Step 1: VOLTT Program

Step 1: VOLTT Program

Use this document to choose the Webinars and Collaborations you are interested in attending

before going on to Step 2: The VOLTT Session Planner.

A Message of ReconciliACTION through Code

The Downie Wenjack Fund, Lynx Coding and the Renfrew County District School Board created a partnership

to empower students to learn about Residential Schools and take action. This authentic learning experience

uses Lynx coding to allow students to express their creativity through this highly engaging platform. Students

used text-based coding to create deeply moving animations, and powerful messages of ReconciliACTION with

the haunting music of Gord Downie.

Target Panel(s)

Intermediate, Secondary

Target Learning Management System (LMS) or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)

Not Specific to a single LMS/VLE

Presenter(s) / Moderator(s)

Mike Fitzmaurice

Mike Brohart

Oliver Gallery

Renfrew County District School Board

Accessibility options in D2L

We will review some accessibility options and considerations within D2L to help ensure that you meet the

needs of all your students.

Target Panel(s)

Intermediate, Secondary, Adult


Specific to D2L


Christopher Warren

Durham District School Board

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Accessible, Organized, and Engaging Lessons through Google Slides

Whether you are teaching in person, virtually, or both, I can share my Google Slides tips and tricks with you

that can help make your lessons and learning materials more accessible, organized, and engaging.

Target Panel(s)

Elementary, Intermediate, Secondary


Specific to Google Classroom


Cassaundra Hartley

Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board

Automating Your Course - All About Release Conditions

Drop by for a demonstration of Brightspace Release Conditions and how you can use them to automatically

(yes, automatically) reward and message students, differentiate instruction, control access to course content,

accommodate students writing quizzes and more!

Target Panel(s)

Primary, Elementary, Intermediate, Secondary, Adult


Specific to D2L


Mark Lee

Limestone District School Board

Best Practices in eLearning: Building Community

This workshop will discuss best practices for classroom organization/communication that aids in the creation

of a neighborhood of learners in eLearning. Empowering the class with a sense of community and creating

deep relationships that are responsive and reflective of the learners in the classroom.

Target Panel(s)

Secondary


Specific to D2L


Cheryl Breen

Rehana Dhirani

Peel District School Board

Bitmoji Classrooms for D2L Brightspace and Synchronous Learning

Have you ever wanted to use your Bitmoji Avatar with your digital learning platforms? This short session will

show you:

How to get started with Bitmoji

How to Create Interactive Google Slides using Bitmoji

How to use Bitmoji & Google Slides to make transitions during synchronous learning time

How to add your interactive Bitmoji Classroom to your D2L Homepage as a Widget

How to use your Bitmoji Interactive slide as content within a slide deck in Brightspace.

Target Panel(s)



Specific to D2L


Kristen Hill

Thames Valley District School Board

Brightspace Portfolio - The Tool You Didn't Know You Were Missing!

Brightspace Portfolio is an incredibly powerful tool that D2L has made a lot of improvements and

enhancements to recently. Whether you use Brightspace, Google Classroom or neither, it's likely the answer

to your triangulation dreams for documenting observations and conversations. Want a quick, easy way to take

a picture of student work, record a video, or add an optional audio recording right from a phone or tablet? It

does that. Want to be able to easily add files from Google Drive or Office 365? Check. Want your students to

be able to do all this too and share it with you privately and securely? Done. Organize it all with filters to

review at report card time? You betcha. Option to highlight and share with parents/guardians? Yes! Check out

this session to learn more about this incredibly powerful and under-utilized tool, with different modes to meet

all educators and learners across K-12.

Target Panel(s)





Andrew Bieronski

Waterloo Region District School Board

Changing Thinking Around Rubrics - Introducing the Single Point Rubric

Never heard of Single Point Rubrics? Come learn about a total mic drop moment for assessment. Create

rubrics that better serve your students, your parents and yourself!

