Erin's Sessions:

Googly Games - Forms, and Slides have so much more than meets the eye. Use Slides templates to create games, secret links, secret messages, and more! Utilize Google Forms to create a digital escape room, and use Google Sheets to create your own Wordle puzzles. Participants will learn how to access pre-made gamified templates for engaging learners in hands-on activities that will unleash creativity and meet the needs of students with diverse learning styles. Participants will need a Google account to begin creating these learning adventures for their students. This session is geared toward attendees with prior experience using Google Workspace.

Clean Up Your Classroom - We've heard it before - "I can't find it!" Learn how to organize your Google Classroom assignments, announcements, and class materials for optimum student success so that you never have to hear those 4 dreaded words! Discover features from the student and parent point of view and give your students and families the playbook they need to be successful. Utilize settings to clean up your class stream, develop a student-friendly portal for students to track their progress, and learn how to keep parents in the loop with regularly scheduled guardian email summaries.

Keen Screencasts - Screencasts are an excellent, easy-to-use teaching tool that helps students learn at their own pace! Learn how to use the Screencastify Google Chrome extension to demonstrate concepts for all grade levels and subject areas! Participants will view a screencast from a student point of view with focus mouse, annotations, and embedded webcam tools as well as a Screencastify Submit assignment. The remainder of the session will give participants guided practice and hands-on use of these tools along with Screencastify's video editing features to make their ideas come to life! Participants must have a Google account in addition to their own laptop/chromebook with the latest Chrome browser.