TCEA 2015

TCEA 2015 Convention & Exposition Presentations (website)

Google Academy (website)

    • Digital Writing with Google Apps

    • Using Google tools to transform the writing process in your classroom. In this session, participants will walk through the entire writing process of pre-writing, drafting, editing, revising, and publishing all with Google Apps.

    • Flip with Google

    • Are you looking to flip your classroom? In this session, come learn about the theory behind the flipped classroom model, explore lesson activities using Google tools, and identify ways to personalize and differentiate instruction.

iPad Academy (website)

    • Using iPads to Create Video Content for the Classroom

    • Are you looking to flip the classroom? Would you like to create videos and tutorials for your students? Would you like your students to create video content? In this session, we will explore easy to use tools that anyone can use to create and edit videos for the classroom.

    • App Smashing for Beginners

    • Are you App Smashing yet? We often hear "there's an app for that." Yes, but there is not one app that does everything. In this hands-on session, participants will leave knowing how to smash apps in order to increase student retention of learning.

    • It's Elementary: iPads in the Science Classroom

    • Would you like to engage your elementary students, spark inquiry, and help science concepts come alive for them? This session will inform educators of effective uses, applications, and creative ways to use the iPad in their classrooms to support learning and demonstrate understanding of science concepts.

Bring Your Own Device Sessions

    • Creating Online Professional Development that Works!

    • Create online professional that works! This session will guide participants in developing and facilitating online professional learning opportunities employing a variety of mediums. Preferred device: PC laptop

    • The Flip Side of Professional Development

    • It seems like the word “flipped” is everywhere in education. In this session, by looking through a “flipped” lens, we will examine how to flip professional development in order to disrupt the ways teacher learn. Preferred Device: PC laptop

PC Workshop

    • Re-Charge Classroom Instruction with Google Sites

    • Feeling overwhelmed when it comes to utilizing tools in your classroom throughout the day? Using Google Sites as your landing strip for everything you do digitally in your classroom. In this session, you'll learn how to create and edit a Google Site. Come prepared to work on your own Site.

Regular Sessions

    • Digital Citizenship: Keeping Students Safe Online

    • Join us for a sobering but informative discussion on best practices for keeping your students safe online. Relevant resources will be shared that you can pass on to your students and parents

    • 3-2-1-Action! Screencasting in the Classroom

    • Screencasting is an easy (and FREE) way of making recordings in your classroom. Whether your students create them as they do project-based learning or you create them as you flip your classroom, you'll love these relevant ideas and free tools to take screencasting to your classroom.