Thank you so much for coming to my presentation this week. I hope you learned a few things and have some good ideas for ways you can use some of the technologies we discussed to better engage your ELL students. Remember, it is not about the APPs, it is about the Application! How do you plan to apply some of these ideas to help your English Language Learners?
Before We Got Started
As you came in, you likely noticed some Legos. I asked you to Lego Your Imagination and build something. More specifically I asked you to build a duck (No worries, chances are we tied that to content later). However, to figure out what you were supposed to do, I asked you to scan a QR Code. If you didn’t have a QR code scanner, I likely recommended i-nigma (My personal favorite). Not sure how I created that QR code for the instructions? Click here, QR Stuff is a great tool for making any internet link into a QR Code. It is also a great tool for differentiating content in your classroom. Need to be in more than one place at one time? QR code can be your buddy.
Now that you have a QR code scanner, feel free to scan this code to follow along in today’s presentation.
or simply go to https://teachertricks.org
Imgur – turning videos into looping GIF files
NEW TRICK: Go to Gifs.com to turn any Youtube Video into a Gif
MASHUP IDEA– Use GIFs or Videos with Total Physical Response
Jenny’s Number – Dragontape is a tool that allows you to combine Youtube Videos. It is also on of my candidates for favorite Web 2.0 – this link takes you to a dragontape with examples of a Movie Trailer & the “Paper is Not Dead” starter video
Douglas Adams – Rules for Innovation After 35!
Hello & Welcome!
Who are you?Let’s get some Face Time! What are you here hoping to learn about?
Parking Thoughts in Parking Lots
Today’s Meet (Candidate for favorite Web 2.0 App page 37)
Google Forms – Introduction Survey – Results (James’ Top 5 – pg 37)
To play along, click here or go to kahoot.it
Kahoot (Presenter Link)
To play along with nearpod, click here or on the image below
Nearpod (presenter Link)
Audience Feedback with Plickers
https://www.remind.com/join/tchrtricks (page 43)
Questions – Concerns – Comments – Ideas
Bricks and Clicks
Cold Calling, No Opt -Out & I don’t Know…YET!
Post Its in the Classroom! Post it Plus App (iOs) SamplePostitPlusBoard
Stick Pick & ESL Learners (iOS)
Have You Met Tega?
A 2013 study by researchers at Oxford University posited that as many as 47% of all jobs in the United States are at risk of “computerization.”
According to Pew Research “A two-thirds Americans predict that within 50 years, robots and computers will do much of the
work currently done by humans”
There have also been recent reports of Chinese factories looking to automate 90% of their workforce within the next few years: Everwin Precision Technology & Midea Appliances
And of course Pepper is now working at Pizza Hut.
Melody Guan a the Harvard Political Review hinted at the positive “While the percentage of Americans that plowed the fields dwindled from 33 percent to two percent over the last century, for instance, countless unforeseen occupations materialized.” while also sharing some darker more dystopian perspectives on the future.
Mark Prensky’s on Digital Immigrants & YouTube is the Literacy of the 21st Century
Although it is a very difficult thing for many educators and other people to hear and face, and strange as it sounds, the truth is that for most people in the twenty-first century reading and writing are not the best ways to communicate.
According to Allan J. Kimmel, we can thank professors Jan Kietzmann and Ian Angell for the term.
“Generation C refers to Constantly Connected Citizens who are Creative, Capable, Content-Centric Curators, Copiers and Combiners who are Community-oriented, Collectively Communicative, Collaborative, and Co-developing Consumers of Common Content.”
Engagement & Gamification
Possible new perspectives on emotion, cognition, and attention
Who are Sugata Mitra and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi?
Lev Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development – Soduku, Road signs & Junior Mentors
Download the app from iTunes here, and the Google Play Store, here.
