Propel Schools Integration Day: Morning Group: Full Schedule

TBA

Google CS First Webinar

Limited Capacity seats available

This is a virtual session to be viewed in addition to the sessions on offer.

View the EdTechTeam Google CS First Webinar

http://bit.ly/EdTechTeamCSFirst

Wednesday August 16, 2017 TBA
TBA

STEM

8:00am PDT

Morning Group Connect

Wednesday August 16, 2017 8:00am - 8:20am PDT
Auditorium 142

8:25am PDT

Beyond the Basics with Core Google Tools: Docs, Slides, and Forms

Limited Capacity filling up

Familiar with core Google Drive Apps and eager for ideas on how you and your students can integrate them in new ways in your classroom? This session will feature project ideas and suggestive uses for each of these tools. This session is not for beginners as we will not be spending much time covering how the tools work.

Google Docs:
-Docs as portfolios
-Collaborative Writing
-Vocabulary templates
-Websites
-Understanding the Explore Feature.

Google Slides
-Group Presentation Methods
-Shared Agendas, Tasks, Exit Tickets
-Student Published E-Books
-Choose your Own Adventure Tasks
-Animations in slides

Google Forms
-Peer Assessment
-Choose Your Own Adventure
-work submission
-sign up sheets for parents
-quick graded quizzes

Speakers

Charity Helman

Event Coordinator, EdTechTeam Canada

P.O box 1072

Wednesday August 16, 2017 8:25am - 9:45am PDT
145

All Grade Levels Intermediate

8:25am PDT

Mandatory for New to Propel Teachers: Getting Going with Drive, Docs, and Classroom

Limited Capacity full
Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.

This hands-on workshop for beginners features the powerful applications Google Drive and Classroom. Come learn the ins-and-outs of these incredibly flexible and easy to use applications and how they can best support student learning outcomes! We will be exploring how these apps can promote creativity, collaboration, and learning with students on a daily basis. Attendees will learn to create and organize Google Drive, create, shared and edit in Google Docs, and create and manage assignments with Google Classroom.

Speakers

Rushton Hurley

Executive Director, NextVista.org

Rushton Hurley is a former high school teacher, former principal of an online high school, author of three books on learning and schools, and founder and executive director of an educational nonprofit. Rushton has spoken to and trained over 100,000 teachers and school leaders around... Read More →

Wednesday August 16, 2017 8:25am - 9:45am PDT
Cafeteria

Beginner

8:25am PDT

Google Classroom: Essentials for Using Classroom Everyday with Students

Limited Capacity full
Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.

Familiar with Google Drive, Docs, and even Google Classroom and ready to take the next step to everyday use? This session will review the key features of Classroom while sharing some advanced tips and tricks to make your daily use smoother for you and more engaging for your students. Come with an understanding of Docs and Drive and familiarity with Classroom Basics (creating a classrooms, students joining a classroom and posting announcements and questions), we will spend our time sharing best practices for activities, assignments, feedback, assessments, communicating with parents, and designing lessons/tasks/projects all within the Google Classroom atmosphere.

Slides for this session can be found here

Attendees are encouraged to also bring a device which can run the Google Classroom app for iOS or Android and to install this app in advance from the App Store or from the Google Play Store.

Speakers

Chris Webb

Teacher, Lester B. Pearson School Board

Chris is a Math & Science Teacher with the Lester B. Pearson School Board. He is also a Google for Education Certified Innovator, Trainer, Google Educator Group Leader for Montreal and Canada, and a member of the Remind Advisory Board. Chris often presents for EdTechTeam at events... Read More →

Wednesday August 16, 2017 8:25am - 9:45am PDT
152

Beginner/Intermediate

8:25am PDT

Google Draw Interactive

Limited Capacity filling up

In this session we will learn all about Google Draw and how students can create interactive diagrams, graphic organizers, infographics, sorting and labeling activities, and posters. Teachers will leave familiar with how to do this so they can show their students how to create their own activities and images for each other and for learning work products.

