Addressing Student Cheating in Google Apps
Eric Curts
Although technology brings many benefits, people often worry about it increasing students’ options for cheating. While there is no fail safe solution, there are options to help. In this session we will look at Google tools to help teachers and tech staff prevent and detect plagiarism, cheating, and other issues, including revision history, file details, Forms features, citation tools, and more. We will also consider non-tech responses to the problem including evaluating assessments, school policies, and more.
Canva for the Busy Administrator
Deanna Chambers & Shane Peek
Want to improve the look and feel of signs, forms or other written communications in your school? Are you in a crunch for time, need a stunning yet informative flyer but feel ovSeerwhelmed by designing, organizing and publishing? Let us introduce you to Canva, a free and easy to use, web-based design and publishing tool. We will start by exploring Canva’s extensive template and themes library, then shift our focus to learning to create within the platform. Finally, participants will have an opportunity to observe an Administrator design and publish a flier using Canva in real time; then be placed in the driver’s seat by creating a flier of their own that can be used for a future school event! Needing a high quality graphic design school communication but having no skill and very little time, Canva for the Busy School Administrator is for you!
Collaborative Communication
Laura Smith & Keely Hitchings
Participants will learn how to use technology to engage students in collaboration and communication skills. Participants will need a device to access the internet.
What’s the Big Deal with MTSS?
Jessica Eastman & Ayanna Bolton
This session is about all things MTSS. How to collect data once you are concerned about a student and their performance, how to use those data points to guide next steps/ interventions, and how to present data to instructional leadership team in order to have the best decision made on where the student should be placed on the Tiered Systems of Supports in order to be most successful.
Learn how to transform learning experiences in any classroom by implementing and utilizing WeVideo. Implementing and integrating multimedia creation and editing software into your classroom routine can help amplify student voice, cultivate identity and foster agency, and deepen learning for all. As a result of attending this session, participants will…
-Learn curricular ideas to easily integrate WeVideo’s multimedia production and editing software into K-12 classrooms.
-Learn instructional strategies around teaching with multimedia production and editing software.
-Understand the benefits to student outcomes and how multimedia content creation can transform learning in the classroom.
Collect 6 Weeks of Data? Already Have It!
Nicole Amen-Ra
In this presentation, you will see how data collection can be integrated into part of a daily routine. You will learn how the anecdotal data you already use can be transformed into quantifiable data that can be presented into charts to present at various meetings. You will have an opportunity to create your own living digital document that can be used for any student. Using this system will allow you to always have data ready to go, reducing or possibly eliminating the amount of time “being sent back to collect more data”.
Easy Peasy Literacy Strategies
Keshia Clay
Participants will take away literacy activities and strategies for all subject areas; focusing on vocabulary and building comprehension
The Great Escape!
Susan Parker
Where would you like to go? Perhaps the beach, mountains, or how about Ireland? With game playing being the focus for many students, let's create an adventure where students combine knowledge, perseverance, and technology. In this session, participants will let their imagination grow as they develop their own escape room for students. Participants need to bring thier device with access to Google Forms.
Twitter Challenge - We miss the food trucks this year. Show us what you brought to the Summit for lunch today. Use the hashtag #r2scms.