Greene County Schools' Lit-Tech Conference is a half-day in-house event that allows our teachers to showcase innovative strategies that are being implemented across our district on a daily basis. Conference sessions are directly connected to the NC Digital Learning Competencies for teachers.
3 years ago
Donors Choose 101: Welcome to Treasure Island
Let us help you find a treasure for your classroom! Join us as we provide introductory information as well as helpful tips about DonorsChoose.org. With all the budget cuts, teachers need an avenue to obtain classroom materials without paying out of pocket! We are here to help guide you to the X that marks the spot when it comes to finding donors who WANT to spend money to help you help your students!
Digital Breakout: Can Your Knowledge Help You Escape?
So everyone knows that the latest craze is to be trapped in a room with your friends for an hour while searching for clues to help you escape. Well, you can apply those same principles to any area of content and create fun and exciting Digital Breakout Games for your students. Come find out how and experience the fun for yourself!! We can't wait to see who has what it takes to accept the challenge!
Changing the Game: The Impact of Teaching Through Stations
We will be sharing how our classroom environment and teaching style have changed and how this change has impacted student growth. We will model our best practices by having participants rotating through modified stations.
This session focuses on the foundations of block-based coding and ideas of how to infuse coding into ANY classroom.
Different apps and strategies to construct and master both (content & vocabulary) in the different areas: 1) Use of SeeSaw to master vocabulary comprehension, 2) Peardeck with Flashcard Factory, and 3) Categorization of words. RESOURCES
Participants rotate through stations and get a hands-on experience of what coding is and how it can be applied to their classrooms. RESOURCES
Blast Off with Project-Based Learning
Does project-based learning scare you? Are you afraid to let your students take the lead in their learning? Be like Elsa and "Let it go!" Join us to learn about our journey in project-based learning and experience a project for yourself! RESOURCES
This digital breakout will allow teachers in grades 6-12 to get a hands-on approach as to what a digital breakout really looks like. They will experience the excitement for themselves. It will also provide a time for questions and an opportunity to receive resources to better help them to plan their own digital breakout.
3 years ago
Using Netsmartz, Kahoot and Nearpod we will use technology tools to learn more about teaching digital citizenship that is fun and engaging for all ages.
A way to teach and evaluate credible vs. non-credible sources as well as some other Google - fu to assist in researching. Also, utilizing Peardeck to expose teachers to this as a formative teaching tool.
3 years ago
This session will focus on creating a cloud-based Google classroom that the teacher can use to create online student portfolios. The session will also cover advanced sharing and organization skills for digital work.
We will demonstrate how to use ebooks to create engaging, high-interest lessons for guided reading, shared reading, and writing instruction. As a bonus, we will show examples of how to gather formative assessment data from these lessons. RESOURCES
How to use Plickers for quick assessments and exit tickets. We will use Plickers, make questions and explore Plickers for quick assessments. RESOURCES
We will walk teachers through the process of analyzing student errors and show them how to teach students to approach a multiple choice question and successfully answer it. Studies show that looking at why multiple answer questions are wrong, is more beneficial than looking at why they are correct. RESOURCES
This session will show teachers how to upload documents, make assignments to groups of students, and review assignments using Seesaw. Come learn all about Seesaw from the teacher's perspective.
Look Who's Talking Now will feature beginner strategies for facilitating academic discussions in the classroom. In this session, we will present strategies for creating roles and roles for discussion, creating erudite questions to ask in the discussion, as well as conversation warm-ups. RESOURCES
Look Who's Talking Too will feature more advanced strategies and activities to implement in the classroom such as Pinwheel, Socratic SmackDown, and Fishbowl. RESOURCES
No more boring presentations, no more conventional videos, no more boring vocabulary practice..help your students enhance their creativity by using different apps one by one or smashing them to create very original products. You will learn different ideas to help students practice vocabulary, concepts or create very original presentations while having fun.
Changing the Game: The Impact of Teaching Through Stations
We will be sharing how our classroom environment and teaching style have changed and how this change has impacted student growth. We will model our best practices by having participants rotating through modified stations.
Are you looking for more digital tools to add to your toolbox to get your students engaged and thinking outside of the box? Discovery Education's Spotlight On Strategies (S.O.S.) can help. Join me as we explore some unique ways to keep your digital learners engaged in the content.
Tricks and Magic for Encouraging Excitement in iReady
Providing teachers with strategies and ideas to help them engage their students with I Ready. ie - posters, competitions, data reflections/reports.
Do you want to be more tech-savvy? Often, as you learn about one tool, it changes or a better one comes along to take its place. This session will give you an opportunity to learn about a variety of tech tools that can seamlessly fit into your classroom no matter what subject you teach. Some of the tools we will focus on are Canvas, Insert Learning, Adobe Spark, Canva, Jigsaw Planet, Caption This, Icon Board, Google Slides, and more. After all is said and done, you will walk away with a gold mine of resources that are relevant, meaningful, and fulfilling.
Participants rotate through stations and get a hands-on experience of what coding is and how it can be applied to their classrooms. RESOURCES
Come One, Come All...Workstations for All!
Make it and take it centers! You will see centers for ELA and math that we use during center time in our classrooms. Participants make at least 1 center to take back with them to use in their classrooms! RESOURCES
Gradecam: Your Virtual Assistant
You always need an extra set of hands for grading papers. Let us show you how to use and implement Gradecam in a classroom. See an example of how it grades quickly by taking a test on random facts and watch it get graded in this session. See what data you can collect to help you make teaching decisions. RESOURCES
Impact of Technology on the EC Student
Avenues of technology that can be implemented using modifications to motivate EC students within the classroom. RESOURCES
3 years ago