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So you want to create an online, blended, or flipped classroom? With CLRN now certifying online courses, the University of California will require that homegrown online courses meet more rigorous criteria. Learn how to avoid common mistakes and create courses that engage students, incorporate multiple media, and challenge students to apply their knowledge.
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!
This session will focus on education legislation and propositions in California. John Cradler, CUE Legislative Advocacy Committee co-chair will share current news pertinent to California and will bring us up to date on education propositions. Important initiatives such as the Governor's Ed Tech and Ed Tech Blueprint, the CUE Advocacy Platform, and the status of CTAP and SETS. There is much to hear and learn about, a session you won't want to miss.
Let’s help our students use their natural interest in and facility with stories to deepen their learning across the curriculum. The ancient art of storytelling helps us learn, make connections, and communicate important information.
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New to Prezi? Want to learn how to make those linear slides you’ve been doing for so long into dynamic non-linear visual masterpieces? Come join an interactive presentation to learn the basics of prezi and how to start wowing your audiences with visual acrobatic displays. Bring your own device.
You have the technology, but don't know where to put it. Cables everywhere, lost accessories, uncharged tools. In this session you will learn tips and tricks to effectively manage/store technology in the primary classroom.
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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.
Have you wanted to see what the new common core assessments will look like? Have you wondered how different they will be? Take a quick tour of the Smarter Balanced Consortium's sample test questions and share your thoughts.
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!
In this high energy session, meet with two exciting IT leaders and find out how to successfully roll out iPads in large scale deployments, and gain two edtech experts as friends in the process.
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Already using iPads in the classroom? Just considering an implementation? Either way, this fast-paced session will be a rich source of ideas and resources about learning with the iPad.
Edmodo is like Facebook for schools. Use with the peace of mind that only you and your students can see and access it. This "walled-garden" is a safe place to teach responsible social networking skills and to give your class an online presence. Oh, did I mention it's FREE?
Picasa Web, Google's photo-hosting service, is a super easy way to instantly post pictures, slide shows, or student work from your computer, iPad, or smart phone. Come learn how you can use this free tool that is a part of Google Apps for Education to add media delights to your Google Sites and set up a shared Drop Box that even your youngest students can use to share their work.
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Take your Google Spreadsheets and Google Forms to the next level. Use scripts to disseminate data and make you the model of efficiency at your school. Participants will create a simple form and install the autoCrat script as an introduction to Google Scripts. The autoCrat script merges data into a Google Doc or PDF that can then automatically e-mail those submitting a form. Participants must have a Gmail or Google Apps account and should bring their own laptop. iPads will work, but are not an optimal choice. A familiarity of Google Spreadsheets and Form is recommended.
Learn how Google Sites is the best tool for housing all your Unit Lesson Plans, resources, documents, and student file archive. You will never need another Unit Binder. Toss your Filing Cabinet tomorrow!
Discover a certification program designed for innovative educators like you. Leading Edge Certification prepares educators to be digital age leaders and learners.
The SDSU Masters program provides solid, practical skills for K-12 teachers. Totally online, affordable, and highly interactive. Hear SDSU faculty and alums describe courses, projects and the COMET virtual community.
This session is an opportunity to share your input and shape the third Leading Edge Certification, Digital Educator. The purpose of this certification is to develop the pedagogy and skills of K-12 classroom teachers to utilize technology to expand student learning opportunities. Join us to provide feedback that will guide our curriculum development. You will also have the opportunity to sign up to participate in one of the first certification workshop offered and become a Leading Edge Certified Digital Educator.
Movies and video production on a mobile device. Yes, it's possible and fun. Join us as we examine the pedagogical applications of video production in the classroom and how an iPad makes it possible.
We will share the beta version of Common Core State Standards in a searchable, customizable, stand alone database file from the Transcorder Project. Started at the CUE conference in Palm Springs last March, we are a small group of volunteer programmers and educators who are building a set of CCSS assessment and reporting tools to be distributed freely to teachers, students and administrators throughout the US. The first of these is the CCSS and the CCCS in a searchable table format. We hope to have this ready by the end of the year, but it is far enough along that we will be doing a beta version "sneak peek" demo.
This session has been cancelled.
This session has been cancelled.
The ubiquity of the Internet, mobile devices and other technologies has completely changed the traditional classroom, enabling new online and blended learning environments. As learning becomes increasingly virtual and always available, it is critical to offer a safe and collaborative environment for students and teachers to interact.
Learn about CK-12 Foundation’s free, open source STEM content. Find out how to create and share custom FlexBook digital textbooks.
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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.
Join an Adobe Education Leader, and “Next Photoshop Evangelist” for a session that will teach you to be a more creative, imaginative, and effective teacher. Explore ideas for using Photoshop to integrate art, creativity, and technology into the curriculum.
Join the producers of the hit Internet TV show, the Infinite Thinking Machine, as we take a fun romp through our favorite tools, ideas, and classroom innovations featured in the shows. Warning: it may get ridonkulous!
Using your iPad with einstruction's Insight 360- the seamless blending of assessment into instruction to inform instruction and to drive student progress.
If you have an interactive whiteboard, you have a new addition to your learning centers. Discover ways that you can utilize this tool to allow small groups to interact and learn and that won't take tons of teacher prep!
This session has been cancelled.
This session has been cancelled.
This session has been cancelled.
Teacher Dashboard manages and secures Google Apps in your school. See individual student activity in docs, on blogs and on computers. Ensure online safety: review/audit student e-mail.
Just because the Common Core is moving away from one right answer doesn't mean it's time to toss your student response devices! There are many ways you can use these engaging devices in conjunction with the deeper thinking that are the aim of the new standards. Applicable for any student response system.
