GBAPS Summer Learning Academy 2019

Maximize your gmail inbox to organize and make work more efficient. We will look at ways to tag emails, use folders, archive emails and send filters. There are also a few other cool tools in gmail that we will explore.

This session will provide attendees the opportunity to learn how to utilize Google Calendar to organize events, communicate efficiently, send automatic reminders and documents to others in events.  Please bring a laptop device to this session to practice and integrate the learning the presenters are sharing!  Click HERE for this session's presentation - thanks for attending!

Google Maps isn't just for directions! Attendees will curate their own Google Maps. We will experiment with pinning places, adding notes, shapes and content. We will also look at using it across other content areas, including Social Studies, Math and ELA.  

This session will provide attendees the opportunity to learn how to utilize and understand the ins and outs of Google Drive.  Presenters will provide tips to organize files and folders and ways to share files and folders to meet the needs of our busy lives! Please bring a laptop device to this session to practice and integrate the learning the presenters are sharing.  Click HERE to view this session's presentation - thanks for attending!

This session will provide attendees the opportunity to learn how to create in various ways within a Google Docs.  This may include linking URLs to other documents/images/videos/presentations, inserting images (with directions), creating a content page with bookmarked links, etc.  Please bring a laptop device to this session to practice and integrate the learning the presenters are sharing!  Please click HERE to view this session's presentation - thanks for attending!

Google Maps isn't just for directions! Attendees will curate their own Google Maps. We will experiment with pinning places, adding notes, shapes and content. We will also look at using it across other content areas, including Social Studies, Math and ELA.  

Bring student writing to life with Google Slides. You may know Google Slides as a presentation tool, but it can be an amazing writing and creation tool. Explore the potential of Google Slides to unlock student creativity. Participants will learn how to create their own picture book that includes dynamic images, animation, and so much more. You will have the choice of creating a simple picture book, or   or a choose your own adventure story. Come with ideas for your story and we will make your story come to life.  

Whether you want to create a collage, poster, interactive drag and drop activity, Google Drawing is your tool. Google Drawing is a unique tool that allows you and your students to create visual products to demonstrate their learning. Create Graphic Organizers to help students organize information and ideas. Make activities where students can use images to demonstrate their learning. Learn about Google Drawing’s tools to create amazing graphics, images, and activities.  

Portable Document Format (PDF) files continue to be one of the most popular file formats found both on and off the web. They’re great when you need to retain formatting, restrict others from editing, or save a digital copy of a file. PDFs are also easily viewable on devices ranging from phones to Chromebooks.

However, when it comes to accessibility, engagement, and collaboration within PDFs, the file format falls short. That’s why we've created the Texthelp PDF Reader as part of Read&Write, which provides a speedy experience while integrating all the bells and whistles anyone looking to interact with PDFs would want.

Depending on the application used to view PDF files, many PDF viewers fall short in areas such as:

-Accessibility
-Responding to questions
-Creating text, voice, or other annotations
-Making or replying to comments
-Real-time collaboration

The Texthelp PDF Reader aims to help remedy many of these common shortfalls. Built from the ground up, our Reader provides a lightning fast experience for anyone looking to interact with PDFs.

In this session, you'll see how you can use the Read&Write tools you know and love in a PDF to:
- Read text aloud
- Look up words in the Dictionary and Picture Dictionary
- Translate words
- Highlight text
- Build vocabulary lists
- Comment and annotate in the PDF
- See the PDF Reader’s newest features: drawing and shape annotation tools! 

As an educator, you work with a wide variety of students with different strengths, weaknesses, interests, and learning preferences. These variabilities can present barriers to teaching and learning if you don’t have the proper supports to meet the unique needs of your students.

Luckily, we now have EquatIO. With EquatIO, students of all ages and learning abilities can engage with math and STEM content in the ways they prefer.

Over 1 million students and educators are successfully using EquatIO's simple tools such as math dictation, math prediction, speech-to-math, OCR, and handwriting recognition to create and engage with math in popular platforms such as Google's G Suite, Microsoft Word, and Learning Management Systems such as Canvas.  This session will overview the program, successful implementation strategies, and provide all teachers with free access to its premium features, allowing them to create accessible, digital math for their students today!  Attendees will also learn how students can use EquatIO to easily engage with, collaborate, and succeed in math and STEM classes in today's exciting digital educational spaces. 

Boardmaker Online Refresher-looking at editing/tech components, curriculum and boardmaker activities to go.  Getting hands on time with the software to create materials.  

This session is designed for staff members that have access to Boardmaker. 

Boardmaker Online Refresher-looking at editing/tech components, curriculum and boardmaker activities to go.  Getting hands on time with the software to create materials.  

This session is designed for staff members that have access to Boardmaker. 

Boardmaker Online Refresher-looking at editing/tech components, curriculum and boardmaker activities to go.  Getting hands on time with the software to create materials.  

This session is designed for staff members that have access to Boardmaker.