Saturday, April 9, 2016

Games/Gifted

Do you know who has been tested for gifted?

Knex Grade 4 + 5 and 6,7,8
Go to the website and in left navigation bar for "Parts".
Check at AC Moore
FREE competition
Do a power point creative to show their process
Rubric
Take pictures step by step
Spring
Knex challenges or education has simple challenge

April 4th Academic Competition

Reading Olympics - Look this up 

March 18th is computer fair.

Scholastic Art and Writing Check this out

Math jumpers''

Donors choose

MDT meeting

Screening - find students that need some type of other service.
Look at multiple data sources, not level of peers
Catasaqua Gifted
http://www.cattysd.org/curriculum.cfm?subpage=1028864
  • KATIE - Change Gifted Screening and Referral Process ALL ages, not grade 1 - 8
  • Check “QRI”
  • Go Math test, rubric
  • OLSAT - check this
  • See the power point from Boot Camp Day




Older notes

Strategies to help gifted get thinking

Two types of giftedness, school house and creative

Independent learning cycle of Inquiry, check this out! 

Flow charts www.draw.io

Explain everything

KATIE what is out of the box with gifted

Photobooth - write a poem. That describes what the picture really looks like and what you think it looks like

The Math forum  Drexel...no question, just thinking.  

Book of raina rice????

PA Statistics poster Competition

Issuu

Big campus

Stop and drop????

Today's meet- check this out!


Edmodo https:edmo.do/j/5qcjr9

Edugaming 2015

Stephen Jacobs RIT young people,s geographical game first game checking this out
Grave of human life to teach moral attitude
Milton bradley first game - checker board game of life....has perseverance on it
The game of secession the sketch of rebellion
The Landlord's game

Why edugaming fell apart:
"Why did the market drop educatinal games"
Prof .............. Must read james paul GEE
Gaming blooms check this out
 "Serious games"
A force more powerful - non violent resistence
GAMES
Martha madison marvelous machines
Codemancer teach basic programming
The Rock
Possible worlds
Alien health
Kickstarter, etc
COT Commerical off the shelf games
CHECK OUT Never winter nights - pre-revolutionary game
Educade - promote using games to play on classroom
Institute of play
Quest schools
Playmaker schools
IGDA internaional game developers association
"Wellplayed journal" ETC carnegie mellon get book at lulu

Keeping the quiz out of educational games Steve and Mary
Quizzing detracts from games
Quizzes - fact retention
What player does will be reinforced
Make games that teach something useful
The content needs to be the play
Choices are important
Twitch skill = fast reaction time
Framework
Specific content
Analyze component parts
Essence of the knowledge
Relations of components
User experience (EX)
EXPERIENCE
CORE CHECK- is the educational content still the core play of the game?

Adventures of a new educational game designer Nora
Thegamecrafter.com
@NoraOswald
Simplifyingradicals2.blogspot.com
Kickstarter
Boardgamegeek
Funagain.com
Game crafter will help sell game

Remy and the Book of Rhymes
Global literacy collaborative-curious learning(has info)
Child driven learning

Play at work Jason Paden, Virginia Cooney

Michelle Miller use digital media to level
Better to have parent with TV watching it

Exploding kittens.com

Www.gamesandlearning.com
Tocoboka???
Amplify?????

Gamesandlearning.org

Firstbook

@writetommm

Christopher harris & Brian Mayer
Gvlibraries.org
Genesee Valley educatioal partnership
Playplaylearn.com
Games & gaming

Games
Huba (german)
Evolution
Compounded
Chicago express
Robo rally - help in coding
Parsely game
Inform 7 helps with proceedural choices ??????


1775 attck on canada

Game on wars of reformation B




Selecting games
Gather real games
Align to instructional goals
Modify as needed
Evaluate return on investment

A planet in peril - Ryan Sitler



Today's Technology and the Gifted

Gifted children bill of rights NAGC
Texas association for the gifted and talented #gtchat
Empower and engage, make choices for themselves
Let students know . I like it, i don't like it

Wonderopolis.org
Coursera.org
ITunesU
Khan academy
Roadtrip nation.com/roadmap
Googlesciencefair.com/
springboard
Brain games, National Geographic
The kid should see this - for young minds, want to know more

Not consumers by producers
Imovie trailers

Augmented Reality

PETE&C 2015
The problem

The potential

Sample and procedures

The tools

The learning outcomes

Finally


How to:

Mobile device

Audacity, make recording

Screenflow in place of video in imovie
, ifunface, voki

Easier to go to aurasma website, much slower to use phone

Studio.aurasma.com

Overlay is video

Unclick loop overlay

Make sure it is set to public (step5)

Use a greenscreen, send picture home

Fav203@lehigh.edu

Open Source - Free!



PETE&C 2015
Abiword free Word

Www.pennmanor.net/techblog to get list

Libreoffice - free office (use this one) working on translating any file

FocusWriter - brings screen to write, zen-like white screen, save by rtf or txt format ...typewriter mode

Scratch - coding run on web

Ren'py - merges graphics with student text. Custom stories

Mine test - free to play like Minecraft

Bracket - Adobe for free, clean editor, clean interface. When running, watch what kids

Gnucash - equivalent to Quicken

Gimp - replacement to photoshop functionality the same

Inkscape - replaces illustrator vector based

Scribus - desktop publishing end design

Krita - bit map drawing program

Wordpress - publishing platform, host website. Classroom website, district, etc.

Stellarium - planetarium in a box

Audacity - audio editing

Musescore- music composition

Openshot - LINEX ONLY

Owncloud.org - replaces dropbox and boxdrop, must be set up

Koha- free library system

Ubuntu - nice interface

Github.com - student helpdesk, ticket engine, helps with career day, can survey students, creates rosters

@charlie3 for tweetsETE&

Always On Tweeting

PETE&C 2015


Read only to read and write

Tweet microblogging

Backchannel

Tweet or take a picture, add conciseness,

Ask questions, follow me on twitter.

Students nly one out of 4 using twitter

Follow teacher, but teacher does not follow student

Use no identity email for twitter

Teachable moment

Find middle ground between allowing it or not

Students want something worthwhile

Investment in learning, effort, something that clicks with them, ah moment, i have learned something!

Feedback can guide lesson!

Classroom requirements, expectations

Based on how well it works

Require a minimum number of tweets

Phone pictures for yearbook.  Hashtag send to yearbook

Compromise with different accounts

If you want to see what we are doing?...tweet to follow

Follow other accounts as well!!

Tweet about your topic!!!!!!! My online could do it

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