JEFFCO ED TECH

Jeffco Ed Tech wrap up

5/23/2022

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All year the Jeffco EdTech team has been focusing on #BetterTogether. We wanted to take time in this last blog of the school year to share some of our #BetterTogether stories and the amazing work that our team is most proud of this year.

Techfored

This year we made strategic and thoughtful changes to our TechforEd program. Transparency and leadership development were two highlights. Creating an advisory group from the current Leads. More students were given equitable access to tools and devices. Enjoy this clip of the impact of TechforEd on student learning!

DTL Work

DTLs in Jeffco have been studying equity and its applications for our school libraries. Partnering with Title 1 team and  Equity, Diversity and Inclusion team along with our community partner, JCPL allowed every school library to curate collections that focused on making sure each student could see themselves and others in books. 
Our mantra this year focused on Rodin-Bishops research that highlights books as window, mirrors and sliding glass doors. See Conifer DTL Karen McIntosh put the learning to work in her Day Without Hate video.
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Learning Labs

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Teachers, DTLs and ICs across the district participated in EdTech’s Learning Labs this year. We hosted both a secondary lab and an elementary lab. Participants deepened their knowledge of pedagogy and how digital tools can support instruction, student choice, and shifting the cognitive load.

Computer Science 

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Jeffco received over $60,000 in grant funding from CDE and the Gill Foundation this year! K-12 teachers participated in a variety of workshops at MindSpark Learning including K-5 Robotics, Code.org, Middle School Robotics and Arduino and Raspberry Pi! Workshops continue this summer with mindSpark and School of Mines. Middle school teachers also participated in workshops including Sphero RVRs, microBits and drones, facilitated by Jeffco teachers. So much learning!!!

Enjoy summer!

We hope you had an amazing school year and will get some much needed rest and relaxation this summer. Our partnerships truly make us #BetterTogether!
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10 summer student engagement ideas

5/15/2022

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With summer quickly approaching, check out these 10 awesome summer learning opportunities from Ed Tech!
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1. Become a Podcaster
Podcasting is such a great way to empower students to use their voice to express their ideas and connect with others. Episodes can range from storytelling, interviews, passion projects, to reflection pieces. Check out this link to get started today!

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2. Document Your Summer with Photos

Click click! Have students create a digital photo album sharing summer hobbies, that can easily be shared with grandma, family, friends and neighbors alike! Check out this link for more!

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3. Create a Comic or Graphic Novel

Ever wanted to write a graphic novel? Choose between these various templates and ideas in Book Creator. The sky is the limit with topics, ideas, and design. Get started with this link 

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4. Create Your Own Song

Bring the studio to your fingertips with Soundtrap! Learn how to create beats, melodies and more by accessing a keyboard, bass or synthesizer in just a few clicks. All creations can be exported as an mp3 file to share with others. Find out more, here!   ​

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5. Take a Virtual Field Trip

So many National Parks, so little time! Get a free, front-row seat to the best views in the country with Google Arts & Culture. Simply visit the link here to search for private tour-like experiences offering breath-taking images and fun facts on the most desired travel destinations around. Buckle up!

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6. Learn to Code

Code anything from a dance party to an encrypted message in as little as an hour! This link offers thousands of project ideas to keep minds busy and thinking critically! 

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7. Create Your Own Music Video

Have a favorite summer song you just can't get enough of? Why not embrace it and make it your own by becoming a video editing expert? Choose from hundreds of stock images, audio, video clips and transitions in WeVideo. This link will leave you buzzing with more ideas than you can contain. Happy editing! 

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8. Play Screen-Free Bingo
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Take a break from the screen with these fun and creative activity ideas for all ages. This pdf link offers simple, print-out-ready ideas to pack in positivity and productivity. Bragging rights included for the winner! 

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9. Design a Passion Project Using Google Sites

Ever envision becoming a website designer? Take this opportunity to teach others all about a topic or hobby by trying your hand with various website layouts and features. Using this simple, drag and drop site maker with Google, you can instantly look like a professional website designer all with the click of a few buttons and a creative thinking hat! Click here to get started. 

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10. Geocache
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Join the world's largest treasure hunt! If you like clues, teamwork, and adventure, geocaching is for you. Follow a series of GPS-located goodies that are left by other enthusiasts like you! Just be sure to be safe, and wear sunscreen before hitting the pavement. Find out more here. 

