SPARCC Conference- August 5, 2016

What Great Teachers Do With Video Production in the Classroom-WVIZ

• NewsDepth
• Create Video- tell a story, it´s a classroom project, combine media (video, audio, still images), involve each student.
• Video Yearbook-
• Music Video for Science or S.S. Math, Etc.
• Can be done statically- done on own with a tripod etc..
• ¨Molecules gone wild.¨
• Pre-Production (Web it first: plan script (beginning middle, and end) then storyboarding, parody(Sixth Sense)-add on a story-)
• Production- equipment, rule of thirds, subject placement (depth of field), use a tripod, add some light, use a microphone, vary your shots, be sure to have headphones to monitor the sound that is being recorded.make a human tripod- be sure to be stable. 
• Post Production (logging) Edit: YouTube video editor, WeVideo, Adobe Premiere, Funal Cut Pro, Avid, iMovie
• Templates for videos/tv shows

Forget the Paper...Let Google Drawings Take Over

https://docs.google.com/a/kenstonapps.org/presentation/d/1Gki9hnDZ1Vy2c4acsNXA54Y6Nyi8R_76gDYUzpq8Uvs/edit?usp=sharing 

• CTL-D is duplicate
• Use Venn Diagrams (Transparent)
• Morning routine
• There is not an Infinite Clone like in SMART software
• Clock- Draw two arrows- Turn in correct time in Google Forms
• Transparent area is called Canvas area-
• Tools>Research citation is there as well.
• Timeline in Drawings- Add video, slideshow etc.. to extend out different ways.  Look at Timeline examples
• Two finger tap for background change on a chromebook.
• Story Elements 
• Seating Chart
• Purple Cirles (connector lines) will keep lines adapting when you move a shape (Grab the purple circle)
• Edit Clipboard>Copy Entire Drawing to Clipboard.
• Edit>Webclipboard/drawing/paste into Doc
• Insert Maps, etc... Flat Stanley example.

Virtual Field Trips

• Anthony Luscre
• View Master
• Smarty Pins
• Google Arts & Culture

Escape from Reality

• 360 degrees view master
• Aurasma
• Quiver
• Dacquire 
• Nearpod-
• Lifelique- turtle-
• PBS Cyberchase
• https://docs.google.com/a/kenstonapps.org/document/d/1SN70cesgjdgcgVvFS8lR7H_XMUJRoSK4Wi9bF7q4k1g/edit?usp=sharing 
• Ask people who are done with their phones please donate
• flippity.net 
• DOT DAY!  Book with Quiver

Clone Yourself with Screencastify

• Chrome Extension
• Free and paid- 10 minutes at a time.
• Save to Google Drive- export to Google Classroom!
• Math Practice problems, Instruct how to use a program., Independent work., flipped classroom, writing feedback-do it here!! Bring up students'doc and personalized feedback, video book reading.
• Narrate work kids have done in Google Slides-slides can not record audio.
• Narrate their comic strips!!!
• Voice only, or screen with voice, or both.
• Add-ons (doc sheets and forms)
• Extensions (for Chrome browser) chrome.google.com/webstore (links to your Google Account)
• Apps (programs) 
• Tab Reccording, web cam, desktop, or tab in our browser
• Desktop: everything on the screen!
• Tab: narrate the tab only- no tools, just whatś in tab.
• Cam: will be the camera only
• Tab Audio=audio the computer is making (Games)
• Embed Webcam- decide where it will show up.
• Controls in the lower left corner
• Focus mouse on the left-
• Click on screencastify button to stop recording
• Makes its own folder
• Present makes you lose extesions
• File>Publish to the web> Publish>Copy Link- Slideshow in slide 
• Need a Headset Mike!!!
• Hangout on Air (Need G+ account) vs. Screencastify-(more kid friendly) 

Advanced Training: Unit 9: Give Students a Voice

Important take aways from this unit:

• Ways for students to have discussions online: (Asynchronus and Syncrhonus)
• Google Classroom
• Google Groups- Q&A Forum, or Web Forum
• Google Hangouts (text chat)
• Google Hangouts (video chat) (GAFE account =15 people at the greatest)
• Blogger
• YouTube (upload as public, unlisted, or private) Schools are asking students to upload as "unlisted" (age 13 and up). A link can then be shared. Videos can be set to private, but channels cannot. Even if students do not have a channel, they can arrange playlists to share.
• Hangouts on Air (need Q+account- posts directly to YouTube)
• Personal Website (Google Site)
• "When students produce for the world, they want it to be good.  When students produce for their teacher, they want it to be good enough."
• Create a Google Form for students to be able to help teachers-
• Hackathons- coding oppourtunities
• Addons:
• Yetanothermailmerge
• Autocrat
• Doctopus (distribute documents)
• 50 editors MAX for a Doc
• Google Groups are not bound by time.You can reply to a post via email.
• G+ communities can be restricted to your domain.

Advanced Training: Unit 8: Harness the Power of Google for Research

Important take aways from this unit:

• Google Maps
• Google Trends
• Google News
• Google Books
• Google Finance
• Google Alerts- monitor your own digital footprint
• Search Research http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/ - 
• Reasearch Tool- in Google Docs, Slides, Drawings
• Translate- Google Search, Gmail, and Docs.
• Google Scholar- save items in your Library for further reading and citations.
• Advance search by all words in title and with articles term in the title.
• Available in slides, drawings, docs
• To foster creativity, let kids CHOOSE!
• Genius Hour Resources https://engagetheirminds.com/genius-hour-resources/ 
• Dan Pink: Mastery, Autonomy and Purpose
• 3 B4 Me! 
• Advanced Search: https://www.google.com/advanced_search

Advanced Training: Unit 7: Teach Beyond the Four Walls of Your Classroom

Important take aways from this unit:

• Google Hangout VS. Hangout On Air- Air is recorded to a YouTube channel, where Hangout is not recorded at all.
• Use Google Tour Builder to build a map of tours.
• Google My Maps-
• https://youtu.be/LzMXbvBsALo Google Cultural Institute
•  Google Expeditions! https://youtu.be/owdpB6n5Z8Q 
• Mapping your expedition 1.  Pre-Expedition Prep 2.Before the Expedition 3.During the Expedition 4.After the Expedition

Advanced Training Unit 6: Design Interactive Curricula

Important take aways from this unit:

• Add a Google Form to a presentation to make it more interactive
• Interactive videos can help students access another video, jump to other information, or even follow instructions from a prompt within a video.
• Interactive videos also put students in charge of their learning, can lead them to further explorations, and create a higher level of engagement within the content.
• Add Anotations or Cards to enhance the video viewing experience.
• Cards act as a teaser to the video and can be accessed throughout the video.
• All annotations except for titles can become links.
• HYPERDOCS https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdocument%2Fd%2F1CcGhx19hObsM8yJm2VVh4YGYAkLrJtsNLkCPuesROZw%2Fedit
• CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE (Google Forms)
• Forms can differentiate learning, quizzes, and much much more.
• Khan Academy
• Gooru

Advanced Training: Unit 5: Organize Your Class and School Materials More Effectively

Imporant take aways from this unit:

• Differentiate in Google Classroom by setting up different levels of students in different classrooms, but all in one as well for collaboration.
• To notify others of a change in a document (who are colaborators) either use File>Email Collaborators, or mention them with a +and their email address in the comment section.
• Use digital portfolios for evidence of learning, sharing with parents, and reflecting on learning.  Blogs or Sites can be private.
• Quick Tip via Google Training Center for Blogs:

• Quick tip: There are three main ways you can control who views your blog.
  • 1. Your blog can be public and searchable by Google.
  • 2. Your blog can be unlisted so that people need the link to view it.
  • 3. Your blog can be private and you can invite specific people to view it.

