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 Thursdays: 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
Want to spark engagement and boost collaboration in your classroom?
Join us for a hands-on workshop on using Padlet—an interactive online bulletin board that lets students and teachers share text, images, videos, files, and links in real time or asynchronously.
Padlet now also includes built-in AI tools to help you generate ideas, prompts, and content, making it even easier to inspire creativity and streamline your lesson planning.
Whether you’re looking for creative ice-breakers, graphic organizers, exit tickets, or collaborative project spaces, Padlet offers endless possibilities. In this session, you’ll learn step-by-step how to create, use, and share Padlets with your students to make learning more interactive and fun.
Upcoming session: Thursday, October 9, 2025, 4:30 – 5:30 PM via Zoom or in-person
Using Kahoot and Wayground (Quizizz) for Assessment
Want to check your students’ understanding or conduct formative assessments without relying on traditional activities?
|Join us as we explore two game-based platforms—Kahoot and Wayground (Quizizz)—to create engaging lessons, assign homework, and interact with students in a fun, captivating way.
Both platforms now offer AI-powered tools that can help you quickly generate quizzes, questions, and activities, saving you time while keeping your content fresh and engaging.
During this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn step-by-step how to design assessments and activities using Kahoot and Wayground (Quizizz) to keep your students motivated and involved.
Upcoming session: Thursdays, October 16, 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 create visually engaging instructional materials and project-based activities using Canva and Adobe Express.
These user-friendly design tools make it easy to produce professional-quality posters, slideshows, infographics, event flyers, certificates, and more—no advanced design skills required. Both platforms now include AI-powered features that can help you generate images, text, and layouts, making the design process faster and more creative.
You’ll also discover how students can use these platforms to design creative visuals that showcase their knowledge in unique and meaningful ways.
Upcoming session: Thursday, October 24, 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
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: TBD
Registration Deadline: TBD
Teaching and Learning with Gamification
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: TBD
Registration Deadline: TBD
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: TBD
Registration Deadline: TBD
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: TBD
Registration Deadline: TBD
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.
