Kalei+-+Wednesday

**Wednesday, June 27, 2012**

 * Session 1: 8:30 - 9:30 am Room 25C **

**Title:** Educational Blogging: Flattening the Classroom Walls! **Presenter:** Linda Yollis, Teacher; Ms. Kathleen Morris **Description:** Australian and American teachers share how they successfully integrate technology and learning through global collaborations. Discover how your students can become global citizens!


 * http://yollismorrisblogging.edublogs.org** (links from the presentation on this blog as well as the ISTE site)

Pre-Session Videos: Video: kids singing a hello song about how people around the world say hello in different countries. Kids are cute singing and waving with piano music in the back. Next video shows Australian kids saying hello and thank you for their books to another school they are skyping with. Another video of kids singing while skyping. Another video shows kids dancing with the teacher while singing (video)


 * Linda does a lot of pairing up, only 5 laptops in class and a computer lab in school, at beginning she types all the post, but then slowly the kids write the posts, her blog won Best Class Blog
 * Some projects they did only with one laptop. It's about having fun.
 * Australian Teacher Morris - she has been teaching 2nd grade, but will be teaching 4th great, Never to young to blog and do globally collaboration
 * Her resources were only a few PCs, not she has 20 netbooks between the students, most of the student have access at home
 * Team Teaching Blog: 4KM and 4KJ @ Leopold Primary School
 * They use different platform: Morris uses Edublogs / Yollis using eBlogger, its about how you use not really the platform
 * How they started doing these project together: started with a comment on one of their blogs. Yollis left comment on Morris's blog. They made a post about the connection.
 * Teacher's need to look around and see other blogs and make connections. There are so many benefits for the kids, educational and communication
 * Benefits of Blogging: Blogging is an authentic audience. global connections, social skills, etc. (see slide)
 * Comments are always moderated
 * Students perspective of benefits of blogging: (video)
 * learn spelling and writing
 * improved writing
 * learn about other culture
 * conversations with other people and how they live
 * learn to be safe on the internet, full name, passwords
 * my parents like reading and learning what I do in school
 * Cluster Map - shows the global audience, students like to see that, feel their duty to write and comment at a high level because others are reading, you can teach geography skills, math lessons (place value of the visiting counter, average visitor count, predict when hit a certain numbers, time zones)
 * Parent Participation
 * family blogging month and events: family blogging after noon with the parents and students trying blogging, teaching the parents how to blog,
 * education: newsletters, handouts, videos: to help the parents to learn about using
 * Virtual Volunteers: parents can do it virtually on the blog, parents sign up to write comments on the blog
 * Skyping with a parent
 * Parent response: daughters have become better readers and writers by writing comments instead of on a piece of paper, making friends in othe countries or states, expose to other cultures, families of the kids can keep up with them
 * Kids: we love blogging!
 * Students and teacher works together on one blog
 * Project 1: Collaboration Corner
 * Collaboration through the comments section. Morris and Yollis students write in the comments.
 * They they wanted to deepen and focus on learning
 * They have a joint blog - working on projects together
 * Example: food and healthy eating
 * lunch box project: students would write about what they got during lunch
 * TOOLS they use during the projects; they figure out what they what the outcome to be before just taking any web 2.0 tools. Tools help to enhace the lesson or project. Not just using web 2.0 tools, but purposeful
 * fotobabble: talking photos
 * voicethread: students can leave comments on the other student's project
 * videos: using imovie, vimeo, etc.
 * Project 2: Ugandan Global Project
 * Enhance social consciences and include other blogs
 * 6-weeks project
 * students raised funds for the Uganda friends for their education, $20,000 they all raised
 * all the collaborate with several school in US
 * Parents were so interested the project
 * (see video summary of the whole project)
 * 6 class 4 countries
 * They did a run walk for an hour at 10 am, different for each class depending on the tie zone
 * School in Uganda was able to build a playground with the funds
 * They used Google docs to collaborate with all the teachers, used hastags on twitter
 * TOOL: slideshare
 * they made on money, currency about each countires did about their money
 * TOOL: wallwisher
 * reflection for whole project, post onto the wall using virtual post-its, used to wrap it up
 * Project 3: Our World, Our Stories
 * EduBlog Group Award 2011
 * Australia, Belize, Canada, Ghana,
 * Each school class would have a week to do a topics, topics by the kids (recess, food, traditional stories, songs, etc.)
 * Green screan to show environment or used voicethread
 * Conclusion: created an audio book, students from all the classes read pages from the book and put it all together,
 * TOOL: Sliderocket (Whoever You Are; asked author and illustrator to replicate, yes. Then they got into the project by blogging and commenting to the kids blogs, helped them learn and encourage the kids how to write and illustrate)
 * Song: Make New Friends to wrap of the project. All students and teachers. (see video)
 * Technologies we use to Connect:
 * Skype
 * Project 4: The Tale Trail
 * Creative writing project,
 * California, Australia, Canada,
 * wrote a narrative, student submitted ideas for idea, then voted
 * Each class would write a little then another class would pick up and continue the story
 * How to start
 * QuadBlogging.net - signed up with other classes around the world, risk you don't' know who they are, different standards or expectations, 4-week time one school focused for each week and the other will comment
 * Student Blogging Challenge, supported by Edublogs
 * It's all about building relationships.
 * Look for similarities, blogging experience, similar grader, high standards in writing, be genuine when you comment and consistent, comment as much as you can to be involved, build on the ones that you get feedback from because may lead to collaboration, be focused on a few blogs to visit,
 * @kathleen_morris
 * @lindayollis
 * yollisclassblog.blogspot.com??
 * primarytech.globa.2.vic.edu.auf?
 * Tips for Success
 * start small
 * prioritize
 * integrate
 * network
 * have fun
 * have fun

