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Hi Everyone! This is Erin and I am thrilled that you are willing to be a part of this pilot. Thank-you for your participation and honest feedback about this platform's potential for PD.

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What do you want to get out of this session? Do you want to learn a specific app, or learn a specific skill? If you are unsure, I can give you some suggestions!

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Hi, I am Megan Krajecki and I support as a literacy instructional coach.  I'm excited to learn more about virtual PD.  I can see this platform supporting team collaboration (within the department of T&L and beyond), 1:1 collaboration, and possibly salary lane course work. 

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Hi, I am Megan Krajecki and I support as a literacy instructional coach.  I'm excited to learn more about virtual PD.  I can see this platform supporting team collaboration (within the department of T&L and beyond), 1:1 collaboration, and possibly salary lane course work. 

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Hi! I am Rosie Hernandez and I support the Department of Language and Culture as an instructional coach. I am excited about this platform and the possibilities for supporting teacher collaboration and professional development.  

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Hi! I am Rosie Hernandez and I support the Department of Language and Culture as an instructional coach. I am excited about this platform and the possibilities for supporting teacher collaboration and professional development.  

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I am excited to learn specific apps that can support 1:1 collaboration. I would love some suggestions. Thanks, Erin! Rosie

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I am excited to learn specific apps that can support 1:1 collaboration. I would love some suggestions. Thanks, Erin! Rosie

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I must admit, my awareness to the possibilities available within the virtual learning platform are limited.  I'd love to learn more about its potential in general - apps, navigation, facilitation, etc.  I am also interested in learning more about how to facilitate virtual PD (1:1 and group/team) to include visuals, content, and face-to-face interaction simultaneously.

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I must admit, my awareness to the possibilities available within the virtual learning platform are limited.  I'd love to learn more about its potential in general - apps, navigation, facilitation, etc.  I am also interested in learning more about how to facilitate virtual PD (1:1 and group/team) to include visuals, content, and face-to-face interaction simultaneously.

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Thanks! Megan

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Hello! I'm Amy Varchmin -- instructional math coach for grades 6-8.  Technology keeps changing and I just want to keep up and provide teachers with ideas to make math class engaging.

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Hello! I'm Amy Varchmin -- instructional math coach for grades 6-8.  Technology keeps changing and I just want to keep up and provide teachers with ideas to make math class engaging.

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I want some ideas for running a professional development class or cohort for accelerated sixth grade teachers online.

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I want some ideas for running a professional development class or cohort for accelerated sixth grade teachers online.

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Howdy! Amy Archibald over here and I am super excited to be part of this process! Thank you for including us and making it possible.

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I am looking for/hoping for ideas of how to better connect with the teachers and buildings I support to meet their needs. I am hoping to gain suggestions of how to use the digital platform to hold professional development in order to reach a larger audience. I do love learning about new apps, and what other people have done and found success with. I am excited to see what is out there and try it out!

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I am excited to be participating in this PD! I would love to learn a lot about a lot! Specifically, I want to explore how to use technology to enhance my interactions with new teachers and give them a forum to connect and chat with each other to gather ideas. We know that by building a network and supporting each other, we can all elevate our potential.

-Dia

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Hi! I am Dia Rizmani, and I am an instructional mentor that supports new teachers. I can't wait to learn about the new technological tools out there! Thanks for including us!

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Hi! I am Dia Rizmani, and I am an instructional mentor that supports new teachers. I can't wait to learn about the new technological tools out there! Thanks for including us!

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Hello! I'm Megan Koncel, and a math instructional coach.  I am very  excited to learn about what there is to offer our teachers!  Thanks for putting this together and including everyone!

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I am looking forward to learning about this type of a professional development set-up, and how I can utilize it to enhance the learning experience for the teachers across buildings.  I also love learning about new apps and what others have found helpful and engaging.  I can't wait to see what comes next!

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Hello!  I am Kristina Macnider and I work as a literacy instructional coach.  Thank you for inviting us to participate in this fabulous learning opportunity. 

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Hello!  I am Kristina Macnider and I work as a literacy instructional coach.  Thank you for inviting us to participate in this fabulous learning opportunity. 

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I am looking forward to learning about the different ways to use this type of forum to support student learning, as well learning among teachers/PLCs.  I also would like to learn from the experiences and expertise of others on how to best use various apps as a means to support both primary and intermediate students in literacy.   

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I am looking forward to learning about the different ways to use this type of forum to support student learning, as well learning among teachers/PLCs.  I also would like to learn from the experiences and expertise of others on how to best use various apps as a means to support both primary and intermediate students in literacy.   

