WOUB Team shares basics of its digital Storytelling project and shares ways to use digital storytelling across curriculum areas.

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Google Drawings is Google's least used tool especially as you move into online courses for your students. Find out how to use Google Drawing to promote interaction by creating interactive posters and drawings, collaborative comic strips for digital storytelling and even just a simple interactive whiteboard for your students to collaborate in real time during their online experience.

By using the functions of Google Forms, one can create a self-selected story by embedding different choices for each part of the story. When the student makes a selection, the story takes that direction instead. It's a create your own ending opportunity. This is both a great tool for teachers to use with students, as well as an excellent way to provide students the opportunity to write in this manner. Workshop recorded from the RemotEDx Digital Learning Conference from January, 2022. For more information about the event see https://www.smore.com/ca98b.

Google Keep allows you to save what is on your mind, and retrieve information later. Discover how to engage students to take notes, access them, and insert them into different formats.

Did you know you can make checklists, find totals, sums, and averages really quickly in Google Sheets? This tool takes productivity to the next level. During this PD you will learn how rows, columns, and cells can work for you! Caryn Kelly from SOITA shows how to use Google Sheets.

This teacher tutorial introduces K-12 educators to the interactive lesson format. Featuring videos that show teachers and students in a variety of classroom settings, the tutorial provides strategies and tips that will help educators utilize interactive lessons to engage students and enhance their teaching. This tutorial features interactive lessons from the Interactive Lessons collection.

A presentation of the benefits and potential uses for Padlet collaborative boards in the classroom.

Watch how a student uses his communication device to tell another student what he liked about her story during an Author's Chair writing activity.

video shows how to use a cloze activity to promote decoding as an effective strategy for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities in literacy instruction.

Rather than have a purpose, unstructured play is child-led, often leading to play that is creative and improvised. This article discusses the importance of unstructured play and gives tips on how to help children get this most our of unstructured playtime.

As educators move back into their classrooms socially distanced, in hybrid environments, or entirely virtual, our methodology must change. It’s crucial, though, that progressive, human-centered pedagogy is not lost. Districts have extended harmful practices into digital space intent on controlling and surveilling learning and behavior, even if that digital space terminates in a student’s bedroom. As humane educators, we must resist this systemic inertia and build an empathetic and tolerant space to work alongside students rather than against them. In this handbook, you will find twenty elements of progressive pedagogy outlined with specific methods of carrying them out.

This handbook is meant, in part, to resolve the “how” of human-centered pedagogy, offering tools and websites to structure engaged learning for our students. In the same vein, we must push back against carceral practices invading our schools: student tracking software, forcing webcams to be on and surveilling student screens, centering anti-cheating rationales, suspending students, or enforcing dress codes. Now, more than ever, educators must demand that students are treated with respect and demand respect for our profession, as market forces attempt to capitalize on a pandemic to dismantle public education.

Our Virtual Professional Learning Series is created for teachers-by teachers-to bring together content experts and educators from all backgrounds. With an emphasis on fun, engaging, accessible, and free tools for classrooms, these bite-sized opportunities are designed to connect educators with each other and PBS shows, themes, and content. With topics ranging from history to digital engagement, educators will find something they need to enhance their practice and perspective. Upon completion, PBS provides a certificate of attendance for each one-hour virtual professional learning event.

Wakelet is a free platform that allows you to save, organize and share content from across the web. Teachers can share collections directly to Google Classroom. The read mode enables students to have articles translated into 60 languages and apply accessibility tools for text preferences. This session will help you set up and account and demo key features to get started today. presentation: bit.ly/2WAKEWOSU

Together we will explore media literacy resources. We'll dive into a curated, vast collection of media literacy tools. We'll establish how we can empower our students to be proactive citizens in our digital world. We'll also explore the PBS Media Literacy Educator Certification, a new professional learning opportunity. It is a competency-based certification, earned by completing eight micro-credentials and is a way to demonstrate your expertise and receive validation for your leadership. It's free for all kinds of educators.
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Recorded webinar from March 11, 2020 presented by The Management Council. The slides from the presentation are available at https://www.dropbox.com/s/5n42colb3moo3jk/MCOECN%20Getting%20Started%20With%20Zoom%20March%2011%202020.pptx?dl=0