Professional Development Sessions
9/1/16 3:45-5:45 Room D17
Office 365: Everything 365 - Advanced Are you ready to take it to the next level? Find out what Office 365 has to offer students, teachers, and PLC teams. This fast paced sessions will cover advanced One Drive sharing, utilizing the Video portal, searching in Delve, MS Forms, and Skype for Business. Learn how to pin favorite apps that sync with Single Sign-On. Participants are encouraged to have knowledge of Office 365 email, calendar, and groups when enrolling in this session. *Beginning Office 365 and One Drive training is a prerequisite for this session.
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9/19/16 3:45-4:45 Room D17
Shmoop Shmoop University is a program free to RCS students and teachers that provides a diverse set of resources for both teachers and students. In this session you will learn how to create classes and get your students enrolled in Shmoop, explore the Shmoop Test Prep database which includes ACT, SAT, TN Ready, and AP course tests, and assign Shmoop courses to students. Shmoop courses and teaching guides provide teachers with lesson plans complete with essay questions, activities, quizzes, and discussion topics that teachers can use anytime.
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8/16/16 3:45-4:45 Room D17
Office 365 One Drive for Collaboration-Beginning Session-Use Office 365 for instruction collaboration, assignments, communication, and more. This session highlights best practices for utilizing Office 365’s collaborative features to help you integrate them to increase the effectiveness of PLCs as well as classroom instruction. OneDrive provides users with unlimited cloud based storage so there is no more need of CDs or thumb drives. This is an exciting free tool that can greatly enhance your classroom experiences
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8/11/16 3:45-4:45 Room D17
Weebly Webpage - A Teacher's Website: Creating a Virtual Class Outside the Classroom Teacher websites can be used for so much more than posting standards and keeping a calendar. A website can become a virtual learning environment accessible to students from anywhere and at all times, if we build in some key elements. Find out how your website can be used for presenting material, completing make-up work, and differentiating instruction.
This workshop offers ideas for creating a Rutherford County Schools web site to link from the school landing page using the approved Weebly platform. http://education.weebly.com/ |
8/9/16 3:45-4:45 Room D17
Edmodo Basics Edmodo provides a safe and easy way for your class to connect and collaborate, share content, and more. Edmodo uses sign up codes unique to individual classes and schools, which prevents outsiders from joining. Edmodo also integrates with Office 365, so you will have a one log-in process. Come see why so many teachers and students are already using this user-friendly program.
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4/11/16 3:45-4:45 Room G21
Digital Portfolios |
ONLINE PD Complete at your own pace. Window for completion: 4/11/16 - 4/25/16
Getting Started with Document Based Questioning This online PD is for high school and middle school social studies and language arts. Would you like for your students to be history detectives? This online PD will show you how to use document based questioning to guide students through an exploration of your subject while engaging in higher order thinking. Participants will become familiar with the concepts of document based questioning and teaching with primary sources. Participants will walk away with resources and lesson plans to help them get started using DBQ's in the classroom. When signing up for an online PD, you have two weeks to complete the required activities.
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ONLINE PD Complete at your own pace. Window for completion: 3/7/16 - 3/21/16
Getting Started with Document Based Questioning This online PD is for high school and middle school social studies and language arts. Would you like for your students to be history detectives? This online PD will show you how to use document based questioning to guide students through an exploration of your subject while engaging in higher order thinking. Participants will become familiar with the concepts of document based questioning and teaching with primary sources. Participants will walk away with resources and lesson plans to help them get started using DBQ's in the classroom. When signing up for an online PD, you have two weeks to complete the required activities.
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3/2/16 3:45-4:45 Room G21
Britannica Resources for High School Classrooms and Libraries Britannica School has many new and trusted resources for you and your students to access from school or home! Great articles, multimedia pieces, primary sources, maps, and our new Resource Packs in My Britannica just to name a few! Join us on this webinar to learn all about using these great Britannica resources in your classroom or library!
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1/26/16 3:45-5:15 Room G21
Infographics- A Digital Research Project Alternative Are you tired of reading research papers and seeing the same kinds of presentations? Come learn about a great alternative ... Infographics! You will explore several different websites and learn how to create and grade graphic representations of students' research. These can also be used as an extension of existing projects and assignments.
TEAM Strand: Motivating Students |
1/21/16 3:45-5:15 Room G21
Let’s Give Them Something to Talk About - Motivate Students with Audio and Video in the Classroom Explore the wealth of existing free instructional audio and video resources. Quickly download or easily edit video and audio files that can be embedded into your curriculum. Customize existing online content to maximize instruction, collaborate, and save preparation time. Explore free user friendly tools to record your own video or audio files. This is great for blended learning that will increase student motivation.
TEAM: Motivating Students, Activities and Materials |
12/15/15 3:45-5:15 Room G21
OneNote Class Notebook Organize and share your files electronically using Office 365 One Note. Learn how you can create OneNote notebooks for cloud based organizations and file sharing. Dig deeper to deliver curriculum and collaborate with students and colleagues. This is a tool you've got to see!
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12/7/15 3:45-5:15 Room G21
Excel - Basics for Visual Representation and Data Analysis Learn the basics of Microsoft Excel 2013 by learning ways to increase productivity and maximize visual representation and data analysis in the classroom. This training is designed for learners who are new to excel. Goals for this session are: learn basic terminology, data entry, data analysis, explanation of basic excel tools, and basic formatting tasks. Participants of this session will be able to create a basic spreadsheet and format it using the basic tools of excel
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11/23/15 3:45-5:45 Room G21
Nearpod: The interactive presentation program for BYOD Trying to figure out how to integrate BYOD into your everyday lessons? Looking for a way to make your PowerPoint presentations engaging? Come learn about Nearpod! You can import your pre-existing PowerPoint presentations and embed formative questions, polls, videos, and quizzes. Students access your presentation on their devices and you get great data reports after each presentation. Free and easy to use ... leave this session with a lesson ready to go!
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Are you ready to take it to the next level? Find out what Office 365 has to offer to students, teachers, and PLC teams. This fast paced sessions will cover advanced One Drive sharing, utilizing the Video portal, searching in Delve, and Skype for Business. Participants are encouraged to have knowledge of Office 365 email, calendar, and groups when enrolling in this session.
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