Well, tonight's class was lots of fun and very informative. What I learned is that I WANT the Apple TV for my classroom. Getting to use my iPad and projector without wires! Whoopeee! I also loved learning more about Evernote. What a great way of taking notes and pictures and having them synch with my iPad and computer! Yippee! Plus I learned how to create keyboard shortcuts! Yeah, no more typing my school address--which is sooooo long! Tonight I learned more about QR readers. I'm thinking there are some real possibilities using this app. For example, students do a math problems and then scan the QR and see a solution! Poll Everywhere could also be a fun way to collect data using my classroom iPads. This data could then be used for our graphing unit. Plus other classes could participate too! Garageband on the iPad was a fun place to learn more. Music is NOT my strength, so I need to do some practicing before I would be ready to use it in the classroom. I finally got set up to receive UCET emails so I can learn about free apps for my iPad! Yeah. Learned a new way to search for cool iPad apps. I really like AppGrooves. I'm not as sure about Discover, but I didn't get to play around with it since it wasn't free. What I really liked about AppGrooves is the Sales option. I just love sales! In this center I learned about some super cool apps. I am very excited about the Cursive Practice app that was shared. I totally know how I want to use this in my classroom next year! Who knew cursive could be fun! Facetime allowed me to see benefits of using Facetime vs. Skype. Drawback--everyone needs to be on Apple products. I also learned so really cool shortcuts for my iPad! Maybe I'll get good at this one of these days! Well, I learned a lot and loved tonight's format!
Pretty excited about re-visiting Prezi! Boy does it look different from when I learned how to use it! It was easy to catch back up. I know I could use this with my students. I'll just need to decide how I can best use Prezi (or other Web 2.0 tool) with my students considering the new common core and Reading Streets. Time is going to be tight next year. Squeezing in technology means being creative!
VoiceThread--I enjoyed how we created a class VoiceThead. I'm glad this was modeled for us. It opened my eyes on different ways I could incorporate it into my classroom with a handful of computers. Prezi-- Zooming, --get your audience's attention Non-linear--a big canvas--help to make connections--not traditional slides Zoom in for close up or out for big picture Freedom Online--traveling teacher or giving presentation in another room without needing your very computer--any machine--need internet--students can present from any machine Can spice up a presentation Can edit Prezi presentation in a group--similar to Google Docs Can embed Prezi into other presentation Using Dropbox with Your Students--Alli's presentation
Dropbox-- Hmm.. I would love to use this somehow. How? What assignments? Spelling? Reading minutes? Book reports? Individual poems--comment on each other's poem. Dropbox for each student or for whole class. Enrichment activities 1. Students turn in their assignments. Paperless classroom. No "lost" assignments. No heavy stacks to take home and grade. No "I left my assignment at home" Return papers electronically Your comments are typed and readable. 2. "Drop" handouts into the class Dropbox rather than spending time and resources copying and passing them out in class. Step towards paperless classroom--don't print out manuals, handbooks, reference sheets, etc. No more "can I get another..." No more "I left my ___ at home/school" Easily edit and update handouts and worksheets Long-term storage of documents for students to review later 3. Collaboration--students can easily share work with each other in small groups students can edit and comment on each other's work students can share ideas, suggestions, or topic choices build and share common resources such as notes, readings, photos, maps, etc. asynchronous peer response Using Google Docs in the Classroom I really loved how we used Google Docs with the 7 Wonders of Nature Web Quest. How might I use this in my classroom? I am thinking about having an interactive "never-ending story" with another classroom. Students could edit each other's work. Google Plus--a new social networking engine (overall tool). Plus is just another tool. Just need to turn it on. Like Facebook and Twitter, you get updates with your stream. Something like better than Twitter--can put more than 140 characters in it. Can post videos and photos. So do I really want yet another place (tool) to keep in touch? NO! I have too many tools and places to follow! Google Hangout--Can have up to 10 people. Only one person can talk at one time. When a person talks--his/her picture comes up. Now, I can see how Google Hangout could be helpful. Being able to have up to 10 people could make discussions more interesting. People need to be "attached" to your Google Plus account to make this work. Cannot use csd account. Need to use your personal account. This is a drawback for me. I would prefer anything relating to work to be attached to my work emails. Can actually record hangout session. Using Skype to bring in experts. What a fantastic, fun experience tonight. I just loved how Skype was integrated. The activity was fabulous. It felt good to get up and move. I now have a dance lesson I could use with my class as well as experience on how to use Skype! What ideas found in these articles were your favorite ideas for using VoiceThread in the classroom? Explain. What ideas have you come up with for using VoiceThread and other Web2.0 presentation tools? I think VoiceThread will be an easy Web 2.0 presentation tool to begin using. Here are a couple of ideas I have quickly brainstormed as well as ideas I found intriguing from the articles: * Timeline of of flag and pledge