building your digital toolbox 2014

BUILDING YOUR DIGITAL TOOLBOX 2014

Troy DavisYorktown High School

Warm Up!

Introduction Who? Teachers What? Having and Maintaining a Digital

Toolbox When? Today Where? Everywhere Why? Meet the Needs of Today’s Learner

and Make Teacher’s Jobs Easier

Today’s Learner

Did You Know?

Today’s Teacher

21st. Century Teachers

Let’s Get Into It Introduce today’s topics

Managing and Keeping Track of Sites and Apps for You and Your Students

Storage Using the Cloud Going Paperless Student Collaboration Communication Between Teachers and

Students Making Multiple File Formats Work Automatic Grading Presentations and Video

Today’s Objectives Set up a Symbaloo Account and Start First

Webmix Set up Dropbox Account and store a file in it Explore a variety of Student Learning

Platforms Set up a Remind101 Account Explore The Webmix created for this

workshop Network and Collaborate Make New Friends

Keeping Track Using Symbaloo to find and create

webmixes for teachers and students

It Is Your Turn Let’s all sign up for a free Symbaloo

account After you sign up we will explore how to

find and create a webmix Now create a webmix of your own

specific for your content, interest, or a topic you will teach

OMG, The Cloud Store everything in the cloud for easy

access and collaboration. 24/7 availability regardless of location or device

Best Free Cloud Storage

The Copier is Jammed! Let’s go paperless (or as close as we can

get) you can still have post-it notes. What learning platform do you have and

how are you using it? How to integrate other platforms into

your tool box.

I Hate Group Work! Methods for sharing assignments to make

collaboration seamless and excuse free!

Cool School Tools

My Teacher Never Listens Multiple Methods to communicate with

students and not give them your cell number

Talk, Talk, Talk…

Combining Multiple Files How to merge a variety of file formats

into one document

No More Grading Ways to grade objective tests without the

bubbles and No. 2 pencils

Presentations and Video Explore multiple ways to use a variety of

presentation and video tools in the classroom

Wrap Up Start Slow Stay Current Try a Variety of Tools You Can’t Use Everything Remember It Is Not the Device it is the

Outcome Questions

Troy Davistdavis@yorktown.k12.in.us@troydavis16

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Additional Resources All materials from this session are

available on the conference website.