Summer 2018 Tech Training
Tech Professional Development with Lisa Suhr in USD 113
Please Join Me!
Easy Website Creation using Google Sites
Have you always wished you had a quick and easy way to put together a simple website to share information with your students? Google Sites is the web creation tool associated with your G-Suite account and has been redesigned to be even easier to use! In this session, learn the basics, build a sample website, and get started designing a website project to meet your own needs as well!
Plan to bring both laptop and iPad for this session, but we'll mostly be on your laptop.
Thursday, May 31, 2018, 08:30 AM
USD 113 Board of Education Office
Creating eBooks with Book Creator and/or Pages App
Creating eBooks that your students can open and read with on their iPads is a great way to meet their individual needs. Assessing student learning by asking THEM to create an eBook as a way to demonstrate what they've learned is even better! In this session we'll explore two different ways eBooks can be created: Book Creator app and Apple's Page app, which has a new eBook template option. Learn the basics of these two apps, then spend the last hour creating a sample project and designing a project to support learning in your own classroom!
Plan to bring both laptop and iPad for this session, but we'll mostly be on iPad.
Thursday, May 31, 2018, 12:00 PM
USD 113 Board of Education Office
Video Creation on the iPad: iMovie, GreenScreen and Clips
The iPad has so many different ways for you and your students to create videos. For this session, I'll assess who my audience is once everyone has signed up and I will tailor-fit this session to you, your subject matter and your students' age. We'll explore GreenScreen, iMovie and the new Clips app for sure, and will look at some other options as appropriate. No student is too young to demonstrate what they know by making a video for you!
Plan to bring both laptop and iPad for this session, but we'll mostly be on iPad.
Thursday, Jun 7, 2018, 08:30 AM
USD 113 Board of Education Office
iSuite Updates and Apple Teacher Certification
The "native" apps to the iPad (Pages, Keynote, Numbers, Garage Band) all got a recent facelift that include some cool new features. This session will be an overview focusing mostly on Pages and Keynote (the word processor and presentation tools) as well as how you can pursue the Apple Teacher certification which includes lessons on all their native apps and how to be creative with them as an educator. This session will be appropriate for anyone! All student iPads have these apps available and they are intuitive to use! Make sure you understand them enough to offer them as choices when your students are completing projects! The last part of this session, you may plan to start working on the Apple Teacher certification tutorials, but it is more fun to do this with a friend!! Invite someone along!
Plan to bring both laptop and iPad for this session!
Thursday, Jun 7, 2018, 12:00 PM
USD 113 Board of Education Office
Increasing Classroom Engagement When Using Instructional Videos
This session will focus on creating YouTube playlists for organizational purposes, as well as how to "approve" YouTube videos so our students can access them. We'll also explore EdPuzzle, a resource that allows a teacher to enhance an existing instructional video by editing start and end time, preventing fast-forward viewing, adding voice comments and even inserting stopping points where students must engage by answering a question. Experience the tool as a student and have time during the last hour to create your own account and create a project for use next year.
Plan to bring both laptop and iPad for this session!
Tuesday, Jun 12, 2018, 08:30 AM
USD 113 Board of Education Office
Technology Tools to Increase Student and Family Engagement
So many excellent technology tools exist for increasing student engagement during class time and family engagement after hours. In this session, we'll explore the following tools: Seesaw, Nearpod, Flipgrid, blogging platforms. (And maybe a new tool or two that Lisa finds when she attends the ISTE conference in June!)
Plan to bring both laptop and iPad for this session!
Tuesday, Jul 10, 2018, 12:00 PM
USD 113 Board of Education Office
Baileyville Education Summit
Because I'm presenting most of the day, our district does qualify for a few free admissions, so if you want to go, be sure to make a request! Once the schedule is finalized, I'll update this information with a link to it here.
Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdLqgPaMHHYzNMEa5r6DIFuFLFCAhmUZrr1Yy8SqaphxZk3fg/viewform
Tuesday, Jul 17, 2018, 09:00 AM
Highland Community College Western Center, Baileyville, KS, USA
Come and Go Tech Support Day
No need to sign up, just put it on the calendar and show up when it works best for you!
Tuesday, Aug 7, 2018, 08:00 AM
USD 113 Board of Education Office
Five Favs on Friday: Weekly Video (by Sign-Up Only)
If you want to receive the videos, you MUST sign up here to be put on the list!