Breakout Sessions
Google Camp 2021
Presented by the Riverside County Office of Education in partnership with the Menifee Union School District, we are delighted to have provided this learning and sharing opportunity for K-12 teachers and administrators in Riverside County and beyond.
The summer program focuses on teaching and learning utilizing Google Apps for Education, Chromebooks, Google Classroom, and a variety of other educational solutions. It is designed to walk new online educators through the fundamentals of remote learning, introducing them into new strategies, tools, and troubleshooting abilities they'll need to teach with more confidence.
"There's a video for that!" Top 5 Ways to use Screencasts in the Hybrid/Blended/Face-to-Face Classroom
Screencasts were an essential part of distance learning, but did you know that there are many ways that they can be used in a hybrid/blended/face-to-face classroom? This presentation will cover our top five tried and true tips and resources for implementing screencasts with Screencastify and Google Classroom when we go back to "normal" to optimize student learning.
Presenters:
Laurel Aguilar-Kirchhoff
Sonal Patel
Creation over consumption: buncee in the classroom
Creation over consumption is a necessity in today's classrooms. In this session, I will introduce you to one of our favorite creation tools, Buncee
Presenters:
Deborah Zeman
Amy Storer
Leticia Citizen
Deeper learning with the t2 transformational eduprotocols
In this follow up session, participants will interactively experience how to work less, teach better, and realize explosive deeper learning in an online, hybrid, or face-to-face environment. Participants will interactively explore the T2 Transformational Learning strategies by contributively experiencing several T2 EduProtocols. The T2 EduProtocols accelerate students’ deeper learning ability—the capacity to consolidate surface learning by rapidly deepening their conceptual understanding and representation of essential content knowledge. Participants will be able to immediately and successfully use a sampling of the T2 EduProtocols with their students.
Presenter:
Sonny Magana
Digital Student portfolio: critical components of sel
When you help students to establish and maintain a digital portfolio, you are giving them a powerful way to grow in terms of both self-awareness and self-management. Explore all of the benefits of student portfolios (for teachers, too!) and learn how you can implement this strategy immediately using New Google Sites.
Presenters:
Erik Anderson
Brenda Nievas
From docs to forms
Got some great resources you've used in your classroom and wish there was a way to turn them into digital assessments that will give you timely feedback? There is no need to recreate the wheel or retype your resources in order to use them virtually. This session will show you how to turn you paper and digital resources into Google Form quizzes for fast feedback and easy grading.
Presenter:
Maria Purcar
Lessons learned: building & strengthening relationships with students
Teachers know strong relationships with students are the heart of our successes, and we’ve learned many students need those relationships to extend beyond the instructional minutes and the walls of the classroom. Building and strengthening relationships via asynchronous, two-way communication can help! Come learn some simple (and free!) tools to use all year long: Flipgrid, Google Classroom comments, and Mote.
Since this session is about asynchronous, two-way communication, please check out this "pre-session"/asynchronous activity: Flipgrid - https://flipgrid.com/e44198f8 (Click on "Enter your guest password." The password is googlecamp2021)
1) Please introduce yourself - your name, where you work, and what you do.
2) Share with us a few of your favorite activities/resources: in the traditional classroom, what do you do to build relationships with your students? And what do you do during the year to strengthen those relationships?
3) Return to the Fliprid Topic to check out ideas from fellow participants. Feel free to respond to them with a written comment or a video comment.
Presenter:
Angela Milversted
pear deck in the secondary ela classroom
This session will focus on drawing out reluctant high school students in the ELA classroom by using Pear Deck templates and various embedded sites along with the provided question types.
Presenter:
Verity Olliff
amplifying accessibility with google
In this session, we'll review Google’s Accessibility Tools to help support all learners in your classroom! Create equitable access for all of your students and level up your use of Google Workspace.
Presenter:
Brittany Conrad
google classroom progress reports & more!
Google Classroom is an amazing tool to interact with students and collect student work. This session will look at built in features of Google Classroom for how you can know how students are doing in your class. How to export scoring information and review student progress. For Google Classroom information that is difficult to obtain, briefly, you will be introduced to schoolytics.io for how you can FOR FREE get the progress reports and missing assignments reports that you need.
