Welcome to PBS Western Reserve's Educator newsletter!
The Connected Educator is here to keep you informed about our
Educational Technology and Services Department's trusted PreK-12 resources, professional development offerings and upcoming events.
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Register now for fall professional development!
All courses are ONLINE and SELF-PACED with the option for graduate credit!
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Google Workspace for Education Basics
Sept 12th - Oct 7th
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Want to learn more about Google Workspace for Education applications and how you can utilize them with your students as well as for yourself? During this course you will learn how to build a sundae of Google Apps, such as Google Drive, Docs, Slides, Sheets, Forms, Classroom, and more in order to be prepared to take the Google Educator Level 1 exam. Resources and activities shared, will not only benefit your teaching, but your personal workflow and management as well! Get ready to become a Google rock star! (Completing the exam is optional, but encouraged)
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Google Workspace for Education and Beyond!
Oct 10th - Nov 4th
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You’ve learned the basics of Google Workspace for Education, now what? During this course you will continue to build onto your sundae of Google Apps: Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Forms, Slides, Drawings, Classroom, Gmail, Meet, Calendar, Keep, Sites, Google Chrome, Google Scholar, Add-ons, Blogger, Google Earth, Google Maps, and Google Translate. Resources and activities shared, will not only benefit your teaching, but your personal workflow and management as well! (Completing the exam is optional, but encouraged.)
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Tech-Infused Essentials for Our Students' Futures
Sep 19th - Oct 14th
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Get ready to learn the essentials to prepare our students for a tech-infused future! During this course, you will learn how to design and set up your class for blended and flipped learning, tips, extensions, and add-ons for organization and workflow, lesson design and activities that are engaging for students and families , plan for student self-paced or whole class content delivery, assess students and provide meaningful feedback, and build community and a social connection with your class. Watch them grow and soar into the future!
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Boost Student Engagement
Sep 26th - Oct 21st
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Get ready to boost your students’ excitement and get them engaged with the content! Learn to successfully plan and implement activities, using a variety of resources, that can be used in any setting with your students, learn how to collect meaningful feedback and data to drive your future instruction, as well as take your students to the next level to empower them to be creators of content rather than just consumers. This course will include modules on not only student engagement and creation, but student voice and choice, and gamification.
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Yes Littles Can!
Oct 3rd - Oct 28th
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Littles can create what now?! More than you can imagine! During this course, you will be provided with options to set up a learning management system, examples such as Seesaw, Google Classroom, or Class Dojo, learn helpful tips and tools to manage your workflow, create, use or modify templates and resources that integrate with the curriculum, utilize resources that can support engagement for students, and learn ways to assess and provide meaningful feedback. It may seem impossible but YES, THEY CAN! Watch what your students can create and do when you empower them!
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Immersive Learning with Augmented and Virtual Reality
Oct 17th - Nov 11th
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Get ready to see objects popping off of the page and coming into our world with augmented reality, or dive right into the learning with virtual reality! This engaging and interactive course will assist you in getting started with augmented and virtual reality in your classroom. Resources, examples, and ideas of how to integrate this emerging technology into the curriculum will be provided. During this course you will explore, experience, and create your own augmented and virtual reality resources and ideas that you can implement with your students. Get ready to explore all of the possibilities for you and your students!
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Work Smarter, Not Harder with EduProtocols
Oct 24th - Nov 18th
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Do you hear your students constantly ask, “What do we do? How do I do that? Where do I find it?”? Get ready to reimagine your classroom and get started with some engaging lesson frames called EduProtocols! These lesson frames have a consistent workflow that can work with any grade level and any content! Let’s dive right in to get your students prepped and ready to master their collaboration, critical thinking, communication, and creativity skills and focus more on the content and not the process!
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Level Up with Gamification!
Oct 31st - Nov 25th
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Students and adults love games! Why not bring the element of gaming into your classroom for student engagement and critical thinking? Learn how to level up your classroom by integrating a variety of resources such as Breakout EDU, Goosechase EDU, as well as other resources such as GimKit, Quizizz, Blooket, and more in this fun, interactive, and engaging course! Test your wits and experience all that gaming has to offer for your students!
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Let Student Creation SOAR!
Nov 7th - Dec 2nd
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Looking for new ways for your students to creatively demonstrate their learning and build their 4C’s? Get ready to learn how to integrate tools such as Book Creator, Write Reader, Flipgrid, Canva, and Adobe Spark into your content for students to create, communicate, and collaborate with others. Let student creation SOAR!
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With sponsorship from PNC Grow Up Great and Fred Rogers Productions, PBS Western Reserve presents Be My Neighbor Day in collaboration with OHWOW! Science Center's Silly Science Sunday in Youngstown on September 18th. Attendees will have the opportunity to take photos with Daniel, and participate in fun activities! The first 200 kids, ages 8 and under to visit Daniel Tiger will receive a backpack stuffed with fun Daniel Tiger activities! No registration is needed. We hope to see you there!
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Do you run an out of school time, afterschool program or summer camp?
Ohio’s PBS stations, through a partnership with the Ohio Department of Education, are working with local out of school time, summer and afterschool programs to address disruptions to learning caused during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Called Ohio Learns 360, this new initiative will provide families, afterschool, out of school time and summer programs with PBS resources, including camps-in-a-box, virtual field trips, family webinars, interactive after school programs, and community events, all designed to accelerate student learning and support the state’s most vulnerable learners in kindergarten through fifth grade.
Stay connected for upcoming event listings and additional information!
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PBS Western Reserve serves the largest population among Ohio’s eight PBS member stations with 4.9 million people in the Cleveland and Youngstown designated market areas. As an Ohio Ed Techs agency, it offers educational resources to more than 226,000 students and 540 schools.
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