Instructional Technology Coach
Menu of Services
Appetizers
Set up
-Google Classroom
-MS Outlook
-Google Drive
-School Center Website
-Class Calendar
Dinner
-Use your content and objectives to create a new, interactive lesson for your class
-Push into your classroom to teach lessons or demonstrate how to work an app or a device
-Develop a project based learning assignment for your class to work on
-Produce a SMARTBoard lesson from a current lesson
-Show you new features from Notebook 16
Dessert
-Have an extra set of hands and eyes to help with unfamiliar technology
-Have help on speed dial (or speed text!) when you need it!
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Grades K - 2
-Help students us voice text so they can "type" what they want into a Google Document or search using the "Google Omnibox"
-Create a digital portfolio where students can record their voices, video, share pictures and that can be shared with parents and guardians
-Use apps for calendars, shapes, colors
-Quickly assess progress using formative assessment apps on your phone or chromebook
-Create sorting games using smart notebook to help with learning vowels, opposites etc....
-Engage in genius hour to encourage students to be self-motivated learners.
-Make Tall Tales and Fairy Tales come to life
-Work on additional and subtraction of ones and tens with Google Slides
-Have student record their understanding so you know where they really are in terms of learning and where the gaps are
-Add a tech component to centers
Grades 3 - 4
-Good internet research
-How to organize Google Drive
-Create a "Google Portfolio" that will follow them until they graduate
-Have students plan a vacation to a country being studied in class using resources on the internet & present it to your class in a video or powerpoint
-Visit anywhere in the world
-Give a spelling test that can be graded in seconds
Middle School
-Use Socrative to quickly assess whether to move forward or do supplemental lessons
-Use SMART Notebook games to engage the classes in any subject
-Develop a passion project for students to work on throughout the year
-Keep track of assignments turned in with Google Classroom
-Create a Google Portfolio for students to store their learning
High School
-Use Google Classroom to link YouTube Videos to supplement what you taught in class
-Use apps like Explain Everything to create a "flipped" learning environment
-Require students to listen to a podcast (we can help with suggestions) or create their own...it can be fiction or non fiction
-Use Google Maps to explore where historical events took place; if you have a SmartBoard you can use Notebook 16 to highlight and zoom on those places while you are teaching
-Screen cast a lecture so that you can "flip" your classroom
-Have students work on a 20Time project modeled after Google's 20% Time
-Use Plickers, Socrative, or even Google Forms to take quick formative assessments throughout your teaching {we can even help you create this stuff if you don't have time!!}