Professional Development Offerings
Kathy has presented at conferences and workshops all over the world. Below is a list of sessions and workshops she can offer your school, group, or association. In addition, she will work with you to develop whatever specialized presentation you would like in the areas of information literacy, digital storytelling, infographics, educational technology, sketchnoting, virtual reality, social networking, mobile learning practices, online tools, or technology gadgets!
Here is a list of Kathy's upcoming presentations in case you would like to attend a session or workshop!
Contact her via e-mail at kathy@kathyschrock.net or give her a call at 508-247-0044.
Here is a list of Kathy's upcoming presentations in case you would like to attend a session or workshop!
Contact her via e-mail at kathy@kathyschrock.net or give her a call at 508-247-0044.
CONCURRENT SESSIONS (1 hour)
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Flipgrid and Padlet: The Dynamic Duo
Padlet and Flipgrid are two popular educational tools. They can also be used in ways the creators never intended! Come learn how Padlet and Flipgrid can support teaching and learning across the curriculum, promote collaboration and communication, and used as both formative and summative assessments. You will come away from this session with tons of creative and unique ideas for the use of these two popular and powerful tools!
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Become a Master Graphic Designer
This concurrent session will introduce attendees to the basics of graphic design using the online tool/mobile app Canva. Come learn how to create useful, beautiful, and eye-catching graphics to enhance your Web page, lesson plans, social media outlets, and parent communication!
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Old Skool Tech Skills Revisited
With the advent of emerging technology tools, some of the older, pedagogically-sound technology skills have been left behind. This session will explore how to create a podcast and allow others to subscribe, how to aggregate blogs into one easy place to read them, how to search online effectively, the basics of taking photos with mobile devices, and other tips and tricks. If you have missed learning these skills along the way, you will gain some great new strategies for your tool box and student assessments!
Electrify Your Classroom with Wearables and Voice-Activated Devices
There are all kinds of new technologies available for use in the classroom that were not created with education in mind. This session will explore lessons, activities, and "electrifying" ways to use a wearable device expressly created to track activity, like the the Fitbit, and cover my favorite voice-activated assistants, the Amazon Alexa devices. Areas to be discussed include privacy concerns, data literacy tie-ins, health literacy ideas, and classroom support suggestions.
Promoting Inventiveness in the Classroom
The ability to brainstorm, to think in different ways, to learn to elaborate, and to produce something original, can be used in all walks of life. This session will provide a background to the theory of inventiveness and design thinking, and showcase apps and tools that can be used to support this practice. The participants will also participate in some “reverse engineering” brainstorming and model the inventiveness skill set.
Augment Your Classroom with Augmented Reality
Augmented reality, in its simplest sense, is the layering of information or objects over a mobile device's camera view of the real world. The availability of augmented reality apps to support teaching and learning has exploded in the past few years. In this session, participants will learn the basics of AR, be introduced to a slew of AR apps, and have time to experiment with them!
It's Time to Find Your EdTech Passion
How do you identify your edtech passion? Kathy can help! She will showcase the aspects of educational technology used to support meaningful teaching and learning she cares deeply about. She will provide a wide array of practices, pedagogies, and thought-provoking uses of technology by educators and students. From cool gadgets to embedding technology, and everything in-between, you will come away with a plan of how you can focus on “doing what you love” in the edtech arena! (Keynote or General Session)
Sketchnoting in the Classroom
Sketchnoting, also call visual notetaking, allows students to creatively organize their thoughts using sketches. Visual notetaking targets the auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learners as all three areas are utilized. Whether taking notes the traditional way and then creating a sketchnote version, or sketching notes during a lecture, with sketchnotes students showcase their personalized understanding of the content. Learn how to teach students the basics of sketchnoting, how to create a structure that can be used for the process, and practice creating some sketchnotes of your own in this session. Apps and tools that can be used for digital sketchnoting will also be covered. (Grades 5-12)
Virtual Reality in the Classroom: Using and Creating 360° Panoramas
Using virtual reality in the classroom can immerse students in an 360° environment, can help with understanding complex subjects, and is engaging to learners of all ages. Having students create the online, interactive panoramas and having them use a Google Cardboard viewer to be immersed in the image, can be very powerful! During this presentation you will learn the how and why this technology supports teaching and learning across the content areas.
