Welcome to the Digital Learning Summer Summit schedule. Keep in mind that Sched is simply a way for us to display what events are taking place. You will not be able to reserve a spot in a session using this tool. Please check back often to see any updates or changes. We look forward to transforming learning together. Thank you for your commitment to strengthening your professional effectiveness to improve student achievement.
Participants will work with through an interactive session that demonstrates, and tests Alexa tools designed to meet the needs of students while fostering growth of independence and creative thinking. In this session, we will be identifying needs of students to cultivate a response for specific classroom pathways while exploring various skills, blueprints and creative tools for use with the Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition. This session will provide personalized tools ready for immediate use with the Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition including: • Testing skills/phrases/flash cards • Uses of free time and blueprints (both preloaded and ways to create on your own) • Finding “secret gems” within Alexa (teaching manners, clear speaking, concise questions, visualizing, reading comprehension, math fact fluency) Real Talk from a teacher: I’m going to show you how to harness the power of Alexa to make it a valuable learning tool in your classroom that inspires student creativity, inquisitiveness and independence in a way you never know could exist!
Slides I’ve been developing and using to train the Glenwood Staff: (constantly updated and under construction) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1M-BOKdWXGgv1xA0HQ8Gx6HLx3eCKHvIQdiSILJbAzVw/edit?usp=sharing
Using Google Sites teachers will be led step by step through creating a Digital Portfolio. Student created Digital Portfolios are an impressive way for students to document their learning process throughout the year. By including photographs, text, embedding links and documents teachers can easily assess student learning and progress throughout the year.
In this session, participants will learn about the Google extension, Kami. Kami can be used within the Schoology platform for students to be able to annotate on PDF documents. Participants will be able to see how Kami is used on the student end as well as be able to learn how to create a PDF assignment in Schoology.
Many classes talk about locations throughout the world but do you use the technology available to you to show these locations to students? In this session, we will examine the Google Cultural Institute, Google Tour Builder and Google Earth for Chromebooks as tools that allow you to give students tours of important locations, buildings, and even art work into your curriculum.
Synth is a podcasting tool which is strictly for audio recordings. Because there is no video attached to a podcast, students who are shy or reluctant to record themselves on video, open up when using this tool. Additionally, the ability to have threaded discussions opens up the doors of possibilities in your classroom. Discussions can have audio or written responses. Come to this session to see how we have connected classroom to classroom as well as classroom to content area experts. We watched our student work and engagement increase as we changed their audience.
Are you searching for new ways to excite and engage students? Do you need help transforming worksheets and traditional assignments to a digital form? If so, this session is for you! In this session, you will have the opportunity to participate in a digital breakout! Participants will need either a laptop or chromebook. Part 2 (optional), you will guided on how to build your own digital breakout to use with your students.
Learn how to access content from division-wide curriculum groups, and how to set up and manage your Shared Resources area in Schoology in order to increase collaborative opportunities with your students, as well as teachers in your school and throughout the division.
Desmos is so much more than an online calculator. This session will demonstrate how teachers can use available resources on the Desmos website to instruct elementary students in math, science, social studies and language arts while incorporating the 5 C's. Attendees will explore with lessons available on the Desmos website and create a lesson for a subject of their own interest. We will also explore the "teacher dashboard" feature within the Desmos lessons and discuss how it can be used for formative assessments during instructions in addition to giving immediate feedback to students. The technology needed to access Desmos is an electronic device with internet connection.
Google and Schoology were made for each other! Learn how to use Google apps to encourage students to create, collaborate, communicate and think critically. Use Google slides, drawings, docs and forms to foster the 5 C's, using Schoology to deliver and direct learning.
Do you want to make a splash with your students by engaging them with digital learning? A first grade teacher and ITS from Diamond Springs Elementary will showcase various ways to incorporate digital learning in the primary grades. We will focus on the integration of Schoology, Chromebooks, Google Apps for Education, and much more. It can be easy to use technology in the classroom, even with the youngest of students!
