Vermont Fest 2021

This hands on session will introduce you to using WeDo 2.0 Lego™ robotics kits. Learn how we used these well designed kits with kids during the summer Achieve program for our school district. Students worked with a buddy to learn how to build, program, trouble shoot and run robots using all the parts and pieces in the kits. Primarily meant for 2nd-4th graders, we had many K-1 students who worked with a buddy to achieve success. These kits are great for the classroom, an afterschool program, club or robotics team. Come and try them out, build and program a robot to light up, play a sound, and move.

Participants will learn how to unpack the American Association School Library standards and then use them to create connections with their stakeholders. During the session they will then actively create materials, using a digital tool of their choice (Smore, Bookcreator, etc.) to inform, instruct, and provide solutions for students, educators, parents, and other stakeholders at the local, state, and national levels.

In this interactive session, learn how to utilize Edmodo classes and groups as a platform for digital professional development and collaboration with colleagues. We will review the functionality of Edmodo and how to create Classes and Groups for professional development events, micro-credentialing, and more! We will take a deep dive into Universal Design for Learning, a course created on Edmodo by the Agency of Education, and show you how to participate and create your own Edmodo Classes and Groups for professional development.

This presentation will document the success achieved using print and digital resources with emergent readers. Readers develop through explicit instruction and exposure to texts in a variety of formats. Learn how to incorporate multiple modalities of learning to engage early learners with 2400+ texts and 110 interactive phonics titles. A demo on how foundational literacy skills, phonics emersion, measuring growth, and personalizing the reading experience for students produce amazing gains and create life-long readers. Collecting data as students engage and read stories with the MetaMetrics Lexile framework provides extensive external validation. Using this actionable data, teachers pinpoint student progress with print and digital books to drive instruction promoting continued engagement and reading growth.

NEW LOCATION! This session moved to the Oscar Wilde Ballroom.
This will be a fast-paced, lighthearted session guaranteed to tickle your geeky side and delight the teacher in you. It will highlight free tools you can master quickly, innovative virtual and augmented reality apps, artificial intelligence devices, and inexpensive little drones and robots. Hear about technologies and innovative ideas that do not yet exist at the time this session was proposed. Evidence of successful implementation in f2f and online instruction will be presented with research-based learning outcomes. The term “Electronic Constructivism” was coined by this presenter who will link these technologies to what it is all about: Good Teaching. No experience necessary - just your curiosity, enthusiasm about teaching, and a sense of humor.

Here is a chance to get a first look at Windows 11, Microsoft's upcoming replacement to Windows 10! Lots of new choices, and a new Start menu. If you're curious, this can be a good place to start, or even advance your knowledge!

I will have a high end Lenovo Lap-top with Windows 11 running on it and we can walk through the operating system! Qustionsare highly encouraged.