July 31 - AM Sessions Awareness Sessions (45 min.) Start Times 10:10 | 11:10 Nettie Briggs EasyCode Playground BOTH DAYS Think you can't code? Think it's too hard for students? Think again. Come play, have fun, and learn how easy coding is with EasyCode. You will master it in minutes. Audience: 3-8 A100 Open Lab, 1st Floor Game on! with Stations BOTH DAYS Patricia Gonzalez, We will present teachers with ways to integrate Monica Munoz and Alma technology such as iPads, Chromebooks, desktops, and SMART TV using educational games and Mangel applications designed for use during stations. Audience: K-5 Room A110, 1st Floor Stacey Stallings Googlelize Your Nearpod Class 11:10 ONE TIME ONLY! a.m. Audience: K-12 ONLY In this workshop, you will learn how you can use Nearpod with Google tools to streamline lesson creation, enhance student participation and receive real-time formative assessments. We will explore Google Single Sign-On, Linking lessons to Google Classroom, Google Drive export for Student Notes, Google Image and Google Drive search, YouTube video sharing and all of the Nearpod Chrome Extensions! B100 Open Lab, 1st Floor
July 31 - AM Sessions Awareness Sessions (45 min.) Start Times 10:10 | 11:10 Blanca Lopez Keeping up with Kahoot! DAY 1 PM ONLY and DAY 2 FULL DAY Room B119, Audience: K-12 1st Floor Keep your students engaged with Kahoot! Discover how to play and create trivia questions, quizzes and exit tickets exciting for students of all grade levels. Your students will enjoy the suspenseful, and fun challenges Kahoot! brings to the classroom. Lissette Thomas Nearpod in the Classroom DAY 2 ONLY I will present ideas and examples on how to use Nearpod to create lesson plans, present powerpoint lessons and engage students in your classroom. Audience: 6-12 Room A120, 1st Floor Stacey Stallings ¿Que Esperas? 10:10 ONE TIME ONLY! a.m. ONLY Discover ways to embed authentic learning experiences into your Nearpod lessons to equip your students with the tools to defeat TELPAS! Audience: K-12 B100 Open Lab, 1st Floor
July 31 - AM Sessions Awareness Sessions (45 min.) Start Times 10:10 | 11:10 SMART-Efficient Planning BOTH DAYS Germayne Yanez and Utilizing NOTEBOOK to provide effective and engaging lessons to students in Math/Reading. Victoria Ortiz Audience: 3-5 Room A109, 1st Floor Brandi Shaddock and The Simple Guide to Planning Your Year in Elizabeth Kingsbury Canvas DAY 2 ONLY This is a simple guide using the assembly line method to plan out your year quickly and painlessly in canvas. It will work for any grade any subject. This is a quick and easy way to add assignments, homework, smart lessons, videos, and more to your weekly lesson plans. Audience: K-12 Room A118, 1st Floor
July 31 - AM Sessions Hands-On Sessions (1 hour 30 min.) Start Time 10:10 Xavier Barrientez Audio Video Production-Video Editing BOTH DAYS Room D210, 2nd Floor The Session includes a variety of hands-on tutorials which will allow you to enhance your editing skills along with creating your own assignments, projects and tutorials for your classroom. Audience: 6-12 Technology Applications, CTE Audio Video Production Julia Tamez Blended Learning in CTE DAY 2 ONLY Explore how CTE courses can successfully implement Canvas into daily instruction and more! Participants are encouraged to bring their instructional resources and create a custom instructional module in Canvas. Audience: 6-12, CTE Room B210, 2nd Floor Elena Salinas and Canvas: A Work of Art Michelle Allen BOTH DAYS Introduction to Canvas: Beginners will have a hands-on experience by creating assignments and announcements and will be able to add websites to their Canvas modules. Audience: K-2 Room A214, 2nd Floor
