Tools
Making Online Learning Fun with Bitmoji Classrooms - General
(Wed Nov 4 7:00 - 8:30 pm)
Bitmoji Classrooms are the current craze sweeping online education. Used correctly, they can increase engagement and make learning fun (for both teachers and students)! This workshop will look at creating and implementing your own Bitmoji classroom using platforms such as Google slides, Google Sites, Wix and Google Classroom . Make space in your Google Drive for the many resources we will share so you can start building your own right away!
(Maximum 75 participants)
Tricia Dwyer-Kuntz with Brooke Arruda & Danika Dos Santos
(Wed Nov 4 7:00 - 8:30 pm)
Bitmoji Classrooms are the current craze sweeping online education. Used correctly, they can increase engagement and make learning fun (for both teachers and students)! This workshop will look at creating and implementing your own Bitmoji classroom using platforms such as Google slides, Google Sites, Wix and Google Classroom . Make space in your Google Drive for the many resources we will share so you can start building your own right away!
(Maximum 75 participants)
Tricia Dwyer-Kuntz with Brooke Arruda & Danika Dos Santos
Teaching & Learning with G-Suite - Grade 4-8
(Tue Oct 27 4:30 – 6:00 pm & Thu Oct 29 4:30 – 6:00 pm)
Join us for an interactive session on how to integrate the G-Suite apps into your teaching and learning practices. The G-Suite apps we will focus on include: Jamboard, Slides & Forms. While teachers may be familiar with the traditional uses of the tools, our session will focus on how to ‘hack’ them for more personalized and creative purposes.
(Maximum 50 participants)
Laura Morrison with Devin Flynn & Christian Whelan
(Tue Oct 27 4:30 – 6:00 pm & Thu Oct 29 4:30 – 6:00 pm)
Join us for an interactive session on how to integrate the G-Suite apps into your teaching and learning practices. The G-Suite apps we will focus on include: Jamboard, Slides & Forms. While teachers may be familiar with the traditional uses of the tools, our session will focus on how to ‘hack’ them for more personalized and creative purposes.
(Maximum 50 participants)
Laura Morrison with Devin Flynn & Christian Whelan
Virtual Making: Introduction to CoSpaces Edu - Grades 4-8
(Wed Nov 4 4:30 – 6:00 pm)
Looking for innovative technologies to use with your face-to-face, hybrid, or virtual classrooms? Get started with CoSpaces Edu in this interactive workshop from Ontario Tech's award-winning STEAM-3D Maker Lab. CoSpaces is a three-dimensional design application enabling students to create 3D animations, bring them to life with block- or text-based coding, and view their creations in augmented or virtual reality. In this session, we will guide participants through interacting with the CoSpaces environment, explore designing and coding in the app, and highlight best teaching practices as well as curricular applications for the tool.
(Maximum 40 participants)
Jennifer Robb & Zeynep Gecu-Parmaksiz with Christian Whelan & Christina Campbell
(Wed Nov 4 4:30 – 6:00 pm)
Looking for innovative technologies to use with your face-to-face, hybrid, or virtual classrooms? Get started with CoSpaces Edu in this interactive workshop from Ontario Tech's award-winning STEAM-3D Maker Lab. CoSpaces is a three-dimensional design application enabling students to create 3D animations, bring them to life with block- or text-based coding, and view their creations in augmented or virtual reality. In this session, we will guide participants through interacting with the CoSpaces environment, explore designing and coding in the app, and highlight best teaching practices as well as curricular applications for the tool.
(Maximum 40 participants)
Jennifer Robb & Zeynep Gecu-Parmaksiz with Christian Whelan & Christina Campbell
Helpful Tools for Online and Blended Learning - Grades 4-12
(Tue Oct 27 4:30 – 6:00 pm)
This interactive workshop focuses on a series of helpful and free online tools that will help teachers (Grades 4 to 12) with organization, assessment and feedback, collaboration, learning modules and activities, mind maps, graphics and video creation. Participants will receive a summary booklet of resources addressed and an opportunity to contribute to an edited book (after the conference) with their favourite online tools.
(Maximum 100 participants)
Robin Kay
(Tue Oct 27 4:30 – 6:00 pm)
This interactive workshop focuses on a series of helpful and free online tools that will help teachers (Grades 4 to 12) with organization, assessment and feedback, collaboration, learning modules and activities, mind maps, graphics and video creation. Participants will receive a summary booklet of resources addressed and an opportunity to contribute to an edited book (after the conference) with their favourite online tools.
(Maximum 100 participants)
Robin Kay
Preparing Students to Self Assess their Readiness for Online Learning - Secondary
(Mon Oct 26 7:00 - 8:30 pm)
A person’s Participation in 21st century society is increasingly dependent the ability to the use of digital technologies for a wide variety of purposes. This workshop will invite participants to experience one of the self-assessment tools - the Fully Online Learning Community Survey (FOLCS). This self-assessment tool is based on the Fully Online Learning Community Model Participants will examine and discuss: 1) what it means to be a fully online learner; 2) what does it mean to be working in community online in formal educational contexts; 3) ways to measure readiness; 4) collaborative research (GELO) approaches and tools to examine readiness, culture, competence (confidence and frequency of use of technology) and the impact of this in fully online learning environments.
(Maximum 60 participants)
Roland van Oostveen & Elizabeth Childs
(Mon Oct 26 7:00 - 8:30 pm)
A person’s Participation in 21st century society is increasingly dependent the ability to the use of digital technologies for a wide variety of purposes. This workshop will invite participants to experience one of the self-assessment tools - the Fully Online Learning Community Survey (FOLCS). This self-assessment tool is based on the Fully Online Learning Community Model Participants will examine and discuss: 1) what it means to be a fully online learner; 2) what does it mean to be working in community online in formal educational contexts; 3) ways to measure readiness; 4) collaborative research (GELO) approaches and tools to examine readiness, culture, competence (confidence and frequency of use of technology) and the impact of this in fully online learning environments.
