Introduction to Educating Exceptional Children and Youth. This is an online course that fulfills the state requirement for teachers in Georgia.

This online course will focus on the five areas of reading and how to implement reading and writing strategies across the curriculum.

Led by Stefanie Howard, GADOE.

Date: July 17
Time: 9:00-2:00
Location: North Georgia RESA
4731 Old Highway 5 South
Ellijay, Georgia 30540

Cost: In-area- $0 (Lunch will be provided at no cost).
Cost: Out-of-area- $10.00

Presenters:
Dr. Allene Magill, Executive Director, Professional Association of Georgia Educators (PAGE)
and
Alan Gayton, Director of Technology, North Georgia RESA

The summit will focus on customer relations and service as well as office efficiency and a few other pertinent topics. Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Allene Magill, Executive Director, Professional Association of Georgia Educators (PAGE). Along with Dr. Magill, tips on technology usage will be provided by Alan Gayton, North GA RESA’s Technology Director, professional sharing and networking, and a few other relevant activities. Lunch will be provided and we promise to have you on your way no later than 2 PM.

A standards-based manipulatives training event focused on TKES Performance Standard #3, Instructional Strategies: The teacher promotes student learning by using research-based instructional strategies relevant to the content area to engage students in active learning and to facilitate the students’ acquisition of key knowledge and skills.

A standards-based manipulatives training event focused on TKES Performance Standard #3, Instructional Strategies: The teacher promotes student learning by using research-based instructional strategies relevant to the content area to engage students in active learning and to facilitate the students’ acquisition of key knowledge and skills.

Google Classroom – Learn how to use Google’s suite of tools for education. This class will cover everything you need to get started with Google. We will do a brief overview of the basics like creating and storing files in Drive and using Docs for collaborative word processing. Then we will dig deeper and learn how to create Forms and use them for quizzes, surveys, and data collection. We will then combine all of this and learn to use Classroom to create classes, set up assignments and grade submissions. We will examine Classroom from both a teacher and student perspective. The session will be hands on so that teachers with Google Apps accounts can begin using the software in class with their own classes. However, you do not need to have a Google Apps for Education Account to participate.

Morning Session:
Anita Summers, Director of Sequoyah Regional Library, will be the keynote speaker.

Afternoon Session:
Title-21st Century Media Centers and Future Ready Libraries, led by Ge-Anne Bolhuis, Instructional Technology, Whitfield County Schools.
Session info-Introduce the Future Ready Initiative, Discuss the role of the media specialist in the 21st Century (including Twitter, Instagram, and promotion of the media program), making a Future Ready plan that fits your school/district.

Lunch will be provided.

A standards-based manipulatives training event focused on TKES Performance Standard #3, Instructional Strategies: The teacher promotes student learning by using research-based instructional strategies relevant to the content area to engage students in active learning and to facilitate the students’ acquisition of key knowledge and skills.

Google Classroom – Learn how to use Google’s suite of tools for education. This class will cover everything you need to get started with Google. We will do a brief overview of the basics like creating and storing files in Drive and using Docs for collaborative word processing. Then we will dig deeper and learn how to create Forms and use them for quizzes, surveys, and data collection. We will then combine all of this and learn to use Classroom to create classes, set up assignments and grade submissions. We will examine Classroom from both a teacher and student perspective. The session will be hands on so that teachers with Google Apps accounts can begin using the software in class with their own classes. However, you do not need to have a Google Apps for Education Account to participate.

Fall Technology Directors' Consortium

Create more immersive presentations and classroom instruction using Microsoft Sway and Office Mix. This class will explore these Microsoft products and how they can be used in your classroom. You will learn everything you need to get started!

Fall Instructional Technology Consortium

Presenter: Alan Gayton

Google Sites is a great way to easily create web pages for your classroom, club, or special event. It can also be used to share information internally among specific groups of people. Hangouts can be used to enhance your classroom communications in a variety of ways. You can host video chat sessions to provide instruction, communicate with peers, or allow collaboration between students. Come see how you might use these two tools in your classroom.

Google Classroom – Learn how to use Google’s suite of tools for education. This class will cover everything you need to get started with Google. We will do a brief overview of the basics like creating and storing files in Drive and using Docs for collaborative word processing. Then we will dig deeper and learn how to create Forms and use them for quizzes, surveys, and data collection. We will then combine all of this and learn to use Classroom to create classes, set up assignments and grade submissions. We will examine Classroom from both a teacher and student perspective. The session will be hands on so that teachers with Google Apps accounts can begin using the software in class with their own classes. However, you do not need to have a Google Apps for Education Account to participate.

 Note: This session is being held at Dalton State College in the Brown Center

Learn how to use Google’s suite of tools for education. This class will cover everything you need to get started with Google. We will do a brief overview of the basics like creating and storing files in Drive and using Docs for collaborative word processing. Then we will dig deeper and learn how to create Forms and use them for quizzes, surveys, and data collection. We will then combine all of this and learn to use Classroom to create classes, set up assignments and grade submissions. We will examine Classroom from both a teacher and student perspective. The session will be hands on so that teachers with Google Apps accounts can begin using the software in class with their own classes. However, you do not need to have a Google Apps for Education Account to participate.

Note: This session is being held at Dalton State College in the Brown Center

This course will walk attendees through the basics of using Microsoft’s solution for online productivity in education. We will begin with an overview of the basics on creating and storing files in OneDrive and using online Word for collaborative word processing. Next we will take a look at the new Microsoft Forms for quizzes, surveys, and data collection. We will then combine all of this as we examine how to use OneNote from simple notes to tagging and sharing and then in the classroom through Class Notebook. Putting this all together we will then look at Microsoft’s Classroom tool. The session will be hands on so that teachers with Office 365 accounts can begin using the software in class with their own classes. However, you do not need to have an Office 365 Account to participate.

Google Classroom – Learn how to use Google’s suite of tools for education. This class will cover everything you need to get started with Google. We will do a brief overview of the basics like creating and storing files in Drive and using Docs for collaborative word processing. Then we will dig deeper and learn how to create Forms and use them for quizzes, surveys, and data collection. We will then combine all of this and learn to use Classroom to create classes, set up assignments and grade submissions. We will examine Classroom from both a teacher and student perspective. The session will be hands on so that teachers with Google Apps accounts can begin using the software in class with their own classes. However, you do not need to have a Google Apps for Education Account to participate.

Google Classroom – Learn how to use Google’s suite of tools for education. This class will cover everything you need to get started with Google. We will do a brief overview of the basics like creating and storing files in Drive and using Docs for collaborative word processing. Then we will dig deeper and learn how to create Forms and use them for quizzes, surveys, and data collection. We will then combine all of this and learn to use Classroom to create classes, set up assignments and grade submissions. We will examine Classroom from both a teacher and student perspective. The session will be hands on so that teachers with Google Apps accounts can begin using the software in class with their own classes. However, you do not need to have a Google Apps for Education Account to participate.