Using Technology to Improve Student Engagement

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Definitely curious about how you're using technology to
improve student engagement in the school

[0:04 - 0:56] Robert Gulick
COVID changed our world, it rocked everything

The one nice thing is we are
a Chromebook one-to-one

We were one-to-one 4 through 12 with some
Windows computers in the classrooms

We did some hybrid stuff, where half the
kids were in, half the kids were out

Being able to share video back and forth was really important

And now this year, that we've been fully back

The practice is still continued in terms of
things like Google Classroom

Kindergartener, they can make a Google Slide

Where the Airtame comes in is...

We've got it hooked up to the classroom projector or the classroom TV and

So when the teacher can be saying "Okay, I'm showing you mine..."

"Now let me toss it over to you, you
connect and you lead the show"

Being able to use that technology to share without having to run around the classroom, without having to go up and touch the same surfaces

Really became beneficial to how
we were trying to do things

[0:57 - 1:23] Monica Myers
We started our one-to-one initiative pre-COVID
and we did it on phase-in

We have a district technology advocate team made up of classroom
teachers, administrators, certainly our IT department

We created 10 courses within Schoology, all the
teachers participated in those 10 courses

Anywhere from how to do Screencastify to PBL to blended learning environment, Windows 10 because they all got new laptops as well

[1:24 - 2:35] Scott Boyer
Really focused a lot on our communal areas like
our library media centers, things like that

We put a lot of technology into those with different study areas,
different large group instruction areas

We have incorporated into our LGI, a whole streaming setup

So that we can live stream any kind of class that's going on in there

As well as our board meetings and different things like that

To keep our whole community in the know as well
as our students, our studios are top-notch

We have a group from our high school that goes to an STN
conference every year and has won several awards

From it, they do a great job and have awesome, awesome morning announcements they put together

And they have also come together and done a lot of
live streaming over the past year and a half

Due to the pandemic and parents not being
able to attend and things like that

Our students are the ones that came together and pushed those
games out to parents, grandparents, and things like that

Like one of the best outcomes, we had a student that
was playing in a tennis tournament at our school

Our students were able to live stream it and her grandparents
could watch her the whole way from Germany

So it was really, really cool feedback that we got back from that

Those kids being able to broadcast that for
somebody else in a different country to see

[2:36 - 3:19] Jason Murray
He mentioned a lot about the streaming in the video

We have the one-button studio that we put together where
students literally put a thumb drive into a USB...

Slot that we have available, turns on
the lights, turns on the camera

They go over in front of a green screen
and they push the one-button

And all of a sudden, it starts videoing and they do
their presentation, do acting or reading of poetry

Or whatever they need for the assignment or whatever
they're producing, hit the one-button again

And they walk out, pull the USB, it shuts everything down
and the MP4 video is on that thumb drive for them

So just trying to make the technology as user friendly
as possible to get the most students engaged

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