__**Session #2: 10:15 -11:15 am Room 1 **__ **Title**: Using Web 2.0 Tools to Collaborate and Engage in the Classroom
 * Presenter: **Eric Lemoine, Kinnaman Elementary School, OR,
 * Description: **Learn to use several web 2.0 tools to enhance student engagement and collaboration. Walk away with several useful ideas to use immediately in your classroom!


 * Presentation on**: http://tinyurl.com/isteweb2-0


 * using Prezi, he teaches his students responsible usage, use a rubric for good usage and for the content
 * yesterday's internet is just consumption, today's internet is for collaborate, contribute, creating, publish
 * Take good student content and put into web 2.0
 * Tools that can be used with only a few computers/laptops, not a big drain on the teachers

TOOLS
 * Poll Everywhere www.polleverywhere.com
 * clicker technology using cell phones
 * free for audiences
 * downloadable reports
 * multiple choice or free response
 * simple to use
 * can have a dedicated URL for those without cell phone
 * Prezi prezi.com
 * non-linear presentation environment
 * relatively quick learning curve for students
 * great for teacher sharing content or for student presentation
 * Wallwisher wallwisher.com
 * quick, easy, fun way to communicate with / between students
 * great for a forum for posting quick directions, links, pictures
 * no registration, free
 * teacher will use for a writing: put up a vocab and students have to post a sentence using the word, then the teacher can put feedback about the senetence, rotate students if only few computer, have written down before going, teacher says they can go when not doing direct instruction, as long as they have it done before the day
 * teacher can moderate if you have a wallwisher account
 * Fotobabble fotobabble.com
 * make sure you need to give credit if using other resources, especially when using pictures, make sure you cite resources
 * students can use
 * Teacher account with teacher and students use the teacher account. Need to be over 13 years old.
 * Embed or link straight to you
 * IDEA: embed in the blog
 * Blabberize blabberize.com
 * making talking pictures, complete with moving mouth
 * pictures of students themselves talking about what they have learned
 * can play on a iPad, video not a flash
 * can use your own pictures as well or they have a stock of picture or take one from the web
 * download as a .mov
 * you can even heave two or more mouths talking, example Lewis and Clark
 * Wigflip's SayWhat - wigflip.com/saywhat
 * use for sharing reading strategies
 * adding speech bubbles into your pictures
 * can use for inquiring about a picture to ask students questions
 * easy to use
 * save image to your computer
 * Mindomo - mindomo.com
 * similar to Inspiration, Inspiration has an online version for getting work from any device
 * add more information behind the scenes as comments, (CHECK it out)
 * add images, links, notes,
 * shows how students are thinking or organizing their thoughts
 * deluxe version available
 * Bubbl.us
 * ReadWriteThink www.readwritethink.org
 * student interactions allow students to embed meaningful content using engaging tools
 * Example: acrostic poems
 * can use for assessments or getting to know you activities,
 * Bio-Cube
 * Tagxedo tagxedo.com
 * wordle in shapes
 * upload images
 * upload related and have them compare and figure out which is is: lewis and clark
 * fur.ly
 * http://fur.ly
 * take multiple resources (internet) and group them together
 * short bookmarking that creates a tab with all three on one
 * creates a short fur.ly url
 * Live Binders
 * use as student portfolio
 * archive student work
 * IDEA: create a professional portfolio
 * you can use with fur.ly put the fur.ly ink into the live binder
 * Blogger
 * www.blogger.com
 * Google Docs
 * Google Earth
 * Using Google Earth Bring the World Into Your Classroom.(see presentation for book)
 * What every edcuators should know about using Google (book resource)
 * Amazing Apps (book resource)

