Spring+2015+Tech+Workshops

4:00pm - 5:30pm
 * **Course Title** || **Description** || **Date / Time / Location .** ||
 * Classflow - Turn a teacher-centered slideshow lesson into an engaging interactive experience! || Turn a teacher-centered slideshow lesson into an engaging interactive experience! Classflow is a website that lets teachers deliver their slideshow presentations to students' computer or tablet screens. In a computer lab, or in a classroom with tablet devices, you can send slides to students, who can then interact with them by drawing on them, sorting objects, inputting text, or answering multiple choice questions. || January 22

Admin 213 || 3:45pm - 4:45pm
 * Creative Features of Apps! || Start using the creative features of apps! Let’s build some dynamic learning experiences with these two apps: PicCollage and Chatterpix. We will spend the hour looking at some across the curriculum activities for students that you can use immediately. || January 26

Rancho Library || 4:00pm - 5:00pm
 * Office Mix - Interactive Presentations for Teachers or Students || Create (or have students create) interactive online presentations with ease. Office Mix is a FREE add-on for PowerPoint that allows you to narrate, annotate, and add quizzes and videos to PowerPoint slides. Office Mix presentations are viewable on computers or on smartphones. || January 27

Admin 213 || 4:00pm - 5:00pm
 * Office 365: Class Management with OneDrive || How do you manage files, assignments, sharing, and folders with your peers, students, and classes? Come learn tricks for setting up class folders, communicating with students, and creating surveys for easy electronic assignment turn-in. || January 29

Admin 213 || 4:00pm - 5:00pm
 * Games and Review: Quizlet and Flashcards+ || Flashcards, tests, and study guides come together with interactive online flashcards on Quizlet and Flashcards+. Learn to make your own set of flashcards and how to share them with your students for review any time, any place, any device. || February 2

Pavilion || 4:00pm - 5:00pm
 * ActivInspire Express: The Basics || Make objects magically appear and disappear with ActivInspire. Learn the basics of getting around the ActivInspire screen, then use color and layers to create your own hidden objects learning game. || February 3

Admin 213 || 4:00pm - 5:00pm
 * Apps to use TOMORROW! || You can become an Appaholic, too! You can never have enough! On this Techy Teacher Tuesday apps will be demonstrated that you can take to your classroom and use with your students tomorrow. || February 3

Central Elementary Room 33 || 4:00pm - 5:30pm
 * Weebly - Create a STAAR Review Website || We'll use the simple and user-friendly Weebly tool to create a review website for your students that can be accessed on any internet-connected device. Help your students out by giving them an online "one stop shop" for their review notes, worksheets, embedded videos, and activities as digital downloads. || February 5

Admin 213 || 4:00pm - 5:00pm
 * ActivInspire Magic Ink and Magic Erasers || Use the interactive magic ink to magically reveal objects on your ActivInspire flipcharts. Find some great revealers on Promethan Planet and create your own. || February 9

Admin 213 ||
 * STAAR Review with Socrative and Kahoot || Learn how to use online formative assessment tools Kahoot and Socrative to deliver interactive quizzes and quiz games to students for STAAR Review. These activities can be completed in a computer lab or in the classroom when students are allowed to use tablets or smartphone devices. || February 10

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Admin 213 || 4:00pm - 5:00pm
 * Cracking the Code: Using QR Codes in the Classroom || Have your students read QR Codes to get information about, well, anything! They are being used in classroom resources as a way to make learning a bit more engaging. This class will show you how to use and create QR Codes. || February 12

Pavilion || 4:00pm - 5:00pm
 * App Smashing || “Why limit our students to one tool at one time?” With App Smashing, students can create content with a variety of apps to create an enhanced project. An introduction to the concept of app-smashing will be demonstrated with class participation to have a finish product. You will leave with some ideas to use in your classroom. || February 19

Pavilion || 4:00pm - 5:30pm
 * Book Creator for iPad (Limit 10 Participants) || Create (or have your students create!) personalized, interactive iBooks using an iPad. With Book Creator, you can add text, photos, freehand drawings, voice recordings, music, and more to digital picture books! Books can be viewed and shared on iPads, printed, emailed, or even saved as a video. Create books for your students to enjoy and learn from...or watch creativity flourish as they create their own! || February 23

Admin 213 || 4:00pm - 5:00pm
 * Picture Apps in the Classroom || Need some Tech Tips for using picture apps in the classroom. We will have Fun with Flipagram, PicCollage, Chatterpix, Skitch, and other photography apps. You will leave with activities that you can use in your classroom with your students. || February 24

Pavilion ||
 * QR meets Augmented Reality || Bring worksheets and paper lessons to life with augmented reality. Similar to QR codes, you can use any image on a paper as a "trigger", put your smart phone or tablet camera over the image, and videos, multimedia, and 4D images come to life. Link an explanation video to a worksheet, connect a famous artwork with a student video describing the artist, tag images on the wall for instant download of forms. Not sure still? Watch this video to learn more: @http://youtu.be/5qRcIek4NY0 OR, download the Aurasma app to your phone, open the app and hold your camera over the image found here: http://www.aurasma.com/region/usa#/disney-frozen-summer-fun || February 26

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