Advanced Training: Unit 4: Analyze and Interpret Student Data

Important take aways from this unit:

• Customize correct and incorrect responses from a Google Form in Sheets: Format>Conditional Formating- Green and Red
• Add a Sparkline in one cell for a line graph of change over time.
• Motion Chart- animated for large data sets with many students.
• There are many advanced tools for data:Pivot table- under data 
• =filter(D:F,C:C="studentname") when responses "StudentNames” are listed in column C on the Form Responses sheet. Columns D, E, and F have feedback.

Advanced Training-Unit 3: Use Advanced Features to Optimize Workflow

Important take aways from this unit:

• Share a calendar (make it public) so anyone (even without a Google Account) so parents and students can see what events etc. you place on the calendar.
• GAFE accounts can schedule appointment slots (Google Accounts only can add a slot.)
• Check out Labs in Google Calendar and Gmail for new features which are being tested.
• Recall an email up to 30 seconds after you send it.
• Customize shortcuts
• Attach documents to a calendar: great for classroom newsletters or lesson plan sharing.
• Canned responses for emails
• Extensions: help the functionality and expand the use of the Chrome browser
• Apps: like a web-based program- lives in the cloud
• Add-Ons: work with specific Google Tools-Docs or Sheets. etc.
• Share apps by email or even G+
• Admin can push out

Advanced Training-Unit 3: Use Advanced Features to Optimize Workflow

Important take aways from this unit:

• Share a calendar (make it public) so anyone (even without a Google Account) so parents and students can see what events etc. you place on the calendar.
• GAFE accounts can schedule appointment slots (Google Accounts only can add a slot.)
• Check out Labs in Google Calendar and Gmail for new features which are being tested.
• Recall an email up to 30 seconds after you send it.
• Customize shortcuts
• Attach documents to a calendar: great for classroom newsletters or lesson plan sharing.
• Canned responses for emails
• Extensions: help the functionality and expand the use of the Chrome browser
• Apps: like a web-based program- lives in the cloud
• Add-Ons: work with specific Google Tools-Docs or Sheets. etc.
• Share apps by email or even G+
• Admin can push out

Advanced Training-Unit 2: Leverage Learning Models to Personalize Learning

Important take aways from this unit:

• There are 3 different models for differentiation for students: blended learning, problem based learning, and flipped classroom.
• These 3 models allow for small group instruction by the teacher.
• All 3 models are infused with technology.
• Use Forms with videos for a flipped classroom to prepare for the next dayś lesson, or formative assessment.
• Use a Multi Media Text Set for students' learning which could then be distributed through Google Classroom.

INFOhio Resources

Some Awesome Resources from INFOhio: *NOTE most write ups are from INFOhio.

IMatrix- Fundamental Inquiry Thinking

Use IMatrix to help plan higher level thinking lessons.  Common core supported.
http://teacherlibrarian.com/2013/02/04/infohio-imatrix-a-tool-to-enhance-deep-rigorous-learning/ Early World of Learning-http://www.worldbookonline.com/ewol/home

Early World of Learning has the ability to help young readers practice their foundational reading skills.  Take a minute to try the Read section of Early World.  You will find beginning readers under Trek's Travels and Welcome to Reading that emphasize skills such as phonics, phonemic awareness, comprehension and vocabulary.  These "little books" can be printed out by clicking on the For Educators button at the bottom of the screen.  Be sure to click on the Frog Prince to find the story corner, nursery rhymes and songs.  

Bookflix-https://www.infohio.org/students/er/item/bookflix/#LOGOUT# 

Bookflix is our most popular resource with engaging and interactive titles, and memorable characters.  Don't forget to check out the games!

