2016 Sessions at Roosevelt High School

Melissa Lim
Creating Culture by Design
Get ideas for how to leverage the use of some fun Google Apps in your classroom.

Teachers

Corin Richards
Google Docs 101
Just starting out with Google Apps (now G Suite)? Corin will walk you through Drive, Docs, and beginner tips for the whole suite.

Everyone

Mike Nye
The Cardboard Experience
Virtual reality has come a long way and is starting to make its way into our classrooms. Google Cardboard is a fun and affordable way to get you and your students immersed in an endless virtual world, from riding roller coasters, to visiting the depths of the sea, to hiking Machu Picchu. And it doesn’t stop there. Smartphone apps and 360\u00ba cameras allow students to create their own virtual worlds that can be shared and enjoyed by others. Come explore the core components of Google Cardboard, take a trip or two to a far off (virtual) land, and begin brainstorming the potential of VR in your classroom.

Ben Mabbott
Account Automation with Google Apps Directory Sync
Learn to automate your account creation, modifications, and deletions/suspensions using Google Apps Directory Sync. Never upload a CSV file again!

Nora Trentacoste
Google Tools for Everyone: Access to Common Core, Smarter Balanced Assessments and More
Learn about Read&Write, the literacy software that increases the accessibility of text for learners of all ages. We’ll download the Read&Write for Google Chrome extension, find out how to bring your texts into Google Drive with Snapverter, learn about great accessible online open resources, and accommodate different learning styles using the Read&Write for Google Toolbar.

Bonus:
*Play Read&Write BINGO with hyperdocs: win fun prizes!
*Be eligible for a free educator access to Read&Write for Google Chrome; get free text to speech student tools for GAFE
*Be eligible for free educator access to Read&Write for iPad and Read&Write for Android apps

All Users

Teachers

John Gordon
Getting Started with Google Classroom
This will be an introduction to using google classroom. (Session Slides)

Teachers

Gail Moore
Electric Slides
Interactive Google Slides for Personalized Learning are the best. Come learn how to build and use them in your classroom!

Teachers

Todd Cherner
Top Notch Google Apps: Digital Tools to Showcase Student Learning
With so many Google apps available, the variety of apps teachers can use in their classroom can be overwhelming. There are apps for mind mapping, grading work, presenting content, composing documents, creating artwork, playing instruments, managing classes, and so much more! This presentation will first provide teachers a framework for classifying apps as a tool for providing students with access to content, creating a digital learning artifact, or practicing a foundational skill. To support attendees, the presenter will demonstrate apps that can be accessed from Google Drive, which align to these different classifications, and explain how these apps could be used in the classroom.

Teachers

Google Guru
Heidi Earle

Jeremy Macdonald
Google Drive 101
In this lightning quick look at Drive, you’ll learn how folders are out and searching is in. But wait, you’ll also learn about folders. (Folders are dead. Long live folders!) Seriously, we’ll talk organization and management for busy people.

Angela Adzima
Elementary Google Classroom 101
Learn to organize student work and digital assignments with ease using Google classroom. I will share how I have used Google classroom in my 3rd and 5th grade classrooms. Participants will understand how make digital assignments easy to manage and fun for both the learner and the teacher.

Teachers

Jeff Kurtz
You can do THAT with Slides?!?!?!
Did you know that you could do so much more than presentations with Google Slides? Posters, apps, and more…. Come hang out with Jeff and learn!

Marita Ingalsbe
Coordinating a Large Team (or Project) Using Google Docs
We have been facilitating a statewide, multi-district project team since 2011 using Google Docs. Join me to learn our tools, strategies, successes, and learning moments.

Matthew Marchyok
Google Forms
Google Forms are an accessible, easy-to-use, easy-to-learn way to gather information. We’ll build a form together and explore the great features of this powerful tool!

