EdTech Workshops

Throughout the year, the Office of Educational Technology offers workshops and professional development opportunities for students, faculty, and cooperating teachers. These workshops prepare educators with 21st-century skills that enhance instruction, promote equity, and drive student success in an ever-evolving digital world.

Upcoming Workshops

Wired Wednesdays: Hands-On Tech Workshops

Join us on Wednesdays for these 1-hour hy-flex, interactive, hands-on tech workshops designed to help you enhance your digital skills. Whether you're exploring new tools or mastering emerging technologies, these sessions offer practical learning experiences for educators and learners alike. Prior registration required.

Using Padlet for Student Engagement

About the Workshop: Want to explore ways to engage your students in your classroom? Or increase collaboration amongst your students? Join us for a workshop on using Padlet to help you engage your students and increase collaboration! Padlet (online bulletin board) allows students and teachers to use text, images, videos, files, links; basically anything digital to share ideas and collaborate on projects in real-time or asynchronously. This is a great tool to use for ice-breaker activities, graphic organizers, exit tickets and more. During the workshop, you will gain hands-on knowledge on how to create, use and share a Padlet with your class. 

Upcoming session: Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 4:30 – 5:30 PM via Zoom or in-person

Using Kahoot and Quizizz for Assessment

About the Workshop: Do you want to check your students' understanding after teaching a lesson or conduct a formative assessment but want to move away from some traditional activities? Join us as we explore two game-based platforms, Kahoot and Quizizz to create engaging lessons, conduct formative assessments, assign homework, and have other interactions with your students in a captivating way. During the workshop, you will gain hands-on knowledge on how to create assessments using Kahoot and Quizizz.

Upcoming session: Wednesday, April 2, 2025, 4:30 – 5:30 PM via Zoom or in-person

Using Canva and Adobe Creative to Design Engaging Instructional Materials and Activities

About the Workshop: Learn how to design visually engaging instructional materials and project-based activities with Canva. Canva is a graphic design tool that works to simplify the process of digital design. The tool offers users the opportunity to create professional-looking posters, slideshows, images, event flyers, resumes, cards, certificates, infographics, and other media. The tool allows students to design visuals to showcase their knowledge in unique ways.

Upcoming session: Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 4:30 - 5:30 PM via Zoom or in-person

Tech Tuesdays: Innovate & Educate with EdTech Workshops

Tech Tuesdays feature dynamic EdTech workshops designed to help educators and learners integrate technology into teaching. Explore innovative tools, enhance digital skills, and transform the learning experience with hands-on sessions led by expert trainers from New York City Public School (NYCPS).

Empowering Educators with AI: Crafting Dynamic Digital Portfolios

About the Workshop: If you’re eager to harness the power of AI and embark on the journey of crafting digital portfolios with your students, it’s vital to kick-start the process by establishing your very own as an educator. In this workshop, we will delve into the invaluable role of artificial intelligence in the realm of digital portfolios for contemporary classrooms and educators. Our journey will encompass an exploration of the myriad of elements that should find their place in your digital portfolio. Moreover, we will furnish you with practical insights, enhanced by AI-driven recommendations, to make your portfolio as captivating and impactful as possible. Throughout this session, you will have the opportunity to actively engage with AI-powered tools and platforms, which will facilitate the inception of your very own digital portfolio. We will also provide a curated selection of AI-driven resources to kick-start your portfolio creation journey, ensuring you’re well-prepared to harness the full potential of AI in your educational endeavors.

Upcoming session: Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 6:00 - 8:00 PM via Zoom

Registration Deadline: April 21, 2025

Teaching and Learning with Gamification

About the Workshop: In this session you’ll learn how to integrate video games into your instruction and receive plenty of resources to help along the way! What is Game-based learning vs Gamification vs Game Design vs Esports? Why is it important for us as educators to be aligned with this industry that is so relevant to the day-to-day lives of our students. And get your students to participate in the annual Minecraft Battle of the Boroughs while earning your badges in the Minecraft Teacher Academy.

Upcoming session: Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 6:00 - 8:00 PM via Zoom

Registration Deadline: May 5, 2025

Google Workspace (Classroom)/EdTech Tools for Education Workshop Series

In today's rapidly changing world, mastering Google Workspace is crucial for effective teaching. This 10-hour workshop series is specifically designed to provide you with a quick and comprehensive introduction to various Google tools, as well as other tools that seamlessly integrate with Google, which will assist you in meeting your students' requirements during instruction. Additionally, we'll discuss several strategies for leveraging AI (artificial intelligence) to reduce your workload as a teacher and create more time for more exciting opportunities!

Earn School of Education Teaching and Learning with Technology digital badge upon successful completion of the workshop to add your resume and/or teaching portfolio.

Schedule: TUESDAYS (4 days) via Zoom 

• June 3 - 6:00 - 8:30 PM
• June 10 - 6:00 - 8:30 PM
• June 17 - 6:00 - 8:30 PM
• June 24 - 6:00 - 8:30 PM

Registration Deadline: May 30, 2025

Scratch for Learning: Empowering Education Through Coding Workshop Series 

This 10-hour hybrid workshop series is designed for educators who want to integrate Scratch into their teaching to foster creativity, computational thinking, and problem-solving skills. Through a mix of live online sessions and asynchronous modules, participants will explore the fundamentals of Scratch programming and discover engaging ways to apply it across different subjects.

What to Expect:

• Introduction to Scratch – Learn the basics of block-based coding.
• Creative Coding Projects – Develop interactive stories, animations, and games.
• Cross-Curricular Integration – Explore how Scratch can enhance subjects like math, science, and storytelling.
• Classroom Implementation – Strategies for introducing Scratch to students of all skill levels.
• Collaboration & Reflection – Share ideas, troubleshoot challenges, and refine lesson plans

Ideal for future and current K-12 educators, this workshop series is interactive, practical, and beginner-friendly, equipping teachers with the confidence and tools to bring coding and computational thinking into their classrooms.

Earn digital certificate upon successful completion of the workshop to add your resume and/or teaching portfolio.

Schedule: THURSDAYS (5 days)

• ASYNCHRONOUS (SELF-PACED) SESSION
  • May 29, 2025
• LIVE ONLINE SESSIONS via ZOOM
  • June 5 - 4:00 - 6:00 PM
  • June 12 - 4:00 - 6:00 PM
  • June 18 - 4:00 - 6:00 PM (Wednesday)
  • June 26 - 4:00 - 6:00 PM

Registration Deadline: May 23, 2025. Space is limited to 20 participants. 

Workshop Registration

If you are interested in participating in any of the upcoming workshops and/or workshop series, please contact the Office of Educational Technology, education.services@lehman.cuny.edu for registration information. 

Note: These workshops are open only to School of Education students, faculty, staff and partners.