Innovation Summit San Diego 2017

Nearpod empowers teachers to facilitate lessons in a way that will spark students’ curiosity, excitement, and motivation. Teachers can share multimedia activities, receive real-time feedback, and instantly gauge student understanding. In this session, you will learn how to incorporate this powerful tool in your classroom, and leave with an interactive lesson to share with your students tomorrow.

Create a FREE Teacher Account at Nearpod.com 

Hands-on, using Hyperdocs, explore strategies to introduce Chromebooks to primary students by investigating Google Classroom, Camp Chromebook and management ideas. Next, examine meaningful integration of Chromebooks by creating activities such as drag-and-drop lessons, Hyperdocs or choice menus.  

This document will give you an idea of what will be covered.  If you want to follow along, download any apps you don't already have.

Session Materials: https://goo.gl/cMZtQ6

Materials for sharing with your staff  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CU-nBD_i6p6jmUMqkubC-9h3SDjLhF-6pyU7gzKIEcQ/edit

"Hey Siri, remind me to attend Felix's session!" "Alexa, purchase the book, 'iPads in the Classroom.'" Are you leveraging the many digital assistants available to you today? Learn how to automate a multitude of tasks with various tools, services, and devices as we move further into the "Internet of Things." In this session, you will learn how to become more efficient, one automation at a time. Bring your device, a creative mind, and a desire to make the Internet work for you. We will dig in to the amazingly powerful and free tool, IFTTT (If This, Then That), which allows you to customize triggers and actions across everything from your email to your cloud tools, and even your home appliances.

If you use services listed here: felixj.me/iotp, then this session is for you!
In preparation for this workshop, please create an account at ifttt.com.

This hands-on, project oriented session will lead participants through activities and challenges to consider and experience ways to use whiteboarding and screencasting in support of instruction, feedback/assessment, and design. Explain Everything for iPad will be the primary tool used in this workshop, but any device or combination of whiteboarding and screencasting tools on any device will be sufficient for meaningful participation. Come with your curiosities and leave with generative ideas, useful artifacts, and Explain Everything wizardry.

Please install Explain Everything on your device prior to the session. If you have an expired trial of the current version of the app, please email reshanrichards@gmail.com.
iPadExplain Everything - https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1020339980?mt=8
ChromebookExplain Everything  - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/explain-everything/abgfnbfplmdnhfnonljpllnfcobfebag
WindowsExplain Everything - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/explain-everything/9nblggh5gcw8
AndroidExplain Everything - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.explaineverything.explaineverything

Visit www.constructivisttoolkit.com after the conference for additional materials!

Content is key when it comes to succeeding in implementing a blended learning classroom. The right online text, video or multimedia clip guides self-directed student learning. However, curating is an art. As teachers begin integrating resources into their blended learning courses, the art of curation, especially Open Educational Resources, can make the difference between an excellent, interactive lesson and the equivalent of a digital worksheet. Expert curation means knowing the criteria and strategies for aggregating, sifting, and selecting the best resources. Open Educational Resources are not free if you pay a service to aggregate for you - nor are they personalized. Learn the strategies to maximize the use of free, online content - and then hire your Library Media Specialist to help support you.

Link to presentation materials: https://goo.gl/n39pvA

Please download Chrome browser and if possible, have a Google Apps account prior to arrival at this session.