March 2022 Agenda—Mayer, Minnesota

Facilitating Technology Enriched Classrooms for 21st Century Learners.

Begin at 9:00am

Getting Connected

Digitally…Socially…Spiritually

Padlet Reconnecting: Keeps and Kicks

Devotion

How many Bible stories from the life of Christ can you recognize in this music video?  The stories change quickly, so use the microphone on your phone or laptop to take voice notes. Then, on this collaborative Jamboard add a sticky note for each Bible story you see in the video.

With our God: HE IS RISEN!! HAPPY EASTER!!

• • The Empty Tomb

  • The Revelation Song

Review

Let’s take some time to reflect on last month’s TEC21 Challenges and share experiences. Share a success, a challenge you experienced or a lesson learned.

1.You expressed needs for using FlipGrid.

2.You also want to know how to link 24 Google Slides into one presentation that can automatically advance without publishing.

A simple way to combine student Google Slides presentations is to open one, then go to the next one and click on the first slide and while holding down the Command key continue to click on each slide. Then double click and copy. Go to the presentation you want to add the slides to, open a new slide on the left and paste. Repeat this procedure with each presentation.  SAMPLE

With the presentation view up, move your mouse to the bottom-left corner of the presentation screen to show the toolbar. On the toolbar, click the three-dot menu and expand the Auto-play item. Then on this menu, click the Loop option at the bottom to enable presentation looping.

Also on this menu, you’ll need to choose a timing for your slides so that they play automatically. There are quick options, like Every second or Every 2 seconds. The longest options are Every 30 seconds or Every minute. Choose what timing is right based on your presentation type.

3.Most of you wanted time to go back into past agendas to try tools. I am going to give you the gift of time. 20 minutes to go back into a past agenda to learn a tool you wanted to try but haven’t had time to. Create a project with it and share it showing us how you did it. This is great prep for Celebration Day!  Here’s the link – https://tec21connect.com/2021-2022-workshop-agendas/

Embed the link to your project on this collaborative Google Doc we will use for our ideas today.

Announcements

1. The next workshop date is scheduled for Thursday, April 28.

2. Today is CSP Day, a time to unite to make a difference in the lives of CSP students! Check out this website to see continuous updates, and consider joining in some of the activities or making a gift.

3.  A One-Day Seminar on the Book of Jonah: Six Bible Study Sessions and a Five-Part Sermon Series for pastors and laity. On CSP’s campus or online. March 19, 9:00-3:00. Through the ages, whether in art or literature, cartoon or animation, Jonah has been a star of the first magnitude. The author of Jonah did his work so well that his book continues to delight and challenge the simple soul as much as the sophisticated scholar. Based on Dr. Reed Lessing’s CPH commentary on Jonah, this workshop will fill minds with biblical truth and fire hearts to take God’s love to the world. Participants will receive a six-session Bible Study on Jonah, while pastors also receive five-part sermon series (and orders of worship) based on the book of Jonah. Feel free to share in your publications and/or forward to others.

Contact churchrelations@csp.edu with questions. Register HERE

4. March 22: Poehler Lecture: From Genesis to Revelation. Dr. Mary Ann Yang, Christian female scientist at CSP. She pioneered the Biology Research Program at CSP to provide students with the opportunities to engage in cutting-edge and clinically-relevant research. She continues to fuel the program through securing various internal and external funding and establishing collaborative efforts with the Mayo Clinic and international research universities. Her work has earned her the 2018 National Science Foundation’s Research Opportunity Award. Additionally, she was recognized by the INSIGHT Into Diversity with the 2016 Inspiring Women in STEM Award. Buetow Music Center Auditorium, Hamline Avenue, Saint Paul  7:00 pm

5. An Update to CSP’s Church Work Tuition Guarantee

https://youtu.be/VNruMY3VE20

Click here to learn more about the church work tuition guarantee:

6. This summer, we will be preparing our TEC21 website for “Season 14”, so we encourage you to bookmark the “Season 13” workshop agendas now so you have access to them in the future. Here’s the link – https://tec21connect.com/2021-2022-workshop-agendas/ Note: When we perform quarterly updates on our website’s theme, webpages and various plug-ins, we do not include all of the previous years’ agendas (webpages) in the process. This means that over time past agendas may start to look a little wonky, but the links and resources will still be accessible for you 🙂

7. We are forming our next cohorts for Season 14! Word of mouth and personal testimonies can go a long way helping us support more teachers. Can you please encourage teachers you know to register for a cohort near them? We would GREATLY appreciate it! #TEC21lcms #LutheranSchoolsThrive #LuthEd

8. “Celebration Day” is next month and it is a time to celebrate each other’s successes! This will be an opportunity for you to share what you have learned and how you have grown as an educator through the processes of sharing best practices with one another, inquiry and implementation through trial and error. What does the format of the day look like and what can you do to prepare?

Helpful tips:

• Think of the day as a mini-conference and each of you will be the presenters (Remember that you are sharing with friends, so don’t sweat this and have fun with it!)
• Spend approximately 10 minutes showing some things you’ve accomplished this year–what you did, how you did it, and why you did it–and/or some things you are planning to do for next year.
• Select this SHARED FOLDER. Add your first & last name, description & links to your respective center’s collaborative Google Doc in preparation for “Celebration Day”. Do you have samples of student projects hosted on the web? Share those links, too! Here’s an example of a variety of different ways past TEC21 Teachers presented their learning – SAMPLE.
• You might also want to use the Celebration Day guide to help to organize your thoughts. To download a copy to print, click HERE.

9. Three graduate-level credits available through Concordia University, Nebraska:

Goals

We look forward in Workshop #6 to further discover ways to inspire student learning in technology enriched classrooms.

1. Explore Project-Based Learning and Alternatives to Reading Response using technology.

2. Create and share three technology projects that could be used by or with students to demonstrate learning.

3. Be a resource to another colleague by sharing with them a digital tool, a resource, a learning activity, or an assessment strategy you learned about at today’s workshop.