Target Panel(s)





Cathryn Wake

Ottawa Catholic School Board

Coding Spreadsheets to Make Informed Financial Decisions in MTH1W

Code spreadsheets to create financial calculators, create and modify budgets to reflect a change in

circumstance, answer questions about appreciation and depreciation using graphs, and explore the cost of

different purchasing options to make informed financial

decisions.

Target Panel(s)





Heather Lindale


COLLABORATION: Elementary: All Subjects

Collaboration sessions involve 45-minute (maximum) moderated discussions during which participants will

have the opportunity to share online learning and teaching challenges, successes, innovative approaches, best

practices, etc., and dialogue with fellow educators from their specific subject area (9-12) or panel (K-8).

Participants are expected to come prepared to actively participate in the discussion by contributing their

thoughts, ideas, strategies, resources, etc.

Target Panel(s)

Elementary




Megan McLeish

Upper Grand District School Board

COLLABORATION: Intermediate: All Subjects






Target Panel(s)

Intermediate




Jeffery Maxwell

Niagara Catholic District School Board

COLLABORATION: Primary: All Subjects






Target Panel(s)

Primary




Zunaira Munir


COLLABORATION: Secondary: Business Studies






Target Panel(s)

Secondary




Chris Warren


COLLABORATION: Secondary: Canadian and World Studies






Target Panel(s)

Secondary




Sally Enright


COLLABORATION: Secondary: Computer Studies






Target Panel(s)

Secondary




Mark Lee


COLLABORATION: Secondary: Cooperative Education






Target Panel(s)

Secondary




Roger Ramsay

Hastings Prince Edward DSB

COLLABORATION: Secondary: English






Target Panel(s)

Secondary




Karen Douglas

District School Board of Niagara

COLLABORATION: Secondary: English as a Second Language and English Literacy

Development






Target Panel(s)

Secondary




Trevor Pratt

Hamiton Wentworth DSB

COLLABORATION: Secondary: First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Studies (formerly

Native Studies) AND Native Languages






Target Panel(s)

Secondary




Kyle Geerlings

Grand Erie DSB

COLLABORATION: Secondary: French






Target Panel(s)

Secondary




Sally Enright


COLLABORATION: Secondary: Guidance and Career Education






Target Panel(s)

Secondary




Katie Ryckman

Grand Erie District School Board

COLLABORATION: Secondary: Health and Physical Education






Target Panel(s)

Secondary




Mike Sherwin


COLLABORATION: Secondary: Mathematics






Target Panel(s)

Secondary




Sean Hamilton


COLLABORATION: Secondary: Science






Target Panel(s)

Secondary




Ailynne Sobec


COLLABORATION: Secondary: Social Sciences and Humanities






Target Panel(s)

Secondary




Paul D'Hondt

Huron Perth Catholic District School Board

COLLABORATION: Secondary: Technological Education






Target Panel(s)

Secondary




Robert Walicki

St. Clair Catholic District School Board

COLLABORATION: Secondary: The Arts






Target Panel(s)

Secondary




Sarah Slater

Bluewater DSB

Creating Community, Showcasing Diversity and Team Approach Strategies for

Remote PE

This session will assist Remote PE teachers who are looking for ideas and strategies in the following areas; #1)

Improve student engagement by incorporating daily practices that help build a sense of community in their

classroom #2) Showcasing inspiration and diversity by adding Olympic content to their curriculum #3) Using a

team approach to learning for assignments and presentations.

Target Panel(s)





Sue Seara

Thames Valley District School Board

Death to the Dumpster Project

In this workshop we will share a variety of summative assessment tools that will allow students to

demonstrate their learning and share their creations in a digital world.

Target Panel(s)





Joey Jackson

Jon Jones

Avon Maitland District School Board

Desmos Teacher Activities - Diving Deeper and Customizing

Desmos teacher activities are a game changer, especially when facilitating mathematics virtually. This session

will walk through how to take activities that have already been created and customize them to meet specific

expectations and the learning needs of the students in your classes.

Target Panel(s)

Elementary, Intermediate, Secondary, Adult




Marilu Deal


Embedding your Lesson Plan with Google Slides

See one teacher's solution for creating interative google slides which can be embedded into a D2L course shell

and updated (in real time) for classroom presentation and at home learners. Discusses: planning and

constency in course design, embedded google slides, easy transfer of material from year to year.

