GSuite for Education Class
Tustin Unified School District (for PD Growth credit)
January 2017
The purpose of this class is to help teachers/educators become proficient users of Google Apps/G Suite for Education as well as implement tools into their teaching practice in order to enhance teaching and learning. This course is designed for beginners to intermediate users. After completion of this 6 week (15 hours total) fundamental training course, participants will be prepared to take the optional Google Apps for Education Level 1 Certification Exam.
TUSD Professional Development Day
Tustin Unified School District
October 2016
Pear Deck
Come and learn the basics of Pear Deck which is an interactive presentation tool used to actively engage students in individual and social learning. Teachers create presentations using their Google Drive account and collect, sort and analyze data.
TUSD Secondary Summer Institute — Two Sessions
Tustin Unified School District
August 2016
Session 1:
Come and learn the basics of Actively Learn. We will be learning about how to create assignments from the Catalog, how to create assignments from your Workspace (url, doc, pdf), how to create and populate classes, and how to grade and give effective feedback.
Session 2:
Digital feedback: Go Formative is a tool that can be used in all subject areas in both middle and high school to capture student thinking in real time and give quick and immediate feedback. This is a hands-on session. Bring a formative assessment, worksheet, or other activity and be prepared to transform it!
Arcadia Innovation Summit — Two Sessions
July 2016
Session 1:
Collaborate with students and assess student writing in a paperless classroom using GAFE.
Come and transform how you assign, collect, and grade writing using Google Classroom and Google Add-Ons. This session is for any teacher of any subject who wants to establish an effective workflow and give incredible collaborative feedback to students through the writing process.
Session 2:
Co Presenter: Gina Dearborn
We are in a brave new world where you can learn from those that teach the same content, fight the same battles, and have answers come to you. Learn how to harness the power of Twitter, Tweet Deck, Feedly, and Padlet to share, learn, curate, and grow. Get Connected!
Think. Create. Share. Conference
June 2016
Cal State Fullerton
Co Presenters: Michelle Ciecek and Melanie Formaneck
From Questions to Creation: Tech Infused QFT and Creation Apps:
Come experience the power of the Question Formulation Technique to engage students in asking deeper questions, leading to student driven creativity and creation.
Mini-Cue
Currie/Thorman
April 2016
I organized a Mini-Cue Conference for our staff where different staff members put together a short presentation in which they shared a new tool or strategy that was awesome. There were two different sessions and each session and 8 presenters.
Connect Institute
March 2016
Tustin Unified School District
How to provide ongoing, effective, and purposeful professional development.
Currie/Thorman
December 2015
Tustin Unified School District
Come get more comfortable with using Google Classroom, a tool that will allow you to manage your workflow within Google Drive all while being able to view and give feedback on student work throughout the entire learning process.
Mrs. Joyce 