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The Digital Café

Where does technology take you?

The DigitalCaféWhere does technology take you?

What's it all about?

The Digital Café is an opportunity for students and staff to share best practices while demonstrating how they utilize technology to enhance learning and understanding. Don't miss your chance to share your ideas and practice your presentation skills or just stop by to learn more.
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Join your colleagues and peers...

as they share ideas for integrating technology into the classroom.


What technologies do you use to learn? What technologies make your learning or teaching experiences more meaningful?

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Technovation Challenge

Get pumped ladies! The Technovation Challenge is here. Let's show the world what the Women at Groton-Dunstable Regional High School can do!
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Hour of Code

We celebrate Grace Hoppers birthday on December 9 by running the annual hour of code event at GDRSD. Thank you for helping to spread the coding love and celebrating this amazing woman.
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Women in Engineering Conference

Love to take our students to the Women in Engineering conference at UMass Amherst and the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center. Move over, here they come!

Tech Integration at the High School

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Travel the World with My Maps

From storytelling to Imperialism to vacations and more. This powerful tool lets you share your ideas on a Google Map.
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Explore Everything with Green Screens

Have fun time traveling back to the 60s, visit the Collaboratory, take a ride on a blood cell through the heart, fly over the Great Wall of China, visit the moon and more. You pick it!
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Flipping for Flippity.net

Flippity.net has so many awesome tools for teachers and students. Use their Google Sheet templates to build awesome Jeopardy-like games, create Mad Libs, flashcards, spelling games, and more. Students review material while building a challenging question bank to outsmart their peers. It's a win-win!
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SHIFT, Students Help Innovate Future Technolog7

Talk to Mrs. Spaulding or your guidance counselor to learn more about our term SHIFT course. Explore some unplugged activities, learn more about data, the Internet, Lego robotics and some basic-fun programming.
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The Collaboratory

Come explore the Collaboratory space with us. Get creative, roll up your sleeves, and jump into some exciting and fun new technology. Try the green screen, whiteboard tables, or the 3D pens and printer. Game on!
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Robotics & FIRST

New to robotics, no problem, talk to Mr. Rocheleau about the new robotics course or stop by the robotics club after school.

Google Apps for Education

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Magazine Publishing

LucidPress a third party app that integrates with Google Drive. Create professional looking magazines, brochures and more with this easily accessible collaborative tool. An oldie but a goodie.

Trick or Treat 2016 style.

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Interactive Timeline

Knightlab Timeline JS, another third party app that integrates with Google Sheets. Students work collaboratively or on their own to build beautiful interactive timelines. Changes are live when using the auto-update features. Embed images, videos, Tweets, and more with this awesome tool! Check it out.
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Google Draw

Have fun with Google Draw. Create a periodic table of elements, a new infographic, a poster or flyer for an upcoming event or as a product that demonstrates understanding. Link elements of your drawing to research papers, video creations or other web sources for your audience.

Guaranteed to be a great experience!

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FAQs

What are the goals of the Digital Café?

To promote and share the ways that you use technology to make learning more fun and meaningful,

To hone your presentation skills, and

To collaborate with friends and peers on school projects


What is expected of me?


Complete an online application so that we know you are interested.


Present a cool technology idea, help with tech support, conduct surveys, or promote the event.


Presentations are during C block unless otherwise noted. Participants are responsible for making up any missed work.


Non-presenters may be needed at the end of B block and the beginning of D block to assist with setting up and break down. Assistants are responsible for making up any missed work.


How can I get involved?

Complete our online application so we know who you are, what you want to share, and which events you are interested in. You can sign up for more than one event. :-)


When are the Digital Cafés?

There will be 4 Digital Cafés each on a Wednesday, during C block.


#1 November 2


#2 February 1


#3 March 15


#4 May 3


Why would I want to help?



  1. Others will benefit from your awesome tech ideas that you could share.
  2. Certificate of participation.
  3. Some teachers give extra credit.
  4. Beef up your college resume.
  5. Because that is how you roll! ;-)
  6. You could win a raffle prize.


Thank you for considering sharing your ideas!

Who should I talk to?

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Audra Kaplan

Digital Learning Coach

Google Certified Trainer

Email: akaplan@gdrsd.org
Website: http://bit.ly/DigiCafe
Twitter: @audrakaplan

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Kelly McManus

Library Media Specialist

Email: kmcmanus@gdrsd.org
Website: bit.ly/gdlibrary
Twitter: @mcmanuskelly