Problem Based Learning is a great tool to support content integration, student agency, and higher order thinking. These experiences are highly engaging for learners and cover several objectives. When thinking about moving students from controlled to guided inquiry, Schoology offers an easy streamlined solution to managing PBLs. We will use folders, pages, discussion questions, and assessments within Schoology to make clear pathways for students to explore. We will cover curation of resources and tech tools to differentiate with ease. We will also discuss peer feedback with Google Docs, and tracking student progress. Before we go, we will collaborate to build out some PBLs of our own. You'll be starting the new year ready to roll.
Hello, my name is Danielle Coughlin and I am the gifted resource teacher at Thalia Elementary School. I am very passionate about meeting the needs of the whole child for every child. My early field experience in general and special education led me to seek more understanding about... Read More →
Are thinking about what digital tools will help you teach and assess your performance tasks? Do you wonder if your knowledge of different types of presentation platforms is sufficient? Then bring your laptops and join us as we discuss the benefits, features, and limitations of Smore, Canva, Voki, and Animoto. You will have an opportunity to select one of the tools and begin exploring.
We will introduce the Book Creator website for the purpose of creating digital books and comic books, research journals, digital portfolios and science or math lab reports for high school. The site allows students to work collaboratively or independently on their products and then publish their work. This is a great way for students to demonstrate their learning, to make student thinking visible, and to amplify student voice. Participants will activate a free account, set up a library and learn how to use all of the tools including narration, video journaling, and exporting or publishing student work.
If you often find yourself repeating the same directions to the same class, come see how to record your screen. You'll see how to use Screencastify and Loom, two tools for recording your screen, your face, or both. We'll also talk about how students can use these tools to demonstrate understanding.
I have been working in instructional technology since 1985 (I started on the TRS-80, believe it or not), and have a Masters in Instructional Technology from Old Dominion University. I find technology empowering for teachers and students and I consider it an honor to assist them to... Read More →
Combine the organizational power of Schoology with digital tools that you already use to differentiate the learning process and content based on interest, readiness, or product in order to deliver a stream-lined, personalized learning experience. Participants will learn about features of Schoology that promote differentiation, such as Completion Rules, Grading Groups, and Individually Assign.
Google Sites are a great way for students to present what they have learned! In this session, you will be able to learn how to have your students use Google Sites through the various subjects you teach within your classroom. Students love creating Sites and showing what they have learned. Google Sites is a great tool for students to have as an option for their voice and choice during performance tasks as well as to work through their writing process in language arts! Through this session you will learn how to show your students how to create Google Sites by learning it through the student lens as well as teacher tips with implementation!
Does your Google Drive leave you feeling like you're diving for lost treasure? This session will provide you with tips to organize your MyDrive as well as offer tips to help students do the same.
This course will teach you to embed a LTI app that are available with Schoology, such as Gale resources, Playposit, and Discovery Ed. As well as, ways to embed external sites like Quizlet, Peardeck and Flipgrid. This is a great class for anyone ready to up their Schoology game!
Instructional Technology Specialist (ITS), Virginia Beach City Public Schools
I am an ambassador for Schoology and for Classcraft. My passions are personalized learning and gamification. I'd love to help you take your class activities to the next level!
As students begin to submit a variety of work in Schoology, we have the opportunity to also grade the work and provide feedback digitally, and this task is made even easier with Rubrics! In this session, we will learn how to create, attach, and assess with a rubric in the Schoology platform.
Former middle school English/Language Arts teacher turned ITSUsing technology to support reading and writing across disciplines; digital citizenship and media literacy
Tuesday August 13, 2019 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
Library Left
Part II: In this session, you will be provided with a variety of web-based tools & resources to use to build your own digital breakout. It is recommended that you bring any paper/pencil assignment that you would like to transform to a digital breakout. Laptop or chromebook is required.
Explore way to create student-friendly digital lessons in Schoology. Learn tips and tricks to convert your old paper-pencil lessons to work effectively in Schoology.
Participants will learn how to utilize Seesaw to enhance learning centers, documents, and RELATIONSHIPS. Explore meaningful ways to integrate technology use in developmentally appropriate ways. Bring your own device to play around in your own "class" to use as a model for next year.
Technology Skills for Elementary Teachers and Students!