Bookflix is a Scholastic product that pairs popular fiction and non-fiction titles.  The fiction titles are shown as videos, but include the words at the bottom of the screen for students to read along with and practice word and letter recognition.  The non-fcition titles are traditional ebooks and feature read aloud that can be turned on or off, as well as vocabulary words.  Each pair has "puzzlers" to accompany them to encourage students' practice of sequencing, vocabulary, and other reading skills.

World Book Kids-http://www.worldbookonline.com/kids/Home

World Book Kids is a great resource to help students continue to improve their reading skills and to start off with beginning research.  Teachers can find lexile levels, citation tools as well as text translation and read aloud under the Tools button within an article.  At the bottom of the screen, students have activities and experiments and games to further their learning.  Educators should be sure to click on For Educators at the bottom of the screen.

World Book also has a timeline freature you can use.  Students are even able to create their own timeline. https://youtu.be/pM-9jbmA1K4 

Explora-https://www.infohio.org/students/er/item/explora-prek-5

This brand-new look for EBSCO's Explora for Grades PreK-5 features colorful pictures arranged by topic for browsing.  This resource helps students and teachers find articles based on lexile levels also.  You can either browse search by the topics or put in a specific topic and use the limiters within the topic to narrow your search.  Try searching for Rocks and see what types of articles you find.  You can find a Getting Started Guide and screencastto help you get started. 

Educators Toolbox-https://www.infohio.org/educators/eptools/curriculum-toolbox

The Curriculum Toolbox is a resource for teachers and school staff.   Each toolbox curates a topic of instructional interest in education today. Inside the toolbox you will find INFOhio resources, websites, webinars, articles and more on topics such as Third Grade Reading Guarantee, College and Career Readiness, Instructional Bags, Digital Literacy and many others. (Great STEM for 4-5)

Bags

Find all of INFOhio's instructional "bags" here. The Back to School Bags and Blizzard Bags are meant for teachers to use with their classes. The Beach Bags are tailored for parents to use with their children, but teachers will still find activities appropriate for the classroom.

Close Reading

Common Core Standards call for students to “read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it.”

Informational Text and Literary Non-Fiction

The new standards call for students to read more informational text and literary nonfiction. Many of the resources from INFOhio like EBSCOhost databases and World Book are great sources for informational text.

Resources to Support the Third Grade Reading Guarantee

INFOhio has many resources that are excellent for working on foundational and reading skills to meet the 3rd grade reading guarantee.

Text Complexity

Blended Learning 

As part of the standards, students must analyze the structure of text with increasingly difficult and complex text. Many of the INFOhio resources provide Lexile levels with help on text complexity.

Webinars-https://www.infohio.org/educators/pd/lwi/

The Learn with INFOhio webinar home page is the place to start to find current and archived webinars.  The schedule for 2015-16 will be released in August, but here are three things to always remember about the webinars.

1.  They are always recorded and searchable on the website.  

2.  After the end of the webinar, certificates of attendance are available once you have completed a 5 question quiz.

3.  The webinar powerpoint is always available and is a good resource for helping add information to your own presentations.  Always be sure to credit the webinar author!

*Augmented Reality

*Skills for online testing

*Makerspaces

*Differentiation

Using Success in Six to Support STEM 

*Additional Hours for course

Science Online-http://online.infobase.com/HRC/Browse/Product/8

Science Online from Facts on File contains  science, math, and technology information articles, images, diagrams, interactive experiments videos, current events, experiments, biographies, and more. This resource is really useful for integrating into a science blended learning classroom.  You will learn more about how to use Science Online for blended learning in the Spotlight on Blended Learning module.  For now, just explore Science Online.  

Great PPT: Digital Kids: Empowered and Engaged Readers for the 21st Century http://bit.ly/23w6jfk
Using INFOhio with Google Classroom

Advanced Training-Unit 1: Promote and Model the Effective Use of Digital Tools

Important takeaways from this unit:

• Having a technology coach for teachers can help teachers feel more comforatble integrating technology.
• Start simple: what is one lesson you want to improve?
• When beginning a technology plan, involve the PTO, Admin, teachers, and students.
• Use Hangouts on Air which will be recorded and placed on the author's YouTube channel.
• Use School Site Mentors to help with individalized professional development.

