The Mystery of the Virtual Museum!

PETE&C 2015

The mystery of the virtual museum
The virtualmuseum.wikispaces.com

Ppt do not have it start automatically, will only play once

Kiosk- self running presentation

Angled wall is trapezoid, edit shape, look for points

Use a shape box for hyperlink

Click button on top, option to transparent, hyperlink buttons

Copy buttons to other pages

Kiosk info, hide all the slides- hide, shift key to hide all the slides
Go to set up show

2015 PAGE Gifted Conference:

GAME ON! Brian Housand

GAME ON Brian Housand

Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium First to start

Padlet, neat to use

Games:

Rules, Objectives, and Obstacles

VolunTARY, OFFER CHOICES, CONSEQUENCES, FEEDBACK

SCOT OSTERWEIL Games check his work Freedom to experiment, fail, differnct identities, effort

Vygotsky, play theory, check his work - imaginary situations...leads to self-regulation, determines by rules of the game to be successful

CAndyland, make new rules

The game of school

Einstein - form of investigation

Tell stories, collaborate, team that know how to work with each other

Dixit,Takenoko (fun to build and eat bamboo) CHRISTMAS, 

statistics video game play equals to creativity

Museum of Play Rocheste in NY

New Medium consortium NMC - Horizon Report 

Gamification Coursera "For the Win"

FORBIDDen Island

DIY.org for Badges buy badges...CHECK THIS OUT

Badges like military....IDEA

Leaderboards can be great for student, not DASHBOARDS

Gamification is creating an experience, and want to tell everyone about it

Disney Youth Education Series....

Turn rides into attractions

Write letter to self...

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