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.