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We are always looking for tools to make teaching more efficient and save time where we can. In this session we will explore a variety of apps, add-ons, and extensions. These tools help to mitigate many of the difficulties that can arise in distance learning.
10:00 - 10:45
Using G Suite with Special Education Students
It is crucial our students can easily access the content and lessons we provide. Chromebooks have a variety of ways to personalize their learning environment. These features can be ‘pushed’ to devices or students can customize them to exactly what they need.
11:00 - 11:45
Pear Deck and Google Slides to Enhance the Distance Learning Classroom
I have been providing technology support for educators for over a decade. Starting my career as an elementary teacher in New Zealand I am presently Director of STEAM Powered Learning and an Educational Technologist in central Maine at Regional School Unit #19. ACTEM's Maine Educator of the Year, I have been a Lead Learner at over a dozen Google Teacher Academies and author of the Google Apps Guidebook.
Google Slides is a versatile tool often used to deliver content and embed instruction. Incorporating Pear Deck makes it even better! Explore ways to integrate these tools into your classroom and engage students with interactive lessons. This can be a synchronous or asynchronous educational setting.
12:40 - 1:30
Create lessons that transition easily from face-to-face learning to virtual education without starting over. Create Hyperdocs from scratch or use templates provided to build your own lessons ready to use with your students in your blended classroom!
