San Diego USD Google for Education Workshops

Picture this: Close Reading + Chromebooks + Google Classroom + Google Docs + Google Slides…Come see how it turned out!

In the Common Core, students have a new relationship with text. In this session, we’ll look at examples of using a variety of Google Apps in Google Classroom for activities to support the major shifts in the K-12 ELA/Literacy standards, including Close Reading and an emphasis on expository text. We will also look at some sample ELA performance tasks and resources that support the CCSS ELA standards.

Attendees will explore tools and strategies for answering the following questions:
 
What are the major shifts in the Common Core ELA?
Balancing Literary and Informational Text
Build Knoweldge in the Disciplines
Staircase of Text Complexity
Text-Based Answers
Writing from Sources
Building Academic Vocabulary

What digital resources exisit to support those shifts? 
CommonLit.Org
Newsela
Listenwise
Readworks.org and digital.readworks.org
Storyline Online
YouTube
JustBooksReadAloud.com
Wordsift
EPIC

How Can Google Tools be Integrated to Address the Shifts?
Google Docs for graphic organizers and digital active reading stratgies
Google Drawings/Slides for graphic organizers and response activities  
Google MyMaps for summarizing and retelling
Google Forms for exploring literary elements
Google Classroom "Ask a Question" for literary discussion
ELA Performance Task built in Google Classroom: PDF Passages, Google Draw synthesis activity, Google Docs writing task.

Screencastify/GreenScreen Samples

What will participants CREATE?
A Google MyMap
A Graphic Organizer w/Docs or Drawings
A Google Forms Listening Activity
A Google Slides/Drawings Reading Response Activity
An ELA Performance Task 



Strands: #beginner, #intermediate
Type of Session: General Session
Audience: #primary, #middle, #secondary

Now that you've got the basics down, come explore how to integrate the use of Google Apps into your classroom. During this workshop, we will dive into different activities that can be used in grade 3 - 12 classrooms. Activities for the core content areas (ELA, Science, Math, and Social Studies) will be covered.

Workshop Outcomes

• Learn how to design, implement and manage Google tools to create an interactive classroom.
• Engage in interactive activities that you can utilize as a part of your lessons for creating a collaborative student-centered learning environment that help students exercise 21st century skills.
• Create media-rich Google environments (lessons and activities) for collaboration, communication, homework help, anytime/anywhere learning opportunities, and innovative and creative outlets for student assessments.

Now that you've got the basics down, come explore how to integrate the use of Google Apps into your classroom. During this workshop, we will dive into different activities that can be used in grade 3 - 12 classrooms. Activities for the core content areas (ELA, Science, Math, and Social Studies) will be covered.

Workshop Outcomes

• Learn how to design, implement and manage Google tools to create an interactive classroom.
• Engage in interactive activities that you can utilize as a part of your lessons for creating a collaborative student-centered learning environment that help students exercise 21st century skills.
• Create media-rich Google environments (lessons and activities) for collaboration, communication, homework help, anytime/anywhere learning opportunities, and innovative and creative outlets for student assessments.

Session Resources 

Did you know you can use Google Forms as a scaffold for complex writing tasks? Build students’ Claim-Evidence-Reasoning and other informative writing capacity with this nifty workflow. By pairing Forms + Sheets + Docs + Autocrat Add-on, teachers will see a drastic improvement in students’ writing quality. Templates and classroom examples will be provided for all attendees.

Learn how to collect data from students, parents, and teachers in a more efficient way with the newest version of Google Forms! We will get you creating your own forms, and explore a variety of uses for them, whether you are a classroom teacher or a school administrator. A laptop or Chromebook device is required for this session. The second part of this workshop will focus on using Forms in even more creative ways. You’re going to fall in love with Forms all over again in the second half of this session. We’ll take a look at some “outside the box” uses of Forms, learning a variety of tips and tricks to help build Amazing Races, Choose Your Own Adventure stories, Digital BreaktoutEDU games, “Impossible to Fail” quizzes, and more! You will be amazed at the flexibility and versatility of this one, easy-to-learn, easy-to-use Google tool!
Workshop Outcomes:
Using Forms to support efficiency, learning, interaction and engagement.
Creating Forms that streamline workflow and data collection.
Using Forms as both formative and summative assessment tools.
Explore Add-Ons that augment the functionality of Forms.
Use Forms as a tool for fostering creative and critical thinking.

Session Resources