Room: 102 Presenters: Jeanne McCarthy Audience: K-6, Leadership, Brick & Mortar, Online & Blended Teachers Description: Redesign your classroom environment to empower learners and seamlessly integrate technology into instruction. Discover and explore the Learning Zone model and corresponding edutools for your classroom and course design. This session is geared toward brick and mortar, blended and online teachers.
Room: 103 Presenters: Daniel Kaufmann Audience: K-6 Description: During this interactive session, participants will collaborate to construct a Google Map. We will discuss the different features of Google Maps (creating, collaborating, sharing, and embedding), how it can be utilized in the classroom, and share methods of classroom implementation.
Room: 104 Presenters: Lindsey Troyanoski Audience: Intermediate (4-6) Description: During the session participants will be introduced to Microsoft’s OneNote Classroom Notebook and the new learning tools. This O365 tool allows educators to organize instructional resources in order to deliver powerful lessons and create personalized, secure learning environments for students. In addition to reviewing the steps to create OneNote Classroom Notebooks in O365, OneNote’s newest features will be reviewed and participants are encouraged to bring their devices and create a Class Notebook during this session. Also, look forward to getting introduced to Microsoft Classroom!
Room: 106A Presenters: K-6 Audience: Laura Smeltz Description: Sailing Into Seesaw is an interactive session that will allow you to work with Seesaw 4.0 both as a student and as a teacher. During this session I will guide you through using the annotation tools and setting up your class. This exciting presentation will show you just how easy it is to use this amazing digital portfolio tool to connect your classroom to your parents, school, and the world. Students can seamlessly add artifacts to their folders which can be a formative assessment in your class as well as way to show parents what their kids are learning at school!
Room: 106B Presenters: Mitchell Swords Audience: K-6, Leadership Description: Whether your an administrator desiring to start a STEM program initiative in your school, a facilitator desiring to start up a STEM Club, Working in Gifted or Special Ed and looking into ways to engage your learners, or simply just trying to create a center for your class, there’s a way to cater STEM for Every child in Every classroom. Mitchell Swords, STEM K-6 teacher at Pequea Valley School District shares his experiences in teaching STEM to all grade levels and strategies to make STEM engaging, meaningful, and rigorous in your classroom.
Room: 106C Presenters: Drew Minock Audience: K-6 Description: True innovation happens when collaboration and creativity are given the opportunity to run wild! Finding many different solutions to the same problem creates outside the box thinking. Using technology to with this approach breeds innovation. During this session we will tackle an abundance of web tools, applications, and devices to get students working as a team to reach new heights. Come explore how to use technology as a tool to inspire student innovation, collaboration, and creativity!
Room: 106 D Presenters: Michele Curcio, Gene Carboni Audience: Intermediate (4-6) Description: Turn your students in to Chrome Power Users! Teach students to use these shortcuts and little known features to make the most of the Google Chrome Browser.
Room: 106 E Presenters: Teresa Finegan Audience: K-6 Description: Save paper, go green and get your kids super-excited using 10 amazing apps! In this fast-paced session you'll see 10 elementary student projects that involved cooperation, collaboration, communication and creativity. You'll leave this session fired-up with new ideas and inspiration. It's amazing what kids can do when given awesome technology tools!
Room: 110 Presenters: Allen Prendergast Audience: Intermediate (4-6), Leadership Description: EverFi partners with educators nationwide to teach, assess, and certify students in the critical skills they need to be successful in life. Our co-curricular, digital resources deliver content that engages 21st century learners and provides meaningful metrics to teachers by measuring knowledge gains and student attitudes. Content areas encompass critical life skills like digital citizenship, financial literacy, STEM exploration, and more. Attendees will gain access to the courses along with an array of accompanying resources and discuss curriculum fit and implementation practices. Please bring your laptop so that you will have an opportunity to preview the online content.
Room: 107 Presenters: None Audience: Everyone Description: Edcamps are organic, participant-driven professional learning experiences. Our EdCamp sessions will follow the 'unconference' format where the agenda is created by the attendees at the beginning of each session. There will be some themes to start the conversations, but anyone is welcome to initiate a discussion on a specific topic for any of our four sessions. Participants who attend can initiate topic discussions or participate in discussions that have been initiated by others. The format and schedule will be extremely flexible to meet the needs of the participants.
12:55-1:45 pm - Session Descriptions
Learning Zones: Classroom Design for the 21st Century
Room: 102Presenters: Jeanne McCarthy
Audience: K-6, Leadership, Brick & Mortar, Online & Blended Teachers
Description: Redesign your classroom environment to empower learners and seamlessly integrate technology into instruction. Discover and explore the Learning Zone model and corresponding edutools for your classroom and course design. This session is geared toward brick and mortar, blended and online teachers.
