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Welcome to the WHS Professional Development Day website. Here you can find all the sessions being offered on Friday afternoon, reserve your seat, and be reminded before your session starts. Remember... you can only choose one offering for Session 1 and one offering for Session 2. Enjoy your professional development day!
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Ready for YouLisa Fusaro
1A 2 for 1 Session! Introduction to PBIS World & Twitter for Teachers Instructor: Lisa Fusaro Location: W224 Enrollment: 20 Part One: PBIS World is an interactive website offering a useful resource for student behavior interventions. Teachers will find a variety of behavioral strategies and data tracking tools in order to increase student achievement and motivation. Part Two: Teachers will be exposed to an overview of Twitter and establish a Twitter account if they do not already have one. We will explore the use of hash tags and trending topics in order to support teaching practices.
Melissa Tallardy
1B Creating a Digital Text Instructor: Melissa Tallardy Location: W305 Enrollment: 20 This session demonstrates the ease with which a teacher can create a digital text. This allows the teacher to create a personalized and digitally alive text.
Anna Xu
1C EduCreations and the Reflector App using the iPad Instructor: Anna Xu Location: B308 Enrollment: 20 Participant Requirements: Must bring iPad. Participants will learn how to create video lessons using the EduCreations App on the iPad. The lessons can be uploaded online onto a course page created by the participant. You will create a course for your students to view your lessons and monitor their viewing activities. The tools and lessons being demonstrated on EduCreations will have a mathematics focus. Participants will also learn how to wirelessly mirror what is displayed on their iPad onto the EnoBoard using the Reflector App.
Mike Walach
1D Quizegg and Weebly (Test software and webpage software) Instructor: Mike Walach Location: W107 Enrollment: 15 Learn how to use an on-line testing program that will allow you to create custom tests and quizzes. Learn how Quizegg test software will allow you to review instant formative assessment data, question item analysis, and track student progress. Teachers will also learn how to create fast, easy, and professional websites using Weebly web creation software. Weebly web creation tools are free, Quizegg requires a yearly subscription.
Jean Larson
1E Using Easiteach Instructor: Jean Larson Location: B303 Enrollment: 15 Use Easiteach to prepare your interactive lessons. Those attending will learn to create lessons, use the Math tools, resources, etc.
Amanda Murphy
1F Using Glogster to Improve Instruction & Student Engagement Instructor: Amanda Murphy Location: W215 Enrollment: 12 Participant Requirements: Must bring a lesson for which a “glog” will be created. Participants will learn Glogster.com, an online multimedia presentation program that can be used as an instructional tool and a student presentation platform. In this session, participants will explore the capabilities of the program. They will identify ways in which teachers can use the tool for instruction, research, and engagement of a topic. Participants are asked to bring a unit/topic from their own curriculum that they wish to transform into a Glog that they will then use in instruction. “A Glog is an interactive visual platform in which users create a “poster or web page” containing multimedia elements including: text, audio, video, images, graphics, drawings, and data.” –www.GlogsterEDU.com
Justin Bentley & Anne Barnhart
2A Experimenting with the “Flip”: Making the Theory Real Instructors: Justin Bentley & Anne Barnhart Location: W209 & W211 Enrollment: 20 Participant Requirements: Participants need to watch the following playlist of videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a7NbUIr_iQ&list=PLmQ6BmDjN7cOz5OTMBvsK2W2CR6CaRE_a In response to the videos, we'd simply like them to come with: 1 statement they find meaningful, 2 concepts from the videos they find inspiring/interesting/cool, and 3 questions they have about what they saw/the flip in general This session will be run like a “flipped” classroom. Participants will be asked to watch a short video and come with one statement from the video they find meaningful/why, two concepts they find interesting, and three questions about the flip. During the session, we will introduce the concept generally and clarify initial quotes and questions, send them through three interactive stations where they will learn from Anne about how it works in her English classroom, Justin how it works in his bio classroom, and look at some documents from a book on the flip to create discussion. At the end we will address any residual questions and then move on to the application. Finally, we will have approximately 20-25 minutes to begin to play around with either how-to-create a youtube channel or a glog.
Tony Lementowicz
2B Using Socrative to Improve Learning Instructor: Tony Lementowicz Location: W316 Enrollment: 15 Participant Requirements: Must bring a smartphone, tablet or laptop, and an assessment that could be used for this application. As teachers we understand the power of formative assessments and their potential impact on improving our instruction. But the time it takes to create and administer assessments, collect and aggregate the results, and plan future instruction in response to the results takes time that we don’t often have. Luckily, there are technological solutions to this dilemma. Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers by engaging their classrooms with a series of educational exercises and games. The apps are simple and take seconds to login. Teachers who use Socrative spend less time on the administrative aspects of frequent assessment to allow for more time on the results.
Pina Alfiero
2C Using the TI-83-84 in Statistics Instructor: Pina Alfiero Location: B317 Enrollment: 15 Participant Requirements: Please bring your TI 83/84, please let Pina know if you will need to borrow a TI 83/84 calculator. This lesson will consist of an introduction to the statistics functions of the TI 83/84 graphing calculator. Hands on practice will consist of manipulating univariate and bivariate data with the TI 83/84 calculator for various statistics calculations. By learning how to use the TI 83/84 for calculations and graphing, valuable time is saved that can be spent on interpreting data.
Wendy Canty
2D Using Triptico for Cooperative Activities & Classroom Management Instructor: Wendy Canty Location: B212 Enrollment: 24 Participant Requirements: NA This session offers an introduction to a simple desktop application, packed full of innovative resources to enable you to quickly create engaging interactive lessons.
Stephen Sposato
2E Video Tutorial Creation Instructor: Stephen Sposato Location: B211 Enrollment: 12 Participant Requirements: Must bring a notebook; optional: a digital device You too can create video tutorials that can be accessed by your students 24/7 a-la-Khan Academy. These tutorials are additional tools that are additional tools that are leveraged to advantage by the students, thereby increasing students’ competence and confidence.
Stacey Leitz & Meg Paisley
2F Virtual Discussions & Quiz Function on School Fusion Instructors: Stacey Leitz & Meg Paisley Location: W101 Enrollment: 12 Participant Requirements: Must bring ideas for own discussion board and materials to create an assessment. Teachers will be able to infuse technology into their instruction which will engage students who may not feel comfortable with a face-to-face discussion.