Sessions at Glance
Breakout EDU
-Mission Impossible
What is BreakoutEDU?
BreakoutEDU takes the appeal of the "escape room," a recreational team sport in which a group of people use their wits to break out of a locked room, and turns it inside out. Instead of a locked room, teams must figure out how to get inside a tightly locked box using their prior knowledge, investigation and research skills.
Presenter: Marisol Herrera, Myra Green Middle School Counselor
G-Suite for EDU
No more lines by the copier
In this session, you will learn how to GO DIGITAL by using Google Drive. Go paperless!!! G Suite has powerful tools for students and teachers use the Cloud to save files and create word processing documents, presentations, collect data collection to enhance teaching and learning in the classroom, creating a digital environment.
Presenter: Alma Valdez, Pittman Media Specialist
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Google Classroom
a Quick Start Guide and more
Do you want to prepare your students with the 21st Century Skills to be college and career ready? In this session participants will learn on how to save time and paper to distribute assignments, communicate and stay organized. Google Classroom is a free web-based platform that integrates your G-Suite for Education account with all your Google Apps services.
Presenter: Alexis Sias, Pittman Teacher
Calendar
Exploring great calendar features
This session will explore the many cool and useful features of Gmail and Calendars, and it will help you to be more organized and productive every day. This will be a fairly practical and hands on session so bring your computer and your electronic device.
Presenter: Miguel Salinas, L.C. Smith Media Specialist
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YouTube
How to create a YouTube Channel
YouTube is not only the kingdom of digital entertainment but it can also be a great environment for learning. In this session, participants will learn how to record, upload, and use videos to enhance learning. Come ready to create your own YouTube Channel.
Presenter: Delma Gamez, Myra Green Middle School Teacher
BrainPOP
Get more out of BrainPOP!
Using BrainPop to assign videos and create movies and quizzes in all content areas. BrainPOP is used in numerous ways, from introducing a new lesson or topic to illustrating complex subject matter to reviewing before a test. Content is aligned to academic standards and easily searchable with our online Standards Tool. Elementary LEVEL
Presenter: Cindy Gamez and Melinda Hernandez, Pittman Elementary Teachers.
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Google Sites
Creating Teacher Pages and Student Portfolios
In this session you will learn how to create a free website using Google Sites! This is a user friendly tool that can be easily implemented in the classroom for making teacher pages and/or student portfolios. Come have fun creating your own website and mark it off your bucket list!
Presenter: Olivia Garcia, MGMS Media Specialist
Chrome Extensions and Apps
What Can Apps & Extensions Do for You?
Have you ever worked with a digital tool only to wish that it could do more? This session will help participants access some of the more hidden features of Chrome and Google Apps. Participants will learn how to increase the functionality of certain Google Apps using Add-ons, how to add features and utilities to their Chrome browser through Extensions, and how to find and install additional Chrome Apps to use with students. By the end of the session, teachers will be able to maximize their Google experience using these extras.
Presenter: Adriana Barron and Maria Martinez, L. C. Smith Elementary Teachers
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Google Lit Trips
Travel with Literature
Learn the basics of creating a virtual field trip of what students are reading using the Google Lit Trips concept and Google Maps. To motivate and enrich student reading, collect web resources and images about a title and place them geographically using the power of Google Maps, instead of the usual Google Earth application which may not be available at many schools. Discussion will include choosing appropriate titles, selecting resources to enrich the reading experience. creating a map of important aspects of the story, finding other Lit Trips, and using the Lit Trips in class.This session is appropriate for teachers at all technology levels.
Presenter: Manuel Gomez, RECHS Media Specialist
Google Hangouts
Let's Hangout!
Google Hangouts is a video-conferencing tool that can bring the world in to your classroom! The purpose of this session is to familiarize participants with Google Hangouts and the power this tool can have in the educational setting. Learn how Google Hangouts can help the students and teachers connect with experiences tied to their classroom curriculum. Be ready to connect with other people via hangouts.
Presenter: Victoria Perez, Myra Green Middle School Teacher
Forms
Forms for All
In this session you will learn how to create forms for use in many different classroom situations. With Google Forms you can create free, online surveys, quizzes, questionnaires, registration forms, and many more data collection tools. Learn how to create forms with many types of questions, share forms with others, collect data, and analyze and use the results. See practical examples of how we have used Google Forms in our district including online quizzes, computer lab reservations, parent email address collection, student registration, community surveys, technology request forms, data collection for science experiments, and more.
Presenter: Christine Ximenes, Pittman Elementary Teacher
Google Slides
Using Google Slides!
The learning objective in this session is to engage, create, and explore using Google Slides. Come and enjoy interactive challenges to sharpen your G-Suite skills.
Presenter: Martha Hinojosa, RISD Migrant Student Services Facilitator
Google Drawings
With this tool you will create more than a simple drawing
Drawing is not just doodling anymore! This session will take a look at Google drawings and how it can be used as a tool for organizing complex ideas or processes. Find out how to use basic and advanced features in Google Drawings in your classroom or as a leader to graphically display information. We will look at Drawings in action and learn how to make high functioning images.
Presenter: Cecilia Mendez, Pittman Teacher
Google Slides
Interactive Notebook!
Learn, Explore, and Create new ways to use Slides in the classroom. Learn new ways to make learning come alive with slides and explore new ways to use slides in the classroom.
Presenter: Raul Valdez, MGMS Principal
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G-Suite EDU
Back2school with Google!
G Suite provides communication and collaboration tools, office productivity tools, presentation software and unlimited file storage. Learn how these work together to keep you organized this school year and connected from anywhere.
Presenter: Maggie Ojeda, Region One
Resources
Digital Poetry Slam
Using Google Slides!
Writing and sharing poetry can be intimidating – take the fear out of the presentation. Turn your classroom into a multimedia, high-energy performance space with a DIGITAL poetry slam!
Presenter: Maggie Ojeda, Region One
RESOURCES
Digital Playground
Google Apps and more!
Presenter: Dara K. Cepeda, RISD Instructional Technology Facilitator
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