VaSCL Virtual Workshops

Brand new to Google Classroom? Want to see how you can foster efficient learning and feedback? This is the session for you! Participants in Classroom 101 can start off as complete novices and end with their very own class ready to use with students. Users will need access to a G Suite for Education account.

Topics include:

• Creating a class
• Making Assignments
• Organize your class with topics
• Adding students
• Themes

Learn how to supercharge your Google Classroom as we build an organized and responsive class. We’ll look at setting up your class, adding different types of resources, and giving enriching feedback, as well as other tips and tricks. This workshop is designed for educators who have some experience or familiarity with Google Classroom.

Topics include:

• Different types of posts
• Organize your class with topics
• Other ways to bundle learning for students
• Creating quizzes and importing their results
• Giving feedback in assignments
• Mobile app
• Future updates that will come your way

This workshop is designed for educators who have some experience or familiarity with Google Classroom. All participants should have created a class prior to the session. Participants who are not already familiar with Google Classroom can learn how to create a class by following this link [youtu.be/xUF9c5sk4YY]. During this session we’ll explore how to add different types of resources, give enriching feedback, invite parents to participate, and use Google Meet, as well as learn other tips and tricks that will super-charge your Google Classroom.

Our goal as educators is to serve all of our students -- regardless of their learning abilities, skills or needs. This session focuses on simple and easy tools that all teachers can leverage to improve learning for all of their students.

Topics will include:

• Accessibility features in commonly used education tools like Google and Flipgrid
• Chrome Extensions that provide simple access for all
• Other tips and tricks

Districts around the country are emphasizing the importance of instructional flexibility and student interests and curiosity over prescribed lesson plans. By using Choice Boards and Hyperdocs, teachers can facilitate learning that straddles the line between structured standards and flexibility while emphasizing a holistic, child-centered experience for our learners. Participants will explore examples of Choice Boards & Hyperdocs, review best practices, and receive multiple templates to use.

One of our biggest opportunities while remote teaching is connecting with our students to lend a sense of normalcy. Both Hangouts Meet & Flipgrid are simple, safe, free, and cross-platform resources that you can use to check in with your students and create synchronous or asynchronous conversations. Plus, both are full of accessibility tools that you’ll love. Examples will be differentiated by grade bands.

In this session, participants will get an overview of how both Google Docs and Google Slides work, as well as some instructional design challenges to try out.  Topics covered will include getting started in Drive, creating a new file, basic features of Docs and Slides, as well as challenges.  This session will also touch on accessibility features that are built into these two Google tools, research strategies that make everything easier, and other best practices.

Google Forms is one of Adam Seipel’s favorite tools.  From simple back to school, to contact logs and weekly check-ins, to self-grading quizzes, Google Forms has become the go-to tool for many educators -- and it will soon be yours too. Participants will learn how to create a form, add questions and question types, create quizzes, share the form, review responses, as well as complete challenges.

This session is perfect for the beginner who has never built a website before.  However, it will also be very useful for someone with some experience, who would like to learn more about best practices for their classroom website.  Topics covered will include creating a site, organizing the content and pages, adding and embedding resources, and publishing your website. During the course of the session, you will have become a Google master, learning how to use an awesome mix of Slides, Docs, and YouTube videos on your website. By the end of this session, you will have your own website full of different types of content that you can share with your students and their families.

Have you ever looked at a Choice Board or Hyperdoc and thought, “This is GREAT, but it doesn’t quite fit what I’m working on in class.”?  In this session, participants will build upon their basic knowledge of Choice Boards and Hyperdocs, so the introductory CB & HD workshop and/or prior familiarity with Choice Boards and Hyperdocs are prerequisites for effective participation in this workshop.  During this workshop, participants will be given the tools necessary to “remix” a template to fit their needs, as well as the tools needed to create a Choice Board or Hyperdoc from scratch.  Time will be provided during this session for design and creation