Events

You will find links to presentations given by the TeachersFirst team of presenters. Feel free to peruse any presentation you find interesting: 

2024

EVENT	TITLE	DATE
TCEA	Move over Oregon Trail… FREE Immersive Social Studies Resources	2/4/24
TCEA	Jumpstart Student Research Projects with the Edge Browser	2/7/24
IDEACON	Design Dynamic Instruction with TeachersFirst	On-Demand
IDEACON	Generating Formative and Summative Assessment Using AI	On-Demand
IDEACON	Building Background Knowledge with Annotated Images	On-Demand
IDEACON	The Science of Engagement: MySciLife in Action	On-Demand
IDEACON	Designing for Diversity: Culturally Sensitive EdTech Solutions	On-Demand
IDEA Webinar Wednesday	Tech Tools Smackdown: AI Tools	Virtual

2023

EVENT	TITLE	DATE
IDEACON Pre-Conference	TeachersFirst: Instructional Resources for Teachers by Teachers	1/24/23 Virtual
TCEA	Game-Based Learning + Triple E	1/30/23
TCEA	Nifty Fifty Tips and Tools: Global Citizenship	1/31/23
TCEA	Reach Your ELL Students Using the Four Domains and Cool Tech Tools!	2/1/23
IDEACON	Using Multimedia Text Sets to Build Background Knowledge	2/14/23
IDEACON	Making the Most of the TeachersFirst Website	On-Demand
IDEACON	Resource Roundup: Free Tools from the Edge	On-Demand
IDEACON	Global Collaboration For Cross-Cultural Understanding	On-Demand
IDEACON	Engage & Inspire with Reading Treks	On-Demand
IDEACON	Find New Resources for SEL in a Flash	On-Demand
PETE & C	Nifty Fifty Tips and Tools: to the Core and Beyond	2/13/23
PETE & C	Games and the 4 Domains for ENL/ESL Students	2/15/23
ISTE 2023	Engage Your ENL Students using the 4 Domains and Cool Tech Tools!	6/25/23
ISTE 2023	Cultivate Creative Communicators With Big Huge Labs	6/27/23
ISTE 2023	Book Study as Gamified Professional Learning	6/27/23
ISTE 2023	Nifty Fifty Tips and Tools for Global Citizenship	6/28/23
ISTE 2023	Hexagonal Thinking: Six Ways to Build Connections	6/28/23
AMLE50	Boosting SEL with TeachersFirst Resources	11/2/23
AMLE50	Empowering Middle School Educators to Design Dynamic Instruction with TeachersFirst	11/3/23
Midwest Conference for Educational Coaches (MCEC)	Leveraging TeachersFirst to Support Teacher Growth and Development	On-Demand
VSTE 2023	Climbing Together: Nurturing Classroom Climate and Culture with Edtech	12/3/23
VSTE 2023	Level Up Your Teaching with Edtech Games for Formative Assessment	12/4/23
VSTE 2023	Navigating the Peaks of Literacy in the Digital Age	12/5/23

 

2022

EVENT	TITLE	DATE
Common Ground	Sway Cool Reading	2/5/22
Common Ground	Easy and Engaging Reading Projects for Your Classroom	2/6/22
PETE & C	Nifty Fifty Tips & Tools: Global Citizenship	2/9/22
ISTE	Learn and Discover Copyright-Friendly Media for Student Projects	6/26/22
ISTE	Easy and Engaging Projects for your Reading Classroom	6/26/22
ISTE	Just a Smalltown Girl…10 Tools to Encourage Global Citizenship	6/27/22
ISTE	Light Up Your Library	6/27/22
ISTE	How to Be VOCAL Online	6/27/22
ISTE	Wakelet for Student Knowledge Construction	6/28/22
ISTE	Global Collaboration for Cross Cultural Understanding	6/28/22
ISTE	Building a Culturally Sensitive Remote Classroom	6/29/22
VSTE	Tech Tools for Student Knowledge Construction	12/4/22
VSTE	Using Multimedia Text Sets for Student Knowledge Construction	12/5/22
VSTE	Blended and Remote Learning with Microsoft Forms	12/6/22

 

2021

EVENT	TITLE	DATE
PETE & C	Nifty 50: Microsoft Tools, Tips & Treasures	2/9/21
ISTE	Come on Down…. To the ISTE Standards for Students Game Show 2021	6/26/21
ISTE	Encouraging DEI Through Critical Thinking with Literature	6/27/21
ISTE	Think Outside the Book: Create Context with Reading Treks	6/28/21
ISTE	Ingredients for e-Learning Excitement	6/29/21
FCIS	Encouraging DEI Through Critical Thinking with Literature	11/5/21
VSTE	Integrating Technology with the ISTE Standards for Students	12/5/21
VSTE	Encouraging DEI Through Critical Thinking with Literature	12/6/21
VSTE	Sway Cool Student Projects	12/7/21

 

