Secondary Cool Tools Choiceboard

Audience: Classroom Teachers

Purpose: Provide teachers with a series of digital stations to explore various digital tools that work in any content area. On the interactive Thinglink, teachers can get a brief explanation of the tool, access a document that walks them through how to get started with it, and link to the actual site to begin playing with it as means of inquiry-based learning.

(Click the image at right to be taken to the interactive version, then hover over the image to explore the resources.)

Googleopoly

Audience: Classroom Teachers

Purpose: Model digital differentiation using Google Tools for grouping, differentiation, and choiceboards. Teachers work their way around the gameboard, selecting "properties" of interest to explore that increase in complexity (just like the real Monopoly properties do).

Access the Gameboard or the Smore with more details.

Time Saving Tools for Admins and Coaches

Audience: School Administrators, Instructional Coaches

Purpose: Introduce a variety of digital workflow tools to help administrators and coaches increase their efficiency, For each tool, PD participants got an overview of the tool, practical applications relevant to their role, and experienced the tool as a student/end-user. Additional resources provided for support following the session were provided.