Presenter:
Alice Keeler
jamboard is my jam
I will show how Jamboard can be used in a collaborative environment, making backgrounds and templates that can be made and used to enhance student collaboration and learning.
Presenter:
Diana Mapes
make creative splashes riding the wakelet wave
Amplify the voice, learning, and engagement of students and teachers by offering creative options with the online tool curation tool, Wakelet. Go beyond telling stories, sharing information, and offering PD in the standard ways by using Wakelet to achieve greater engagement, organization, and inspiration.
Presenter:
Leticia Citizen
managing a 3d modeling & printing program remotely
In this virtual presentation, we will discuss 3D printing and building and how it can be incorporated into your curriculum as well as how to use Tinkercad to build your own 3D designs. We will also discuss how to teach 3D building remotely with Tinkercad Classrooms or Google Classroom.
Presenters:
Judy Nguyen
Pete Nguyen
start with a great question, "finish" with an inquiry project
Designing inquiry-based projects in a student-centered classroom requires a plan. This session will lay out such a plan, starting with asking good questions, and ending with students sharing their learning through inquiry-based projects. Along the way, we'll share how we can incorporate what the Finns call transversal competencies - learning and personal development attributes that span virtually any content and help our students develop quality learning skills to tackle whatever challenges they face in their futures.
Presenters:
Jay Sorensen
Mike Vollmert
technology & interent access is a civil right
Some argue that access to technology and the internet is an enabler of rights but not a right in it of itself. But in today's world, access to technology and the internet is required to be full participants in society. Access to healthcare, education, and the economy has been moving online. During this global health pandemic, technology and the internet is crucial to deliver these services.
Attend this session/ open discussion to collaborate on what your district is doing or has plans to do.
Presenter:
Joseph Williams
building community with among us
In this virtual session, we will explain the newest trend, the game Among Us. Make sure to download the game on your mobile device before joining to follow along. We, including a student presentor, will demonstrate how to lead a game of Among Us remotely and ways game playing can build community.
Presenters:
Judy Nguyen
Pete Nguyen
Drive faster
I am excited to share with you strategies for organizing your Google Drive so that you can more easily navigate through it and get to what you want to find so that you can spend more time creating, sharing, and collaborating. We will be exploring the following routes for navigating through Drive - AI Predicted Files, Workspaces, Starred, Shortcuts, and Creative Naming.
By the end of this session, you should be able to:
Understand the purpose for each route (AI Predicted Files, Workspaces, Starred, Shortcuts, and Creative Naming)
Find the AI Predicted Files
Know how the AI predicts files for you
Create Workspaces
Add and remove files to Workspaces
Hide and remove Workspaces
Star and unstar files and folders
Access Starred files and folders
Add and remove Shortcuts
Use spaces, emojis, and numbers to control the organization of files and folders in My Drive
Presenter:
Kate Applebee
engaging students in online synchronous academic discourse
If you're a secondary teacher asking yourself this question, “How can I increase student engagement & participation in synchronous online discussions?”, then this training is for you! We'll discuss strategies for how to stimulate academic discourse in your virtual synchronous sessions with students! This session is geared more towards secondary, however the practices that are being discussed are general “best practices” and can be modified for lower grade levels. We will be presenting on Zoom using PearDeck; a bit.ly link to the presentation will be provided at the end of the session!
Presenters:
Ashley Yazarlou
Derek Rouch
meaningful engagement with google tools
Come engage in a series of activities that promote relationship building, collaboration, communication, and autonomy. We will leverage Google Workspace as ‘tools of engagement,’ engagement that you can replicate with your students! Participants will walk away with strategies for engaging both students and educators in both online and in-person training sessions!
Presenter:
Brittany Conrad
ready player one
We will share some of our favorite ideas and resources for integrating play into your lessons and learning experiences. Whether you are distance, seat-based, or hybrid, come play and learn. Even educators need a chance to play and enjoy the company of their students and colleagues.
Presenters:
Michelle Van Omum
Nicole Chun
welcome to desmos for non-math teachers
Learn how to use the tools of Desmos and design highly engaging and interactive lessons for students outside of the math classroom. Teachers will be shown how to use this technology to create both lessons and independent assignments that show student progress and participation in real time.
