CUENV 21st Century LC

Acrobat is the MOST universal file format out there..."pdf". Learn how you can harness the power of Adobe Acrobat in the classroom with students, parents, and the community. A special guest performance by Justin Timberlake of "Can't Stop The Feeling?" will also be included.

“The hustle is an art; I painted what I would think.”
-William Leonard Roberts II
We stand at the precipice of a permanent revolution. We no longer hold the monopoly on knowledge; we no longer represent the apex of information in a classroom. Instead, we are the designers of experiences, the creators of puzzles. We are artists meant to delicately interweave concepts, goals, and ideas like a set of Matryoshka dolls for our students to unpack. At the end of this session, you will walk away with a basic understanding of hustle-based learning and a lookbook of ideas to put into action on Monday.

This session is designed to help teachers flip their classroom.  

In this session, you will learn about Pear Deck, a great tool for one to one and GAFE schools. Pear Deck does offer a free version and premium version but both work for quick formative assessments and allows teachers to make Google Slides and PowerPoints more engaging for students. We will go over the pros and cons of each version as well as allow time for you to create one that you can use in your classroom. 

Attend this session to learn the difference between apps, extensions, and add-ons when working with Google Apps for Education. We'll talk about some great tools to use with students as well as those that just help the teacher with everyday workflow. Best of all, they are all free!

Setting up your google classroom is just the beginning. Let’s take the Google experience to the next level by seeing how to incorporate all of the other Google Apps for Education (including the new Google Quizzes) to expand your classroom to awesome heights while getting Google certified at the same time.

Student voice is where it's at. Having students use their voice for choice is the road map to the future! By utilizing student passion, we can best tap into the deeper learning of our students! 

Code.org curriculum was developed to allow even the youngest students to explore the limitless world of computing. Courses blend online, self-guided and self-paced tutorials including “unplugged” activities that require no computer. Over 10,000 teachers have attended one of these workshops that now teach CS to 400,000 students and have rated our workshops 4.8 on a 5-point scale. The majority say it’s the best professional development they’ve ever attended.  You will also receive FREE Code.org curriculum guide and swag bag. 

This is a 3.5-hour session! 

Learn how schools are evolving with eBooks from OverDrive’s Kevin Coon. Join the leading school digital content provider to schools to learn what you can and should expect from a digital content solution. Whether you are just starting out or farther along on your journey, Kevin will explain best practices and help answer your questions.

Google forms can be used for more than just a quick survey. Discover all the amazing things you can do with forms from having parents sign-up to volunteer to writing an online quiz for students.

Deep down in the magical land of Google there are many tools waiting to be used in your classroom. Let's explore Google lab creations and connect our standards to provide the ultimate learning experience for our students!

Are you ready to take your Professional Development to the next level? Do you
want to do something that's out of the ordinary and more enjoyable than just
"sit and get"? Do you want to be able to choose your own adventure when it comes to Professional Development?

If you answered yes to any of these questions then this session is for you! We
will be discussing how you can use Twitter for more than just playing around by
taking advantage of some very helpful Twitter Chats. Come learn how to effectively participate in these chats by learning about different technology tools that can help this process along. We will cover a multitude of different tools that
will make following along as well as contributing a snap!

We'll also discuss EdCamps and why you should consider attending one as well as possibly starting one of your own. You'll see how EdCamps follow the "unconference" model and how you can actually come away from an EdCamp even more excited than after a full-on conference.

Come join us as we move into the Next Generation of Professional Development, a more personalized form of PD that's anything BUT the standard sit-and-get!

Setting up your google classroom is just the beginning. Let’s take the Google experience to the next level by seeing how to incorporate all of the other Google Apps for Education (including the new Google Quizzes) to expand your classroom to awesome heights while getting Google certified at the same time.

In this session, you will learn about Pear Deck, a great tool for one to one and GAFE schools. Pear Deck does offer a free version and premium version but both work for quick formative assessments and allows teachers to make Google Slides and PowerPoints more engaging for students. We will go over the pros and cons of each version as well as allow time for you to create one that you can use in your classroom. 

Deep down in the magical land of Google there are many tools waiting to be used in your classroom. Let's explore Google lab creations and connect our standards to provide the ultimate learning experience for our students!

Do you want to help your class run smoother, more effective, and still have time to allow your students to get their wiggles out? If so, this is the session for you! We will be going over three great FREE tools to help you get your class in order for more success and more fun.

First is Class Dojo, a great tool to help your students (and their parents) track daily behaviors. Next is Kahoot!, an excellent way to get your students excited about review and formative assessment. Third is GoNoodle, a website that will allow you to give your students a needed movement break, even if Mother Nature isn't playing nice.

Come see how to keep learning while still getting great academic results!

Happy Grader is a semi-automated, computer-based grading program that can assign both full- and partial-credit for ANY type of assessment question, even open-ended responses! After students submit their responses in a Google Form, teachers can use Happy Grader on a PC with Microsoft Excel to interactively create a scoring guide that can then be reapplied and shared with colleagues.

Want to see what your new friends are doing in their classroom and see competition at its finest?  Check out this total nerd session on the latest and greatest in edtech and who will win bragging rights!  

When experiencing a new country, one goes in search of the most authentic culinary representations of that area appreciating the nuanced cuisine shaped by the ingredients of the region. Join The Intelligent Hoodlums on an epic trek through authentic assessment. You'll experience and build the ingredients and tools into a personalized digital "cookbook" for preparing your own authentic assessments. Bon appetite!

