If you've used Canvas you know how great it is, but how do you get teachers, who have never used it, to give it a try? Learn how to use a pre-designed Canvas mini-course to engage teachers in a safe learning community, where they learn how to use Canvas while designing learning content to use with their students. By breaking down the basics of Canvas into two face to face meetings, and 10 short online challenges, you can help teachers get over the learning curve, and discover how to use Canvas to take their game to the next-level!

1. Chris Long :: Huntington Beach Union HS District
LEADING A CANVAS
CHALLENGE
Follow the plan
or  build your own awesome

2. Huntington Beach Union High School District
• Free-4-Teachers
• Open Source
• Free-4-Teachers
• ???

3. WHY ?
US Bank Tower
Los Angeles, CA
75 Stories of pure terror
1500 steps

4. THE CANVAS CHALLENGE
GivesTeachers
a Chance to…

5. WAKE UP!

6. Have a Bad Hair Day

7. Be a Student

8. Build Something Awesome

9. WHAT ?
Kickoff Meeting
10 Challenges
Show & Tell

11. Start: Feb. 25, 2013 Finish: Mar. 13, 2013

12. KICKOFF
• CRAZY CROWDED
• CHAOTIC
• LOUD
• NOT AWESOME : (
Photo Credit: Erik Daniel Drost via Compfight cc

13. Photo Credit: ICK9S [M. H. Stephens] via Compfight cc

14. FOLLOWED the PLAN
Encouraging
Announcements

15. STATS- Huntington Beach HS
Showed Up to Kickoff 35
Submitted the First Assignment 16
Did the 1st Challenge 9
Did the 2nd Challenge 9
Did the 3rd Challenge 6
Completed all 10 Challenges 2  12.5%

16. STATS- Huntington Beach HS

17. Photo Credit: San Diego Shooter via Compfight cc

18. Or was it ?

20. Graphic
by
Adam
cagelessthinking.com

21. LESSONS LEARNED
• GUIDE THE KICKOFF
• PERSONALLY CONNECT W/ LEARNERS
• MAKE THE “CHALLENGE COURSE” YOUR OWN

22. Photo Credit: paololongo48

24. GOAL !
THEY CAME
THEY SAW
THEY DID

25. TAKE a LOOK

26. STATS – Marina HS
Showed Up to Kickoff 26
Submitted the First Assignment 23
Did the 1st Challenge 11
Did the 2nd Challenge 11
Did the 3rd Challenge 11
Completed all 10 Challenges 2  8.7%

27. STATS- Marina HS

28. Don't think I did this right.

29. Chris, here you go.
Still don't know about most of
this stuff.

30. I guess my fear is that we become too over
reliant on technology. I could see this
direction essentially leading to online
courses that actually reduce student face-
to-face interaction (which is already
dwindling), and creates a "virtual" school
environment where there is little personal
interaction.

31. Meghan
SUPER
POWERS
bit.ly/11ogEv8
Write Back at Ya:
Using Canvas to Revolutionize Feedback & Communication in a High School Classroom

32. SHOW & TELL  Coffee Chat

33. Time
Not Tech

34. Priorities

35. Beliefs

36. Knowledge

38. Attunement

41. Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein

42. HOW TO START A
MOVEMENT

43. A Movement is Underway…
Teacher Led- RenegadePD
125
Brian Boone- Edison HS
Nick Schwab- Huntington Beach HS
92

44. TAKE a LOOK

45. 2L2Q

46. US Bank Tower
Los Angeles, CA
75 Stories
1500 steps
STILL
SCARY

47. TEAM
UP
2
GO
UP
TU2GU

48. ONE
STEP
at
a
TIME
US Bank Tower
Los Angeles, CA
75 Stories
1500 steps

49. Got
Questions
Chris Long - @clonghb
clong@hbuhsd.edu
Elizabeth Kramer
elizabeth@instructure.com