Hi everyone,
Thanks for your posts yesterday. It was fun reading about all of your experiences . I just got out of the Tuesday Keynote addresses . While there was much to take away from the speakers, one idea stuck with me . "Take something and make something more". So often we (at least me) want to create something new from nothing . This thought gives me pause to think about want we have going already and making it even better . What can I do next year to lift the strengths of what we have with tech and what we do with tech to the next level? It will be a fun adventure to discover the answer to that question . Have fun today. Learn much!
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Saving Democracy: Fake news is great!!!! Need to make kids think about what they are searching for on internet instead of blindly accepting what comes up!
ReplyDeleteSoooo important! Information is available in a never imagined scale and critical thinking skills are very much needed!!!
DeleteNewseum ED has a number of resources regarding fake news and media literacy: https://newseumed.org/stack/media-literacy-resources/
DeleteDid you see this fake news game from the fake news poster session? https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/07/03/533676536/test-your-fake-news-judgement-play-this-game
I am in a session called Stations-Based Instruction, which is being run by a rep from Discovery Education. Turning theory into practice- steps to get you started- using their resources.
ReplyDeleteStudents portfolios presentation today is amazing, tons of resources, check the web, presentation is in resources tab
ReplyDeletehttps://sites.google.com/view/successful-student-portfolios/home?authuser=0
Awesome!
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ReplyDeleteThe keynote presentations were great this morning, many exceptional speakers all focused on student-centered learning and inspiring students to be the best they can be. Attending a Blended Learning Coaching presentation to build off those speakers ideas.
ReplyDeleteWe're in a great session about digital literacy and how to give students opportunities to create purpose, passion, and relevancy to their writing. The speaker encourages us (students, teachers, everyone!) to find our tribe by using technology to create and develop relationships between peers and/or the world through writing.
ReplyDeleteWe are in a great sessions on Stations based learning. Some divergent thinking on multiple intelligence and chunking information. Helping students to complete a task and not get overwhelmed. Kelly Hines is dynamic. Pushing Discovery Education a bit but focusing on good strategies for students.
ReplyDeleteI am attending a great interactive presentation about digital portfolios and I am decided to use Seesaw next year as a class blog. Also I will teach my students how to use their Google Drive as a Growth portfolio.
ReplyDeleteAwesome! I used SeeSaw as a blog and digital portfolio last year!
DeleteISTE U - pd on demand for teachers
ReplyDeleteLuis Perez
Be the spark, light the path
My goal is not to do for him what he can do for himself, but to give him the tools to reach his potential
Andy Weir
Stemread.com
http://www.stemread.com
Katie Martin
We can’t change who we serve, but we can change how we serve them
Kelly Hines - stations based instruction
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The students are doing different things
What does this help support?
Are students really all going to be on task? Of course not.
Overdrive - accessed through using your public library card
25 things you didn’t know
Writing lesson (process) planned out by week
Pre planning only - goal for Monday
Journals as a station - 1 image & 3 statements
These stations allow you to engage in small group instruction with your students
With Stations, the more engaging the better
Dig into mining - website
Discoveryeducation.com - has lots of free resources for teachers
Don’t overcomplicate this, stations can be wherever the bucket with vocabulary stuff in it
My steralite baskets for each student had their name on them in sharpie, acetone nail polish remover will remove anything, including sharpie
Denblogs.com (search for 360, stations in a great way)
Getting ready to check out 60 tech tools in 60 minutes. It should be really fast and hopefully helpful!
ReplyDeleteI learned about Flubaroo, an add on to sheets that will grade both MC and short answer quiz questions that are in forms. Soooo many different add-ons, they are awesome!
ReplyDeleteThere has been so much it is difficult to digest it all. One big take away was with Google Books. The presenter said we can download a csv file from destiny and upload it for all students to access all the time. Then we can create shelves to highlight a category of books. Copyright laws will indicate if the students can see a snipet, preview or the whole book. Then if they want to see more, they can come down to the library. It made me think of how so many things are being disrupted and how we really need to think differently. So fun!
