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For those interested in Blended Learning, these are some extra PD opportunities offered in other schools.
Office 365 OneDrive for Collaboration-Beginning Session
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Description: Use Office 365 for instruction, collaboration, assignments, communication, and more. This session highlights best practices for utilizing O365's collaborative features to help you 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 more need for thumb drives or external drives. Since students no longer have access to saving documents to their H:/ drive or "Desktop", knowing how to instruct them in saving documents to their OneDrive-Rutherford County Schools will be very important this year!
Location: SCH, Lab 107
Time: 3:55 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
Basic PlayPosit: Make Video Interactive for Students
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Description: Learn how to use PlayPosit to engage students, create self-paced lessons, and place accountability on students for their own learning. PlayPosit allows you to embed video from YouTube and many other sites or upload your own and then insert multiple types of questions into the video. Students can access the videos across any device, at their own pace, and you get the data. Perfect for teachers looking to develop blended and/or flipped lessons.
Location: SCH, Lab 107
Time: 3:55 p.m. - 4:55 p.m.
Create a Collaborative Classroom with Microsoft TEAMS
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Description: Microsoft TEAMS is a digital hub for assigning and collecting student work, providing feedback, collaborating, and grading student work online. This is Microsoft's answer to Google Classroom that brings conversations, content, and apps together in one place. Create collaborative classrooms or connect in professional learning communities-all from a single experience in Office 365. TEAMS also integrates with OneNote Class Notebook. TEAMS is only available to use with students in grades 3-12.
Location: Lab 107
Time: 3:55 p.m. - 5:25 p.m.