What do edtech and innovative teaching look like through a student's eyes? How are you affecting your students' learning, enthusiasm, and motivation? In this session, you will gain perspective through the eyes of Araam Zare, a student at Shadow Ridge High School in Las Vegas, NV. He will show you what edtech and innovation mean to him as a learner and lead a discussion on how as teachers, you can reach more of your students.  

Whether you are a techie teacher or a techno-novice, there are a number of online
tools available to help you increase your productivity and perfect your computer
skills.

This session will cover five main technology areas: storage solutions, password
management, bookmarking, information gathering and information sharing. Each of
the five areas includes multiple options to help allow for both flexibility of
choice and availability of assortment.

The different areas contain multiple tools, including; online flash drives,
applications to help you remember your different passwords, the ability to save
your Internet bookmarks to multiple web browsers and computers, sharing your
bookmarks with others, RSS feeds, blogs, wikis, Twitter, and URL shorteners.

Each of the areas contains both free and paid versions of tools allowing everyone
the opportunity to use the products regardless of funding and finances. 

Get ideas for differentiating instruction with Read&Write for Google Chrome toolbars inside Google Docs, PDF and ePub files, and websites in the Chrome browser. Help students master standards and prepare for SBAC Assessments.
Download links for free tools here: http://bit.ly/RW4GClinks

Suitable for all levels and abilities; great for ELL and Special Needs students.
Explore tools playing Bingo with hyperdocs.
Today's Focus is on tools for PC/Mac/Chromebook , so bring your device and join in!
Participants will get access to toolbars, open resources, and a chance to win Bingo prizes!

Acrobat is the MOST universal file format out there..."pdf". Learn how you can harness the power of Adobe Acrobat in the classroom with students, parents, and the community. A special guest performance by Justin Timberlake of "Can't Stop The Feeling?" will also be included.

How can professional development evolve to include choice, honor prior learning, and meet the needs of each educator while also covering content that is important for their job? Let’s explore the role that digital badges and micro-credentials can play to innovate a learning space.
Participant Objectives:
-Learn what digital badges and micro-credentials are within the education community and how they can create personalized learning opportunities
-Discover the components of a digital badge
-Explore open source tools that allow participants to create and manage their own digital badges / micro-credentials
-Discover online communities of others who use badging for PD
-Explore best practice for using badges to promote competency based EdTech PD practices with K12 educators
-ISTE Standards•C & T and Essential Conditions will be embedded in the workshop.
-Evidence of success: Participants will earn their own badge during the workshop with easy to use tools in order to grow their vision and knowledge
What exactly is a digital badge / micro-credential and why should you earn one? Imagine all of the skills that teachers develop and apply in their classrooms. Some of these high­-level skills require focused effort and training, while others are a natural part of professional growth. However these skills are learned, they are perfected and honed through application. Currently, once a credential is earned, teachers do not have a way to highlight the additional skills they acquire through professional developments sessions, social networking, and open-source courses and conversations (ie. MOOCs, webinars, online tutorials). Micro-­credentials address this problem by offering educators a way to demonstrate competency in specific skills in order to receive physical recognition (digital badge/micro-­credential) for higher­-level skills. These badges/micro-­credentials serve to create pathways for teachers to demonstrate their skills, exhibit leadership opportunities, and grow in their professionalism, placement status, and influence.¹

By earning a unique and portable badge/micro-­credential, educators can substantiate their learning and competency.4 These certifications mean that districts can potentially verify skills and qualifications to match candidates for job placement and growth opportunities.² As educators move through their careers, they can continue to master new skills, build capacity, and have portable digital evidence of learning knowing that their efforts can easily be communicated to current and future employers via badge / credential collections. .

This session will provide an overview of digital badging to facilitate competency-based learning across grade levels and content areas. Participants will gain experience earning a badge, practical tips that begin to put this knowledge into practice right away, and vision for how this competency based learning approach can leverage technology to transform teaching and learning for students and educators.³ Participants will also learn about platforms to support their next steps in digital badging with their students and fellow teachers.
"ISTE Standards - Teachers." ISTE Standards. ISTE, 2008. Web. 27 Sept. 2015. <https://www.iste.org/docs/pdfs/20-14_ISTE_Standards-T_PDF.pdf.
Moroder, Krista. "Micro-Credentials: Empowering Lifelong Learners."Edutopia. N.p., 7 Apr. 2014. Web. 27 Sept. 2015. <http://www.edutopia.org/blog/micro-credentials-empowering-lifelong-learners-krista-moroder>.
Finkelstein, Jonathan, Erin Knight, and Susan Manning. "The Potential and Value of Using Digital Badges for Adult Learners." The Potential and Value of Using Digital Badges for Adult Learners. Literacy Information and Communication System, 2013. Web. 27 Sept. 2015. <https://lincs.ed.gov/professional-development/resource-collections/profile-716>.
U. S. Department of Education. Office of Career, Technical and Adult Education. Making Skills Everyone's Business: A Call to Transform Adult Learning in the United States. Feb. 2015. Web. <http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ovae/pi/AdultEd/making-skills.pdf>

ISTE standards addressed: ISTE Standards•C 1,2 & 4 + ISTE Standards•T 2

The Raspberry Pi is a $35 Quad Core Computer that can fit in an Altoids box. Moving beyond the basics, attendees will be guided through a multitude of useful classroom projects and functions to introduce and engage students to the world of hardware and software development.