July 31 - AM Sessions Hands-On Sessions (1 hour 30 min.) Start Time 10:10 Denis Wisner Canvas for Principals DAY 2 ONLY Grow, learn, and lead your way forward as your campus Canvas leader. Become a master at setting up your learning management system to create a true professional development hub for communication and operational success. Audience: Principals Library, 1st Floor Justin Lightsey Canvas: Help Me Succeed BOTH DAYS Audience: 9-12 Attendees will learn how to set up syllabus page, configure notifications, embed Instructional Guides/Lesson Plans, and create assignments and quizzes that can be submitted and graded within Canvas. After demonstrating these skills, attendees will receive individual assistance geared to their needs with completing these goals. Room D209, 2nd Floor Valerie Arechiga Create Next Level Training with Nearpod DAY 2 ONLY Take Training from Blah to BOOM with Nearpod! Deliver STAAR testing training and professional development in faculty meetings that is: engaging, checks for understanding and models the infusion of technology in learning. Session is geared towards administrators, ITA's, CA's, Counselors or any campus leader who leads professional development. Audience: Administrators Room B211, and Campus Leaders 2nd Floor
July 31 - AM Sessions Hands-On Sessions (1 hour 30 min.) Start Time 10:10 Brooke Lowery Ehhh, What’s up Google Doc? Repeats @ 1:00 PM DAY 2 Audience: K-12, Librarians, Technology Follow your wild hair by hopping over to learn how to use Google Docs beyond the basic word processing application Applications with Brooke from friEdTechnology. Use your creativity to produce charts, timelines, and choice boards. But that's not all folks, in this session, we will uncover the hidden features within the rabbit hole that is Google Docs. A200 Open Lab, 2nd Floor David Hernandez Everyone Can Create BOTH DAYS Leverage iPad using FREE curriculum and ideas to enrich all classes with multi modal, engaging content. Students use photography, drawing, video creation and music to make projects across different creative mediums to engender the next generation of innovators, artists and creators! Audience: K-12 Room A220, 2nd Floor Charles Fox Experiment with Class Lab BOTH DAYS Learn to use SMART’s Class Lab feature to further students understanding of multiple contents in a fun way. Setting up is a breeze and interaction with the created games can be in a whole class or small group setting. It changes the way you can introduce and review your content. Audience: K-5, Librarians Room D203, 2nd Floor
July 31 - AM Sessions Hands-On Sessions (1 hour 30 min.) Start Time 10:10 Sean Babcock, Marilyn Future Ready Planning: Technology Planning for Doughty and Cary your Campus Perales Day 2 ONLY This session will provide information and guidance to empower principals to create a culture of innovation. The session will also touch on how to invest in technology, design a sustainability plan, and support their teachers to lead, learn, and take risks. With the passing of the technology bond, the technology team has put together a Blended Learning roll out plan to share with you to ensure your campus is supported. Come to this session to learn and grow on how you can be Future Ready! Audience: Principals Room A211, 2nd Floor Kimberly Ball Get SMARTer about Real-Time Checks for Understanding with SLSO LAST CHANCE! Create custom and engaging formative assessments in just a few minutes. During this session you'll uncover how you can use any device to get immediate feedback on student understanding without breaking the flow of your lesson. Leave with ready made Formative Assessments that can be used before, during or following a lesson Audience: K-12, Librarians B200 Open Lab, 2nd Floor Crystal Fox Getting to Know Our New Adoption: Pearson Grade K-5 Audience: PK-5 BOTH DAYS Dig into our new adoption by Pearson and see all that it has to offer for our students. Pearson curriculum consultants will lead hands on training in online components, print materials and all resources. Come get your first look at our new adoption! Room D207, 2nd Floor
July 31 - AM Sessions Hands-On Sessions (1 hour 30 min.) Start Time 10:10 Springboard Rep Getting to Know Our New Adoption: Pre-AP ELAR grades 6-8, Springboard Room D206, LAST CHANCE! 2nd Floor Dig into our new adoption by Springboard and see all that it has to offer for our students. Springboard curriculum consultants will lead hands-on training in online components, print materials and all resources. Come get your first look at our new adoption! Audience: 6-8 ELAR, Librarians, Administrators hello SMART BOTH DAYS Aleida Hoff and Jean Advanced users create and deliver cross-curricular Bowman lessons through a collaborative work-space with game based activities and formative assessments all combined into one ultimate educational software suite. Come join us for a hands on learning experience! Audience: K-2 Room D204, 2nd Floor Increase Engagement with Nearpod BOTH DAYS Melodee Whitt and Learn how to easily create Nearpod lessons Alicia Garza that promote total class involvement. Audience: K-5 Room A210, 2nd Floor