Telling the Story: Lessons Learned from the Outside World
Research states facts and figures only activate the part of the brain where we make sense of words. But, when listening to a digital story, a recent article reports "not only are the language processing parts in our brain activated, but any other area in our brain that we would use when experiencing the events of the story are, too". To get their point across, the business world is shifting from bullet points to stories. How can we do this in schools? Presenting content using storytelling can be captivating, compelling, and can help students grasp the content. This presentation will include the research to support this pedagogical shift, various examples of content presented this way, and an overview of the process and tools that can be used to create these rich digital stories.
The Common Thread: Weaving Information Literacy Skills to Engage Learners
By engaging students in problem and project based learning, impacting their emotions, causing them to question and think about controversial topics, and presenting content in the form of visuals and stories, research shows that students more often retain content and turn it into personal knowledge. By infusing the information literacy skill set as the common thread across the content areas, students have the foundation they need to succeed. Learn how the team of classroom teacher, teacher librarian, and technology teacher can work together to create and teach lessons that intertwine these literacies.
Teaching, Learning and Creating with Online Tools
Creating is the highest order thinking skill. The creating level of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy has students designing, constructing, producing, devising, and making. This session will provide participants with ideas, showcase Web apps and Chrome apps, and include samples of instructional projects created with the laptop or Chromebook which target this level. Participants will come away with tons of ideas for formative and summative assessments for their students to showcase their mastery of content knowledge. Participants will also feel comfortable utilizing Web apps and Chrome apps to create projects to support their teaching!
Teaching, Learning and Creating with Any Device
Creating is the highest order thinking skill. The creating level of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy has students designing, constructing, producing, devising, and making. This session will provide participants with ideas, showcase Web tools, Chrome apps, and iPad/Android apps and include samples of instructional projects created with the Chromebook, laptops, and tablets which target this level. Participants will come away with tons of ideas for formative and summative assessments for their students to showcase their mastery of content knowledge. Participants will also feel comfortable using Web tools and tablet apps to create projects to support their teaching!
Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum
Digital storytelling across the curriculum can be used as an assessment at all levels to showcase student mastery of content knowledge. With many sets of standards including of the use of digital technologies, digital storytelling is the perfect model for communicating content knowledge using a digital tool set. Bloom's Revised Taxonomy, the SAMR, and the TECH model in relation to these types of assessments will also be discussed.Come learn about the apps, software, and online tools that make this easy to implement in the classroom!
A Picture is Worth 1000 Words: Using Infographics as a Creative Assessment
An infographic is a visual representation of information. Come learn tips and tricks for using student-created infographics as an authentic assessment. The presentation will showcase how infographics are created and concentrate on the student literacy skills necessary to research, critique, summarize, and communicate information in a visual way to reach their audience.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS
Three sections: All device workshops, iPad workshops, Laptop/Chromebook workshops
Three sections: All device workshops, iPad workshops, Laptop/Chromebook workshops
MULTI OS AND ALL DEVICE WORKSHOPS
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Unlock Your Inner Graphic Designer!
