Tech Council Meeting, CLIU #21 September 23, 2013

Sharing:

Charlie-Lehighton-TechSTEM 8th grade class (new class and Charlie wrote the curriculum)

  *   Share any resources with Charlie

Kathy-NWL-Chromebooks, folks want iPad carts, Google Apps for Ed

  *   Using Talent Ed software package for Teacher Eval

Beth-Parkland-starting a library of video tutorials, everything from the basics of computer operation to how to's of tools (Edmodo, Voki, etc.)

  *   STAR assessment from Renaissance Learning (K-5)-replacing DIBELS
  *   Piloting this literacy software- iStation (K-5): http://www.istation.com<http://www.istation.com/>
  *   660 Chromebooks (K-12) each building getting a cart

Katie Leach-Weatherly- new MacBooks in district

Dave Stauffer-Whitehall- BYOD, they opened a wireless network just for this.
Students can use cellphone to call/text/whatever when in hallways, cafe, etc. just not in the classroom. When in the classroom it is the teacher discretion and a classroom management issue.

  *   Socrative
  *   Remind 101
  *   Red Laser (barcode reader)

The You Tube error issue has been a problem for some of our districts. Hoping to have it resolved soon!

Dave asked for a short Canvas overview.

John Monahan-ASD- moving into an admin role, Instructional Supervisor at Raub MS

  *   All ASD schools now have a Twitter and FB account, Principals manage them

PETE&C
CLIU Workshops
Principal Cert
Math Cert
Overdrive
NASA eBooks: http://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/index.html#.UkBFrBbFndk

Technology with Purpose for Gifted

Dr. Brian Housand (start) bit.ly/page2013


#gtchat every Friday at 7pm, chats about gifted
#page13

All the students now are 21st Century learners

bit.ly/page2013
bit.ly/nets-profiles

bit.ly allows you to create shortened views of web links
Take bit.ly address and put in link and.qrcode will add a QR code

Google Drive, has research piece that will cite the image with different MLA, APA

Drawings can be used as a mind map

Writing prompts.tumblr.com -

Good Reads - social sharing of books

Shelfari
google Books, check this out and magazines!  LIFE Magazines in the past are here

Diigo has a teacher's console
Tagxedo can create and save a Wordle

For Math:  Desmos, Vi Hart, Myscript Calculator

Wonderopolis - things people wonder about
Doc Teach - Primary source documents

Internet archives...see what google looked like in previous versions

TedEd, you can "create a lesson" for for your students

Any Ted Talk can be flipped

Use same engine for any video on YouTube  check out "Best Flips"

Educreations create your lesson online. Share directly to site, or can create a private classroom.  Set it up on the computer first.  Can view on any computer.

Press home and any button takes picture

JING records up to 5 minutes on your screen, Snagit can work but costs $

Weebly:  give site a name,every time you publish you will see a screen.   Option 2 can use a domain name. 50 or so designs.  Can change the way things look.  Editing can be done, as well.  click and drag to add text.  Title is also available.  Create multiple pages, as well.  embed videos, slide shows.  Click on publish button, then at the end, the weebly is published.  Looks pretty, like you did something that is really complicated.  Publish sites.

60in60.org has a collection of resources

Check out Wired Magazine.....Google employers are looking for Google is to find andcreate things 10 times as great as what already exists.  LOfty goal for our kids.

8 Apps, 4 for school, 4 not

Grade Cam
Numbler
NearPod
Overdrive - Borrow free books
Card Star - scan card with barcode
Evernote
Tripit
Face Swapper

Research Notes - Spring Into Technology Conference

Research

Do not let students hand in typed drafts

Ruhl English speakers website

Help by dividing the work into segments, what information has to be found out

Create essential questions first.
Color code  each segment

Highlight information that you need.

Put all the colors together

Open new pages, one page for each color

Then, one document as collective highlights

Next, work on their outline with each section

Easy bib.com

Excel - Spring into Technology Conference

Site with all the resources:  http://moodle.esasd.net/moodle/course/view.php?id=45
Excel 2011 is for the Mac
Excel 2010 is for the PC

In view, normal is default, page view is neat
Window Freeze pane

All functions start with = (the cells that work) in the parentheses are the cells that you want to work on.  Use the : to anchor, after you put in the =MAX

Double click between bars to auto-click

Highlight columns and drag, all will be the same size

Put mouse on column One, under format, then cell, then alignment, adjust to angle top line.

To highlight two different columns, for a graph,  hold down command or shift key.

To copy or paste, go to edge of chart for commands.

To label graph, right click on "piece of pie"

Format = fluff or fun, be sure to check out

look for Bingo program to make in Excel Jen

For a checkbook, =f2 -d3+d4

Always use Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

NetTrekker

How to use iBooks in the classroom

Challenge base  by Apple

Choose animal, how are they helping?

