Jeff Mao

In this fun, interactive keynote, we’ll tackle what Jennifer considers the most important work of our time: helping today’s learners develop into Digital Detectives, capable… Read More »#DL2021 KEYNOTE: Developing Digital Detectives: Essential Lessons for Helping Learners Survive and Thrive During an INFOdemic

The COVID pandemic has emphasized a need for school plasticity in a rapidly changing landscape: the initial overnight transition to emergency remote learning was only… Read More »#DL2021 KEYNOTE: Remembering the Future: A Game with Learning Mirrors

Maps provide a visual way to share a lesson, but also a great way for students to share what they have learned. This session will… Read More »#DL2021 Using Google My Maps for Deeper Learning

Google Apps Script is an easy entryway into coding. You can show your students a few new ways to accomplish things or you can even… Read More »#DL2021 Google Apps Script for teaching coding or getting the job done

A panel of teachers and librarians will read-aloud their favorite elementary storytime books and share storytime strategies and activities. After each story the panelists will… Read More »#DL2021 Storytime Jam!

Take the workflow for creating a Readers Theatre with Remote Collaborators in Part 1 and try it out for yourself in this hands-on experience where… Read More »#DL2021 Readers Theater With Remote Collaborators (Using WeVideo) – Part 2

We’ll share the workflow a team of VSLA librarians used to create a Readers Theatre project as remote collaborators. We’ll share steps and templates that… Read More »#DL2021 Readers Theater with Remote Collaborators (using WeVideo) – Part 1

Last summer, we wanted to keep up the momentum of our wildly successful summer reading program, but our building remained closed to the public. We… Read More »#DL2021 Simple STEM Take-Home Kits [Flash]

Getting students to read over the summer is always a challenge. But as educators we know how important it is for students to keep reading… Read More »#DL2021 How to get kids reading over the summer without getting burned!

We know that how we present information has a direct correlation to a persons ability to learn, acquire a new skill, or perform a task… Read More »#DL2021 Help me, I’m buffering! Techniques to combat cognitive load