Using available curricular and district resources (such as G Suite, Schoology, Clever Resources) and the experience from a blended 1st grade classroom, we try to identify the technological student and teacher skills needed for a 21st learner. We will present how technology integrated lessons and units prevented and enabled students' achievement as well as provided equity in the classroom.
This session will cover how to get moving with your LEGO Wedo kits from unpacking them to coding them. We will cover the curricular tie ins within the app and beyond.
Instructional Technology (ITS), Virginia Beach City Public Schools
My name is Kevin Rickard and I have been teaching in Virginia Beach for 15 years. Prior to that I retired out of the Navy after a 23 year career. I have worked as a 4th Grade Teacher, 5th Grade Teacher, Inclusion models, Science Lab Teacher, Computer Resource Specialist and now Instructional... Read More →
In this fast-paced "information-dump" style session, I will present many digital tools to help teach 4th and 5th grade content aligned to VBOs. Session participants will:
- Learn how to use the online "Our Virginia" textbook and Delta Readers to assign and check student work
- Learn how to use the Hamilton Musical as part of your Revolutionary War & Reflection on Democracy Unit. Also, learn how to link Language Arts (poetry, rhyming scheme, and figurative language practice) to your lessons along summarizing and finding the main ideas and cause/effect of primary sources.
- Learn how to use Classcraft to review 4th & 5th grade VBOs with Boss Battles and Taxes from the king.
- Gain access to my Google Folder packed with digital resources and activities to share with students through Schoology. In this folders teachers will find Unit Folders with: --> Google Forms for Unit Summative Assessments --> Printable Exit Tickets --> Three Pokemon Card activities to review (Revolutionary War, Civil War, and Modern Virginia) important figures. --> GoFormative Chapter Review Clone Codes for each unit for students to review at the end of the year leading up to SOLs --> Digital SOL News Letters to share with parents --> SOL assignable review homework --> 12 illustrated posters for each unit to print and hang in your class and/or share digitally with your students.
Participants will learn how to utilize the discussion options in Schoology for each subject area. We will discuss the benefits of using discussions, activities that can be added to discussions, and how to moderate and grade discussions in classes.
Need some hands-on help with the basics of what coding is? In this session you will learn some of the super easy basics so you can feel confident when your students are doing computer science projects.
Participants will examine and create various forms of “flipped” lesson materials with the use of platforms and tools such as: • Screencastify • Schoology – including the ability to embed • Google Slides • Flipgrid • WeVideo • OBS – Open Source Broadcasting • Playposit
Explore using 360 Cameras to create virtual tours. Provide students with hands on experience with collaborating, critical thinking, and creating a virtual tour using resources in Virginia Beach. Students will be given opportunities to explore the world around them using available 360 tours. During this session participants will be provided with access to 3rd grade performance task for habitats and discover how students presented research and created a virtual tour to support the mission of the Brock Center and Lynnhaven Now. Virtual tours were created using visuals and research to present to the community about a chosen animal's habitat, ways to support the animal, explaining the animal's life processes, relationships and actionable items students can take to protect the animal.
This session is designed to introduce the BBC Micro:Bit and how it can be used in the educational setting. We will show you how you can start your students coding on a virtual Micro:Bit and transferring that knowledge to the Micro:Bit Unit. Diving into coding causes great excitement in the classroom, but Diving deeper and transferring that skill to a physical object raises that excitement to a whole new level!.
Learn how to use Tinkercad and a 3D printer to engage your students in learning curriculum objectives in any grade. Participants will learn how first graders worked in teams to design snap together plants using TinkerCad, an online 3D design app and Makerbot 3D printers. Students did this to demonstrate what they had learned about plant parts and their purpose. In addition to learning about the procedures and resources for this project, time is allotted during the session to discuss how this creative learning pathway can work for your students in your grade with your curriculum. In addition, other useful resources and techniques will be discussed. It will be useful for participants to bring their chromebooks or lap tops to this session to sample TinkerCad.
This session is for the expert teacher and novice teacher, looking to add to their Digital tool kit, for their Digital Classroom. Participants will be learning about two new exciting teaching tools, Deck.Toys and Gimkitten (formerly Gimkit). Participants will learn how they can effectively use the tools in the classroom for multiple purposes such as; review, teaching new material, and assessing student knowledge. Participants of this session will also receive a novice intro to Quizlet as well.
