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Mission Possible: Organizing Your Digital Files, Forms, and Slides
Technology | K-12
Have you ever opened an email from a parent one morning, only to realize that you forgot to answer it several days later? Have you even saved something to your computer and then when you finally needed it, you couldn’t find it anywhere? For some teachers, it can be easy to start downloading documents onto your computer and before you know it, you are lost in a sea of digital clutter. Sorting and organizing digital teacher files, lesson plans, and student digital work is not an easy task for some, but luckily there is an array of teacher resources online and strategies that you can implement in your own classroom that can help you declutter your digital workspace.
In this course, you will learn about the tools, strategies, tips and tricks that you can use to create and maintain an organized digital workspace. Through this course, you will be able to plan and organize your digital files, forms and slides that best support your professional role. By creating a functioning digital filing system for storing important resources and materials, you will be able to take ownership of your digital space and will never struggle to look for a document again.
By the end of this course, you will be able to implement organizational strategies that increase instructional time and planning time, promote productivity, a sense of control and efficacy that will be life-changing for both you and your students!
Connections to Practice
This course provides the following classroom connections:
- Specific steps to eliminate clutter from your digital workspace and get rid of items no longer needed
- Tools for creating a digital filing and organization system for important resources, communication efforts, and curricular materials
- Practices for organizing your digital files, forms, and slides for a more effective workspace
- Motivation for maintaining organization methods based on your professional and personal benefits
- Best practices to help educate your students on the proper skills, tools, and information they need to successfully organize and navigate online
- Ways to maintain communication with students and families in order to tackle equity barriers to technology and educate everyone on digital knowledge
Course Objectives
In this course, participants will:
- Evaluate your current digital workspace and make informed decisions about specific ways to improve organization.
- Create digital organizational systems that promote a productive learning environment for both teachers and students.
- Utilize technology tools in your professional settings to enhance your professional growth and student learning.
- Implement digital storage solutions for teacher materials, student files, and parent resources.
- Compose a plan to effectively organize student digital data in order to consistently communicate with parents and families.
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- Train your staff in as little as eight hours or delve deeper into complex topics in our longer courses.
- Replace in-person PD days with 100% online, self-paced training teachers can complete virtually.
- Get PD tailored to your school's unique needs with our customizable content and flexible solutions.
- Offer higher education rigor and quality designed to give your teachers targeted, relevant training they can apply immediately.
- Increase buy-in and morale by providing teacher choice while maintaining school/district oversight and strategic alignment.
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Request a Free ConsultationCourse Design
We intentionally plan and build our course offerings to solve real problems in education. We regularly update our existing catalog and develop new courses based on schools’ needs, trends in K–12 education, and continual feedback from educators. Depending on your needs, you can train your staff in as little as eight hours with our short courses, or delve into complex topics in our longer ones.
Our course writers are content experts with extensive subject matter credentials and classroom experience. They work closely with our development team to build an experience that is relevant, highly practical, and aligned with industry standards. Courses are not just filled with innovative techniques, but also illustrate how to apply these tools in practice. With each course, teachers develop tangible products such as lesson plans or assessments that they can use immediately in their classrooms.
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