Visions In Education believes that the professional growth of our faculty contributes directly to our students’ success.
CA Consortium for Independent Study (CCIS) Presentations
CCIS Spring 2020 – Santa Rosa, CA
- A Couple of Cool Ways to Connect Students to Themselves and Learning – Presentation (Fred Lamora)
- Professional Development Reboot – Engaging Activities for your Organization – Presentation & Handout (
Sarah McFarland) - The Emotional Intelligence Surrounding Conversations – Presentation (Christina McKinnis)
- CTE Startup for Independent Study – Presentation (Shannon Alward & Nancy Ortner)
CCIS Fall 2019 – Irvine, CA
- A Couple of Cool Ways to Connect Students to Themselves and Learning – Presentation (Fred Lamora)
- Professional Development Reboot: Engaging Activities to Help Your Staff Avoid Death by PowerPoint – Presentation & Handout (Sarah McFarland)
CCIS Spring 2019 – Santa Rosa, CA
- Conversational Intelligence – Presentation & Handout (Christina McKinnis)
- A Couple of Cool Ways to Connect Students to Themselves and Learning – Presentation (Fred Lamora)
- Great Virtual Meetings are Just a Click Away – Presentation & Handout (Sara
h McFarland)
CCIS Fall 2018 – Irvine, CA
- Conversational Intelligence – Presentation & Handout (Christina McKinnis)
- A Couple of Cool Ways to Connect Students to Themselves and Learning – Presentation (Fred Lamora)
- Great Virtual Meetings are Just a Click Away – Presentation & Handout (Sara
h McFarland)
CCIS Spring 2018 – Santa Rosa, CA
- New!- The Secret Sauce: Tips and Tricks to Connect with Kids – Presentation & Handout (
Fred Lamora) - Great Virtual Meetings are Just a Click Away – Presentation & Handout (Sara
h McFarland)
CCIS Fall 2017 – Rancho Mirage, CA
- New!- The Secret Sauce: Tips and Tricks to Connect with Kids – Presentation & Handout (
Fred Lamora) - Great Virtual Meetings are Just a Click Away – Presentation & Handout (Sara
h McFarland)
CCIS Spring 2017- Sonoma, CA
- New!- 20 Great Online Apps, Tools and Extensions to use with Students – Presentation & Hando
ut (Fred Lamora) - Let’s Get Personal – Case Study for Personalizing IS – Presentation (Fred Lamora)
- Professional Development Reboot- Engaging Activities for your Organization – Presentation & Handout (Sara
h McFarland)
CCIS Fall 2016- San Diego, CA
- New!- 20 Great Online Apps, Tools and Extensions to use with Students – Presentation & Hando
ut (Fred Lamora) - Professional Development Reboot – Engaging Activities for your Organization – Presentation & Handout (
Sarah McFarland)
CCIS Spring 2016- Rancho Mirage, CA
- 20 Great Online Apps, Tools and Extensions to use with Students – Presentation & Hando
ut (Fred Lamora) - Give Your Students a Voice – Presentation (Hilary Brugger)
- Hanging Out in Google Hangouts – Presentation (Christ
ina McKinnis) - IS Attendance & Accountability – Presentation (
Jody Graf & Michael Brubaker) - Open the Door to Common Core – Free PD tools – Presentation & Handout
(Sarah McFarland) - Speaking Millennial-ese (Jody Graf)
CCIS Fall 2015- Rancho Mirage, CA
- 20 Great Online Apps, Tools and Extensions to use with Students – Presentation & Hando
ut (Fred Lamora) - Hanging Out in Google Hangouts – Presentation (
Christina McKinnis) - Open the Door to Common Core – Free PD tools – Presentation & Handout
(Sarah McFarland) - IS Attendance & Accountability – Presentation (Jody Graf)
CCIS Spring 2015- San Francisco, CA
- 20 Great Online Apps, Tools and Extensions to use with Students – Presentation & Handout (Fred Lamora)
- Hanging Out in Google Hangouts – Presentation (Christina McKinnis)
- Open the Door to Common Core – Free PD tools – Presentation & Handout (Sarah McFarland)
- Reflections of What Worked (and Didn’t) from the SBAC Field Test – Presentation (Jody Graf & Fred Lamora)
CCIS Fall 2014- San Diego, CA
- Keynote Let’s Get Persona l- Presentation (Fred Lamora)
- 20 Great Online Apps, Tools and Extensions to use with Students – Presentation & Handout (Fred Lamora)
- Hanging Out in Google Hangouts – Presentation (Christina McKinnis)
- Open the Door to Common Core – Free PD tools – Presentation & Handout (Sarah McFarland)
- Reflections of What Worked (and Didn’t) from the SBAC Field Test – Presentation (Jody Graf & Fred Lamora)
CCIS Spring 2014- Sacramento, CA
- Hanging Out in Google Hangouts – Presentation (Christina McKinnis)
- Open the Door to Common Core- Free PD tool – Presentation (Sarah McFarland)
- The Language of Math using CCSS to help students to think – Presentation (Jody Graf)
- Let’s Get Personal – Case Study for Personalizing IS – Presentation & Handout & IS Website (F. Lamora)
- The Secrets of Enhancing Student Learning in the Cloud – Presentation (Christina McKinnis)
Other Presentations
Moodle & Google Apps Presentations
- Perfect Marriage- Harnessing Power of Google Apps & Moodle – ISTE Presentation & Handout
- Moodle as a Learning Platform – Presentation & Handout
- Power of Google Apps in Teaching & Learning – Presentation & Handout
- Harnessing the Partnership of Google Apps & Moodle – CCSA Presentation & Handout
- Teaching Strategies using Google/Moodle/Web 2.0 – Presentation
Blended Learning Presentations
- Becoming a great Online Facilitator – Presentation
- eLearning in Professional Development – Presentation
- Top 10 Strategies for Online Facilitators – CUE Presentation
Free Google Presentations
- Making the most of your $ – Leveraging Learning with Guerrilla Technologies – Presentation & Handout
- So It’s Free- Now What? – Presentation
- Google Docs Presentation – Google Docs
- Google Spreadsheets Presentation – Google Spreadsheets
- Google Presentation – Google Presentation
- Google Forms Presentation – Google Forms
- Google Mail Presentation – Google Apps Mail
- Google Calendar Presentation – Google Calendar
- Google Searching Presentation – Google Power Searching