2017 Sessions
GoFormative Tools & Uses for Assessment
Laura Farmer, Madras 6th Grade ELA
General, K-12
GoFormative allows educators to put our classroom Chromebooks to use in every subject! This platform provides ways to create formative assessments, exit tickets, writing assessments, turn PDF reading comprehension questions into an easy, quick homework assignments, and so much more! I have fallen in love with GoFormative and I know that you will, too! Best of all, it is extremely user-friendly! Please join me and learn how the uses of GoFormative can turn you into a powerful data-driven instructor!
Building Your Brand
Dr. Amanda White, Media Specialist
Fayette County School System
General, K-12
Learn how to tell the story of your classroom or program with professional looking resources like Canva, Animoto, and many others. Most resources shared in this session are free or “freemium” for educators. People will think you hired a marketing firm for you class!
Google Expeditions
Kate Crawford & Lisa Dobbs,
Fayette County School System
General, K-12
Google Expeditions enable teachers to bring students on virtual trips to places like museums, underwater, and outer space. Expeditions are collections of linked virtual reality (VR) content and supporting materials that can be used alongside existing curriculum. These trips are collections of virtual reality panoramas — 360° panoramas and 3D images — annotated with details, points of interest, and questions that make them easy to integrate into curriculum already used in schools.
Using Google Classroom to Facilitate World Languages Communication
Dr. Kenneth Swanson, Northgate
World Languages, High School
This session will focus on how World Languages teachers can optimize features of Google Classroom and linked online resources in conjunction with student technologies like Chromebooks and personal devices for interactive communication in the target language. Specific examples will come from French classes, but they will be applicable to other world languages.
Breaking the QR Code
Mary Amoson, Brooks
General, Elementary
Thinking about using QR (Quick Response) codes in your classroom? Need a little techie help to get started? Get it here! Mary explains what QR codes are, and how you can create and use them to encourage independence and make any game a lot more fun for your little learners.
Become an Email Ninja!
Angie Foerster, Instructional Tech Specialist
Fayette County School System
General, K-12
How many messages are in your inbox? Hundreds? Thousands? TENS of thousands? Does the idea of cleaning up your inbox send you running for the hills? If your email is disaster, join me for this session and slash your inbox in less than one hour! Your inbox is one of the most important tools that you use each and every day. When properly managed, your email can be a real ally in your daily organization. However, an out of control inbox can be a headache of lost messages, parent communication, and to-do tasks. This discussion will focus on real solutions for becoming an organized email master as we engage in step-by-step training. Our goal? Inbox Zero.
Discriminating Your Data
Cathrine Nolan, CEC
Leadership, K-12
Designed to help educators at all levels use Google Forms and spreadsheets to meet TKES goals, and be more informed and responsive educators. Topics will include data collection, organization, graphing, analyzation and interpretation.This course will be introductory to median level, and may be redundant for advanced spreadsheet users.
E-Z Essay and Project Grading Using Goobric
Dr. Sheila Barnes, Arnall Middle
General, K-12
Are you looking for a great tool to enrich and enhance your Middle/High School essay and project grading? Then, join this session! Come learn about integrating Google Classroom assignments and apps such as Doctopus and Goobric to make your grading and scoring easier. Sample rubrics will be provided along with tips to get you grading fast.
The Value of Twitter for Professional Development
Laura Farmer, Madras 6th Grade ELA
General, Middle School
Do you love professional development that's flexible and tailored to you? Twitter offers all that and more! In this session, you will learn about how to set up a twitter account, how to tailor your tweets to enhance learning and demonstrate what is happening in your classroom, and how to join our county educational chat entitled #CowetaEdChat. This chat allows you to communicate with all stakeholders within the county such as fellow teachers, administrators, and parents. This chat enhances your community and allows you to learn from others!
Mimio Studio and Boxlight Interactive Boards
Barrie Smith, Boxlight
This session will highlight a new resource coming to CCSS. Newnan High and Canongate will be piloting this tech next year. If you’re a Smartboard, Promethean, or Mimio user, this session is for you.
Hyperdocs
Stan McMichael, Asst. Principal Western
General, K-12
How do you integrate, differentiate, and accelerate instruction? HyperDocs, a transformative, interactive Google Doc replacing the worksheet method of delivering instruction, is the ultimate change agent in the blended learning classroom. With strong educational philosophies built into each one, HyperDocs have the potential to shift the way you instruct with technology. Give me a few minutes to help you turn those new Coweta Curriculum Maps into interactive Hyperdocs so you can integrate, differentiate, and accelerate your instruction.
