Course Catalogue

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WorkshopsAll workshops are hands-on, based on practice.Each teacher will leave with a ready-to-use lesson plan

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Gizmos 3

ABC Clio and Turnitin 4

Education Production Essentials 5

Flipped Classroom 6

Digital Citizenship 7

Digital Collaboration with One Note and VoiceThread

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Project-based Learning 9

Digital Storytelling: MovieMaker & Animoto 10

Animation: PowerPoint, Voki and PoweToons

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Web Pages and content-creation: Weebly and Wikispaces

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Project-based & Collaborative Learning 13

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Gizmos

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Description: Learn about Explore Learning Gizmos - interactive online simulations for math and science education. They will help your students develop a deep understanding of challenging concepts through inquiry and exploration.

Learning Objectives: By the end of this session you will be able to navigate the Gizmo homepage, search for Gizmos, create and manage classes in Gizmos, and enroll your students in your classes.

Target Audience: Math and Science teachers

Take-Away: Teachers created a lesson plan for Spring semester integrating the use of one Gizmo

ABC Clio & TurnitinSocial Studies & ELA

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Description: Learn how to navigate and use the web tools ABC Clio and Turnitin to deliver and review Social Studies and ELA instructional content. ABC Clio is a digital content tool that is a searchable database with interactive wizards and tools. Turnitin is an online drop box that a teacher can create for her/his students to use to submit content online, check originality reports, create rubrics, grade and provide feedback virtually to students.

Learning Objectives: By the end of this session you will be able to create a Turnitin account, create a class with name, upload/download student content. check for originality and grade in grademark. In ABC-Clio, participants will be able to login, search databases, locate and learn how to navigate wizards and tools

Target Audience: English and Social Studies teachers

Take-Away: Create a lesson to use in a unit coming up from the next cycle.

Education Production Essentials

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Description: Learn basic tools to become a producer of educational content that is relevant to the classroom. Get started with PowerPoint recording, Screencast-O-Matic and Nearpod. Learn techniques to be a producer and not a consumer of content

Learning Objectives: By the end of this session, you will be able to use PowerPoint and Screencast-O-Matic to create videos and use Nearpod to produce content that students can interact with in class

Target Audience: All teachers

Take-Away: Teachers will produce content that they can use in their classroom in the next couple weeks.

Flipped Classrrom

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Description: Make your classroom more student-centered by flipping the instruction. In this session you will learn to design a flipped lesson using simple tools such as recording with PowerPoint and Screencast-O-Matic

Learning Objectives: By the end of this session you will be able to summarize what is involved in creating a flipped classroom, discuss the pros and cons of using flipped, develop a lesson plan for integrating the flipped classroom and demonstrate the ability to create a flipped lesson using video recording tools

Target Audience: All teachers

Take-Away: Teachers created one flipped lesson for the next six-weeks with a unit covered for specific subject

Description: In this session, you will examine the importance of a Digital Footprint and how to create lessons that convey that concept to students

Learning Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will recognize the impact of their digital footprint and create a lesson plan to share this information with students. Examine how this looks in a 1:1 classroom

Target Audience: All Teachers

Take-Away: Create a lesson plan incorporating an activity for students to understand how Digital Citizenship is relevant

Design a Digital Citizenship Lesson

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Digital Collaboration: OneNote and Voice Thread

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Description: Encourage classroom collaboration using Office365 – OneNote and VoiceThread

Learning Objectives: By the end of this session you will be able to tell a peer what VoiceThread and OneNote is and what it does. You will comment and create one of each and share with others. Discuss with others how OneNote and VoiceThread can be used in the classroom

Target Audience: All Teachers

Take-Away: Ability to create a shared OneNote with PLC teams and students and to utilize VoiceThread with their students

Project-based Learning

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Description: Introduction to the pedagogy behind project based learning (PBL) and technology tools that can support it, including Office 365 - OneNote

Learning Objectives: By the end of this session, participants will be able to describe what PBL is, understand the basic framework for PBL, explore PBL using virtual groups and Office 365 OneNote to encourage collaboration

Target Audience: All Teachers

Take-Away: Digital presentation of the group’s proposed solution

Digital Storytelling: MovieMaker and Animoto

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Description: Digital stories are great interdisciplinary projects that provide students with a way of displaying what they have learned via multimedia presentations.

Learning Objectives: By the end of the session you will create a digital story using Windows MovieMaker or Animoto.

Target Audience: All teachers

Take-Away: Teachers created a digital story for a lesson he or she already had using the tools learned in the session.

Animation: PowerPoint, Voki & Powtwoons

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Description: Animation is a useful tool for engaging students and illustrating difficult concepts. Build an interactive PowerPoint, create a digital avatar, that talks, using Voki and produce a video with animated characters using PowToons. Encourage your students to communicate what they have learned by sharing their animations with teachers, parents or peers.

Learning Objectives: By the end of this session, you will be able to use PowerPoint, Voki and PowToons to create animated content within the classroom, or promote student production using these tools

Target Audience: All teachers

Take-Away: Teachers will have an example of each animation that they can use in the classroom next week

Web Pages and Content Creation: Weebly & Wikispaces

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Description: Encourage classroom collaboration using digital communication tools. You will learn how to create digital portfolios using Wikispaces and Weebly

Learning Objectives: By the end of this session create an account and plan with others in the same subject area to design a framework and dsicuss elements of good web design and determine the audience and purpose for your site

Target Audience: All teachers

Take-Away:Teachers will create a Wikispace or Weebly for his or her classroom and decide how to use the site best

Project-Based & Collaborative Learning: Skype

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Description: Learn about the pedagogy behind project-based learning (PBL) and how digital tools can support the different phases of PBL. Discover the collaboration, research and investigation features of Skype for Education

Learning Objectives: By the end of this session, participants will be able to understand the basic framework for PBL and where Skype can be a great tool in the PBL timeline.

Target Audience: All teachers

Take-Away: Digital presentation of the lesson plan itegrating Skype in one of the phases of PBL.

Coming Soon

"Hub" Orientation - Intro to ItsLearning – Learn to create content, tests, assignment dropboxes and string discussions

Differentiated Instruction – Self-directed, Differentiated, Collaborative Instruction. When to use which and how to manage it

Personalization vs. Individualization – Agreed upon definitions, and when to use which, including how to use The Hub to individualize, differentiate and personalize.

Bringing Universal Design into Your Classroom – Introduction to UID Principles and tools

TTT (train-the-trainer) PowerUp Phase I Deployment

TTT – For new and upcoming instructional technologists and Teacher Leaders: Digital Citizenship, Education Production Essentials, Digital Collaboration, Flipped Model