Tuesday, July 09, 2013

iPad Workshop -- Day 2 -- EdTechTeacher.org -- Hauser Hall/Harvard -- July 9, 2013


Day 2 began with a look at another site that offers teachers the ability to poll/quiz/test students.
InfuseLearning.com -- an online (free) resource for getting student responses, somewhat more flexible/useful than Socrative (including being able to download quick response items from kids) which you can't do with Socrative.  Also class rosters can be imported.

Another difference is that one form of answer can be a drawing.

Next we spent some time working with a "digital paper" app called Notability.  Notability Intro and Challenge by Sam available here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gTiX6nZtpTweJJ6Sy_ssY0TYuG9W6493em5CK0kc6kk/edit#slide=id.p

We moved on to doing more image capture/screen capture and got some practice using a free avatar creator called Tellegami to narrate a pretend vacation with the appropriate image.  Examples of how to capture those images used both Maps (in iOS 6) and Google Earth.

(Psssst........Wordle and Tagxedo and ABCYA.com got mention here for word clouds, of course, but also avatar creation.)

Another app we got practice using is called Book Creator.

In the time before lunch, the presentation moved to Digital Citizenship and Copyright.  A great deal of importance was attached to "empathy" including the teaching of this concept in our classes.  In fact, Sam classified empathy as the 21st century skill and called the presentation she shared with us:  Empathy: The 21st Century Skill
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LvVFNlolBLJWA-CsdTCLwdOfbgPsMKPlvVvV5HAgV7o/edit#slide=id.p

We looked at Common Sense Media and their tools for Education and then Creative Commons.  We were especially encouraged to -- if so moved -- license things we create using Creative Commons licences with the main goal of sharing.

Final thing before lunch was a look at Subtext and what it offers for reading, including free books and monitoring reading by students.

We moved on to some options for accessing a "whiteboard" on a tablet.  Focus was on EduCreations, ScreenChomp, and Skitch.  They even asked us to do a comparison (a Whiteboard app "smackdown") the results of which are here

Next app we visited was Explain Everything.  The presentation shared with us is available at:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pRsew-wYcCjyXbkFtgZWEXqMtX6WIbVXs187HCK-nRc/edit#slide=id.p

Here's a video available on Vimeo that gives an intro to Explain Everying


Explain Everything 2.0 from MorrisCooke on Vimeo.


There is a lot of explore in the things listed above.  It was truly exciting to be introduced to such a wide variety of tools that seem to have the potential to offer teachers (and students) so much that will enhance teaching and learning.  Already, though, the thought keeps bubbling up......when will I possibly have time explore all these great things!!!!????

Next we moved on to a discussion of digital storytelling and to audio recording and video editing.  Garageband was the focus of our audio segment and iMovie for the video.

Some EdTechTeacher slides about iMovie are available here.

The final challenge of the day was to create a movie "trailer" using one of the built-in trailer templates that iMovie offers (many are very cool!) and go out of the classroom around the building -- whatever -- and add video recorded on the iPad or digital stills taken on the iPad to use in the trailer.  Fun!

Difficult to believe Day 2 is already over but looking forward to Day 3!

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