Digital Learning
PD Opportunities
2022 - 2023

Looking for a way to engage your students in online spaces and to create a more personalized learning experience for them? Schoology is your tool. This learning management system offers all the functionality of an online platform including assessments. Schoology Essentials is an online, self-paced introduction to the basics of all the tools of Schoology and addresses how to use them in online spaces. Work through all the modules on your own and develop your resources in a sample class as you go in this online course.

Looking for a way to engage your students in online spaces and to create a more personalized learning experience for them? Schoology is your tool. This learning management system offers all the functionality of an online platform including assessments. Schoology Essentials is an online, self-paced introduction to the basics of all the tools of Schoology and addresses how to use them in online spaces. Work through all the modules on your own and develop your resources in a sample class as you go in this online course.

In this 3 hour course, you will explore foundational frameworks that will enhance the design and delivery of digital experiences for your students. Because teaching online is not replicating a face-to-face classroom experience, it requires a shift in thinking about how to deliver instruction. We will look at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) standards for students, the SAMR Model for intentional integration of technology in your classroom, and explore the important components of virtual learning.

Accessibility refers to how accessible digial content is to students of all abilities and disabilities whether it be visual, hearing, physical or learning disabilities. Accessibility is the qualities that make an experience open to all. Keep in mind, not all disabilities are easy to see or identify so designing for all students up front is key. In this course you will learn strategies to help make any digital content you create for students; including documents, presentations, spreadsheets, videos, websites, etc, accessible to all.

In this 3 hour course, you will explore foundational frameworks that will enhance the design and delivery of digital experiences for your students. Because teaching online is not replicating a face-to-face classroom experience, it requires a shift in thinking about how to deliver instruction. We will look at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) standards for students, the SAMR Model for intentional integration of technology in your classroom, and explore the important components of virtual learning.

This course will teach you about blended and personalized learning as a whole, and show you how to stretch your thinking and try something new. You’ll learn the how and why of “blended” and how blended/personalized learning is changing the face of teaching and learning. You’ll leave this course with four blended “recipes” you can implement in your classroom immediately.

Videos allow students to learn at their own pace and in their own time offering ample flexibility. Teacher-created videos can demonstrate a strategy, problem solving steps, or mini lessons to meet students where they are. In this course, teachers will learn how to use WeVideo to edit their own videos in order to optimize instruction. Editing includes: screen capture/ voice over, deleting and recording clips, layering, changing video speed, video transitions and behaviors, and creating and inserting a themed clip. Each type of edit is its own folder. This course is asynchronous and teachers will participate in discussion and authentic video making activities.

Interaction and completion of each edit folder will take approximately one hour.

If you complete all activities in 3 edit folders, you will receive 3 credit hours; 6 folders will be 6 credit hours.

Interactive Pixel Art is a clever way to provide instant feedback to students as they unlock an image by answering questions correctly. In this course, create your Interactive Pixel Art activity to implement with your students.

In a world where answers are only a click away and media can be shared with ease, it's important to think about the role that these digital tools play in literacy instruction and work. In this session, we will think about the ways that we can teach students to be safe and responsible digital citizens and what can be done as educators to help students manage their own digital footprint.

**This course is only offered during the school year.

Digital Citizenship is not a one-time lesson or something discussed at a special assembly once a year. Regardless of their age, all of our students’ lives, and ours, are influenced by digital media. Even if you don’t tweet, or snap, or own a cell phone, your life is still influenced by digital media. Because digital media is so influential, even when we’re not online, we’re all digital citizens; as are our students. Instead of isolating digital citizenship, you’re encouraged to model good digital citizenship in every class, every day--even outside of class. Through this course you will also earn a Common Sense Media recognition badge.

Are you Googley? Do you want to be? Did you know that Google has an entire training program where you can get certified as a Google Educator? This course is online, self-paced, and is meant to get you to earn your Google Educator Level 1 Certification. In order to receive salary credit, you must pass the Google certification test and submit certificate.

This course is designed to take your Google skills to the next level. To enroll, you must have passed Google Certification Level 1 and have already received credit for that class.

Media is all around us! So, what is media literacy? This course will dive deeper into the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create and act using all forms of communication. In this course, participants will explore the complexities of how information is created, spread and consumed.