July 31 - AM Sessions Hands-On Sessions (1 hour 30 min.) Start Time 10:10 Debra Garcia and Learning with Learning.com Albert Galvan BOTH DAYS Room D212, 2nd Floor This course is designed to help teachers incorporate more interactive technology into their classrooms. By helping students learn how to create presentations, learn word processing skills, spreadsheets, charts, keyboarding skills, etc. Audience: 6-8, Technology Applications Elita Diaz,Charlotte Near or Far: Newbies Navigating Nearpod Hillery and DAY 2 ONLY Valerie Sanchez If you’re looking for an engaging approach to deliver content area lessons, this session is for you! Join us to learn what Nearpod is, see examples of pre-created content area lessons, and learn to transform old PowerPoint presentations into new and engaging Nearpod lessons! Audience: 3-5 Room B212, 2nd Floor Sarah Sivils Next-Level Nearpod: Use, then Create! BOTH DAYS Audience: 6-12 This session will provide you the best practices for upgrading your power point presentations. See how to embed activities into your lecture slides, use graphics that have been pre-created by other teachers, and finally create your own! Room A213, 2nd Floor
July 31 - AM Sessions Hands-On Sessions (1 hour 30 min.) Start Time 10:10 Science Nearpod Newbies DAY 2 ONLY Sarah Bourgeois Learn how to create an interactive and effective lesson and instantly assess your student's understanding with Audience: 6-12 Nearpod. Room B209, 2nd Floor Lisa Trejo and Student Interactive Nearpod Activities for Social Nora Casas-Garcia Studies BOTH DAYS Have your student be self-driven and engaged as they collaborate with peers and demonstrate mastery of content via Nearpod. Self paced lessons with immediate teacher feedback and interaction. Audience: 6-8 Social Room A209, Studies 2nd Floor Gilbert Porter Writing in Canvas for Beginners Repeats @ 1:00 PM ONLY Audience: 3-12 Learn to use Canvas to streamline teaching, improve classroom management, increase teacher and student engagement. This session will focus on writing and how to utilize --Google docs, grading writing (speed grader), rubrics, self-graded assignments (quizzes) in Canvas as a beginner. Walk out with something you can use right away. Room A219, 2nd Floor
PM Sessions Wednesday, July 31st Awareness (45 min.) Hands-On (1 hour 30 min.)
July 31 - PM Sessions Awareness Sessions (45 min.) Start Times 1:00 | 2:00 | 3:00 Gary Leary and 3D printing in the classroom John Lutman BOTH DAYS PM ONLY In this session teachers will learn the basic steps of how to create objects using a 3d printer and some of the possible applications of this are inside the classroom. Audience: K-12, Room A113, Librarians, Technology 1st Floor Applications Jennifer Carter Abracadabra! Turn Worksheets into Digital Resource for SMART Notebook Magic BOTH DAYS PM ONLY In this session, participants will learn to use iScanner, scanning apps and print features to turn class assignments/worksheets into an interactive and engaging activity in class. Audience: 3-8 Room A130, 1st Floor Holly Ortiz Canvas Helping Teachers Everywhere BOTH DAYS PM ONLY Audience: K-12 Have questions about canvas? This is the course for you! In our 45 session we will dive into Canvas looking at ways to make your teacher life easier and more organized. Wow, your campus with your new savvy knowledge in Canvas making your August so much easier. Room A114, 1st Floor
July 31 - PM Sessions Awareness Sessions (45 min.) Start Times 1:00 | 2:00 | 3:00 Brooke Coplin Chrome Tips and Tricks DAY 2 PM ONLY Let's make your life easier! Discover all the google chrome tips and tricks I use daily to improve efficiency! Examples: Moving, customizing, and organizing folders in google drive; creating bookmarks and changing chrome settings for faster access to everything you need everyday; special key commands; snipping tool; chrome extensions, and much more! Audience: K-5 Room A116, 1st Floor EasyCode Playground BOTH DAYS Nettie Briggs Think you can't code? Think it's too hard for students? Think again. Come play, have fun, and learn how easy coding is with EasyCode. You will master it in minutes. Audience: 3-8 A100 Open Lab, 1st Floor Epic! Adventure in Reading DAY 2 PM ONLY Maria Alvarado and Step-by-step journey into Epic! the world’s largest Prisilda Herrera digital library of fiction and non-fiction for students. Learners will learn to create individual student profiles, personalized by student interest. Discover what Epic! has to offer for teachers and students, including those in Bilingual Education. Audience: PK-2 Room B109, 1st Floor
