Vocabulary.com Training
Monday, March 6
Northwest Area Education Agency provides the online resource, Vocabulary.com for teachers and students for the purpose of helping students gain vocabulary knowledge. Peter Griffin, from Vocabulary.com, will be training all interested teachers and educators how to use this resource effectively.
Vocabulary.com Training
Monday, Mar 6, 2017, 12:45 PM
Northwest AEA, 1520 Morningside Avenue, Sioux City, Iowa
RSVPs are enabled for this event.
Agenda
Overview of Vocabulary.com Introduction
● Opening Activity
Key features -
● Overview adaptive gameplay
● Overview dictionary
● Overview list identification
● Overview list creation and assignment
● Practice and Learn a list
● Overview reports
● Q&A
Break -
Account Set Up and Play Game as a Student -
● Participants create their account/ login
● Join presenter’s class and play assignment
● Review reports generated by gameplay
● Leaderboards (National and State)
● Shareback and Q&A
List Identification and creation
● Review list identification and create a list example
● Participants identify 3 lists they bookmark
○ Fiction
○ Nonfiction
○ Advanced Reader
● Participants create 2 lists from text
● Shareback and Q&A
Break -
Rollout Discussion (45 min.)
● Power User Access and Reports
● Clever Access and school management
● Common troubleshooting
● Review of Vocabulary.com supporting resources
● Review of training presentation
● Completion of Vocabulary.com roll out plan
Northwest Area Education Agency
Email: pbuysman@nwaea.org
Website: http://www.nwaea.k12.ia.us
Location: 1382 4th Avenue Northeast, Sioux Center, IA, United States
Phone: 712-722-7816