Workshops/Sessions
Workshops/Sessions
KEYNOTE
We’ve Come a Long Way Baby!
Are you tired of using the same old websites, programs and apps with your teachers and students? Take a journey with Janet as she travels down the Ed Tech Memory Lane and end the trip by sharing some of the best new tech tools for engaging students and delivering curriculum.
SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS
Using AI to Unlock Your SuperPowers
AI (Artificial Intelligence) Tools are the latest rage in education. They are frequently used to save time and reduce teacher workload by helping lesson plan, differentiate, create assessments, write IEPs, communicate clearly, and so much more. You might not leave this session with X-ray vision or the ability to leap tall buildings, but you will learn how AI can make your life easier!
This could be done as an elementary session, a secondary session or combined.
AI Image Magic: Creating Engaging Educational Visuals in Minutes
Transform your teaching materials with the power of AI! This session will explore how to efficiently generate unique and inspiring images for various classroom applications. Learn to generate coloring pages, graphic organizers, creative writing prompts, visuals, and much more. Leave this session with ideas to streamline your lesson preparation and captivate your students with stunning, AI-generated visuals.
Gemini AI: Revolutionizing the Classroom
AI tools are the latest rage in education. This hands-on session will explore the practical applications of Gemini AI in K-12 and higher education settings. We’ll explore creating lesson plans, rubrics, chain prompting, creating images for presentations and creative writing, making your own coloring pages, translating text and much more! Participants will have the opportunity to share their ideas for using Gemini AI in their school/district.
Unlock Your Potential: Achieve MagicSchool Super User Status
Let’s explore how MagicSchool can save you time and enhance your teaching experience. Your “one-stop shop” for AI in education, MagicSchool offers a wide range of features that easily be integrated into existing teaching materials and lessons. MagicSchool was created with the sole purpose of helping teachers save time and simplify lesson planning.
Using Tech Tools to Support Your Inclusion Students
Let's explore together the many tech tools that are available to successfully support the inclusion students in your classroom. This session is designed for the classroom teacher who needs to know more about strategies, extensions, websites and accessibility features that will enable them to best support their students.
Tech Tasting
You have probably participated in or read about “Book Tastings”, where students and educators can quickly “taste” or explore different books. Let’s put a new spin on it and explore tech tools that you might not know about. We will use short videos from social media and step-by-step directions to independently try a variety of educational technology tools.
Top Tech Tools for Formative Assessment
Teachers and students can be provided ongoing, real-time feedback utilizing many technology tools that are currently available in schools. The immediate results that can be accessed through technology tools can assist educators as they strive to improve instructional strategies and student learning in their classroom. Attendees in this session will learn how teachers can utilize technology to easily assess student understanding before they move on to the next topic or lesson.
Transform Your Review Activities – Tech and Non-Tech
Are you wanting to create and use exciting activities to help your students review for an upcoming exam or quiz? Do your current activities need to be more fun and engaging? This session will inspire you to transform your review activities to improve student mastery of the content.
What’s New? What’s Hot? What’s Cool?
Have you seen the latest technology tools, websites, gadgets and apps? We’ll explore some of our favorite finds that will make your head spin! Audience members will have an opportunity to share their favorite new, hot and cool tech tools. You will not want to miss this engaging, fun and informative session!
The Best Tools for Busy Teachers
Teachers are known for sharing what works best in their classrooms. We’ve curated a list of awesome tech tools and ideas that we have discovered on social media, at conferences, and through our educator PLN and we want to share them with you! We will include safe music playlists, video resources other than YouTube, free presentation templates, free font sources, sound effects and more!
Let’s Hear It From the Kids!
Explore how students can use audio and video tools to reflect on their learning, practice their reading and communication skills, and present information to others using audio and video tools.
Favorite Tech Tools for Math, Science, Social Studies and ELA
Join us as we share our favorite tech tools for the four core subjects - math, science, social studies and ELA. You will leave this collaborative session with subject-specific websites, extensions, and apps.
Creating Engaging Activities with Google Drawings
Let’s learn the basics of Google Drawings and how it can be used in your classroom and professional development. Together we will explore student and teacher examples of graphic organizers, drag and drop activities, PD handouts, creative lessons and more. And of course, you will leave the session with the skills to create your own activities in Google Drawings!
Digital Choice Boards for the Win!
Are you looking for ways to engage your students? Do you want your students to have a choice on the assignments they complete? Then Digital Choice Boards are the way to go! We will explore examples of choice boards for all content and grade levels and learn how to easily create them using some of our favorite tech tools. Plus, we will look at how administrators are using Choice Boards with their staff.
Tech Tools for Early Learners
Your little ones love to use devices to play "games", but how can they be used for instruction? You'll be amazed at the things even your tiny tots can do when given the chance to use technology to create and learn. Walk away with ideas that can be used immediately in the classroom.
Tech Tool Smackdown
Join Janet and a few of her favorite techies for a fun, fast-paced smackdown showcasing beloved apps, websites, and tech tools. Audience members will also have an opportunity to share their favorites. Enjoy the energy, sharing, laughter, and by the time you leave, you’ll have a longer list of digital tools to pull from!
STEAM Starts Here: Hands-On, Cross-Curricular Activities for Pre-K–2
Unlock the power of early elementary STEAM! This hands-on session offers ready-to-use, cross-curricular activities for pre-K through second grade. Learn practical strategies to seamlessly integrate science, technology, engineering, art, and math, fostering curious and creative young minds.
SESSIONS DESIGNED FOR ADMINISTRATORS, CURRICULUM COACHES, COORDINATORS, ETC.
Tech Talk for Administrators
What technology tools are you using in your role as an administrator? How do you model the use of technology for your staff? Can you use tech tools in your staff meetings? Who do you follow on social media? Let's discuss these questions and more in a lively discussion format!
Professional Development Extreme Makeover
Revolutionize the integration of the latest technology skills into the curriculum by transforming your professional development. Learn new methods and strategies to create this extreme makeover for your campus or district. The session will address different learning environments, best practices for integrating technology into the curriculum and ideas for increasing teacher productivity and professional status.
Instructional Technologists and Coaches Sharing Best Practices
Are you a campus/district instructional technologist or coach looking for the latest tech tools, PD ideas, new colleagues for your PLN or you just want to share your thoughts and have your questions answered? Join your colleagues in this session designed specifically for the people who collaborate with teachers to facilitate the use of technology in schools.
Using Formative Assessment Tools in Professional Development and Meetings
In this fun and engaging session, attendees will learn how to use formative assessment tools to engage their audience in Professional Development and meetings. The activities demonstrated can easily be replicated in Professional Development sessions and in classrooms.