Secondary Synergy Q&A 9/15/22

REMIND 9/22/22

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Secondary Synergy Q&A 9/1/22

Synergy & Classroom Q&A 9/8/22

Janie Islas, Kate Freels, and Miranda Felton,

PVUSD Technology ToSAs

Join us as we demo three different end-of year activities that can help your students reflect on their learning, showcase their work, and connect with their classmates.

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Anne Faustina, Lakeview Middle School

Have you ever wanted to make beautiful worksheets and guided notes documents like those found on TPT? If so, Canva is a great web based tool you can use. Canva is an online design and publishing tool that can be used to design anything. Create a worksheet or guided notes document that you can download as PDF, which then can be opened in Kami.

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Miranda Felton, PVUSD Technology ToSA

Learn how to use the District's subscription to Kami to create assignments for students. Kami allows you and the students to type, draw, highlight, and record audio and video on any document, including PDFs... and it's all integrated with Google Classroom!

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Chandra Cholakian, Mintie White Elementary

In this session I will share a few of my favorite EduProtocols, from the excellent book The EduProtocol Field Guide: Book 1, by Malena Hebern and Jon Corippo. EduProtocols are simple content frames that can be used to simplify lesson planning and help students have fun while learning. I will share the ways I use a few of my favorite EduProtocols both for distance learning and when we are in the classroom.

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Bobbie Grennier, PVUSD Virtual Academy

Don’t let your Google Drive make you nuts! Let’s have some fun learning ways to creatively manage your Google Drive and help your students organize their Drives as well.

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Stephanie Sumarna, SCCOE Distance Learning ToSA

Come learn how hyperdocs can transform your teaching. The mixtape or playlists of lesson plans - hyperdocs offer a way to guide students through each part of a lesson either at a teacher or student's pace and create a home for all of your necessary multimedia pieces. You will leave with templates and inspiration to use right away!

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Kate Freels, PVUSD Technology ToSA

Don’t just make flashcards for your students. Make them WITH your students. Increase retention, strengthen community and have fun! In this session, you will get to experience the Flashcard Factory as a student.

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Janie Islas, PVUSD Technology ToSA

Come learn how to use Screencastify to record your computer screen or yourself, and how to edit and share your recordings with others. This tool is great for recording a message for your students, directions, mini-lessons, and tutorials.

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Jon Smith from Book Creator

Bring creativity into your classroom, help reluctant writers, and allow students to demonstrate their understanding! Learn how you can take advantage of this amazing premium trial through the end of this school year. Enjoy a 1,000 book limit, real-time collaboration, and a co-teacher option!

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Teacher Guidebook

How to Copy and Share Templates

Noel Scriffiny, Socio-emotional Counselor

A brief review of SEL core competencies and how you can use three different positive psychology techniques to teach your students ways of improving their emotional well being and possibly yourself at the same time!

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Miranda Felton, PVUSD Technology ToSA

Learn how to use the digital whiteboard tool Explain Everything to demonstrate content to students in an efficient and engaging way. Explain Everything allows you to go beyond the basics of Jamboard.

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Miranda Felton, PVUSD Technology ToSA

This session will cover some advanced tips and tricks for Google Classroom, including organizational strategies, and lesser known settings and features. This is also an opportunity to get your burning Google Classroom questions answered!

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Janie Islas, PVUSD Technology ToSA

Learn how to get started using Pear Deck. We will go over how to create interactive Pear Deck slides, and how to run a session with your students.

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Pear Deck Resources

Jason Antaya, Tech Liaison at Aptos Jr. High

Are you looking for an activity that increases student engagement during a lesson, but doesn't take hours to prepare? You can prepare this Jamboard activity quickly and adapt it to any content area. It also activates higher order thinking skills!

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Jeopardy Activity Template

Soundboards

Erick Herrman, PVUSD SELPA ToSA

Explore easy-to-use, free engagement tools from Flippity.net that can be integrated into any classroom during virtual learning or when we return face-to-face.

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Kate Freels and Miranda Felton, PVUSD Technology ToSA

Everything you need to know about this communication tool including account settings, messaging, and placing calls!

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Rhia Hurt, PVUSD VAPA ToSA

Find out more about using drawing with the grid using Google Drawings. Great for art teachers!

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Jason Borgen and Stephanie Sumarna, SCCOE

Join us to discover how this easy-to-use tool provides a space to collaborate, a way to capture evidence of engagement and is suitable for all ages & subjects.

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Jamboard Resources and Templates