#AllMeansAll: Tech Help Webinars for IL State Teachers

During April and May 2020, I worked with Teach Plus IL, who, in partnership with ILSTOY and NBPTS, held virtual PLN groups made up of teachers across the state in order to provide support during COVID-19 e-learning and remote-learning initiatives. The project, named All Means All, was an awesome way for educators to connect with other colleagues who taught in the same subject areas and levels and receive a variety of support. 

My part in this campaign was to provide weekly tech help sessions via webinar for any interested teachers. It was really awesome to be regarded as a leader who had some knowledge to share! I love learning about and sharing tech tools that can help make a difference in the everyday lives of teachers, and that can help students better demonstrate understanding or obtain additional help and support as needed. 

I am so grateful to have so many awesome friends and ed tech connections in my professional learning network that I was able to bring some of them in to help me and give Illinois state teachers a better understanding of some essential tech tools for e-learning! 

Here's what we covered:

• 4.23.20: Google Classroom for Beginners
• 4.30.20: Screencastify Basics (ft. Nefertiti Dukes)
• 5.7.20: Flipgrid Fever (ft. Jornea Erwin and Jess Boyce)
• 5.14.20: Google Jamboard for All (ft. Kim Mattina)
• 5.21.20: GSuite Tools, Which Ones to Use?
  (Handout 1: Google Tools | Handout 2: Google Meet)

The sessions above are all linked to the accompanying 1-pager handout that I gave to webinar attendees (with the exception of Jamboard, which is linked to Kim Mattina's website full of awesome resources!).

You can find out more about All Means All on the Teach Plus website here.  

- Mrs L.