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Monday, March 30

Time:	Session Name / Description:	Link to Webinar / Recording:
10:00 am	1.2: Simplified Login We will be looking at how to reset passwords using the password reset tool and the process of setting up a simplified login for K to 6 classes. Audience: K-3 Format: Teams Presenter: Andy Rogers - Technology Enabled Learning Contact	Link: Available Monday
11:00 am	1.3: Clever Portal This webinar will go over the basic components of the Clever Portal, our K to 3 landing page for Online Learning. Teachers will learn how to use the portal in conjunction with their preferred means of communicating with students and parents about learning activities and student progress. Audience: K-3 Format: Teams Presenter: Andy Rogers - Technology Enabled Learning Contact	Link: Available Monday
1:00 pm	1.4: Clever Portal This webinar will go over the basic components of the Clever Portal, our K to 3 landing page for Online Learning. Teachers will learn how to use the portal in conjunction with their preferred means of communicating with students and parents about learning activities and student progress. Audience: K-3 Format: Teams Presenter: Andy Rogers - Technology Enabled Learning Contact	Link: Available Monday
2:00 pm	1.5: Clever Portal This webinar will go over the basic components of the Clever Portal, our K to 3 landing page for Online Learning. Teachers will learn how to use the portal in conjunction with their preferred means of communicating with students and parents about learning activities and student progress. Audience: K-3 Format: Teams Presenter: Andy Rogers - Technology Enabled Learning Contact	Link: Available Monday

Tuesday, March 31

Time:	Session Name / Description:	Link to Webinar / Recording:
9:00 am	2.1: DreamBox Learning overview for new users The board has now purchased licenses for all K-6/8 students in the NNDSB. DBL allows students to engage in lessons that are adapted to their learning needs and allows teachers the opportunity to access real-time data and assign specific lessons to students, which will be particularly useful for the duration of home learning. This session will be geared towards teachers who are new to DreamBox Learning or would like a refresher on the teacher dashboard. Audience: Grades 1-8 Format: Teams Presenter: Melissa Peddie – Board Math Facilitator	Link: Available Monday
10:00 am	2.2: Introduction to Office 365 This session will provide an introductory tour of Office 365. Familiarize yourself with Outlook, class mailing groups, OneDrive, Calendar and Office productivity applications (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote) Audience: K-12 Format: Teams Presenter: Justin Hawn - District eLearning Contact	Join
11:00 am	2.3 Topic: Clever Portal This webinar will go over the basic components of the Clever Portal, our K to 3 landing page for Online Learning. Teachers will learn how to use the portal in conjunction with their preferred means of communicating with students and parents about learning activities and student progress. Audience: K-3 Format: Teams Presenter: Andy Rogers - Technology Enabled Learning Contact	Link: Available Monday
1:00 pm	2.4: Edsby Overview This session will introduce you to the basic tools found in Edsby. Learn how you and your students/parents can access Edsby, explore the Edsby homepage, and learn about communicating through the activity feed. We'll also cover the features available in an Edsby class (class setup, student information, calendar, journal, library). Audience: K-12 Format: Teams Presenter: Justin Hawn - District eLearning Contact	Join
2:00 pm	2.5: Getting to know the LMS / Communication / Content Management This is an introductory look at the LMS. Learn how to access and organize your LMS classes and communicate information through the activity feed. We'll also discuss content management and explore what content currently exists in this virtual space. Audience: 4-12 Format: Teams Presenter: Justin Hawn - District eLearning Contact	Join