Presenter:
Donna Goode
what's new from google for education
Come hear the latest updates, features, and releases from Google for Education and get a peek at the roadmap ahead.
Presenter:
Thomas Dickson
digital tools for creativity with english language learners (primary K, 1, 2)
Level the EdTech playing field by having English Language Learners use basic digital tools to create original works of digital media, while learning in English!
Presenter:
Brian Lopez
Formative assessments with flippity
Here you will learn how to use Flippity.net to assess, engage, and evaluate students in an interactive manner. The focus will be on a few games for engagement like matching cards, Jeopardy, and Bingo to name a few. Learn how to increase equity and access to grade level curriculum in an engaging way. This workshop will apply to distance, hybrid, or in-person instruction and is intended for all educators grades K-12.
Presenter:
Zack Safi
got udl? all students are created equitable
By focusing UDL strategies to differentiate learning opportunities in content, literacy, inquiry and citizenship, history/social science content becomes accessible for ALL learners. By studying and analyzing the past, we can create students who are indeed, Future Ready. Leave with materials to create your own equitable lesson!
Presenter:
Kim Vogu
interactive formative assessment using google forms
Do you wish you could be the tutor on the shoulder for your students? Are you buried in assignments to review or grade with limited opportunities to give students feedback when they need it most--during the learning process? Google Forms is an amazing tool for providing that immediate instruction, review, and feedback. It allows you to give each student just what is needed based on a chosen response. While it does require teacher prep time to anticipate student misunderstandings or needs and then to gather and link the supporting resources, it also frees up time that is usually spent on scoring so your time is used more effectively to provide students with the right feedback at just the right time.
Presenter:
Connie Born-Wood
jamboard for early literacy instruction
Our educational world has shifted due to the introduction of distance/hybrid learning. Jamboard offers an exciting digital path to support students as they develop phonological awareness (PA) and letter-sound correspondences on their path to becoming readers. Learn to use Jamboard to teach PA and phonics with your students in grade TK-1.
Presenter:
Lisa Curtis
standards based grading
How to set up a standards-based grading system in your classroom to ensure equity and fair grading procedures.
Presenter:
Jennie Gyford
tech tools for math lesson design
Overview of a variety of online tools that allow students to explore, explain and apply their math knowledge. Nearpod, Desmos, Geogebra, Quizizz, Edpuzzle, Google Apps for Education and more will be discussed along with ways to package and integrate lessons into Google Classroom using HyperDocs.
Presenter:
Kristan Morales
curating connection & postivity using google workspace
This is for educators who REFUSE to lose connection...whether it be in person or virtual. In this collaborative session we will explore how to leverage digital tools to build and maintain healthy relationships and connection with students --the foundation for their learning.
Presenter:
Noaveyar Lee
engaging students in online synchronous academic discourse
If you're a secondary teacher asking yourself this question, “How can I increase student engagement & participation in synchronous online discussions?”, then this training is for you! We'll discuss strategies for how to stimulate academic discourse in your virtual synchronous sessions with students! This session is geared more towards secondary, however the practices that are being discussed are general “best practices” and can be modified for lower grade levels. We will be presenting on Zoom using PearDeck; a bit.ly link to the presentation will be provided at the end of the session!
Presenters:
Derek Rouch
Ashley Yazarlou
google + canvas = working together!
Google Assignments can be integrated with your Canvas course! Do not redo all your resources in Google just because your district is now using Canvas LMS. Learn how to bring all your Google items into your Canvas course and utilize the best of both platforms.
Presenter:
Dana Thompson
google classroom progress reports & more!
Google Classroom is an amazing tool to interact with students and collect student work. This session will look at built in features of Google Classroom for how you can know how students are doing in your class. How to export scoring information and review student progress. For Google Classroom information that is difficult to obtain, briefly, you will be introduced to schoolytics.io for how you can FOR FREE get the progress reports and missing assignments reports that you need.
Presenter:
Alice Keeler
line game - transformed
Participate in this session to learn about an in-class face to face interactive activity that has been transformed into a digital activity using Jamboard. By providing students with questions and statements to identify shared experiences this activity can help to develop and strengthen relationships between students in the class as well as teacher relationships with students and focuses on building a culture of empathy.
