ThingLink is offering free student accounts for teachers. I signed up and challenged my production technology students to honor the life and work of Coretta Scott King by creating ThingLinks for a CSK award winning author or illustrator. I am looking forward to seeing the work that is turned in at the end of the week. My students are applying several apps to bring this project together. They are using the camera to take photos of the books in the school library media center by the author/illustrator chosen. Skitch is being used to crop these photos. Students are using Pic Collage, a class favorite, to create a poster that features one book photo and the author/illustrator's name in fancy font. These posters will be printed and posted along with a QR code that will correspond to the ThingLink created. Students are searching online using Safari to find resources to link to their poster and using worditout.com to create word clouds. As they finish various milestones work is being submitted to Showbie. I am thrilled that my students are moving beyond a single app approach and focusing on solutions rather than limitations.
This is the project example I created.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Saturday, February 15, 2014
ISTE Virtual Conference Takeaways
Thank you ISTE for hosting a free live virtual conference for members! I participated at the kitchen table in my pajamas even during the midst of a snow week (out of school Tuesday-Friday).
I am so glad I did! I missed Adam Bellow's closing keynote at ISTE 2013 due to flight schedules. The virtual conference allowed me a chance to catch the highlights, hear from the man himself, and to become inspired to "change the world". I also enjoyed the Q & A with ISTE 2013 Ignite presenters and the tech coaches that offered such practical tips. Key points from various presenters included "ed tech done right is about education", "making something and not sharing is selfish", and parents must be trained and a lot of planning goes into a successful 1:1/BYOT initiative. I have listed a few of my take aways from the conference below.
I am so glad I did! I missed Adam Bellow's closing keynote at ISTE 2013 due to flight schedules. The virtual conference allowed me a chance to catch the highlights, hear from the man himself, and to become inspired to "change the world". I also enjoyed the Q & A with ISTE 2013 Ignite presenters and the tech coaches that offered such practical tips. Key points from various presenters included "ed tech done right is about education", "making something and not sharing is selfish", and parents must be trained and a lot of planning goes into a successful 1:1/BYOT initiative. I have listed a few of my take aways from the conference below.
- futureme.org: email yourself in the future (great exit ticket, reminder, etc.)
- curate with bit.ly and scoop.it
- use padlet.com or en.linoit.com to allow teachers to share tech integration ideas
- makerspace resource: inventtolearn.com/resources
- edcamp locator: edcamp.wikispaces.com
- STEM resource: zstem.weebly.com
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