Ed Tech Summer Engagment Resources

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Lot's of fun resources to explore!  
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GYTO SPOTLIGHT

4/21/2022

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Great sessions by teachers, for teachers!

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Get Your Tech On returns this summer to re-inspire Jeffco educators with ways to get students collaborating, communicating, creating and thinking critically around implementing digital tools and 1:1 devices.

This is a FREE event for Jeffco educators. Licensed educators not being paid to work June 1st will receive add pay for their attendance at this event! Additionally, all attendees  will receive a copy of Holly Clark's Chromebook Infused Classroom! Be sure to register in ESS using code ETGYTO, 0003. 

Take a sneak peek below at a few of the awesome sessions being taught by Jeffco educators and leaders. And check out the posted schedule on the Get Your Tech On Website to get a full listing* of offered sessions. You will not want to miss this event!
*Schedule is subject to change

Tech and STEM spotlight

Presenters Deanna, Megan, Katherine and Mallory will all be sharing different ways to integrate awesome STEM ideas into your instructional practices.  Check out their session to get STEM inspired!
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Computer Science SpotLight

These sessions will inspire creativity, challenge you to learn a new tool and get those creative juices flowing.  Check out how a seasoned teacher with an aversion to technology went from hands-off to all hands on learning with technology and robotics!  You might also choose to choose to explore a computer science session that cultivated problem solver skills. What do you do when code doesn't work? How do you create a storyboard and then code that story? What do you do when your code or device doesn't work?  You problem solve!  You are going to love these sessions!  
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Getting the most out of your Mimio Board

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If you have a Mimio board or are getting one these sessions will be filled with how to's and resources to support you as you get up and running or want to take a deeper dive into all the bells and whistles Mimio has to offer.

Innovative classroom Sessions

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These presenters are bringing their teacher toolboxes filled with resources, ideas, best practices and more!  Check out these sessions for innovative ways to meet the needs to students and teacher learning!

Gettin Googlie sessions

One size doesn't fit all in education. Find ways to support students with resources, tips and tricks on how to include them in learning by meeting them where they are at. Technology allows students to access content in a variety of ways as well as how to show their learning.
Join these presenters to leverage the use of all things Google!
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Robot Rumble!!

4/19/2022

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On April 19th, Drake Middle School overflowed with students and parents coming to showcase what they can do with robots, including Dash, Sphero, and VEX. Check out this week's blog featuring guest bloggers Kyle Walker and Harmony Jones. Kyle is the DTL at Kullerstrand and Maple Grove. Harmony is the robotics teacher at Drake Middle School.
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​At Drake Middle School, a group of people gathered to celebrate a post-pandemic year of robotics in Jeffco.  The turnout was way beyond what was expected, revealing a passion that is still very much alive in our schools.

​The VEX IQ robotics program in particular had built up considerable momentum over four years with at least a dozen schools participating in tournaments.  But then the pandemic rolled over us, and the program pretty much came to a halt, breaking our hard-earned momentum.  When we looked around and thought about restarting this year, the obstacles were significant.  People were still recovering from the chaos of the past two years, having to rebuild their libraries and classrooms, training students to be in school again, not to mention the current of emotional trauma flowing steadily beneath it all.  Maybe it would be better to just let it go for another year.

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But the passion hadn’t been wiped out. A group of enthusiasts began to talk about rekindling the fire in our schools.  Perhaps a full-blown tournament program would be too overwhelming, but that didn’t mean we couldn’t do robotics throughout the year.  And given that, why not take time to celebrate at the end?  And who was to say we couldn’t open it up to other platforms like Sphero and Dash?  A plan began to come together for a big event.  A true celebration, free of the pressure of having to adhere to strict rules and regulations.  Just plain fun.

The Plan Came TO LIFE

By 9:30 am, people were flooding the halls of Drake Middle.  The cafeteria was filled with teams putting final touches to their robots.  The gym was filled with family and friends and educators, anxious to see what would happen on the eight playing fields spread out across the gym floor.  Sphero Bolt mazes took up one hall while there were Sphero RVR obstacle courses at the other end.  Huge hand-made Dash and Dot courses were in the cafeteria.  There was even a raffle station set up with amazing prizes, many of which were robotics products donated by schools and families.  Harmony Jones, the organizer of the event at Drake, was buzzing up and down the halls, adjusting on the run to a much larger crowd than was anticipated.
Somehow, it all came together, and it was everything we could have hoped for.  People had fun. Robots were everywhere.  The informal matches ran over and over again until the last minute with many teams still huddling around the playing fields wanting to get their robot on the field once more before having to leave.  By 11:30 when it was all done, everyone was exhausted.  But it was the good kind of exhaustion.  The sense of affirmation and relief that comes from knowing that everything - a year of wrestling, playing, encouraging and problem-solving - was worth it.

