters, worksheets, sub materials and so much more! We will briefly cover a few of the many different uses for Canva with step-by-step instructions on how to create engaging class slides with objectives & rubrics and teacher prompts. 

Presenter: Candace Zugner

There will be a 20-minute presentation on tips and tricks for organizing your online life. We will go over how to bookmark Google Drives used daily, how to make and organize files, and how to create Google Forms and Google Slides. Tips and tricks will help with efficient time management. The second portion of the session will allow Google work time with access to help as needed. I want you to be able to leave the session feeling like you are more organized and have a game plan moving forward. 

Presenter: Loren Wilson

Immersive Reader is a free tool that implements proven techniques to improve reading and writing for people, regardless of their age or ability. Immersive Reader can improve reading comprehension and increase fluency for English Language Learners. It can help build confidence for emerging readers learning to read at higher levels, and offer text decoding solutions for students with learning differences such as dyslexia. 

Presenter: Candace Zugner

This session will have a 20-minute How-To on getting started and quickly creating interactive Pear Deck slides from already existing Google Slides or PowerPoint. The second 20-minute portion of this session will be on turning an existing PowerPoint or Google Slide into an interactive Pear Deck for use in your classroom. Please come ready with slides, or if you don't have slides, be prepared to create slides you can use with your students. 

Presenter: Christina Ingalls

Welcome to the World of Blooket: a new take on review and preview games! In this session, you will learn to:

• Set up your Blooket account. 

• Launch quick play. 

• Create custom sets. 

• Launch live play during a session. 

• Assign as homework. 

• View and understand reports. 

• Manage student accounts. 

• Understand tokens/market for Blooks. 

Presenter: Ryan Roulston

Everyone uses Synergy, but this session will help make that experience more productive. We'll review basics (beginner level) but also go into some details on how you can be more informative to students and parents with some additional features being used (intermediate level). Some might think this session is too basic, but others will find it helps their prep/grading time so they can be freed up to do more in the classroom. This session is 0% student engagement and 100% teachers being more efficient with Synergy so they have time to plan more engaging activities. 

Presenter: Rod Williams

As educators, we often find ourselves in need of a few "extra" tools to achieve our goals, especially when it comes to engaging ALL learners. Sometimes we need a different way to present the information, or something for accelerated learners to work on independently, maybe we need a stand-alone piece that a student can use to prepare for that retake opportunity. These concerns can all be addressed relatively quickly with some easy-to-navigate tech tools. In this session, we will explore Quizizz, Wizer.me, Edpuzzle, and Lumio as tech-based options for expanding the teacher toolbox. There will also be an opportunity to create one or more of these for yourself. 

Presenter: Candace Zugner

This presentation will have a 20-minute portion showing you how one teacher uses Google Classroom to streamline student work, allow for student access outside the classroom, and maintain an extremely tight feedback loop. The other 20-minute portion of this session will allow you Google Classroom work time with help available if needed. You will be able to walk away from this session with tips, tricks, and a plan to move forward with your Google Classroom. 

Presenter: Valerie Reynolds

Gifted students want to find value or reason to come to the classroom beyond learning facts and memorizing information. Making learning relevant and meaningful for gifted kids in our classrooms involves stepping into their digital world. Technology can increase their possibilities for research, engagement, and collaboration with others, including academic leaders in a particular field. Using technology in the classroom makes differentiating easier. In this session, we will discuss your changing role as an educator in this age of technology and how it impacts learning and assessment. You will leave with a list of online resources and a variety of ways to use technology to differentiate for your TAG students. 

Presenter: Lacey Hill

This session will take you through how to create a Google Site and some of the things you can do with it. We will focus on creating the Google Site as a way to create and help students manage a student portfolio of work.