Have you ever wanted to learn the principles of basic design? How about learning to make graphics, posters, infographics, and classroom materials that capture your students' attention? This workshop will teach you all that and much more! You will create useful and fun handouts for students, graphics for your lessons, Web pages, and specialty designs. (Participants may use a laptop or Chromebook for online Canva access. If you are using an iPad or Android tablet, please download the Canva app to your device.) (90 minutes or 2 hours)
Gearing up for Creativity with the Adobe Spark Tools: iPhone, iPad, Chromebook, Laptop
Using Schrock's "Cogs of the Cognitive Processes", a different way to look at Bloom's Revised Taxonomy, this workshop will help you unleash the creativity of your students by exploring methods to develop creative assessments and projects with this great suite of tools/apps! You will investigate successful practices for fostering creativity in the classroom and create projects to both awaken your inner creativity and create exemplars for use with your students! iOS device users must have at least iOS 9.0 and download Adobe Spark Post, Adobe Spark Video, and Adobe Spark Page. (½ day for K-12)
Promoting inventiveness with mobile devices: iPad, Chromebook, laptop
The skills inherent in inventiveness— the creative bridge between invention and innovation — are important skills for all students to master. The ability to brainstorm, to think in different ways, to learn to elaborate, and to produce something original, can be used in all walks of life. This workshop will provide a background to the theory of inventiveness and showcase the types of apps and tools that can be used to support this practice. The participants will participate in some “reverse engineering” projects and model the inventiveness skill set while creating projects with their device. (If using an iPad, the apps to be installed before the workshop may be found on this page, in the "Workshop: Design Thinking and Inventiveness" section.) (Promo video) (½ day)
Sketchnoting in the Classroom: iPad, Android, Windows Tablet or Paper/Pencil) (5-12)
Sketchnoting, also called visual note-taking, allows students to creatively organize their thoughts using sketches. Sketchnoting targets the auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learners as all three areas are utilized. Whether taking notes the traditional way and later creating a sketchnoted version, or sketching notes during a lecture, with sketchnotes students showcase their personalized understanding of the content. Learn how to teach students the basics of sketchnoting, how to create a structure that can be used for the process, and practice creating and sharing various types of sketchnotes in this workshop. Apps and tools that can be used for digital sketchnoting will also be covered.
If you want to sketchnote digitally, bring an iPad 2 or newer, an Android Tablet, or Windows Surface tablet. Don't forget your stylus Please also install the Autodesk Sketchbook app for iOS, Android, or Surface Tablet before the workshop
If you want to sketchnote by hand, bring an unlined journal with at least medium-weight pages, a black gel pen or thin-point black marker and colored pencils to the workshop. (Promo video) (½ day)
Virtual Reality in the Classroom: Using and Creating 360° Panoramas
Using virtual reality in the classroom can immerse students in an 360° environment, can help with understanding complex subjects, and is engaging to learners of all ages. Having students create the online, interactive panoramas and also have the ability to use a Google Cardboard viewer to immerse themselves in the image can be very powerful. From students making observations about a location to collaborating on a study of buildings or cities from around the world to viewing the inside of the heart, 360° images can support all the content areas. During this workshop you will take virtual tours, learn the how and why this technology supports teaching and learning, and create your own images to share with students! We may be walking outside to take photos, so please wear comfortable shoes. You should bring an iPhone or Android phone AND a laptop. Please install the Google Street View app, the Roundme app, the Google Expeditions app, and the Littlstar app on your smartphone. If you have a 360° camera (such as the Ricoh Theta) and/or a Google Cardboard-compatible viewer (if you have one), please bring those along, too! (½ day)
Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum: All devices (K-12)
Digital storytelling can be used as an assessment at all levels to showcase student mastery of content for any subject area. This workshop will include the process of planning for a digital story and introduce online tools to use in producing and creating the stories. Participants will create different types of digital stories which include a personal narrative, a story that informs/instructs, and a story that documents an event. Bloom's Revised Taxonomy and the SAMR model in relation to these types of assessments will also be discussed. Apps to download/register for will be provided prior to the workshop. Participants should bring a Mac or Windows laptop, Windows tablet, Chromebook, Android tablet, or iPad 2 or newer to the workshop. (½ day)
Using Student-Created Infographics to Master 21st Century Literacies: All devices (6-12)
An infographic is a visual representation of information. This workshop will provide an in-depth overview of how best to use student-created infographics as an authentic formative or summative assessment. Kathy will showcase how infographics are created and concentrate on the student literacy skills necessary to research, critique, summarize, and communicate information in a visual way to reach an audience. During the workshop, attendees will create an infographic in small groups to both practice the literacies necessary for infographic creation, as well as share examples with their colleagues. Apps to download/register for will be provided prior to the workshop. Participants should bring a Mac or Windows laptop, Windows tablet, Chromebook, or iPad 2 or newer to the workshop. (Promo video) (½ day)
*NEW*
Unlock Your Inner Graphic Designer!
