Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Planning activities, finding resources, and our examples

Chirp App

Infuse Learning for student responses from any device


Angie Kaltoff's iPad in the classroom Webinar (~10 mins)
Angie Kaltoff's Webinar Notes


Harry Walker's App Rubric

Matt Gomez Pinterest 
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QR Codes: 
goo.gl URL Shortener
Google Spreadsheet QR code template - good for quickly making many QR Codes!


Examples from Washington: 
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  • This is a vocabulary project. Students were asked to create popples for words and their definitions. We were able to move popples around, cover definitions with words, and match the words with the right definitions.
  • Problem: can't save it or keep it as an interactive activity for later, only work with it during class




















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  • I've had students create group drawings. We pass the ipad around the room and each student gets a chance to add his/her own touch to the drawing. We all watch the drawing grow on the SMART board.

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  • Students used iPads to Video other students on their team making news reports about news worthy topics(curricular goal is making a speech). This included special correspondent news reports "made in the field". These special reports interviewed teachers and students. Commercials were also  created if the team chose to do commercials. The news cast panel presented their individual news items, introduced a video special report with a transition from news cast to special report and back to the new cast panel. Students also transitioned to commercial break and back to the news cast panel.Each group presented their news cast live. It was video recorded along with each special report and commercial to be played back for review. The news team and class critiqued the entire presentation.
  • The techo challenge was to get all the inputs into the iPad to mirror with my smartboard.
  • The logistics monitoring students and their accountability for using the iPads posed challenges. Holding students accountable for where they had checked out to in the building to conduct their work was also a challenge.  The accessibility of the iPads to complete the  project in a reasonable time frame was a challenge as well. The assistance, patience and understanding of teachers and other staff was appreciated. Making sure that the video content of students was kept "in house" is always a concern.
  • The rhubric will be developed by me and my students to be as authentic as possible.

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Using Educreations App:
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Tools for planning video projects in your classroom (Google Docs folder)

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Washington Cohort Meeting 4-3-2013

Digital Content
  • What digital resources are you using in your classroom? 
  • Where do you find resources? 
  • What content and/or idea are you most excited about?
How we use digital content/resource
Supplement reading,
"Teacher Assistant" - help a student while you help others 
Lesson review - explain the lesson using Educreations video 
Provide more "location" or experience more than simply using photos or 

Snapshots of teaching and learning - Classroom video and pictures
  • What videos do you learn from? 
  • What type of video do you use in class now? 
Criteria for a GOOD instructional video:

RELEVANT - Standards-focused
  1.  Visual - Instruction right down to the point
  2.  Creative ways to present BORING material 
  3.  Interactive - SOME way to elicit responses or stir action  
  4.  Quality sound, picture - high def when possible!
  5. Engaging  
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Basic needs we have: 

How do I assess student work when it is digital?  /What to do with work turned in electronically 


Content Showdown - Each content area will show off a few of their best digital resources (must be free)