Wednesday, April 1

Time:	Session Name / Description:	Link to Webinar / Recording:
9:00 am	3.1: DreamBox Learning for Kindergarten The board has now purchased DBL licenses for all Kindergarten students in the NNDSB. DBL allows students to engage in lessons that are adapted to their learning needs and allows teachers the opportunity to access real-time data and assign specific lessons to students, which will be particularly useful for the duration of home learning. This session will be designed specifically for kindergarten teachers, with a focus on making connections to ELK learning philosophy. Audience: Kindergarten Format: Teams Presenter: Melissa Peddie – Board Math Facilitator	Link: Available Monday
10:00 am	3.2 Office 365 Collaboration This session will explore opportunities for collaboration within the Office 365 platform. We'll discuss setup and use of Class Notebook as well as Microsoft Teams. Audience: K-12 Format: Teams Presenter: Justin Hawn - District eLearning Contact	Join
11:00 am	3.3: Support for non-virtual learners With an expansive geographic region and many rural communities, the NNDSB would like to offer some support for teachers designing lessons/learning activities through a non-virtual platform. This TEAMS discussion is focused around the development of learning activities that can be executed using ‘at-home’ experiences, utilizing familiar capture methods. Audience: K-12 Format: Teams Presenter: Lisa Spencer - Coordinator of Student Success and Gap Closing	Link: Available Monday
1:00 pm	3.4: Edsby Groups / Gradebook / Portfolio This session will cover creating, using and joining groups in Edsby to support collaboration. We'll also dive into the gradebook and discuss ways that students can upload evidence of their learning through online submissions and the student portfolio. Audience: K-12 Format: Teams Presenter: Justin Hawn - District eLearning Contact	Join
2:00 pm	3.5: Online Content Development / Management and Sharing Opportunities There is an abundance of existing content available online, but let's be honest, not even Salman Kahn can explain things the way you do. In this session we'll share tools and strategies focussed around content creation (screen recordings, videos) and where to upload and share the personalized content. Audience: 4-12 Format: Teams Presenter: Justin Hawn - District eLearning Contact	Join

Thursday, April 2

Time:	Session Name / Description:	Link to Webinar / Recording:
9:00 am	4.1: Mathology Little Books and Mathology.ca for K-3 Mathology is a resource by Pearson that includes a series of “Math First” readers for K-3 students. Our board has purchased this for all kindergarten classes in the NNDSB and a pilot group of 5 schools for grades 1-3. With the current situation, Pearson has made the resources freely available to educators, including digital Mathology readers along with digital and home tasks. This session will familiarize K-3 educators with this resource and will allow for discussion on how to best leverage it for home learning. Audience: K-3 Format: Teams Presenter: Melissa Peddie – Board Math Facilitator	Link: Available Monday
10:00 am	4.2: Planning for math learning at home This session will be an opportunity for educators to review and discuss quality resources and tasks for planning their weekly lessons for learning at home. We will focus on grades K-8 from 10-10:30 and grades 9-12 from 10:30 – 11. Audience: K-8 and 9-12 Format: Teams Presenter: Melissa Peddie – Board Math Facilitator	Link: Available Monday
11:00 am	TBD
1:00 pm	TBD
2:00 pm	4.5 LMS Discussions / Assessment / Feedback Opportunities Learn how to setup discussions in the LMS including video post opportunities. We'll also explore assessment and feedback opportunities including Dropbox, Grader App, Quizzes, Online Annotations. Audience: 4-12 Format: Teams Presenter: Justin Hawn - District eLearning Contact	Join

Friday, April 3

Time:	Session Name / Description:	Link to Webinar / Recording:
9:00 am	5.1 DreamBox Learning - Assign Focus Assign Focus is a tool in DBL that allows teachers to select lesson groups that are specifically targeted at Ontario math expectations for their students. This session will review this feature for teachers K-6/8 and will provide an opportunity for discussion about how best to use Assign Focus with consideration for home learning. Audience: K-8 Format: Teams Presenter: Melissa Peddie – Board Math Facilitator	Link: Available Monday
10:00 am	5.2: Office 365 Q & A Ask questions about any of the products in Office 365. Microsoft Forms, One Note, Class Notebook, OneDrive, Outlook, Teams, Sway, Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Audience: K-12 Format: Teams Presenter: Justin Hawn - District eLearning	Join
11:00	TBD
1:00 pm	5.4: Edsby Q & A Join us to ask questions you have about Edsby and share in the discussions that develop. We'll also address some frequently asked questions. Audience: K-12 Format: Teams Presenter: Justin Hawn - District eLearning Contact	Join
2:00 pm	5.5: LMS Q & A General question and answer session for any wonderings you have about the LMS platform. Audience: 4-12 Format: Teams Presenter: Justin Hawn - District eLearning Contact	Join

Session 1:

