March PD Sessions
Cindy Evans, Tech Coach
All sessions will take place in 103 Lab!!
**Designing Your Teacher Website to Enhance Classroom Environment
Length of Session: Two hours
TEAM Strand: Environment
Digital Citizenship Component: Creative Credit and Copyright
Tuesday, Mar 3, 2015, 03:45 PM
301 Red Hawk Parkway, Smyrna, TN, United States
Basic Excel for Visual Representation and Data Analysis for the Common Core
This is a make-up session from February 23rd (our last snow day).
If you are unfamiliar with Excel basics, this is the session for you! As we continue to look at and analyze data, this will help you with creating and manipulating spreadsheets!
Descriptor: Learn how to make the most of Microsoft Excel by exploring ways to increase your productivity, visual representation, and data analysis into your classroom. With CCSS, students are expected to conduct research across the curriculum then display their data findings visually. ISTE Student Nets requires students to collect and analyze data to identify solutions and/or make informed decisions. Excel simplifies and streamlines these tasks and many more. Find out how to make the most of this indispensable tool.
Length of session: Two hours
TEAM Strand: CCSS Math, CCSS ELA, and Literacy/Science/Technology; Planning-Use of Data
Digital Citizenship Citizenship Component: Internet Safety
Wednesday, Mar 4, 2015, 03:45 PM
301 Red Hawk Parkway, Smyrna, TN, United States
**Mastering Mastery Connect
Descriptor: Mastery Connect allows teachers to share and discover assessments aligned to state, common core, and next generation science standards. It also allows you to share and use assessments that are copyrighted or use 3rd party publisher content. See which standards your students have mastered by creating both single and multi-standard assessments, giving you the option of either a simple exit ticket or a summative type test. Learn how to set up "grading stations" using the GradeCam function inside of Mastery Connect so that you and students have real time results. As you add assessments to your tracker, you begin to build reports that can be exported and compared for strengths and weaknesses. Get "connected" to make the most of this valuable tool!
Length of session: 1 hour
TEAM: Instruction-Activities and Materials; Academic Feedback; CCSS ELA, CCSS Math, Science and Social Studies
Planning: Use of Data
Digital Citizenship Component: Internet Safety
Monday, Mar 9, 2015, 03:45 PM
301 Red Hawk Parkway, Smyrna, TN, United States
**Office 365 and OneDrive
Description: Use Office 365 for instruction, collaboration, assignments, communication, and more. This session will give you best practices for utilizing Office 365's collaborative features and help you to integrate them to increase the effectiveness of PLCs as well as classroom instruction. OneDrive provides users with unlimited cloud based storage so there is no need of CDs or thumb drives. During this session you will learn tips to promote a respectful online culture, privacy and security measures for user safety and rules for online discussion.
Length of Session: 1.5 hours
TEAM Strand: Activities and Materials and Motivating Students
Digital Citizenship Component: Privacy and Security, Rules for Online Discussion
Thursday, Mar 12, 2015, 03:45 PM
301 Red Hawk Parkway, Smyrna, TN, United States
**Intermediate Excel for Visual Representation and Data Analysis CCSS
Descriptor: Learn to use some of the more advanced features and functions in Excel in this hands-on workshop. With CCSS, students are expected to interpret data in a variety of ways. ISTE Student Nets requires that students will collect and analyze data to identify solutions and/or make informed decisions. Excel gives students and teachers the opportunity to accomplish these tasks! Objectives include the following tasks/functions: *Find and Replace, *Concatenate, *Text to Columns, *Conditional Formats, *Basic Functions (Average, Sume, etc.), *Protecting sheets and workbooks, *Mail merge, *Data Forms, *Creating a chart, *Inserting Leading zeroes, *Taking data from Excel and create charts in PowerPoint. find out how to 'kick it up a notch' when using this valuable tool!
Length: Two hours
Strand: CCSS Math, CCSS ELA, and Literacy/Science/Technology
Planning-Use of Data
Digital Citizenship Component-Internet Safety
Thursday, Mar 19, 2015, 03:45 PM
301 Red Hawk Parkway, Smyrna, TN, United States
QR Codes I & II
This is a make-up session from February 17th (ice day).
QR Codes Part I--Introduction to QR Codes to Increase Student Motivation
Description: If you are curious about what these are or how they can be used to pique student interest, come to this session. Participants will learn how to use QR Codes for quick access to online resources, to organize their content, and to develop inquiry-based learning activities in a fast and easy way. QR codes can be read from a computer with a web camera or any mobile device.
TEAM Strand: Motivating Students
QR Codes Part II--Activities and Materials
Description: Users will produce multiple QR codes that will provide students and parents fast access to activities and materials. Teachers will be ready for their students to be part of the creation process when they return to their classroom.
TEAM Stand: Motivating Students and Activities and Materials
Length of Session: Two hours (one hour for each part)
Wednesday, Mar 25, 2015, 03:45 PM
103 Lab
Cindy Evans
Email: evansc@rcschools.net
Website: http://www.sch.rcschools.net
Location: 301 Red Hawk Parkway, Smyrna, TN, United States
Phone: 615-904-6771
Twitter: @evanscsts