People had fun. Robots were everywhere.

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​We don’t know what next year will look like yet. Most likely the tournaments will resume and more schools will join in rebuilding the momentum. Details will be worked out hopefully before year’s end.  Fresh ideas will certainly arise. And the passion for design and creativity and critical thinking - not just among our students, but among those of us who teach them - will continue to grow.  As Stan Lee used to always sign off, Excelsior!

Thanks for Sharing and all of your hard work Kyle and Harmony!

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Check-OUt our Updated EBook library!

4/6/2022

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Jeffco Ed Tech provides a rich library of eBook resources chock-full of ideas and instructions for how to infuse technology and pedagogical knowledge into the classroom.​
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​Youki Terada states in a tech integration article from Edutopia that “The biggest obstacle to teaching online probably isn’t the technology. Teachers seek out educational technology, in fact, because it can have considerable positive impacts on student performance, according to a 2016 study—improving test scores and allowing teachers to assess student achievement more efficiently. The big problem is how to integrate it…”

​The Jeffco EdTech eBook library can be instrumental in providing strategies to integrate technology tools to provide positive impacts on student performance.
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Here are a few snapshots of some of EdTech's recently published or updated eBooks.
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Adobe Creative Cloud Express, formerly Adobe Spark, offers a plethora of opportunities for students to engage in problem-solving and deeper level thinking by interacting in websites, videos, infographics and more. The eBook  also includes resources designed to provide classroom examples to empower integration.

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This newly updated eBook, "Get to know your Mimio" is designed with three levels of learning, from just getting started to advanced.  It also provides classroom scenarios with examples of our Jeffco students engaging in learning using the Mimio board.

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There is even a series of eBooks on robotics to learn about the latest computer science opportunities for students.
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WHAT? 
I can get Jeffco Professional Credit
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Yes! After reading and learning from a Jeffco EdTech eBook, just complete the form on the last page of the book and a certificate will be emailed to you!

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   Remember to register for 
Jeffco EdTech Get Your TECH ON 
GREEN MOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOL
June, 1st 2022
7:30 am - 3:00 pm This is a FREE event for Jeffco educators, and licensed educators not being paid to work June 1st will receive add pay for their attendance at this event.

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Get Your TEch On 2021 - Register Now!

3/30/2022

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THE NEW NORMAL AND THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION

"The future classroom must look very different from the traditional classrooms of yesterday. As the landscape of information changes, so must our instructional pedagogies. Our students' futures are digital, and their successes will depend on knowing how to use digital tools to build businesses, communicate effectively and work productively from remote locations. This story-filled keynote will look at how we can better prepare our students for a future where technology will become even smarter and more prevalent." - Holly Clark

What is Get Your TEch On?

June 1st, 2022 from 7:30-3:00 @ Green Mountain High School
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Get Your Tech On returns this summer to re-inspire Jeffco educators with ways to get students collaborating, communicating, creating and thinking critically around implementing digital tools and 1:1 devices.

This is a FREE event for Jeffco educators. Licensed educators being paid to work June 1st will receive add pay for their attendance at this event!

Additionally, all attendees  will receive a copy of Holly Clark's Chromebook Infused Classroom! 

Get Your Tech On Website

2019 GYTO Recap 

Meet Your Get Your Tech On Keynote

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Holly Clark is an education leader, international speaker, best selling author and an advocate for students. She now shares that journey in her three books and through The Infused Classroom community channels. Holly is known for her leadership and expertise in education and digital learning. She is an international speaker, best selling author and an advocate for students. She is a twenty-plus year educator who has spent over 15 years teaching in a 1:1 classroom and over five years as an administrator in both public and private schools. She holds a master’s degree in Instructional Design and Educational Technology from Columbia University in New York City. Her passion is for helping teachers create classrooms where students want to learn and can become the agents of their own thinking and understanding. Hollyclark.org

Register Now

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Register in ESS using code: ETGYTO, session 0003
This is a free event, but capacity is limited.

