Ed Tech Ideas

New Media in the Classroom

Jason Ohler (@jasonohler)

Resources here

• The big push in public education in US is byod
• Most kids don’t make good media – most adults and teachers will look at the product and be impressed by the media effect
• Teachers (and students) need to be discriminating makers of new media
• Kids need to hear “That quality is not high enough.”
• Story management process (computers off) is where most of the work is done.
• The Unfinished Revolution
• Literacy is: Consuming and producing the media forms of the day, whatever they are.
• DAOW of Literacy
  • Digital
  • Art
  • Oral
  • Written
• We don’t teach oracy (how to speak) and we should
• Digital storytelling – film with a green screen and add student art to background
• The power of story lodge in our brains and we remember. Lists of things don’t.
• Story Core in Education:
  • Inquiry (tension)
  • Discovery (resolution)
  • Transformation (learning)
• We remember info that is holistically connected and that’s what Story does.
• Key resources
• Green Screen Story Telling: http://t.co/1sosGXDy
• When kids get kinesthetic with their stories, they write better.
• Tell kids to go watch tv for homework and note how the professionals deal with music and transitions
• Music trumps image every single time
• The image give you the info, the music tells you how to feel about it.
• Storyboards are bad – don’t use them
• Instead use a storymap and always have a character realize something
• Free Storytelling stuff (music, software, photos, etc.):
• Story Mapping Hand Outs
• Story Table Handout

Keynote – Balcony People: Teachers Make the Difference

Steven Layne

• Book: Molder of Dreams by Guy Rice Doud
• Students remember that we tried
• Book: Life’s Literacy Lessons – Poems for Teachers by Steven Layne
• What holds appeal for one, might not hold appeal for all – nothing works for every child, but something works for every child
• Identify your balcony people. Tell them how they mattered and thank them.
• Honor your balcony people by passing on their faith in you to your students, friends, family
• Dream the dream for your students until they realize it.
• Never underestimate the value of a seat in the balcony

Teaching for the 21st Century

Peer-Assessment, Peer-Generated Syllabus

Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson

• http://hastac.org/ and Cathy’s section
• institutions tend to preserve the problems they were created to solve.
• School and work in the industrial age were created to train us to the factory and the farm.
• We’re doing a great job of preparing our students for the 20th century
• 1900s office design are specifically designed to help people stay on task.
• Reply all should be banned
• We live in a interactive, non-linear, DIY, collaborative world.
• Skunk Works: Innovate and try a radical transformation within a small section of your organization.
• Our mission as teachers is to prepare students for an unknown future.
• Duke iPod Experiment
• This is your brain on the internet
• Cathy changed the way the class worked but not the grading system and students called her on it.
• Work Load grading – students choose their amount of work to do and get a corresponding grade. ie: 10 projects = A; 7 projects = B; 5 Projects = C; etc.
• How to Crowdsource Grading
• Goal of the class is for everyone collectively to get the grade they aimed for.
• We’re very bad at giving feedback – that’s one reason American Idol is a hit
• Students came up with the question: “How do I become an adult?”
• You find the people you trust and you hold them close.
• Favorite Peer Experiment/exercise you’ve done as a teacher
• Difference is not our deficit, it’s our operating system
• Forking: the moment when working together you come to a disagreement, flip a coin and follow on way. Mark the point of disagreement. If at any time, you realize you took the wrong point, you go back to the fork.
• Socrative:  Student response system with any device.

Technical Competence with iMovie

David Grant 

• iMovie Events within Movies is where you need to put new folders for creating movies
• iMovie Learning Targets
  • Big Target:  I can tell a true story with details in multimedia
• I can use the basic editing tools of iMovie to:
  • Split Clips (command-shift-s)
  • Trim Clips
  • Detatch Audio
  • Adjust Volume Levels
  • Create a Cutaway Edit
  • Create a J-Edit
  • Create an L-Edit
• I can edit A Roll and B Roll to tell a story by:
  • Editing A Roll so you can’t hear the cuts
  • Covering my cuts with the B Roll that supports my story
  • Cutting on action
• A roll: looking at and talking to the camera
• B roll: the details – doing something
• Sound is the primary thing you need to work with to tell stories.
• Cutaway edit: use an edit to cover up a cut
• cutting on action – have movement when the movie starts
• J Edit:
  • Clip > detach audio

10 Digital Tools for Digital Educators

Jeff Utecht

Resources

• Using Diigo with kids to have a collection of sites with specific tags and divided into lists
• Create a class/groups
• Send bookmarks from Diigo to Delicious automatically
• from Twitter, whenever you tweet something with a hashtag you can use www.ifttt.com  to send to Diigo
• Google Educator Posters
• Everybody needs to use Google Reader
• Edmodo–
  • Looks like facebook
  • Can join communities
  • Teacher creates a group (class)
  • can load assignments
  • Kids can turn in assignments
  • Also has a gradebook feature
  • Parents can have acct and is then connected to whichever class the child is enrolled in.
  • You can set quizzes up and has the ability to autograde
  • Integrated with Google Docs
  • The badges are motivating with the kids
  • Allows teacher control over students
• bit.ly– URL shortner; allows you to customize url
  • after you send out link, it tracks how many people clicked on the link
  • Also creates a QR code for link
• Question Press
• http://joliprint.com/ Takes any webpage and turns it into a pdf

Connecting your Community

Kim Cofino
Presentation here
Resources
Learning Hub

• Your digital footprint will carry far more weight than anything you might include on a resume. -Chris Betcher
• Think before you publish – is this something I would share with my grandma?
• Blogging portal is a way to grow and connect the community
• Everything is shared publicly = open
• Students need to feel connected to a wider audience = global
• We are a bad judge of our own creations www.silvers.org   We need to just put our ideas out there.
• What’s obvious to us may seem amazing to someone else
• Obvious to You, Amazing to others by Derrik Sivlers
• Blogging should not be considered homework. Not everything goes on the blog. It’s about reflecting on your learning.
• Blogs are not a way to post homework
• Move away from blogs as an assignment into a community
• Blogging Implementation
  • Soft launch (1 year)
  • Main landing page for each teacher’s blogs (The Learning Hub)
  • Main launch where parents are told this is how we are communicating information
  • There are “17 Things” that every teacher needs to be able to know how to do
  • Training – teacher leaders sit at tables and other teachers can come up to them to learn about something specific
  • Any time you’re talking about technology, you have to involve the kids.
• Action
  • Check list for teachers
  • Username: start with graduation year; first name; last initial