Malaysia Summit

Here we will be having some fun playing with all the different functions of google docs.  By the end of the session we will have a working website that you can share with your students.  Even if you use google docs already, you will find numerous gems in this session.

The potential of Google Classrooms is often underestimated by teachers. This session will go through setting up a Google Classroom, demonstrating the potential for flipping classroom content, keeping track of assignments, and assessments along with using it as a repository assisting in differentiation.

This session will look at how to set up your Google Site from scratch. We will investigate how you can use Google Sites as a teaching tool where a teacher can use it as a curriculum map for the students and how your students can utilize Sites as a way of documenting their learning. We will look at the administration side of a Google site including how you can manage your pages as well as the design features. 

This session will be followed by a second session at the end of the summit “One Site to Rule All” where you can bring what you have learned and created into a Google Site.

The Cloud just got better for students struggling with literacy.

At Texthelp, we believe that literacy is every student’s passport to academic, social and professional success.

In this session, participants will learn more about common assistive technology supports such as text-to-speech, word prediction, text and picture dictionaries, annotations and more that can help students who struggle with reading and writing.

Attendees will also see demonstrations of these tools in Read&Write for Google™, a cloud-based solution that works with Google Documents, Web pages, and other common file types, such as PDF, ePub files in Google Drive. These tools can be used through the Chrome browser on PCs, Macs, and Chromebooks.

All session attendees will get a free copy of the software.

Formative assessments are mainstays in our classroom teaching - all of us have tried it at some point in our lives.

Are you looking to start online FA for the first time? Looking at advanced tools to take it to the next level? Or looking at alternative forms of assessment to spice up your subject matter? There's something for everyone here! 

Good pedagogy, creating opportunities for higher order thinking and strong learning outcomes should all lay the foundation for tech integration. Digital Learning should allow students to fully engage with a learning task in order to deepen their understanding of the key concepts. Google Chrome is a powerful browser with a wealth of apps and extensions to truly enhance teaching and learning.

In this workshop, after a brief overview, you will engage in a very practical, hands on, learning by doing session and create a learning task that you will be able to use in an upcoming lesson.

You will choose to focus on 1 of the following:
a) create a flipped lesson using either Edpuzzle or Zaption
b) create an interactive, multimodal, learner paced lesson using either Tackk and Canva or Versal
c) create an AFL task using either Quizlet, Go Conqr or Socrative
d) create a video using Powtoon or an infographic using Piktochart
e) create word clouds, mind maps, set SMARTER learning goals, collaborate on a virtual notice board using Tagcloud, LucidChart, LucidPress, Wunderlist and Padlet

This workshop would be suitable for: any educators who want to learn more about any of the above Google Chrome apps and extensions through an opportunity to create a resource to take away and use immediately.

You will need to bring:
a) your laptop,
b) an idea or 2 for an upcoming lesson, a lesson plan that you would like to teach differently by integrating some tech to enhance it

Youtube is often used by teachers in the classroom to share something with students, a hook or to introduce new topics. It is under utilised, misunderstood - not reaching it’s full potential as an educational tool. This presentation will share the tricks and tips of creating your own Youtube Channel, the power of playlists, and extra add ons that make using Youtube an awesome teaching tool.

As a teacher I now use google slides for every lesson and everything I do.  The more I use them, the more magic I find!  Most of what I use Google Slides for, is not presenting.  Use Google Slides for Everything.

If we do not provide tools to support English Language Learners (ELL) to improve their reading proficiency, then these students are destined to fall behind. It is critical that ALL students are proficient readers. Reading is how we learn about History, Geography, Social Studies, everything!

Fluency Tutor for Google is ideal for schools using Google Apps for Education (GAFE), are friendly Chrome apps and extensions that integrate seamlessly with Google Drive and Classroom to support ELL students to read more and provide effective teaching tools for time-stretched teachers.

Ever wanted to create your own online space for staff, students or parents?

Google sites is your friend

Google sites are an easy and quite powerful way to create your own website. At IGB International school we use Google sites for lots of applications

Class shared spaces (Virtual learning environments)
Staff Documents repositories
Class websites (newsletters plus more for parents)
Camp Communication websites
E-portfolios
Exhibition working spaces
Staff Information sharing
Plus more

Learn how to create a site, integrate Google photos, Embed Google Docs and sheets (so anyone can edit or change the site) explore some cool tools like Awesome Tables and how to improve the look and feel of your Google site.

With maps now online, this opens up a multitude of possibilities for the classroom. There are many mapping tools out there, however this session will look at the tools that Google offers as part of the Google Apps suite. So this session will cover:

• Google Maps
  
• Google My Maps
  
• Google Tour Builder
  
• Maps on a Mobile Device
  
• The Google Arts Project
  
• Ideas for using Mapping in Learning
  
• Street View and Virtual Reality tours

Google offers great collaborative options with sharing so students can work on maps together. The session will look at how you could use Maps across all subjects. The 60 mins will be used as an overview of what could be possible, but will not go into detail. We will discuss ideas from the session which can then be used for further support with the instructor.

Google docs is one of the work horses of Google Drive. This session unpacks all of cool tricks that Google Docs can do along with some really cool add ons!
Learn how to get around some of the more quirky things that can frustrate you when using Google docs along with the empowerment of sharing, collaborating and developing together.

Google Tour Builder is an online, free, storytelling and mapping tool which allows students to create and share information about places around the world. Using Google maps students can create a ‘tour’ of a series of places regarding a chosen subject. Students can integrate photos, text and videos into each chosen location (shown by a dropped pin). Once edited students can ‘play’ their mapping tour for an audience, and the tour will move users and viewers from location to location. The ease of use for tour builder makes it an ideal starting place for younger students to learn about not only geographic information systems but computer mapping systems, collecting and recording data and interpreting it to make generalisations. Here's a link to my presentation: bit.ly/Tina_TourBuilder.

Research is a HUGE part of education. When researching for information online, students often get lost - forgetting where they started and where they ended. This is where the Google Research Tool comes to the rescue. In this session we’ll learn how to use the Google Research Tool, to research and cite information directly within the GoogleDoc. No more losing countless hours of research. The Google Research Tool has come to the Rescue! (Skill Level = Beginner to Intermediate)

Resource: Google Research Tool: To The Rescue