Crafting Solutions (DCMS, 2.23.16; CMS, 2.24.16)

1. Take Attendance

Use the DCMS Tech Training Attendance spreadsheet or the CMS Tech Training Attendance spreadsheet to mark your attendance.

2. Identifying Needs and Creating Solutions

No matter how many years we've taught and how well we've planned our units, there are always weak spots, spots where students' attention wains or where students just don't grasp the content as well as we'd like.

Think of one of these areas now. Identify a need in one of your units and brainstorm possible solutions - do you need a quiz? a video? an activity? a puzzle? Is there an app or activity that will help fill this need?

OUR OBJECTIVE is to demonstrate an understanding of increasing student engagement in our classrooms by identifying a weak spot in a unit and creating an activity to address this weakness.

3. Breaking It Down By Team

Which device do you need? It mostly depends on what your team is doing and, more specifically, what you will be doing during this time. Bring the device you think you need to work best (probably laptop in most cases), but it never hurts to bring both!

DCMS

• Odyssey 
• Work Time - Solutions to Problems (Quizizz, Nearpod, etc)
• Explorers
• Schoology, Part 3 - Time to set up and get started, as well as SMART board tips
• Spartans
• Work Time, Part 2 - Solutions to Problems (Quizizz, TeleStory, Showbie, Conferences)
• Olympians/ESL
• Showbie, Part 2 - follow up; time to get set up; Blogging
• Voyagers
• Work Time - Solutions to Problems (Quizizz, Nearpod, etc)
• Defenders
• Work Time - Solutions to Problems (Quizizz, Nearpod, etc)
• All Stars
• Flipped Classrooms, Part 2 - Quizizz & videoing yourself

CMS

• Bison
• ?
• Electives
• Flipped/Blended, Part 3 - Video Show & Tell!!
• Sunflowers
• Plickers, Part 2 - Update on Plickers and work time
• Twisters
• Flipped/Blended, Part 2
• Honeybees
• Blogging, Part 2 - Making decisions about class blogs & starting to set up
• Angelopes/Jayhawkers
• Twitter 101 - Bring your iPads!

4. The Challenge

Challenge yourself to implement at least a small part of your project in your classroom so you can start to see where the bugs are. Remember that introducing a new activity, especially one technology related, takes time - a lot of time the first time you do it. It WILL get faster!!!!

5. Feedback

Let me know how team tech can work better for you. Leave your anonymous feedback here.

Wednesday's Team Tech Time (CMS, 2.10.16)

1. Take Attendance

Access your CMS Tech Training Attendance spreadsheet (this link, your Starred drive, searching in Google Drive) and mark your attendance

2. Our Objective

OUR OBJECTIVE today is to learn more about a specific site, app, or skill (depending upon our team's agenda) and how that app, site or skill will allow us to more effectively deliver content, engage our students, or assess their learning in the classroom. We will demonstrate our learning by applying it concretely to a new or existing lesson and sharing our learning with our colleagues.

PARTICIPANTS WILL DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF _______ BY APPLYING IT TO A NEW OR EXISTING CLASSROOM ACTIVITY.

3. Team Agendas

• Bison
• Quizizz
• Electives
• Flipped/Blended, Part 2
• Bring your video idea & let's make videos!
• Sunflowers
• Plickers, Part 1
• Twisters
• Flipped/Blended, Part 1 
• Quizizz
• Honeybees
• Blogging (Weebly), Part 1
• 8th Grade
• FileMaker, Part 1

4. Our Challenge

As you work through this next week, apply what you've learned in team tech today. Use your new or tweaked lesson to see where it's effective and where the snags are. Come back to team tech on 2/17/16 ready to share with us. It's amazing what we learn from each other!!!

5. Feedback!

Let me know how team tech time can better work for your! Leave your anonymous feedback here.

Tuesday's Team Tech Time (DCMS, 2.9.16)

1. Take Attendance

Access your DCMS Tech Training Attendance spreadsheet (this link, your Starred drive, searching in Google Drive) and mark your attendance

2. Our Objective

OUR OBJECTIVE today is to learn more about a specific site, app, or skill (depending upon our team's agenda) and how that app, site or skill will allow us to more effectively deliver content, engage our students, or assess their learning in the classroom. We will demonstrate our learning by applying it concretely to a new or existing lesson and sharing our learning with our colleagues.

PARTICIPANTS WILL DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF _______ BY APPLYING IT TO A NEW OR EXISTING CLASSROOM ACTIVITY.

3. Team Agendas

• Odyssey
• Quizizz
• Nearpod
• Explorers
• Schoology
• Smart Boards
• Spartans
• (Work Time, Part 1)
• Quizizz
• TeleStory
• Showbie for Conferences
• Conferences
• Olympians/ESL
• ThingLink report from Lisa
• Showbie
• Blogging
• Conferences
• Voyagers
• QR Codes
• Defenders
• Quizizz
• All Stars
• iTunesU show & tell - Beth
• Quizizz
• Flipped/Blended Classroom (videoing yourself)

4. Our Challenge

As you work through these next 2 weeks, apply what you've learned in team tech today. Use your new or tweaked lesson to see where it's effective and where the snags are. Come back to team tech on 2/23/16 ready to share with us. It's amazing what we learn from each other!!!

5. Feedback!

Let me know how team tech time can better work for your! Leave your anonymous feedback here.

Flipped/Blended Classrooms, Part 1 (CMS Electives, 2.3.16)

1. Take Attendance

Let Kara take care of this today. You go ahead and get started with the agenda. That's right. Don't wait for everyone to come in. Jump right in by yourself or with a partner. Proceed to Steps 2 & 3 now!

2. Our Objective

Our objective today is to demonstrate an understanding of how flipped/blended learning might be effective in our classrooms by discussing its advantages with team members.

3. Our Agenda

We are going to fully immerse ourselves in this flipped/blended environment by experiencing our team tech session today via flipped/blended learning!

Go to the Teachers Are Going to Lecture Google slides presentation by clicking on the link in this sentence. Complete the activities on each slide, and you may work with a partner if you'd like.

Troubleshooting: When I tested this link, my iPad opened the Google slide presentation in Safari in presentation mode, which is great because the links work in presentation mode only (not in editing mode). If for some reason your iPad opens the slide presentation in Google Slides in edit mode, look for presentation mode (upper right, maybe) and run the slide show there.

4. Our Challenge

As we move through this week and into the next week, challenge yourself to flip a few things here or there. Try flipping bellwork or a lecture activity. Just pick one area. How can you automate this one item to, in a sense, clone yourself and also allow for differentiation and student absences?

5. Feedback!

As always, leave your anonymous feedback here.