Peak to Peak Charter School, September, 2017

Peak to Peak Charter School, April 2017

Innovate@BVSD & InnEdCO, June 2017

Students who demonstrate understanding of grade level concepts are often ready to move on to alternative lessons. Technology provides opportunities to create collaborative independent studies for these students. In this workshop, you’ll explore several platforms for creating interactive lessons that enrich and extend student learning and encourage student collaboration.

Innovate@BVSD & InnEdCO, June 2017

Explore how coding can help your students to develop strong teamwork skills, critical thinking and problem solving skills. We will look at Code.org and Kodable to guide elementary students through understanding key aspects of coding: sequencing, events, loops and conditionals. Then we will explore ways to extend student thinking through differentiated coding task cards and robotics. Come learn and play with us!

Peak to Peak Charter School PD Day, April 7, 2017

Come create a plan for integrating Chromebooks successfully in your classroom. Learn how to setup accounts, install apps and extensions, and set up norms for using Chromebooks in your classroom. Maximize the functionality of these tools by learning how to use Wixie, BrainPOP, and Google Classroom as tools for assigning and collecting work from students. You'll walk away with a plan for how you will use your new Chromebooks with students.

February, 2017

Wednesday, June 29, 2016, ISTE - Denver

Digital storytelling challenges students to develop a deeper understanding of history, and develops 21st century skills of communication, collaboration, and creativity. Experience digital storytelling from a student’s perspective as you evaluate primary sources, write a script, compose a storyboard and create a short digital story. Co-presented with Sheena Thomas, Christina Gillen and student presenters JP and Quinn.

December 9, 2015

October 2015. Colorado Association of Gifted And Talented Conference

Technology provides effective and efficient ways for teachers to gather formative data and to engage students in the learning process. Explore formative assessment tools of Kahoot, Socrative, Quizizz, EdPuzzle, Formative, Today's Meet and Google Forms. Compare and contrast these assessment tools and evaluate which ones will work best in your classroom. You will leave with formative assessments for your first units.

Technology provides effective and efficient ways for teachers to gather formative data and to engage students in the learning process. Explore formative assessment tools of Kahoot, Socrative, Quizizz, EdPuzzle, Formative, Today's Meet and Google Forms. Compare and contrast these assessment tools and evaluate which ones will work best in your classroom. You will leave with formative assessments for your first units.

May 2015. Peak to Peak Charter School

In this workshop you will explore available templates and tools in Wixie to create differentiated and engaging activities tied to Common Core Standards. You will walk away with easy to implement activities which support student engagement and develop creativity and critical thinking skills for all students.

April 2015. Boulder Valley School District Digi Day

Elementary students often struggle with explaining their thinking or giving step by step instructions on how to do a task. Creating videos increases student engagement by adding "fun" to these necessary skills. In this workshop you will see examples of student created explanatory videos; learn how to create simple explanatory videos; and explore a variety of iPad and tablet tools for creating these simple videos. In this workshop, you will create your first explanatory video and walk away with ideas for implementing this high engagement technique in your classroom.

Help your elementary students achieve mastery of key geometry and measurement content with hands on engaging applications. Coding and robotics give students authentic tasks which require students to apply important geometry and measurement concepts.

Explore ways to differentiate with technology. You will walk way with strategies for using technology to engage multiple intelligences and differentiate by readiness, expression, and learning style.

October 2008. Annual Conference, Colorado Association of Gifted and Talented

Explore how to create online enrichment clusters with Web 2.0 tools. Moodle, VoiceThread, blogging, wikis, Animoto, Slideshare and other online tools are used to create an online environment that is safe, collaborative and enriching.

July 2008. Confratute, University of Connecticut

Explore how to create online enrichment clusters with Web 2.0 tools. Moodle, VoiceThread, blogging, wikis, Animoto, Slideshare and other online tools are used to create an online environment that is safe, collaborative and enriching.

February 2007. Beyond Giftedness Conference, Arvada, Colorado

Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, Photo and Video Sharing: Implications of Web 2.0 for Education.