We’ll be using Google Classroom this year

Public Lessons: As always, the lessons for the workshop will be housed here on this public website. That makes the resource pages available to anyone who is interested. Some of our lesson resource pages get lots of traffic!

Private Google Classroom: Participants taking the workshop for continuing education credit will participate in discussions and submit assignments through Google Classroom. This is the first year that Google Classroom has been available to educators outside of K12 schools. I’m excited to see how it will all work out. I’ll be learning along with you all.

Tracks 1 to 4 are gone and replaced with “Cool Tools 101” (Things 1-10) and “More Cool Tools”.

Cool Tools 101 is designed for people who haven’t participated in this (or a similar) program before. You’ll pick 5 or 10 topics to complete. The place to start is with Thing 1: Blogging where you’ll get your blog setup. You’ll use the blog to write up your reflections through the workshop.

You could pick topics just from the first 10 Things, but feel free to pick topics from the other tracks if they interest you more. There are also the extra “DIY” and “Final Reflection” topics. Lots to choose from!

More Cool Tools:  These lessons used to be split up into Tracks 2, 3 and 4. But those labels have lost any meaning as we are continually reorganizing, adding, updating and deleting topics.  If you’ve participated before, scan all the lesson titles and pick out the topics that appeal to you. Don’t forget the extra “DIY” and “Final Reflection” topics as well. Everyone is encouraged to do these.

Repeating a Topic:  Since most of the lessons have lots of options and there are always new things to explore, feel free to repeat topics that are of particular interest. Just be sure to truly explore some new aspects or try new tools.

AND REMEMBER that your posts should include the topics you’ve explored, the project you’ve created and reflections on how the topics relate to your work as an educator. It’s great to include fun, personal ideas too if you like, but don’t forget the educational connections too.

 

(NOV 2017 – still working on the lessons, updating, adding new topics and rearranging…. Thanks for your patience!)