It's PLEARN Time!

We had all of these awesome tools installed in the media center during the first of October.  I wanted a way for the teachers to learn to use them without having to attend a full scale training session.  They just needed time to play. On October 11th, we set up a Play and Learn Session- PLEARN time!


Our PLEARN time was set up so that teachers could come during their planning and spend as little or as much of their time playing as they chose.  The goal was that everyone who participated would leave with something they created on one of our new tools. 

We set up several stations.  The teachers could chose which ones they wanted to try.  The stations included:
- 3D Printer
- Cricut and our Heat Press
- 3D Pens
- Spheros
- Little Bits
- Green Screen
- Promethean ActivBoard




To provide support and guide teachers through the process they received this document:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gpKaLz1vzJh7lrx9x3ieD1hPzhj2iWe87SpBONX-ynw/edit
(  Template design by Genevieve Pacada  •   Text set  by Lisa Highfill )

Teachers left with decals, 3D printed name tags, tshirts they designed and made using our heat press, green screen pictures and more.  

The best part- This session led to a STEM Day for 6th grade students and collaborations with two other teachers.