Have you ever wanted to learn the principles of basic design? How about learning to make graphics, posters, infographics, and classroom materials that capture your students' attention? This workshop will teach you all that and much more! You will create useful and fun handouts for students, graphics for your lessons, Web pages, and specialty designs. (Participants may use a laptop or Chromebook for online Canva access. If you are using an iPad or Android tablet, please download the Canva app to your device.) (90 minutes or 2 hours)
Gearing up for Creativity with the Adobe Spark Tools: iPhone, iPad, Chromebook, Laptop
Using Schrock's "Cogs of the Cognitive Processes", a different way to look at Bloom's Revised Taxonomy, this workshop will help you unleash the creativity of your students by exploring methods to develop creative assessments and projects with this great suite of tools/apps! You will investigate successful practices for fostering creativity in the classroom and create projects to both awaken your inner creativity and create exemplars for use with your students! iOS device users must have at least iOS 9.0 and download Adobe Spark Post, Adobe Spark Video, and Adobe Spark Page. (½ day for K-12)
Promoting inventiveness with mobile devices: iPad, Chromebook, laptop
The skills inherent in inventiveness— the creative bridge between invention and innovation — are important skills for all students to master. The ability to brainstorm, to think in different ways, to learn to elaborate, and to produce something original, can be used in all walks of life. This workshop will provide a background to the theory of inventiveness and showcase the types of apps and tools that can be used to support this practice. The participants will participate in some “reverse engineering” projects and model the inventiveness skill set while creating projects with their device. (If using an iPad, the apps to be installed before the workshop may be found on this page, in the "Workshop: Design Thinking and Inventiveness" section.) (Promo video) (½ day)
Sketchnoting in the Classroom: iPad, Android, Windows Tablet or Paper/Pencil) (5-12)
Sketchnoting, also called visual note-taking, allows students to creatively organize their thoughts using sketches. Sketchnoting targets the auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learners as all three areas are utilized. Whether taking notes the traditional way and later creating a sketchnoted version, or sketching notes during a lecture, with sketchnotes students showcase their personalized understanding of the content. Learn how to teach students the basics of sketchnoting, how to create a structure that can be used for the process, and practice creating and sharing various types of sketchnotes in this workshop. Apps and tools that can be used for digital sketchnoting will also be covered.
If you want to sketchnote digitally, bring an iPad 2 or newer, an Android Tablet, or Windows Surface tablet. Don't forget your stylus Please also install the Autodesk Sketchbook app for iOS, Android, or Surface Tablet before the workshop
If you want to sketchnote by hand, bring an unlined journal with at least medium-weight pages, a black gel pen or thin-point black marker and colored pencils to the workshop. (Promo video) (½ day)
Virtual Reality in the Classroom: Using and Creating 360° Panoramas
Using virtual reality in the classroom can immerse students in an 360° environment, can help with understanding complex subjects, and is engaging to learners of all ages. Having students create the online, interactive panoramas and also have the ability to use a Google Cardboard viewer to immerse themselves in the image can be very powerful. From students making observations about a location to collaborating on a study of buildings or cities from around the world to viewing the inside of the heart, 360° images can support all the content areas. During this workshop you will take virtual tours, learn the how and why this technology supports teaching and learning, and create your own images to share with students! We may be walking outside to take photos, so please wear comfortable shoes. You should bring an iPhone or Android phone AND a laptop. Please install the Google Street View app, the Roundme app, the Google Expeditions app, and the Littlstar app on your smartphone. If you have a 360° camera (such as the Ricoh Theta) and/or a Google Cardboard-compatible viewer (if you have one), please bring those along, too! (½ day)
Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum: All devices (K-12)
Digital storytelling can be used as an assessment at all levels to showcase student mastery of content for any subject area. This workshop will include the process of planning for a digital story and introduce online tools to use in producing and creating the stories. Participants will create different types of digital stories which include a personal narrative, a story that informs/instructs, and a story that documents an event. Bloom's Revised Taxonomy and the SAMR model in relation to these types of assessments will also be discussed. Apps to download/register for will be provided prior to the workshop. Participants should bring a Mac or Windows laptop, Windows tablet, Chromebook, Android tablet, or iPad 2 or newer to the workshop. (½ day)