July 31 - PM Sessions Awareness Sessions (45 min.) Start Times 1:00 | 2:00 | 3:00 Patricia Gonzalez, Game on! with Stations Monica Munoz and BOTH DAYS Alma Mangel We will present teachers with ways to integrate technology such as iPads, Chromebooks, desktops, and SMART TV using educational games and applications designed for use during stations. Audience: K-5 Room A110, 1st Floor Mauro Garcia Getting Started With Nearpod DAY 2 PM ONLY An overview of Nearpod that will provide activity ideas using Nearpod's tools to engage your students in all content areas. Audience: 6-12, Room B111, Technology Applications 1st Floor Ashley and Jackie Hop on Your iPad and Navigate Your Simmons Classroom! BOTH DAYS PM ONLY Discover a variety of iPad apps to use daily with a single iPad connected to a projector for easy tech integration. Manage students, model problems, and let students get their hands on technology from anywhere in the room (without hauling out a whole COW)! Audience: 3-8 Room A111, 1st Floor
July 31 - PM Sessions Awareness Sessions (45 min.) Start Times 1:00 | 2:00 | 3:00 Blanca Lopez Keeping up with Kahoot! DAY 1 PM ONLY and DAY 2 FULL DAY Keep your students engaged with Kahoot! Discover how to play and create trivia questions, quizzes and exit tickets exciting for students of all grade levels. Your students will enjoy the suspenseful, and fun challenges Kahoot! brings to the classroom. Audience: K-12 Room B119, 1st Floor \"Like and Subscribe - Go YOUTUBE LIVE\" (ON CAMPUS) DAY 2 PM ONLY Robert Arredondo, BE VISIBLE - Run Daily Announcements, Run Dr. Melissa \"Instant Assemblies\" from your office, Target Specific Audiences, create instructional videos for Naranjo, and Shanei all procedures. Womack Audience: Room A119, Administrators, 1st Floor Librarians, Technology Applications Lissette Thomas Nearpod in the Classroom DAY 2 ONLY I will present ideas and examples on how to use Nearpod to create lesson plans, present powerpoint lessons and engage students in your classroom. Audience: 6-12 Room A120, 1st Floor
July 31 - PM Sessions Awareness Sessions (45 min.) Start Times 1:00 | 2:00 | 3:00 Ozobots: Coding for All Ages DAY 2 PM ONLY Dr. Cynthia Hopkins Introduce your students to coding and robotics and Jane using affordable Ozobots. No experience Lee-Rhodes required. Audience: 4-8, Room B117, Librarians, 1st Floor Administrators, Room A129, Technology Applications 1st Floor Reaching Families on their Time Room A117, BOTH DAYS PM ONLY 1st Floor Jennifer Brown and Ever have a parent meeting that no one attends? Grace Gonzalez Join us for an informative session to learn how to reach families on their time using easy computer applications to get your message out there! Audience: Administrators and Parent Liaisons Emily Schellinger Skype A Scientist: The World of Science at Your Fingertips! DAY 2 PM ONLY Skype a Scientist is FREE program that brings amazing, accredited Scientists to teach your classroom. This session will show you how to utilize this resource, prepare/ manage your classroom and cover the “need to know” before your session. You do not want to miss out on this incredible resource! Audience: K-12
