Session+4+2015

= 2:00 - 2:50 Session 4 - Session Descriptions =

Virtual Badges and Professional Development
**Room:** 102 **Presenters:** Dave Calender and Lisa Maurer, School District of Lancaster Credly is a free and easy way to give Virtual Badges to professional development participants or reward students who have mastered a skill. The School District of Lancaster's Summer Tech Challenge 2015 provided teachers with an opportunity to participate in self selected/self paced technology professional development. The benefits and challenges of the project will be shared.
 * Audience: ** K-6
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Formative Assessment: Making Learning Fun
**Room:** 103 **Presenters:** Ben Rossman & Scott Bailey, Ephrata Area School District Come and discover how several new and exciting tools can unlock the power of formative assessment in your classroom! Powerful tech tools such as Quizziz, Kahoot, Plickers, Socrative, AnswerGarden, ClassFlow and others are not only completely free to use, they also provide highly engaging ways to collect valuable feedback that can be used to enhance teaching and student learning.
 * Audience: ** K-6, Administration/Principals
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What Are You Doing with the Last 5?
**Room:** 104 **Presenter:** Matt Bergman, Milton Hershey School The last five minutes of a class period are one of the most notoriously wasted parts of class. Students often use this time to pack up materials, socialize, and get into trouble. What if there were strategies and tools to maximize this wasted time period? Join Matt Bergman as he shares with you practical and effective strategies to use technology to maximize learning and reclaim the last five minutes of class.
 * Audience: ** K-6
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Using IXL in a Blended/Hybrid Learning Classroom
**Room:** 106 A **Presenter:** Bobbi Bear, IXL Learning **Audience:** K-6 In this session, you will learn how to most effectively maximize IXL’s fully-aligned and adaptive math, ELA, and recently-released science and history content in a hybrid learning classroom. Our main emphasis will be the utilization of IXL in the independent station in order to monitor students’ progress with specific skills in order to make small-group, direct instruction focused on the individual needs of all students. We will highlight how to plan instruction with consistent integration of IXL practice in order to meet goals in a variety of different ways while reviewing the user-friendly reporting features offered in IXL’s reporting suite.
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Streamline Your Classroom with Technology
**Room**: 106 B **Presenters**: Dawn Sanderson and Laurie Vitale, West Shore School District **Audience**: Gr. 3-6 **Description**: Teachers will learn how they can use Chrome and Google Classroom to enhance student learning and achievement. Teachers will learn how to create and collect assignments paperlessly. Google Classroom will help teachers improve organization and improve teacher and student productivity. It is easy to set up and can save teachers time, as well as enhance communication. In addition, time will be dedicated to discussing how these tools can be used for "flipped lessons (within the classroom)" and differentiation.

Google Classroom
**Room**: 106 C **Presenter**: KK Knudsen, Palmyra Area School District **Audience**: Intermediate (Gr. 4-6) Google Classroom helps teachers create, assign, and collect student classwork and homework paperlessly. With Google Classroom, teachers can seamlessly integrate Google Docs, Google Drive, and Gmail to create assignments, provide feedback for in progress and completed work, and communicate with their students directly and with whole class announcements--all without using a single piece of paper. Learn how to incorporate Google Classroom into the elementary classroom.
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GreenScreening: Not Just for Weathermen and Superheroes
**Room**: 106 D **Presenters**: Laura Campbell and Jamie Keenan **Audience**: Manheim Central School District **Description**:

Want an engaging and versatile way to engage students in every content area? Then green screening is your answer! Students can independently create videos that include voice, music, props, and backgrounds. Green screening touches upon all of Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences allowing students to use their individual strengths to showcase what they have learned. Instead of creating the same old diorama of the solar system or book report, green screening allows it to come to life. We will be working primarily with the app DoInk Green Screening.

Social Media 101
**Room:** 107 **Presenters:** Dr. James Beeghley, Lancaster Country Day School Ever wonder what social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat are and how they work? Do you know how to "retweet", "Favorite" or create a Snapchap story? This session is an introduction to social media and how educators can use it for professional development. This training gives you the tools and knowledge you need to easily navigate the new world of social media. Social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube are introduced during this workshop.
 * Audience: ** K-6
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Don't Hesitate- Create and Curate! - canceled
**Room**: 107 **Presenter**: Courtney Kofeldt, PA Leadership Charter School **Audience**: K-6, Intermediate (4-6), Administration/Principals **Description**: This session will focus on 5 tools that will help teachers to create and curate interactive resources that they can share and use with their students, coworkers and Administrators. Attendees will leave with an arsenal of tools that will take their teaching to a new level!