Keystone - Wednesday

1000 awesome things

Neil Pasricha

A - Attitude
Awareness
Alignment
The 4 SEasons rules:
Smile
Eye
Recognition
Voice
Informed
Clean
Everyone
Authenticity

CLosing thought:

Virtual Teams Online

Virtual teams
On your time schedule, some struggles:
not using same technology
tell them what tools they must use, do not let them decide
Use a group evaluation
Three times check for participation

Establish ground rules, clear code of conduct
Utilize different ways to communicate
Give visuals, screen shots with arrows

If there is a group meeting, have someone take minutes, post minutes on a wiki to take, and attendance is taken.

Tools to use:
phone
email
instant massenger
screen capture
screen share
conference call
video
DimDim

ichat can share screen with others/join with me. (join.me)
Brainstorm: flowchart.com, Sync.in
Yammer
Twiddle
Face Book, Google groups very safe, and secure
Edmodo
Twiddla
freeconferencecall.com
vywf (check this out) - cool tool

windows live 365

Keynote - Tuesday

Construct - Young people have a remarkable capacity for intensity

School has always reflect technology of the day
LOok up BET conference
DIY Revolution - Do It Yourself
Fab and Fab Labs Making what we need to solve the problems we have
Constructing Modern Knowledge
Reggio Emilia

Use materials:
teach a specific concept
gears, friction
thematic
Curricular
Identify problem
freestyle

Effective and questions worth asking
Generation Yes - Look up

Primary Sources - Library of Congress

Session B
PETE&C

On the wiki: tps.calu.com
Check out sister site, "National Archives"

Check out www.stixy.com for notes

www.loc.gov
Tortuguergo box (Check spelling)

American Memory collection, go to more browse options. Then browse by place. Use Google search engine and use "Loc.gov"

Read.gov

On Cal u website: www.calu.edu check QR code to get to the right spot.

An App a Day - using iPads in the Classroom

PETE&C Session A
TEDxManhattan - App Club

Now one way to implement iPads
Professional learning output for teachers...with one iPad, can do things but teachers have the power to work with that, then can expand if it is used. See what teachers are interested in.

Everything we need is at:http://appaday.wikispaces.com/

Check out Apple TV..Steve Dembo explained this
IBrainstorm - can be emailed out, see what to do with it
Draw - Two students can draw at the same time.
Document 2 - can do file sharing, way to get fileshares between others.

toontastic - create a story(use for Gifted)
Audioboo - great way to use audio and create a podcast - free version will create for 5 minutes.
Flip It
Novel Ideas
Idea Sketch (like Inspiration)
Show me
Educreation
Poppetlite - Concept mapping - keep students anonymous by color
Screen Chomp -
simple physics - students can create a tree house, good for gifted.

Research and information fluency
Scratchwork webpage on one side, notes on the other side.
Side by side gives you four windows.
Dragon Dictation will turn your words into text - SAGE for 2nd grade
Apps store,

DAVE, how can we sync






Watch for In Apps purchases because it will encourage you to play, then charge

Customize Images, Sounds & Settings - Sharendipity

This was a very easy game to create, although I cannot figure out how to get my last match to stay put. "Quizlet" does not want to stay on the bottom with "Understanding". Once I created my game, I could not find a way to go back to edit it. That is one feature I wish I could find! Our district pays for subscriptions to Quia, which is also a site that creates different games that my students greatly enjoy. Here is my site, although you cannot see any games I have created on this page, it is a good website for educators. Quia

Gaming in education is a way to help students learn in an enjoyable way. Our students have grown up with video games and using them for educational purposes is "fun". A game, or a challenge, or a puzzle are all ways to engage students in learning and a game such as this is no exception. Whether it is used for review or learning new material, it is a good tool for the classroom.

Creation Activity 5(ED635): Video and Podcasting - iMovie

The movie making tools are certainly at the highest level of Bloom's Taxonomy because students create with these tools.  The first video was made with my students and I trying to figure out how to use a green screen, but after we mastered using a green screen, the students created fantastic videos, placing themselves in a news room, Australia, even the moon.  It was creative and fun.  The second video was filmed entirely by students who knew what we were looking for.  They gave me the camera and we edited,  added the music in the background, and our video was complete.  In the process, the students learned how to do all the editing.  A more detailed explanation is below for each video.

This is a first run on using a green screen in iMovie!  At the PETE&C Discovery Pre-Conference last year I won a green screen and we have had a great deal of fun with it.  In this video, you can see that I took a picture of our Math team, then I tried to add the Bucknell logo behind us because we won "Best of State" at a competition held at Bucknell!  As you can see, one of our students (top right) was wearing a shirt that was too close to the green in our green screen!  That is a hazard to watch for.  Some teachers have used an orange screen because no one usually wears orange, except at Weatherly because our school colors are orange and black.  We then took the image of our team and added someone waving.  Hope you enjoy this "first look", we have now gotten this down and if you would like any help with green screen, let me know or I could bring the green screen to our next class to show you how it works, it is portable.  

                        

 

The second iMovie was created for the CFF map of 1-11-11 to showcase technology at Weatherly.