Google Maps Across the Curriculum
Room: 103Presenters: Daniel Kaufmann
Audience: K-6
Description: During this interactive session, participants will collaborate to construct a Google Map. We will discuss the different features of Google Maps (creating, collaborating, sharing, and embedding), how it can be utilized in the classroom, and share methods of classroom implementation.
OneNote Class Notebook for Differentiated Instruction
Room: 104Presenters: Lindsey Troyanoski
Audience: Intermediate (4-6)
Description: During the session participants will be introduced to Microsoft’s OneNote Classroom Notebook and the new learning tools. This O365 tool allows educators to organize instructional resources in order to deliver powerful lessons and create personalized, secure learning environments for students. In addition to reviewing the steps to create OneNote Classroom Notebooks in O365, OneNote’s newest features will be reviewed and participants are encouraged to bring their devices and create a Class Notebook during this session. Also, look forward to getting introduced to Microsoft Classroom!
Sailing into Seesaw
Room: 106APresenters: K-6
Audience: Laura Smeltz
Description: Sailing Into Seesaw is an interactive session that will allow you to work with Seesaw 4.0 both as a student and as a teacher. During this session I will guide you through using the annotation tools and setting up your class. This exciting presentation will show you just how easy it is to use this amazing digital portfolio tool to connect your classroom to your parents, school, and the world. Students can seamlessly add artifacts to their folders which can be a formative assessment in your class as well as way to show parents what their kids are learning at school!
STEM for Every Child
Room: 106BPresenters: Mitchell Swords
Audience: K-6, Leadership
Description: Whether your an administrator desiring to start a STEM program initiative in your school, a facilitator desiring to start up a STEM Club, Working in Gifted or Special Ed and looking into ways to engage your learners, or simply just trying to create a center for your class, there’s a way to cater STEM for Every child in Every classroom. Mitchell Swords, STEM K-6 teacher at Pequea Valley School District shares his experiences in teaching STEM to all grade levels and strategies to make STEM engaging, meaningful, and rigorous in your classroom.
Inspire Innovation by Fostering Collaboration and Creativity
Room: 106CPresenters: Drew Minock
Audience: K-6
Description: True innovation happens when collaboration and creativity are given the opportunity to run wild! Finding many different solutions to the same problem creates outside the box thinking. Using technology to with this approach breeds innovation. During this session we will tackle an abundance of web tools, applications, and devices to get students working as a team to reach new heights. Come explore how to use technology as a tool to inspire student innovation, collaboration, and creativity!
Google Chrome: Tips, Tricks & Just Plain Fun!
Room: 106 DPresenters: Michele Curcio, Gene Carboni
Audience: Intermediate (4-6)
Description: Turn your students in to Chrome Power Users! Teach students to use these shortcuts and little known features to make the most of the Google Chrome Browser.
Ditch the paper - Rock the TECH!
Room: 106 EPresenters: Teresa Finegan
Audience: K-6
Description: Save paper, go green and get your kids super-excited using 10 amazing apps! In this fast-paced session you'll see 10 elementary student projects that involved cooperation, collaboration, communication and creativity. You'll leave this session fired-up with new ideas and inspiration. It's amazing what kids can do when given awesome technology tools!
Critical Life Skills Education : Free Digital Learning Courses By EverFi
Room: 110Presenters: Allen Prendergast
Audience: Intermediate (4-6), Leadership
Description: EverFi partners with educators nationwide to teach, assess, and certify students in the critical skills they need to be successful in life. Our co-curricular, digital resources deliver content that engages 21st century learners and provides meaningful metrics to teachers by measuring knowledge gains and student attitudes. Content areas encompass critical life skills like digital citizenship, financial literacy, STEM exploration, and more. Attendees will gain access to the courses along with an array of accompanying resources and discuss curriculum fit and implementation practices. Please bring your laptop so that you will have an opportunity to preview the online content.
EdCamp
Room: 107Presenters: None
Audience: Everyone
Description:
Edcamps are organic, participant-driven professional learning experiences. Our EdCamp sessions will follow the 'unconference' format where the agenda is created by the attendees at the beginning of each session. There will be some themes to start the conversations, but anyone is welcome to initiate a discussion on a specific topic for any of our four sessions. Participants who attend can initiate topic discussions or participate in discussions that have been initiated by others. The format and schedule will be extremely flexible to meet the needs of the participants.