Unit 13: Promote Digital Citizenship and Positive Online Behavior

Important take aways from this unit:

• Use Incognito mode for increased security.
• Be sure passwords have capital letters, lower case letters, numbers, and a special character for best security.
• Kids need to be taught how to be safe online.
• Respect and Protect
• http://www.ikeepsafe.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Faux-Paw-Pledge.pdf 
• ikeepsafe.org
• Youtube Video safety https://youtu.be/yrln8nyVBLU

Unit 12: Facilitate Group Work

Some important take aways from this unit:

• Use Google Tools for student collaboration, check ins, assessment, progress monitoring.
• Use the revision history in Google Docs to check for participation on all students during group projects.
• Use "restore this revision" if there is a mistake and a student loses all work.
• Use Google Keep to assign to do lists within groups.
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Unit 11: Captivate Your Class with Video

Important take aways from this unit:

• Subscribe to videos for updated content.
• Create playlists and share with teachers and/or students.
• Create your own YouTube channel with content!

Unit 10: Build Interactive Lessons

Important take aways from this unit:

• Be sure to use engaging slides to enhance student learning.
• Create captions and use drawings.
• Share apps with google e-mail groups and addresses
• Check out Google Play for Education apps.  Pay attention to the badges on them.

Unit 9: Teach Students Online Skills

Important take aways from this unit:

• EVERY WORD IN A SEARCH COUNTS!
• Search by colors to find a specific picture.
• Search by free use for pictures
• "The Rule of 3"
• Understand the different domain extensions.
• Chrome Web Store for all apps and extensions in Chrome

Unit 8: Measure, Understand, and Share Student Growth

Imprtant Takeaways from this Unit:

• Use Google Forms to help keep assessment data on students.
• Learn functions to sum, average, and powerful tools to help determine at risk students and those who need challenged.
• Use graphs in Google Sheets to display student data.
• Help students gauge their own understanding by looking at their data displayed in a graph.  Better yet, teach them how to graph it themselves!
• Taken directly from Google Training Cernter Fundamentals: Bar charts are the most common way to graph data for analysis. There are a variety of bar charts including bar, column, and the powerful, stacked bar, which can display a large amount of information in a compact space.
  Pie charts provide an easy way to display the results from an entire class. As a whole, the teacher can analyze which areas the class is strong or weak in. However, the most important aspect of this exercise is not just recording the correct answers, but also determining why students thought other wrong answers were correct. These results are anonymized, so others cannot determine the scores of an individual student when the summary report is shared with the class.
  Throughout each semester, teachers collect information on student performance. If we are able to visualize these results over time we might be able to draw conclusions about each student’s learning. There may be other things that have impacted a student on a particular day. However, it may be more telling to see if there is a general up or down trend over time. If we see a student slipping then we can intervene and get the student back on track before it’s too late. In this case, a line chart is a great tool to help us track performance over time.
  Line charts can also be especially helpful if you are using assessment standards, which are assessed several times over a grading period. By keeping a spreadsheet with the student names in the first column and date columns for each time the standard is assessed you can create a line graph to see how the student is trending. Each column is used to record the student performance on a particular day.
• I feel that using the graph feature in Google Sheets is teachers' most powerful, yet underused tool!
• Be sure to protect a sheet if you are going to share the data with another teacher.

Unit 7: Bring Student Work Online

Important Take Aways from This Unit:

• Use Google Classroom for all classroom assignment needs and communication with students.
• If Classroom isn't an option, simply create shared folders for students.  Each document will be automatically accessible within that shared folder.
• Be able to give valuable student feedback for students within Google Classroom.
• If your school doesn't enable Gmail, simply give students the unique code to join the class.