history. My students have already created a small poster with a piece of history about the flag and the pledge. I want to scan their posters or take pictures of it and have them tell about their piece. * Pictures of how humans are humans are impacting the earth. Show a picture, students tell what is happening or facts about it. Others respond on how they could help fix the problem. * I still love the idea of writing poems and having students illustrate them and then record themselves reading them. Parents and students could comment on their poems. Ideas I think I could use in my own classroom based 26 Interesting Ways to use VoiceThread in the Classroom #1 - Mystery PlacesUpload an image of a mystery scene and have the class suggest what they think it is or what might have caused it--This could be integrated with the concepts being taught during reading. Students could then respond during "workstation" time. Or show a picture of something being studied. Students read information about the picture and record an interesting fact or give their opinion. #3 - Peer Review ArtworkScan in and upload the children's artwork. Using VoiceThread, the children zoom in on each other's work, adding comments and annotations on sections they like. This could help students learn how to give positive feedback, thus helping to build classroom community. #5 - (re)View & Discuss Video Voicethread lets you add video, upload a clip; comment, review and discuss..... Using the big questions in Reading Streets, I could upload videos, so students could add comments, review it, and discuss. This could be done during "workstation" time. #9 - Reviews*Use Voicethread as an alternative 'My favourite...' lesson idea*Import photos from a school outing and ask class to document it*After exploring a topic in Science/History/Geography ask the class to discuss what they liked most or didn't enjoy This is a great idea. I think I might try this next week after our field trip to the landfill and copper mine. Maybe I could have students draw or take pictures about something they learned. #10 - What are they thinking?* Find images of people... these might include: * your own digital photos, * Creative Commons images from Flickr (or other photo sharing sites), still pictures taken from a film.* Ask pupils to add text / audio comments to explore what the characters in the pictures might be saying / thinking / feeling.* Great for developing inference, deduction and empathy skills. I could require written responses to practice how to use quotations and word choice. Or for informational text, students could record a caption. #12 - Collaborative play scripts Add a series of images or video footage to use as a basic storyline for a play. Each student takes on the 'voice' of a character and adds to the thread to develop the dialogue. Stage directions can also be included. This has potential...Hmm? #13 - Write "Important" PoemsRead The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown to your students. Have them write their own "important" poem. Create a VoiceThread of their finished work. Then they can add comments on each other's page. What a fantastic way to get to know each other at the beginning of the year! #15 - Improve WritingUpload a piece of good writing and in shared reading annotate what makes it good. Upload a piece of 'dull' writing and choose sections for children to improve- annotate or record What another powerful way to get students to be reflective on writing. I can see ways this could be integrated into the Reading Streets program. I would consider myself very illiterate when it comes to history. I found it dull when in school. Reading from textbooks, answering end-of-chapter questions did little to excite me towards history. Add to the mix the fact none of my history classes ever made it into the 20th century, you might understand my excitement with the simulation we did via Twitter about Pearl Harbor. This activity made history come alive! I gained so many insights into what it might have been like had I been there myself. Had I read this in a history textbook, I would never have learned that Mr. Austin was a hero who held the porthole open for Adolph Mortenson, knowing he wouldn't fit and would become one of the 2,402 people who would eventually die on this horrific day. By reading all the different accounts, I gained a personal perspective. I wanted to cry when Harry Meid learns his buddy's plane has been attacked. The 2,402 people who died had friends, co-workers, and families that mourned them. If you don't connect with someone in this era, history just becomes a bunch of statistics and facts. This experience took facts and statistics and made them live and breathe. I clapped when Harry Meid later learns his buddy is safe because the enemy had run out of ammo.
I am so thrilled Camille took the time and trouble to set this simulation. For those teaching U.S. and/or world history, what a fabulous tool! Hopefully, you can inspire students to use primary sources to create a retelling that can include many different perspectives! How invaluable to help students feel empathy about people in the past as well as inspire a love of history for their future endeavors! FABULOUS! Tonight's class was really interesting. I found the Pearl Harbor activity so educational and FUN! I can't wait until Sunday to see how the events unfold. This activity really helped me see history in a different light. As for other ways to use Twitter, I want to try some of the ideas that Cathy and I discussed during class. I really think it would be fun Tweet a problem of the day to her class and have them research, calculate, and then Tweet back. I also like the idea of Tweeting parents about reminders. I think Twittering will be a little tweet here and there until I get a better handle on it and how I want to incorporate it. :) As for Facebook, I am not ready to utilize this yet.
