ePortfolios provide a great opportunity for students to showcase their learning and provide authentic assessment opportunities. This session provides participants with the experience of creating one so that they understand the process and can use it with their students or a training with their staff. This session is not only for ELA teachers, but all content teachers! Activities are aligned to Common Core Standards for ELA. Bring your own device (laptop or iPad recommended) and come ready to jump in!
Using the special features and tools of MS Word, learn dozen cool activities and projects for students to create that support classroom concepts and lessons.
Public spaces are powerful venues for youth expression in larger arenas. Explore ways to design STEM integrated art projects that take youth collaborations out into public spaces.
Find FREE educational resources with Thinkfinity! Thinkfinity.org gives you access to thousands of free, high-quality educational resources, including Common Core standards-matched lesson plans, student interactives, videos, multimedia explorations, and more.
This session has been cancelled.
The purpose of this presentation is to provide all attendees the strategies, techniques, and methods to produce effective presentations. The methods and examples shared are applicable to any format in which a presentation is to be delivered: professional development, classroom instruction, online instruction, professional conference, etc.
Update and discussion of the development of a new education technology blueprint for California. Hear about the Education Technology Task Force recommendations and learn how you and your students can provide input NOW!
Learn about some of the best apps being used by teachers in K-8.
Students bridge the generations by providing digital literacy skills to senior citizens. Hear how students prepared for training and how through patience, dedication and innovation, the seniors became tech savvy.
How to engage students in conversation by creating dialogues and stories that can be easily shared with other students. They edit their work and work collaboratively while sharing their stories. How to use various websites to support the creation and collaboration of ESL student work.
This presentation will provide you with ideas to take your first steps into the world of edtech inside your classroom. This session will be focused on those who would like to begin using technology in the classroom but have yet to do so.
Using the special features and tools of MS Word, learn dozen cool activities and projects for students to create that support classroom concepts and lessons.
This session features the "Roadkill Cafe" a New Technology High School project integrating digital media and geometry. The project asks students to rebrand the Roadkill Cafe while seamlessly integrating mathematical problem based learning.
Presentations are not meant to be slide after slide of bullet points. Breathe new life into presentations with engaging videos.
AppleTV has become an alternative for IWB due to its Airplay feature that allows mirroring and access to iTunes content.
Bring the Common Core to life with iBooks Author. Create a new kind of textbook that’s current, interactive, and custom-tailored to your students.
See how WebQuests are keeping up with the times. Edmodo and Google integration, flipped classrooms, iPad support, Common Core… it's all in there! Find thousands of existing lessons or make your own.