Participants will work with through an interactive session that demonstrates, and tests Alexa tools designed to meet the needs of students while fostering growth of independence and creative thinking. In this session, we will be identifying needs of students to cultivate a response for specific classroom pathways while exploring various skills, blueprints and creative tools for use with the Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition. This session will provide personalized tools ready for immediate use with the Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition including: • Testing skills/phrases/flash cards • Uses of free time and blueprints (both preloaded and ways to create on your own) • Finding “secret gems” within Alexa (teaching manners, clear speaking, concise questions, visualizing, reading comprehension, math fact fluency) Real Talk from a teacher: I’m going to show you how to harness the power of Alexa to make it a valuable learning tool in your classroom that inspires student creativity, inquisitiveness and independence in a way you never know could exist!
Slides I’ve been developing and using to train the Glenwood Staff: (constantly updated and under construction) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1M-BOKdWXGgv1xA0HQ8Gx6HLx3eCKHvIQdiSILJbAzVw/edit?usp=sharing
Come join us to add 10 new Schoology tricks to your toolbox. This session is for participants who are comfortable with the basic features of Schoology and are looking to transform learning in their classrooms. How to add start and end times to embedded YouTube videos, color-code the Calendar, and pin links as Announcements are just a few of the lesser-known Schoology secrets that will be shared at this session. Come prepared with your Chromebook or Windows device, and leave with at least one technique you can start using right away.
Instructional Technology Specialist, Great Neck Middle School - VBCPS
I am an Instructional Technology Specialist in Virginia Beach, VA and a former math educator. I am passionate about engaging students in learning through student-created products.
Former middle school English/Language Arts teacher turned ITSUsing technology to support reading and writing across disciplines; digital citizenship and media literacy
Tuesday August 13, 2019 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Library Right
Are you searching for new ways to excite and engage students? Do you need help transforming worksheets and traditional assignments to a digital form? If so, this session is for you! In this session, you will have the opportunity to participate in a digital breakout! Participants will need either a laptop or chromebook. Part 2 (optional), you will guided on how to build your own digital breakout to use with your students.
▪Empower you to use music in your classroom, even if you are not “a musician” ▪Help you use popular music to inspire student engagement in the classroom ▪Introduce you to the free resources to put it all into practice at Teachrock.org
Desmos is so much more than an online calculator. This session will demonstrate how teachers can use available resources on the Desmos website to instruct elementary students in math, science, social studies and language arts while incorporating the 5 C's. Attendees will explore with lessons available on the Desmos website and create a lesson for a subject of their own interest. We will also explore the "teacher dashboard" feature within the Desmos lessons and discuss how it can be used for formative assessments during instructions in addition to giving immediate feedback to students. The technology needed to access Desmos is an electronic device with internet connection.
Need some awesome tools to help you digitize your classroom? Whether you are just getting started or looking for something new, this session is for you! In this session you will learn about easy to learn and use digital tools! Tools for assessment, gamification, delivering information, organization- AND tools students can create with, along with lots of tips, tricks and RESOURCES! Most importantly, this session will help give you tools that will create more time for you during the day!
Do you want to make a splash with your students by engaging them with digital learning? A first grade teacher and ITS from Diamond Springs Elementary will showcase various ways to incorporate digital learning in the primary grades. We will focus on the integration of Schoology, Chromebooks, Google Apps for Education, and much more. It can be easy to use technology in the classroom, even with the youngest of students!
Problem Based Learning is a great tool to support content integration, student agency, and higher order thinking. These experiences are highly engaging for learners and cover several objectives. When thinking about moving students from controlled to guided inquiry, Schoology offers an easy streamlined solution to managing PBLs. We will use folders, pages, discussion questions, and assessments within Schoology to make clear pathways for students to explore. We will cover curation of resources and tech tools to differentiate with ease. We will also discuss peer feedback with Google Docs, and tracking student progress. Before we go, we will collaborate to build out some PBLs of our own. You'll be starting the new year ready to roll.
