Session: Moving our Best Practices Beyond Classroom Walls: Teaching Writing in Innovative Contexts

This past weekend, Catherine Taylor presented a session called, "Moving our Best Practices Beyond Classroom Walls: Teaching Writing in Innovative Contexts"  Download her presentation by clicking this link.

About the presenter:
Catherine Taylor serves as Associate Director of Education for WorldStrides in Charlottesville, VA where she teaches as part of a team serving an online population of 2,030 students. She holds an M.S. in English Education, has served as a fellow and teacher consultant with Florida State University’s chapter of the National Writing Project and has instructed and researched students ranging from7th graders to undergraduates in traditional, blended, and online models.

Session: High School Round Table Discussion

Thanks to the high school teachers that made our roundtable session this morning such a wonderful success! Here is a copy of the presentation with all of its handy links and information. Be on the lookout for follow-up emails and messages.

http://tinyurl.com/VATE-HS-MaL-2014

Session: Parent, Peer, and Student Collaboration through Technology

Thank you, conference attendees, to those of you who came to our session on collaboration through technology.  Allison and I wanted to create a space where we could go through all of the technology resources we through at you.  Here, we hope to continue the discussion of what is working and what is not, help one another troubleshoot, and most importantly, build connections to take back.

Here is a link to our presentation in PDF:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw8DCpO33k2OQTJWZE5JZ2l0UUk/view?usp=sharing
Sharing with your colleagues is great, but we request that you do not present it in a large scale without our permission.

Items on which we presented:
-Google Suite (forms, documents, voice, blog)
          -link: www.Google.com - search what you want.  If you're using the Google drive, log into your Google account, and click on the tiles.  There you will download the drive and find what you are looking for.
-PBWorks/Wikis
          -Kelly's website as an example: www.MrsKTrump.PBworks.com
-KidBlog
           -link: www.kidblog,org
-Edmodo
          -link: www.edmodo.com
-Symbaloo
          -link: www.symbaloo.com
-Stormboard
          -link: www.stormboard.com/
-Skype and VSee
          -link: www.skype.com & www.vsee.com

Let's start the dialog! Comment at the bottom; let us know what we can do to help you!

-Kelly & Allison