LSSD Professional Learning Portal
Setting Instructional Outcomes
Choose Your Own Adventure
Is there a topic that you would like to learn more about that is not already offered in the Professional Learning Portal? This is your chance to earn up to 20 clock hours for your own exploration of a topic of your choice; choose your own adventure and design your own learning plan!
Earn 20 clock hours
Setting Instructional Outcomes
Where in the Standards is Audio/Video?
Examine the intent of the standards for learning through multimedia to narrow your focus.
Earn 1 clock hour
Designing Coherent Instruction
Choose Your Own Adventure
Is there a topic that you would like to learn more about that is not already offered in the Professional Learning Portal? This is your chance to earn up to 20 clock hours for your own exploration of a topic of your choice; choose your own adventure and design your own learning plan!
Earn 20 clock hours
Designing Coherent Instruction
Create a Classroom Portal with SymbalooEDU
If you are still having students type in URLs, you REALLY need to use SymbalooEDU to put all your digital resources in one handy place where students can quickly and easily access everything with a tap or click. Students can use Symbaloo webmixes from anywhere, anytime -- freeing you up to TEACH!
Earn 2 clock hours
Designing Coherent Instruction
Embedding Digital Citizenship
Digital Citizenship is critical to teach our students. In addition to our district adopted digital citizenship curriculum, we can explore ways to connect the learning to other content and curricular goals. Explore some ways to do this through this module.
Earn 4 clock hours
Designing Coherent Instruction
Google Drawings for Graphic Organizers
Graphic organizers are a powerful learning tool for students. With mind maps, concept webs, Venn diagrams, and more, students can express their knowledge, plan their projects, and explore their content. There are many tools available to create graphic organizers and Google Drawings is a great free option. Learn how students can use Google Drawings to create graphic organizers, use existing templates, collaborate with others, and share the final product.
Earn 2 clock hours
Designing Coherent Instruction
Hapara Teacher Workspace
Hapara Workspace is a platform for teachers to create highly personalized learning experiences that deepen collaboration and differentiation throughout the learning cycle. Teachers will be able to streamline the process by tracking progress, submissions, and providing feedback to their learners. In addition, the learners will now have an easy, intuitive interface to manage their assignments and customize their submissions -- giving them greater ownership of their learning.
Earn 3 clock hours
Designing Coherent Instruction
Mastering GMail
Learn how to manage your email more effectively. Mastering GMail will help you to work more efficiently, and give you the know-how to teach your students how to manage email the right way.
Earn 1 clock hour
Designing Coherent Instruction
Mastering Google Classroom
Learn the basics and more advanced features of this learning management system that easily integrates with all your Google tools and makes communicating, assigning, grading and providing feedback to students a breeze!
Earn 3 clock hours
Designing Coherent Instruction
Mastering Google Drive
Your Google Drive is home for all of your files at LSSD. This course will show you how to navigate your Drive, organize your files and folders, and manage sharing of all of your resources.
Earn 1 clock hour
Designing Coherent Instruction
Mastering Google Slides
MODULE UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND WILL BE AVAILABLE AGAIN SOON!
Learn the ins and outs of creating presentations with Google Slides.
Earn 4 clock hours
Designing Coherent Instruction
Unleashing the Power of Google Search
Anyone can run a simple Google search, but most of us only use a tiny fraction of the power of this amazing tool! Learn how to unlock the power in Google's search tool on your way to becoming a Power Searcher. You'll learn all the tricks to narrow down your search results and find exactly what you want.
Earn 5 clock hours
Establish Culture for Learning
Choose Your Own Adventure
Is there a topic that you would like to learn more about that is not already offered in the Professional Learning Portal? This is your chance to earn up to 20 clock hours for your own exploration of a topic of your choice; choose your own adventure and design your own learning plan!
Earn 20 clock hours
Establish Culture for Learning
Managing Your Digital Classroom
It's a wonderful time to be an educator! The technology tools available to assist students, give them a larger audience and connect them to the world creates exciting opportunities. To fully capitalize on these advances, a teacher must have structures and procedures in place for organization and management. This course will provide you with the basic tools to be successful in your digital classroom.
Earn 3 clock hours
Establish Culture for Learning
Mastering Google Calendar
Google Calendars offers numerous tools that allow you to organize your personal and professional life. Use calendars as collaborative lesson plan books, keep track of meetings, events, and conversations. You'll even learn how to create appointment slots to allow you to quickly schedule blocks of time such as parent conferences.
Earn 2 clock hours
Establish Culture for Learning
Mastering Hapara Teacher Dashboard
Hapara Teacher Dashboard offers the classroom teachers a host of tools you can use to manage your classroom's digital world. Learn to navigate the tools, easily find student documents, share documents with a click to all your students, send emails, and more!
