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Showing posts with label Ipadpalooza. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ipadpalooza. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Innovation Exchange 2017
Here are my presentation slides for todays conference. I'm going to be talking about technology in the classroom, Showbie, Google Forms, using social media to communicate with parents, and creating a classroom blog.
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Almost Famous
I'm all home and settled in from my two days of traveling back and forth to IpadpaloozaIN, and the kids are asleep. Kids asleep in my house means time on my devices (My husband and I try to limit our device time when the kids are awake). I get on Twitter and one of the presenters from IpadpaloozaIN tweeted about their time there. They posted a collage of photos and guess who is front and center in one of them working hard on an activity? If you guessed me, you are totally right! So not only did I finally get to hear and see some of Kristin Ziemkes insights, but she tweeted out a photo with me in it. 👍🏻😊
Here's the link to her tweet:
https://twitter.com/kristinziemke/status/742841389579374597
The picture I'm shown (green shirt) in, we are working on an authentic assessment. She had pre-recorded a video with the assignment that explained in detail the task. The purpose of making the video was to help demonstrate how to make multiples of you (the teacher), as well as to give us an opportunity to try an authentic assessment using technology.
The first reason for the video was for creating multiples of you. This is a tool to use for the next day after a lesson when students ask, "Mrs. Moyer I can't remember how to do this, can you show me again?" As the teacher you will have recorded a short 2-3 minute video the day before of the lesson you taught. Then when a student asks to be taught again (or they were absent), you can direct them to that video. This enables you to be in multiple places at once.
As to where the video is located depends on your classroom. Did you email it to your students to save to their camera roll? Did you send it to them to save on their one drive? Do you have a folder in Showbie for videos? On OneNote do you have a video section under each subject? Are they posted somewhere students can access from any where or on any device? Once you have established a place and a routine for posting the mini lesson videos, you can create the habit daily to take 5-10 minutes to create and upload these videos.
Then the second reason for the video was to try for ourselves an authentic assessment that uses technology where students create with not consume the technology. We were told there were various supplies around the room, and we were to take them and create something. Once we created it, we needed to take a picture of our creation. When we were done with that she had us create a meme of our picture, but we needed to use 8-10 words to describe it. Here's my meme for you.
The picture I'm shown (green shirt) in, we are working on an authentic assessment. She had pre-recorded a video with the assignment that explained in detail the task. The purpose of making the video was to help demonstrate how to make multiples of you (the teacher), as well as to give us an opportunity to try an authentic assessment using technology.
The first reason for the video was for creating multiples of you. This is a tool to use for the next day after a lesson when students ask, "Mrs. Moyer I can't remember how to do this, can you show me again?" As the teacher you will have recorded a short 2-3 minute video the day before of the lesson you taught. Then when a student asks to be taught again (or they were absent), you can direct them to that video. This enables you to be in multiple places at once.
As to where the video is located depends on your classroom. Did you email it to your students to save to their camera roll? Did you send it to them to save on their one drive? Do you have a folder in Showbie for videos? On OneNote do you have a video section under each subject? Are they posted somewhere students can access from any where or on any device? Once you have established a place and a routine for posting the mini lesson videos, you can create the habit daily to take 5-10 minutes to create and upload these videos.
Then the second reason for the video was to try for ourselves an authentic assessment that uses technology where students create with not consume the technology. We were told there were various supplies around the room, and we were to take them and create something. Once we created it, we needed to take a picture of our creation. When we were done with that she had us create a meme of our picture, but we needed to use 8-10 words to describe it. Here's my meme for you.
What I loved about this activity was how this took the skills we taught them in previous lessons that they in turn had to use in a real life application versus the standard paper/pencil assessment. This activity gives the students the ability to work at their creativity level, while still using the skills we had taught them. Then we are able to pull in other subjects by using the technology to show and tell their work. She displayed a short video followed by simple directions with a QR code for students to quickly find the video again to watch on their own if they needed to see it again.
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| Directions for students after watching video with a QR code to watch it again if needed. |
I can't wait to try this activity this year with my students at the end of our electricity unit. Then in showbie I plan on posting my mini lessons for them in school. For outside of school access and for their parents I'll post on our classroom blog/facebook page.
Monday, June 13, 2016
iPadpaloozaIN2016
iPadpaloozaIN2016 has officially started! We just finished with an awesome/inspiring keynote speaker presentation. Thank you to Brad and Drew (Two Guys and Some iPads) for motivating us as educators this morning. I have two days packed with presentations and workshops, and can't wait to share what insights I learned. I'm just going to leave you with this video that touches you as an educator, and then gives you a really good chuckle.
Friday, July 17, 2015
iPadpalooza IN
I just spent two days at one of the best educational conferences I've been to - in the short teaching career that I've had. It was all about creating a digital classroom using computers and iPads. Needless to say I was in heaven. I went to 4 sessions, 2 workshops, and 2 keynotes. Topics that I learned more about were: Project Based Learning, iMovie (6 word stories, 6 pictures), Padlet, Evernote, KidBlog, Book Creator, Vocaroo, PixiClip, Screencastify, Kahoot, and many more. This seems like a lot, but each feature can be used in different ways in your classroom. In my mind I have many possibilities.