Target Panel(s)



Specific to D2L


Julia Hale


Engaged Writing using Minecraft

Find out how using Minecraft can support student writing and engagement.

Target Panel(s)





Lynn Thomas


Engagement Through Learning Goals, Assessment and The Modern Classroom

Project

Supporting teachers to use curriculum standards as the source of learning goals, and to provide

multiple/varied opportunities to practice and demonstrate mastery. The Modern Classrooms Project method

will be used to model the UDL principle of "Firm Goals, Flexible Means" to increase engagement, decrease

anxiety and develop executive functions using instructional videos, mindful notes, practice tasks and mastery

tasks, all tailored to suit individual learners' needs.

Target Panel(s)





Amanda Watson

Emily Dia

Hastings Prince Edward DSB

Equity and Culturally Responsive Teaching

We spend a lot of time planning, developing and assessing the content for our classrooms, but are we

spending enough time understanding our own implicit bias? This presentation will provide you with the skills

to critically evaluate your course content to ensure you are reaching all students.

Target Panel(s)





Adam Andrecyk


Expectations-Based Assessment in Brightspace

Deepen your understanding of how expectations-based assessment creates more equitable outcomes for

students. Learn how to use a variety of tools in Brightspace, including the Expectations Progress Page and

Mastery View Grades, to support the implementation of expectations-based assessment in your virtual

learning environment.

Target Panel(s)

Elementary, Secondary


Specific to D2L


Gillian Read


Exploring New Curriculum Expectations in Grade 9 Math Using Desmos Classroom

Activities and Google Jamboard

Participate in a synchronous Grade 9 Math lesson featuring a sequence of tasks that will lead us to two of the

new curriculum expectations. We'll consolidate the math, and discuss some strategies and teacher moves to

make synchronous lessons more engaging and inclusive.

Target Panel(s)





Jackie Decker


Flipgrid: Catch the Fever

Learn how Flipgrid can support empowering every learner to share their voice and respect the diverse voices

of others.

Target Panel(s)





Lynn Thomas


Getting the Most out of Jamboard

This presentation will take participants through Google Jamboard and its features to engage students both in

virtual and in-person environments. Participants will be shown ways of using Jamboard spontaneously as well

as prepared boards to collect assessment and evaluation data. Examples from the classroom will be shown

and participants will be given the opportunity to collaborate in real time on a Jamboard as well as create their

own.

Target Panel(s)





Susan Varillas

Avon Maitland District School Board

Getting to Know EquatIO

Introductory Session: Help make math digital and accessible by learning to use EquatIO for online learning.

Target Panel(s)

Elementary




Moragh Brawley

Allison Wawryn


Hacking Google Forms

This presentation will take a look at two different objectives.

1. Turning google forms into a dynamic teaching tool for choice.

2. How to organize yourself so that when it comes to reports and reflection on practice, all your data is

present. From exit cards, assessments, diagnostics, and more.

Target Panel(s)





Paul Hewitt


How to Link Outcomes/Expectations in Brighspace

Learn how to setup and link Expectations/Outcomes to Assignments, Discussions, Quizzes and Portfolio items

in Brightspace. This session will focus on how to import or create Expectations/Outcomes and how to link

them to key assessments. This will then allow you to view a students overall progress on specific

Expectations/Outcomes in your course. We will look at how this can be viewed in both the Mastery View and

Student Progress tool.

Target Panel(s)



Specific to D2L


Carey Eldridge

Lambton Kent District School Board

How to Use Brightspace (D2L) Templates for Course Design

Are you wanting to design a professional looking online course? Learn about using Brightspace's HTML

templates. These templates help nonprofessional designers create amazing responsive page layouts, complete

with intractive elements. Take predesigned page styles and customize by mixing and matching elements, such

as call-out boxes, accordians and tabs.