Dive into Digital Learning
Mary Amoson, Brooks
General, Elementary
Let’s dive into Google forms, Quizlet, Quizzizz, Kahoot, and Nearpod to learn how to use these with little learners.
Digital Differentiation for Middle School Readers
Kirsten Schober, Madras Middle
ELA, MIddle
It's essential for teachers to meet the needs of all learners by providing instruction within their Lexile range. This presentation will show ELA teachers how to use various digital tools to meet the needs of all learners. The various digital tools to be discussed include: commonlit.org, NewsELA, digital readworks, and Google Classroom.
Building a PLN through Social Media and Technology
Susan Barber, Northgate
General, K-12
Twitter. Voxer. Feedly. Pocket. GroupMe. al development into your own hands. This hands-on session will not only help you learn to connect with passionate educators nationwide but will also show you tools for organizing and storing resources provided from your PLN.
Flipgrid is Not Just for Big Kids!
Sherry Copeland, Brooks
General, Elementary
Flipgrid is a video platform used by over 30,000 teachers to ignite classroom discussions and promote social learning. This demonstration will show how easy it is to access and some of the limitless activities that can be done to stimulate student responses, not just to their teacher but their classmates.
GoGuardian
John Vaughn, Technology Coach
General, K-12
Learn the basics and even a few advanced skills on how to manage Chromebook use in your classroom. Leave the session with specific knowledge on how to establish classes, monitor these classes, and troubleshoot on the go.
Engage and Excite Students with Digital BreakoutEDU
Alli Rogers, Newnan Crossing
General, K-12
Could you solve the challenge and escape in time? Bring the excitement back to your classroom using the popular idea of Escape Rooms. Each adventure embeds standards within a real world context that foster problem solving, critical thinking, and teamwork. This student centered game allows players to work in a collaborative manner as they solve clues while they strengthen critical thinking and deductive reasoning skills. Participants in this session will solve a Breakout EDU and will learn and gain resources to create their own Breakout sessions.
Play with technology!
Mary Amoson, Brooks
General, K-12
Come to this session to play with tech items for classroom learning. Try it out and learn how to connect hands on technology ideas to your classroom! We will showcase Osmo, Tiggly, Touchtronics, and Letters Alive Plus.
The Future is Now: Transitioning to Digital Projects
Lori Thompson, Willis Road
General, Elementary
When was the last time you watched a presentation that used a tri-fold board? Hopefully, it’s been a long time! In this session, participants will be introduced to creating a digital science fair. The focus will be on organizing the process through Google Classroom, sharing final projects, and moving presentations to the next level for judging.Join in this informative session that will revolutionize the way you approach projects in your classroom.
Google Classroom for Beginners
Ellen Thomas and Amy Leonard, WDA
General, K-12
Ready to get started using Google Classroom for the first time? Or did you try it out but just couldn't seem to make it fly? Let us help you create your first course and show you how to add students, make differentiated assignments and announcements, give individualized teacher feedback, as well as grade and return student work. Bring your Chromebook and be sure you have a few electronic documents in your Google drive that you would like to assign to your students next year. We hope our experience in elementary, middle and high school settings will help us understand your needs and answer your questions about this powerful instructional technology platform.
iPevo can be your future
Michelle Hanners, Lee
General, K-12
Do you need an interactive board in your room? iPevo may be your answer! The wireless whiteboard pen can turn any smooth surface into a whiteboard!
CODE: Sphero Robotics
Amanda Foiles, Welch
Math & Science, K-5
Learn the basics of Coding with an introduction to CODE.org. Learn how your students can CODE a robotic ball to follow simple commands using the app.
Open Source Textbooks
Shirley Wold, Newnan
General, K-12
Making the switch from a traditional textbook to digital resources students can access on their Chromebooks? Interested in creating your own digital textbook that is aligned with Georgia Standards? It is easier than you think! Come explore the world of open source resources and get started building your own textbook today. See how easy it is to incorporate interactive resources, including virtual labs and practice quizzes, along with reading text. Learn how to connect your textbook to the Google Classroom you are already using. No matter your level of expertise, we can show you how to have a customized digital textbook ready to use for next school year. Bring your Chromebook and let's get started!
