Medfield Digital Learning Day 2017

You get more for your money in this session. Two trainers for the price of one! Join Kathy Martell, Technology Integration Specialist in Needham, and Stephen Harte, Instructional Technology Specialist in Dover, for a dive into Google Drive. We will provide you with support in organizing Google Drive. Searching for files, using folders, storing items for fast retrieval, using Drive on mobile devices. These two Google for Education Certified Educators have tips and tricks for you.

You can find a copy of our slides (and your license) here. 

Learn the difference between Google Chrome Apps and Extensions, how to add them to Chrome and see several apps and extensions in action that will improve you and your students productivity.  Slides can be found here!

I’m sharing my knowledge of google sheets at the DLD day in March.  I’m a “veteran” user of Excel and have a lot of ideas on how to use excel (google sheets) to make our teaching lives more organized and easier to manage.   My idea of a workshop is to make everyone have fun learning and get excited about a tool that can change how you look at students and that huge pile of data.

At the elementary level, we use google sheets to record benchmark data on our students. We also try to use them to track data on behavior, progress on subjects as well as graphing important issues for discussion at CPT and CST. Teachers might want to understand how to build, sort, calculate and graph data in spreadsheets. I am hoping to also review some of the common formulas, conditional formatting and printing "limitations" that are present in Google Sheets.

Here is a copy of my presentation:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BaF1gXiaoGfpERNb-Ggsw5sA_tj318LFm1toIxWFs4I/edit?usp=sharing

Does it frustrate you when you know that document is in your Google Drive but you just can't find it? Breathe deeply and organize your Drive so you can find what you're looking for. It's like having a clean closet again. Ahhhh!

This session is intended to provide you time to organize your resources in a way that makes sense to you. If you would like some step-by-step instructions, I have created this presentation for you. 

Do you and your students make charts, diagrams, designs, worksheets, timelines, game boards, flyers or anything else requiring creativity? If you answered yes to any of these, then you will want to learn about the drawing tools that are available in Google Apps. Use Google's hidden gem to do all of the above and so much more, the possibilities are endless. We will explore the Google drawing tools that are available in Docs, Drawing, and Slides - come learn how these tools can help you use google in ways you never thought possible.

Presentation will be made available AFTER the session: https://goo.gl/1NyL2q

We will show how to manipulate photos in Photoshop and import them into inDesign to create a finished magazine cover.