July 31 - PM Sessions Awareness Sessions (45 min.) Start Times 1:00 | 2:00 | 3:00 SMART-Efficient Planning BOTH DAYS Utilizing NOTEBOOK to provide effective and Germayne Yanez and engaging lessons to students in Math/Reading. Victoria Ortiz Audience: 3-5 Room A109, 1st Floor Kimberly Ball SMART Leadership DAY 2 PM ONLY Audience: Administrators Looking to help teachers shift mindsets from front of the room teaching to student centered learning? Learn to leverage the SMART board to positively impact culture and student outcomes. Leave with materials to utilize in faculty meetings and resources to effectively model interactivity. This will help showcase how you can help build a digital-age learning culture for teachers and students; and instill a 21st Century growth mindset into your school. B200 Open Lab, 2nd Floor Brandi Shaddock The Simple Guide to Planning Your Year in and Elizabeth Canvas Kingsbury DAY 2 ONLY This is a simple guide using the assembly line method to plan out your year quickly and painlessly in canvas. It will work for any grade any subject. This is a quick and easy way to add assignments, homework, smart lessons, videos, and more to your weekly lesson plans. Audience: K-12 Room A118, 1st Floor
July 31 - PM Sessions Awareness Sessions (45 min.) Start Times 1:00 | 2:00 | 3:00 Holly Sindt Top 10 resources to integrate technology into your classroom DAY 2 PM ONLY Looking for ways to bring excitement to your classroom with technology resources? In this session we will explore the top 10 apps, websites, and tools that you can start using in your classroom tomorrow. Come explore all the fantastic and free solutions to bring the excitement of the technology world to your classroom! Audience: 3-12 Room B116, 1st Floor Roxanne Using Popular Digital Media to Emphasize a Bruce-Beltran and Paperless Classroom DAY 2 PM ONLY Nicole Quintero Throw away those poster boards and stacks of papers to grade! Learn useful techniques and ideas to integrate digital media into your lessons (regardless of the content) and emphasize a paperless classroom. Featured tools include Storyboard.com, Google Slides, etc. that can be integrated and saved with Canvas. Audience: 6-12 Room B120, 1st Floor
July 31 - PM Sessions Hands-On Sessions (1 hour 30 min.) Start Times 1:00 | 2:45 Xavier Barrientez Audio Video Production-Video Editing BOTH DAYS Room D210, 2nd Floor The Session includes a variety of hands-on tutorials which will allow you to enhance your editing skills along with creating your own assignments, projects and tutorials for your classroom. Audience: 6-12 Technology Applications, CTE Audio Video Production Julia Tamez Blended Learning Approach DAY 2 ONLY Explore how CTE courses can successfully implement Canvas into daily instruction and more! Participants are encouraged to bring their instructional resources and create a custom instructional module in Canvas. Audience: 6-12, CTE Room B210, 2nd Floor Build-A-Pod 2:45 LAST CHANCE! p.m. ONLY The best way to learn how to use Nearpod is to Stacey Stallings explore the tools, edit, and create lessons for your own classroom. Spend time editing and creating a lesson, Audience: K-12 learn how to include various interactive features and content materials for your students. Bring your favorite PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation or customize a lesson from the Lesson Library that you will use with students. B100 Open Lab, 1st Floor
July 31 - PM Sessions Hands-On Sessions (1 hour 30 min.) Start Times 1:00 | 2:45 Elena Salinas and Canvas: A Work of Art Michelle Allen BOTH DAYS Introduction to Canvas: Beginners will have a hands-on experience by creating assignments and announcements and will be able to add websites to their Canvas modules. Audience: K-2 Room A214, 2nd Floor Denis Wisner Canvas for Principals DAY 2 ONLY Grow, learn, and lead your way forward as your campus Canvas leader. Become a master at setting up your learning management system to create a true professional development hub for communication and operational success. Audience: Principals Library, 1st Floor Justin Lightsey Canvas: Help Me Succeed BOTH DAYS Audience: 9-12 Attendees will learn how to set up syllabus page, configure notifications, embed Instructional Guides/Lesson Plans, and create assignments and quizzes that can be submitted and graded within Canvas. After demonstrating these skills, attendees will receive individual assistance geared to their needs with completing these goals. Room D209, 2nd Floor
