building your digital toolbox 2014
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Building Your Digital Toolbox 2014. Troy Davis Yorktown 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. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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 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
Additional Resources All materials from this session are
available on the conference website.