Digital Playground ~ Today's Meet

At Powdersville Elementary, the iTeachers and I host an optional after school tech session in the media center each month. The goal is to bring teachers together for fun, sharing, and learning! I believe that it is in these informal sharing sessions where the real magic happens... where teachers have an opportunity to talk and share with one another.

For our December session, we transformed the media center into a coffee shop with cocoa, cappuccino, coffee, creamer, and toppings. Thanks to Melissa Wilcox and Rachel Wayne for making some delicious goodies and to our local Starbucks for donating some cups and coupons! Also, thanks to Brenna Wilkie for putting together a slideshow for teachers to enjoy as they came together today.



To get started, each table of teachers chose a team leader and a group name. The team leader was responsible for signing in and recording responses in Today's Meet. I opened a room for our "chat," and posted questions throughout the session using Twitter chat "language." Click here for the list of questions! These questions sparked some great conversation. This was a great way to help those that have not yet participated in a Twitter chat to feel more comfortable. It was also a great way to show how this website can be used in the classroom.

Enjoyed using @TodaysMeet at Digital Playground. Looking forward to #giveaways #pvespride https://t.co/Gaqmn8rGxJ pic.twitter.com/8cV1nmItQu

— Jessica D. Preisig (@PreisigJessica) December 15, 2015

To end our session, teachers were asked to use a Christmas Photo Booth app to decorate a selfie. Selfies were posted to Twitter using #pvestweets, and I used these Tweets to put teachers into a random name generator for giveaways.

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