September 16 Professional Development

I am very happy to be presenting at the Regional PD day in Webster City. This is the third year of a regional professional development and the second of this layout. Though the players have changed, South Hamilton has left and Saint Edmond has joined, the opportunities remain great.  Webster City has done the vast majority of the work getting this day set up. Elizabeth Hubbell from McRel will be keynoting the event and having had the opportunity to attend one of her seminars before I can state that she is a fantastic presenter.

Mark Murphy the Director of Technology at Webster City has done a fantastic job setting up the SCHED. For those of you who have not used this web based program, it is a great way to set up conferences and have people sign up. I truly like these type of professional development days because there are so many opportunities to learn and you are able to attend those sessions that are of interest to you. It is not just a "sit and git" day. And it is not all conducted by one person.  Of course this means that there had to be a large number of volunteers willing to present.

At the regional PD day, I am will be providing five sessions on three different topics. I am going to use the remainder of this post to be a place holder for the presentation info and forms that I want people to fill out.  If you are not attending the PD day, feel free to look over the information and even fill in a form. As they are all for demonstration purposes, the more the merrier.

Session I:  Google Docs: Above and Beyond Sharing.

This session covers some of the lesser known features of Google Docs. Beyond sharing, there are different tools provided by Google and third party creators to make the product much more powerful. We will discuss a few of them in this session.

Here is the Google Presentation followed by the survey I am asking attendees to take.



Please fill out this survey for the Pivot Table Report Demo.

Session II:  Forms & Autocrat & Flubaroo ... Oh My!

In this session  we will look at some scripts that can be added to forms and docs to make them a little more useful. Ever use mail merge in Microsoft Office? Autocrat does that for Google Docs. Ever want to create an online quiz that can correct itself? Flubaroo is the tool for you. This is the Link to the Flubaroo instructions.

Please Fill out this form to for the Flubaroo demo.



Now submit this survey for the Autocrat Demo

Session III:  Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way

 

This session will look at what some research says about the role of leadership in technology adoption and use and then look at tools to help make technology integration a reality in your district.