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Tech Ped

GSD Instructional Tech & Pedagogy Newsletter August Edition

Tech PedGSD Instructional Tech & Pedagogy NewsletterAugust Edition

Off to a Great Start!

Introduction: Hello all! My name is Chris Wysocki, and I am in a new-to-the-district position this year: Instructional Tech Lead. My job has several layers, but for classroom teachers, I am a resource you can utilize throughout the year. Do you want learn how to use a new program or ways to innovate current platforms? Do you need a sounding board for ideas you have for technology in your room/lesson, someone to model tech in the classroom, or co-teach a lesson to test out tech? I am here to help! Let me do the research and problem solving for your pedagogical needs. Administrators if there are specific trainings/refreshers you would like to offer staff at your site, or need a sounding board, I am here for you too!


Table of Contents

1. Beginning of the year ideas/lessons/ice breakers

2. Canva: More than just a design website

3. Educator Spotlight: Beth Dewing & Book Creator

Need some ideas for ice breakers or other community building activities? Check out the ideas from each site below.

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Flipgrid

Click on the image for fresh ideas for a varied of ages and content (including PhyEd).

Click here for a spectrum of ways to use flipgrid across all grades.

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Pear Deck

Click on the image for ice breaker slides
Click here for more back to school content ideas including opening routines and exploring identity
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SeeSaw

(Not just for K-2nd grade anymore)

Click on the image for Back to School Favorites Activity Collection

SeeSaw has an activity library for lessons for k-12. If you use the platform, you can assign them on the platform or you can take the idea and use it in your classroom. Ask me how!

Did You Know? Canva Edition

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  1. Canva has worksheet templates, slideshow designs, works with Pear Deck, imports google classroom rosters for assigning work to students in Canva?
  2. For those who love to design, they offer so much including designing your own google classroom banners!
  3. Click here to see uses to use Canva to create teacher resources.
  4. Reach out to me for questions/help/co-create!

Educator Spotlight

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Beth Dewing: Technology for Pedagogy Sake

I used Book Creator for a 4th grade student that I was supporting with teaching Tier 2 vocabulary. As we learned a new word, one of the resources that I created for him was a book specific to that vocabulary word. The book included the definition of the word that we had come up with, an example of the use of the word, and an image or visual to represent the word. Each book was pretty short and simple, and followed the same template each time to be consistent and predictable.



Speech Language Pathologist

Glenwood Elementary School

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Feedback to Feed Forward

Do you have an innovative tech experience, app or other suggestion to share with colleagues? Click on the link below or send me an email and we'll connect to get it highlighted in an upcoming TECH PED edition.
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About Me

Chris Wysocki
GSD Instruction Tech Lead


I am here to help. If I don't know, I will find out. Let me do that work. You have enough to handle in the classroom.

Email: cwysocki@greenfield.k12.wi.us
Website: https://www.greenfield.k12.wi.us/staff/instructional-technology.cfm
Location: 4800 S 60th St., Greenfield, WI, 53200
Phone: (414) 281-6200 2409
Twitter: @teachwysocki