Discovery Education is a great resource for educators. There are many multimedia resources, lessons, instructional strategies and more at your fingertips. If you are new to Discovery Education, this is the session for you. Learn how to access the site, navigate the site, and organize resources that can be shared with your students.

Join us to learn about resources and instructional strategies available through Discovery Education.

Learn how to allows users to create digital bulletin boards with a variety of media, including sourced and self-created resources. The tool can be used in a variety of ways: for topic delivery and engagement, for assessment, and to determine student understanding.

Flipgrid is 100% free for all educators, learners, and families. Engage and empower every voice in your classroom or at home by recording and sharing short, awesome videos...together!

Instruction and Formative Assessment

Make appropriate instructional adjustments based on student responses! Using formative assessments, teachers address learning gaps promptly, increase student growth, and inform the interventions needed for struggling and high- achieving students. Evaluate critical formative assessment practices, improve questioning skills, and explore a variety of tools to assist with assessing and providing timely feedback.

Edpuzzle is a free, easy-to-use platform allowing you to engage every student, one video at a time. Learn how to use it as well as how to use it with your students.

Have you ever felt like you needed your Google Applications to execute a task but the options simply aren’t there? Well, there’s hope! There are numerous ways to extend your Google Applications and your Chrome browser to suit your needs. This webinar explores the world of Google Add-ons and Chrome extensions. We’ll look at how to get them, how to control their preferences and how to use them. We will try out some of the most popular and useful add-ons that people are using in the educational community and most importantly, discuss how to find an extension or add-on when you are confronted with a task that plain old G-Suite just can’t handle alone.

This session is an introduction to Google's Applied Digital Skills. Applied Digital skills is a set of instructional videos that teach students to collaborate using digital skills. Job Ready Skills. G Suite Skills. Digital Literacy. Lesson Plans. Blended Learning. Courses: Sheets, Docs, Slides, Sites, Maps, Scripts, Search.

Learn how to use Google Classroom to connect with your students and keep them engaged in learning. Google classroom offers options for posting discussion topics, sharing documents, sharing web resources, creating assessments, creating assignments, and collecting assignments. Learn various ways that you can stay connected with your students no matter your location. The goal of this session is to create a classroom, navigate Google Classroom, and get students added.

Now that you have created a Google Classroom, join us to ask questions to increase your familiarity and comfort level with this instructional tool.

Learn how to utilize the features available for creating assignments and grading them to provide feedback to your students.

Learn how to use Google Forms to assess your students learning as well as collect and analyze data. Google forms allows you to have multiple choice, short answer, or paragraph style responses. You can also link additional resources with your assessment questions. You have provided many resources for your students through online forums, keep them engaged and ensure they are on track with you with Google Forms.

Want to customize your slides with your own voice? Learn how to add your voice and customize slideshows. Adding your voice to a slideshow is a great way to turn your slides into an engaging, instructional resource for your students. Adding your voice also helps ensure that students are receiving your message as intended. You can also add additional information that would not necessarily be typed out on a slide but adds clarity for your students.

Learn how to use Google Hangout Meets to interact with your students remotely. Google Hangouts Meet allows you to chat and video message in real time with your students. This is a great way to check in with them and allow them to ask questions or discuss a current topic.

You may be using Scratch, Scratch Jr, Code.org or MIT App inventor or maybe you just want to start to teach coding. Either way, there are concepts in programming that are global to all languages and platforms. This course will cover the concepts of the absolute foundations of what coders all need to know. Some of these include conditionals, loops, functions, parameters, etc. Knowledge of these concepts and how they are applied will help you as a facilitator understand and communicate the importance of what is being emphasized in any of the pre-written coding curriculums that are available today. We will also cove a few strategies for un=plugged programming (learning programming concepts without a computer).

Scratch is a free, web-based coding application developed at MIT that can be used for teaching all levels of coding. It is particularly useful as an introductory application. Scratch uses drag-and-drop blocks instead of type-written code to teach the concepts, logic, creativity and problem-solving of coding without being bogged down with tedious syntax. Its simplicity makes it easy for you, as a facilitator, to include coding into your curriculum. This workshop will provide the strategies you’ll need to get started and to get your students coding. No prior knowledge of coding is necessary to participate.

Engage every student, every day with Pear Deck!

The power of Pear Deck in your classroom means you can instantly see which students are confused and who is ready for more. Add quick formative assessments and interactive questions to your presentations in Google Slides. Explore the library of templates that support learning objectives typically found at the beginning, middle, and end of instruction. Integrate bell-ringers, anonymous checks for understanding, exit tickets and more by dropping in pre-made or custom templates designed to engage all the learners in your class. Now you have a chance to pause, backup, and reexplain concepts your students may have missed.

Twitter has emerged as a promising platform for professional development. Find out how to learn from colleagues around the globe as well as share on Twitter.

This is your opportunity to ask questions regarding virtual learning. New to virtual learning and not sure where to start? Have a question about something that you have seen on our website? Join us to learn more. SRI&ETTC trainers will be available to assist you.

Join us to learn about a few of the tools that we use for screen recording. There will also be a Q&A portion of the session to discuss use and best practices for screen recording.

Looking for ideas on how to support your students remotely? Join us as we discuss available tools and options for supporting students from a distance. We will share what we are doing to provide support and answer questions that are submitted to help you find resources to meet your needs.

Wake up your student’s learning with Wakelet

Wakelet is ideal for curation, storytelling, and collaboration. Teachers curate information for their students by gathering collections made of images, PDFs, and websites, and add their own text to narrate/annotate their collections. Students can organize collections too! Collections can be designated as private, unlisted or public and learners can log in using Google and Office 365. Wakelet allows you to invite collaborators; after creating a collection, the share button leads to a link to send to potential collaborators, embed code and a QR code, as well as social media sharing buttons. Collaborators do NOT need an account to contribute. Students and educators use Wakelet for:

• organizing portfolios

• collaboratively sharing news around a theme

• building group resources for class projects

• creating media-rich newsletters

• creating web galleries of student work for gallery walks

• gathering materials for and staging research projects

• planning and promoting events

• sharing professional development resources

• archiving twitter chats or social media around a conference

• so much more!

Student Research Projects with Wakelet

Teachers curate information for their students to consume in online environments, however, students can also organize their own research projects from a wide variety of digital resources using the collaborative features of Wakelet. Wakelet allows its users to curate and organize all media types: videos, links, tweets, Instagram posts, pictures, text, PDFs, and articles. Students can save and organize resources, collaborate on group collections and even present their own digital portfolios of research.<br/>

Join us to learn how to curate and create content through YouTube. We will look at searching YouTube, organizing resources, and sharing videos.

Join us to learn how to curate and create content through YouTube. We will look at uploading, editing and sharing videos to YouTube.

Join the SRI&ETTC to discuss Zoom versus Google Meet.