Session+Descriptions+2014

There are many that I am familiar with and have used in class and there are some that are new to me. Web sites are listed on the resource page. ||
 * ~ **Session** ||~ **presenter** ||~ **level** ||~ **description** ||
 * Discovery Education || Karen || all || This website is full of educational videos. You can sort by grade and subject. Save your videos in an on-line folder or download them to your computer. ||  ||
 * Learn 360 || Desirae || all || This website is similar to discovery education. You can search by grade, subject, or standard. You can also save videos on-line or download them. ||  ||
 * Brain Pop || Desirae || 4-8th grade || This year the district has subscription to BrainPop. BrainPop contains movies, lesson ideas, activities, quizzes, games and more. You can search by standards, subject or key words. ||
 * Flipped Classroom || Cadena || ALL || Want to get started with a flipped classroom? Or maybe just want to know more about what it is...Lots of resources and examples to help you get started. ||  ||
 * Computer and Email Basics || John || new staff and paras || This session will review how to logon to both school computers as well as the k12 email system. Adding printers, accessing home folders, and accessing school network shares will be addressed. We will explore how to access email from Outlook as well as web based email. We will also explore the K12 members site and review how to change your K12 password. ||  ||
 * **Be Your Own Tech Support** || Nate ||  || Have you ever had a tech question, but were afraid to ask it, because you feared the Tech Wizards may find you foolish? Well fear no more! This session will show you how to bypass the embarrassment, and answer your own questions using the infinite power of the internet. We will also cover how to best approach a Tech Wizard for help, and what tools you can use to help them, help you. ||   ||
 * **Website Editing** || Nate ||  || We will get some yearly maintenance issues out of the way. We are starting all CSD websites from scratch this year. This session will be about how to edit your teacher page, and how to navigate through the site. The site isn't as far along as I would have liked, so this one may change. ||   ||
 * QR Code || Cadena || All || Using QR codes to engage students with technology and active learning. Scavenger hunts, word sorts, and much more. I will show lots of examples and help you get started creating your own activities! You can downloads apps in the Windows store and use a webcam on your computer....you __do not__ have to have an ipad or smartphone to do this!!! ||  ||
 * Evernote || Melissa || all || cloud storage, file sharing, free set up of EverNote account ||  ||
 * **3D pop up boo**k || Lisa || all || Zooburst is a digital storytelling tool that lets you or your students easily create 3D pop up books. I have use it for vocabulary words. It is free and you can register so you can save all your books. ||  ||
 * **Voki** || Lisa || all || An engaging way for you to communicate with your students or a creative way to motivate them to communicate with you by creating an avatar. I have had students use to do an end of the semester class evaluation. It is free and you can register to save your voki. The site also includes lesson plans. ||  ||
 * BrainPop Jr || Karen || K-3 || BrainPOP Jr. contain animated, curriculum based content designed for Kindergarten through third grade. The resources include movies, quizzes, experiments, timelines, activity pages, and more topics within Math, Science, Social Studies, English, Technology, Arts & Music, and Health. All content in aligned to and searchable by state standards. We'll look at what is on the site and how to find curriculum to meet your needs. The standards search is very useful. We have a subscription to this site. I will have your login codes at the session OR go to the S drive/CES Staff/First Grade/BrainpopJr codes. ||
 * **Web tools** || Lisa || all || This session will give you time to explore many different websites which include the top used tools in education. For example: 40 websites sites that to make comics/animation or 50 tools every teacher should know, or 40 sites for young learners.
 * **Introducing Windows 8.1** || John || all || This session will be an introduction to the Windows 8.1 Operating System that will be used on district devices during the 14-15 school year. We will explore the basics of navigation as well as the new features that Windows 8.1 offers. ||