2013-4
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Flipping the Classroom:How Brain Research, Bloom’s Taxonomy, and Chickering & Gamson’s Principles Say it Works

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Yesterday, I gave a short talk for Softchalk on Flipping the Classroom. As always, I had a great time and hope all that participated learned something they can utilize. During the presentation, I also shared some tips and tricks:

I also revealed that this year at NISOD, we will be sharing a new open-source, faculty-driven, socially collaborative faculty development initiative called “Circles of Innovation.” You won’t want to miss it. The supporting website is still in design, but the initial face to face sessions at Valencia have gotten off to a great start and people are excited. I will be sharing more soon. The website should be up and operational next week and will be found at Circlesofinnovation.org. You are free to go there now, but please remember it is still in beta and the site is running a little slow.  If you would like to learn more about it, I have placed the NISOD presentation information below.

Thanks again for all of you who came to the talk yesterday. Once I have the link information to the Softchalk archive, I will come back and put it here for you. For now though, here is a copy of my prezi.

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2013-3
4

Making it Happen: Partnering Academics and Student Services

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Last Friday, I was honored to have been asked to take part in “Making it Happen: Partnering Academics and Student Services.” I had a wonderful time presenting and sharing ideas on Engaging Students in the Classroom and Beyond.

For those of you who joined us Friday, you know that you received the video prE-mail below with a link to an introduction survey. I am happy to report again that Miami Dade faculty posted a 84% response rate to my survey request. This is the highest response rate to a survey I have ever seen, and I have given quite a few surveys. There is either something special in the water down in Miami, or perhaps the faculty are super motivated to learn strategies for engaging students. Either way I was impressed and it was a real honor to work with that team. Thanks again to all who participated. Below you will find links to some of the content I shared in the session.

Students Today: If you are interested in accessing my Prezi, here is the link. I have also posted it below.

Brain Research: Don’t forget the 10 minute rule; Chunking; Repeat; and Pictures = 1000. If you would like to learn more, click here.

How to Rock a Google Search: I have already received emails from participants telling me how much they love searching with Google operators, click here to learn more about maximizing your searching online.

prEmail: Don’t forget that your students will thin slice you if you give them the opportunity. I challenge you to take advantage of the tools you learned about (listed below) and send your students a prEmail before you start your summer sessions. Also, if you would like to get to that article on ThinSlicing Teachers in 30 Seconds, Click Here.

Understoodit.com  Free and easy to use backchannel for your classroom.

Remind101.com A safe way for teachers to push content and reminders to students

Screenr.com A web bases screen recorder that makes it easy to develop video content and send it to students or youtube

Deliver.com Make QR codes and track them easily

Youtube.com Don’t email your students a message, video message them via youtube.

Below is the prEmail video I sent you.

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2013-2
28

If I had Glass

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As a teacher who loves to come up with new ways to use technology in the classroom. I had to submit for the opportunity to have Google Glass. Here was my submission.

100 years ago Thomas Edison wrongly predicted “Books will soon be obsolete…scholars will be instructed through the eye…Our schools systems will be completely changed inside of ten years.” 100 years have passed; schools remain largely unchanged. Can Google Glass change the way students live and learn?

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2013-2
14

Valencia Learning Day: Backchanneling & QR Code

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I had a great time at Valencia’s Learning Day last week. In the short time I had to speak, I very briefly dropped the idea of how to use QR code and Backchanneling. The video below gives a very quick (down and dirty) example of how to have a phone or smart device use a QR code reader to scan a back channel (For more on QR Code, click here). Then the QR Code takes the user to an interactive form (in this case I am using a Google form). When the user fills out and submits the form, the information is sent directly to a Google Docs spread sheet (The storage space for information coming through the backchannel). In the classroom, the students see the QR code and interact with the form, the teacher sees all of the student responses in live time or in archive. You can use this to create a variety of Digital CATs and other surveys and assignments for students.  And it is free. I guess I should blog the step by step on how to do this. Perhaps I will do that next. Post a comment if you would like to see more on this topic.

 

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2013-2
11

The pen that helps kids learn to write. Digital pen – ingenious tech!

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The pen that helps kids learn to write. Digital pen – ingenious tech!.

The pen that helps kids learn to write. Digital pen - ingenious tech!

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