San Diego USD Google for Education Workshops

There’s a great chance you have artists in your classroom! Together, we will create opportunities for them to use technology (along with art and music!) to share their learning and respond to your assignments. You will leave this session with some electronic exit ticket strategies using Google tools such as slides, and drawings. You’ll find out about free Chrome apps that can enhance your instruction. You’ll discover extensions that can help you bring student voice into your classroom in new ways! Of course, throughout our time together, we will work with plenty of web-based art and music creation tools.

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Google Drawings is one of the most versatile visual creation tools available to students and it can be used to demonstrate learning in so many ways. Google Drawings can enhance learning through the creation of venn diagrams, graphic organizers, flow charts, badges, interactive images, maps, mathematics e-inking, templates, and many more uses left to the imagination. In this hands-on session, we’ll take a look at many examples and templates that you can use right away with your students. We’ll learn about the features of this great tool and you will become familiar with the power of drawings by creating a fantastic visual of your own.

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Participants in this workshop will be part of a hands-on workshop in which they build a simple Blogger website. But don't be fooled, the focus is really on understanding how to make your student or classroom blogs a raging success! The secret lies in teaching students how to leverage the concepts of audience and purpose. Students across the globe are blogging with each other, learning from each other, and just itching to write for a real audience, with a real purpose. Their writing is amazing, and they can't wait to revise their work. If you'd like to have these problems in your classroom, this is the PD for you. Participants will leave with a working understanding of Blogger. Participants will leave with incredible blogs and websites ready to go for class the next day. Participants will be ready to help their students share their work outside the walls of their classrooms and schools.

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