summer 2018 - fwisd · app smashing with flipgrid unplugged if you are familiar with flipgrid, the...

Come explore the anatomy of Google’s G-Suite! In this two-day academy, we will examine Google Docs, Slides, Drive, Classroom, and beyond. Participants will learn tips and tricks for Chromebook management and how to create engaging instructional lessons. Whether you are a G-Suite newbie or a seasoned pro, this is your one stop “work”shop for all things Google. Make sure to enroll, stat! (Two-Day Academy)

Come join us for an exciting two-day iPad Camp featuring hands-on activities designed to introduce you to all the iPad essentials for your classroom. We will explore apps that engage and foster student creativity, innovation, and productivity. You will definitely have an “appy” good time! (Two-Day Academy)

Start the school year strong by beginning certification in Digital Citizenship using Common Sense Media. Promote a safe and responsible digital environment in your classroom by using premade interactive lessons from the very first week of school. Participants in this course will experience a digital Breakout Edu and GooseChase game to learn more about Common Sense Media. What Would Common Sense Media Do? Come and see by joining this fun and active session in how the power of technology can transform learning. (Credit: Common Sense Media)

Friends, does your flipchart seem as if it could successfully masquerade as a static PowerPoint slideshow? Looking for a way to push out presentations to your students’ devices? If these apply to you, then you definitely want to learn more about the interactive capabilities of the ActivInspire flipchart and witness the fresh, clean look of Classflow. As you add to your technological prowess, you will also put your new-found skills to the test in our culminating activity!

Want to create adventurous lessons but do not know where to start? Come learn a variety of green screen tools and techniques to spark student creativity and engagement. You will learn new ways to integrate green screen segments into your lesson design and take your instruction to new heights!

Time to get creative! Coding and Makerspaces are hot topics, and in this session, you will find out how easy it is to integrate these critical thinking, student-centered projects into your classroom. We will use hands-on participation to learn how you and your students can become coding masters. We will then spend time in the FWISD Makerspace lab. In this lab, you will have the opportunity to explore and create with a variety of high-tech to no-tech makerspace objects. You will leave the session with easy to implement coding and makerspace ideas and activities.

Do you know the rest of Microsoft? Come learn how to improve classroom efficiency and student engagement through enhancements to your favorites like Outlook and PowerPoint. Discover new learning in OneNote Class Notebook! Make, take, and share your lessons, learning, and findings by using Microsoft Sway!

Hear ye, Hear ye! Time to bring the students in the back row to the front! Come learn how to amplify student voice in your classroom with this highly engaging, easy-to-use app/website. Experience Flipgrid from a student point of view and learn the need-to-know information to manage it from the teacher side. We will also do some “app smashing” to make the most of what this awesome resource can do! The possibilities are endless for any subject area or grade level. You will leave with ideas, examples, and topics ready to be implemented immediately!

Bring in the school year with digital portfolios for your students. Designed for teachers who are brand new to Seesaw, this hands-on session will guide you step-by-step to get started. Join us as we share the ins and outs of using Seesaw in the classroom. Participants will have the opportunity to explore the creation tools within Seesaw and experience what it is like from the students’ perspective.

Face-to-Face Educational Technology PD GuideSUMMER 2018

1

WEDNESDAY - 6/6 THURSDAY - 6/7

8:30

- 11:

30 A

M Green Screen in Paradise Dancing with Seesaw

Good Morning Promethean

Agents of Microsoft Part 1 of 2

*Full Day Course*

1:00

- 4:0

0 PM America’s Funniest

FlipgridWhat Would Common

Sense Media Do?

Makerspace FamilyAgents of Microsoft

Part 2 of 2*Full Day Course*

ALL

DAY Google’s Anatomy (2-Day Academy)

MONDAY - 6/11 TUESDAY - 6/12 WEDNESDAY - 6/13 THURSDAY - 6/14

8:30

- 11:

30 A

M

Makerspace Family What Would Common Sense Media Do?

Dancing with SeesawAmerica’s Funniest

Flipgrid

Agents of MicrosoftPart 1 of 2

*Full Day Course*


1:00

- 4:0

0 PM


America’s Funniest Flipgrid

Green Screen in Paradise

Dancing with Seesaw


*Full Day Course*

What Would common Sense Media Do?