Target Panel(s)

Secondary, Adult


Specific to D2L


Laurie Loughlin


Implementing Dr. Kilpatrick's Phonemic Awareness Work in a Virtual Environment

As an educator at Limestone Elementary Virtual School in a Kindergarten classroom for the 2020-21 academic

year, I spent a lot of time synchronously teaching my students phonemic awareness skills using Dr. Kilpatrick's

text 'Equipped for Reading Success'. I would like to demonstrate how to effectively deliver phonemic

awareness lessons, the PAST assessment, as well as documenting growth in learning using Google Slides,

Google Sheets, and Google Forms.

Target Panel(s)

Primary, Elementary




Jamie Lloyd


Increasing Engagement in Remote Primary Classroom

I have been with working for the UGDSB Remote Program (Home of the Grand River Otters!) for two years and

our school’s biggest concerns is student engagement in the program (i.e. showing up to class, cameras on and

actively participating throughout the day). Teachers can have varying experiences adapting to online teaching,

as we are continuously reflecting on best practices and many educators struggle to create digital versions of

their teaching practices. Personally, I have experienced much success online and I have discovered best

practices which can be adapted to a variety of age groups.

Target Panel(s)

Primary, Elementary




Megan McLeish


Let's Play!

Who says online learning can't be fun? Gamify your course using Google Applications, Conditional Releases,

and other puzzles to get them thinking. This session will introduce some strategies to create and use escape

rooms, Amazing Races, Scavenger Hunts and puzzles with your students. Get them thinking, collaborating, and

even moving around. These activities are fun, engaging, and perfect for minds-on and review!

Target Panel(s)





Karen Douglas

District School Board of Niagara

Organizing Google Classroom and Creating Interactive Hyperdocs

Organize your Google Classroom and learn how to create interactive hyper docs to enhance student

participation and accountability.

Target Panel(s)

Primary, Elementary, Intermediate, Secondary




Kailey Adams

Kenora Catholic District School Board

Peaking into my VLE Set Up

The availability by D2L to allow teachers to make their VLE their own is awesome! What do you do to

personilze your VLE? How do you simplify your VLE for students? What D2L tools do you use to stay

organized? Come see how I set up my VLE for teaching to remote learners. Feel free to share your best virtual

learning tip too.

Target Panel(s)

Secondary


Specific to D2L


Jill Mullen

Waterloo Region District School Board

Pear Deck for Student Engagement

Pear Deck adds an interactive element to your slide decks (Google slides or Powerpoint) that allows students

to respond to your prompts from any device (phone/tablet/chromebook). Student responses display

anonymously to the class. No app required - it's accessible via the web. Students can respond with text,

numbers, multiple choice, drawing or dragging icons. And Pear Deck has tons of ready to use slide templates

you can simply add to your existing slide decks. Turn your direct-teaching slide decks into engaging and

interactive classroom activities your students will love.

Target Panel(s)





Laura Wheeler

Ottawa-Carleton District School Board

Pedagogy of the Online Accounting Classroom in Conjunction with

Observations/Conversations/Products (Leverage/Endurance Focus)

I will walk through how to integrate online tools for the learners to increase feedback from students to allow

students to have leverage/endurance in their learning and allow student development.

Conversation/Observation/Product focused - I will show how I integrate these elements in my student

assessment in a manner that reflects the online learning environment we have frequently been in during the

last 2 years.

Target Panel(s)

Secondary




Aaron Blakely

Ottawa-Carleton District School Board

Rethinking Research Online and Leave Textbooks Behind

How can we rethink what research looks like in an internet-ready and hyperlinked world? Are there ways to

help students find the content they need without drowning in information? This workshop will help educators

learn to use the Google Docs Explore tool and how to leverage it for student learning and academic honesty.

We will look at custom search engines which can streamline the sites students can search or provide sources

which are reading skill appropriate or to focus specifically on a content theme or language.

Target Panel(s)

Elementary, Intermediate, Secondary




Steph Pearson


Save Time and Engage Students with Intelligent Agents

In this session, we will learn about how we can use Intelligent agents (IAs) in Brightspace to improve teacher-

student interaction and student engagement.

