Digital Learning Courses
Summer 2016 - Secondary - November Trade Credit
One Stop Shop for Summer Learning!
It's time to register for your LISD summer learning courses! Below you'll find details about all the Instructional Technology Courses offered for secondary teachers. Please look in Eduphoria for dates and more details about each course! (Search by course title or filter courses by the "Instructional Technology" category.)
Please join me!
I'll be teaching a number of courses this summer, and I'd love to see you in one of my sessions. Below you can use the direct links to sign up for my courses in Eduphoria.*
- June 13: Boost Learning in the Digital Classroom
- June 14: Tech 101 - iPad & MacBook Basics
- June 15: Google Apps for Education Basics
- July 11: Google Add-Ons and Chrome Extensions
- July 12: Boost Learning in the Digital Classroom
- July 13: iWorks/iMovie Basics
- July 14: Effective Blended Learning in the Classroom
- July 18: Boost Learning in the Digital Classroom
- July 19: Trans-Formative Tools for 21st Century Learning
- July 20: Effective Blended Learning in the Classroom
- July 21: iWorks/iMovie Basics
- July 25: Trans-Formative Tools for 21st Century Learning
- August 1: [Elementary] Nurturing Student Growth Through Digital Feedback
- August 2: Capturing Communication in Student ePortfolios
- August 3: Tech 101 - iPad & MacBook Basics
*There are MANY more learning opportunities in Eduphoria! These are simply the classes I am teaching. Check out the descriptions below to find the learning opportunity that best meets your needs.
Secondary Instructional Tech Courses
Capturing Collaboration in Student ePortfolios
Join us as we boost ePortfolio implementation knowledge and wisdom! We will clarify the vision of the LISD ePortfolio. Experience lesson design that allows for student collaboration and reflection.
Digital Tools for Feedback and Student Growth
Find out which digital tools enable teachers and students to make connections, grow by collaborating, learning, and sharing with others. Analyze how the feedback process can be a powerful way to impact learning. Learn how to leverage Instructional Technology to help you reach outside your classroom walls.
Effective Blended Learning in the Classroom
Discover ways to communicate and connect with students through learning management systems. Use research-based strategies to foster an effective digital learning environment. Learn approaches and tools for engaging today's digital natives.
Boost Learning in the Digital Classroom
Join us as we infuse the research-based classroom management strategies to foster creating an effective digital learning environment. Participants will learn a variety of strategies and tools for engaging today's digital natives and work to create a digital learning environment action plan.
Capturing Communication in Student ePortfolios
Join us as we boost ePortfolio implementation knowledge and wisdom! We will clarify the vision of the LISD ePortfolio. Experience lesson design that allows for student communication and reflection.
Trans-Formative Tools for 21st Century Learning
Participants will engage in a variety of digital formative assessments to enhance student learning opportunities. They will explore how digital tools available in the classroom can offer quick real-time data to impact student centered instruction.
All Level Courses
Google Apps for Education Basics
Teachers will focus on learning the platform of Google Apps for Education products and explore ways the platform could be utilized. Participants will explore the functionality and characteristics of Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms.
iWorks/iMovie Basics
Participants will focus on student creation, critical thinking, and synthesis using iWorks and iMovie on the iPad. Participants will explore the functionality and characteristics of Keynote, Numbers, Pages and iMovie.
SMART Board Basics
This hands-on workshop will give teachers opportunities to learn and practice various tools in SMART Notebook to hone their SMART Board skills. Teachers will explore various strategies for integrating the SMART Board into instruction as well.
Google Add-Ons and Chrome Extensions
Explore Google add-ons and Chrome extensions that save time, increase productivity and easily generate professional looking products for both teachers and students. Learn how to use unique tools that summarize, provide assessment and feedback, and help bring curriculum alive and increase student engagement.
Tech 101: iPad & Macbook Basics
Tech getting you down? Join us to learn all of the tricks, tips, and troubleshooting for your MacBook and iPad. Participants will explore the ins and outs of the basic functions of Apple devices to ensure successful integration in the digital learning environment. Bring your MacBook, iPad, and appropriate chargers.
Online Courses
Online Google Sites for Beginners
This course is for beginners to start their journey in creating a Google site. The easy-to-use editor makes it possible to build a site in minutes, create templates for others to use, collaborate with others and create different pages such as announcements, dashboards, file cabinets, or lists.
Online Google Docs
Collaboration is made easy with Google Docs! Learn smart editing tools, provide feedback, work offline, create a table of contents, and more. This entire class is completed online in Google Classroom.
Online Google Forms
Collecting information is easy with Google Forms! Learn how to create customized forms and manipulate the data from the responses. This entire class is completed online in Google Classroom.