July 31 - PM Sessions Hands-On Sessions (1 hour 30 min.) Start Times 1:00 | 2:45 Valerie Arechiga Create Next Level Training with Nearpod DAY 2 ONLY Take Training from Blah to BOOM with Nearpod! Deliver STAAR testing training and professional development in faculty meetings that is: engaging, checks for understanding and models the infusion of technology in learning. Session is geared towards administrators, ITA's, CA's, Counselors or any campus leader who leads professional development. Audience: Administrators Room B211, and Campus Leaders 2nd Floor Brooke Lowery Ehhh, What’s up Google Doc? 1:00 LAST CHANCE! p.m. Audience: K-12, ONLY Librarians, Technology Follow your wild hair by hopping over to learn how to use Google Docs beyond the basic word processing Applications application with Brooke from friEdTechnology. Use your creativity to produce charts, timelines, and choice boards. But that's not all folks, in this session, we will uncover the hidden features within the rabbit hole that is Google Docs. A200 Open Lab, 2nd Floor David Hernandez Everyone Can Create BOTH DAYS Leverage iPad using FREE curriculum and ideas to enrich all classes with multi modal, engaging content. Students use photography, drawing, video creation and music to make projects across different creative mediums to engender the next generation of innovators, artists and creators! Audience: K-12 Room A220, 2nd Floor
July 31 - PM Sessions Hands-On Sessions (1 hour 30 min.) Start Times 1:00 | 2:45 Charles Fox Experiment with Class Lab BOTH DAYS Learn to use SMART’s Class Lab feature to further students understanding of multiple contents in a fun way. Setting up is a breeze and interaction with the created games can be in a whole class or small group setting. It changes the way you can introduce and review your content. Audience: K-5, Librarians Room D203, 2nd Floor Sean Babcock, Marilyn Future Ready Planning: Technology Planning for Doughty and Cary your Campus Perales This session will provide information and guidance to empower principals to create a culture of innovation. The session will also touch on how to invest in technology, design a sustainability plan, and support their teachers to lead, learn, and take risks. With the passing of the technology bond, the technology team has put together a Blended Learning roll out plan to share with you to ensure your campus is supported. Come to this session to learn and grow on how you can be Future Ready! Audience: Principals Room A211, 2nd Floor Tara Houlihan Getting to Know Our New Adoption: On-Level 1:00 ELAR grades 6-8, McGraw-Hill p.m. LAST CHANCE! ONLY Dig into our new adoption by Mc-Graw-Hill and see all that it has to offer for our students. McGraw-Hill curriculum consultants will lead hands-on training in online components, as well as print materials and all resources. Come get your first look at our new adoption! Audience: 6-8 ELAR, Room D206, Librarians, Administrators 2nd Floor
July 31 - PM Sessions Hands-On Sessions (1 hour 30 min.) Start Times 1:00 | 2:45 Crystal Fox Getting to Know Our New Adoption: Pearson 1:00 Grade K-5 p.m. Audience: PK-5 ONLY LAST CHANCE! Room D207, Dig into our new adoption by Pearson and see all that 2nd Floor it has to offer for our students. Pearson curriculum consultants will lead hands on training in online components, print materials and all resources. Come get your first look at our new adoption! hello SMART BOTH DAYS Aleida Hoff and Jean Advanced users create and deliver cross-curricular Bowman lessons through a collaborative work-space with game based activities and formative assessments all combined into one ultimate educational software suite. Come join us for a hands on learning experience! Audience: K-2 Room D204, 2nd Floor Increase Engagement with Nearpod BOTH DAYS Melodee Whitt and Learn how to easily create Nearpod lessons Alicia Garza that promote total class involvement. Audience: K-5 Room A210, 2nd Floor
July 31 - PM Sessions Hands-On Sessions (1 hour 30 min.) Start Times 1:00 | 2:45 Stacey Stallings It’s Alive!! - Your Lesson That Is 1:00 LAST CHANCE! p.m. ONLY This workshop is designed for anyone who is brand new to Nearpod and wants to get started using Nearpod in their classrooms! Participants will experience all the interactive features, explore the Nearpod Lesson Library, learn how to launch both Live and Student Paced lessons, and access post-session reports. Audience: K-12 B100 Open Lab, 1st Floor Debra Garcia and Learning with Learning.com Albert Galvan BOTH DAYS This course is designed to help teachers incorporate more interactive technology into their classrooms. By helping students learn how to create presentations, learn word processing skills, spreadsheets, charts, keyboarding skills, etc.. Audience: 6-8, Room D212, Technology Applications 2nd Floor Elita Diaz, Charlotte Near or Far: Newbies Navigating Nearpod Hillery and Valerie DAY 2 ONLY Sanchez If you’re looking for an engaging approach to deliver content area lessons, this session is for you! Join us to learn what Nearpod is, see examples of pre-created content area lessons, and learn to transform old PowerPoint presentations into new and engaging Nearpod lessons! Audience: 3-5 Room B212, 2nd Floor