(Maximum 60 participants)
Roland van Oostveen & Elizabeth Childs
GAFE for HIGH School Teachers - Part 1 - Secondary
(Wed Oct 28 4:30 – 6:00 pm)
Want to spend some time looking at Google Apps for Education (GAFE) available in your GSuite and maybe some add-ons that you can use tomorrow in any of your classes? From Science to Drama to Gym to Transportation Tech, there is something for every teacher, teaching in a high school. We will look at not only software but ideas of how to implement into your classroom with all learning levels. Learn how to be more organized with Google Keep, Google Calendar, and Planboard. We will look at ways new ways to think of Google Slides for online and in-class learning, with help from "Ditch that textbook" and "Hyperdocs". We can get you of of the jam not allowed to put kids in groups by showing you Jamboard. Lastly let's cram in how to mark all this cool stuff by using Google new Rubric builder that can even link into your schools LMS or see how to use the ministry licensed software of Markboard for all your marks and antidotal notes. So much to cover, but once you get the hang of it you will be able to see how utilizing some of these apps can make your teaching pedagogy and practice a little bit more manageable these days. (Maximum 100 participants)
Melissa Oliver
(Wed Oct 28 4:30 – 6:00 pm)
Want to spend some time looking at Google Apps for Education (GAFE) available in your GSuite and maybe some add-ons that you can use tomorrow in any of your classes? From Science to Drama to Gym to Transportation Tech, there is something for every teacher, teaching in a high school. We will look at not only software but ideas of how to implement into your classroom with all learning levels. Learn how to be more organized with Google Keep, Google Calendar, and Planboard. We will look at ways new ways to think of Google Slides for online and in-class learning, with help from "Ditch that textbook" and "Hyperdocs". We can get you of of the jam not allowed to put kids in groups by showing you Jamboard. Lastly let's cram in how to mark all this cool stuff by using Google new Rubric builder that can even link into your schools LMS or see how to use the ministry licensed software of Markboard for all your marks and antidotal notes. So much to cover, but once you get the hang of it you will be able to see how utilizing some of these apps can make your teaching pedagogy and practice a little bit more manageable these days. (Maximum 100 participants)
Melissa Oliver
GAFE for High School Teachers - Part 2 - Secondary
(Wed Nov 4 4:30 – 6:00 pm)
Looking for a little bit more from your GAFE (Google Apps for Education) then come into this session and share some of your best practices and learn from others. As we go over some of the more advanced ways to use GAFE for ideas like "ditch that textbook" and "Hyperdocs" plus many more ways to engage students in your curriculum.
(Maximum 100 participants)
Melissa Oliver
(Wed Nov 4 4:30 – 6:00 pm)
Looking for a little bit more from your GAFE (Google Apps for Education) then come into this session and share some of your best practices and learn from others. As we go over some of the more advanced ways to use GAFE for ideas like "ditch that textbook" and "Hyperdocs" plus many more ways to engage students in your curriculum.
(Maximum 100 participants)
Melissa Oliver
Teacher Created Videos for Online and Blended Classrooms - General
(Wed Oct 28 7:00 - 8:30 pm & Mon Nov 2 4:30 – 6:00 pm)
Do you want learn how you can engage and motivate your online students using video? Interested in humanizing your virtual classroom? Overwhelmed by all of the online learning advice out there? In this workshop, participants will learn how to make teacher videos for both online and blended classrooms using best practices from educational research. We'll explore the key elements for designing effective teacher-developed videos, share practical and step-by-step advice, and experiment with some of the tools
and apps of the trade to get you started right away. Goal: To increase your comfort level to get you started on video making and arm you with all of the
resources you will need. The workshop instructor is a veteran secondary school film and media educator and PhD candidate with over 15 years of teaching and learning with film and video.
(Maximum 30 participants)
Alison Mann with Shane Hardy, Samantha De Sousa & Juliet Zein
(Wed Oct 28 7:00 - 8:30 pm & Mon Nov 2 4:30 – 6:00 pm)
Do you want learn how you can engage and motivate your online students using video? Interested in humanizing your virtual classroom? Overwhelmed by all of the online learning advice out there? In this workshop, participants will learn how to make teacher videos for both online and blended classrooms using best practices from educational research. We'll explore the key elements for designing effective teacher-developed videos, share practical and step-by-step advice, and experiment with some of the tools
and apps of the trade to get you started right away. Goal: To increase your comfort level to get you started on video making and arm you with all of the
resources you will need. The workshop instructor is a veteran secondary school film and media educator and PhD candidate with over 15 years of teaching and learning with film and video.
(Maximum 30 participants)
Alison Mann with Shane Hardy, Samantha De Sousa & Juliet Zein
From Classroom to ZoomRoom - Secondary
(Thu Nov 5 4:30 – 6:00 pm)
So you have your lesson plans from last year...but how do you translate those experiences into the virtual arena? Instead of re-inventing the wheel, let's see what we can draw from the corporate training world. This workshop will explore tips, strategies, and online applications that will help you create engaging learning experiences online, without starting from scratch.
(Maximum 30 participants)
Kayla Burtch
(Thu Nov 5 4:30 – 6:00 pm)
So you have your lesson plans from last year...but how do you translate those experiences into the virtual arena? Instead of re-inventing the wheel, let's see what we can draw from the corporate training world. This workshop will explore tips, strategies, and online applications that will help you create engaging learning experiences online, without starting from scratch.
(Maximum 30 participants)
Kayla Burtch