Research

Need Lion, not Snow leopard

Write in word, then go to ibook author

Why write a paper when you can write a book for everyone to see
To share with others, just share

do not put on iTunes

Only
View on iPad

Apple takes i/3 if you sell your book

Once changes are made to thenew book, must update. Notes stay the same!  Get the book right the first time!

Create hotspots, three D images


Cteduonline

Bookry make the videos smaller, use youtube widget

Check out infographics, scroller sidebar

To keep file size down, use just shapes ctedu.online
Easier to duplicate, not add

Shut down portrait mode.  Make small boxes, watch how this shifts between portrait and landscape

Get paid account, not free account

Google docs is a bit tricky, use Pages best, Word ok, google doc is tricky, must go back and forth????   Check this out

Ibook author

Lock the story in place

Have inspector offnto the side as you are creating

Widgets make it interactive

Tumbnails do not ordinarily show up, go to widget in inspector

Inspector is the key to using this

Scrolling sidebar, really neat

Fantastic idea, use this with gifted

iBooks Generator
Bookry.com/ widgets


Sharing be careful

In itunes, link on right nav bar, go to iBooks

iPad 8 tools in one

1.  Audio recording and playback
Mp3 player
Voice Thread
Garage band, turn metronom up
Voice record app, send more than in Garage band
Podcasts

2.  Video camera
 Three Ring (
iMovie costs $4.99


3.  iPad is a student response system
Socrative.com
Infuse THIS IS REALLY A GREAT TOOL! Students can send to teacher
Nearpod this is a "push out tool
Twitter

4.  Flipped classroom video recorder
Whiteboard App
Show Me or Screen Chomp

5.  Document Camera
Board Cam
Skitch

6.  Window to online content, note taking and collaborating
Duo Browser(compare and contrast)
Sync Space(draw on something, save document)
Notability ($) Note taking
Google Drive

7.  Animation studio
Toon Tastic - Gives a story arc, draw your own characters and backgrounds
Puppet Pals

8.  A Slate to Control your Interactive Whiteboard
doceri (http://doceri.com/videos.php

9.  E-reader (and publishing house)
iBooks
Scribble Press ($)
My Story ($)

Assessment

EPubs-

Socrative

More 60

Cloud magic- search files
Quipper-build in apps, sat prep, create flashcards
Professor Garfield cyber bullying
Edmodo - upload and maage Edmodo
Rover - flash content on iPad use Discovery
Media players -iMedia player
iTriage health
Evernote peek- flashcards
Qwiki-create with pictures
Collins Big Cat book
Morfo -morphs photo

60 in 60

Videolicious- add video
Cardstar
Hellosign . Fill in blanks add signature
Task list pro
Fetchnotes-note taking and to-do list
JotNot scanner -
Aurasma
Cozi-calendar and to do list, ...
Quick Graph
iFormulas
Math multiplication tables
Text scanning options(google goggles) or Image to text....hold phone steady!
Educreations interactive whiteboard
Google Drive
Plain text editor
Somnote
Skymap
Slide speech - reads presenter notes
Showbie - share and give notes
Explain Everything - draw and record
Nearpod-create on computer, send lesson
PicView-annotate on pictures, photo editting
Kindle reader
Three ring like three ring binder
Classroom organizer-Isbn codes, manage library
Doddle buddy -
Little Bird Tales -digital stories, draw
Cursive Writing HD
Diptic  - change images good with instagran
Group Shot - alters a picture/ edit
Photo Tangler - blends pictures
History: Maps of the World, shows different time periods
Today in History Lite
Sentence Builder-sentence sequence and agreement
Molecular viewers NDK or Moleculars
Letter Reflex - sp ed apps, corrects dyslexia
Socrative- any device, asks question like exit ticket
Penultimate-notepad for iPad
Subtext- puts notes and messages across reading
Videolicious - puts pics in story, can record
Skoolbo -worlds to learn in
Scientific calculators real calc....
Alegro
Math Ref Free
Triangulation
Songify-speak in, makes into song
Zite -aggratator
Babble -languages
Appoliscious

Becoming an online learning for growth

Use tweet deck

Tweetdoc

RSS feeds Google Reader

Check iGoogle to get more screens on my homepage on google

Netvib like iGoogle

Rss feed for scholarly articles

Ebsco host

ibook, iAuthor

Tinyurl.com/appleatpetec

Go to iBooks author on a Mac laptop
Compress rates are adjusted by Mac when bringing in information

Check widgets to add on extra images

Folders of pix can be dragged into textbook

Each picture can have text added

When previewing, plug iPad in, then preview, then, when done, then publish check how to do this

ITunes U, has a course manager

ITunes U

Tinyurl.com/appleatpetec. Tis is all the presentations that Apple is doing here at Pete&c

