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Professional Development opportunities were provided to teachers in whole group, mini-groups, and individual sessions during professional development days.

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Beginning of the Year Professional Development

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Beginning of the Year Professional Development

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At the beginning of the school year, the faculty met as a whole group in order to introduce various SOS and technology tools. The digital literacy team conducted a presentation on how to build a better understanding of using technology using Nearpod. Various SOS strategies were presented. A tutorial was presented on REMIND 101 and how it can be used as a communication tool for teachers, parents, and students.

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Discovery Education Training with New Staff

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Discovery Education Training with New Staff

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When Ms. Cashion was on our campus October 23, 2018, she met with new faculty members to show them how to use Discovery Education. The Digital Literacy Team did follow-up support with teachers in our department.

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Citronelle High School Digital Literacy Team 2018-2019

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Citronelle High School Digital Literacy Team 2018-2019

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Cynthia Ingram
Deborah Pippin
Randy Reed
Angela Thomas
Melody Tucker

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Included below are a few teachers' reflections on their use of technology this year.

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We conducted a teacher survey during the professional development before school started. This gave us insight about teacher use and opinions about technology. We asked teachers about their current understanding/use of technology resources as well as their "wish list" for technology training.

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Several Information Literacy sessions were held to assist students with finding credible sources. They were also given information on citing sources. Students were taught how to use Alabama Virtual Library. They were given topics to choose from. Students were then instructed to search the topic and narrow results to approximately 40, using "limiters." These instructional sessions were collaborations with English, and History teachers during research papers. Discovery Education's Board Builder was used to organize information for students to use during, and after instructional sessions.

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Nearpod as a teacher paced lesson was a great way to organize the presidential ads in once place and have students share ideas after each one. When students did a self-paced lesson, they could watch the video as many times as they needed and go at their own pace.

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As a summative project for the Beowulf unit, I gave a learning contract. Students worked individually on the project while I met in small groups to close read/analyze a portion of Beowulf.

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Mr. Reed's Government classes and Mrs. Pippin's English classes worked together on a collaborative project to analyze political campaign ads. Students worked in groups of five to create a presentation that consisted of historical context, political ads, and election results. Students in the government classes were responsible for historical context and results. English students were responsible for analyzing the persuasive techniques in the political ads.

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I used Nearpod with an embedded PhET activity to allow my students an opportunity to explore the different types of solutions for a system of equations.

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My students explored area models to learn how to multiply polynomials. Instead of memorizing an acronym and the steps associated with it, they were able to visualize what was happening with the numbers.

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My Geometry class used Google Slides to develop an interactive word wall. Each slide was set up as a Frayer Model and they had to edit the information for each word then submit their final product through Google Classroom.

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For an EQT Review Activity, students were given the challenge of creating a comic strip on a particular concept we learned. Students used makebeliefscomix.com to create the comic strip.

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Students went around the classroom to different stations in order to learn about cells. Each station had an activity for students to complete such as Venn Diagrams, cell analogies, quizizz's, and reading passages and answering text dependent questions. This provided differentiated instruction while presenting the concepts in various formats.

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I have been working this semester on learning how to use Nearpod and an Ipad with the Smartboard.  I like Nearpod because it allows students to respond anonymously.  I also like the fact that I can see several responses at one time in one place.  I plan to continue to work with this program.  Using the Ipad gives me the option of moving around the room while I work and having a student near me contribute if I wish.

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During the professional development days before second quarter, we did full group training and breakout sessions to train teachers. Teachers were required to attend a session on recording and posting lessons. For the next session, teachers were allowed to pick a technology session they wanted to focus on using in their classroom.

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Our TST, conducted a presentation on technology issues and troubleshooting for teachers.

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Tech Tuesdays are informal teacher-led PD sessions after school on Tuesdays to present various tools that could be used within the classroom.

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We began with Nearpod since all teachers received district access this year. During this meeting we also addressed how teachers could communicate with parents and students via Remind.

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Even our Driver's Ed teacher got in on the action! He demonstrated how he incorporates Quizlet Live into his classroom and offered some suggestions on how to keep students actively engaged and participating.

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Teachers asked for training on an online platform to house assignments for their students.

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With End of Quarter Assessments looming, teachers needed a way to gather data quickly. This program allows teachers to immediately determine which concepts need to be retaught using the item analysis feature. Students receive immediate feedback in terms of their test score and are more interested in reviewing the questions they missed rather than waiting several days for a teacher to give feedback after they have hand graded the test.

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Our focus was to train the faculty on using Digital Literacy Strategies and Tools to improve instruction.

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With this blended lesson, students collaborated on designing a paper slide video for each of the first ten amendments to the US Constitution. Students created illustrations on the Bill of Rights, developed a script, and formatted a video with tablets to show their paper slide.

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This app is a fun game-based assessment tool for students and teachers. While students are competing either individually or on teams, the teacher receive feedback on who is hitting the learning targets. We used this tool during our Digital Literacy and Technology Tools PD.

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This app is perfect to use for a blended classroom. It allows students to collaborate, discuss, and debate through short one-to-two minute videos. This lesson focused on "Outsourcing Jobs." I provided a video and two articles for them to review outside of class. Students then gave their opinion on whether outsourcing is good or bad for the US economy. After uploading their video, students responded to a classmate's.

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I am a first year teacher who is trying to incorporate technology into my lessons. Being able to sit down with teachers who are actually using technology in their classrooms and being able to ask them questions has been very helpful. I've also been able to visit their classrooms and see them using the technology

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I enjoyed attending the Tech Tuesdays and learning about new technology strategies to use in my classroom. The review apps were very helpful and my students loved the challenge features. I will definitely continue to blend my classroom using more of the SOS strategies provided.

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One thing that really helped me was learning how to set up my Google classroom. I still have a lot to learn, but I have enough to start setting up my classroom for next year.