| Virtual iTeach808 Conference on Saturday, January 23, 2021 | Register HERE to receive the Zoom links: | | | | | |
| Time (45 minute) | Title | Description | App/Website | Early Childhood | Grades 1-3 | Grades 4-6 | Grades 7+ |
| 8:00 AM | (KEYNOTE) Authentic Learning in the Age of COVID | We will look at stories, research and concrete examples of how teachers are designing and implementing engaging experiences - even virtually! | TBA | x | x | x | x |
| 9:00 AM | iMovie Basics for iPhone | A beginner's guide to editing movies in iMovie using an iPhone. NOTE: This is very basic and similar to what I covered in past iTeach808 conferences. | iMovie (iPhone app) | x | x | x | x |
| 9:00 AM | Inspiring STEM Learning for Young Girls: Technology, Curriculum, and Teaching Strategies | Early childhood and early elementary school is a pivotal time to begin fostering girls’ positive attitudes and experiences with STEM. This workshop will explore hands-on technologies, picture books, and curriculum that can be used to positively engage girls – and children of any gender – in STEM from PK-2nd grade. Additionally, this workshop will address effective teaching and role-modeling strategies to break gender stereotypes and biases in STEM. | DevTech Research Group Website, ScratchJr App, KIBO Robotics, Dash/Dot, Unplugged CS, etc. | x | x | | |
| 9:00 AM | Intro to Google Docs | Learn your way around Google’s word processor, as well as some tips and tricks to make your life and pedagogy easier. | Google Docs | | | x | x |
| 9:00 AM | Peardeck & Nearpod: Interactive and Engaging Slides Presentations | Using Peardeck, we can create interactive slides for students to answer questions and give important feedback in real time, or for a later date which works well for synchronous asynchronous, and hybrid teaching. Using this tool we can transform our own presentations or use existing ones shared by other teachers for content or SEL. Students enjoy interacting and answering questions without the social pressure and we enjoy knowing what they understand or retain in the moment! | Peardeck & Nearpod | | | x | x |
| 9:00 AM | Super Seesaw Basics | Learn the basics of Seesaw - the amazing digital portfolio tool everyone is talking about - and how to use it in your classroom to connect with families & help your students make their thinking & learning visible. This workshop is for Seesaw beginners and you'll have to time to play, explore and get your Seesaw questions answered! | Seesaw | x | x | x | |
| 10:00 AM | Google Drive: Basics, Organizational Tips, and Sharing | Learn the basics of Google Drive, some tips on how to efficiently and simply organize your files and folders, and the do's and don't's of sharing items on your Drive. | Google Drive | x | x | x | x |
| 10:00 AM | Google Jamboard for Class Collaboration | Using Google's free Jamboard, promote collaboration, communication and inquiry in real time with your students! | Jamboard | | | x | x |
| 10:00 AM | Loom for Teaching & Learning | Loom is a handy Chrome extension that allows users to make a quick screencast or a video recording (with or without a webcam). As an educator, you can use Loom for various instructional goals, such as intro videos, demo tutorials, provide personalized feedback to students, answer FAQs, troubleshooting, help parents navigate educational platforms, virtual orientation, etc. This easy and free screen recorder has a great potential for teaching and learning. Let’s make communication more effective with video messaging. | Loom (Chrome extension) | x | x | x | x |
| 10:00 AM | Playful Robotics & Coding for Young Children: Screen-Free Technology and Games for Children in PK-2nd Grade | Beginning in pre-kindergarten, children can successfully learn foundational engineering, coding, and computational thinking concepts – all without a tablet or computer! This workshop will introduce unplugged games, kits, and approaches to support early coding. Participants will gain extended experience with the KIBO Robotics Kit which is programmed with a tangible block-based language- no screen time required! | KIBO Robotics, Robot Turtles, Beebot, Codeapillar, CS Unplugged | x | x | | |
| 10:00 AM | Social Media Hacks: For your club or organization | Tips on how to promote educational clubs and organizations on social media effectively and safely. | Instagram | | | | x |
| 11:00 AM | Creating & Sharing Media with Young Learners | Kids learn best when they're able to create to share their thinking and learning. In this workshop, we'll explore digital tools that make creating media with young learners easy & fun! | ChatterPix Kids, Seesaw, Flipgrid, Khan Academy Kids, PicCollage EDU | x | x | | |
| 11:00 AM | Creating with Canva for Education | From creating worksheets to posters and presentations, Canva for Education is a FREE drag-and-drop design platform perfect for remote learning and teaching. No design experience is needed, as there are thousands of templates available. Teachers may apply for a free Canva for Education subscription at https://support.canva.com/account-basics/canva-for-education/apply-canva-for-education/. | https://www.canva.com/education/ | x | x | x | x |
