TIES 2014 - Day 1:)

  I am SO SO SORRY that I am FINALLY getting to this so late!  However - the things I have to share are SO worth waiting for - even after a month:)!!

Session 1 - The Breakfast Club: Darin Swenson and Luke Stordahl led 10 sessions that they called "The Breakfast Club."  They covered various topics throughout the summer to help teachers with their 1:1 initiative.  They met for two hours I believe, and challenged their teachers to come and learn as much as the could.  Donuts were a BIG HIT as we ALL know food helps:), and they included a 7th challenge with a book called Teach Like a Pirate by Dave Burgess.  I have hear NOTHING but great things about this book and they say it will "transform the way you teach."  I heard other speakers at TIES talk about it, so it's definitely one I"m checking out;).  These were some suggestions – find the right number of sessions for you, get input from staff, have free play day and let them try new things (Ed Camp format), provide incentives (CEUs, food and fun)

Session 2 - Curriculum Mapping and the 21st Century: The biggest point to me was

*Where does the information go once you’ve done the mapping?  It lives somewhere and will be immediately out of date – great information – but needs to be a continuum!  However – it’s something they HAVE to do vs. something they WANT to do and continue to do without being told to do so!

*Need for technology to support this process that is also job embedded 

Session 3 - Teaching, Learning, and Creating with the iPad - Kathy Schrock: SO SO SO GOOD:)!!  She was GREAT.  If you have NEVER been to her site or heard her talk  - DO IT!!!  Her site is Kathy Schrock's iPads4teaching and Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything are the two that I use the most - embedded within each other - but direct links sometimes are easier.  She gave a TON of ideas - see below:

IDEAS:

*Back channeling – 81 Dash, Padlet, Today’s Meet

*Adobe Voice – app for iPad and intended to give voice for students to think about ways to make a difference (free) = intended for persuasion

*Plot Synopsis – give them 60 seconds to plot this – and then they video it – ie Forrest Gump video

*Stop Motion Animation – hardest part is keeping camera still – screen shot from video once all gone – brought into editor and then copied picture – brought into PPT and did motion paths…

*Course trailers – introduce to next year teachers or courses

*Book Trailers – use to summarize books, revise videos for new audience of from new character perspective

*iMovie – trailers, mashups (Mary Poppins example – parody)

*Print YouTube Videos – once uploaded – once video starts playing hit booklet – which will give you a storyboard and then allow you to print PDF

*ShowMe!  and Educreations!! = favorite is Exaplain Everything!

*Screen Chomp – screen casting tool

*Animation Desk – light – includes features of animation program and easy to shift slides along – can onion skin easily = can print as a PDF

*Haiku Deck – not many words to show this

*Sock Puppets – free and have puppets that you can talk with ($3.99 with all included and have access to ALL in app purchases)

*Pixntell – allows students to bring in images, easily explain them and then talk about each image – turns it into a movie that can be saved to the camera roll

*30 Hands – create storyboards and make into movie

*AudioBoom – former Audio Boo – create podcast up to 3 minutes

*Shadow Puppet EDU – allows to search common images in library and then put all together to create a movie = records behind each image

*Infographics – iVisual Info Touch Lite – allows to create infographics on iPads

*Tumblr – newspaper article or story

*Blogger on iPad

*Weebly – webpage created that’s free but works on iPad now

If you want help or clarification on ANY of these - just email me and let me know:)

Session 4 - Infographics: Kathy Schrock again:) Another AMAZING tool if you haven't used them yet!  Infographics are just graphics that give information and they are SO powerful.  Links like Chart Porm, Piktochart and Ifo.Gram. 
Take a look at the above sites - they are pretty cool!  Mrs. Gross, our English teacher here, had her kids make Infographics for review of commonly misused words - they are GREAT:)  LOOK:

Here are the steps that Kathy Schrock uses when creating them.  Mrs. Gross, and myself, would say that the students TOOK OFF with these and did amazing:)!!

Steps to Create:

1.     Some idea of how data can be visualized – periodic table of data visualizations

2.     Chart Chooser – allows students to go online and fine ones they want in Excel format  - then figure out which way to best represent data

3.     Many Eyes – upload data set and then choose visualization and the download to use

4.     Key words, write essential questions, find research, evaluate what they find, gather assets and cite them

5.     Hand draw the infographic so you know direction taking

6.     Creative Commons – not fully copyrighted, allows for creation with image but have to cite, commercially or noncommercially, can edit it or share and allows other to edit yours also = creative common sites – in Google images – click on search tools – see what it has for use of image (students already have permission to use these!)

7.     Graphic Designs – light yellow on Blue is the BEST to use, red stimulates emotion, green makes you feel involved, gray is lack of commitment, blue indicates calming message, Yellow is cheerful, purple is “fantasy” or child like, brown background is passive information, black background indicates power

8.     Fonts – match mood with fonts – vary the color and size of fonts

9.     Repeated Elements – one shape put together in various ways can make meaning different

10.  Layout – should be like a news story – catchy at top - secondary details next, then tertiary details  = Main Idea, Secondary Points, Supporting Details LATCH model – Location, Alphabet, Time, Category, Hierarchy 

Session 5: Date Driven Technology Promotes Student Learning: Mark Garrison and Lisa deRoy 

*We are in our first year of using the Clarity technology survey by BrightBytes at our school district, so this was a GREAT one for me:)!!   Mark Garrison is my FAVORITE:)!!  He is a technology coordinator and integrationist in White Bear Lake and Lisa deRoy works for BrightBytes so their knowledge was PERFECT for what I was looking for.  We survey students, teachers and parents to find out all kinds of things like what does the 4Cs look like in your classroom, how well do students know technology, what is our access like, what kinds of things can teachers, parents and students do and what do they know?  ALL of these answers will help to guide us in our next steps in regards to our Phase II of technology implementation and the things that we need more PD on.  A GREAT resource for districts wanting information to help guide technology decisions - check it out:)!

That was it for Day 1 for me - and my mind was DONE!!!  Good thing we ate at the Melting Pot to unwind and enjoy one another's company!  I will get Day 2 out tomorrow!  

It's snowing and going to start blowing here later today - hoping my son's game doesn't get cancelled tonight - Go Trojans!!

Happy Thursday,

Mrs. I:)