This session will provide a hands-on learning experience focused on how administrators can advance their use and efficiency of Google Tools, Chrome Browser and Extensions to optimize workflow, enhance collaborative learning and model effective technology use.  The session is geared towards leaders with an intermediate command of G-Suite and want to take it to the next level.

All things Google!  Come explore this hands-on playground and learn about the many fun, free and creative ways to get the most out of Google products.  In this engaging playground, you will have an opportunity to move from station to station earning your “Passport to Learning” stamps.  Come and join the fun and return to your school district as a super Google hero!

Stations:

1. Add-ons & Extensions

Join us to see real examples of lessons prepared with Google Slides with Pear Deck add-ons. You will be able to interact as students to get a taste of all the different options Pear Deck offers, not just for presenting material, but also to obtain formative and summative assessments.  Instead of static informational slides, you will see interactive slides that will allow full participation with 100% engagement. A code will be given to you to allow them to participate in a presentation from your device.

2. Google Draw

We used Google Draw to make games based off questions about literature and inferencing. The students would put the answers choices on shapes then the player would move the shape to reveal if they were correct or not.  Game makers would have the words correct or try again behind the answers.

3. Google Drive

Having an organized google drive can help you keep any information you need at your fingertips. In this session, have your mind blown by some basic tips that can help keep your google drive manageable.

4. Google Jamboard

Learn how to spark Innovation using Jamboard and Design Thinking Sprints.

5. Google Keep

Google Keep is a versatile digital note and reminder app that can have a significant impact in the classroom. Learn how to make yours and your students’ life easier with Google Keep for grading and note taking!

6. Google Photos

Capture your classroom memories with Google Photos!  Not using Google Photos yet?  Come to this Idea Spark to get some ideas started for how you can use Google Photos right now both professionally and personally!

7. Google Sheets

Do you ever wish that you could send personalized emails to 100+ students and their family quicker? How about encourage a greater response to class-wide messages? Send out more personal missing work reports, course updates, or accolades en masse? Yet Another Mail Merge can do all that! By doing a bit of work on the front end to set-up a spreadsheet with contact emails, all the above becomes a breeze! Come learn how easy it is to send personal messages to all your students and families.

8. Google Sites

Using Google Sites for digital portfolios for students to do student led conferences is amazing!  You’ll learn how to help your students create their own site and make a template/page for each subject with reflection stems and the ability to add artifacts and reflections throughout the year.  Use this great learning tool for both parents and students for your own student led conferences.

9. Google Slides

Creating a digital scrapbook is a wonderful way for students to showcase their understanding. You’ll learn how to set up & share a scrapbook template with Google Slides, and then how your students will be able to use and interact with the digital scrapbook.

Would you like to ignite your Gen Z students’ passion for engaged learning? Join Naomi Harm for some of latest and greatest mind-blowing computer science teaching strategies and learning activities on the planet! In this energized session, Naomi will immerse you in the “why” of computer science and share the STEAM and STEM toys, tools, and transformative teaching activities of choice that you can use to personalize an engaged learning experience for each of your Gen Z and Alpha students.