Workshop Catalog

The ADP Center hosts a variety of events and workshops throughout the semester to deliver quality professional development.

We are excited to announce we have diversified our offerings to put together an incredible program with new topics which compliment many of your favorites from previous semesters. Workshops range from beginner to intermediate and cover a wide array of topics which recognize students’, faculty members’, staff members’ and future teachers’ diverse backgrounds and special interests in building upon their knowledge of technology and its implementation.

Workshop facilitators use an engaging, hands-on approach to maximize the amount of time that participants have working with the tools and apps.

We use software installed on the ADP Center computers, but feel free to bring your own device. Participants leave our workshops armed with new ideas and strategies that can be implemented in their practice. As new apps and updates are continuously changing, a complete list of additional resources is published on our website and can be emailed to participants following the workshop.

CAREER DEVELOPMENT SERIES

LinkedIn Workshop: Learn the essentials from our Career Workshop for LinkedIn! In this workshop, you will gain knowledge about building your profile, finding jobs, networking, and creating your brand! Headshots will be included!

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Big Interview: Get to know Big Interview an online platform that helps users improve their interview skills and build confidence through practice and training. It offers a variety of tools, including mock interviews, question practice, and interview review opportunities.

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EMPOWERING PRESENTATIONS SERIES

Designing the Perfect Presentation: This Workshop will focus on the design aspect to elevate your presentation, showcasing attributes from Powerpoint, Google Slides, and Canva. Taking a closer look at themes, colors, and fonts, could mean the difference in your next presentation. How can you tailor your messaging in its best format? Participants are encouraged to bring presentations they would like to workshop!

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Interactive Presentations: This session will focus on the interactive components you can engage in presentations, through gamified models, live chats, active notes, and much more. How can you get your audience to connect with your content? Join us to increase participation in your next presentation! 

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DIGITAL CREATION SERIES

Interactive Video Production: Interactive video production combines traditional video content with engaging, user-driven elements like clickable links, quizzes, and decision-based pathways to create immersive experiences. Today’s tech, such as TikTok, YouTube, and CapCut, makes it easy to integrate interactive features. Whether you’re a teacher, instructional designer, or content creator, you’ll leave with practical skills to bring your lessons to life

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Creating with Canva: Canva is a graphic design platform used to create social media graphics, presentations, posters, documents, and other visual content. This user-friendly tool provides tons of options when creating designs and sparks ideas to develop your own personal brand. You will have the ability to personally customize your projects that resonate with your audience

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Canva for PBLs: Project based learning is one of the tools that allow teachers to properly assess and engage students with both content and skills, but the ways we’ve gone about it are all too familiar. The design application Canva can broaden the horizons of the PBLS teachers can do and students can create; allowing students creativity to thrive with their countless tools and templates. The use of Canva and PBLs create the perfect marriage of UDL, technological learning, and content skills for teachers to put in place in their classrooms. Come learn how to build better looking and functioning PBLs today!

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Tech Tools for Student Modalities: IEPs, 504s, and just covering students’ varied learning needs has become a crucial aspect of education over the years. Luckily new tech tools have broadened the horizons of how teachers can address these needs; things like VR, AI, Canva, TikTok, and Youtube allow students to engage with content in ways that can work for their learning needs. Tech tools can allow teachers to much easier help students with things like auditory or visual learning needs, breaking down the content in a way they can easier digest. Teachers can learn at this workshop how to properly address student modalities with a variety of tech tools; embracing UDL and bettering their own practice.

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DIGITAL CLASSROOM SERIES

VR in the Classroom: Virtual Reality is quickly becoming a powerful tool to further education. So how does it work? Join us for an overview of what Virtual Reality is and a brief history of how it was developed. Learn about how VR is being applied to different classroom subjects and get hands-on experience using a VR headset.

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Gamified Learning: How can educators incorporate games or deliver an engaging gamified form of their subject or content? Retaining student attention and maintaining their interest in learning is an area of concern for educators, especially in our ever-evolving world of distractions. In this workshop, we’ll cover fun ways to keep students engaged while conveying crucial information through education-related games. We look forward to providing innovative methods of making and keeping learning fun and engaging for students.

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Ai in Assessment: AI is becoming more and more ingrained in the day to day of life; this is a concern especially for education, but it doesn’t have to be. Teachers can use these AI tools to their advantage; Ai isn’t going away and teachers should learn how to make their practice easier and better with these tools. AI can save teachers a significant amount of prep time; as well as can fill in the blanks for ideas about assessments they didn’t have. Ai can create interactive and engaging assessments for students, giving teachers the much needed support for a task that typically could take hours of time. Come learn how AI can craft summative and Formative Assessments easily; as well as differentiated assessments. Take your practice to the future with these AI tools!!

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Student Tech & Study Tools Workshop: In our evolving world of technology and potential distractions it is beneficial to explore new innovative and updated ways to refresh your study tools and methods. In this workshop we will explore apps, programs, and techniques promoting the retainment, encoding, and recall of course information to ensure academic success as a student or educator. This can be beneficial to students for preparing for skill assessments such as exams (Praxis, CPCE/NCE, GRE, etc.) or to offer resources and support to students as an educator. Please join The ADP Center for our workshop and come prepared to ask questions on how we can help you integrate technology into your study behaviors.

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