Reading/Daily 5/Writing:
* iMovie - create 6 word stories with 6 pictures. Don Goble is amazing at sharing his work with 6 word stories. Besides being great at captivating his audience, you can tell he has a passion for what he does. You can see his passion through his students work. It's amazing the stories students' can create using just 6 words. Don went on to explain that for the 6 pictures you can't use the 6 same shots. He teaches and identifies different shot angles to his students to enable them to be successful. "Zoom with your feet" - Don't use the zoom feature on your device, move your feet with the device to zoom. If you are interested in his 6 word story concept, apple has published his book and it is free in their book store: Six-Word Story, Six Unique Shots. Once your students have their shots (Don recommends 10 seconds to get a good clear shot than you edit down) they can then use iMovie to create a short clip of their story. I'm still on the fence about iMovie - I don't like all the space it eats up in your storage/memory.
*Padlet - Besides being an awesome sticky note board for your class to use for writing or reading, it can be used in Word Work. For the current weeks story you can create a padlet for each vocabulary word. It can be time consuming to create a padlet for each of the vocabulary words associated with your story, but it can benefit the students. When you create the padlet board, type in one word for each padlet, define it, and use it in a sentence. The students job will be to write back their own post using it in their own sentence and finding a way to depict it with their camera, picollage, or a drawing app that can be posted to padlet. Also when reading your story for the week, you can create a padlet for your students to post their questions of the story (book walks, predictions, comprehension questions, etc). You can share your padlets by embedding it into your classroom blog, sending the link to your students email, or creating a QR code.
*Book Creator - If you are like me your district gave you a PC (which totally limits you), and not a Mac. Due to this you can not use iBooks Author :( BUT if you have an iPad you can use Book Creator. There is a free version (lets you have only one book at a time) or a paid version for $4.99. Jon Smith (really that's his name) was a great help in teaching this app! He was full of energy and very knowledgeable. What I find amazing is all the possibilities with this app. Jon said, "If you can add it to your camera roll you can add it to book creator." The possibilities are endless. Book creator can be used to create a classroom book to be used at the beginning of the year as an introductory, a classroom procedure book, listen to reading/small group books. For the listen to reading/small group books I'm talking about take pictures of a story and insert the pictures as a story in book creator. THEN you can record yourself reading each page!!!! Isn't this awesome for your reading block and listen to reading?! Once you are done creating your story, all you have to do is publish it. You can email it, instashare it, or upload it to your ibooks. Either way your students can have access to it on their devices to have as reminders (especially those classroom procedure books for students who need those constant reminders).
*Evernote - This app/program frustrated me all last year!!! I ended up quitting on it and moved on to Showbie. Two wonderful ladies, Ramona Towner & Jordan Garrett, helped me to discover a much better and easier use for Evernote. First I learned you can access it on your computer!!! HELLO? Where was I on that one? LOL Any way, my district uses Lucy Caulkins for our writing curriculum. As part of that, we conference with our students. My students notebooks were full of post-its from me and them (or my floor from them falling out). I struggled on where to keep notes on my students writing to know what skills to focus on or what to remember to look for next time. These ladies have solved all my problems....hopefully. In Evernote, all you need to do is create a new notebook - I labeled mine Writers Workshop. Within that notebook, create a new note for each student. Then when you conference with that student, just pull up their note and you can type in new anecdotes, add pictures of work, or videos of them you took. Make sure and tag their note so if you create other subject notebooks for your students you can click on their name for parent teacher conferences and have all their data ready!!!! Genius I'm telling you!
*Kid Blog/Blogger - Kid Blog is great to use in the classroom with your students. Everything I have read revolves around this being the more secure option. You can use it to post items for your students to click on or go to, post announcements, use it as as your reader response journal, tutorial links, and many more possibilities. If you use it as a reader response journal, there is no need for them to turn in their journals, no need for you to take home journals, and they get quicker/instant feedback for their work. Padlet can be embedded or linked to the blog. I love the idea of recording yourself solving a math problem using a strategy they just learned, then they have access to it to watch it over and over until they get a better understanding. Blogger is great for parent communication! Tammy Worcester Tang is amazing at blogging! Because of her, I was able to create my blog! She has also ignited all my ideas for my classroom blogs! My parents aren't very good at checking their child's book bag. I have kids that I go through their book bag and throw papers away (even though I gave the papers to them). I do know, almost all of my parents have a smart phone. At back to school night, my students homework assignment, parent teacher conferences, etc I'm going to post/write my classroom blog down and have them save it! If my parents want to know what homework is that week or when it is due they can look under the homework page, if a child doesn't understand how to solve something I will have our math strategy videos from class posted, a parent communication page, and many more possibilities. I'm hoping with a classroom blog to close the miscommunication gap in my room.
I chose to highlight just a few of the new ideas that have been sparked in my mind. I'm hoping these new tools will enable my students to be more independent, our room to use less paper, and have better parent/teacher communication. 3 weeks until it is go time - which means plenty of time to get it all set up!
