Google Docs is a great word processor, but is much more than just that. Although we can certainly use it to type up a report, take notes, or write a story, we can also get creative with the features and functions built into the program to make some fun learning activities.

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.

Learn the basics of your Boxlight interactive panel. Learn how to integrate the interactive panel with your curriculum.

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!

HSTRY.co is a tool for creating great looking multimedia timelines. Insert video, audio, text, questions and interesting facts, then share them publicly or directly with the students who have joined your class. Take it to the next level by having your students create their own timelines of important historical events. Start bringing the past to life with HSTRY.

Create collaborative, current magazines with this website. Think a Pinterest-like version of a student magazine on whatever topic your class is studying!

In this workshop we are going to look at another alternate use for Google Slides ... having students create storybooks with Slides. Student writing does not just have to be done in a word processor, but can come to life in an online book with engaging images, colors, fonts, and more.

In this module, examine the struggle to move from print based to digital reading, annotation as an essential reading strategy, as well as using Kami for that purpose in your classroom.

Watch multiple classroom snapshots to examine what strategies the teacher is using to effectively engage students. Take a strategy back to try in your classroom!

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

How can you use simple charts and journals to support students' correct grammar use?

Learn about this specific strategy to use with a text your students are currently working with. This strategy will help them gain understanding of grammar as well as author's craft.

When going on a half-day learning walk to visit other classrooms, use this module to guide the planning and reflection and earn clock hours for your exploration.

In this module, you will explore the purpose behind a Makerspace, how it can enhance the learning in any subject area, and also receive guidance on how to get started in creating your own Makerspace.

This module is intended to provide a guide for an individual or collaborative book study of Motivated by Ilana Seidel Horn.

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.

This training explains the different types of play, the benefits of play for various areas of development, and how to provide specific instruction to students so that they can learn play skills. This training is geared toward preschool and elementary self contained staff.

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.

Read this article that discussed clarity, context, culture and challenge as the keys to engagement and apply them to a lesson you are teaching.

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.

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.

In this module, you will learn about the concepts of Depth and Complexity and how to use them to increase engagement in your classroom. The video included in this module is from a WAETAG (Washington Association of Educators of the Talented and Gifted) webinar, where the speaker is a 6th grade teacher.

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.