Using Student-Created Infographics to Master 21st Century Literacies: All devices (6-12)
An infographic is a visual representation of information. This workshop will provide an in-depth overview of how best to use student-created infographics as an authentic formative or summative assessment. Kathy will showcase how infographics are created and concentrate on the student literacy skills necessary to research, critique, summarize, and communicate information in a visual way to reach an audience. During the workshop, attendees will create an infographic in small groups to both practice the literacies necessary for infographic creation, as well as share examples with their colleagues. Apps to download/register for will be provided prior to the workshop. Participants should bring a Mac or Windows laptop, Windows tablet, Chromebook, or iPad 2 or newer to the workshop. (Promo video) (½ day)
LAPTOP/CHROMEBOOK WORKSHOPS
Promoting Inventiveness with Mobile Devices: Laptop/Chromebook Edition (4-12)
The skills inherent in inventiveness— the creative bridge between invention and innovation — are important skills for all students to master. The ability to brainstorm, to think in different ways, to learn to elaborate, and to produce something original, can be used in all walks of life. This workshop will provide a background to the theory of inventiveness and showcase the types of apps and tools that can be used to support this practice. The participants will participate in some “reverse engineering” projects and model the inventiveness skill set while creating projects with their laptop or Chromebook. (½ day) (Promo video)
Gearing up for Creativity with the Adobe Spark Tools
Using Schrock's "Cogs of the Cognitive Processes", a different way to look at Bloom's Revised Taxonomy, this workshop will help you unleash the creativity of your students by exploring methods to develop creative assessments and projects with the laptop or Chromebook. You will investigate successful practices for fostering creativity in the classroom and create projects to both awaken your inner creativity and create exemplars for use with your students! Bring Chromebook or laptop. (½ day for K-12)
Teaching, Learning, and Creating with Mobile Devices: Laptop/Chromebook Edition (K-12)
Creating is the highest order thinking skill. The creating level of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy has students designing, constructing, producing, devising, and making. This workshop will provide participants with ideas and hands-on practice creating instructional projects with the Chromebook, laptop or Windows tablet using a variety of online tools. Participants will come away with tons of ideas for formative and summative assessments for students to showcase their mastery of content knowledge. Participants will also feel comfortable utilizing Chrome apps and online tools to create projects to support their teaching practice! Come with your Chromebook, laptop, or Windows tablet charged and ready to go! (½ day) (Promo video)
Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum: Laptop/Chromebook Edition (K-12)
Digital storytelling can be used as an assessment at all levels to showcase student mastery of content for any subject area. This workshop will include the process of planning for a digital story and introduce online tools to use in producing and creating the stories. Participants will create different types of digital stories which include a personal narrative, a story that informs/instructs, and a story that documents an event. Bloom's Revised Taxonomy and the SAMR model in relation to these types of assessments will also be discussed. Apps to download/register for will be provided prior to the workshop. Participants should bring a laptop, Chromebook, or Windows tablet computer to the workshop. (½ day)
Using Student-Created Infographics to Master 21st Century Literacies: Laptop/Chromebook Edition (6-12)
An infographic is a visual representation of information. This laptop/Chromebook-only workshop will provide an in-depth overview of how best to use student-created infographics as an authentic formative or summative assessment. Kathy will showcase how infographics are created and concentrate on the student literacy skills necessary to research, critique, summarize, and communicate information in a visual way to reach an audience. During the workshop, attendees will create an infographic in small groups to both practice the literacies necessary for infographic creation, as well as share examples with their colleagues. Participants should bring a Mac or Windows laptop, Windows tablet or Chromebook to the workshop.