Presenter:
Diane Pales
the year tech saved education & the beginning of an education revolution
Participants will be led on a journey of self-discovery and education reform. 2020 has been the year of years, but through this session, participants will see the numerous positive benefits that have come forth during the pandemic and how those benefits can change educators/education forever. This session will inspire participants and provide concrete examples, research, resources, and connections to transform education.
Presenter:
Mike Grothem
There's a protocol for that! google & eduprotocols: online solutions for student engagement
This presentation is designed for the teacher who is interested in seeing how Eduprotocols can work in their class. The session will be organized around the type of learning the teacher wants to use. For example, writing, there's a protocol for that! Repetitive practice? There's a protocol for that! Research? There's a Protocol for that too!
Presenter:
Paulla Tilton
digital tools for creativity with english language learners (primary k, 1, 2)
Level the EdTech playing field by having English Language Learners use basic digital tools to create original works of digital media, while learning in English!
Presenter:
Brian Lopez
from passive to active voice using nearpod
Engage with Nearpod to experience how to cultivate an environment of active learning, support emerging voices, and provide choice for diverse learners.
Presenter:
Leticia Citizen
get students talking - using desmos
Many students like to talk, and many teachers wish those conversations could be leveraged for learning. See how teachers can use Desmos activity builder to structure tasks that use students' natural language. Together we can build better academic talk and deeper understanding of content. Focus will be on digital card sorts, with small highlights for similar activities.
Presenters:
Jedidiah Butler
Emma Bennett
google keep: the secret to making executive function easy
Are you ready to learn about Google Keep, one of the best kept secrets of supporting student’s executive function? This set of digital post it notes can be integrated into Google Docs and Slides to help students with writing tasks, self regulation and more! You can also share visuals, checklists, and reminders as well!
Presenter:
Diana ReeReeder
pear deck & social science
Learn how to use PearDeck for all things related to distance and hybrid learning. I have adapted multiple Stanford History Education Group lessons for PearDeck and created other awesome resources to "Share the Pear!" This session will include Flashcard Factory and a free 90 day premium access link!
Presenter:
Brianna Davis
start with a great question, "finish" with an inquiry project
Designing inquiry-based projects in a student-centered classroom require a plan. This session will lay out the plan, starting with asking good questions, and ending with students sharing their learning through inquiry-based projects. Along the way, we'll share how we can incorporate what the Finns call transversal competencies - learning and personal development attributes that span virtually any content and help our students develop quality learning skills to tackle whatever challenges they face in their futures.
Presenters:
Jay Sorensen
Mike Vollmert
three methods to increasing literacy across the content areas
In 21st Century schools, it is no longer acceptable to rely solely on language arts teachers to increase literacy. Common Core standards have called upon educators to focus on literacy instruction across the content areas. In today’s session, teachers will learn new methods to effectively create and sustain literacy instruction that is equitable and engaging for all students.
Presenter:
Tricia Stanier
digital student portfolios: critical components of sel
When you help students to establish and maintain a digital portfolio, you are giving them a powerful way to grow in terms of both self-awareness and self-management. Explore all of the benefits of student portfolios (for teachers, too!) and learn how you can implement this strategy immediately using New Google Sites.
Presenters:
Erik Anderson
Brenda Nievas
drive faster
I am excited to share with you strategies for organizing your Google Drive so that you can more easily navigate through it and get to what you want to find so that you can spend more time creating, sharing, and collaborating. We will be exploring the following routes for navigating through Drive - AI Predicted Files, Workspaces, Starred, Shortcuts, and Creative Naming.
By the end of this session, you should be able to:
Understand the purpose for each route (AI Predicted Files, Workspaces, Starred, Shortcuts, and Creative Naming)
Find the AI Predicted Files
Know how the AI predicts files for you
Create Workspaces
Add and remove files to Workspaces
Hide and remove Workspaces
Star and unstar files and folders
Access Starred files and folders
Add and remove Shortcuts
Use spaces, emojis, and numbers to control the organization of files and folders in My Drive
Presenter:
Katie Applebee
interactive formative assessment using google forms
Do you wish you could be the tutor on the shoulder for your students? Are you buried in assignments to review or grade with limited opportunities to give students feedback when they need it most--during the learning process? Google Forms is an amazing tool for providing that immediate instruction, review, and feedback. It allows you to give each student just what is needed based on a chosen response. While it does require teacher prep time to anticipate student misunderstandings or needs and then to gather and link the supporting resources, it also frees up time that is usually spent on scoring so your time is used more effectively to provide students with the right feedback at just the right time.
