#2 Maintain Engagement, Choice, Equity and Flexibility with G Suite Tools

Oct 21

1:30 – 3:00

This session is for teachers using the G Suite for education tools who want practical ideas and research-based strategies to keep students engaged and ensure equity, choice, & flexibility in the remote or hybrid learning environment. This session is modeled on the Friday Institute Instructional Design Principles for Remote Teaching & Learning with a focus on engagement, choice, equity, & flexibility. Participants will learn strategies, get hands-on practice with the tools and walk away with templates and ideas you can put to use right away in your virtual or hybrid classes and continue to use when we get back to full time face to face instruction.  Please click this link to join the training class at least a few days before the first session https://classroom.google.com/c/MTQ3NDgzODkzOTg1?cjc=5edlpul

If you can not join it, please ask your LEA’s Google admin to whitelist ncdpi.gov.

Tools: Google Classroom (& GC mobile app), Google Meet, Google Slides, Google Docs, Google Forms

Non-G Suite tools including Vocaroo, Sceencastify, Loom, Flipgrid, & Extensions (Immersive Reader, Natural Reader)

Facilitated by Vera Cubero, Western Region Digital Teaching & Learning Consultant for NCDPI and Google Certified Trainer

Co Pilot- Stacy Lovdahl, Western Innovative Learning Catalyst on loan to NCDPI DTL

#3 Redefining Feedback and Connecting with Families Using G Suite Tools

Nov 18

1:30 – 3:00

This session is for teachers using the G Suite for education tools who want ideas and practical strategies for providing meaningful feedback that drives learning improvement instead of just judging past performance (feed forward!) using G Suite and connecting with families in the remote or hybrid learning environment. This session is modeled on the Friday Institute Instructional Design Principles for Remote Teaching & Learning with a focus on feedback and connecting with students and families. Participants will learn strategies, get hands-on practice with the tools and walk away with templates and ideas they can put to use right away in virtual or hybrid classes and continue to use when we get back to full time face to face instruction.  Please click this link to join the training class at least a few days before the first session https://classroom.google.com/c/MTQ3NDgzODkzOTg1?cjc=5edlpul

If you can not join it, please ask your LEA’s Google admin to whitelist ncdpi.gov.

Tools: Google Classroom (& GC mobile app) with focus on Grading tool, Rubrics, and Originality Checker, Google Meet, Google Slides, Google Docs, Google Forms, & Google Sites

Non-G Suite tools- Vocaroo & Mote Extension

Facilitated by Vera Cubero, Western Region Digital Teaching & Learning Consultant for NCDPI and Google Certified Trainer

Co Pilot- Stacy Lovdahl, Western Innovative Learning Catalyst on loan to NCDPI DTL

#4 Building Bridges with G Suite and G Suite Friendly Tools for Any Learning Setting

January 6, 2021

1:30 – 3:00

This session will help teachers explore ways to transition back to in person instruction with all the new tools and strategies they have learned during the challenging times of the past few months. Please click this link to join the training class at least a few days before the first session https://classroom.google.com/c/MTQ3NDgzODkzOTg1?cjc=5edlpul

If you can not join it, please ask your LEA’s Google admin to whitelist ncdpi.gov.

NOTE- This session description will be updated in late fall to reflect the current situation.

G Suite Series #4: Increasing Engagement with Flipped Learning and GSuite Tools

January 6, 2021

1:30 – 3:00

Google Meet link- meet.google.com/nfi-vaig-gfv

Teachers, coaches, and instructional technology facilitators will delve deeper into flipped learning as a framework to increase student engagement. Teachers will learn strategies that their students need to be successful and will learn how the personalization in a flipped classroom is inherently differentiating. Participants will come away with GSuite resources that they can use in their remote or flipped learning classroom in this highly interactive session.

Facilitated by Stacy Lovdahl, Western Innovative Learning Catalyst on loan to NCDPI DTL & Vera Cubero Western Region Digital Teaching & Learning Consultant for NCDPI

This session will help teachers explore ways to transition back to in person instruction with all the new tools and strategies they have learned during the challenging times of the past few months. Please click this link to join the training class at least a few days before the first session https://classroom.google.com/c/MTQ3NDgzODkzOTg1?cjc=5edlpul               

If you can not join it, please ask your LEA’s Google admin to whitelist ncdpi.gov.