3. Gizmos
3
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
4. ABCClio&
Turnitin
SocialStudies&ELA
4
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.
5. Education
Production
Essentials
5
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.
6. Flipped
Classrrom
6
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
7. 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
DesignaDigital
Citizenship
Lesson
7
8. Digital
Collaboration:
OneNoteandVoiceThread
8
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
9. Project-based
Learning
9
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
10. Digital
Storytelling:
MovieMakerandAnimoto
10
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.
11. Animation:
PowerPoint,Voki&
Powtwoons
11
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
12. WebPagesand
Content
Creation:
Weebly&Wikispaces
12
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
13. Project-Based&
Collaborative
Learning:
Skype
13
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.
14. 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