​Licensed  Jeffco staff (who are not regularly paid on June 1st) will receive 6 hours of additional pay for attending this event. Administrators and certified staff are not eligible for additional pay.

Present at Get Your TEch On 

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Submit Proposal

Licensed staff are eligible to receive 3 hours of additional pay ($26) per session. Administrators are not eligible for additional pay, but are welcome to present. Certified staff are not eligible for pay.

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I Got You!

3/15/2022

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Let's go on to a Journey - I got you!

I want to take you on a journey - one that I am not the leader of (you aren’t either so no worries).  The leader is learning - Let’s learn together first, if you aren’t familiar with Holly Clark and the work she is doing with technology and integration into classrooms please check out her website.  Holly Clark (this year's Jeffco’s Get Your Tech On keynote speaker!)  If you don’t know Ken Shelton (or even if you do) please take a moment to read Techquity - he does an amazing job of outlining the need and value of tech in our classrooms for equity. Use of technology with our students comes with many benefits and many responsibilities for students, teachers, parents and our schools tech leaders, DTLs. After getting a taste of those two people through their websites - I learned a few things, I hope you did too.  
Now - let me lead you on a quick learning journey - here is some info you might not know: Jeffco DTLs are doing a lot of work this year with Jeffco's Equity, Diversity and Inclusion team and making sure not all but each student has the ability to see themselves reflected in our school library collections.  Amazing work!  But we don’t talk enough about how DTLs have teamed with Jeffco TechforEd to  create equity for all students through technology.  
This year the TechforEd program brought in grant money to provide 1:1 Chromebooks for our lower grades; schools chose to either focus on 1st and 2nd grade.  We now have 1:1 in grades 1 or 2, 5, 6, 7,  9, 10 and 11. Next year, we will add 8th and 12th, covering almost all students - alleviating the burden of purchase at the school level and allowing for schools to concentrate on their integration of technology into the classroom.  With this increase in such a short period of time and Covid limiting our ability to have more timely professional learning opportunities around use of technology, we need to jump in with both feet and infuse our classroom with technology.
Which is what this post really started out to be about, the journey of an infused classroom. Now here is where you can jump on the learning journey for yourself and your students. 

Holly Clark speaks about what an Infused Classroom (see video) looks like. As a 1:1 lead and technology leader, your school-based DTL is the best resource you have to support  teachers to move deeper into the Depth of Knowledge (DOK) levels as well as integrate the 4Cs. The examples in the video above show how students become empowered to be their own best resource.  Thinking, understanding and expressing themselves is not only an academic skill but a life skill. Collaborating, co-teaching and/or planning with your DTL can extend your students learning and help them gain valuable tech life skills.

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Holly (I like to think I am on a first name basis with her) has put together an amazing amount of thoughtful ideas and resources for teachers. Check out Holly’s Google/Chromebook Archives.  She has practical, engaging and thoughtful professional learning that is student-centered. In her book, The Chromebook Infused Classroom, she dives deeper into pedagogy but also provides thoughtful practical tips from keyboard shortcuts, to tools, to mindful  integrations.  This is just one example of a 10 question list she puts out - 

10 questions to ask when using a Chromebook:


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  1. How can I use the Chromebook to activate curiosity before we begin a lesson?
  2. How can students use the Chromebook to access materials that are representative of different identities, backgrounds and cultures?
  3. How can the Chromebook make the learning more individual and student-centered?
  4. Can I use the technology to enhance the learning experience by making it more collaborative? How can students work together on the project instead of alone?
  5. Can the Chromebook be used to access different opinions and ideas outside the traditional text?
  6. How can I design learning assessments where students use the Chromebook to provide the teacher with real-time information and make their thinking and learning visible?
  7. Are all of my students showing their understanding in the same way? Is there a way for me to allow for demonstrations of knowledge that are more student-centered and meet the needs of each of their learning differences?
  8. ​How is the Chromebook activity better than a worksheet or written response - if it is not how can I use the Chromebook to make the learning richer and more dynamic?
  9. How can I use the Chromebook to enable students to experience learning outside of the four walls of the classroom? Can we connect with another classroom on this particular learning outcome? Can we bring in an expert?
  10. How can I bring in those learning tools that will help all students have the same access to information and is there a tool that can help a struggling learner have better access to the information? What inclusive tools are out there? (Clark 56, 57)
These are great questions to start to your mindful integration - what can you use? 

