In this session, I enjoyed learning about:

• animation activities, especially the ones that use stop motion for Science and EL topics.
• Using Makey Makey to create interactive posters
• and ways to create your own Google Expeditions were also interesting.

In this session, we explored iPad apps such as:

• Markup - A native iPad tool, Markup lets you easily annotate images by creating drawing, typing labels, and more. I loved using the pens, highlighter, shapes, and ruler.
• Swift Playground - Geared towards 4 grade and up, it was fun learning to code using Swift Playground. Go ahead and give the challenges a go!
• Clips - One of my favorite apps, Clips lets you create fun videos with emojis, animated titles, stickers and more. I love that it will automatically creates captions live while you record.

New this year, the Idea Lab was an interactive showcase. We were able to ask questions, hear short presentations, and see visuals. For me, the highlights of the Idea Lab were:

• STEAMing Up EL
• Virtual Field Trips using Minecraft
• Maker in the Media Center
• Dreamers: Digital Remix

The highlights in this session included gathering ideas for using Dash with a range of curricular topics and exploring the Cue robot.

The linked website contains a variety of resources such as station ideas and management strategies.

The highlights of this session included:

• Getting to know the teachers
• Diving deeper into the ISTE Standards for Educators
• Sharing tech tools