Speakers

Lynn Gershman

Lynn Gershman, Denver, CO. Formerly a high school Social Studies teacher, Lynn Gershman has since served as an instructional technology consultant, a professional learning developer, a project manager for large 1:1 initiatives, and is a Certified Google Trainer. Currently, Lynn works... Read More →

Wednesday August 16, 2017 8:25am - 9:45am PDT
140

Creativity

8:25am PDT

Narrative and Creative Writing with Google Slides for Elementary Classrooms

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Let's look beyond the slideshow! Google Presentations can be used for so much more than reports and bulleted talking points. In this session, we'll see how Google Slides can be used to support and develop creative writers.

From comic books to graphic novels, mock Tweets and Instagram posts, to "choose your own adventure" stories - you’ll explore some of the innovative and creative ways your students can use Google tools to demonstrate their learning.

In this workshop, we will:

*Create REALLY FUN STUFF!
* Discuss Google Slides as a tool in the writing process.
* Share ideas how the use of mentor texts can enhance students understanding of literary elements such as narrative shifts and dialogue.
* Share options for digital student/teacher/peer feedback.
* Explore design principles of color and layout.
* Find free image resources that promote digitally-aware citizens.
* Investigate publishing possibilities including slides as an e-pub tool as well as inexpensive printing options.

Speakers

Susan Stewart

Curriculum Specialist, Seesaw

K-2 Can, TOO is the motto of this lead learner! Susan Stewart is Google Education Innovator and Trainer. She is currently the K-12 Instructional Technology Coach for Fowler Unified School District in Central California. Within her district, Susan has facilitated the implementation... Read More →

Wednesday August 16, 2017 8:25am - 9:45am PDT
151

Elementary K-2 Upper Elementary

8:25am PDT

Beyond the Headlines: Using Google Newspapers to Promote Critical Thinking

Limited Capacity seats available

Help your students discover a world of information at their fingertips. Google Newspapers is an extension of Google News providing free access to scanned archives of newspapers. Allow your students to:
-compare and contrast current events from a variety of primary sources;
-examine bias and reliability in the news;
-explore historical events over the past 250 years;
-read and write for meaning;
-analyze market trends;
-and so much more!
Real examples and practical applications for all levels and fields of study will be demonstrated, discussed and shared. Google Newspapers is a must for every classroom!

Speakers

Nate Kellogg

Director of Personalized Learning, ReNEW Schools

Nate is the Director of Personalized Learning for ReNEW Schools, a Charter Management Organization serving 4,000 students across 7 schools in New Orleans, LA. Prior to ReNEW, Nate taught for 6 years at public, private, and charter schools in Washington, D.C., and New Orleans. A Google... Read More →

Wednesday August 16, 2017 8:25am - 9:45am PDT
148

Intermediate Upper Elementary Secondary

8:25am PDT

Google Sites for Managing Projects

Limited Capacity filling up

Google sites offers students a simple, yet creative, way to keep track of every phase of their project based learning projects. The flexibility of Google Sites makes it a perfect platform for students to plan, research, organize content, collaborate. Students can meet their content standards and make learning visible with this great application.Google sites offers students a simple, yet creative, way to keep track of every phase of their project based learning projects. The flexibility of Google Sites makes it a perfect platform for students to plan, research, organize content, collaborate. Students can meet their content standards and make learning visible with this great application.

Speakers

Tracy Arner

Research Assistant, Kent State University

Wednesday August 16, 2017 8:25am - 9:45am PDT
144

Public Product

9:50am PDT

The Power of Simple Video

Limited Capacity filling up

How do you make student work much more interesting, both for them and for you? We'll look at this in the context of simple video projects, including time to practice with YouTube Editor and Adobe Spark Video, which is perhaps the most user-friendly of all online video editing tools. We will also look at Google Slides and Google Sites as tools for sharing what they create. If you've wanted your students to take their work to another level and think video might be the right tool to make it happen, then this session is for you!

Speakers

Rushton Hurley

Executive Director, NextVista.org

Wednesday August 16, 2017 9:50am - 11:10am PDT
150

All Grade Levels

9:50am PDT

Beyond the Basics with Core Google Tools: Docs, Slides, and Forms

Limited Capacity full
Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.

Familiar with core Google Drive Apps and eager for ideas on how you and your students can integrate them in new ways in your classroom? This session will feature a running list of lesson ideas, project, and everyday uses for these familiar apps. This session is not for beginners as we will not be spending much time covering how the tools work. All ideas covered will include sample tasks, lesson ideas, and project templates ready for immediate student use.

