Strengthen WORLD LANGUAGE Instruction By Making Best Use of Free Google Tools, Apps and Extensions

(Grade 6-12)

Presented by Daryl Boeckers, M.S.
Outstanding World Language Educator, Technology Integrationist and Presenter

Designed Specifically for World Language Educators Serving Grades 6-12

Harness the potential of Google Drive to engage students as they create, collaborate and share content that demonstrates what they know and can do in the target language
Differentiate world language instruction with free Chrome Extensions and add-ons to foster initiative and self-direction in all your students
Design signature communicative activities using Google Tools to offer opportunities for students to hear 90% target language and engage in L2

You are welcome to bring a fully charged Chromebook or laptop with the Chrome Browser installed, but it is not a requirement to attend. An iPad or an Android tablet will not provide access to the full range of Google and Chrome resources covered in the seminar.

Practical Ideas and Strategies

In this NEW, uniquely focused seminar specifically designed for world language educators, Daryl Boeckers, an experienced world language teacher and language technology integration specialist, will help move your curriculum into the 21st Century through a focus on Google Tools, Apps and Extensions that are commonplace in the lives of students and educators. Learn innovative practices for integrating mobile devices, flipped lessons, media, and more for demonstrating language proficiency. He will show you how using technology to work collaboratively improves the quality of student work while fostering accountability, productivity, initiative, and self-direction. Daryl will demonstrate how to best harness today’s technologies and use them to motivate your students through performance tasks that more deeply engage them in the target language and culture.

You’ll leave this seminar knowing that you can effectively use Google Tools, Apps and Extensions to reach learning world language goals and assess student performance in the process. The comprehensive world language resource handbook and accompanying website you’ll receive at the seminar will help keep you up-to-date as technology changes and provide an ongoing professional development community for language educators.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

Make the Best Use of Free Google Tools, Apps and Extensions to Foster Communicative Proficiency
Learn practical applications for utilizing free Google Tools to foster communication skills … Go beyond the basics and discover the latest updates in the tools you’ll want to use the most
Utilize Innovative Ways to Integrate Emerging Technology into Your Language Curriculum
Discover new ways to engage your students in language content and differentiate using Google and a hybrid or online approach
Harness the Power of Google Drive for Online Collaboration and Communication in L2
Discover the amazing variety of practical ways Google Drive can significantly enhance collaboration and communication as students build content together
Explore the Latest Google Drive Add-Ons and Chrome Browser Extensions
Take Google Drive and Chrome to the next level by leveraging amazing add-ons for Docs, Slides, Sheets, and Forms as well as Extensions in your browser
Utilize Google to Foster 21st Century Skills in Your World Language Students
Today’s students need to be college, career and life ready … Experience how technology can help foster the 12 skills in the ACTFL World Languages 21st Century Skills Map
Use Google Apps and Tech Tools to Help Students Point to Proficiency
Connect with apps, add-ons, extensions, and other tech tools to utilize in a communicative, proficiency-oriented L2 classroom
Integrate Google Cultural Institute into Your World Language Program
Use Google Art Project to analyze and compare works from around the globe … Explore modern and ancient world wonders using Google’s Street View technology
Increase Opportunities for Speaking, Listening, Reading, and Writing
Using the tools that students are most comfortable with for communicating, learn to take advantage of Google to encourage all modes of communication and improve accuracy in performance tasks
Increase Your Familiarity with Online and Hybrid Lessons for Differentiating World Language Instruction
Experience innovative ideas for providing additional support and opportunities for students to work at their own pace while increasing classroom interactivity
Build an Array of High-Quality Interactive World Language Learning Materials and Activities
Use Google Tools, Apps and Extensions to increase your repertoire of interactive options and get your students using the target language and formatively assess their proficiency growth

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Strengthen your knowledge of Google Tools, Apps and Extensions and their practical use in your world language program
Ways to work smarter, not harder … Timesaving tips for using a variety of Google Tools more efficiently, including self-grading, effective searching, hidden assets in Drive, and more
How you can utilize a combination of Google Apps to help your students’ proficiency grow as they meet ACTFL World-Readiness Standards and demonstrate 21st Century Skills
How to design hybrid and online lessons designed to differentiate instruction using Google Apps
Google search strategies that improve student research and citation skills, identify copyright free images for projects and narrow the search to authentic target language materials
Ways to weave modes of communication, culture standards and 21st Century Skills into student work both in and outside of the classroom
How you can differentiate instruction to better meet the needs of all your students with Google Drive, YouTube and Chrome add-ons
How to improve workflow and data collection as evidence of student performance through download and installation of apps and add-ons
Take the mystery out of available Add-ons and Tools menus that make collaborative work in Google Drive extraordinarily powerful
Use Google Voice to increase opportunities for students to practice speaking in informal authentic simulations

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

As a current world language educator, I believe it’s a great time to be teaching world languages! Integrating Google Tools into the world language classroom increases options for all students to create and perform using the target language. I am passionate about purposefully integrating new technological tools to enhance second language instruction and learning. My goal is simple: showcase the most useful tools and strategies that work in world language classrooms to enhance your lessons and engage all of your language learners. Students leave our classrooms with both 21st Century and world language proficiency that they will apply in their world.

Since 2001, I have been exploring the very best tech tools fit for the world language classroom. Used effectively, Google Tools, Apps and Extensions can significantly transform the teaching and learning of languages. You will learn about the tools your students may already be using in other classes or at home. You will walk away with practical, easy-to-implement ideas for seamlessly integrating these tools into your language program. Additionally, you will receive rich examples of rubrics to guide your assessment, links to video screencasts to support students, student examples of work, and online access to resources for when you return to your classroom.

I look forward to meeting you at the seminar. You will leave with a plethora of ideas on how you can improve your teaching and your students’ learning of language using free Google Tools.

Sincerely,
Daryl Boeckers

P.S. This seminar is designed for world language teachers to walk away with numerous ideas for using Google Tools to implement immediately in their classrooms. I am confident that both novice and tech-savvy world language teachers will leave knowing they have significantly added to their teaching repertoire.

Who Should Attend

World Language Teachers, Department Heads and Administrators serving Middle School and High School, and Technology Support Staff who work with World Language Educators

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive World Language Google Tools and Apps resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar:

Lesson ideas for Google Tools and Apps that you are free to copy and customize for use in your world language classroom
Timesaving ways to use Google Tools to increase communication
Tips and tricks for integrating more advanced features of Google Tools, Apps and Extensions

Meet and Share
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to meet and share ideas with other secondary world language educators interested in using Google Tools, Apps and Extensions to enhance their world language programs.

Consultation Available
Daryl Boeckers will be available at the seminar for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

Make Best Use of Your Time
You are welcome to bring a fully charged Chromebook or laptop with the Chrome Browser installed, but it is not a requirement to attend. An iPad or an Android tablet will not provide access to the full range of Google and Chrome resources covered in the seminar. Your resource handbook and a specially created website will support your individual hands-on exploration of the ideas and resources presented during the seminar when you return to your school.

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