Let's Journey on Together - I Got You!

I am ending this blog post with a few things - First - if you haven’t signed up to attend Get Your Tech On - do it, registration opens in April - you will be so happy you spent a few hours gathering ideas, tips and tricks from  your fellow teachers - and bonus - hear Holly Clark speak live!  Second - reach out to your DTL and see how you can collaborate with them to move students towards learner-centered tech infusion.  And lastly, try just one new thing - make it small, make it meaningful to you, make it meaningful to your students and, as always, let the learning be the leader. Let us know how the journey goes…

P.S. If you think you’d make a great presenter at Get Your Tech On (I think you would be amazing!) sign up here.

Work Cited
Clark, Holly. The Chromebook Infused Classroom: Using Blended Learning to Create Engaging Student-Centered Classroom. Elevate Books Edu, 2020.
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How do You Get Your TEch On?

3/8/2022

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On June 1st, Jeffco Ed Tech will be hosting their 3rd Get Your Tech On event at Green Mountain High School. This annual day of learning puts best practices around technology integration at center stage. The spirit of Get Your Tech On is professional learning for teachers, by teachers. Jeffco educators will share how they use district-approved technology to get students creating, collaborating, communicating and thinking critically in their classrooms. It's a day of inspiration that that  encourages both administrators and teachers to reconsider what learning should like for our Generation Z learners.

Registration to attend this event will open in April! All licensed staff who attend will be paid additional pay ($26/hour) for the day.
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Get Your Tech On Website

​"I love having the time to talk with teachers from other schools about what they are doing at their schools as far as technology. ​"
​"I am truly inspired to be back in my classroom!

Be a Presenter

It’s time to show other Jeffco Educators how you Get Your Tech On! We would love to have you come share how you get your students creating, collaborating, communicating and thinking critically with technology!

Presenter sign-ups are open from March 4th - 18th. We are able to pay up to 2 licensed educators 3 hours of additional pay per session to help cover their planning time. Administrators are welcome to present, but cannot receive additional pay. Classified staff cannot receive additional pay. 


Submit Your Presenter Proposals

Keynote Speaker: Holly Clark

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Holly is an education leader, international speaker, best selling author and an advocate for students. She now shares that journey in her three books and through The Infused Classroom community channels. Holly is known for her leadership and expertise in education and digital learning. She is an international speaker, best selling author and an advocate for students. She is a twenty-plus year educator who has spent over 15 years teaching in a 1:1 classroom and over five years as an administrator in both public and private schools. She holds a master’s degree in Instructional Design and Educational Technology from Columbia University in New York City. Her passion is for helping teachers create classrooms where students want to learn and can become the agents of their own thinking and understanding. Hollyclark.org

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Classroom spotlights: Mimio INTERACTIVE TVs

2/28/2022

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There has been a huge shift in AV discussions this year geared toward Mimio boards and how they are being used instructionally in the classroom. DTLs, teachers, ECTS personnel, and Ed Tech specialists have collaborated this year more than ever on exploring the innovation that Mimios bring to schools. One question was always left on the table... How are teachers using the boards in their classrooms? Ed Tech got the opportunity to go on a WORLD (School) TOUR and dive deeper into how these boards are being used instructionally in Jeffco.
"I love the ease of the board and how I am able to access multiple platforms quickly and easily." -Crystal Fassbinder, Warder Elementary

elementary examples

Christi Reed, DTL at Westridge, and teachers throughout the building were gracious enough to set up a few classrooms for us to view at Westridge Elementary. In third grade with Mandi Lawrence and Abby Fehr, students were singing along with a YouTube video about quadrilaterals playing through the device. The teacher was able to pause and engage the students to trace/name the shapes being described for math vocabulary. Third graders also completed a whole-group Seesaw lesson sorting shapes to classify rectangles.

Second grade teachers Leslie Aranjo and Brooke Lundgren annotated with the pen tools to point out key features and vocabulary of PebbleGo  to give her students focus. Students were engaged in research on natural disasters and floods. They also projected their math slide deck for students in a small-group review lesson.

In fifth grade with Allison Olis and Sherri Kissinger, students were completing a QR scavenger hunt on their Chromebooks and sharing their responses to the Mimio board via the Unplug'd app. The Unplug'd app allows teachers and students to connect to the Mimio boards for wireless teaching. Other fifth graders were explaining their math thinking on the board with multiple students showing their work. Mimio boards can handle up to 20 touches at a time! 