Cleaning out the Crickets, Enhancing Faculty Presence in Online Instruction

Tinyurl.com/PETEC-Crickets

Faculty presence, having a voice in the course.  Electronics bring things alive

Sense of being with you

Technology works seeminglessly

Nothing in content that can be updated

Introductory message
Conversational content
Recorded explanation
Video explanation
Discussion boards

Check out "scribble"

Give a sense of community

Set virtual office hours
Time lapse for responding, at least twice a day
Be flexible
Remember, students contacting is typically the last resort
Tutor available if possible

Recommended reading
Building online communities

Mmk20@pennstate.edu

Educreations check this out

Showme

Flipped classroom

Video the lesson

Group to individual learning space

Not all about video

No device divide, use dvd, flash drive

For home instruction, use flipped classroom

Keep video short

Archived the lessons

Mastery...udl(universal design lesson)...pbl....pd

Standard based learning

Do not get rid of textbooks...some students learn this way

Curation vs creation have students find the info online, curating the information

Teaching, individual personal

Maintain quality control

Flippedlearning network

Flippedlearning.org sharing ideas in the classroom NING

When MOOC revolution comes to K -12

Massively open online course
3kinds
New model, undergrad
Grad,humanities
Existing courses, models open

harvard

American interest

Udacity

Evaluate  learner
Inputbof learners
Truly evolve instruction

Virtual Mentoring

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1. Know the role as mentor and cheerleader
2. Get to know students
3. Orientation  transition

Good place to work, not on front of the tv!

Jing

Screenr

Screencast matic

Very frequent, call

Anymeeting set up room , share screen...can record

Hangout

Oovoo

Be sure to document everything...google form to document everything

Keynote Speaker - Jonathan Strickland/content curation

Cutating Information

Data explosion - 640 terabytes transfer every minute. Equal to porinted material in the Library of Congress

Shifting problems

Content easy to consume...skimming

Digital tech books
__________________________

Linda Nitsche

Filter failure

Process, tools, step up how to be better

Process:
Small pieces have been pulled
Select....what you want

Filter:
Curation contribute, your own expertise,









Add value by what i select, how i connect pieces together
What are your content goals?
Let products work for you, but bring in the human side, don't let it go.
Link and attribute
Organize a common memory
Context addition oiece to write, tag makes the commentary....why valuable and important.
Facebook could become the next BBC

Tools
Listly diigo next gen embed to sites
Bundlr - share bundles of content

Pulse- magazine, calls up newspapers, magazines  good way to see different perspectives(fox, msnbc)
Paper.li
Scoop.it use to push out information, can add value by commenting
Storify tools, build narrative on a topic
Part three stepping up

Plan start small
Set a goal
Set a schedule
Identify sources
Scan and select
Read deeply

Annotate
Provide context
Share

Library of Congress
K-12 web archiving

Gamefication and closing DEN 2013

Rewards playing games

Edmodo, education group can walk you through it.

New user create a new account:  4BAD-8256 for science tech book til June.

Deseasonalsciencestreams.wikispaces.com
Student lesson power points

March 1 at 1pm doodle 4 Google livestream

Denconnects.com

Denapalooza.com

March 25th register by for summer Burlington

H Appy hour

Reflector for an app sharer

Instant peotry HD app

Myscript calculator

Aurasma

Sock puppets

50 ways to use unitedstreaming

Single image . Hold image, it will go to iphoto, image can bef dragged to word or google

Audioboo will be great for a sound safari

Add images and video to songs


Tagxedo or wordle, tagxedo can use shapes as well.  Can imbed in wikispaces.  Also try word garden

Audiopal, then search in discovery. Audio reader find Matt Mohan

World atlas . Use on whiteboard

Use the calendar

Video yearbook

American heritage dictionary "you are your words firefox or safari

Pre Confence with Discovery

Qwiki  check this out for video and pictures

Link.discoveryed.com/10in10

At the core of Instruction:  Digital Media and the Common Core

Http://tinyurl.com/COREofDE

Discovery stream plus will have common core, K12

Young zone . Current event articles, students can write their own

Have students create

Paper slide video check this out

Study jams. Order of operations

Check out board builder in May, they will let us know
________.
10 awesome STEM LESSONS . PATTI Duncan

Skill sets are important, but math is the key











1.  Hot Air balloons, how this matches with all STEM ....in the planning book, write what uou do to be sure to include collaboration, learning, etc.
2.  Design a home (it's about time, active physics
3.  Storm chaser
4. Weathering,...check out Collier county scinece stuff
5.  Simple and complex machines
6. Amusement parks
7. Where in the world
8.

Duncanpatti.wikispaces.com all the info is here

Stem presentations
______________

50 ways to use  Discovery Education

Links.discoveryeducation.com/10in10

Single image . Drag into document, hold on photo and goes directly to iPhoto, use Blabberize to have photo talk

Engage with songs

Sound safari