Reading/Daily 5/Writing:
* iMovie - create 6 word stories with 6 pictures. Don Goble is amazing at sharing his work with 6 word stories. Besides being great at captivating his audience, you can tell he has a passion for what he does. You can see his passion through his students work. It's amazing the stories students' can create using just 6 words. Don went on to explain that for the 6 pictures you can't use the 6 same shots. He teaches and identifies different shot angles to his students to enable them to be successful. "Zoom with your feet" - Don't use the zoom feature on your device, move your feet with the device to zoom. If you are interested in his 6 word story concept, apple has published his book and it is free in their book store: Six-Word Story, Six Unique Shots. Once your students have their shots (Don recommends 10 seconds to get a good clear shot than you edit down) they can then use iMovie to create a short clip of their story. I'm still on the fence about iMovie - I don't like all the space it eats up in your storage/memory.
*Padlet - Besides being an awesome sticky note board for your class to use for writing or reading, it can be used in Word Work. For the current weeks story you can create a padlet for each vocabulary word. It can be time consuming to create a padlet for each of the vocabulary words associated with your story, but it can benefit the students. When you create the padlet board, type in one word for each padlet, define it, and use it in a sentence. The students job will be to write back their own post using it in their own sentence and finding a way to depict it with their camera, picollage, or a drawing app that can be posted to padlet. Also when reading your story for the week, you can create a padlet for your students to post their questions of the story (book walks, predictions, comprehension questions, etc). You can share your padlets by embedding it into your classroom blog, sending the link to your students email, or creating a QR code.
*Book Creator - If you are like me your district gave you a PC (which totally limits you), and not a Mac. Due to this you can not use iBooks Author :( BUT if you have an iPad you can use Book Creator. There is a free version (lets you have only one book at a time) or a paid version for $4.99. Jon Smith (really that's his name) was a great help in teaching this app! He was full of energy and very knowledgeable. What I find amazing is all the possibilities with this app. Jon said, "If you can add it to your camera roll you can add it to book creator." The possibilities are endless. Book creator can be used to create a classroom book to be used at the beginning of the year as an introductory, a classroom procedure book, listen to reading/small group books. For the listen to reading/small group books I'm talking about take pictures of a story and insert the pictures as a story in book creator. THEN you can record yourself reading each page!!!! Isn't this awesome for your reading block and listen to reading?! Once you are done creating your story, all you have to do is publish it. You can email it, instashare it, or upload it to your ibooks. Either way your students can have access to it on their devices to have as reminders (especially those classroom procedure books for students who need those constant reminders).
*Evernote - This app/program frustrated me all last year!!! I ended up quitting on it and moved on to Showbie. Two wonderful ladies, Ramona Towner & Jordan Garrett, helped me to discover a much better and easier use for Evernote. First I learned you can access it on your computer!!! HELLO? Where was I on that one? LOL Any way, my district uses Lucy Caulkins for our writing curriculum. As part of that, we conference with our students. My students notebooks were full of post-its from me and them (or my floor from them falling out). I struggled on where to keep notes on my students writing to know what skills to focus on or what to remember to look for next time. These ladies have solved all my problems....hopefully. In Evernote, all you need to do is create a new notebook - I labeled mine Writers Workshop. Within that notebook, create a new note for each student. Then when you conference with that student, just pull up their note and you can type in new anecdotes, add pictures of work, or videos of them you took. Make sure and tag their note so if you create other subject notebooks for your students you can click on their name for parent teacher conferences and have all their data ready!!!! Genius I'm telling you!
*Kid Blog/Blogger - Kid Blog is great to use in the classroom with your students. Everything I have read revolves around this being the more secure option. You can use it to post items for your students to click on or go to, post announcements, use it as as your reader response journal, tutorial links, and many more possibilities. If you use it as a reader response journal, there is no need for them to turn in their journals, no need for you to take home journals, and they get quicker/instant feedback for their work. Padlet can be embedded or linked to the blog. I love the idea of recording yourself solving a math problem using a strategy they just learned, then they have access to it to watch it over and over until they get a better understanding. Blogger is great for parent communication! Tammy Worcester Tang is amazing at blogging! Because of her, I was able to create my blog! She has also ignited all my ideas for my classroom blogs! My parents aren't very good at checking their child's book bag. I have kids that I go through their book bag and throw papers away (even though I gave the papers to them). I do know, almost all of my parents have a smart phone. At back to school night, my students homework assignment, parent teacher conferences, etc I'm going to post/write my classroom blog down and have them save it! If my parents want to know what homework is that week or when it is due they can look under the homework page, if a child doesn't understand how to solve something I will have our math strategy videos from class posted, a parent communication page, and many more possibilities. I'm hoping with a classroom blog to close the miscommunication gap in my room.
I chose to highlight just a few of the new ideas that have been sparked in my mind. I'm hoping these new tools will enable my students to be more independent, our room to use less paper, and have better parent/teacher communication. 3 weeks until it is go time - which means plenty of time to get it all set up!
Rethinking
After my workshops today, I am going to totally revamp my reading and writing block. There are so many digital ideas I hadn't thought of. First off is the blog! And I've never downloaded so many apps in a two day time period.
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