| 11:00 AM | Digital Stories, Games, and Collages: Using ScratchJr with Young Children | ScratchJr is a free programming language for children in K-2nd grade to explore foundational coding concepts. This workshop will provide an introduction to the app and how it works. It will explore different ScratchJr curriculum topics and activities that explore literacy and self-expression through coding. | www.scratchjr.org | x | x | | |
| 11:00 AM | Google Sites: Make Your First Website! | Learn how to easily and quickly design, build, and publish a website using Google Sites! | Google Sites | x | x | x | x |
| 11:00 AM | PBS Learning Media: For the teacher, parent, and student | During this session we will explore the resources embedded in PBS Learning media and how they can be matched with other PBS Kids resources. Opportunities to apply new knowledge will be available. | PBS Learning Media | x | x | x | x |
| 12:00 PM | Building Early Learners' Literacy Skills with iPad | In this interactive session, discover new ways to enhance early learner's literacy skills with the power of iPad. Explore how iPad supports readiness standards, language skills and can help close the learning gaps in any kind of environment. Experience fresh ways to blend iPads features and Apps into the creation of digital workbooks, literacy centers, or personalized virtual tasks. | Pages, Keynote, Clips | x | x | | |
| 12:00 PM | Hawaii Distance Learning Forum | In April 2020, educators had to learn how to conduct distance learning on the flip of a coin. With no experiences or resources to share, Ashley Mika Ito, wanted to bring Hawaii's community of educators together. The Hawaii Distance Learning Forum was born and we have achieved so much that goes beyond just distance learning. | hidistancelearning.org | x | x | x | x |
| 12:00 PM | Independent Reading Resources in the Digital Environment | Support student independent reading practice by expanding access beyond print books. In this session, we will examine how ebooks and audiobooks can benefit readers and sources for these exciting digital resources. | Sora, Libby, GetEpic.com, Storyline Online, Unite for Literacy, KidLit TV, World Book Online, Project Gutenberg | x | x | x | x |
| 12:00 PM | Padlet: sharing our learning, together | Padlet is a fun way to share information with, and collect work from, our students. In this session, we'll take a look at how to create and share a Padlet, and you'll be able to make and "take" one with you! | Padlet.com | x | x | x | x |
| 12:00 PM | Virtual Round Robins with Google Slides | Google Slides are an excellent way to engage all students, whether virtual or hybrid, in a class discussion or the paper writing process. This workshop demonstrates how Google Slides can be used as a tool to build on each other's ideas and a manner of active engagement, and not just a mode of presentation. | Google Slides | | | | x |
| 1:00 PM | Engaging Students with Virtual Classrooms | Learn how to create virtual space for teaching and learning using Google Slides, bitmoji, and other digital tools. | Google Slides, Bitmoji, Flipgrid, Screencastomatic | x | x | x | x |
| 1:00 PM | Engineering and Coding through Virtual Model Homes | Using only one website, this workshop will demonstrate how to effectively teach fundamentals of engineering and coding to online and/or in-person students. Students will dabble in topics in mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering and apply them to model a tiny, smart home. | tinkercad.com | | | | x |
| 1:00 PM | For the Win: Gamification Ideas for Your Class | This session will cover ideas to gamify your class that will excite your students, add competition to the classroom and more. Gamification is more than dressing up your class with fun, but it is a technique that engages students and transforms your teaching practice. | Quizizz, Quizlet, Flippity and more | x | x | x | x |
| 1:00 PM | Google Forms Basics: Survey, Quiz, and More | Google Forms is a fantastic tool to gather data in many ways and for many purposes–as a temperature check, formative assessment, quiz, survey, feedback, and more. This presentation will go over the basics of setting up a Google Form, the different features available, how to access and use the data gathered, and how to share with others. | Google Forms | | | x | x |
| 1:00 PM | Google Slides: Tips and Basic Slide Design | Come learn some of the tools available in Google Slides to create a professional presentation. Some of the topics covered are: sharing features, using add-ons and closed captioning. Tips on good slide design will also be presented. | Google Slides | x | x | x | x |
| 2:00 PM | Building Community, Connections, Relationships: SEL - Focused Yoga + Mindfulness Practices | Yoga and mindfulness can be powerful ways to increase positive social
experiences and equip you and your students with social skills in
distance learning and modified on-campus learning environments.
