Tech in the YO 2022 Conference
Spotlight
YCSD Teachers made all the difference at Tech in the YO 2022. On August 4, 2022, fifteen of our fantastic YCSD teachers presented one or more sessions at Tech in the YO 2022. Their sessions were extremely popular! For instance, when asked what attendees enjoyed most about the conference, they said: - "Having colleagues and teachers from our district present to staff"
- "Being able to see the strengths of our staff and their enthusiasm with sharing"
- "I enjoy the sessions where it is other teachers showing a skill or a piece of technology that they have found and use"
In case you missed seeing their awesome sessions, they are linked below.
Session Title Presenter Description Recording Materials Info How to get the most out of a Google Form! Joshua Harris In my session I would offer an away for the attendees to scaffold their exit slip data by using adaptive google forms. Where the exit slip will change based on how well the students are doing on the exit slip. This allows the exit slip data to not just show the teachers if the scholars have mastered a skill or not, but to what degree they have and what scaffolds a scholar will need to be successful. RECORDING Presentation TEMPLATES McGraw Hill Online Platform Corissa Freeman For this session we will dive into the online McGraw hill platform resources, power points, lesson plan materials and ready made assessments. RECORDING Materials McGraw Hill Learn Smart Corissa Freeman During this session we will delve into the learn smart program for asynchronous learning, chapter correlation and reports. RECORDING Materials McGraw Hill Digital Assessment Creator Corissa Freeman In this session we will delve into creating digital assessments for students using the McGraw Hill Platform. NO RECORDING Materials Virtual Tours with Google Earth Tina Felger With Google Earth's Project tool you can make a 3D geographic tour of a story, historical event, interesting locations or any concept you are exploring in class, including text, images, videos, links and more. Learn how you and your students can create, collaborate and share virtual educational tours! RECORDING Agenda RESOURCES The PEARFECT Pair: Pairing PEAR DECK in Your Digital Instruction Tracy Pinter This session will show you how to use Pear Deck in your digital instruction to increase student engagement and gather useful formative data. RECORDING Presentation Going (More) Paperless in the Math Classroom: Utilizing and Creating Digital Tools and Activities Tracy Pinter Learn how to go paperless in your Math class by using digital tools and creating digital activities. RECORDING Presentation Creating an Activity Form to Track Your PD Madonna Barwick & Tracy Pinter The YCSD LPDC presents the newest and simplest format to maintain your participation in professional development courses, workshops, webinars and college/university courses. RECORDING RESOURCES LPDC- "Do You have an IPDP? Are You Ready to Renew Your License?" Madonna Barwick & Tracy Pinter The YCSD LPDC- Local Professional Development Committee- will review the license renewal process with anyone whose Educational License will be expiring in June 2023, along with writing a new IPDP- Individual Professional Development Plan- using the District's PDExpress Program. RECORDING Presentation Free Reading Resources Kimberly Griffiths Do you need some supplemental reading resources with comprehension that can also meet a variety of needs? In this session, you will learn about EPIC! and Readworks.org and how you can use their texts in your class. RECORDING Presentation Interactive Lessons Using Google Slides Kimberly Griffiths Tired of printing and copying papers for classwork? Want to make interactive lessons and activities? In this session, you will learn how to take your paper activity and turn it into a digital activity using Google Slides. NO RECORDING Presentation Extensions and Sites for an Easier Teaching Life Kimberly Griffiths In this session, you will learn about some extensions and sites that can help make teaching easier. Some include how to make your own poster, small pdf, Insert Learning, Classroomscreen, and more! RECORDING Presentation EduProtocols: Thin Slides and Smart Frayers for Vocabulary Development Mary Ramhoff I will be demonstrating how to use the EduProtocol This Slides to introduce new vocabulary. Attendees will learn how to assign the vocabulary and slides and will practice creating a Thin Slide to introduce a vocabulary word including the word and image on the slide. Speaker's notes will be used to give more information during the class presentation. I will also present the Smart Frayer EduProtocol model for vocabulary development. Attendees will participate in creating a Smart Frayer to develop new vocabulary terms. Templates will be shared as well as the slide deck from the participants. RECORDING Thin Slides
Smart Frayer