Session Name:	Session Description:	Additional Device Requirements:
1.1: Games for Learning (Only offered during session 1)	Swim with the fish in Aquaverse, get down and dirty with Roots, and click your way to environmental awareness on Sprite’s Quest. These highly engaging, interactive learning games are all available as courses in the LMS. This session will include hands-on play with Aquaverse, Roots, The Lost Feathers and Seedling Saga, and eMe, as well as an in-depth look at the built-in teaching and assessment resources. Please bring a laptop or an iPad.	If using an iPad, please download the Aquaverse, Sprite’s Quest, and eMe apps
1.3: Bee-Bots	Bee-bot is a programmable robot that helps teach children the first stages of programming, sequencing, estimation and problem-solving. Captivate your students interest through multiple fun cross-curricular activities in the classroom with this easy to use robot. Suitable for grades K and up.	Mobile device with Beebot app (recommended)
1.4: Sphero's and Coding	In this session we will look at the progression of students from computer-based programming (e.g - code.org) to hands on programming of Sphero's.	Mobile device with Sphero Edu app
1.5: The Coding Corner	This “Coding Corner” session will explore coding in the primary grades, including kindergarten, providing ample opportunity for hands-on learning. During this session, we will look at how to incorporate coding into our Primary grades and more specifically, our Kindergarten classrooms. What does it look like? How does it work? What types of “unplugged” activities are there for younger students? Together, we will focus on a program called Scratch Jr., a coding program designed specifically for students aged 5-7. This program allows primary students opportunity to create simple programs such as stories, games and animations in a more simpler coding learning environment. We will also look at both Language Arts and Mathematics curriculum connections.	Mobile device with Scratch Jr. app (recommended)
1.6: LMS – Getting Started	Are you interesting in learning to use the LMS? Maybe you have started out using some of the tools, but want to learn more about content, dropboxes, quizzes, and other tools? This session will provide you with the skills needed to begin using the LMS in a blended learning environment to support student learning.
1.7: #teachingwithstyle	This session is about learning how the blogging tools are used in the classroom, from both the student and teacher perspective; student blogs and teacher website. The session is also about seeing how to use Microsoft OneNote as an online assessment tool and mark book. These are great ways to have all important documentation all in one place, backed up and automatically saved. They are easy to access, organize and are user friendly.
1.8: Jump Into Coding with Swift Playgrounds (Note:  This is a double session - Please choose as first AND second session when registering)	Coding is an essential skill that teaches problem-solving, develops teamwork, and inspires creativity. Join guest presenter Jason Wood, an Apple Distinguished Educator from Richmond Hill, to learn how you can engage elementary and middle school students in the world of coding on iPad with visual-based apps, Swift Playgrounds, and Everyone Can Code resources designed for teachers.	iPad with Swift Playgrounds, Tynker, and iBooks is required

Session 2:

Session Name:	Session Description:	Additional Device Requirements:
2.2: Hands-on with Scratch Coding (Only offered during session 2)	Coding is the 'literacy' of the 21st century. Participants will learn to code with Scratch, and create several animations linked to curriculum expectations. Take these project ideas and your new skills straight back to your class and start your students on their journey as creators, not just consumers of technology. Learning resources will be explored, and a sample Unit Plan will be provided.
2.3: Bee-Bots	Bee-bot is a programmable robot that helps teach children the first stages of programming, sequencing, estimation and problem-solving. Captivate your students interest through multiple fun cross-curricular activities in the classroom with this easy to use robot. Suitable for grades K and up.	Mobile device with Beebot app (recommended)
2.4: Sphero's and Coding	In this session we will look at the progression of students from computer-based programming (e.g - code.org) to hands on programming of Sphero's.	Mobile device with Sphero Edu app
2.5: The Coding Corner	This “Coding Corner” session will explore coding in the primary grades, including kindergarten, providing ample opportunity for hands-on learning. During this session, we will look at how to incorporate coding into our Primary grades and more specifically, our Kindergarten classrooms. What does it look like? How does it work? What types of “unplugged” activities are there for younger students? Together, we will focus on a program called Scratch Jr., a coding program designed specifically for students aged 5-7. This program allows primary students opportunity to create simple programs such as stories, games and animations in a more simpler coding learning environment. We will also look at both Language Arts and Mathematics curriculum connections.	Mobile device with Scratch Jr. app (recommended)
2.6: LMS – Getting Started	Are you interesting in learning to use the LMS? Maybe you have started out using some of the tools, but want to learn more about content, dropboxes, quizzes, and other tools? This session will provide you with the skills needed to begin using the LMS in a blended learning environment to support student learning.
2.7: #teachingwithstyle	This session is about learning how the blogging tools are used in the classroom, from both the student and teacher perspective; student blogs and teacher website. The session is also about seeing how to use Microsoft OneNote as an online assessment tool and mark book. These are great ways to have all important documentation all in one place, backed up and automatically saved. They are easy to access, organize and are user friendly.
2.8: Jump Into Coding with Swift Playgrounds (Note:  This is a double session - Please choose as first AND second session when registering)	Coding is an essential skill that teaches problem-solving, develops teamwork, and inspires creativity. Join guest presenter Jason Wood, an Apple Distinguished Educator from Richmond Hill, to learn how you can engage elementary and middle school students in the world of coding on iPad with visual-based apps, Swift Playgrounds, and Everyone Can Code resources designed for teachers.	iPad with Swift Playgrounds, Tynker, and iBooks is required