ReplyDeleteLatest and greatest: Learning some amazing new hacks for different aspects of Google
ReplyDelete* photos - you can scan student artwork and digitize it easily using their app (for free)
* Google Earth has a new measuring feature
* Google Sheets - Explore allows you to ask questions and create formulas from those questions. From there - you can click and drag that to your form and apply it throughout
* Cast for Classroom - ability to allow students to cast to the teacher screen (need permissions)
I really enjoyed the 60in60 session. They pit 16 Digital Storytelling tools against one another in a bracket challenge. This year's winner was Adobe Spark. You can check out all of the tools here- goo.gl/UgWrs3
ReplyDeleteWent to blended learning session for people interested in coaching. Although I’m not a coach it was great info on getting blended learning started. Dsdprofessionaldevelopment.com
ReplyDeleteFor those who teach elementary (ages 4-9) codespark has
ReplyDeleteMany free options and a booth at the expo, teaches kids about coding.
Melinda Malo (also posted about blended learning if you have questions)
Book Creator will be better on Chrome in August -- add in video, Flipgrid, Google Docs, Google Forms, Google Drawings, etc.
ReplyDeleteWent to see “Innovative Ways to Use Classtime” by Jon Bergmann and three FLGI International Faculty Members. Got so very cool strategies: Personal Narratives (with many strategies to engage students with it); Differentiation through micro-conversations (talking with every student, everyday to assess); Case-based collaborative learning and Flipping your professional development!
ReplyDeleteIn my final workshop of the day, “Build a Personal Learning Backpack to Give ALL Learners Voice & Choice.” Great presentation on using tools to support student access. Check out the Immersive Reader feature in OneNote. It’s fabulous! You can access the web version via your Chromebook (OneNote Online). Once you have created a notebook you can access the feature under the view menu.
ReplyDeleteAttended the 60 in 60 session and had the opportunity to experience Nearpod. I have never used it so besides all the great resources for story writing, it sparked my interest in Nearpod. Then went to the Expo and found the Nearpod booth and watched an awesome demo...can’t wait to try it out and share with my team!
ReplyDeleteI’ve definitely taken away so much from the poster sessions both today and yesterday. So many great tools and ideas in one place! Also had the opportunity to attend a session by Leslie Fisher. She was amazing and so engaging! Recommend any session by her!
ReplyDeletePear Deck and Google have a free interactive digital citizenship curriculum: https://www.peardeck.com/be-internet-awesome
ReplyDeleteIf you would like students to create flashcards for Quizlet, Pear Deck Vocabulary and Flashcard Factory are available on the free Pear Deck account. You can have students create flashcards and then you can pick the ones you want to include in Quizlet.
For a free 3-month trial of Pear Deck Premium access, go to https://goo.gl/YSD8D9
Do you have Makey Makeys in your school? Combine coding with Scratch and poetry! Students can draw pictures or circle found poetry words with graphite pencils, record their poems in Scratch, and use coding to play back the poems. Let me know if you would like details!
ReplyDeleteI'm donating a year-long CoSpaces Edu license plan to my Coding and Video Game Design clubs -- the ISTE conference price was too good to not give it a try! And it works with Chromebooks! (CoSpaces Edu: https://cospaces.io/edu/)
ReplyDeleteStudents can create VR and AR in a number of ways -- dragging, block coding, JavaScript, and TypeScript. Did you pick up one of the free MergeCubes? You can view what you created on one of those. (Merge Cubes: https://mergevr.com/cube)
I did see a demonstration with CoSpaces Edu used in different content areas, from storytelling to modeling a cell. Maybe you saw CoSpaces Edu on Playground A? Here's the resources page with some ideas: https://cospaces.io/edu/resources.html
Some teachers also mentioned there is an active Facebook group.
Seats are re-assignable and my license starts now, so if you would like to play with CoSpaces Edu this summer, let me know and I'll assign you a seat.
Collaboration Corner "think of this as your digital want-ad space for finding collaborators" -- https://padlet.com/coach_kbaker/collaboration
ReplyDeleteFree Shakespeare resource: https://myshakespeare.com/
ReplyDeleteAudio recordings, popup notes, performances, interviews with characters, and more.