ALL

DAY Last iPad Standing (2-Day Academy)

Google’s Anatomy (2-Day Academy)Google’s Anatomy (2-Day Academy)

Join us this summer for Sand, Sun, and

EdTech fun!Note: Google’s Anatomy & Last iPad Standing

are 2-day Academies (12 hrs total). Agents of Microsoft is a 1-day course (6 hrs). The

remaining courses are half day courses (3 hrs each).

oror

or or

or

or or

or or

2

Face-to-Face Educational Technology PD ScheduleSUMMER 2018


8:30

- 11:

30 A

M Green Screen in Paradise


Makerspace Family What Would Common Sense Media Do?



*Full Day Course*

1:00

- 4:0

0 PM Dancing with Seesaw Green Screen in

ParadiseGood Morning Promethean Makerspace Family

What Would Common Sense Media Do?


*Full Day Course*

ALL

DAY

Google’s Anatomy (2-Day Academy)Last iPad Standing (2-Day Academy)

Google’s Anatomy (2-Day Academy)


8:30

- 11:

30 A

M


What Would Common Sense Media Do?

Dancing with SeesawGreen Screen in

Paradise


*Full Day Course*Makerspace Family

1:00

- 4:0

0 PM

Dancing with Seesaw Makerspace Family

Green Screen in Paradise



*Full Day Course*


ALL

DAY Last iPad Standing (2-Day Academy)

Google’s Anatomy (2-Day Academy)Google’s Anatomy (2-Day Academy)

or

or

or or

oror

oror

or

or

3

Face-to-Face Educational Technology PD ScheduleSUMMER 2018

EDTECH Self-Paced eCoursesitsLearning Basics

In this course, you will be introduced to the cloud-based learning management system called itslearning. Participants will practice skills ranging from class creation and organization to uploading content. itslearning is an interactive environment that allows teachers to deliver instructional content and engage today’s “digitally” wired students. (3 credits)

itsLearning Intermediate

In this course, you will be introduced to the cloud-based learning management system called itslearning. Participants will practice skills ranging from adding resources to providing feedback. itslearning is an interactive environment that allows teachers to deliver instructional content and engage today’s “digitally” wired students. (3 credits)

itsLearning Advanced

In this course you will learn the advanced features of the cloud-based learning management system itslearning. Participants will practice skills ranging from teacher e-portfolios and student e-portfolios to e-portfolio organization. itslearning is a fun, interactive, environment for students and teachers to access and store all their class data and resources in one place. (3 credits)

Discovery Education - Getting Started

In this course, you will be introduced to the multitude of resources available for for all teachers and students via Discovery Education. Discovery Education is an interactive environment that allows teachers to deliver instructional content and engage today’s “digitally” wired students. (1 credit)

Microsoft Education: Authoring Accessible Content

Everyone should have access to all educational materials in your classroom. This course will provide information on the importance of creating accessible documents, revising those documents to make them more accessible, and creating new accessible content for all learners. (1 credit)

The Nine Elements of Digital Citizenship

The world is becoming increasingly digital and requiring more and more technology devices at home and in the classroom. Are your students prepared to be good digital citizens? Just as you teach them the rules of society, it is imperative that you teach them the rules of the digital world, and how to be safe and responsible with technology. (0.5 credit)

Paper to Digital Gold

Join Paper Man on his quest to become digital while observing how PDF scanners and GoFormative.com make it easy to transform content within seconds. Whether your focus is on the 1:1, BYOD, Flipped, Blended, or Paperless classroom environment, this session will equip you with the tools to ditch the stacks of paper and focus on what matters: student achievement. (1 credit)

Introduction to Skype in the Classroom

Skype in the Classroom is an online community that enables thousands of teachers to inspire the next generation of global citizens through transformative learning through video-conferencing. This course will explore Five exciting ways to bring the world into your classroom: Virtual Field Trips, Skype Lessons, Skype Collaborations, Mystery Skype, and Guest Speakers. (1.5 credits)

Getting Started with OneNote

With Microsoft OneNote, educators can create digital notebooks that support academic standards and education outcomes across disciplines and tasks, such as writing, reading, mathematics, science, history, CTE, and elective courses. Students may use OneNote across content areas and grade levels, and use OneNote to compile and organize unstructured information, research, and content. OneNote also supports research, collaboration, information management, communication, note taking, journaling, reflective writing, and academic requirements. (1 credit)

