WORKSHOPS
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Workshops are my favorite environment for collaboration. Bringing educators together to learn and design builds stronger relationships and technology integration. I am eager to partner with surrounding schools to provide design instruction and hands-on expertise!
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Workshop Duration: 3 individual sessions, 45 mins each
Description: Companies spend millions of dollars each year on attention-grabbing advertising and logo design. Newspapers incorporate eye-grabbing headlines, and web app designers notice the small details to make your experience engaging and user-friendly. Why shouldn't we, as educators, create our resources with the same motivation? Join me as we find your eye for design, look at the elements of graphic design, and learn how you can create engaging, high-quality resources for your students!
Workshop Duration: 1-hr session
Description: Canva is one of the most user-friendly website applications I have used for resource design. And, it's FREE for educators! In this workshop, we establish your educator account and explore all that Canva has to offer in its features and templates. You will be thoroughly inspired with all the classroom and curriculum resource possibilities we find!
Workshop Duration: 2 individual sessions, 45 mins each
Description: The Google Suite for Education includes many helpful applications to use in the classroom. In this in-depth session, we will explore Google Classroom and features such as creating a classroom, adding students, creating an assignment, customizing the classroom header, adding a rubric to an assignment, practice sets, and more.
Workshop Duration: 2 individual sessions, 45 mins each
Description: Most educators have some kind of online platform or website through which they communicate with parents, post newsletters, or share pictures. But what if we turned that website into a hub of information and resources that could be used in the classroom and at home - for students and parents?! Join me as we give your website a "glow-up" by creating an individual theme on Google Sites, building your pages, and adding unique resources for students. We will also be pulling in unique designs from other sources to make your website pop!
Workshop Duration: 1-hr session
Description: Calling all my fellow teacher tech experts who just want more from a workshop! What about a “tech tool taste test”? In this session, we’ll work through my bookmarks bar and spend only a few minutes on each tool, explaining what it does and how I have found it to be useful in the classroom. Don’t expect any tutorials - we won’t have time! Hopefully, you’ll leave with an inspiring list of 30+ new tech tools to explore later.
Workshop Duration: 1-hr session
Description: Let’s be real. Teaching is probably one of the hardest jobs ever. If you need some inspiration, encouragement, or a caffeine-inspired pick-me-up, this session is for you. We’ll follow the incredible journey of coffee production, from bean to brew, to find some life lessons for better collaboration, better self talk, and better mental health. Join me for the real talk, pep talk we all need right now to establish meaningful professional learning communities.
Workshop Duration: 1.5-hr session
Description: When you’re scrolling on your phone, glancing at pictures and advertisements, what makes you stop? It’s good graphic design. Our students are now learning and growing in a world that is constantly grabbing their attention visually. This new reality changes the way that teachers must approach the way we design educational resources. Join us as we learn the basics of graphic design! Our discussion will focus on all of the components of design from beginning to end. We’ll learn how to plan intentionally, incorporate graphics, fonts, and images in a visually appealing way, and export our designs to share with others. Canva will be the main platform of design, however we will reference other user-friendly websites. Teachers will leave feeling inspired and equipped to design educational resources in a new way.
Workshop Duration: 1.5-hr session
Description: I'm sure you've heard of Canva… but did you know that in Canva, you can set up a brand, magic write on a document, and generate new images? We'd tell you more, but we can't give away all our secrets in the promo! Join us for a fast-paced, engaging session exploring some of the lesser known features, things we like to call the "hidden gems," of the user-friendly platform. These highlighted features include personalizing the menu, finding templates, implementing apps, magic writing, image generating, editing text and elements, branding, social media content planning, and more! Attendees will be introduced to 10 next-level tricks any educator can use and given time to dabble. Please note: While newbies and experts are welcome, this session is designed for our friends who have previously explored Canva and are looking to take their skills to the next level.
Workshop Duration: 1.5-hr session
Description: Ready to transform your classroom into a canvas of creativity? Join us for "Digital Choice Boards: Using Canva for Blended Learning" – the ultimate adventure where students wield the power of design for educational triumph!
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In this engaging hour, we'll unleash the power of choice boards and witness classrooms transform into dynamic hubs of creativity and collaboration, letting Canva be the catalyst for student-driven education. Experienced users of the website are welcomed to join us for a deep dive where education meets innovation, projects become personalized masterpieces, and students become the true architects of their learning foundation.