Google Docs:
-Docs as portfolios and Student Websites
-Collaborative Writing
-Anonymous Group Assessments
-Class Websites
-Understanding the Explore Feature.

Google Slides
-Group Presentation Methods
-Shared Agendas, Tasks, Exit Tickets
-Student Published E-Books
-Choose your Own Adventure Tasks

Google Forms
-Scaffolding the creative writing process
-Peer Assessment
-Digital Drop Boxes for Group Content Curation.
-Analyzing Credibility of Web Resources

Speakers

Charity Helman

Event Coordinator, EdTechTeam Canada

P.O box 1072

Wednesday August 16, 2017 9:50am - 11:10am PDT
145

All Grade Levels Intermediate

9:50am PDT

Google Classroom: Essentials for Using Classroom Everyday with Students

Limited Capacity full
Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.

Speakers

Chris Webb

Teacher, Lester B. Pearson School Board

Wednesday August 16, 2017 9:50am - 11:10am PDT
152

Beginner/Intermediate

9:50am PDT

Google Draw Interactive

Limited Capacity filling up

Speakers

Lynn Gershman

Wednesday August 16, 2017 9:50am - 11:10am PDT
140

Creativity

9:50am PDT

Google’s Geo Tools Suite: Cultural Institute and My Maps

Limited Capacity seats available

Recently Google released several new geo tools designed to help connect people to places and beyond. These new tools have the potential to change how teachers teach and students learn about their communities and the world as a whole. Most people have heard of Google Maps and Earth, but there is a rich suite of other Google Geo applications that provide a toolset for geospatial learning. This workshop will introduce and describe how students can use My Maps and Google’s Cultural Institute to create interactive and engaging learning opportunities. Participants will be actively involved in creating maps and building and sharing collections of cultural artifacts as they learn about the powerful features of each tool. By the end of this workshop, you will have a solid understanding of how your students can use these tools for their own projects and classwork.

Speakers

Nate Kellogg

Director of Personalized Learning, ReNEW Schools

Wednesday August 16, 2017 9:50am - 11:10am PDT
148

Intermediate Upper Elementary Secondary

9:50am PDT

Primarily Google: Getting K2 Students Going with Google Apps

Limited Capacity filling up

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Even our youngest students can CREATE with the fabulous tools offered by Google! In this introductory-level session, get an overview and see examples of Primary students using Google Docs, My Maps, Forms, Draw, and Google Classroom! I’ll share tips and tricks for managing All-Things-Google with our littlest learners.

The Common Core asks that students use digital tools to generate content. In this session, we will explore ways that students can practice early keyboarding and revise authentic writing by creating Google Documents. Also, we'll discuss Google Forms for classroom votes, "Question of the Day", a Checking for Understanding tool, and more!

We’ll look at Google Slides to deliver content, and explore ways to have students create individual or collaborative presentations that can be recorded as screencasts! Also, see how Google Spreadsheets can be used to gather and organize information as well as support elementary Common Core Math standards to have students generate custom graphs and charts using data they have collected themselves. Finally, we’ll look at Google Draw to add interactive creativity!

Participants will leave with samples, templates, and resources they can implement with their little learners immediately!

Speakers

Susan Stewart

Curriculum Specialist, Seesaw

Wednesday August 16, 2017 9:50am - 11:10am PDT
151

K-2

9:50am PDT

Google Sites for Managing Projects

Limited Capacity full
Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.

Speakers

Tracy Arner

Research Assistant, Kent State University

Wednesday August 16, 2017 9:50am - 11:10am PDT
144

Public Product

9:50am PDT

Teaching Coding with Scratch!

Limited Capacity full
Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.

Description: With Scratch, a free computer programming language, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations to share with the world. In this crash course, learn the fundamentals of Scratch and how you can integrate it into your classroom instruction to help young people think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively—all essential skills for life in the 21st century. No prior knowledge of coding is needed!

Speakers

Tyler Samstag

Director, Remake Learning

Wednesday August 16, 2017 9:50am - 11:10am PDT
149

STEM

11:20am PDT

Demo Slam

You can access all of the resources for the Demo Slam from this link

Wednesday August 16, 2017 11:20am - 11:40am PDT
Auditorium 142