Midwest Summit Spring 2016

Google Keep is a powerful, collaborative note taking and task management app that will help you get organized and collaborate with others while doing so. One of Google's newest Apps for Education - Keep - is extremely flexible and easy to use. It allows users to take and share notes, create task lists, and much more in a visually appealing and functional way. Also, new mobile and web app capabilities like voice to text have opened up a whole new list of possible uses for Keep such as journaling and brainstorming/dumping. Join me for a tutorial, a rundown of application ideas, and an introduction to a couple of handy Chrome extensions and shortcuts that improve the Keep experience even more!

In this advanced session you will see how awesome sheets can be when you really want to organize and analyze masses of data. Chad will share and show a spreadsheet he created to do item analysis of ITED/ITBS testing scores as well as many other data sheets. Attendees will then have a guided hand at applying some formulas to sample data.

If you have been thinking about how to integrate video into your class or school, this is the session for you. We will discuss and create videos using Google Hangouts, YouTube, and WeVideo. You will also learn about free Teleprompters that work on Chromebooks!

Once familiar with the tools, you will learn about how we created a video network at Winneconne and North Fond du Lac using YouTube including, daily announcements, weekly shows, student projects, district projects, live broadcasts of elementary book shares, and live broadcasts of some school sports (we even have commentators!). Most of the tools we have used are free and available to everyone! Come learn about video creation in a collaborative session that will help jumpstart you and your school with video production!

In this workshop you will learn how to use Aweseome Tables and Google Apps to create AWESOME workflows, i.e. Leave Request System, Transportation Request System, or any other system you can dream up. You will leave this workshop with a working workflow of some kind. This workflow can be applied to so many other situations.