BUILDING YOUR DIGITAL TOOLBOX 2014

Troy DavisYorktown High School

Warm Up!

Introduction

Who? Teachers What? Having and Maintaining a Digital

Toolbox When? Today Where? Everywhere Why? Meet the Needs of Today’s Learner

and Make Teacher’s Jobs Easier

Today’s Learner

Did You Know?

Today’s Teacher

21st. Century Teachers

Let’s Get Into It

Introduce today’s topics Managing and Keeping Track of Sites and Apps

for You and Your Students Storage Using the Cloud Going Paperless Student Collaboration Communication Between Teachers and

Students Making Multiple File Formats Work Automatic Grading Presentations and Video

Today’s Objectives

Set up a Symbaloo Account and Start First Webmix

Set up Dropbox Account and store a file in it Explore a variety of Student Learning

Platforms Set up a Remind101 Account Explore The Webmix created for this

workshop Network and Collaborate Make New Friends

Keeping Track

Using Symbaloo to find and create webmixes for teachers and students

It Is Your Turn

Let’s all sign up for a free Symbaloo account

After you sign up we will explore how to find and create a webmix

Now create a webmix of your own specific for your content, interest, or a topic you will teach

OMG, The Cloud

Store everything in the cloud for easy access and collaboration. 24/7 availability regardless of location or device

Best Free Cloud Storage

The Copier is Jammed!

Let’s go paperless (or as close as we can get) you can still have post-it notes.

What learning platform do you have and how are you using it?

How to integrate other platforms into your tool box.

I Hate Group Work!

Methods for sharing assignments to make collaboration seamless and excuse free!

Cool School Tools

My Teacher Never Listens

Multiple Methods to communicate with students and not give them your cell number

Talk, Talk, Talk…

Combining Multiple Files

How to merge a variety of file formats into one document

No More Grading

Ways to grade objective tests without the bubbles and No. 2 pencils

Presentations and Video

Explore multiple ways to use a variety of presentation and video tools in the classroom

Wrap Up

Start Slow Stay Current Try a Variety of Tools You Can’t Use Everything Remember It Is Not the Device it is the

Outcome Questions

Troy Davistdavis@yorktown.k12.in.us@troydavis16

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Additional Resources

All materials from this session are available on the conference website.