Resources Navigating SameGoal (formerly IEP Anywhere) Delilah Williams & Nicole Cusick Have you been informed that it's your responsibility to use SameGoal (formerly IEP Anywhere) to find important documents for students with an IEP but aren't sure how? Well, join this overview session where we will assist you with logging on, locating your students' information, deciphering which forms provide the information you seek, learning how to sign documents during a meeting, and much more. RECORDING Presentation CK-12 Interactive Digital Notebooks Traci Cain & Chris Paloski CK-12 offers customizable, digital textbooks with interactive content for scholars and teachers (flexbooks). Master math & science concepts through regular, personalized practice questions (adaptive practice). Discover new ways of learning Physics and Chemistry with real-world lab simulations. Play, Learn, Interact & eXplore math & science concepts (PLIX). Quickly review concepts with key information (study guides). Organize your scholars in a digital classroom and access an intelligent gradebook that easily displays patterns (automatic grading & reporting). Easily integrates with Google Classroom and Clever. RECORDING Presentation Video Collage: 21st Century Communication Skills Anna Ragghanti- Crowe The participants will learn how to create a video collage with students. Participants will be given an assignment format. The concept of the lesson will be explained because Bloom's Taxonomy and Gardner's Multiple Intelligences as well as 21st Century communication skills are embedded in the assignment. Next, participants will learn how to create a video collage. This can be done on one's phone or an iPad. One of the issues with the assignment is that one needs access to video clips. I have found a way around this by downloading specific clips to Google classroom from Pexels (stock pictures and video clips). Finally, participants will share their results. The whole demonstration will be interactive. RECORDING Presentation Simplify Your Life with Rubrics in Google Classroom Rachael Ayers Learn how to create and use rubrics to simplify grading in Google Classroom
RECORDING Presentation Choice Boards & HyperDocs Kristen Jaros What are Choice Boards? Why should you use them? How can you incorporate them into your lessons? What are some things that you can do using technology?
Students getting a choice in their education is part of the OTES rubric. Choice Boards/HyperDocs give you some flexibility and help to give the students a choice as to what they want to do. We will explore what Choice Boards are. We will also go over how to incorporate them into your lessons as classwork or assessments. In addition, I will also give websites about premade Choice Boards/HyperDocs and show you how to make your own. Finally, I will then go over how they can be used for a student’s ownership of their education and choice. RECORDING Presentation YCSD Esports for Middle and High Schools Chuck Stark In our session we will give intro info about Esports to staff that would like to learn more about it. Then we will discuss how our first season went and highlight many of the positive things that took place. Finally, we will talk about the plan moving forward and how others can get involved. RECORDING Presentation
- "Having colleagues and teachers from our district present to staff"
- "Being able to see the strengths of our staff and their enthusiasm with sharing"
- "I enjoy the sessions where it is other teachers showing a skill or a piece of technology that they have found and use"
| Session Title | Presenter | Description | Recording | Materials | Info |
| How to get the most out of a Google Form! | Joshua Harris | In my session I would offer an away for the attendees to scaffold their exit slip data by using adaptive google forms. Where the exit slip will change based on how well the students are doing on the exit slip. This allows the exit slip data to not just show the teachers if the scholars have mastered a skill or not, but to what degree they have and what scaffolds a scholar will need to be successful. | RECORDING | Presentation | TEMPLATES |
| McGraw Hill Online Platform | Corissa Freeman | For this session we will dive into the online McGraw hill platform resources, power points, lesson plan materials and ready made assessments. | RECORDING | Materials | |
| McGraw Hill Learn Smart | Corissa Freeman | During this session we will delve into the learn smart program for asynchronous learning, chapter correlation and reports. | RECORDING | Materials | |
| McGraw Hill Digital Assessment Creator | Corissa Freeman | In this session we will delve into creating digital assessments for students using the McGraw Hill Platform. | NO RECORDING | Materials | |
| Virtual Tours with Google Earth | Tina Felger | With Google Earth's Project tool you can make a 3D geographic tour of a story, historical event, interesting locations or any concept you are exploring in class, including text, images, videos, links and more. Learn how you and your students can create, collaborate and share virtual educational tours! | RECORDING | Agenda | RESOURCES |
| The PEARFECT Pair: Pairing PEAR DECK in Your Digital Instruction | Tracy Pinter | This session will show you how to use Pear Deck in your digital instruction to increase student engagement and gather useful formative data. | RECORDING | Presentation | |
| Going (More) Paperless in the Math Classroom: Utilizing and Creating Digital Tools and Activities | Tracy Pinter | Learn how to go paperless in your Math class by using digital tools and creating digital activities. | RECORDING | Presentation | |
| Creating an Activity Form to Track Your PD | Madonna Barwick & Tracy Pinter | The YCSD LPDC presents the newest and simplest format to maintain your participation in professional development courses, workshops, webinars and college/university courses. | RECORDING | RESOURCES | |