This workshop, along with an accompanying toolkit, are designed to give you simple yoga and mindfulness tools that you can use throughout your in-person or online school day to create community, deepen connections, and build relationships between you and your students. | yogaed.com | x | x | x | x |
| 2:00 PM | Formative Assessment Marketplace | Time to sharpen your understanding and use of assessment! In this workshop we will use readings, routines and protocols to examine a broad range of assessments, see them in action and generate a list of new and exciting resources to bring back to our professional work. We will focus on ways to utilize virtual tools!
| GSuite, Padlet, FlipGrid, Mentimeter, Jamboard, Explain Everything | | x | x | x |
| 2:00 PM | Free Online Resources for Culture and Place-Based Curriculum & Research | This workshop will provide an overview of a variety of online resources for culture and place-based curriculum and research in Hawai'i | Ulukau, Hawai'i Alive, Wehewehe/Wehewehe Wikiwiki, ʻUluʻulu, ʻŌiwi TV, Ava Konohiki | | | x | x |
| 2:00 PM | Won't You Be My Neighbor: How Travel Meets Technology | Students will develop descriptive critical analysis writing skills through multiple literacies and media, using VR/AR/Mixed Media. The emphasis will be in food and travel literature. | YouTube, Google Classroom, Facebook, IG, FlipGrid | | | | x |
| 2:00 PM | EdTech SLAM | Learn how to get creative as I teach you how to create an animated Bitmoji banner, remove the background from a picture, and use Jamboard. | Google Classroom, Google Slides, Remove.bg, Jamboard | x | x | x | x |
| 3:00 PM | 15 FREE Digital Tools for Teaching & Learning (K-6) | Come explore some of the best digital tools for teaching & learning for the elementary level (K-6). Key features of each app/website will be highlighted so audience members will get a glimpse of how each could be used to enhance teaching & learning during these unprecedented times. All apps and websites presented in this session are FREE digital resources! | TBA | x | x | x | |
| 3:00 PM | Adobe Spark for Educators: Post, Page, Video | Are you tired of limited options for your students to express their creativeness virtually? No need to look or sigh much further; Adobe Spark for Education is a free tool to use with your students. They can create anything from flyers, to slideshows, to websites! | spark.adobe.com | | | x | x |
| 3:00 PM | All the Feels: Social and Emotional Learning Strategies | Join me as I highlight some of my favorite resources from a PBS Virtual Professional Learning Series centered around Social and Emotional Learning Strategies for Early Learners. Participants will gain teaching tools on strategies for validating students feelings through naming, rating, and regulating their feelings in face-to-face, hybrid or virtual learning spaces. | https://padlet.com/PBSKIDS/selstrategies | x | x | | |
| 3:00 PM | Tools For Students To Analyze Data: Mathematical Modeling and Visualization | We will look at free tools like Desmos, Graphical Analysis, GapMinder and Wolfram Alpha and explore how they provide opportunities for students to actively apply important mathematical concepts
| Desmos, Graphical Analysis, GapMinder, Wolfram Alpha | | | | x |
| 3:00 AM | General Online Security Tips For Children and Adults | In this increasingly online world, being secure is paramount. From all the hacks and scams that happen on the news, being prepared is the best line of defense. This workshop will go over some general tips and tricks you can use to better protect yourself from bad actors online. | N/A | x | x | x | x |