Larry Workman
Learn to Read & Write in a Digital World
In this session learn how Special Education, ELL and any teacher can use the Google Chrome Extension Read & Write in the classroom to create vocabulary lists, study guides or just simply convert text to speech using one of the most powerful tools available in education. If you haven’t used Read and Write to help your struggling readers then come see how speech to text and extracting text from PDF, images and even video has never been easier; and better yet… it’s free for teachers! (Teachers/SPED/ELL)

Mike Nye
The Cardboard Playground
Not sure about this idea of VR and what’s on the horizon? Come join Mike to try out cardboard!

Teachers

Google Guru
Renee S Ferguson

Ned Harkness
Classroom Newsletters – For Beginners
Using Google Docs and Forms to create and share a simple, student-created classroom newsletter.

All Users

Jeremy Macdonald Hurricane Chrome!
The effects of giving teachers JUST a Chromebook.
What happens when you tell a bunch of secondary teachers that their teaching device is now a Chromebook? HURRICANE CHROME happens! It’s been a tumultuous start to an already crazy school year and I want to share our experience thus far. Not every teacher has been happy and there have been promises kept and broken along the way…but like a fine wine, things are getting better with time. If you’ve ever considered doing something similar or you think I’m crazy, come join the discussion!

Corin Richards
20 Ideas for YouTube in 30 Minutes
In this lightning quick look at YouTube, we’ll tour through classroom ideas for young and older.

Chris Buja
GAFE Analytics
Hapara offers a preview of analytics which will release later in October: analytics gives insight into student growth in 21 Century skills such as collaboration and communications/feedback back to a district’s initial implementation of Google Apps for Education. Analytics also illuminates which policies (e.g., Chromebook deployment or PD sessions) influence student progress. These analytics do not require that a district uses the Hapara Dashboard suite.

Teachers

Larry Workman 
Cast Your Class Real Fast
Learn how to integrate Google cast for Education into your classroom to allow student presentations to flow to the front of the room without leaving their desks. If you are familiar with how Chromecast works you will fall in love with Google Cast for education!

Teachers

Rachel Wente-Chaney
Google Calendar for Districts, Schools, and Teams
Google Calendar wins mobile and mobile is where our students, parents, and community are. In this session, we’ll take a quick tour through examples of great Google calendars in use around our state. We’ll walk through how to create one and share publicly. And then we’ll talk about getting your stakeholders subscribed, engaged, and in the loop!

Google Guru
Stephen Rouffy

Ben Mabbott
Enterprise Chomebook Management
Learn to manage a fleet of Chromebooks using the Google Admin Console. We’ll cover what options are available to manage both users and devices, and best practices to make your environment run smoothly.

Technology Staff

Melissa Lim
Differentiating Learning with Google Apps
Get ideas for how to use Google Apps to differentiate learning for students and adults.

All Users

Leigh Morlock
Intro To Hapara
Learn about Hapara and why (and how) to use it with GAFE (G Suite).

Teachers

Angela Adzima
Managing Video Game Design using Google Apps 
I will share how I manage my students Gamestar Mechanic video game design unit using classroom, forms, and docs. The video game design unit integrates technology use with narrative writing, engineering and design, and mathematical practices.

Teachers

Darren Hudgins
360 Degrees in 75 Minutes 
360-degree videos are growing in popularity and practical application. They can be viewed on the web, on mobile devices, and in virtual reality headsets. We’ll spend this session exploring a playlist of videos focused on education and creating an annotated list of our favorites! Yes, you’re reading this right. Come watch videos, laugh, and learn at the end of a full day of brain stuffing!

All Users

Jeremy Macdonald
Design Thinking with G Suite for Education
Learning is a process, not an result. Design Thinking is a way to engage students in the learning process while finding creative and meaningful solutions in the world around them. Come for a quick crash course — ask questions, design a solution, learn a lot! (All while using G Suite as your foundation).

Matthew Marchyok
Google Classroom
Join Matthew for an in-depth look at Google Classroom, the document management system that’s quickly evolving into a learning management system. He’ll share how-tos, examples, and help you get your own class up and running!

Teachers

Stephen Rouffy
Data Mash using Sheets-Sites-Apps Scripts
Take multiple large reports and merge them to create a usable data source for everything from other sheets to google sites.

All Users

Google Guru
Michael Allen