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Hello! I am Elise Dean and I am a literacy instructional coach.  This is such an exciting way to run professional development! I am e

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Hello! I am Elise Dean and I am a literacy instructional coach.  This is such an exciting way to run professional development! I am e

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Hello! I am Elise Dean and I am a literacy instructional coach.  This is such an exciting way to run professional development. Thank you for including us! 

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Hello! I am Elise Dean and I am a literacy instructional coach.  This is such an exciting way to run professional development. Thank you for including us! 

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I am interested in learning about the possibilities for using a platform like this during professional development and with students to enhance  learning.  I am looking forward to learning about new ways to engage teachers and students.

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Hi! This is Gina Wirth and I am an instructional math coach. I am so excited to learn about new ways to offer PD as well and any new technology I can use to support teachers! Bring it on!

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Hi! This is Gina Wirth and I am an instructional math coach. I am so excited to learn about new ways to offer PD as well and any new technology I can use to support teachers! Bring it on!

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Hi! This is Gina Wirth and I am an instructional math coach. I am so excited to learn about new ways to offer PD as well and any new technology I can use to support teachers! Bring it on!

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Megan Kr., Rosie, Elise, Dia, and Kristina M. - Have you tried Google Hangouts Meet?  This platform might meet the needs of some of your teachers because you can connect with them virtually.  Instead of traveling to where the teachers are, you can connect with them on your computers.  If you are interested in learning more about Meet for this PD, you can go to the PD website and click on "app ideas".  If you click on Google Hangout Meets, you can walk through some tutorials on how to use it.  For part 2 of the PD, try to connect to a colleague or a teacher you support through Google Hangouts Meet and document what you did in Part 2.  Please reach out if you want to try a different app or if you have questions!

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Megan Kr., Rosie, Elise, Dia, and Kristina M. - Have you tried Google Hangouts Meet?  This platform might meet the needs of some of your teachers because you can connect with them virtually.  Instead of traveling to where the teachers are, you can connect with them on your computers.  If you are interested in learning more about Meet for this PD, you can go to the PD website and click on "app ideas".  If you click on Google Hangout Meets, you can walk through some tutorials on how to use it.  For part 2 of the PD, try to connect to a colleague or a teacher you support through Google Hangouts Meet and document what you did in Part 2.  Please reach out if you want to try a different app or if you have questions!

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Hi!  This is Thais Perez and I am a PBIS coach for several awesome buildings. I'm excited to learn about new ways to share PD topics with staff members. It's exciting to be part of the pilot.

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Hi!  This is Thais Perez and I am a PBIS coach for several awesome buildings. I'm excited to learn about new ways to share PD topics with staff members. It's exciting to be part of the pilot.

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I'm interested in learning about specific apps that are available. I'm also looking for ways to connect staff members together so that we can all learn and grow from each other. 

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I'm interested in learning about specific apps that are available. I'm also looking for ways to connect staff members together so that we can all learn and grow from each other. 

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I know that you are working on transferring cards and math curriculum to Google sites... but I was wondering if you had ever created a site? If not, do you have any interest in creating a site together to use for staff development purposes? Maybe it would be a place where we highlight videos of good teaching, ideas of how to teach certain lessons. Just a thought. If you don't like that idea, I wonder if you want to learn edpuzzle. You could use this to upload a video, and ask questions - you could potentially use this for a "mini" staff development virtually. Or, is there a different app that you would like to explore?

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Hi Thais! I'm wondering if you want to learn Google Sites. I don't think you would master it in the time we have for this PD but I really think we could launch something cool and effective to share with your building for PBIS resources. Thoughts?

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Hi everyone! I am Dawn Czajka. I support teachers as a mathematics coach. What a great way to collaborate!

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Hi everyone! I am Dawn Czajka. I support teachers as a mathematics coach. What a great way to collaborate!

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I am excited to help teachers continue to improve their practice through PD and collaboration when they are unable to attend a class. Look forward to learning with you all!

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I am excited to help teachers continue to improve their practice through PD and collaboration when they are unable to attend a class. Look forward to learning with you all!

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Hello everyone- this is Alissa Rendall, I'm an instructional mentor.  I'm really excited to be a part of this pilot to see how PD like this can be implemented in the future!

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I am interested in learning about apps that may help a teacher who is new at implementing technology in their classrooms, and how it can enhance current structures. I am also interested in learning more about how I can use a platform like this to connect with teachers and allow teachers to connect and collaborate with one another.

