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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.