UNIT 6: Bring Meetings Online

Important take aways from this unit:

• Attach a Google Doc Agenda to a Google Calendar Event so everyone is held accountable.
• Work on minutes within the doc. collaboratively
• Google Hangouts can be done with 10 people, or 15 with Google Apps For Education accounts.
• You are even able to share your screen during the Hangout so everyone is able to see what you are talking about. "Screenshare."
• "Add a Video Call" to the Google Calendar with a link once the date and time is made for the Hangout.
• Continue a conversation where you left off in Google Chat.

Educators CONNECT for SUCCESS Conference June 14

1) Back to the Future: The 21st Century Classroom

• Flipped classroom
• STUDENTS NEED CHOICE!
• Problem based learning
• Research DAILY
• WRITING DAILY
• Individualized Learning
• Non-fiction reading DAILY
• One-on-one attention DAILY
• Student accesses lesson at home, then in class, students' misconsceptions are corrected.
• Doing this with 85% free-reduced lunch.
• Students have to do front loaded information in order to do the science experiment.  
• Have students ask, ¨I Wonder¨ questions.
• Area students struggle with the most, becomes your first flipped lesson.
• Write GRANTS!
• When you apply something you learned, you remember it!
• Minute and a half of each grade level.  4th Grader = 6 minutes for homework.
• Teach them HOW to watch a video.  It´s ok to pause!!
• 10 MINUTES MAXIMUM!
• Make your own videos.  THEY CONNECT WITH YOU!!!
• Prezi with voice over
• Screen cast 
• Do more collaborative projects with teachers.  Let them see that specials classes are important also. Integrate- classroom teacher check in, special check in.
• Student building a website portfolio in education.weebly.com- you can password protect.  May be an age requirement.
• Go to http://mrjonesflippedclassroom.weebly.com/ for great project ideas for a project based classroom.
• Essential Questions- take students beyond skimming the surface.
• Mindcraft-7 sacraments of the Catholic religion.  On tapestry in a church.
• Cups based on Magellean
• emaze- art museum idea... easel.ly... TEDEd (can answer questions and go to part of video where question was.) INCOMPETECH (royalty free music that can be used) TubeChop- LinkedIn- Powtoon

2) Please Enter Your Username and Password

• Know what your district is using for technology.
• FERPA-Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
• COPPA-Childrenś Online Privacy Protection Act
• CIPA-Childrenś Internet Protection Act
• PPRA
• ORC
• Privacy Technical Assistance Center-http://wwwptac.ed.gov
• Need a committee
• Need agreement for online programs (iReady-is not included because it is used in place of something the school needs to use for instruction)
• Using a pseudonym is not permitted

3) Coding Decoded: Making Sense of Computer Science for Kids

• Agriculture is technologically savvy  
• Kids think of game development
• App Development as well 
• Hour of Code- all kids have access to one hour of code
• CS Envy-taking apart computers and putting them back together, parent involvement, celebrate and expose kids to computer science (Kind of like STEM night)
• Code.org is a good place to start with computer science. The curriculum is free online too.
• Code Studio is a part of Code.org- Split screen code and web development 
• Scratch is more advanced
• Toy Engine- use code to create video games
• Keep an eye on Twitter
• Code Academy (grade 8 and up)
• Apps
• The Foos (lower elementary) algorithms, patterns
• Block Island
• Bootstrap (maybe 5th)
• App Inventor 
• Virtual Reality lab- Google cardboard, buy lenses online, get cardboard from lunch or paper boxes
• 360 Kodak Camera- 
• Reynoldsburg  Schools-implementing a special for computer science with a virtual reality lab
• App Inventor!!!!!!!!Have students create apps and push them out to the entire school.
• Dan Patterson- After the Hour of Code (book)
• Coding helps Elementary Students by:- design and problem solving, growth-mindset, trouble shooting, collaboration
• Take a risk- Make a mistake-Change the Outcome
• Code Studio-
• How do we measure student achievement for the 21st century? Math and ELA- can not measure collaboration, problem solving etc..
• Explain what computer science and what it is not!!! 
• k12cs.org- similar to ISTE standards for computer science
• (1st Grade Course 1 of Code.org)
• Need to add Computer Science to 4-5 Curriculum
• Check out code.org for 3rd party resources

