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Building Your Online PLN
In today’s digital age, educators can create their own professional development program that fits their needs and is accessible anytime and anywhere. Many teachers do this by building an online personal learning network (PLN). No matter where you are in the world, there’s always someone online available to answer your questions and share their expertise. …
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Harness the Power of Google Docs for Beginners
What is Google Docs? How can you use it in your K-8 classroom? Learn to create and edit web-based documents online and access them from anywhere and at anytime. In this session, participants will learn to share and collaborate on documents, use voice text, research for creative-commons images, provide students with real-time descriptive feedback, and …
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Effective Use of Google Apps for Education (GAFE) in the Classroom
You have started using GAFE with your students and feel comfortable with the tool. How else you can use the tool to enhance student learning and collaboration? This session provides suggestions and samples for the effective use of GAFE in K-8 classrooms. Participants discuss how to build a literacy and numeracy workstation, cultivate a culture …
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Observational Assessment with Google Forms
In this session teachers learn to harness the power of Google Forms to create observational assessment for their classroom. The assessment tool created provides teachers with “look fors” and next steps needed to further support students in their learning. Participants learn how to build a template that will automatically save observational notes in a Google Spreadsheet for teachers …