Presenter: Jon Smith

Description: This session will guide you through the basics of Book Creator, including: signing in, creating your first library, inviting students to join, creating, reading, and publishing books, and managing your libraries. We will explore strategies for getting the most out of Book Creator for the specific grade level and subject you will be teaching.

Audience: ALL 9-12 Teachers, Specialists

Room: 60

Presenter: Ken Shelton

Description: Learn how to optimize your use of Google Calendars as a school leader.

Audience: Administrators

Room: Library

Presenter: Joshua Harris

Description: Do you need a quick way to collect formative and summative data instantly? Do you want to make grading assessments easier? Wanted to learn how to get the most out of Google Forms? In this session, we will go over what Google forms are good for, and how to make them. By the end, you will be able to and will make your own.

Audience: ALL 3-12 Teachers

Room: 102

Presenter: Anna Ragghanti-Crowe

Description: This presentation is about creating videos for classroom use. Teachers will learn how video is relevant to teaching language skills in a variety of classrooms.  Next, teachers will learn the basics of semiotics (the study of signs) and film production.  Then, teachers will learn how to apply video in the classroom using scene production and video poems.  Finally, teachers will create their own short film so they can learn how to use i-movie.

Audience: 6-12 teachers, Specialists

Room: 125

Presenter: Jeanie Hayes

Description: Are you familiar with MindPlay? Come to find out about several updates to the program and how to get ready for this year. 

Materials: K-5 teachers

Room: 69

Presenter: Chip Lambert

Description: A student learning readiness tool. An easy way to provide your students a voice with a 30 second daily check-in that provides them in the moment tools with a tier 1 intervention video based on their responses. Learn how this tool will be implemented in your classroom with no lift on you as the teacher.

Audience: All K-12 teachers

Room: 118

Virtual: LINK

Presenter: Andrea Lewinsky

Description: Discover how to curate engaging collections with a range of multimedia types - these can be links from the web, articles, images, PDFs, Tweets, videos, and much more. You can invite people to your collection to collaborate and work together as well as share your collection for others to view. You can also use Wakelet with your students. Discover the world of Wakelet and how to use it! 

Audience: All PreK-12 teachers, SPED, EL, Specialists, Administrators

Room: 104

Presenter: Devin Alexander

Description: The Returning to Paper Pep Rally is a session that takes a deeper dive into Paper’s features and resources to add Paper to classroom routines. This session will highlight the ways teachers can implement Paper into classroom routines and instructional activities and review Paper’s resources with activities and lesson plans to incorporate Paper’s features into the classroom. By the end of the session, attendees will be able to develop a plan of action to implement Paper effectively in their classrooms. 

Audience: 6-12 Teachers, Counselors, Department Leads, & Instructional Coaches 

Room: 128

Presenter: Jared Henshaw

Description: Learn everything you need to get started with Edpuzzle! Manage your students, classes, grades, and videos like a pro!

Audience: All K-12 teachers, EL, SPED, Specialists

Room: 65

Presenter: Jess Wallach

Description: "Come learn about eSpark and how you will use it this year.

pre-PD survey

Materials: New K-5 teachers

Room: 57

Virtual: LINK

Getting Started with eSpark: Here is the recording of your PD, the slide deck, and your PD guide.

Presenter: Corissa Freeman

Description: "ClassFlow makes it easy to create interactive activities and lessons that capture students’ attention and help them learn and succeed.

-Convenient: Have your students join your classroom simply by using a unique link—no need to go to your IT administrator to sync with your roster and no accounts required.

-Connected: Connect with students using any type of device, including laptops, Chromebooks, tablets, smartphones, and learner response clickers.

-Integrated: Import content from various sources and integrate with your current accounts, including Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and Dropbox.

Audience: All K-12 teachers

Room: 67

Presenter: Greg Kibler

Description: Learn about updates to Tableau, our data visualization platform, including 2 Factor Authentication.  Find out how to find State Assessment results and released items.

Audience: All K-12 teachers

Room: 61

Presenter: Rachel Carter

Description: Learn how to use accessibility features on Chromebooks to meet your scholars' needs.

Materials: SPED teachers, EL teachers, K-12 teachers

Room: 110

Presenter: Traci Cain & Chris Paloski

Description: CK-12 offers customizable, digital textbooks with interactive content for scholars and teachers (flexbooks). Master math & science concepts through regular, personalized practice questions (adaptive practice). Discover new ways of learning Physics and Chemistry with real-world lab simulations. Play, Learn, Interact & Explore math & science concepts (PLIX). Quickly review concepts with key information (study guides). Organize your scholars in a digital classroom and access an intelligent gradebook that easily displays patterns (automatic grading & reporting). Easily integrates with Google Classroom and Clever.

Audience: ALL PreK-12 Teachers

Room: 106

Presenter: Marlayne Tabor & Helena Dunn

Description: NWEA MAP Growth assessments provide teachers with data to help them target instruction for their students, and IXL makes it easy to get the most out of this data with NWEA Map Growth plans. The plans, combined with specific IXL skills, can help students grow and  close learning gaps so that  each student can achieve their full academic  potential.  For those students that are in AP Literature and Language Composition classes, this can also work with AP Progress Checks. 

Audience: 9-12 ELA & Math teachers

Room: 107

Presenter: Mary Ramhoff & Ron Walcott

Description: Come learn how to find materials to help prepare your scholars for the Ohio State Tests. Also, learn how to use Edulastic data to inform your teaching.

Audience: 3-12 teachers

Room: 109

Presenter: Melissa Sternberg

Description: Come and learn how to set up your grade book and how to share it with your co-teachers. 

Materials: NEW 4-12 teachers

Room: 109