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PAST SESSIONS
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The Flipped Classroom
WEDNESDAY 3RD, June 2020
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Hosted by: Mr. Ranaldo Smith A flipped classroom is a type of blended learning where students are introduced to content at home and practice working through it at school. This is the reverse of the more common practice of introducing new content at school, then assigning homework and projects to be completed by the students independently at home. |
1 on 1 for Classrooms - 4 Part Series
1on1 Classrooms is the NEW Learning Management System being explored by the Ministry of Education. Powered by BTC, this platform supports the Bahamian Curriculum and provides a virtual learning space for teachers and students. Bahamas.1on1 provides opportunities to host live classes and distribute content and assessment activities with students. Additionally, it provides a parent portal allowing parents to keep track of their child's progress. Sign up for this week's session to see how you can get access to and customize your own virtual classroom.
Career Path for Teachers - 3 Part Series
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An Introduction
TUESDAY 12TH, May 2020 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Presented by: Mrs. Demetria Rolle This webinar will introduce the Career Path, outline the promotional assessment procedures, help teachers to determine whether they are eligible to apply for promotion, and give guidelines for successful application. |
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BONUS PowerPoint
TUESDAY 5TH, May 2020 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Hosted by: Ms. Samantha Wilson Join us for another POWER PACKED session. Let the fun continue! |
....More Powerpoint
MONDAY 4TH, May 2020 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Presented by: Ms. Samantha Wilson You asked for it! Join us for the EXTENDED SESSION as we go deeper into the wonderful world of PowerPoint. |
Change Things up with Flipgrid
THURSDAY 30th, April 2020 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Presented by: Ms. Derricka Lloyd Flipgrid is a social learning platform that allows educators to ask a question, then the students respond in a video. Students are then able to respond to one another, creating a “web” of discussion. Students can record a response using their cell phone, tablet, or computer to share with others in their class. |
PowerPoint Graveyard
WEDNESDAY 29th, April 2020 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Presented by: Ms. Samantha Wilson Learn how to avoid the PowerPoint graveyard. Bring your presentations to life through easy design concepts. Learn the do's and don'ts through helpful tips to create aesthetically pleasing and engaging presentations. |
Microsoft Forms: An Educators Secret Tool
THURSDAY 23rd, April 2020 10:00 a.m. -11:00 a.m. Presented by: Wendy Bowe Microsoft Forms is a simple, lightweight tool that lets you quickly create forms, collect responses in real time, and view automatic charts to visualize your data. With Microsoft Forms, you can create surveys, quizzes and polls. Microsoft Forms is deeply integrated with Office365 apps to provide a seamless experience for basic data collection. 
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Collaboration in Office 365 with Word and Excel
WEDNESDAY 22nd, April 2020 10:00 a.m. -11:00 a.m. Presented by: Latoya Smith-Burrows Collaboration is skill that all educators must harness. While working remotely, it is especially important to learn how to create and share documents with colleagues, students and parents. In this session, you will learn how to create shared Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. You will learn of its usefulness now and in the future. 
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Move over for Seesaw
TUESDAY 28th, April 2020 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Presented by: Mrs. Leah Greene Seesaw is a platform for student engagement that inspires students of all ages to do their best, and saves teachers time! Students use creative tools to take pictures, draw, record videos and more to capture learning in a portfolio. Teachers find or create activities to share with students. 
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Let's Get Together with Microsoft Teams
MONDAY 27th, April 2020 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Presented by: Janice Rolle and Yasmin Glinton Microsoft Teams is a chat-based collaboration tool that provides global, remote, and dispersed teams with the ability to work together and share information via a common space. You can utilize cool features like document collaboration, one-on-one chat, team chat, and more. |
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OneDrive: Jump Drive in the Cloud
TUESDAY 21st, April 2020 10:00 a.m. -11:00 a.m. Presented by: Aldeka Colebrooke OneDrive is an Internet-based storage platform with a significant chunk of space offered for free by Microsoft to anyone with a Microsoft account. Think of it as a jump drive in the cloud where you access your files from any device and never have to worry again about losing a jump drive. |
Getting to Know Office 365 and Microsoft Outlook
MONDAY 20th, April 2020 10:00 a.m. -11:00 a.m. Presented by: Janice Rolle Office 365 is a Web-based version of Microsoft's Office suite. Is is the official communication and productivity platform for the Ministry of Education. Join this session to learn more about it. |
Find out what's Poppin' on BrainPOP jr
FRIDAY 3rd, April 2020 10:00 a.m. -11:00 a.m. Presented by: Gia Symonette BrainPOP Jr. is a FREE site now! It creates online animated curriculum-based content that is aligned to state education standards. ... The site includes video, game, quiz, and activity sections for science, health, writing, reading, social studies, and math based on national education standards. |
YouTube!
