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Using HyperDocs to Transform Your Lessons
August 9, 10:05-10:45am
Darshell Silva, Librarian and Technology Integration Specialist, Rocky Hill School
@Darshell | Website
In this session, teachers will learn what HyperDocs are and how they can transform their lessons and fully engage their students. HyperDocs can also be used as a professional development tool to engage teachers during in-house professional development! Attendees will learn how to create and review their own HyperDocs. For more information about HyperDocs, see http://www.kidsdiscover.com/teacherresources/using-hyperdocs-in-class/ |
Darshell Silva has been a Teacher Librarian for 12 years and currently is the Librarian and Technology Integration Specialist at the Rocky Hill School in East Greenwich, RI. Darshell is also a Highlander Institute FUSE Fellow, Per Course Faculty at the University of Rhode Island (URI) Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, and Non-Mentor Faculty for the Johnson and Wales Center for Leadership and Educational Equity Principal Residency Network in the area of Technology Integration.
Darshell holds a Bachelor's Degree in Applied Communications and a Master's Degree in Library and Information Studies with a specialization in School Library Media--both from URI. She is an RI Society of Technology Educators board member, a member of the Advisory Council for the Source for Learning, a Media Smart Libraries Board Member, and a past President of School Librarians of RI (SLRI).
She is published in the Oxford University Press's African American National Biography, the CDC MMWR, and is currently a reviewer for School Library Connection. Her interests include technology integration, school library media, and community informatics. Darshell lives in Rhode Island with her husband and 3 children.