Many teachers are interested in how to annotate directly on your Google Slides. Crystal Fassbinder and Kim Fulcomer at Warder Elementary dove head first into a Mimio app called Lynx to solve this problem. They connected their Google Drives and pulled up their Google Slides in the app to annotate throughout their lessons. Lynx also lets you co-create interactive Lynx lessons on your board or through the Lynx app on your device with live links, Lynx virtual manipulatives/games, visuals, and more! Crystal notes, "The Mimio Board is engaging and interactive with my students. I love the ease of the board and how I am able to access multiple platforms quickly and easily. As I learn more about Lynx, and spend more time using it, I realize that it is a solid replacement for SMART and allows me to present my information in a slide show way while still interacting and saving the students' writing and thinking."

secondary examples

Evergreen Middle School DTL, Christine Robb, was able to connect us with a 7th grade math teacher Emily Warren. Emily was proficient with the Mimio board and demonstrated next-level understanding. Emily used the Unplug'd app and Annotate extension on her device to write on the board from the back of the room. She was also slowly introducing her students to sharing their screens using the Unplug'd app. Students created their own reflection of shapes on a coordinate plane, then projected two computers to solve each other's problems.

Math teachers, Mike Nishioka and Eric Ponicsan at Golden HS are using tablets with their Mimios and see them upgraded SMART Boards. DTL Christy DeMeyer noted that others in the school have taken their SMART Notebook lessons they created and transferred them to MimioStudio Notebook lessons.

Our Ed Tech and AV Team want to thank the teachers and DTLs for helping us better understand how these boards are being used in their classrooms. We hope that this blog will give others insight on usage across the district and can help them make informed decisions about AV in their schools.

want to learn more?

As always, we suggest that teachers start small and build a solid foundation. 
  • Create a copy of Ed Tech's Levels of Usage document to help guide teachers' comfortability levels with the Mimio boards. 
  • Join Boxlight's free online PD on ProColor Series 3 and MimioStudio Basics.
  • Read our Ed Tech ebook on Getting Started with your Mimio Interactive Panel.
  • Watch Boxlight's YouTube videos on the interactive boards.
  • Research best AV solutions for your school and reach out to your IT and Ed Tech specialists for more information and a discussion on best options for your school.
  • Reach out to schools in your area that have boards installed already.
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Digital Inclusion

2/22/2022

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Equity, inclusion and access are not just buzzwords in Jeffco. Through the TechforEd program, they have become a daily reality for students all across the district. This includes access for students with severe special needs (SSN) and/or significant physical disabilities. Students in special education receive substantial resources of support through the Assistive Technology Team and the TechforEd program. ​
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Bear Creek High School

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Recently at Bear Creek High school, SSN students used their district-provided Chromebooks and digital tools to share their learning with a global community. Their English teacher, Angela Bauer, collaborated with the school’s Digital Teacher Librarian, Angie Wagner, to teach the students to create a digital book with Book Creator.

Students learned about how countries around the world have their own cultural, “Cinderella” stories, and the elements of that story genre. The accommodation features in Book Creator allow students to use text, audio, images, video and more to share their stories with rich content and amazing creativity. “We want each student to have equitable access and the opportunity to reach their full potential. We are excited for them to be able to publish their own ebooks!” stated Angie.

Read some of their eBooks below. 
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Miller School

At Fletcher Miller School, students collaborated to create a Book Creator eBook of force and motion with letter sounds. Several students modeled their favorite motion of sliding with their wheelchairs on their adaptive playground equipment. Miller teachers spent a considerable amount of their professional learning time during the pandemic on digital tools and how to incorporate them with students who have severe cognitive and physical disabilities. “Our mission at Miller school is All students with unique needs deserve access to a high quality education that promotes independence and autonomy for a lifetime of learning. The TechforEd program has given us digital tools to help support this mission,” said the Instructional Coach Nickie Woods.
Read one of their eBooks below. 
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Learn How to Start using Book Creator with Students
Thank you to all of our dedicated teachers in Jeffco who truly strive and intentionally plan for equity and inclusion with tech integration! Want to learn more about equity and integrating technology with special needs students? Check out these resources: Equity Considerations for Teachers & Leaders and  Assistive Technology Team Resources  (for qualifying students).

Also, check out our partner blog The Pulse. 
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