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 508-237-6605.
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 508-237-6605.
CONCURRENT SESSIONS (1 hour)
Using TikTok as an Engaging Professional Development Platform
Find out how much you can learn from the creative educators who post their ideas and useful content on TikTok. This fun session touches on all the content areas and grade levels !
Everything I Learned During the Pandemic I Learned from TikTok
Teachers have been contributing to TikTok in a big way! Come get some great ideas for things you can do in your classroom, with your phone, and much more. This session will have you using TikTok in no time!
Excellent Episodes: Using and Creating Podcasts with Students
Podcasts are a great educational tool for virtual, in-person, and blended educational environments and they can be used to support any area of the curriculum! This session will introduce some great ones at all levels and content areas in K-12. In addition, having students create podcasts, as a formative or summative assessment, is a perfect way for them to showcase their passions and content knowledge. Learn how to get them started by exploring some practical ideas and easy-to-use tools for researching, recording, editing and producing a podcast!
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!
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)
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.
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.
Using TikTok as an Engaging Professional Development Platform
Find out how much you can learn from the creative educators who post their ideas and useful content on TikTok. This fun session touches on all the content areas and grade levels !
Everything I Learned During the Pandemic I Learned from TikTok
Teachers have been contributing to TikTok in a big way! Come get some great ideas for things you can do in your classroom, with your phone, and much more. This session will have you using TikTok in no time!
Excellent Episodes: Using and Creating Podcasts with Students
Podcasts are a great educational tool for virtual, in-person, and blended educational environments and they can be used to support any area of the curriculum! This session will introduce some great ones at all levels and content areas in K-12. In addition, having students create podcasts, as a formative or summative assessment, is a perfect way for them to showcase their passions and content knowledge. Learn how to get them started by exploring some practical ideas and easy-to-use tools for researching, recording, editing and producing a podcast!
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!
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)
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.
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
Creative Cloud MULTI OS AND ALL DEVICE WORKSHOPS
Excellent Episodes: Using and Creating Podcasts with Students
Podcasts are a great educational tool for virtual, in-person, and blended educational environments and they can be used to support any area of the curriculum! This session will introduce some great ones at all levels and content areas in K-12. In addition, having students create podcasts, as a formative or summative assessment, is a perfect way for them to showcase their passions and content knowledge. Learn how to get them started by exploring some practical ideas and easy-to-use tools for researching, recording, editing and producing a podcast and creating your own! (90 minutes of 2 hours)
Gearing up for Creativity with the Adobe Creating Cloud Express: 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 13.0 and download Adobe Spark Post, Adobe Spark Video, and Adobe Express (2 hours)
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) (3 hours)
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 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 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 4 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) (2 or 3 hours)
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. (3 hours )
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) (3 hours)
Excellent Episodes: Using and Creating Podcasts with Students
Podcasts are a great educational tool for virtual, in-person, and blended educational environments and they can be used to support any area of the curriculum! This session will introduce some great ones at all levels and content areas in K-12. In addition, having students create podcasts, as a formative or summative assessment, is a perfect way for them to showcase their passions and content knowledge. Learn how to get them started by exploring some practical ideas and easy-to-use tools for researching, recording, editing and producing a podcast and creating your own! (90 minutes of 2 hours)
Gearing up for Creativity with the Adobe Creating Cloud Express: 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 13.0 and download Adobe Spark Post, Adobe Spark Video, and Adobe Express (2 hours)
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) (3 hours)
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 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 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 4 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) (2 or 3 hours)
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. (3 hours )
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) (3 hours)
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. (3 hours) (Promo video)
Gearing up for Creativity with Adobe Creative Cloud Express
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. Please sign up for an Adobe Creative Cloud Express account with your school email address. (3 hours for K-12)
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. (3 hours) (Promo video)
Gearing up for Creativity with Adobe Creative Cloud Express
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. Please sign up for an Adobe Creative Cloud Express account with your school email address. (3 hours for K-12)
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
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)
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: 07/08/2023