Padlet is a web-based virtual bulletin board where users can collaborate, share ideas, and organize information. It allows users to create a canvas, also known as a "wall," where they can post various types of content such as text, images, videos, documents, links, and audio recordings.

The platform is often for various purposes, such as brainstorming, project planning, feedback collection, collaborative note-taking, and visual presentations.

Users can customize their Padlets by choosing from various design templates, backgrounds, fonts, and colors. They can also control the privacy settings and choose whether to make their Padlet public or private, and who can view or edit the content.

This 1-hour pd will help users become more familiar with Padlet navigation and explore possible uses for Padlet in the classroom.

Course# 35673

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In this session, Andrea Zielke, the TEL Administrator, will show how to get the most out of the free research databases available on the Tennessee Electronic Library. You’ll learn which database to use for different assignments, search tips and tricks and how to master the tools for creating citations and sharing research resources with OneDrive. You’ll also learn more about the newspaper resources including the Tennessean, Commercial Appeal and Knoxville News Sentinel. If you have upcoming research or debate projects, these are great free resources for your students!

Course #: 35649

Section #: 37641

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The Tennessee Electronic Library has a website just for K-5 students. In this session, Andrea Zielke, the TEL Administrator, will show you how to navigate the TEL4U.org website. You’ll go in depth on the World Book resources including World Book Early Learning and World Book Kids. You’ll also learn more about TEL’s newest resource PebbleGo so you can integrate research into your assignments.

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Session numbers: # 37628

This course introduces and prepares teachers to use the iReady Diagnostic Growth reports. Teachers will leave prepared to to use data from these reports to collaborate with students and engage them in their own learning. This course will discuss how to best use iReady report data to conduct data chats, set goals, and celebrate growth with students. This course will also prepare teachers to use iReady data to inform instructional planning and plan next steps.

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Session numbers: # 37576

Looking for an easy whiteboard solution that allows you to annotate pdfs, webpages, and more? The myViewboard Whiteboard may be the perfect tool for you.

In this self-paced course, participants will learn how to download and set up tmyviewboard whiteboard software on their laptop, annotate content from their PC and One Drive, annotate over webpages, and pull in nondigital work in the form of pictures. The myViewboard Whiteboard allows the teacher to easily navigate between the whiteboard and the desktop during the lesson and files can be saved and shared with students after class.

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Session numbers: # 27145

Descriptor: Direct Instruction when done with intention and in alignment to academic goals has a .6 effect size. During this self-paced session, learn how to use Nearpod to help determine when it’s time to move on or reteach. You can import your pre-existing PowerPoint presentations and embed formative questions, polls, videos, and quizzes. Students access your presentations on their devices, and you get great data reports after each presentation.

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Session numbers: #37338

Descriptor: Schoology will be the new learning management system (LMS) for RCS. In this "getting started" session, participants will learn how to navigate the Schoology platform, experience Schoology as a student, prepare materials for use in their Schoology courses and share content within the PLC environment. Schoology integrates videos and online tools, such as One Drive, into a single environment so teachers can create engaging online content and students can easily move between learning activities.

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Session numbers: #37343

In this self-paced session, you will work at your own pace to learn how to create classes in Microsoft Teams and the best practices for using Teams for blended learning in a way that will be most efficient for both you and your students. You will learn how to create teams and share a join code, how to make and grade Teams assignments, how to gauge attendance and activity with Insights, and how to add channels and apps. You can also complete 2 optional 30-minute extensions to learn how to facilitate Teams Meetings and how to integrate a OneNote notebook into your Teams.

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Section # 16494

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MobyMax is a standards-aligned K–8 learning platform for math, literacy, science, and social studies equipped with adaptive tests, fluency applications, and the ability for teachers to create assignments directly tied to tier 1 instruction. Teachers, parents, and students all have access to tracking a student's progress, which can empower students to become more accountable for their own learning.

In this course, participants will learn how to:

• manage the Moby Max classroom groups and settings
• create and analyze Teacher made assignments and data
• manage and analyze Moby Placement Test and data
• manage and analyze Moby Fluency applications and data

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This is a 1-hour self-paced professional development session. The purpose of this course is to give an overview of Office 365 for Education and the instructional and productivity features it offers teachers and students. Please complete the tasks below to receive credit for this course.

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Section # 16495

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PlayPosit is a web-based tool that lets teachers create and edit interactive video assessments from streamed or uploaded content. Teachers upload an audio file or a video from popular sites such as YouTube and Vimeo to create an interactive video or bulb. This self-paced PD will walk participants through how to create, assign and analyze data from this learning tool.

Please download the file attachment below for directions on how to complete this course and receive PD credit. Please allow up to two weeks before calling or emailing the PD center or the instructor.

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Section # 37342

Mastery Connect provides tools for teachers to track mastery of standards in real-time, and it also serves as a repository for teacher-created formative assessments. Students can take tests both online and on Bubble sheets. Bubble sheets can be scanned using a phone app, document camera, or webcam through the partner app Grade Cam. The "mastery" part of the website helps teachers plan assessments linked to standards and analyze data collected from the assessments.

Please click on the attachment below for information on how to complete this self-paced professional development opportunity. Remember all activities must be completed outside of paid school hours and analytics are tracked. Please be sure that you fill out the Microsoft Form at the end of the course to receive credit for completing the course.

