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📍The YouTube livestream URL will be emailed to you prior to the event.
Welcome to Learning Power Up: bite sized PL for the busy educator. With the craziness of this year trying to find a time to grow as an educator is next to impossible. That is why we are bringing you Learning Power Up. Learning Power Up are targeted 15 minute video lessons on topics that you have deemed the most important. Each Power Up features one strategy so you can quickly pickup ideas to use tomorrow.
As a bonus each Power Up will include a student engagement strategy you can use with online or face-to-face students.
Make sure to register for Power Ups so you can watch live or have the recordings delivered directly to your inbox.
Nov 10 | 12:00-12:15
Google Meet has updated a lot over the past month. Come learn about the new features and get a sneak peek at a few features coming soon.
Nov 11 | 12:00-12:15
Mote is a Chrome extension that lets you easily add voice comments and feedback to shared documents. It’s a faster, friendlier way to leave feedback for your students.
Nov 12 | 12:00-12:15
Different/more effective ways of note-taking virtually (that also work for FtF).
Nov 17 | 12:00-12:15
Need help prioritizing your to do list? The Eisenhower Method will help you organize your priorities so that you can focus on the most immediate and critical tasks.
Nov 18 | 12:00-12:15
Do you wish that you could see how often and how long your students are engaging with online learning? The Classwork Zoom extension will provide insight into student effort during online learning and help with attendance tracking.
Nov 19 | 12:00-12:15
Creating and using rubrics are time consuming. That is where a 1 point rubric is really helpful. In this session we will look at sample rubrics and make our own.
Dec 1 | 12:00-12:15
Want to differentiate, but not sure how to do it in a virtual setting? Learn how personalized learning playlist can make differentiation easy.
Dec 2 | 12:00-12:15
Do you wish that you could see how often and how long your students are engaging with online learning? The Classwork Zoom extension will provide insight into student effort during online learning and help with attendance tracking.
Dec 3 | 12:00-12:15
Encourage individual accountability and equal participation in class with some easy to implement strategies.
Dec 8 | 12:00-12:15
Want to give students an opportunity to be creative and find out what they know? Students can use Adobe Spark templates to create graphics, webpages, or videos.
Dec 9 | 12:00-12:15
Our students are comfortable with technology for entertainment, but not as comfortable with using it as a tool. With virtual learners and online assignments, it’s important to consider the technology skills your students need to complete the assignment.
Dec 10 | 12:00-12:15
By creating a tutorial video that enables students to rewatch or pause, you naturally differentiate the reteach process. Now you can embed retest questions throughout the tutorial, as well!
Dec 15 | 12:00-12:15
When you can’t hand a virtual student a book, what do you do? We will look at how to use Google Classroom, Kami, and Google Meet to provide meaningful guided reading lessons.
Dec 16 | 12:00-12:15
Come and learn about Classwork Zoom and how this tool will help with student accountability. It takes those many kinds of information from the revision history and visualizes them in a timeline, making it immensely faster and easier to understand and actually use it in decisions to benefit your classes.
Dec 17 | 12:00-12:15
Need students to show their work. Have them use the Google Classroom App to submit pictures of their assignments.