Earn 2 clock hours
Communicating with Students
Addressing Student Cheating in Google Apps
Although technology brings many benefits, people often worry about it increasing students' options for cheating. While there is no fail safe solution, there are options to help. In this session we will look at Google tools to help teachers and tech staff prevent and detect plagiarism, cheating, and other issues, including revision history, file details, Forms features, citation tools, and more. We will also consider non-tech responses to the problem including evaluating assessments, school policies, and more.
Earn 1 clock hour
Communicating with Students
Choose Your Own Adventure
Is there a topic that you would like to learn more about that is not already offered in the Professional Learning Portal? This is your chance to earn up to 20 clock hours for your own exploration of a topic of your choice; choose your own adventure and design your own learning plan!
Earn 20 clock hours
Communicating with Students
Flipgrid: A Creative Communication Tool
Flipgrid is is a digital tool for engaging and empowering every voice in your classroom or at home by recording and sharing short, awesome videos...together!
Earn 2 clock hours
Communicating with Students
Google Meet: Enhanced Features for Instruction
In this module, you will find details about the updates to Google Meet that have rolled out in the fall of 2020 and how they may help support your instructional goals during live instructional sessions with students during Distance Learning.
Earn 2 clock hours
Communicating with Students
Zoom
During our closure of 2020, Zoom has provided free access for educators through a partnership with Clever. This provides a safe, secure environment to use Zoom to communicate with groups of students as one tool in providing continuity of learning. In this module, you will learn about the basic and advanced features in Zoom.
Earn 1 clock hour
Questioning and Discussion Techniques
Choose Your Own Adventure
Is there a topic that you would like to learn more about that is not already offered in the Professional Learning Portal? This is your chance to earn up to 20 clock hours for your own exploration of a topic of your choice; choose your own adventure and design your own learning plan!
Earn 20 clock hours
Engaging Learners
Adobe Spark in the Classroom
Get your students fully engaged by providing them the tools to create websites, videos, and graphics that demonstrate their learning. Learn to use Adobe Spark's three, easy-to-use components (post, page, and video) while exploring the unlimited possibilities using this tool in every subject area.
Earn 2 clock hours
Engaging Learners
Boxlight Basics
Learn the basics of your Boxlight interactive panel. Learn how to integrate the interactive panel with your curriculum.
Earn 3 clock hours
Engaging Learners
Choose Your Own Adventure
Is there a topic that you would like to learn more about that is not already offered in the Professional Learning Portal? This is your chance to earn up to 20 clock hours for your own exploration of a topic of your choice; choose your own adventure and design your own learning plan!
Earn 20 clock hours
Engaging Learners
Creating Collaborative Magazines with Flipboard
Create collaborative, current magazines with this website. Think a Pinterest-like version of a student magazine on whatever topic your class is studying!
Earn 1 clock hour
Engaging Learners
Engaging Students with Boom Card Lessons
Boom Cards are interactive activities that can provide students feedback on their learning. In this module you will learn how to get started with Boom Cards as well as how to create these interactive activities and assign them to students.
Earn 3 clock hours
Engaging Learners
Engaging Students With Video Using EdPuzzle
EDpuzzle is an online tool that optimizes the experience of learning from video for your students. EDpuzzle allows you to to add your own commentary and questions to any video you create or find online. Deliver the customized video to your students, and EDpuzzle will track how often students watch, rewatch, and interact with each portion of a given video. Best of all, it’s completely free!
Earn 2 clock hours
Engaging Learners
Global Competency: Bring the World to Your Classroom
Explore the concept of global competency and tools that can support virtual interactions that "break down" classroom walls. Try out a concept in your classroom that connects to your curriculum and can increase student engagement and deepen learning.
Earn 4 clock hours
Engaging Learners
Google Keep in the Classroom
MODULE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND WILL BE LIVE AGAIN SOON!
Google Keep is a lightweight note-taking solution that can help you and your students stay organized. Learn how easy it is to get started and increase students' productivity!
Earn 1 clock hour
Engaging Learners
Google Lit Trips on Chromebooks
Lit Trips are downloadable files that mark the journeys of characters from famous literature on the surface of Google Earth. Along the way, placemarks with pop-up windows contain "just in time" resources including relevant media, thought-provoking discussion starters, and links to supplementary information about "real world" references in that portion of the story. The focus is on creating engaging and relevant literary experiences for students.
Earn 2 clock hours
Engaging Learners
Google Maps
THIS MODULE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION _ WILL BE LIVE AGAIN SOON!
Online mapping tools, such as Google Maps, are powerful mediums for storytelling. Learn how to master these tools so that your students can interact with the larger world through maps.
Earn 6 clock hours
Engaging Learners
Powtoons
PowToon is a fun and attention-grabbing alternative to PowerPoint. A PowToon is an engaging way to introduce or summarize content and is great for student-created projects.