July 31 - PM Sessions Hands-On Sessions (1 hour 30 min.) Start Times 1:00 | 2:45 Sarah Sivils Next-Level Nearpod: Use, then Create! BOTH DAYS Audience: 3-12 This session will provide you the best practices for upgrading your power point presentations. See how to embed activities into your lecture slides, use graphics that have been pre-created by other teachers, and finally create your own! Room A213, 2nd Floor Science Nearpod Newbies DAY 2 ONLY Sarah Bourgeois Learn how to create an interactive and effective lesson and instantly assess your student's understanding with Nearpod. Audience: 6-12 Room B209, 2nd Floor Lisa Trejo and Student Interactive Nearpod Activities for Social Nora Casas-Garcia Studies BOTH DAYS Have your student be self-driven and engaged as they collaborate with peers and demonstrate mastery of content via Nearpod. Self paced lessons with immediate teacher feedback and interaction. Audience: 6-8 Social Room A209, Studies 2nd Floor
July 31 - PM Sessions Hands-On Sessions (1 hour 30 min.) Start Times 1:00 | 2:45 Brooke Lowery The Electric Google Slide: Lit with Creativity 2:45 p.m. Slides are an electric tool for learning, and we aren’t talking ONLY about presentations, in fact, you won’t even recognize these templates for student learning as “Slides” at all. Join Brooke from friEdTechnology as she shares fresh and creative ideas for learning with Slides. Audience: K-12, A200 Open Lab, Librarians, Administrators 2nd Floor Gilbert Porter Writing in Canvas for Beginners 1:00 LAST CHANCE! p.m. Audience: 3-12 ONLY Learn to use Canvas to streamline teaching, improve classroom management, increase teacher and student engagement. This session will focus on writing and how to utilize --Google docs, grading writing (speed grader), rubrics, self-graded assignments (quizzes) in Canvas as a beginner. Walk out with something you can use right away. Room A219, 2nd Floor Gilbert Porter Writing in Canvas for Intermediate to Advanced 2:45 Users p.m. Audience: 3-12 ONLY ONE TIME ONLY! Already having students submit writing in Canvas but need to find ways to enhance the use of Canvas? Learn to streamline teaching in writing to increase student engagement by using Google docs, speed grader, rubrics, quizzes, mobile app, and third party integrations. Bring a sample lesson assignment or something to ramp up and walk out with something you can use right away. Room A219, 2nd Floor
Sponsors Acknowledgment and Special Thanks
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Acknowledgement and Special Thanks Veterans Memorial HS Sponsors Kimberley James, Principal Allstate Insurance, Aleman Agency Stephanie Contreras, Assistant Principal Armstrong Lumber Co. Rolando Gonzalez, Assistant Principal Eddie’s Restaurant & Bakery Chris Hall, Assistant Principal Fulton Coastcon General Contractors Lisa Trevino, Assistant Principal H-E-B Scott Walker, Assistant Principal Nearpod Dawn Groff, Librarian Oriental Trading Company, Inc. Joe Vela, Lead Custodian SMART Technologies Jeff Pleasant, Head Custodian TCEA Area 2 Cindy Beltran, Custodian Urban Engineering Nora Cabrera, Custodian Arnold Campos, Custodian Learning Partners Alicia Hernandez, Custodian Angie Hinojosa, Custodian Apple, Inc., David Hernandez Ernest Holland, Custodian Apple, Inc., Jim Lindsay Bryan Mata, Custodian Canvas, Mindy Hintze Isaac Martinez, Custodian friEd Technology, Brooke Lowery Elizabeth Orta, Custodian Learning.com, Nettie Briggs Tomasa Puentes, Custodian McGraw-Hill Education, Tara Houlihan Luis Ramos, Custodian Nearpod, Stacey Stallings Rebecca Rosales, Custodian Pearson Education, Crystal Fox Israel Soliz, Custodian SMART Technologies, Kimberly Ball Shawnice Spears, Custodian Springboard Education Jose Vallejo, Custodian TCEA, Lori Gracey
