Instructor: Janet Adams

Janet Adams
 Janet Adams is an accomplished educator and educational technology leader with 26 years of experience in teaching, administration, curriculum development, and online education. A Hanford, California, native, she earned a BA in Nutrition and Dietetics with a minor in Chemistry from Fresno State University and an MA in Administration Services and a Multi-subject Teaching Credential from Fresno Pacific University. Her career includes elementary and middle school teaching, charter school development and administration, educational consulting, categorical leadership, and county-level educational technology support. Janet pioneered interactive educational videoconferencing, connecting K-12 classrooms with museums, zoos, science centers, and other learning organizations nationwide. As an online instructor, she is passionate about supporting educators and discovering resources that enhance their classroom practice. Outside of education, Janet enjoys hiking, camping, bird festivals, and exploring California's mountains and coast with her husband, Bruce. She especially treasures time spent with their five grandchildren.

Classes by this instructor


EDU-946: Shake Up Learning: Book Application

Shake Up Learning: Book Application
Join an award-winning author, podcaster, instructional technologist and blogger. This Shake Up Learning book application course is for educators wanting to transform their classrooms and schools by rebuilding lesson plans into dynamic learning opportunities. Think through the lens of your students. What do they want from a teacher? What responsibilities do they take for their successes and failures in the classroom? How do they think teaching could be improved?

TEC-978: Twitter for Educators

Twitter for Educators
Learn how Twitter can be the best professional development tool you have ever used! Create a Professional Learning Network (PLN) with other educators and experts to learn from and share ideas, activities, lesson plans, teaching strategies, the use of technologies, and classroom pedagogical reasoning. Students that take this course are absolutely amazed to learn what Twitter can do for them as an educator.

TEC-982: The Flipped Classroom

The Flipped Classroom
The flipped classroom reverses how class and home time are utilized. A flipped classroom means, at its most basic definition, that students watch a video of the day's lesson while at home. Then during class time, they work on problem sets, projects, and discussions. Traditional homework is done during the school day where students have access to the teacher's expertise and interaction with their peers while the lecture (lesson) would be watched at home.

TEC-988: Pinterest for Teachers

Pinterest for Teachers
Imagine the ability to collect ideas, lesson plans, activity resources, educational links, and news on a simple web-based platform. Curate these resources easily in boards that you create and title according to a filing system that fits exactly the way you organize. Welcome to Pinterest for Teachers, a course that is designed to give you the freedom to search for exactly what you want to learn. Connect with others who teach the same grades or subjects and curate at a pace that fits your individualized needs.

TEC-991: Create a Classroom Website

Create a Classroom Website
Education is constantly evolving, and as new trends take hold of the classroom, teachers must evolve and learn along with it. The Create a Classroom Website course will teach educators to create a presence on the Internet, including but not limited to websites, blogs, instructional videos, graphics, and other online tools commonly used for educational websites. The emphasis will be placed on free online tools.

TECH-901: Online Formative Assessment

Online Formative Assessment
Formative! has now partnered with Google for Education, and is part of the G Suite Marketplace. It is one of the most powerful and free online tools available to classroom teachers. You will create custom formative assessments for your students that will allow you to easily assess and provide immediate feedback to your students in real time.

TECH-911: Teaching With Nearpod

Teaching With Nearpod
Nearpod is an award-winning, interactive mobile-learning platform that engages students with images, videos, quizzes, polls, drawing boards, game-based quizzes, virtual field trips, VR and other collaboration tools. Teachers can create their own interactive lessons or access thousands of other premade lessons or search for lessons by grade, subject, or CCSS-aligned standard. Nearpod can be used in the classroom or with remote instruction.