Microsoft's Office Sway is a multimedia tool that teachers and students can use to create engaging presentations that combine text, audio, images, and video. Bring your Microsoft account, or sign up for a free one when you get here, and create a Sway presentation to share with your classroom.
Session ResourcesGet ready to be surprised in this fast paced, top 10 focused session! Based upon the latest Speak Up Project findings from over 415,000 K-12 students, including 34,000 students from California, you will learn how students really want to use mobile devices, social media and digital content to enhance learning - key data you need to inform budgets, programs, policies and instruction.
Your students generate a tremendous amount of work online. Discover how Microsoft Sway can be used, with other online tools, to publish their work to a variety of audiences. Bring your Microsoft account, or sign up for a free one when you get here, and create an electronic portfolio that you can share with your students on Monday.
What strategies make the most impact in student learning? See classroom teachers in action, weaving media resources from CaliforniaStreaming.org into their standards based lessons.
Learn how to integrate California Streaming videos into YouTube then incorporate in GAFE. Hear about the annual California Streaming Digital Photograph Contest where students and teachers compete and eight winners are selected.
All attending will receive a free trial account to CaliforniaStreaming.
For the past 14 years, the Speak Up Research Project has collected and reported on the views of 4.5 million K-12 students, educators and parents regarding digital learning. Using current and longitudinal Speak Up data, we will provide new insights into the use of games, mobile devices and digital content within learning, and counter mythology with the authentic views of students, teachers and parents regarding technology use within instruction. Going beyond anecdotes and assumptions, this interactive and eye-opening presentation will provide leaders with new metrics for evaluating the pulse of elearning in their school or district.
Sway is a free, online, presentation and storytelling app. Students can learn and stay engaged by using Sway to be more creative with reports, assignments, projects, study materials, and portfolios. Designed to work on all devices, and is available to anyone with a free Microsoft account or an Office 365 school account.
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Does your district now have access to YouTube? Are you interested in integrating videos into your lessons? Do you want to start Flipping your classroom? Come learn how YouTube can be used to store videos, upload content, and create on online video portfolio. We will also cover how to download YouTube videos for those times when internet access is limited. Come for fun. Come for laughs. Come for an introduction to the tube. #tubesocksoptional
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