| LPDC- "Do You have an IPDP? Are You Ready to Renew Your License?" | Madonna Barwick & Tracy Pinter | The YCSD LPDC- Local Professional Development Committee- will review the license renewal process with anyone whose Educational License will be expiring in June 2023, along with writing a new IPDP- Individual Professional Development Plan- using the District's PDExpress Program. | RECORDING | Presentation | |
| Free Reading Resources | Kimberly Griffiths | Do you need some supplemental reading resources with comprehension that can also meet a variety of needs? In this session, you will learn about EPIC! and Readworks.org and how you can use their texts in your class. | RECORDING | Presentation | |
| Interactive Lessons Using Google Slides | Kimberly Griffiths | Tired of printing and copying papers for classwork? Want to make interactive lessons and activities? In this session, you will learn how to take your paper activity and turn it into a digital activity using Google Slides. | NO RECORDING | Presentation | |
| Extensions and Sites for an Easier Teaching Life | Kimberly Griffiths | In this session, you will learn about some extensions and sites that can help make teaching easier. Some include how to make your own poster, small pdf, Insert Learning, Classroomscreen, and more! | RECORDING | Presentation | |
| EduProtocols: Thin Slides and Smart Frayers for Vocabulary Development | Mary Ramhoff | I will be demonstrating how to use the EduProtocol This Slides to introduce new vocabulary. Attendees will learn how to assign the vocabulary and slides and will practice creating a Thin Slide to introduce a vocabulary word including the word and image on the slide. Speaker's notes will be used to give more information during the class presentation. I will also present the Smart Frayer EduProtocol model for vocabulary development. Attendees will participate in creating a Smart Frayer to develop new vocabulary terms. Templates will be shared as well as the slide deck from the participants. | RECORDING | Thin Slides Smart Frayer Resources | |
| Navigating SameGoal (formerly IEP Anywhere) | Delilah Williams & Nicole Cusick | Have you been informed that it's your responsibility to use SameGoal (formerly IEP Anywhere) to find important documents for students with an IEP but aren't sure how? Well, join this overview session where we will assist you with logging on, locating your students' information, deciphering which forms provide the information you seek, learning how to sign documents during a meeting, and much more. | RECORDING | Presentation | |
| CK-12 Interactive Digital Notebooks | Traci Cain & Chris Paloski | CK-12 offers customizable, digital textbooks with interactive content for scholars and teachers (flexbooks). Master math & science concepts through regular, personalized practice questions (adaptive practice). Discover new ways of learning Physics and Chemistry with real-world lab simulations. Play, Learn, Interact & eXplore math & science concepts (PLIX). Quickly review concepts with key information (study guides). Organize your scholars in a digital classroom and access an intelligent gradebook that easily displays patterns (automatic grading & reporting). Easily integrates with Google Classroom and Clever. | RECORDING | Presentation | |
| Video Collage: 21st Century Communication Skills | Anna Ragghanti- Crowe | The participants will learn how to create a video collage with students. Participants will be given an assignment format. The concept of the lesson will be explained because Bloom's Taxonomy and Gardner's Multiple Intelligences as well as 21st Century communication skills are embedded in the assignment. Next, participants will learn how to create a video collage. This can be done on one's phone or an iPad. One of the issues with the assignment is that one needs access to video clips. I have found a way around this by downloading specific clips to Google classroom from Pexels (stock pictures and video clips). Finally, participants will share their results. The whole demonstration will be interactive. | RECORDING | Presentation | |
| Simplify Your Life with Rubrics in Google Classroom | Rachael Ayers | Learn how to create and use rubrics to simplify grading in Google Classroom | RECORDING | Presentation | |
| Choice Boards & HyperDocs | Kristen Jaros | What are Choice Boards? Why should you use them? How can you incorporate them into your lessons? What are some things that you can do using technology? Students getting a choice in their education is part of the OTES rubric. Choice Boards/HyperDocs give you some flexibility and help to give the students a choice as to what they want to do. We will explore what Choice Boards are. We will also go over how to incorporate them into your lessons as classwork or assessments. In addition, I will also give websites about premade Choice Boards/HyperDocs and show you how to make your own. Finally, I will then go over how they can be used for a student’s ownership of their education and choice. | RECORDING | Presentation | |
| YCSD Esports for Middle and High Schools | Chuck Stark | In our session we will give intro info about Esports to staff that would like to learn more about it. Then we will discuss how our first season went and highlight many of the positive things that took place. Finally, we will talk about the plan moving forward and how others can get involved. | RECORDING | Presentation | |