Session 3:

Session Name:	Session Description:	Additional Device Requirements:
3.1: Hands-on with Makey Makey Session Full	Please select another session
3.4: Wedo 2 Robots and Inquiry through First Lego League Junior for the Classroom	In this session we will explore using the Wedo 2.0 robots, through inquiry. It will include demonstrations, curriculum connections, engineering, exploring the program, and becoming familiar with the We do 2.0 Lego Education App.	Mobile device with WeDo 2.0 Education App
3.4: Privacy of Student Data with Third Party Apps	The excitement of using new apps in the classroom can sometimes come at a cost. Often, we see apps that are free, however the app uses the data entered into these apps as their profit driver. This session will review these possible scenarios and how you can continue to be innovative in the use of new apps, yet maintain the privacy of student data.
3.5: LMS – Next Level (Only offered during session 3)	Want to take blended learning in the LMS to the next level? Ready to customize your course shell or use new tools to document student learning, assess student work, and improve communication? This session will provide you with the skills to leverage new and existing LMS tools to help both you and your students.
3.6: Breakout.edu	Learn about a resource we have access to in the Near North Board called breakout.edu. Help your students design and play escape rooms where they use critical thinking and group work skills.
3.7: Office 365: Your questions, answered	Do you have questions about any of the Office 365 apps (email, calendar, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Sway, OneNote, Forms, etc.)? Are you looking for tips and tricks to make things easier, or maybe a new way to use these tools? This session will give participants to opportunity to have their questions answered and get personalized help with anything Office 365.
3.8: 3D Design and Printing in the classroom (Note:  This is a double session - Please choose as third AND fourth session when registering)	This session will introduce teachers to the basics of 3D Design, using Tinkercad, and 3D Printing. We will examine the applications in a variety of classrooms. We will also introduce the idea of Digital Badges as a means of assessment.	Participants will need to create a free account on tinkercad.com

Session 4:

Session Name:	Session Description:	Additional Device Requirements:
4.2: Beyond the Classroom Walls SESSION FULL	SESSION FULL - Please select another session
4.3: Wedo 2 Robots and Inquiry through First Lego League Junior for the Classroom	In this session we will explore using the Wedo 2.0 robots, through inquiry. It will include demonstrations, curriculum connections, engineering, exploring the program, and becoming familiar with the We do 2.0 Lego Education App.	Mobile device with WeDo 2.0 Education App
4.4: Privacy of Student Data with Third Party Apps	The excitement of using new apps in the classroom can sometimes come at a cost. Often, we see apps that are free, however the app uses the data entered into these apps as their profit driver. This session will review these possible scenarios and how you can continue to be innovative in the use of new apps, yet maintain the privacy of student data.
4.6: Breakout.edu	Learn about a resource we have access to in the Near North Board called breakout.edu. Help your students design and play escape rooms where they use critical thinking and group work skills.
4.7: Office 365: Your questions, answered	Do you have questions about any of the Office 365 apps (email, calendar, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Sway, OneNote, Forms, etc.)? Are you looking for tips and tricks to make things easier, or maybe a new way to use these tools? This session will give participants to opportunity to have their questions answered and get personalized help with anything Office 365.
4.8: 3D Design and Printing in the classroom (Note:  This is a double session - Please choose as third AND fourth session when registering)	This session will introduce teachers to the basics of 3D Design, using Tinkercad, and 3D Printing. We will examine the applications in a variety of classrooms. We will also introduce the idea of Digital Badges as a means of assessment.	Participants will need to create a free account on tinkercad.com

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Please note that lunch will be provided. Unfortunately, we are no longer able to work with the high demand of significantly specific food options requested of us. Should you have severe allergies and or require a specific diet, we are encouraging you to please come prepared should our options not meet your requirements. Please feel free to bring your own coffee/tea/ breakfast items as you need in the morning.

As well you are encouraged to bring a refillable water bottle to replace our offering of bottled water.

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