21st Century Learning Technology Committee

The 21^st Century Learning Technology Committee participated in the first of three Saturday workshops on November 16.  The committee bridges together teachers from all grade levels and district staff.  The purpose of the group is to help develop a plan to support staff with the implementation of common core and more specifically, technology and 21^st century learning skills.

Saturday’s workshop was led by Google Certified trainer and FCOE technology consultant, Mark Hammons.  Mark’s passion to help us transition to this technology ocean was outstanding!  The committee learned about Google Drive and Google Forms. 

Google Drive is an all in one tool.  It is used to help keep documents organized.  It’s also a powerful collaboration tool used to keep students engaged.  Students can work together on the same document or presentation, and submit it to their teacher for immediate feedback and comments.  Tired of one student doing all of the work on a “group” project?  Google Drive has a revision history allowing teachers to see who did the work and when it was done.  Google forms are great for student surveys, exit slips, quizzes and so much more.  

Google Drive and forms allows you to sync files to the web, your computer hard drive and your mobile device.  You can make changes to a file in any of these places and it will automatically show up if you were to access it elsewhere.  Information is stored in the “cloud."  No more worrying about forgetting your flash drive at home.

Members of the 21^st Century Learning Technology Committee will be providing their individual school sites with voluntary technology workshops.  More information and a description of workshops will be coming out soon.  All staff is invited to attend any of the workshops provided by members of the committee.  Please contact members of the committee for more information.

 

 

Washington        Ying Lee

Roosevelt            Kristi Warren

Lincoln                  Melinda Casida and Beth Dignan

Reagan                 Amalia Cutts, Michelle Stone, and Amy Sutton

Rafer                     Kristin Perkins and Scott Nielsen

 

District                  Martee Barnett, Jason Wood, and Melanie Sembritzki