SDCUE Powered Learning Fair 2019

Tired of the standard Google Sites themes? Want your students to personalize their Sites creations? There's no need to be a code ninja or a graphic designer learn how using familiar G-Suite tools can take your Google Sites to the next level!

Come experience PORTS (Parks Online Resources for Teachers and Students), an award winning FREE distance learning program that connects your classroom curriculum to 15 California State Parks, via real-time Virtual Field Trips. Discover the different parks your class can visit, and the ways that these programs connect to your curriculum!

This session will go through the creating and implementing stages of creating a district-wide online professional learning platform. Participants will see how our district has taken ideas from other districts in order to create our own online professional learning platform along with an open badging system using all free resources.

Come explore Canvas LMS and its great functionalities from submitting assignments, assigning grades, as well as personalized features for individual students.Canvas provides users with a clean, user-friendly interface with a dashboard page that quickly summarizes assignments, announcements and other relevant information across course sites.

Technology has become more prevalent in the lives of young learners. It is vital to support them as they begin to understand technology as a learning tool and not just a means of entertainment. Participants will learn strategies for introducing, managing, and scaffolding technology for our youngest learners to flourish.

Do students race to your room to begin working before the bell? Leverage gameful learning strategies to transform classroom culture and create a more engaging learning environment. See how two high school teachers have done just that since 2011.

Forget presentations - Google Slides does more than you think! Make great looking newsletters? Showcase student learning? Quick and easy student journals? Choose your own adventure stories? Create an interactive study guide? Social media posts? Animated flip books? Student-created magazines? The options are endless. Come explore the power and possibility of Google Slides.

Explore tools to create and customize your own virtual reality content. You can deliver virtual reality lessons or have kids create 3D digital stories with maps, images, and audio clips, while writing for an authentic audience.

Through digital portfolios, we can encourage learners to tell personal, rich versions of their learning stories. Tests and points and grades don't tell us a complete version of what our students learn. Let's encourage students to create and curate a more complete version of their learning stories.

How to use Blended Learning in your ELA classroom to amplify and individualize student learning while downsizing teacher grading workload.

Research demonstrates that active listening helps students retain knowledge and increase comprehension. Learn how to scaffold the process of active listening and engage students in auditory learning. Participants will explore tech tools and the steps for integrating these tools into all subject areas in order to meet student needs.

How do you use the devices in your classroom?  This is a question that is becoming more and more common.  The answer is simple.  I use devices to create a two way street of learning.  I control the lesson on my students device. This allows us to interact with assessment tools that I push out.  I use that data to guide my lessons.  Because of this approach, I can bring my students anywhere in the world with VR lessons.  I can gamify assessments.  I can use media, social media, and student creativity to enrich the learning environment.  Best of all, I can do all of this while never leaving my Teaching and Learning platform.  

*Attendees who attend this session will be entered to win a Year long Platinum Nearpod Licence.

Learning Outcomes:
1. Understand Nearpod and its key features
2. Experience Nearpod from the perspective of a student, discovering how formative assessment can be used to make personalized learning decisions for students.
3. Discover how the on-the-fly feature can be used to guide students based upon choice and voice of students.
4. Leave the session with the knowledge of how to implement Nearpod in your own classroom.
5. Leave the session with the understanding of how to create your own Nearpod to meet the needs of your students.