Target Panel(s)



Specific to D2L


Ailynne Sobec


Supporting ALL Students in the Language Classroom - Leveraging Read & Write for

Google Chrome as a Tool for Accessibility, Differentiation and Augmentation of

Learning

In this workshop, participants will learn how to use the Read & Write for Google Chrome extension in a

purposeful way to support and engage all students. Participants will be introduced to the features of Read &

Write along with concrete, practical examples of how this tool can be used regularly in the language classroom

as a vehicle for accessibility, differentiation, and augmentation of learning. Read & Write for Google Chrome is

a tool that is beneficial for ALL learners and necessary for some. Note, while the presentation will be delivered

in English, ideas are applicable to all language teaching and ideas will be presented for how to use this tool for

second language learning (e.g., in an FSL classroom) as well.

Target Panel(s)

Primary, Elementary, Intermediate




Tammy Baine


Supporting FSL Learners with Technology Tools

Many French teachers are curious to learn about apps and websites that offer accessibility features in French.

This presentation will examine websites, applications and best practises to support students, including those

with special needs, in the FSL classroom.

Target Panel(s)

Primary, Elementary, Intermediate, Secondary




Amy Van Brabant

Amélie Roy


Team Work using Google Meet (Breakout Rooms)

In this presentation you will learn how to effectively use Breakout Rooms extension to complete group work in

your virtual classroom. It will also provide effective means to manage the groups (both developing and

continued access) to utilize the time.

Target Panel(s)





Terrance Meechem

Lambton Kent District School Board

The Grades Tool in D2L Brightspace

Exploring the configurationa and utilization of the grades tool in D2L Brightsapce.

Target Panel(s)

Secondary


Specific to D2L


Mike Sherwin


Transform your Teaching with Hyperdocs!

Hyperdocs are self-contained lesson units that can be used synchronously and asynchronously in remote

learning situations, as well as in a traditional brick-and-mortar classroom. They combine the best elements of

lesson design with a wide variety of digital tools to create units that are engaging, differentiated, interactive

and meaningful. In this workshop, we will cover the main elements of an effective hyperdoc and discuss the

various ways they can be used in any learning environment. We will explore one example, from a student

point of view, pointing out the ways in which it encourages collaboration, independence, and critical thinking,

as well as the variety of assessment options that can be built right into the hyperdoc. No more thick unit

binders on the shelf! Everything in one cohesive paperless slide deck unit! Material students can access from

anywhere! Game-changer!

Target Panel(s)





Karen Johnston


Use Awards to Reward/Challenge Your Students

Learn how to use the Awards Tool in D2L to reward or challenge your students in your class! Use the pre-

created awards, or create your own. Learn how to create release conditions to make the tool work for you!

Front end set up will generate less work for all your classes.

Target Panel(s)



Specific to D2L


Lu Angel

Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board

Use Planboard for Online Lesson and Unit Planning

Attend this session to learn all about Planboard by Chalk - the online application that can bring your lesson

plans into the 21st century, streamline your long-range unit planning and allow you to make

quadmester/semester transitions with just a few clicks.

Planboard gives you the ability to create classes and set up your timetable. And once you set up your rotation

schedule, you’ll always know what you’re teaching and when.

Use your existing lessons, add it to a lesson plan template and assign Ontario ministry standards to map your

curriculum. This is great for your students but also for you during a parent meeting or a teacher appraisal as

well.

You can even upload and embed existing teaching materials and files from your computer or Google Drive to

quickly find that day's lesson resources with just a click.

Planboard can do all this - and more!

Target Panel(s)





Jamie Agombar


Using Brightspace (D2L) Tools to Build an Online Community

Learn about strategies that can be used to help build teaching and social presence as part of your online class.

Use D2L tools including activity feed, custom widgets, video note, discussions, and more to build your class

community. Look at examples from real eLearning courses. Demonstration of technical steps will be provided

time permitting.

Target Panel(s)

Secondary


Specific to D2L


Michelle Booth

Waterloo Catholic District School Board

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