Questions – Concerns – Comments – Ideas
Putting Junior Mentors to work
Challenging them to build – Challenging them to Make
Minecraft – Microsoft acquires Minecraft EDU
Questions – Concerns – Comments – Ideas
Planning your PLN: Mavens, Connectors & Feeding
In The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell describes three characters and you should do your best to identify at least two of them (Mavens and Connectors) and add them to your PLN. Here are some FEED ideas:
Facebook – Writing with the Stars
Idea Feeds, Read Write Think, Sophia, Idea channel, TED, Vsauce, smarter every day, edudemic, mashable, techcrunch, readwriteweb, wired, twitter, lifehacker, 21st century learning, iTunes U, edutopia, classroom 2.0, iLearn Technology, EdTechTalk, infinite Thinking Machine, Dangerously Irrelevant, Circlesofinnovation.org, etc.
Feeding Trivia – How many apps in the app store? How many songs in iTunes?
Who is in your plan? How do you feed? Please share on my personal backchannel.
BYOD
Who is this?
Google – Google News – Google Images – Google Scholar
Let’s Play Another Game…
Work with a partner and see how many words you can come up with by combining the following letters.
Question Framing/Functional Fixedness
Duncker, K. (1945). On problem solving. Psychological Monographs. 58(5, Whole No. 270).
Glucksberg, S. (1962). “The influence of strength of drive on functional fixedness and perceptual recognition”. Journal of Experimental Psychology63: 36–41. doi:10.1037/h0044683.PMID 13899303.
Lesson Ideas
Prefix Suffix COCA Corpus (page 27) Word Reference
Mad Libs App iOS Android Version
Questions – Concerns – Comments – Ideas
Common placing in the 21st Century
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How many of you are currently using Google Drive, Dropbox, Twitter, Evernote, Facebook, Pinterest? Then you are Common Placing! (page 20)
Using Blogs kidblog.org, blogger, wordpress.com, edublog, weebly.com
Writing in the Clouds
Google Drive, iCloud, Office 365 (page 48)
Google+ Communities (page 45)
Letter to Learn By Group Work Assignment
The Power of Infographics
Go ahead, Google Infographic on Infographics! Google MOOC Skills
A little touch up? Free Fun with Pixlr
360 Images and Remote Reality Viewing
The RICOH THETA S is a camera with two hemispherical lenses that allows users to shoot pictures with a 360 degree perspective. Users essentially take spherical images or movies in one shot that can be easily loaded up to the web and shared with others. In the space below, I will place a group shot from our session today, but if you simply can’t wait until then, here is a sample shot by Dana in California.
Link to 360 image for Chicago Dec 12
Best Uses For iPads in the Classroom
Things You Should Know about iPads But Might Not! For Example, split keyboard, jumping home, four finger swipes, & making an a page into an app.
Increasing Time on Task with Guided Access (page 10)
Quick Post Lunch Review
Enhanced Google Searching List of Google Search Skills
Making the best use of browsers Rover & KidsRex
Best Practices for Youtube (page 36)
186 of the best YouTube Videos
Skype, Google Hangouts, Talky Video Conferencing & Google Hangouts On Air (page 46)
Dragontape – Jenny’s Number
Screencasting and Screencastify
PE & Exercise Massive Multiplayer Fun
***Please remember that there are laws and rules governing the downloading and permanent copying of YouTube videos. Try to err on the side of Fair Use*** Clip Converter
Questions – Concerns – Comments – Idea
Writing in the Clouds
Google Drive, iCloud, Office 365 (page 48)
Google+ Communities (page 45)
Letter to Learn By Group Work Assignment
Enhanced feedback: Screen Casting & Pad Casting
Final Countdown
“If we teach today as we taught yesterday we rob our children of tomorrow” John Dewey
If you would like to try out greenscreen on your ipad, click here.
Augmented Reality –Tagging Reality!
You are going to want to see this!
More apps that you might want to check out.
According to Sir Arthur Clarke
Clarke’s first law
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Clarke’s second law
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Clarke’s third law
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
PhotoMath
PhotoMath from MicroBLINK on Vimeo.