December Digital Playground ~ "Appy Holidays"

Throughout the school year, I have scheduled a few Digital Playground sessions to go along with faculty meetings at Concrete Primary. Since my regular, ongoing professional development is provided in small groups, the goal of these playground sessions 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 across grade levels and content areas.



For this "Appy Holidays" session, we used Today's Meet as a backchannel for a lively group share session. Click HERE for the list of discussion questions. These sparked some great conversations within each group, and the format was a great way to help teachers feel comfortable with the language used in a Twitter chat.

Lots of fun using @TodaysMeet and sharing ideas! @CPSCrickets #appyholidays #supercrickets #asd1 pic.twitter.com/f2N2Yj6sIT

— Jessica D. Preisig (@PreisigJessica) December 7, 2016

To end the session, teachers were asked to use a Christmas Photo Booth app or Chatterpix to decorate a selfie. These funny Christmas selfies were posted to the "All I want for Christmas" Padlet posted below.