Laura Farmer, Madras 6th Grade ELA
General, K-12
GoFormative allows educators to put our classroom Chromebooks to use in every subject! This platform provides ways to create formative assessments, exit tickets, writing assessments, turn PDF reading comprehension questions into an easy, quick homework assignments, and so much more! I have fallen in love with GoFormative and I know that you will, too! Best of all, it is extremely user-friendly! Please join me and learn how the uses of GoFormative can turn you into a powerful data-driven instructor!
Building Your Brand
Dr. Amanda White, Media Specialist
Fayette County School System
General, K-12
Learn how to tell the story of your classroom or program with professional looking resources like Canva, Animoto, and many others. Most resources shared in this session are free or “freemium” for educators. People will think you hired a marketing firm for you class!
Google Expeditions
Kate Crawford & Lisa Dobbs,
Fayette County School System
General, K-12
Google Expeditions enable teachers to bring students on virtual trips to places like museums, underwater, and outer space. Expeditions are collections of linked virtual reality (VR) content and supporting materials that can be used alongside existing curriculum. These trips are collections of virtual reality panoramas — 360° panoramas and 3D images — annotated with details, points of interest, and questions that make them easy to integrate into curriculum already used in schools.
Using Google Classroom to Facilitate World Languages Communication
Dr. Kenneth Swanson, Northgate
World Languages, High School
This session will focus on how World Languages teachers can optimize features of Google Classroom and linked online resources in conjunction with student technologies like Chromebooks and personal devices for interactive communication in the target language. Specific examples will come from French classes, but they will be applicable to other world languages.
Breaking the QR Code
Mary Amoson, Brooks
General, Elementary
Thinking about using QR (Quick Response) codes in your classroom? Need a little techie help to get started? Get it here! Mary explains what QR codes are, and how you can create and use them to encourage independence and make any game a lot more fun for your little learners.
Become an Email Ninja!
Angie Foerster, Instructional Tech Specialist
Fayette County School System
General, K-12
How many messages are in your inbox? Hundreds? Thousands? TENS of thousands? Does the idea of cleaning up your inbox send you running for the hills? If your email is disaster, join me for this session and slash your inbox in less than one hour! Your inbox is one of the most important tools that you use each and every day. When properly managed, your email can be a real ally in your daily organization. However, an out of control inbox can be a headache of lost messages, parent communication, and to-do tasks. This discussion will focus on real solutions for becoming an organized email master as we engage in step-by-step training. Our goal? Inbox Zero.
Discriminating Your Data
Cathrine Nolan, CEC
Leadership, K-12
Designed to help educators at all levels use Google Forms and spreadsheets to meet TKES goals, and be more informed and responsive educators. Topics will include data collection, organization, graphing, analyzation and interpretation.This course will be introductory to median level, and may be redundant for advanced spreadsheet users.
E-Z Essay and Project Grading Using Goobric
Dr. Sheila Barnes, Arnall Middle
General, K-12
Are you looking for a great tool to enrich and enhance your Middle/High School essay and project grading? Then, join this session! Come learn about integrating Google Classroom assignments and apps such as Doctopus and Goobric to make your grading and scoring easier. Sample rubrics will be provided along with tips to get you grading fast.
The Value of Twitter for Professional Development
Laura Farmer, Madras 6th Grade ELA
General, Middle School
Do you love professional development that's flexible and tailored to you? Twitter offers all that and more! In this session, you will learn about how to set up a twitter account, how to tailor your tweets to enhance learning and demonstrate what is happening in your classroom, and how to join our county educational chat entitled #CowetaEdChat. This chat allows you to communicate with all stakeholders within the county such as fellow teachers, administrators, and parents. This chat enhances your community and allows you to learn from others!
Mimio Studio and Boxlight Interactive Boards
Barrie Smith, Boxlight
This session will highlight a new resource coming to CCSS. Newnan High and Canongate will be piloting this tech next year. If you’re a Smartboard, Promethean, or Mimio user, this session is for you.
Hyperdocs
Stan McMichael, Asst. Principal Western
General, K-12
How do you integrate, differentiate, and accelerate instruction? HyperDocs, a transformative, interactive Google Doc replacing the worksheet method of delivering instruction, is the ultimate change agent in the blended learning classroom. With strong educational philosophies built into each one, HyperDocs have the potential to shift the way you instruct with technology. Give me a few minutes to help you turn those new Coweta Curriculum Maps into interactive Hyperdocs so you can integrate, differentiate, and accelerate your instruction.
