RRISD Ninja Academy: Full Schedule

October 25, 2014
9AM-3:30PM

9:25am PDT

Design Doing: Fusing Design Thinking + GAFE

Go beyond googleable questions and work towards developing higher order thinking skills by integrating design thinking strategies via the use of GAFE, Chrome Apps & Extensions. In this session, you'll learn how to participate in (and create) design challenges that help students develop creative confidence that involve discovery and rapid prototyping!

Presenters

Stephanie Cerda

Assistant Principal, Austin ISD

Ms. Cerda has experience teaching multiple content areas from kindergarten to early college. She believes in hands-on, inquiry based learning while using tech to amplify instructional practices and is excited to support teachers with this at Manor ISD as an Innovative Teaching Strategist... Read More →

Saturday October 25, 2014 9:25am - 10:15am PDT
1313

Lecture, Google Projects, Google Earth

Intended Audience All Levels

9:25am PDT

Flipping into Science

The session will redefine the traditional meaning of Flip and demonstrate how it can be implemented in any school. It will focus upon the following sequence providing current examples and strategies that can be used by teachers in their classroom and school setting.
Flipping the Classroom
Challenging Existing Definitions
Effective Strategies to Incorporate Technology and Literacy
Powering Up and Taking Risks
Real Pedagogies and Technology
Examples that have Worked
Self Evaluation Tools

Presenters

John Simpson

Science Teacher, Round Rock ISD

Currently a Grade 6 Science teacher who has over 30 years of experience in K-12 classrooms and Universities in Australia, Part time consultant for JDM and Teacnovation as well as a peer trainer for Pasco Scientific. I Have presented at state, national and international conferences... Read More →

Saturday October 25, 2014 9:25am - 10:15am PDT
1416

Lecture, Google Search, Google Projects, Coggle

Intended Audience 3-5, 6-8, All Levels

9:25am PDT

Getting Started with Drive

Attendees will learn how to use the five components of Google Drive. They will see student work in Google documents, presentations, sheets draw and forms. Best practices for using Drive with students will also be discussed.

Presenters

Aimee Bartis

Aimee is a middle school technology specialist in a Google Apps for Education district. She love helping teachers integrate technology into their lessons. Student creativity and engagement are very important to Aimee.

Saturday October 25, 2014 9:25am - 10:15am PDT
1317

Lecture, Drive, Chrome Apps & Extensions

Intended Audience 6-8, 9-12

9:25am PDT

Hour of Code for grades K-5

Many teachers are scared to take on more and Hour of Code may sound very foreign to them. I would like to demonstrate how easily they can implement the program in their classroom and make it age appropriate for the different elementary grades. I will show them a variety of approved programs that we can use in the classroom to show our students the joy of computer science and writing code.

Presenters

Jennifer Harrell

2nd grade Dual Language Teacher, Round Rock ISD

I have 17 years of experience in education from 1st grade to 12th grade in Dual Language, ESL, and Spanish levels 1-IV AP. I am currently an instructional coach.

Saturday October 25, 2014 9:25am - 10:15am PDT
2308

Lecture, Chrome Apps & Extensions, Drive, Hangouts

Intended Audience 3-5, K-2

10:25am PDT

Moving Towards Inbox Zero: Mail Tips

Everyone knows how to use Google Mail, right? In this session, you will learn to go deeper and learn how to use a variety of tips, Labs, and extensions to gain control of your email, rather that having it control you.

Participants will learn several strategies which will help them move towards the goal of having Zero messages in your inbox.

Presenters

Vincent Vrotny

Saturday October 25, 2014 10:25am - 11:15am PDT
1317

Lecture, Drive, Google Apps Scripts

Intended Audience All Levels, Administrators

12:30pm PDT

Digital Differentiation with Google Apps

In the 21st Century Classroom, it can be difficult to design learning experiences that both incorporate student choice and differentiation for learning levels and styles. This session will show you how to make that happen with student choice menus created in Google Apps, creating a paperless classroom where the students take ownership of their learning. Participants will walk away with strategies for differentiation and student choice using menus and Google Apps. Participants will learn how to turn menus into webpages, and use Google Apps to go paperless while giving students voice and choice in their learning.

Presenters

Kasey Bell

Digital Learning Consultant, Shake Up Learning

Kasey Bell is part sparkling smile, part witty personality and a whole heap of passion as big as a Texas–go big or go home, y’all! She is a disruptor of the boring. An engaging, innovative, from the heart sharer who inspires educators while transforming their teaching with original... Read More →

Saturday October 25, 2014 12:30pm - 1:20pm PDT
1410

Lecture, Drive

Intended Audience All Levels

12:30pm PDT

The Round Rock ISD Flipped Classroom

The term "flipped classroom" is so new to the educational vernacular that it is open to wide interpretation. In Round Rock ISD, we have developed a clear model of what the flipped classroom should look like in our district as well as how to implement it. This session will introduce teachers to the RRISD Flipped Classroom Model and provide tools for them to take back and use in their own classrooms.

Presenters

Ms. Mattingly

Instructional Technology Specialist, Round Rock ISD

Anne Mattingly earned a bachelor's degree in History at Indiana University and a teaching certification in Social Studies and Science from Northern Illinois University. After teaching both subjects in Illinois for two years, she moved to Texas and spent three years in Round Rock ISD... Read More →

Saturday October 25, 2014 12:30pm - 1:20pm PDT
1407

Lecture, Google Mail, Drive, Google Calendar, Groups, Google+, Google Search, Google Maps, Google Apps Scripts, Hangouts, Chrome Apps & Extensions

Intended Audience All Levels, Administrators

1:30pm PDT

Feedback Frenzy

During Feedback Frenzy attendees will learn to use comments in Google Apps, Kaizena, and Snagit to provide feedback on student work.

Presenters

Aimee Bartis

Saturday October 25, 2014 1:30pm - 2:20pm PDT
1317

Lecture, Non-Google Apps - Movie Maker-

Intended Audience 6-8, 9-12

1:30pm PDT

Google Forms to save your sanity

I have launched out and started using Google Forms for all types of data collection with my students and department. Some examples are Google Form to collect Student Data at the beginning of the year, Parent Data through Parent Night and email, student cooperative work to crowd source information and finally, to collect data from my department and be able to manipulate that data.

There are many other uses, but I grabbed on to those and learned Google Forms through them. That is my advice to teachers who shy away from technology. Pick one thing and go from there. Make mistakes and try again.

Presenters

Karol Giblin

AP Teacher, McNeil High School

I am a 14 year "learner" in RRISD at McNeil High School. I teach AP World History to Sophomores. I am also a Table Leader at the College Board Scoring on the National Exam. My philosophy is to try to learn something new every day. As a BIG fan of Star Wars and Star Trek, I guess... Read More →

Saturday October 25, 2014 1:30pm - 2:20pm PDT
1312

Lecture, Drive