Educators CONNECT for SUCCESS Conference June 13

1) Sparking Curiosity to Improve Student Learning:

• Wait a little- don´t instruct right away.
• There is a place for both inquiry learning and the assessments.  
• Show Your Work Book by: Austin Kleon (putting work online/out there for the public is more meaningful than a Google Doc- need display info. online for the public, not just your teacher.  The world is your audience.)
• Inspire curiosity-Involuntary Curiosity (fill the informational gap)
• Spark #1- Missing Information (U.S. example- marriage and drought) Visual Pictures 
• Spark #2 Anticipated Information (Tackle the misconceptions: candle and oxygen, Steve Jobbs and the iPhone intro. Stop something early)
• Spark #3 Surprising information (heart cyclist from Verizon, flames joining with together and removing quarter)
• Want kids to want to find out more. (Uses Fight Club)(safefrom.net) to download Screenflow Mac based screencast. Think about the acid/base demonstration.
• Get students to CRAVE knowledge. Break down Bloom´s Taxonomy.
• Spark, Quench, Track Student curiosity.
• Part 1 Find And Save Videos- Khan is good, but not super motivating.  See the world differently. ifthisthanthat (website- connects) if there is a new liked video, then add row to spreadsheet in Google Sheets. 
• Part 2 Download and Trim- Have video playing as kids come in savefrom.net to download videos.  DO NOT need to rely on the Internet. https://ssyoutube.com  Click return to download.   Edit and ¨trim¨.  Find the point. 

2) Recruiting Your Best Advocate: Engaging Parents in Elementary School STEM:

• School of Innovation- grades 3-5
• How are parents involved in your school? Do they understand what STEM actually is or is it just an acronym for them? 
• Difference between involvement and engagement? 
• Envolvement- school driven help from parents  
• Engangement- directly helping students 
• Parent Engagement Ideas:
• Quarterly Exhibitions-parents are invited to come in and share learning that has been done.  May even be in the middle of the learning and working through problems together.  How are students learning in our school? TPBL (21st learning skills) Core Values: Curiosity, Compassion, Complex Thinking, Collaboration, and Communication.
• TBPL- How can we create a tinkerspace on our playground to keep our minds as active as our bodies?
• TBPL- How can we reduce our carbon footprint both here at school and in our community?
• TBPL-How have STEM leaders of yesterday impacted today and how will  STEM leaders impact tomorrow?

3) Fun in Middle School? Yes, Virginia, it Can be Done!

• Nearpod-Wall of Honor-PBIS
• Teach rules, expectations, routines+reward the positive 4:1 = positive behavior and cultural changes
• Start with a committee
• *E-mail for matrix glawn@midviewk12.org
• Individual rewards-tickets (ticketmaster very cheap). Everyone has a ticket! Bus drivers, playground monitors, lunch, etc..
• 3 tickets = Wall of Honor  cleaned every two weeks. 
• 5 sets of 3 tickets = handprint on the wall with paint. (15 tickets in a month)
• School rewards- 
• 1) Office Referrals (20 or less in a month)
• 2) Bus Tickets
• 3) Zeros
• 4) Bulling Name Calling
• Assembly- Do something fun- Minute to Win It, Dance Off, Staff Trivia, Academic Trivia, Student Skits, Family Feud Student Edition, Guess the muscle! 
• All 4 Met- Student Council chose awards.
• Let students take a part in making videos of the goals.