Acknowledgement and Special Thanks CCISD Educator Leaders CCISD Educator Leaders Adam Melchor, Cunningham MS Elita Diaz, Kostoryz ES Albert Galvan, Adkins MS Elizabeth Burdette, Fannin ES Aleida Hoff, Webb ES Elizabeth Kingsbury, Calk-Wilson ES Alicia Garza, Smith ES Elizabeth Maldonado, Allen ES Alma Mangel, Sanders ES Elizabeth Reyna, Metro E Amy Lavigne, Gibson ES Emily Schellinger, Kolda ES Amy Sturgeon, Crockett ES Gary Leary, Coles HS Ana Gallegos, Houston ES Germayne Yanez, Sanders ES Ashley Simmons, Mireles ES Gilbert Porter, Branch Academy & Collegiate HS Blanca Lopez, Oak Park ES Grace Gonzalez, ECDC & Montclair ES Brandi Shaddock, Calk-Wilson ES Holly Ortiz, Haas MS Brooke Coplin, Barnes ES Holly Sindt, Club Estates ES Cary Perales, Instructional Technology Jackie Simmons, Kolda ES Charles Fox, Schanen Estates ES Jane Lee-Rhodes, Kaffie MS Charlotte Hillery, Kostoryz ES Jean Bowman, Webb ES Dr. Cynthia Hopkins, Kaffie MS Jenni Murphy, Fannin ES Dr. Melissa Naranjo, Dawson ES Jennifer Brown, ECDC Dr. Toni Chapa, Coles HS Jennifer Carter, Kolda ES Debra Garcia, Kaffie MS Jo Ann Flores, Mireles ES Denis Wisner, Instructional Technology Julia Tamez, Ray HS Elena Salinas, Sanders ES Justin Lightsey, Carroll HS Katherine Huis, Kolda ES Lisa Trejo, Grant MS Lissette Thomas, Veterans HS Maria Alvarado, Zavala ES Mariana Palacios, Crockett ES Marilyn Doughty, Technology Systems INNOVATION
Acknowledgement and Special Thanks Parent Bright Teacher Future Student CCISD Educator Leaders CCISD Educator Leaders Mary Perez, Mireles ES Sherry Jimenez, Galvan ES Mauro Garcia, Driscoll MS Sonia Vega, Martin MS Megan Butler, Houston ES Stephen Seiler, Mireles ES Melodee Whitt, Smith ES Valerie Arechiga, Calk-Wilson ES Michelle Allen, Sanders ES Valerie Sanchez, Mireles ES Monica Garcia, Fannin ES Victoria Ortiz, Sanders ES Monica Munoz, Smith ES Xavier Barrientez, Miller HS Mónica Simoncelli, Grant MS Nicole Quintero, King HS “Thank you to ALL that contributed to Nora Casas-Garcia, Grant MS another successful, innovative Tech2Teach! Patricia Gonzalez, Sanders ES The dedication and the commitment from all Patricia Pohlers, Coles HS has made each year very special.” Paul Castorena, King HS - Sean Babcock Senior Director of Porfirio Zamora, Veterans HS Technology Services Prisilda Herrera, Zavala ES Robert Arredondo, Dawson ES Roxanne Bruce-Beltran, King HS Ruben Rocha, Curriculum and Instruction Sarah Bourgeois, Grant MS Sarah Sivils, Haas MS Sarita Molina, Metro E Sean Babcock, Technology Systems Shanei Womack, Dawson ES
Acknowledgement and Special Thanks Technology Support Office of Instructional Services Technology Sean Babcock, Senior Director Cary K. Perales, Director Marilyn Doughty, Director Melissa L. Gonzalez, Sr. Admin. Asst. / IT Trainer Charlotte Garcia, Sr. Admin. Asst. Brandey Addison, IT Specialist Veronica Maxwell, Sr. Admin. Asst. Denis Wisner, IT Specialist Chris Rincon, Tele/Security/Fire Alarm Technician Mary Cavazos, IT Specialist Cynthia Salas, Senior Lan Manager Roxanna Guerrero, IT Specialist Esmeralda Lopez, Tech. Project Coordinator Kathy Mendiola, IT Trainer Gino Ita, Tele/Security/Fire Alarm Technician Seth Caylor, IT Trainer Irma Ibanez, Lan Specialist Rene Pantoja, Digital Media Producer Jack Marroquin, Network Specialist Janie Ramos, Campus Technology Technician “Thank you to the Instructional Technology Kerry Bowdry, Lan Manager ROCKSTAR TEAM! You truly amaze me every Lisa Perez, Lan Manager year, and I feel blessed to collaborate with such Lonnie Gaither, Campus Technology Technician a dynamic, innovative group of people! SHOUT Lydia Krause, Senior Lan Manager OUT to our wonderful presenters as well, you Marie Saldivar, Help Desk Operation Specialist inspire me everyday!” Mary Jane Carrizales, Lan Specialist - Cary K. Perales, Director of Instructional Sarah Rodriguez, Bookkeeper Technology Sean Sandoval, Campus Technology Technician Sue Daniel, Sr. Exec. Admin. Asst “Thank you team for your continued support, expertise and ability to make things happen behind the scenes so seamlessly. You make me proud and I appreciate your hard work and dedication to support CCISD’s goal to be Future Ready!” -Marilyn Doughty, Director of Technology Support Services
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