2020

EVENT	TITLE	DATE
FETC	40 in 40: Game-Based Learning is Elementary on Any Device!	1/16/20
TCEA	Play on Player - Ten Terrific Gaming Tools to Use For Formative Assessment	2/6/20
TCEA	Nifty 50: Microsoft Tips, Tools, and Tricks	2/7/20
PETE & C	Nifty 50 Tips and Tools: Play on Player!	2/26/20
PETE & C	3 Cool Tools for Digital Storytelling Across the Grades	2/24/20
PETE & C	Hack Attack: Low-Tech and No-Tech STEM Activities!	2/24/20
ISTE	Expanding Your Zones of Regulation Toolbox	11/29/20
ISTE	10 Terrific Gaming Tools for Using the Triple E With Elementary Students	12/2/20
ISTE	Living the Dream With the ISTE Standards for Coaches	12/3/20
ISTE	Social Studies Rocks! Engage Your Middle School Students With These Free Resources	12/4/20
ISTE	Increasing Independence in Emergent Readers Through Technology	12/4/20
ISTE	The Wakelet HUB: NextGen Digital Lesson Design	12/5/20
VSTE	Play on Player! 20 Tips and Tools for Remote Game-Based Learning	12/13/20

 

2019

EVENT	TITLE	DATE
FETC	Microsoft Tips	1/29/19
FETC	Makerspace Poster	1/29/19
FETC	Administrator Workshop	1/29/19
PETE & C	Nifty Fifty 2019	2/12/19
ISTE	Augmentation and Beyond	6/23/19
ISTE	Turn Up the Volume	6/24/19
ISTE	Digital Storytelling 101	6/24/19
ISTE	Edtech Coaches Playground	6/25/19
ISTE	Tortoise Technology Integration	6/25/19
ISTE	STEM & The School Library	6/25/19
ISTE	Spheros for Every Level	6/25/19
ISTE	Literacy Tools	6/25/19
ISTE	BOLD Coaching	6/26/19
ISTE	Low-Tech and No-Tech STEM	6/26/19
VSTE	Using Wakelet as an Instructional Hub	12/8/19
VSTE	ISTE Standards for Coaches	12/8/19
VSTE	Triple E Framework and TeachersFirst	12/9/19
VSTE	Makerspace-In-A-Box	12/9/19
VSTE	Free Tech Tools for ELLs and Multilinguals	12/10/19

 

2018

EVENT	TITLE	DATE
PETE & C	Pump It Up! Infuse Writing in Science	2/12/18
PETE & C	You Want Me to Do What? Trends and Standards	2/14/18
PETE & C	Lifeguarding the Shallow End of Technology	2/14/18
PETE & C	Differentiation for Special Needs Students	2/13/18
PETE & C	Let’s Get Digital: Problem Solving That Is!	2/13/18
PETE & C	Nifty Fifty: We've Got DATs!	2/13/18
PETE & C	This Is How We Do !t - Makerspace!	2/12/18
LearnerPalooza	Oh the Places You’ll Go! Social Learning in the Classroom	6/19/18
ISTE	Make Learning Accessible and Inclusive: Free Microsoft Tools Every Teacher Can	6/25/18
ISTE	What's the Buzz? Differentiation in Elementary Inclusive Learning Environments	6/27/18
ISTE	Facilitating Student Use of Social Media in Responsibly Purposeful Ways	6/27/18
ISTE	Creativity Cafe: Recipes for Formative Assessment	6/26/18
ISTE	Write on With Digital Writing Tools	6/26/18
ISTE	Tech It Out Community Night	6/25/18
ISTE	Oh the Places You'll Go! Social Learning in the Science Classroom	6/25/18
ISTE	Capture the Hearts of Struggling Learners with Digital Storytelling	6/25/18
LeadingEdge	LeadingEd 2018	10/8/18
VSTE	Sway Cool Reading	12/2/18
VSTE	TeachersFirst Tech Tools Smackdown	12/3/18

 

2017

EVENT	TITLE	DATE
FETC	Edmodo for Mass Customized PD	1/25/17
FETC	Nifty Fifty Tools for BYOT (1:1) Classrooms "	1/26/17
PETE & C	A Focus on Process and Not the Product	2/13/17
PETE & C	Engaging Students with Social Constructivism	2/14/17
PETE & C	Nifty Fifty Tools for BYOT (1:1) Classrooms	2/14/17
Brainstorm	Free Fifty in Fifty	4/7/17
VSTE SuperHero Summit	Zombies at Your Door? Survive the Horde with Your Google Bug-Out-Bag	6/21/17
ISTE	Inquiry in Biology	6/26/17
ISTE	Gotta Catch Them All	6/26/17
ISTE	Improve the Quality of Writing in Digital Storytelling Projects	6/26/17
ISTE	Motivating Teachers to WANT Professional Development	6/27/17
ISTE	Using Coding Techniques to Teach Writing in Elementary Classrooms	6/27/17
ISTE	TeachersFirst: Free Reviewed Resources, Content and PD	6/27/17
ISTE	The Nitty Gritty of Designing Problem-Based Learning	6/27/17
ISTE	Guiding Reluctant Teachers through the Shallow End of the Technology Pool	6/28/17
VSTE	Oh, the Places You'll Go! Social Learning in the Classroom	12/4/17
VSTE	Free Microsoft Tools Every Teacher Can Use to Make Learning Accessible and Inclusive	12/4/17
VSTE	Transform Your Lesson Plans with SAMR and TeachersFirst	12/5/17