Pete and C 2012
Assorted Workshops attended by Tom Range
Hi All,
Just to give you a heads-up, I took all the following notes using an iPad and the program CloudOn, which gives you access to Word, PowerPoint and Excel. I then saved the different notes into a DropBox which I am sending you this link from.
In School, I opened each individual page and pasted it into one big page which I then uploaded to dropbox for all of you to see.
Here they are:
Technology in the Art Classroom
Programs Used:
Photoshop
Garageband
Google sketchup
Ipad draw and paint apps
Sketchup.google.com –WOW!!
Create their names in 3d?
Can take a screen shot to get it as a graphic
Screen printing
Create a drawing by hand (digital vinyl cutter)
Upload to cut studio can hand cut it ($850 for a machine)
Silkscreen image
Can print 25-50 shirts from one image
Bought cutter from specialty-graphics.com –tshirt transfer films hot press costa bout $700
Discussion and researxh on logos
Students hand draw, get critiques
Scan images
Trace image in illustrator
Add more into photoshop
Logo orange.com?
PETE AND C LOGO CONTEST?
Stop-motion animation
Create cover and label for disc and case
Psdtuts.com – tutorials for adobe things
All student use computer
Smartboard Games
Smartboard specialist
Can download stuff from his ning page
Teacher led game
Harvey’s webpage for smartboard – play ball game – pages get Harley?
Random word chooser
Embeded questins simple to setup
Four strikes – math game
Popcorn game – makes a question – trivia
Hangman on smart board premade cool
Classroom fued – like family fued
Jeopardy – has music too!
Koosh ball – throwing a ball against the board to activate
Student led games
Money board
Pirates treasure – good for coordinate points
Hexagon match – review of addition
Hop into money – just two slides
Shape recognition game – like candyland
101 and out – try to get to 100 without going over
Seven up –
Shut the box – addition app
Smart response system
Helpful for review
Jeopardy for smart response
Smartboard research
Smart clicker research – monitor iep goals
Smart response clickers for the smartboard
Version include pe and le le is hr lerror version
Gives realtime data
This school uses the smargboard to assess a studnets iep. The students do a self assessment.
The clickers seem more difficult then It has to be
Assessed four times a semester
She usually has 4 or 5 goals her colleagues usually had 2 or 3
Procedures
Create a class for the student
Notebookexpress
A watered version of notebook that they can have at home.
Make sure you have an answer key to your slides
Can place them on a wiki page
THIS WORKSHOP WAS NOT HELPFUL AT ALL!
Ipad project – Bethlehem school district
8th grade for middle school
Feb 2011 they put in for approval, board approved May
10 teacher ipads, 70 student ipads, 7 laptop sync stations, cases
Training – very minimal
School owns apple id’s, apple volume purchase program, avpp
Fuse algebra program and purchased ebooks for English
Students sync ipad to laptop, in homeroom via usb
Iphone configuration utility, aup
Science teacher challenges
Easily ability to preview apps
No student email access
Bump app – do not use
Needing to replace broken ipads -6 out of 80 – less than 10%
Ability to print – printopia app $20 – must run on a standalone mac
Roverflash – app that will run flash
No flash
Sharing files – good reader app
Distraction
Ipads are not propped up – They have them lay on the desktop so you can see what they are doing
Clean your bottom and windows
cases
Gumdrop
Gform cases
Student challenges – the students take their ipads home everyday
Forgot to charge
Forget to sync
Leaving the ipad home
Students sync at home
Some students prefer paper and pencil
Students abusing passcodes
Doing homework can be a challenge
Unexpected challenge – conversion ios5 – takes a long time to update
Good news
Wonderful tool
Students have constant access to the internet
Much lighter than a laptop
Less paper is needed
Camera and video can be great tools in the classroom
Algebra text comes with video lessons and homework tools
Some textbooks and English books are available on the ipad
No textbook will be more than $15 yearly – From Apple
Graphing calculator
Fun to use
Calendar with reminders
Adds a level of engagement
Apps
Pssa app? 25 must have apps for educators
Moodle app – putting lesson in the net and then students can get it using ipad
Art – take a picture of self, use notebook to draw on top of picture
Students can video tape themselves teaching a lesson – expert learner
Science – notetaker
Video physics – will create a graph of movement from the video
Goodreader – can open any document – can save and send or collect assignments ($4.99 per machine)
Techlearning.com top 25 stories
24 – app ($.99)
Notability – records the voice as you work a problem
Algebra 1 textbook on ipad
ibooks
Ipad immersion
Eclicker – free app for taking votes and surveys
Three social studies teachers
Very cost effective compared buying things separately
Ipad 3 in March
Eclicker host $9.99
App free for students can use it onmiphones and ipod touches
Simplemind free full version is $6.99
Mind mapping toolgood for social studies and English
Specific number if someone messes another students then they lose the privilege. Assign specific colors for each student I each class.