Hello, my name is Danielle Coughlin and I am the gifted resource teacher at Thalia Elementary School. I am very passionate about meeting the needs of the whole child for every child. My early field experience in general and special education led me to seek more understanding about... Read More →
- Learn the basics of what Classcraft is and how to set it up to gamify your classroom. - Kellie and I both use Classcraft very differently in our classrooms, so between the two of us, we will be presenting how two different educators can use Classcraft accomplish their goals. - We will be giving away free resources / stickers / posters / free premium account - I will also be giving away links to tons of Classcraft (Random Events, Quests, and Boss Battles) that I have made that are aligned with 4th and 5th grade VBOs. - Learn how to use Classcraft to get students to work together to manage your room for you with Tools like: Volume Meter, Random Name/Team generator, and Countdown clocks. - Learn how to use Classcraft as a PBIS tool to build a community in your class that gains points to use toward in-game and real-world rewards.
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I will be submitting a second proposal for a session I would like to teach that will be a good commercial for this session as a follow up. In my other proposal, "Going Digital with 4th and 5th Grade Content," I will be sharing ways to teach and review science and social studies VBOs with many different digital strategies and tools. One of these will be with Classcraft, so it would work out great if this came after, so I could steer people toward this session on how to get set up with Classcraft. I would even be willing to do the both sessions back to in the morning and the afternoon, so there would be two chances for people to do both.
Using Google Sites teachers will be led step by step through creating a Digital Portfolio. Student created Digital Portfolios are an impressive way for students to document their learning process throughout the year. By including photographs, text, embedding links and documents teachers can easily assess student learning and progress throughout the year.
Combine the organizational power of Schoology with digital tools that you already use to differentiate the learning process and content based on interest, readiness, or product in order to deliver a stream-lined, personalized learning experience. Participants will learn about features of Schoology that promote differentiation, such as Completion Rules, Grading Groups, and Individually Assign.
In this course we will discuss creative tips and tricks for using arguably the most versatile Google application. Ditch the mindset that Slides are only for presentations and get ready to learn how to use this powerful tool for everything from digitizing your typical activity sheets to playing math center games to collaborating to making stop motion animation and more! Additionally, discover the wonderful world of ADD-ONS! All skill levels welcomed, but a basic understanding of basic tools in Slides would be helpful (i.e., inserting shapes, keyboard shortcuts for cut and paste, inserting images).
I am a brand new instructional technology specialist. I love anything to do with the outdoors. I would love to find new ways to incorporate my loves of hiking, cycling and technology into highly engaging activities, lessons, and student driven projects.
Many classes talk about locations throughout the world but do you use the technology available to you to show these locations to students? In this session, we will examine the Google Cultural Institute, Google Tour Builder and Google Earth for Chromebooks as tools that allow you to give students tours of important locations, buildings, and even art work into your curriculum.
Part II: In this session, you will be provided with a variety of web-based tools & resources to use to build your own digital breakout. It is recommended that you bring any paper/pencil assignment that you would like to transform to a digital breakout. Laptop or chromebook is required.
Learn how to access content from division-wide curriculum groups, and how to set up and manage your Shared Resources area in Schoology in order to increase collaborative opportunities with your students, as well as teachers in your school and throughout the division.
Has podcasting in the classroom felt like an overwhelming and unmanageable process? It isn't anymore! Synth is an online podcasting website and app that provides an easy to implement platform for your students' voices to be heard while encouraging collaboration. Create opportunities for agency, authentic learning, and publicly showcasing student voice in your classroom in a variety of ways using a tool that encourages communication and listening skills.
Participants will examine and create various forms of “flipped” lesson materials with the use of platforms and tools such as: • Screencastify • Schoology – including the ability to embed • Google Slides • Flipgrid • WeVideo • OBS – Open Source Broadcasting • Playposit
Are thinking about what digital tools will help you teach and assess your performance tasks? Do you wonder if your knowledge of different types of presentation platforms is sufficient? Then bring your laptops and join us as we discuss the benefits, features, and limitations of Smore, Canva, Voki, and Animoto. You will have an opportunity to select one of the tools and begin exploring.