FRIDAY 3rd, April 2020 2:00 p.m. -3:00 p.m. Presented by: Shaleatheia Burrows YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries. |
Let's Zoom in!
Presented by: Mrs. Yolande Samuels-Cole Zoom users can choose to record sessions, collaborate on projects, and share or annotate on one another's screens, all with one easy-to-use platform. TUESDAY, 24th March 2020 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
"The Wonderful World of Quizziz"
Presented by: Ms. Nikera Culmer Quizizz allows you to conduct student-paced formative assessments in a fun and engaging way for students of all ages! & Kahoot!:"Learning through Play!" Presented by: Ms. Antonia Bain Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform, used as educational technology in schools and other educational institutions. TUESDAY, 24th March 2020 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
The POWER of Video! PowerPoint and PowToon as Video creators WEDNESDAY, 1st April 2020 10:00 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. Presented By: Antonia Bain Captivate... Engage... Explain! |
Bring out your Baskets for Reading Eggs!
WEDNESDAY, 1st April 2020 2:00 p.m. -3:00 p.m. Presented by: Kevra Bostwick “Cartons full of Reading Eggs … the online learn-to-read program for kids” |
WhatsApp for the win!
Presented by: Ms. Quetell Moncur WhatsApp Business makes interacting with parents easy by providing tools to automate, sort and quickly respond to messages. It's also intended to feel and work just like WhatsApp Messenger. You can use it to do everything that you're used to doing, from messaging to sending photos. FRIDAY, 27th March, 2020 2:00 p.m. -3:00 p.m. |
Edmodo: The FaceBook page for kids!
Presented by: Mrs. Elga Miller-Delancy Edmodo is an educational technology company offering a communication, collaboration, and coaching platform to K-12 schools and teachers. The Edmodo network enables teachers to share content, distribute quizzes, assignments, and manage communication with students, colleagues, and parents. MONDAY, 30th March, 2020 2:00 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. |
Remind is Right for you!
Presented by: Miss Shaleathia Burrows Remind is a private mobile messaging platform that aims to help teachers, parents, students, and administrators in K–12 schools to communicate with everyone at once. WEDNESDAY, 25th March, 2020 10:00a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
ClassTag, you're it!
Presented by: Miss Derricka Lloyd ClassTag is like your virtual classroom assistant, helping you win back time while keeping parents up-to-date and in the loop. WEDNESDAY, 25th March, 2020 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Copyright for Educators
WEDNESDAY 15th, April 2020 2:00 p.m. -3:00 p.m. Presented by: Ms. Liesl Wright Ever wondered how to determine if it is okay to use a certain image, video or music link from the internet? This webinar will help you to learn about copyright, statutory licensing, educational exceptions and open educational resources. |
The Power of PowerPoint
THURSDAY 16th, April 2020 2:00 p.m. -3:00 p.m. Presented by: Ms. Samantha Wilson PowerPoint can do more than make presentations. Learn to make eBooks, Videos, InfoGraphs and much more... Take your PowerPoint skills up another few notches in this exciting session. |
Inside Google Classroom
Presented by: Mrs. Cassandra Albury Google Classroom is a free web service, developed by Google for schools, that aims to simplify creating, distributing, and grading assignments in a paperless way. The primary purpose of Google Classroom is to streamline the process of sharing files between teachers and students. THURSDAY, 26th March, 2020 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
Class Dojo is the Way to Go!
THURSDAY, 26th March, 2020 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Presented by: Mrs. Senovia Taylor-Smith ClassDojo is a school communication platform that teachers, students, and families use every day to build close-knit communities by sharing what’s being learned in the classroom home through photos, videos, and messages. |
The Fabulous Flow of Freckles:
Differentiated Instruction at its best! TUESDAY, 31st March 2020 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Presented by: Shaleatheia Burrows Freckle empowers teachers to differentiate instruction across Math, ELA, Social Studies and Science. |
Liveworksheets.com is the BOMB.com!
TUESDAY, 31st March, 2020 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Presented by: Allyne Pratt-Bowleg You can assign the interactive worksheets to your students for classroom practice, online homework, assessment, etc. |