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Section # 16498

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Now that you've created all these instructional videos for students, where can you house them that will be easy for students to access? Join us to learn how to create a free unlisted YouTube channel. You will learn how to create the channel, how to manage the privacy settings, how to upload videos, how to edit videos (including blurring out faces and any private information), and how to share videos with your students.

Click on the link below to access the instructions and resources for this self-paced PD. Please be sure to complete the whole online lesson and fill out the Microsoft Form link at the end to receive credit for completing the course.

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Section # 16499

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This is a 1-hour self-paced professional development session. This is a Zoom training on all the different possibilities and ways you can utilize this tool to connect with colleagues, parents, and guests. Teachers can use this resource to host virtual parent/teacher conferences, collaborate with fellow educators from different schools, record instructional content for your students, and host virtual guest speakers in their classrooms. Learn about new features and fun and unique ways to use a Zoom meeting!

Please click on the link below to access this PlayPosit self-paced video. You must complete all of the embedded questions to complete the session. Remember all activities must be completed outside of paid school hours and analytics are tracked. Please be sure that you fill out the Microsoft Form at the end of the course to receive credit for completing the course.

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Section #16500

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Learn how to upload videos to Microsoft Stream, how to create channels for your students, and how to integrate Stream easily with Teams so that students can access your videos right there in your Microsoft Team.

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Section # 16501

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Common Sense Educators are committed to helping kids and schools thrive in the digital age. In this session, participants will navigate through the Common Sense resources and begin the pathway to become a certified common-sense educator. Common Sense Education has access to wonderful lesson plans, videos, and discussions that can help you to educate our students to think critically, behave safely, and participate responsibly in the digital world.

Take this tutorial to get an introduction to digital citizenship and the suite of resources

available in Common Sense Education’s Digital Citizenship Curriculum. At the end of the

tutorial, you will receive a certificate of completion.

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Section # 16502

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This interactive online course for educators will introduce the topic of student online privacy and offer concrete best practices for managing the risks to students. It will include specific tools and methods for assessing the privacy and security of products commonly used in the classroom, and it will support teachers in mitigating the risk of student data being compromised.

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Section # 14856

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In this session, participants will look at a variety of technology tools that can help address accessibility challenges for many of our 504, Special Education, and ELD students. Whether students are working remotely or in the classroom Microsoft Office 365 has a robust platform that has been created with accessibility in mind. In addition to Microsoft Office tools, we will investigate additional browser extensions and apps that meet the needs of a variety of learners.

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Section # 16507

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i-Ready empowers you by connecting rich assessment data to personalized digital learning and powerful classroom instruction. With i-Ready, you can sharpen your insight into student needs with actionable data and access rigorous yet engaging instruction to help each student succeed. In this course, participants will learn more about Best Practices for Personalized Instruction.

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Section # 16509

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i-Ready empowers you by connecting rich assessment data to personalized digital learning and powerful classroom instruction. With i-Ready, you can sharpen your insight into student needs with actionable data and access rigorous yet engaging instruction to help each student succeed. In this course, participants will learn how to use data to inform instruction. The course will also dive into the use of the prerequisite report as a means to scaffold instruction for all learners.

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Section # 16510

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BrainPOP is a web-based tool that lets teachers find and create resources to explain and check understanding of students. There are various ways to assess learning through the multiple kinds of assessments. This can allow for student choice, creativity and differentiation in and out of the classroom.

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Section # 16511

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Gale In Context: Science is an engaging curriculum-aligned resource providing information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. Draw students into the subject matter, showing how scientific disciplines relate to real-world issues and classroom topics of study, from weather patterns to viruses or green engineering to space exploration students will find topics on earth science and life science, space, technology, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and more. View this training session for Rutherford County Schools to learn how to use the resource within the classroom and what tools are most effective to link students with content to support learning.

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Section # 16512

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For SPED Teachers only! Join us in this intro to Lexia session where we will cover how Lexia resources can help to inform instruction and save you valuable time. Using Lexia, students work independently at their own pace through individualized learning paths to develop fundamental reading skills in a structured, sequential manner. Teachers are notified when students require support or intervention and are provided with the resources for face-to-face instruction. Within myLexia student data reports, a data-driven action plan is provided to take the guesswork out of differentiating instruction by focusing the teacher’s time on the greatest needs in the classroom and prescribing the instructional intensity needed to help students make the gains they need.

The session is facilitated through PlayPosit. You will click link below and then click Office 365 to sign in. Follow all instructions and watch to the very end when you will receive a link to a completion survey that must be completed to receive your credit.

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Section # 16513

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Rutherford County Schools uses Edlio to create and manage the district's webpages. In this self paced session teachers will learn how to create and manage a webpage using Edlio. Sign up in Performance Matters and submit your name using the Microsoft Form.to receive the access code. If you are new to RCS an Edlio account must be created for you before you can work on your webpage.

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Section # 16540

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Did you know that Microsoft Teams now has a new type of assignment called Reading Progress? Assign passages to students either from your own library of passages or browse the passages provided in Teams. Students record themselves reading the passage (with or without video, your choice). Then Microsoft Teams gives you and your student feedback on words per minute and accuracy, including mispronunciations, omissions, and insertions. And new this year, feedback on students' phonics! Save your class time to work with students on their individual literacy issues instead of having to spend time listening to students read aloud in class. Join this self-paced session to learn how to use this resource to boost your students literacy skills!

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