Twitter--allows more people to communicate about materials being learned. Less intimidating to share, go back to use as a study aid, have to be more concise and clear--essential points have to be made--have to get rid of the fluff, provides students a voice, more engagement from more students, Twitter accounts--must have an email account--email accounts--students need to be 13 years old--so how to use with younger children. 1. Tweet due dates for upcoming assignments 2. Share what was learned in class and tweet to parents. 3. Tweet with another class--Andelin We could tweet a problem of the day to each other--then the answer later that day. Or question of the day? Or tweet survey's to one another about what we learned. Need to check on Sunday to see all the Pearl Harbor tweets. Social Omph-- A place to add twitter accounts--can schedule when to upload bulk tweets. The tweets will come out at the time "we" put in for our character. How to watch? Use tweetdeck. Have a column for #csdendorse. Cool websites: twhistory--simulations of historical events Facebook--Still deciding how I might want to use this, but I did like the "worksheet" idea that Alli presented Could use Wikipedia--now restricts schools from editing and posting. So now what...? Not the sole source for research. Great place to start your research, but may be too difficult for elementary students. Have students go through and verify references to an entry. A way to conduct research without writing a research page. Could be a way to research questions that arise during class time. Don't forget to use World Book as a means for student research. What would be key words to search by? This would help students learn ways to search more effectively. Wow! There is so much to know to make sure copyrights are protected and not infringed upon! I am feeling a bit overwhelmed! However, I am thankful I am learning about Creative Commons, so I can help educate my students on how to be a responsible digital citizen. Without this class, I would be infringing on copyrights and opening myself to possible consequences. I think I will follow Camille's example and keep the Fair Use guidelines handy to help ensure I don't stray from what is allowable. So I was wondering if I make a test and/or worksheet and share it, should I put the CC information at the bottom to help other teachers know how I want my work to be used? I am glad we did the spreadsheet in Google Docs tonight, so I can quickly look over the pros and cons of sites where students might be able to use photos, etc. This will really help with time being so limited! Well that's about it for tonight! For the rest of this course, we are going to work on using tools with students. Creative commons--kid-friendly & copyright friendly sites for kids www.copyrightkids.org How can we license things using creative commons so things are being used the way we want them to be used? Places to find elements to use--may not be a free for all--may have creative commons restrictions.
Make sure you the rights Make sure you understand how Creative Commons licenses operate How does a Creative Commons license operate? Do the ported licenses contain special terms depending on which you choose? Can put a blanket CC on your blog? You can put specific CC on certain photos? No rights given for family, other photos are licensed in a different way. CC Licenses--Attribution CCBY This license lets otherss distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accomodating license. CAN do anything you want with this. Next up--CC Licenses--Attribution--No Derivs CC BY--ND Can use it, but cannot change it--must give credit. CC Licenses--Attribution--NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY--NC-SA Noncommercial, Share Alike- Can remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms CC Licenses--attribution--share alike CC BY SA This allows commercial use. "copyleft" CC Licenses--Attribution--Noncommerical CC BY-NC DON'T have to license their derivative works on the same terms. Must acknowledge you and not be commercial CC Licenses--Attribution--NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND Can't change them in any way or use them commercially. Must give credit--can't use commercially--MOST restrictive of all 6 licenses. Creativecommons.org Walks you through how you want to license your work. Flubaroo--grading made easy--able to email students their grades. FAIR USE Policy What is fair use? a fair use is any copying of copyrighted material done for a limited "transformative" Public Domain--not protected by intellectual property such as copyright, trademark, or patent laws. * copyright has expired--person dead plus 70 years * the copyright owner failed to follow copyright renewal rules * the copyright owner deliberately places it in the public domain, known as dedication * copyright law does not protect this type of work A Fair(y) Use Tale--never use Disney--this video falls into Fair Use category Fair Use--you can can parody, critical comments, teach, news reporting Rules: 1. Nature of the work borrowed--how using the work 2. The amount of work borrowed--music/audio 10% or 30 seconds which ever is shorter.; 10% or 3 minutes of a movie or which ever is shorter 3. Doesn't change commercial impact 4. Legal defense to copyright Kid Blogging
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