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Hi! This is Nancy Hellstrom and I am an instructional coach for the Department of Language and Culture.  I am excited to be part of this and learn more about all the different ways it can be used!

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Hi! This is Nancy Hellstrom and I am an instructional coach for the Department of Language and Culture.  I am excited to be part of this and learn more about all the different ways it can be used!

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I am interested in learning about how this could be used to provide support or PD to teachers who have similar needs/questions, and am also interested in seeing how it could be used for students  to support student and teacher collaboration across the district.

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I am interested in learning about how this could be used to provide support or PD to teachers who have similar needs/questions, and am also interested in seeing how it could be used for students  to support student and teacher collaboration across the district.

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Hi Alissa! Would you be interested in exploring flipgrid or Google Drawings? I think your teachers would use either of these apps in their instruction. For Part 2, you could use the website to learn one of them and then develop ideas for how your teachers could use them in their curriculum?

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Hi Nancy! Would you be interested in trying Google Hangouts Meet to connect with a teacher virtually, or you could set up your own Padlet and share it with some of the teachers you work with?

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If you look at the apps idea page on the PD website, do any apps stick out to you that you would like to learn more about? You could either create an activity for the 5/6 teachers next year, or you could give me feedback about how to make the information better for teachers who might use this website...

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Hi Friends! I'm Cassie and I work with teachers to support literacy instruction for grades K-6. I like what I see so far. Thanks for including us in this virtual PD pilot.

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Like many already stated, I am interested in learning about possibilities for running virtual PD sessions. It would be great to learn more ways for teachers to connect with each other to collaborate. I would love to learn about apps to support our work in the classrooms.

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I am hoping to be able to use this platform to offer PD opportunities to teachers that cannot make it to after school sessions for a variety of reasons. I feel like we will be able to reach more teachers virtually, but I need support in doing so. I am also excited to learn about any apps out there that would support our teachers in math!

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I am hoping to be able to use this platform to offer PD opportunities to teachers that cannot make it to after school sessions for a variety of reasons. I feel like we will be able to reach more teachers virtually, but I need support in doing so. I am also excited to learn about any apps out there that would support our teachers in math!

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Sorry to be joining the party late! I'm excited to see where this platform might take us in the future!

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I was actually thinking about using this for some of the job alike presentations but I'm also up for new ideas.  I think our minds will begin to form new ideas and thoughts on how to use padlet for PD, a collection of ideas, or across grade levels and buildings.  Love the idea of this brainstorm!

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I am an instructional mentor. I'm excited to get started. 

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I am an instructional mentor. I'm excited to get started. 

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I am interested to see if there are any apps that would be beneficial for new teachers specifically. Michelle F.

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This is Ming comin' atcha! My title is QL Instructional Coach.

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This is Ming comin' atcha! My title is QL Instructional Coach.

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This is how excited I am to be a part of this :)

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Hello everyone! I'm Stephanie Krizmis. I am a math instructional coach. Thank you for inviting us to the pilot.

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I'm excited to explore options for PD that can reach more teachers. I'm also interested in learning about what is out there that would be great for math instruction.

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Hi Everyone!  I created an editable doc with suggestions for you.  Please add notes or make changes as to what might meet your needs.  Feel free to reach out to if you need better, personalized guidance.

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Hi Everyone!  I created an editable doc with suggestions for you.  Please add notes or make changes as to what might meet your needs.  Feel free to reach out to if you need better, personalized guidance.

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Megan and I are planning to use a Google site for Great to Greater in the fall. We are planning to utilize Google sites to differentiate our professional development for the teachers who are participating. We watched the tutorial and learned about different options for pages and how to make our site accessible and meaningful.

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This is Priscilla. I am excited to learn more about the possibilities. Thanks for the learning opportunity.

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Amy and I appreciated the updated versions of the website tutorial. The videos were more step by step and allowed us to work on one idea at a time. It was a lot easier to follow and allowed us to add captions to our pictures. Our Google site will be used in the fall for teachers to receive differentiated support on a topic of their choice.  It was good to work with the site, see the possibilities of where we could take it, and we look forward to seeing it in action this fall.  Thank you for putting this together!  We have learned so much!
Amy and Megan

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Elise and I found Google Hangout Meets to be very user-friendly.  We were successful with setting up and joining the meeting, as well as figuring out how to display presentations or content.  At this point, we envision this app being most useful to connect to teachers informally 1-1 or in a small group PLC.    Often times, multiple PLC teams meet at the same time, making it difficult to provide support to all who ask for it.  This app provides the opportunity to literally be in more than one place at the same time.
The tutorials could be made better by providing more details/demonstration on how to present.
Our next steps would be considering finding balance in supporting salary lane classes that embed Google Hangout Meets along with face to face collaboration and discussion.

