If you would like Laura to work with your staff, contact her here or on Twitter @LAMBRADLEY.
Feedback from participants in Laura’s workshops:
NaNoWriMo:
- “Awesome resources and organizational ideas! So excited to do this.”
- “Thank you for sharing how you specifically made this realistic in your classroom, how you convinced admin, and what resources are available on the site. I was afraid this was going to be so English-class-specific, but you gave me (a social science teacher) a lot of ideas and tools I can use for myself and with my students.”
- “Very clear presentation. Thank you!”
- “I can’t wait for next year to try this with my students!”
Google Drawing:
- “Super fun and I appreciated the time to practice.”
- “So much useful information!!”
- “I can’t believe it’s this easy! Thank you, Laura!!”
- “So excited to use what I learned!!”
- “Great respect for a real veteran!”
- “I never knew this existed. Thank you!”
Google Sites:
- “Great introduction to what Google Sites are plus other examples of how to use them. Really liked having time to set up a site and just play with it.”
- “Very good session with a good amount of time to play around with what we’ve learned.”
- “I’m definitely going to use this in my class!”
- “The sites were super easy to use! Thanks for the support to get started!!”
- “It was fabulous!”
Laura offers workshops on:
- NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month for students:
- narrative writing
- publication
- online writing
- social network for student writers
- student agency: choice and voice
- Google Apps for students and teachers, from novice to ninja:
- Classroom
- Drive
- Calendar
- Docs
- Forms
- Drawings
- Slides
- Sites
- Hour of Code: Teach kids to code even if you can’t:
- critical thinking
- computational thinking
- design
- STEAM
- new literacy
- empower change
- student agency: choice and voice
- The Magazine Project: semester-long writing project:
- expository / argument writing
- media analysis
- visual literacy
- graphic design
- Google Apps for publishing
- interdisciplinary PBL
- student agency: choice and voice
- Blogging + online portfolios for students:
- authentic audience
- peer feedback
- digital literacy / citizenship
- student agency: choice and voice
- The Connected Educator – own your PLN:
- Google+
- Edutopia
- PBS Learning Media
- Blogging