MS November 10-11, 2014

Session Descriptions

• Digital Workflow/Feedback/Google Classroom (Novice) -The ever improving Google Classroom allows for an easy to use digital workflow for students of any age. This session will focus on using Google Classroom with an emphasis on tools available to for assessing student work and providing digital feedback.
• Google Apps Overview (Novice) - Do you want to learn more about what Google Drive has to offer and the benefits of using the Google Chrome web browser? Topics of discussion will include bookmarking, apps and extensions, syncing accounts, and Google Docs/Drive/Calendar.
• Blended/Flipped Learning (Advanced) - Blended Learning is a form of instruction that incorporates both traditional face-to-face instruction with web-based multimedia instruction, which overlaps with the skills of flipping instruction. Learn how to shift teaching methods, and even perspectives from a traditional to a flipped approach. Plan a flipped lesson/activity, identify instructional strategies, tools, and technologies appropriate for the topic and then create an assessment plan that includes both formal and informal measurements of student learning.
• Formative Assessment (Intermediate) - How can digital tools change formative assessment? In today’s session you will explore a variety of digital formative assessment tools from the lens of both the teacher and the student. Are you using Nearpod? Socrative? Kahoot? Forms? How can these tools and many others make gathering student data more simplistic? How can they make formative assessment more engaging to students? How do they allow us to differentiate our formative assessment? Not only will you experience many of these tools first-hand, you’ll also have time to begin developing an assessment of your own in this session.
• Classroom Hubs/E-Portfolios (Intermediate) - When assessing students in a digital environment e-portfolios allow students to provide a variety of different assessment artifacts to justify and represent the learning process. Google Sites provides an easily accessible platform for creating a Classroom Hub for teachers and E-Portfolios for students.
• Connected Educator - Building your Personal Learning Network (PLN) Why is it important to become connected as an educator and where do you begin?
• Connecting Students - How do we connect students to be productive, responsible and a positive force on the web as citizens usig the Levels of Teaching Innovation (LoTi) framework?