Presenter:
Connie Born-Wood
lessons Learned: building & strengthening relationships with students
Teachers know strong relationships with students are the heart of our successes, and we’ve learned many students need those relationships to extend beyond the instructional minutes and the walls of the classroom. Building and strengthening relationships via asynchronous, two-way communication can help! Come learn some simple (and free!) tools to use all year long: Flipgrid, Google Classroom comments, and Mote.
Since this session is about asynchronous, two-way communication, please check out this "pre-session"/asynchronous activity: Flipgrid - https://flipgrid.com/e44198f8 (Click on "Enter your guest password." The password is googlecamp2021)
1) Please introduce yourself - your name, where you work, and what you do.
2) Share with us a few of your favorite activities/resources: in the traditional classroom, what do you do to build relationships with your students? And what do you do during the year to strengthen those relationships?
3) Return to the Fliprid Topic to check out ideas from fellow participants. Feel free to respond to them with a written comment or a video comment.
Presenter:
Angela Milversted
ongoing digital portfolios
Participants will leave with ready-to-implement templates and tools for using Google Slides to create ongoing digital portfolios with their students.
Presenter:
Ayo Coker
slides are magical - getting the most from google slides
Google Slides are seriously magical! Join this session this explore the power of Google Slides beyond presenting and make slides more functional, more visually appealing, and make your workflow easier. Come explore design tools, helpful add-ons, and unlock all the magic within Google Slides.
Presenter:
Nicole Chun
what's new from google for education
Come hear the latest updates, features, and releases from Google for Education and get a peek at the roadmap ahead.
Presenter:
Jennifer Brown
amplifying accessibility with google
In this session, we'll review Google’s Accessibility Tools to help support all learners in your classroom! Create equitable access for all of your students and level up your use of Google Workspace.
Presenter:
Brittany Conrad
better communication with google tools
The session will help you to better communicate with stakeholders using using Google Docs and Google Slides as Hyperdocs. It will include an overview of the bi-monthly newsletters I share with my staff and some basic hacks you can do to a Google Slide deck to make it come alive. Join us in this session to increase communication on your campus and foster efficiency and effectiveness with your students, staff, team and community.
Presenter:
Robert Guzman
Cheat sheets - emails in a flash
Learn to manage student data in Google Sheets and how to use add-ons to send personalized progress emails and notifications in bulk.
Presenters:
Ashley Bermudez
Brandon Kaan
digital smartboard 101
Tired of paying for dry erase markers, accidentally erasing important information, or simply want to upgrade your whiteboard to the 21st century? Check out this breakout session! We will explore the basics of three popular digital whiteboards applications: Ziteboard, Kami and Jamboard! These are all lightweight, web-based whiteboards with real-time collaboration. Join me and learn how to utilize these tools and how they integrate into distance learning functions as well as how they can fit into your daily learning activities.
Presenter:
Jesus Brown
got udl? all students are created equitable
By focusing UDL strategies to differentiate learning opportunities in content, literacy, inquiry and citizenship, history/social science content becomes accessible for ALL learners. By studying and analyzing the past, we can create students who are indeed, Future Ready. Leave with materials to create your own equitable lesson!
Presenter:
Kim Vogu
jamboard for early literacy instruction
Our educational world has shifted due to the introduction of distance/hybrid learning. Jamboard offers an exciting digital path to support students as they develop phonological awareness (PA) and letter-sound correspondences on their path to becoming readers. Learn to use Jamboard to teach PA and phonics with your students in grade TK-1.
Presenter:
Lisa Curtis
ready player one
We will share some of our favorite ideas and resources for integrating play into your lessons and learning experiences. Whether you are distance, seat-based, or hybrid, come play and learn. Even educators need a chance to play and enjoy the company of their students and colleagues.
Presenters:
Nicole Chun
Michelle Van Omum
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