Doceri remote free computer controlling device
Remote management
Whiteboards full version is $59
Show me and educreations record audio both free
Used for reading assignment expert learner
Can send the movie to showme.com free accounts on everyone can share
IMovie and garageband $9.99 each
Markers $2.99 makes a website more readable can highlight relevant topics
Flashcardlet free syncs with quizlet has premade decks
Qwiki free
Quick review on many topics short review videos
National geographic
Tapquiz
National geobee
Us history atlas
Ndshwelch
Teacher pays then gets reimbursed apple has an app program
Ipad discussion panel
They have one cart funded through the grant
Downloaded 180 free apps – if it was free they took it
Are ipads ready for school – not there yet?
Certain literacies cannot be addressed
To be effective, they should be their own device
Need 32 gb ipad
Ipad is not a laptop replacement (animoto)
Rover – web browser app that runs flash animation
Iannotate – app that lets you highlight text and write notes
Do the students need email addresses? – probably to hand in assignments
1.5 million ipads in education
70,000 educational apps
Allows students to download app management – avpp – goodreader, dropbox, pages,
Students cannot purchase apps, free is okay, teachers can buy
Everyone gets a gmail address and they use that from dropbox –
alterntative school – no damage yet since September – students are more engaged – 1 to 1 program not home
ck12 – app with curriculum?
A lot of professional development
Alternative Schools - 35-45 students to 100-150 with 8 teachers
Dropbox must have 13 year olds or more
Use google docs/apps for under 13
How are apps added?
Teachers took ipads home for the summer
They looked at the apps to make the decision – teachers could download apps to see if it is useful
No budget money for apps so they were all free
Most apps are drill and practice
Wanted more creative apps
Layered ownership from apple
Socrative?. App - Replaces the clickers
Byod – guest web –working well in a school district
Androids are cheaper and more open then ipads
VERY IMPORTANT TO HAVE A COACH!
Teachers and students must be able to explore
Teachers need to share with other teachers
Ipad should not be locked down
Google Apps
Todaysmeet.com/2012googleapps
Google apps for education
Free
Google voice you must use education
Phone number that can forwarded to cellphone
Can be text messages that you can access using a computer
Can text using computer
Must have a google account
Google calendar all students can get an account
Can embed google calendar in website
Gear –calendar Settings –shared edit settings –details
Google docs need a worksheet here to upload to calendar
Sites like wikispaces but closed to your users
Can edit pages and give permission to others to edit
Can upload videos from home to their google site
Video has not used it he uses moodle instead
Choose upload on the tab and browse for your video
Everyone you choose can view it
Groups –used as a listserve
More
Contacts probably most useful
Create a group and then add students into the group
Easy bib
Even more gems
Custom search –can restrict google
Choose create a google search engine
Name the search and then list the sites you want the students to search
Books and news is a list of whatever google has scanned in
Scholar is a listing of scholarly works too high for high school
Chrome
Tools options under the hood ask me each time where to download
Geoliterecy
Maryann Molishus
molishus.wikispaces.com – visit this site!
fifth grade teacher
discussion of what a suburb is
South Sedan –not on globe, why
Southern Ocean? What is it?
Achievement levels for students in geography in U.S. is medicore
Only about 20% are at or above proficient in geography
Goal – make geography ordinary
Make geography more than just the geography unit
Geospatial revolution from Penn State a website.
Free episodes from website
A lot of resources on her wikispace!
Georevolution.psu.edu – resources for teachers as well as episodes
Food deserts – interesting where poor neighborhoods have no supermarkets so they are less healthy
Travelor iq challenger – good for building your understanding of place
It is a game – puts pins on a map
National geographic mapmaker interactive – favorite – geobee (spelling bee of geography)
Quiz of a day
www.k12science.org –good place for projects
collaborative projects
she used square of life project and the stowaway adventure
all the current emergencies in the world – hisz.rsoe.hu - cool and scary!
Cia site – information about just about anything in the world, including specifically for ids
Distance virtual collaborations
Use the iu’s resources
Ideas
Day of the dead
Civil war
Holocaust
Magpi?
Internet2 – ip video conferencing 70,000
Africa is slowly getting connected…mostly coastal
Video.magpi.net
Brian Brown – 21rst century teaching and learning coach
All schools on eastern pa
Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss – Anne Frank’s sister?
Tuskegee airmen video conference
Feb 28 – 9-11 and 12-2
10 host sites
11 airmen and 3 historians
Bit.ly/zsmf3
Virtual Irish book club
Day of the dead video
Classroom2000 – northern Ireland technology infrastructure
Case study…
Virtual book club
Diverse schools included
Different cultures were purposely found
Results
Enjoyed the experience
Students were more motivated
Increase student global understanding
Language was an obstacle
Lessons learned
Videoconferencing should be transparent
Make sure the first one is successful
Need social engagement
Student interaction is key
Have a sequence of activities
Make the conference call student centered
Use presets and zooming to resemble face to face
Flat screen tv best
Teacher’s attitude is most important
Helpful links
Magpi
Cilc.org
Twice.cc or projects.twice.cc
$250 for virtual autopsy
Pacific historic events – pearl harbor survivors
