8 Keys to Unlocking Digital Success
Summer Technology Trainings
Join Golden Valley's Instructional Leadership Team this summer to learn and practice new tools for your digital classroom.
Pre-registration is required
You can repeat sessions
You can mix and match days & times
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Session Descriptions
Pumped Up Projects: Moving from “Doing Projects” to Project-Based Learning
Hey! Dying to learn the ins and outs of Project Based Learning (PBL)? In this session we will walk you through the process of organizing a project-based learning unit. In addition, we will provide you with numerous resources to support your design and future implementation. Come with an idea; leave with a project plan.Hey Math People! This session is also Problem-Based aligned. Please join us for the fun!
Participants should bring unit ideas and materials that might be revised into a Project-Based Learning unit. |
TransFORM Your Classroom: Harness the Power of Google FormsThink Google forms are just for taking surveys? They can be used for so much more! Join us to learn how to create forms from start to finish, including how to gather student responses. Also, get ideas for using forms for quizzes, exit slips, video lessons and more. Learn why forms are the most powerful tool in Google docs!
Participants should bring content ideas and/or a quiz or exit slip you would like to turn into a Google form. |
A Teacher’s Super Power: Using Doctopus to Facilitate Student Learning
In this session, participants will learn how to use an add-on for Google sheets called Doctopus. This particular add-on is incredibly helpful in distributing and collecting student work digitally. However, its real power is in the options it provides the teacher: locking documents, providing feedback through email, and providing an opportunity for teachers to see student work in process before it is turned in for grading.
Since this is a working session, please please bring an idea of an assignment that you would like your students to complete on their Chromebooks next year. If you attended the Interactive Digital Activities, you may want to bring what you created in that session. |
Teaching with a Website Like a Boss: Linking, Embedding, and Archiving for Maximum Student LearningIn this session, participants will learn how to harness the power of a website to improve student learning outcomes. Specifically, participants will explore a variety of teacher websites, learn how and why to link to other content on the web, learn how and why to embed content (presentations, images, and video), and how and why to collect student input through online tools.
Since this is a Weebly-centered presentation, please come with a Weebly account and one lesson plan to recreate in a webpage. |
Annihilating Classroom Constraints Using Interactive Digital ActivitiesUnleash the power of the internet on your assignments! Take your current lessons and spice them up using digital tools. Learn what the SAMR model is and why you should care. Increase student engagement by learning new tools. The ultimate goal is to create an interactive activity using tools like Google’s Research Pane, YouTube Playlists, EdPuzzle, and linking.
Please come with an idea of a lesson that you would like students to complete digitally. It can be a handout, a project, a flipped lesson, or anything else you’ve dreamt up. |
Secrets of the Googleverse: How to Grade with FlubarooCome get acquainted with one of the best 'bots available for teachers: Flubaroo! When paired with forms, this add-on will automatically grade basic quizzes that you have created. After recent updates it now runs faster and better than ever.
Please come with an assignment or assessment that you would like to digitize. In this hands-on session, you will have time to master Flubaroo and be ready to administer your assignment to students. |
How to Teach in a Digital Classroom Without Imploding: Managing Your WorkflowYour students walk into your classroom and open their Chromebooks. Where will they go to get their assignments? How will they submit those assignments when complete? How can you stay organized without going insane? If you need help answering this question, this session is for you!
The key to success in a digital classroom is having great digital organization so that it looks seamless to the outside world. At this session to learn how to distribute, collect, grade and return assignments. We will discuss drive organization, file naming, Google calendar, websites, and email contacts. You will see different workflow processes, discuss them with others, and then start designing assignments for the fall. It helps if you already have a website created, but it is not required. Please bring one lesson that could be delivered digitally next year so you can walk through the workflow process. |
Gauging the Grade: Assessing Digital Feedback Options to Support Student SuccessReady to provide students with feedback on their digital assignments? Learn how to do so by visualizing assignments from start to finish, with an emphasis on which tools will best get the job done. This session will focus on providing feedback on digital assignments via highlighting, commenting, voice memos, and digital rubrics. Flubaroo and Doctopus will be briefly discussed, but not taught as other sessions are focusing on these items. Participants will get an opportunity to practice using these feedback tools.
Participants also need to bring with them a current assignment or assessment to digitize. Participants should bring a USB mouse if uncomfortable using a track pad on a Chromebook. |
Work It, Own It, Use It, Love It! A Workday for All Things Technology
Need more time to prepare to implement technology into your classroom? Take advantage of these workday sessions in order to prep on your websites or lessons with assistance close at hand. Bring questions or whatever you would like to develop further or come in for extra help on anything you’ve learned.
This is also the perfect opportunity to learn basic skills and to get answers to all things technology. For example, do you want to learn more Google Basics like email management? Ideas on Drive Organization? Calendar implementation? We can help with that too.
This session is for all levels to work on anything related to instructional technology. No question is too basic.
This is also the perfect opportunity to learn basic skills and to get answers to all things technology. For example, do you want to learn more Google Basics like email management? Ideas on Drive Organization? Calendar implementation? We can help with that too.
This session is for all levels to work on anything related to instructional technology. No question is too basic.