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I tried Ed Puzzle as a way for teachers to reflect on their practices.  I simply chose a video and embedded reflective questions.  Do you think you talk too much in shared math? https://edpuzzle.com/assignments/5afc550cc9642d40edae2729/watch

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I found a video from Graham Fletcher and embedded questions to help teachers reflect on their shared instruction. I think this would work well for Juli Dixon videos too, but for now I just did a short video.

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Edpuzzle assignment. Make video delivery an interactive experience. Students watch the lesson while answering the quizzes. The teacher gets the powerful hassle-free analytics.

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Kristina and I were able to share presentations, model instruction using Benchmark Universe, discuss ideas and examples for planning.  We were able to become more comfortable with displaying content and getting to know the app. This tool would work for many different purposes when supporting teachers. It takes care of some of the challenges of not being able to physically make it to all PLC meetings or planning times more manageable.

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I  tried  Flipgrid as  a way for t teachers in the Dual/Immersion  program to give their students an  opportunity to respond to questions in the target language.  I watched the tutorial and  created a question for two  teachers to respond to. 

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I  tried  Flipgrid as  a way for t teachers in the Dual/Immersion  program to give their students an  opportunity to respond to questions in the target language.  I watched the tutorial and  created a question for two  teachers to respond to. 

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This tool  would  be great not only for  Dual/Immersion students, but could also support EL students as they build their confidence while speaking.

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Thank you, Erin for your support! I was able to learn about Vocaroo. I think this App is great for the Dual/Immersion students to practice speaking in the target language. I know the JH students have used it in the past. I am excited to share with elementary teachers in the fall.
Thanks!
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Hi! Dawn and I chose to try Google Hangout. We found it easy to use. One thing that could be challenging is that people tend to talk over each other. That would never happen with Dawn and I...hahah. However, if the group is too large it could be hard to hear everyone or have all voices heard. Additionally, we found it is important to choose a good location because it does pick up background noise, like Dawn's kids singing The Greatest Showman. This could be a great way to have virtual PD for people who can't make it to classes right after school.

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Dawn and I tried Google Hangout. Our thought process behind this was we have accelerated math teachers at many buildings that don't have teaching partners to plan with or bounce ideas off of. We would like to bring teachers together through the use of Google Hangout to create a multi-building PLC.

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After following the lesson plan, here are my reflections:
1. The video that walked me through the setup may be outdated? It didn't really line up with what I was seeing on my screen.
2. I found it very easy to just go to the meet.google.com website and just click Start A New Meeting.
3. I then just emailed the link info to Rosie who was able to click on the link and join. Super easy!

I look forward to using this with my new teachers next year!

P.S. Thank you for your support through this PD, Erin. I appreciate your thoughtfulness and flexibility!

~Dia

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Rosie and I tried the Google Hangouts this morning. We chatted and shared using the present mode. I can see this application coming in very handy when schedules with teachers conflict, and we cannot make it out to buildings. I'm excited to try it out for real soon!
~Dia

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It was interesting to see all of the different examples of how to make some organizers interactive and stations virtual. I made one for Arrow Cards.

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Google Drawings:
I think Google Drawings has a lot to offer from creating your own backgrounds and images to use in other apps or to use as an activity on its own. It will be interesting to see these used in the classroom. I think they could be done during lessons or independent activities / workstations.
Tutorial and PD format:
Would you consider creating a part 2 or 3 of the tutorial ... assigning google drawings and/or using with other apps? Overall, the app tutorial site is a great idea - it can help focus attention (instead of sending you down a googling or YouTube rabbit hole) as well as provide coaching support and salary lane credit. Thank you for making it available and letting us be part of it!

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Overall, I thought that the Flipgrid tutorial was very easy to follow and use.  It was easy to set up an account, create a question and share it, and for the teacher to respond.   As I explored more of the Flipgrid website while creating my question, I noticed that there were additional sections/options to explore and was thinking that it may be helpful to add information about these to the tutorial.

Thank you for providing the opportunity to learn about padlet through our participation as well as to explore so many apps! I am excited to share what I have learned about Flipgrid with EL, Dual/Immersion teachers this fall as a way for students to build their confidence in speaking in an interactive, engaging way.