Transmedia: Digital Storytelling

Transmedia storytelling is the technique of telling a single story or story experience across multiple platforms and formats using current digital technologies. Whether you are using laptops, Chromebooks, or tablets in the classroom, your students will benefit from this differentiated approach to instruction. (1 credit)

SAMR for Teachers

SAMR is an instructional model designed to help educators infuse technology into teaching and learning. Popularized by Dr. Ruben Puentedura, the model supports and enables teachers to design, develop, and infuse digital learning experiences that utilize technology. This course will help teachers understand the SAMR model and its application to their instruction. (1 credit)

Google Interland

To make the most of the Internet, students need to be prepared to make smart decisions. Google Interland from its Be Internet Awesome digital citizenship program teaches kids the fundamentals of digital citizenship and safety so they can explore the online world with confidence. Kids can play their way to being Internet Awesome with Interland, an online adventure that puts the key lessons of digital safety into hands-on practice with four challenging games. (0.5 credit)

Online Educational Technology PDJune 1, 2018 - July 31, 2018

SUMMER 2018

4

EDTECH Self-Paced eCoursesApp Smashing with Flipgrid

Unplugged

If you are familiar with Flipgrid, the video response and feedback application, you probably want to find more ways to use it during instruction. In this course, you will learn ways to combine (“smash”) Flipgrid with other apps to create unique and authentic learning opportunities. (1 credit)

What is Office 365?

What is Office 365? Well, actually, you probably use it every day! This course is designed to explain Office 365: the parts you know, like Outlook email, and the lesser-known parts like Sway. (1 credit)

SAMR: Teaching Above the Line

The SAMR model is an instructional model of integrating technology into the classroom for innovative instruction. Within the four levels of SAMR, instruction is transformed to become more authentic and engaging. In this course, you will learn to teach “above the line” and become a digital innovator in the classroom. (1.5 credits)

Pause, Rewind my Teacher: Flipped Classroom

Flipped classroom is an instructional strategy and a type of blended learning that reverses the traditional learning environment by delivering instructional content, often online, outside of the classroom. It moves activities, including those that may have traditionally been considered homework, into the classroom. This course will help you understand and prepare to begin flipping your classroom. (1 credit)

Introduction to Microsoft Sway

Sway is an intelligent digital storytelling app from Microsoft Office that is great for project or problem-based learning. Teachers can create interactive web-based lessons, assignments, project recaps, newsletters, and more—right from a phone, tablet, or browser. Students can collaborate and use Sway to create engaging reports, assignments, projects, study materials, and portfolios. In this course, you will be introduced to Microsoft Sway and its applications to the digital classroom. (1 credit)

Computational Thinking and its Importance in Education

This course is designed for all educators from all subject areas who would like to know more about computational thinking and how it can be applied within cross-curricular educational settings. (1 credit)

Introduction to Inclusive Digital Literacy

Digital technologies are now ubiquitous in the home, in school, and in the workplace. How can we equip every young person (especially those with special education needs and disabilities) to be digitally literate in a world where government is on-line, banking is on-line, insurance is on-line, shopping is on-line...as well as much of our social and leisure lives too? Young people adapt well to changing environments and demands when it comes to social media, gaming, and streaming media content: but they need more. This course attempts to set the scene for your classroom’s development of digital literacy, whatever your starting point. (1 credit)

Virtual Field Trips with Skype in the Classroom

A Virtual Field Trip is a lesson using Skype that will take students in an adventure without leaving their classroom. This is a great option to meet experts ‘out in the field’ such as museum tour guides, explorers, marine biologists, zoologists, and scientists to educate your classroom and take them on virtual adventure. Prerequisite – None, however, Introduction to Skype in the Classroom is recommended. (1 credit)

Windows 10

This course is designed to help you learn the features of Windows 10 and its applications for the classroom. Using a Windows 10 device is recommended. (1 credit)

Online Educational Technology PDJune 1, 2018 - July 31, 2018

SUMMER 2018

5

summer 2018 - fwisd · app smashing with flipgrid unplugged if you are familiar with flipgrid, the...

Documents