4) More Than A Game-Gamefication 

• Point System
• Incentives- reward/leaderboard
• Badge Systems - military.boy scouts girl scouts.
• Quests-list of procedures the game master wants you to do. What is the goal? Scan QR Codes .
• School is a game! It´s just designed badly.  A´s don´t go back.
• NEED FEEDBACK!
• GPS- What is your goal?
• It works because...
• Positive Reinforcement
• Never lose points, only gain.  Maybe small points, but some more for better choices.
• Builds on Existing Schema
• Gaming is fun!
• Changes in Nomenclature
• The data does show it works!
• Check presentation for vocabulary, quest or challenge, groups/squads,  incentives, point system, etc.. (What color are you? Manage groups using the same math language for the middle school)
• Publish scores
• Mr. Robot as an avatar to give the assignment 
• ¨unlock"for expansion pack
• Think Tanks- kids know a lot about gaming  Ask them for their guidance ¨Prestige Ranks.¨ 
• Patch or Think Tank Day to discuss how the game is going.
• XP= experience points
• Prezi Templates- Pirate Ship.
• Pop-Up events for Bonus Points
• Use this for Teacher Professional Development
• Get feedback from teachers and students

5) STEM Education Quality Framework

• 65% of today´s  grade school kids will end up at a job hat has not been invented yet.
• There are 100,000 coding jobs available in Ohio but only 1,000 students are graduating ready to do this.
• Failing is very important.
• Design challenges.
• We need to add careers to the framework!
• STEM Quality Framework:
1. Potential for Engaging Students of Diverse Academic Backgrounds
2. Degree of STEM Integration
3. Connections to Non-STEM Disciplines
4. Integrity of the Academic Content
5. Quality of the Cognitive Task
6. Connections to STEM careers
7. Individual Accountability in a Collaborative Culture.
8. Nature of Assessment(s)
9. Application of the Engineering Design Process
10. Quality of Technology Integration
• www.daytongregionalstemcenter.org

Unit 4: SAVE TIME COMMUNICATING

Important take aways from this unit:

• Google Translate in Gmail can be very helpful to ESL students and their parents, who may not speak English at all.  The teacher can easily communicate.
• Organize your Gmail.  Add labels to help sort out the important ones.  Add mutiple labels to one e-mail.
• Save Hangout Messages from students and groups.  Use Hangout Messages to give real-time feedback for any content and answer questions.
• In Google Groups, it is beneficial to create groups so that you do can bypass Gmail's 100 email sending a day quota.  
• The four types of groups include:
• Email list
• Web forum
• Question and Answer (Q&A) forum
• Collaborative inbox

Unit 5: ORGANIZE ACTIVITIES FOR YOURSELF AND OTHERS

Take aways from this unit:

• Use Google Calendar to share with others or make it public.
• Google Keep to take notes: Has an added extension to make it easier.
• Add a Task and have it assigned in your calendar.

Unit 3: Have a (Mostly) Paperless Classroom

Important take aways from this unit:

• Be sure your device is set to "offline" to be able to work without an Internet Connection.
• Know the different reasons to choose what Google Tool you would like to use.

Unit 2: Expand Your Access to Help and Learning

Important Take Aways from these lessons:

• Google Search, Google Help, and Google Educator Groups are good places to learn and ask questions.
• PLN (Personal Learning Networks) are any teacher anywhere with whom you'd like to collaborate.  Check the Google Educator Group webpage to check for a local group or one in another country.
• To find resources, you can look for:
• Certified Trainers
• Certified Innovators
• Reference Schools
• Education Partners
• You are able to search specifically by:
• Product specialty
• School subjects
• Languages
• Student age levels
• Certifications

Unit 1: Google Certification Level 1

Some important take aways from these lessons:

• Technology does not meet the standard: it enhances it.
• As a teacher, it's ok to take a risk. The kids need to see you learning and trying also.
• Respect and Protect!
• Copyright and fair use
• Online Safety
• Communication
• Uses of Google Forms, Docs, Sheets, and Slides
• Stray away from the textbook for more up-to-date events and also make it more visually appealing and interesting using YouTube.