What We Learned at the TCEA 2020 Convention
Facilitator: Lori Gracey (@lgracey)
Session Description
Session Description
Whether you were able to attend the amazing convention or not, join us to discover the latest trends, apps, websites, and best practices that were shared there.
Whether you were able to attend the amazing convention or not, join us to discover the latest trends, apps, websites, and best practices that were shared there.
session outline
session outline
STEAM Is Big
STEAM Is Big
Sound Pedagogy + Technology = Accelerated Learning
Sound Pedagogy + Technology = Accelerated Learning
Apps and Tools Can Add Excitement
Apps and Tools Can Add Excitement
More Educators Are Interested in Esports
More Educators Are Interested in Esports
Other Big Topics
Other Big Topics
How to Get the Handouts
How to Get the Handouts
STEAM Is Big
STEAM Is Big
- Full STEAM Ahead in the Elementary Classroom
- TCEA Makers
- Microsoft Math offers step-by-step explanations of problems, graphs, video tutorials and more.
- Let's Bring Literacy to Life Through Making
- Learning Math with Dash
Sound Pedagogy + Technology = Accelerated Learning
Sound Pedagogy + Technology = Accelerated Learning
- High-Quality Instructional Strategies with Google
- The Kids Are Alright: Using Differentiation and Formative Assessment in Blended Learning Environments
- Giving Students Actionable Feedback in Writing
- Make Learning Visible with Self-Reported Grades
- Fantastic Feedback Tools for Google Docs
- Matching High-Effect Size Instructional Strategies and Digital Tools
- Improving the Writing Process with Google Docs
- 1,800 Thread-Count Sheets: High-Quality Ways to Use Google Sheets
- Creating Learning Journals with Adobe Spark
- Useful Data
Apps and Tools Can Add Excitement
Apps and Tools Can Add Excitement
- Use the Chrome extension Permanent Clipboard to save multiple items in your clipboard like the comments you leave on Google Docs for students
- Novel Effect: Free Voice-Driven App and Videos
- Doc Appender (to add Google Form question responses to the bottom of selected Google Docs)
- Flipgrid, Information Literacy, and Coaching (podcast)
- Use the Chrome extension Turn Off the Lights to black out everything except the video on YouTube
- Use Google Slides Q&A to Get Your Audience to Ask a Question
- Read&Write and Equatio for Chrome are free to teachers
- Find Alternative Apps and Tools with Alternative.me and AlternativeTo
- 10 Google Classroom Tips You Didn't Know
- Slides Timer
More Educators Are Interested in Esports
More Educators Are Interested in Esports
Other Big Topics
Other Big Topics
- Notes taken from all of the Solution Circles during convention with lots of shared ideas, resources, and tips and tricks
- Bridging SEL and G/T Programming with the Innovative Application of Tech Tools
- Reframing the Conversation Around Libraries by Reclaiming Your "Why"
- Texas Goes Open
- Elevating Your 3D Printing Class
- Class Hook (videos to use to illustrate concepts)
- Future-Ready Teaching: Nurturing Tomorrow's Educators (report)
- Teaching Critical Thinking in the Age of Fake News
- Smashing the Problem: PBL and Design Thinking in a Gamified Experience
- Creating Libraries of Tomorrow for the Learners of Today
- Free ebook Podcasting for the Classroom
- Twine Games for Social Studies
More Resources and How to Get Handouts
More Resources and How to Get Handouts
Check out the blog of Ft. Sam Houston ISD staff members who attended convention this year. They'll be sharing a resource, tip, or tool a day for 20 days.
Wakelet of All the Tweets from Convention (thanks to Deborah Zeman)
Download the TCEA Convention app to access all the handouts