(Promo video) (½ day)
Promoting Inventiveness with Mobile Devices: Laptop/Chromebook Edition (4-12)
The skills inherent in inventiveness— the creative bridge between invention and innovation — are important skills for all students to master. The ability to brainstorm, to think in different ways, to learn to elaborate, and to produce something original, can be used in all walks of life. This workshop will provide a background to the theory of inventiveness and showcase the types of apps and tools that can be used to support this practice. The participants will participate in some “reverse engineering” projects and model the inventiveness skill set while creating projects with their laptop or Chromebook. (½ day) (Promo video)
Gearing up for Creativity with the Adobe Spark Tools
Using Schrock's "Cogs of the Cognitive Processes", a different way to look at Bloom's Revised Taxonomy, this workshop will help you unleash the creativity of your students by exploring methods to develop creative assessments and projects with the laptop or Chromebook. You will investigate successful practices for fostering creativity in the classroom and create projects to both awaken your inner creativity and create exemplars for use with your students! Bring Chromebook or laptop. (½ day for K-12)
Teaching, Learning, and Creating with Mobile Devices: Laptop/Chromebook Edition (K-12)
Creating is the highest order thinking skill. The creating level of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy has students designing, constructing, producing, devising, and making. This workshop will provide participants with ideas and hands-on practice creating instructional projects with the Chromebook, laptop or Windows tablet using a variety of online tools. Participants will come away with tons of ideas for formative and summative assessments for students to showcase their mastery of content knowledge. Participants will also feel comfortable utilizing Chrome apps and online tools to create projects to support their teaching practice! Come with your Chromebook, laptop, or Windows tablet charged and ready to go! (½ day) (Promo video)
Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum: Laptop/Chromebook Edition (K-12)
Digital storytelling can be used as an assessment at all levels to showcase student mastery of content for any subject area. This workshop will include the process of planning for a digital story and introduce online tools to use in producing and creating the stories. Participants will create different types of digital stories which include a personal narrative, a story that informs/instructs, and a story that documents an event. Bloom's Revised Taxonomy and the SAMR model in relation to these types of assessments will also be discussed. Apps to download/register for will be provided prior to the workshop. Participants should bring a laptop, Chromebook, or Windows tablet computer to the workshop. (½ day)
Using Student-Created Infographics to Master 21st Century Literacies: Laptop/Chromebook Edition (6-12)
An infographic is a visual representation of information. This laptop/Chromebook-only workshop will provide an in-depth overview of how best to use student-created infographics as an authentic formative or summative assessment. Kathy will showcase how infographics are created and concentrate on the student literacy skills necessary to research, critique, summarize, and communicate information in a visual way to reach an audience. During the workshop, attendees will create an infographic in small groups to both practice the literacies necessary for infographic creation, as well as share examples with their colleagues. Participants should bring a Mac or Windows laptop, Windows tablet or Chromebook to the workshop.
(Promo video) (½ day)
IPAD WORKSHOPS
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Fun with iPhone and iPad Photography!
There are so many ways photography can be infused across the curriculum- from taking images of student work to share with parents to students writing a 6-word story about a photograph they have taken. Come learn the photography basics and some tips for iPhone/iPad photography, practice these new skills on a short photo walk, and then create assets using the photos you have taken! You will come away with a ton of ideas for using photos in the classroom and how students can easily share photos! Please download these apps ahead of time: Canva, Layout for Instagram, Adobe Post, Google Street View, and Chatterbox. (2 hours)
*NEW*
Fun with iPhone and iPad Photography!
There are so many ways photography can be infused across the curriculum- from taking images of student work to share with parents to students writing a 6-word story about a photograph they have taken. Come learn the photography basics and some tips for iPhone/iPad photography, practice these new skills on a short photo walk, and then create assets using the photos you have taken! You will come away with a ton of ideas for using photos in the classroom and how students can easily share photos! Please download these apps ahead of time: Canva, Layout for Instagram, Adobe Post, Google Street View, and Chatterbox. (2 hours)
Updated: 09/10/2020