**Title:** 21 Apps for Digital Age Learning **Presenter:** Tyler Fowler, Learning Technology Integration specialist; Mindy T **Description:** Explore a variety of learning technology tools that can provide digital age experiences in the classroom. Resources shared are teacher tested, students approved!
 * Session #3: 11:45 - 12:45 pm Room 10 **
 * Resource:** Cyber-T.E.A.M. Learning (STEM grant projects)


 * http://www.cyberteamscenter.org/**

T.E.A.M acronym T - Technology = select tools E - Engineering = deisng process A - Arts = creative expression M - Math = critical thinking S - Science = quesitoning (looking at all different angles)


 * Twitter: @cyberteams207
 * 21st Century Skills - Creativity, Communication, Collaboration,
 * Creativity Apps
 * Drawing Box
 * Drawing Pad
 * FlipIt - free
 * Puppet Pals - paid can create your own characters, put into imovie to add text or music background and enhance the video, you can take picures of your own person or background and use in this app, use as predicting a story. They create where they are in the story and then create their own ending of the story
 * Book Creator - figurative, 3.99? volume purchasing
 * Percolator - art app, mosaic, ipad, $1.99 but volume purchasing
 * Art History
 * Communication Apps
 * ShowMe - descriptive writing app, picture of a bear and then an audio of a child describing the bear and she can circle on the picture as she describes the bear, replay and have the students hear themselves; teacher can use as tutorials so that they can show students; can record the students works as it is recorded
 * Twittcasting - used for morning announcements
 * Zapd - build a website, composer biography, character traits; iPhone app so small on the iPad, had pre-made themes, looks user friendly for our kids, need an account (not sure if free? Need to check the age for having this app or using); was using for biography of a person; they can comment on each other websites; music or art collaboration with technology and writing; character traits from a story, they can draw the character and upload of the character
 * Skype
 * Edmodo
 * Collaboration Apps
 * Storylines - sort of like telephone, one student would draw a picture and then the next student would have to figure out what it is, rotate with a few students, then the next student would have to write what it is; they can collaborate on how to effectively draw and describe what they are doing, check out the maker as they have a new version that you can customize the app oepnminddot10.com
 * VoiceThread - example ABC of Xmas, solar systems, an example: life cycle of the butterfly, the students would put the pictures in the order and describe the stages or the pictures, teacher can assess for the teacher, teachers can add their own comments for feedback, can be used with the iPad,
 * Cover It Live - used for reading strategies, get an account, put the main account on the wiki so students can use it on their iPad
 * sticky Board - organize and brainstorm
 * Percussive - music app, learning spaces
 * Critical Thinking
 * BrainPop - do research on a specific topic and use it for research papers, feature movie with younger kids - the star student will watch and make a summary (BrainPopJr. released on the iPad app)
 * Toontastic - storyline creating with guidance, now new feature you can increase the music intensity
 * Discovery Education - have their own account to gather information
 * Popplet
 * Evernote
 * QR Codes
 * Scan App

**Title:** Beyond the Projector - Integrating Interactive whiteboards into Your Teaching **Presenter**: Johnny Hamilton
 * Session #4: 1:15 - 2:15 Room 3 **
 * Description:** Go beyond the "how-to" and deepen your understanding about integrating interactive whiteboard instruction into your teaching to engage students and promote learning.


 * Presentation Notes:** goo.gl/x9vLb (google doc)
 * Notebook Download:** http://goo.gl/pcBSE (downloadable)


 * left session as it as not what I was expecting*