How Suite It Is

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How suite it is

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meet the team

Daniel (dan) larson

belinda howell

BA in History, Idaho State UniversityTaught Middle School Social Studies (Spring ISD) Campus Instructional Technology Specialist Employee Excellent Award, Spring ISD, 2021 Digital Learning Coach / SS Coach Digital Learning Specialist

Masters Degree in Education LeadershipElementary School Teacher in Spring ISD Teacher of the Year 2006/2020 Digital Learning Coach in Spring ISD Digital Learning Specialist in Aldine ISD Founder of TechEdEdu

empowering educators to enhance student learning

creating intereactive choice boards with google suite tools

AGenda

Decoding Choiceboards

Embrace Innovation

See it in Action

Google Suite Tools

Personalized Learning Paths

Impact of Student Autonomy

setting the stage

embracing innovation in education

See it in action

• How can educators leverage technology to transform the learning experience?
• Discover the power of integrating Google Suite tools to enhance student engagement and autonomy.

The Evolution of Teaching

Educational methodologies

Fostering Student engagement

Educational methodologies are evolving rapidly. How can educators adapt to meet the diverse needs of today's learners? Explore the shift towards interactive and personalize learning experiences using Google Suite tools.

Engage, empower, and excite students through interactive choice boards. How can technology enhance student agency and motivation in the learning process? Uncover the key strategies for creating meaningful and personalized learning experiences.

Decoding Choice Boards

Dive into the world of choice boards

What are they and how do they promote student choice and independence in learning? Uncover the benefits of implementing choice boards in educational settings.

Personalized Learning Pathways

• Every student is unique. How can choice boards cater to individual learning styles and preferences?
• Discover how personalized learning pathways foster student agency and ownership of their educational journey.

The Impact of Student Autonomy

INTRODUCTION HERE

Empowering students with choice promotes ownership of learning. How does student autonomy in choice boards foster motivation and self-directed learning? Explore the positive effects of autonomy on student engagement and academic success.

Hands on activity

It is time for you to see for yourself.

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You will now have time to work with your table partners to complete as many of the activities as you can.

Exploring Google Suite Tools for Innovative Experiences

How can educators leverage the full potential of Google Suite tools to create dynamic and interactive environments? Discover the seamless integration and endless possibilities offered by Google Sites, Docs, Slides, Sheets and Forms for educational purposes.

Using Google Sites as your Choice Board Dashboard

Getting Started

Your presence in this session today indicates to me that you are familiar with google and google workspace. all of the resources we are about to dive into do require a google account in order to access. if you do not have an account setup you can do so by clicking on this button. the basics of setting up a google site.

Google Sites is a dynamic way of centrally hosting your choice board, giving you flexibility and ease of access for your students.

You can use hyperlinks and webpages to easily guide your students through the activities. Let's look at setting up a basic dashboard.

There are many ways to use this text rich environment to interact with students. This activity is focusing on the use of templates to create fun engaging writing activities.

Using Google Docs as a Choice Board Activity

Provide your students the link to copy a Google Doc Template and set their creativity free with a writing prompt you provide. This is an excellent way to allow your students to have voice in the classroom and expand on their learning.

A great resource for writing templates

Having fun with Google Sheets Activity

Sheets can be a fun activity for your students with a self guided, self checking activity that is easy to make.

Contextualize your topic

Using Google Sheets A fun and easy way to use Google Sheets and Conditional formatting to create a fun activity.

......a modified version adopted from Northwest ISD Instructional Technology

Using Google Forms to create fun Escape Room and Choose your Own Adventure activities

Using Forms is a quick, efficient and engaging way to provide an activity and get immediate feedback from the quiz feature.

Google Forms with its built in branching feature, allows you to create exciting acitivities quickly yet provide valid data.

Choose Your Own Adventure Planning Template

Using Google slides, adobe express and gemini (AI) to create a fun interactive where in the world activity.

Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego was an amazingly engaging digital game that kids could play years ago. Today, you can recreate that excitement and engagement with Google Slides and Adobe Express. With a little AI help you can quickly and easily create a fun activity to tie into your Science, Social Studies, History or any subject.

Thank you

Q & A Time

ontextualize your topic

Imagine a classroom where students are excited to learn, taking ownership of their understanding. Google Sites and choice boards make this a reality. By providing engaging options, you spark curiosity, cater to diverse learning styles, and turn every lesson into a chance for students to thrive. Google Sites: The Teacher's Toolkit for Differentiation: Streamline your workflow and differentiate instruction effortlessly. Google Sites offers a user-friendly platform to create dynamic choice boards, saving you time and maximizing student potential. It's a win-win for teachers and learners!

Independent/Collaborative Activities

Tips:

• Choice Board activities should not be new material but rather spiraled in reinforcement material
• These should be a variety of activities and changed out daily, or weekly.
• Do not use the same activities or even the same applications each week. Student engagement and classroom management will become an issue.

Every activity comes with an exit ticket.

Ensures engagement and limits distractions.

Exit tickets are an essential part of the independent/collaborative work process. Without accountability student engagement is drastically reduced.

Independent Video Instruction

Student Paced Instructional video

Provides students with the independence to be able to refer to the instructions and examples as many times as needed to complete the activity

• Can be scaffolded depending on students needs.