Dive into Digital Learning
Mary Amoson, Brooks
General, Elementary
Let’s dive into Google forms, Quizlet, Quizzizz, Kahoot, and Nearpod to learn how to use these with little learners.
Digital Differentiation for Middle School Readers
Kirsten Schober, Madras Middle
ELA, MIddle
It's essential for teachers to meet the needs of all learners by providing instruction within their Lexile range. This presentation will show ELA teachers how to use various digital tools to meet the needs of all learners. The various digital tools to be discussed include: commonlit.org, NewsELA, digital readworks, and Google Classroom.
Building a PLN through Social Media and Technology
Susan Barber, Northgate
General, K-12
Twitter. Voxer. Feedly. Pocket. GroupMe. al development into your own hands. This hands-on session will not only help you learn to connect with passionate educators nationwide but will also show you tools for organizing and storing resources provided from your PLN.
Flipgrid is Not Just for Big Kids!
Sherry Copeland, Brooks
General, Elementary
Flipgrid is a video platform used by over 30,000 teachers to ignite classroom discussions and promote social learning. This demonstration will show how easy it is to access and some of the limitless activities that can be done to stimulate student responses, not just to their teacher but their classmates.
GoGuardian
John Vaughn, Technology Coach
General, K-12
Learn the basics and even a few advanced skills on how to manage Chromebook use in your classroom. Leave the session with specific knowledge on how to establish classes, monitor these classes, and troubleshoot on the go.
Engage and Excite Students with Digital BreakoutEDU
Alli Rogers, Newnan Crossing
General, K-12
Could you solve the challenge and escape in time? Bring the excitement back to your classroom using the popular idea of Escape Rooms. Each adventure embeds standards within a real world context that foster problem solving, critical thinking, and teamwork. This student centered game allows players to work in a collaborative manner as they solve clues while they strengthen critical thinking and deductive reasoning skills. Participants in this session will solve a Breakout EDU and will learn and gain resources to create their own Breakout sessions.
Play with technology!
Mary Amoson, Brooks
General, K-12
Come to this session to play with tech items for classroom learning. Try it out and learn how to connect hands on technology ideas to your classroom! We will showcase Osmo, Tiggly, Touchtronics, and Letters Alive Plus.
The Future is Now: Transitioning to Digital Projects
Lori Thompson, Willis Road
General, Elementary
When was the last time you watched a presentation that used a tri-fold board? Hopefully, it’s been a long time! In this session, participants will be introduced to creating a digital science fair. The focus will be on organizing the process through Google Classroom, sharing final projects, and moving presentations to the next level for judging.Join in this informative session that will revolutionize the way you approach projects in your classroom.
Google Classroom for Beginners
Ellen Thomas and Amy Leonard, WDA
General, K-12
Ready to get started using Google Classroom for the first time? Or did you try it out but just couldn't seem to make it fly? Let us help you create your first course and show you how to add students, make differentiated assignments and announcements, give individualized teacher feedback, as well as grade and return student work. Bring your Chromebook and be sure you have a few electronic documents in your Google drive that you would like to assign to your students next year. We hope our experience in elementary, middle and high school settings will help us understand your needs and answer your questions about this powerful instructional technology platform.
iPevo can be your future
Michelle Hanners, Lee
General, K-12
Do you need an interactive board in your room? iPevo may be your answer! The wireless whiteboard pen can turn any smooth surface into a whiteboard!
CODE: Sphero Robotics
Amanda Foiles, Welch
Math & Science, K-5
Learn the basics of Coding with an introduction to CODE.org. Learn how your students can CODE a robotic ball to follow simple commands using the app.
Open Source Textbooks
Shirley Wold, Newnan
General, K-12
Making the switch from a traditional textbook to digital resources students can access on their Chromebooks? Interested in creating your own digital textbook that is aligned with Georgia Standards? It is easier than you think! Come explore the world of open source resources and get started building your own textbook today. See how easy it is to incorporate interactive resources, including virtual labs and practice quizzes, along with reading text. Learn how to connect your textbook to the Google Classroom you are already using. No matter your level of expertise, we can show you how to have a customized digital textbook ready to use for next school year. Bring your Chromebook and let's get started!