Earn 4 clock hours
Engaging Learners
Teaching Math with Google Drawings
Learn fun and creative ways to address Math Common Core Standards with Google Drawings. Topics include symmetry, angles, polygons, pictographs, line plots, area, fractions, algebra and more. The content will focus mainly on elementary and middle school level math, but the ideas can be applied to other grades and subjects as well.
Earn 3 clock hours
Engaging Learners
ThingLink in the Classroom
ThingLink is an online tool that allows you to bring images and videos to life. Use ThingLink to embed text, images, links and additional videos right into an image of your choosing.
Earn 1 clock hour
Engaging Learners
Twitter for Educators
Join the over 320 million active users of Twitter, the social platform that can connect you with educators from around the world. This course will walk you through the basics of starting your account, sending Tweets, and finding other educators to follow.
Earn 3 clock hours
Engaging Learners
WeVideo: Getting Started
Get your students fully engaged with learning by introducing them to video production. Learn to use WeVideo while exploring the unlimited possibilities of video production for every subject area.
Earn 5 clock hours
Assessment in Instruction
Choose Your Own Adventure
Is there a topic that you would like to learn more about that is not already offered in the Professional Learning Portal? This is your chance to earn up to 20 clock hours for your own exploration of a topic of your choice; choose your own adventure and design your own learning plan!
Earn 20 clock hours
Assessment in Instruction
Digital Formative Assessment Tools
Formative assessment is an essential tool for the proficient teacher. This module will introduce you to some of the best FREE digital formative assessment tools to provide you with the feedback you need to meet the needs of all your students. Though the tools are divided into suggested applications, many of the tools can be used for varied purposes.
Earn 4 clock hours
Assessment in Instruction
Fantastic Feedback Tools for Google Docs
As educators we are always looking for better ways to connect with our students especially when providing feedback on their work. In this session we will explore four fantastic tools to provide feedback that is more detailed, engaging, and personal. Tools will include Google Doc text comments, voice comments with Read&Write for Google, video feedback with Screencastify, and natural handwriting feedback with the Google Classroom mobile app.
Earn 2 clock hours
Assessment in Instruction
Mastering Google Forms
Get instant feedback from students, parents or colleagues with this incredible tool that seems to "do it all."
Earn 4 clock hours
Assessment in Instruction
Using Rubrics with Google Docs
This module is being improved and will return soon!
Google provides great tools for writing projects including distributing, sharing, collaborating, reviewing, commenting, and revising. But what about grading? Rubrics are a powerful tool for teachers to provide detailed grading feedback for student work. Learn how to use three different rubric tools with Google Docs including Doctopus/Goobric, docAppender, and Orange Slice Teacher Rubric.
Earn 3 clock hours
Flexibility and Responsiveness
AAC: Augmentative and Alternative Communication
This module will help you determine whether a student you are working with could benefit from an AAC tool, and provide you ideas for using that tool to grant access to and improve communication throughout daily routines throughout the school day. The intended audience for this training is staff who work in a self-contained special program classroom.
**Completion of this module earns Equity Clock Hours
Earn 4 clock hours
Flexibility and Responsiveness
Choose Your Own Adventure
Is there a topic that you would like to learn more about that is not already offered in the Professional Learning Portal? This is your chance to earn up to 20 clock hours for your own exploration of a topic of your choice; choose your own adventure and design your own learning plan!
Earn 20 clock hours
Flexibility and Responsiveness
Digital Annotation with Read and Write for Google
Learn about this new tool that can be used for digital annotation, word prediction or voice tools.
Earn 2 clock hours
Flexibility and Responsiveness
Flipping Your Classroom - the Basics
So you have heard of flipping your classroom but would like to learn more about what this means. This module will help you learn the basics of a Flipped Classroom so you can see if it is a tool for you.
Earn 1 clock hour
Flexibility and Responsiveness
Hapara Highlights
This self-paced course is designed to provide you with an overview of Hapara Highlights and to introduce you to the tools that will help you start using Hapara Highlights right away.
Earn 2 clock hours
Flexibility and Responsiveness
Providing Closed Captioning Accommodations
Students who are deaf or hard of hearing may have accommodations that legally require educators to ensure that videos used for instruction include captions. Learn about tools to find videos with CC, add CC to videos and create CC videos.
**Completion of this module earns Equity Clock Hours
Earn 1 clock hour
Flexibility and Responsiveness
Screencasting in the Classroom
Allow students to take your genius with them anywhere by recording your own Screencasts! Learn and try out a few of the tools available for recording your lessons for later viewing. Once you see how user-friendly these tools have become, you'll want your students to join in the creating to share their brilliance as well!
Earn 2 clock hours