Wednesday, July 10, 2013

CRAZY HEART - Ryan Bingham Performs The Weary Kind

Carrie Underwood - Jesus, Take The Wheel





Grand Theft Auto V: Official Gameplay Video

Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer



Bon Jovi is the most amazing hair band ever!

Exploring Tone

I plan on using IBook in teaching how to note tone and tone shifts in poetry. In order to do this, I will download some poetry in IBook and have students listen to the text through text to speech. As they listen to the poem, I want them to note how they would read it in order to convey the meaning of the poem. What would they do differently?

Then students would read them noting any shifts in tone and how that contributes to the theme of the poem.

Then students will create their own IBook of poetry. They will choose the poems, listen to them read, and then do their own reading.

We're Flipped over FLIP TEACHING!!!

This week we've learned a new approach to teaching, called Flipping. Flipping your classroom does not involve putting the chairs on the ceiling. Rather, flip teaching puts teaching and learning in the students' hands, by providing content outside of the class and reviewing during school with the teacher. This allows students to come to class with questions and use valuable time with the teacher to review where it is needed or continue on independently. I fully anticipate implementing this style of teaching in my class this year. 

Overload

I will be using notability to teach my students organization and note taking skills. This an be a painful experience for unorganized students.

Numbers for Budgeting

I will try using numbers to create a graph of a budget for a shopping project in my class!


Explain Everything Using Explain Everything

As the Technology Director I will be responsible for training teachers and students how "to do everything" with their new iPads - turn it on, use dozens of apps, teach class with it, etc.
So, to avoid losing my mind before school even begins, I "plan" to create a @#$%^ load of video tutorials with Explain Everything.




poetry and iMovie

Student will use iMovie to illustrate favorite song, the favorite poem in unit, and their own poem.

Implementing the Magic Research Tool in HAIL, 2013-2014

This is an amazing tool that students can use to compile all of their research sources, open and actively read them, ... all in one place, in the iPad.



Van Halen Tribute



Youtube

Using Notability on the Ipad


Notability will help you take notes and more. Its organization is familiar to most using a folder system.
Keeping track of your notes and recalling them later to annotate will be enhanced as you use this program

Explain Everything Appp



I found the Explain Everything  very exciting.  Our school has been discussing the use of IPads and the Flipped Classroom concept.  I will be using this to set up a few lessons per week for my different classes.  I like the variety of options available especially for teaching math.  This seems like the perfect solution for the student who does not like to do a lot of homework and or needs the extra help examples. 

Using Blogger for student reflection



We are leaving Moodle this year. One of the features that I always enjoyed was the "forum", which allowed students to reflect on class discussions and continue the argument/discussion for homework. I see Blogger as a good replacement for that. Main difference: we're not behind the Walled Garden anymore. So careful setup with students is important! They need to be safe, and I need to ensure that they set it up correctly. Having done that, I think that the added "authentic audience" is one exciting feature. In addition, we have the ability to add links and media.

dot ePub is Magic!

I am pretty jazzed about a lot of the tools and techniques we have learned in the last few days, but one that I think my department members and students will love is the "magic sauce" Hans introduced this morning: dot ePub.  This allows you to capture web pages as ibooks.  I had not originally grasped the importance of this, but when Hans described this resource as a way to change the ways students research, the lightbulb went off for me.  
Instructions were pretty simple, and are laid out on the following web page.

Music Video Assignment

Blogger is a great tool for having students share their work. The iPad Blogger App is slightly limited in that students can only add text, and images, and labels. The web version of Blogger allows us to do a few more things, such as:

  • add videos to a post
  • create links within a post
  • add and edit HTML code
  • create bulleted and numbered lists
For this assignment, you need to create a video post using the web version of blogger on your favorite music artist. The post must include the following:
  1. an embedded music video from YouTube
  2. a paragraph describing why you connect with this particular artist
  3. a link within your paragraph to the artists website or an article or website about the artist (Wikipedia)
  4. a label with the title of the assignment (Music Video Assignment)
  5. a label with your first name and last initial (Justin J.)

iPad Lesson Plan Journal

You have essentially been spammed with an overload of information on how to use the iPad in the classroom this week. While we intended to blitz you with these tips, tools, techniques, and technologies, you may be feeling a little overwhelmed at this point. The balance of our time together is going to be spent narrowing in on one of the things that you learned this week, particularly something that you think that you will implement right away this fall.

For this assignment, you will create a blog post from your iPad Blogger App detailing how you plan to implement one of the tools that you have learned in this training. Your post must include the following:

  1. an appropriate title that includes the name of the tool you will use
  2. a picture that represents what you would like to do and is created on your iPad
  3. at least a one paragraph narrative outlining how you will use this tool
  4. a label that is the name of the assignment (iPad Lesson Plan Journal)
  5. a label that is your first name and last initial (Justin J.)

Blogging in the Classroom

The term "blog" is derived from the contraction of the words web log. Blogs are discussion or informational websites that contain individual posts created by one or multiple authors. Blogs typically focus on a niche topic and are geared toward a particular audience. Blogs are interactive in that readers can write comments to individual posts, and blog authors can, in turn, reply to those comments. A typical blog combines text, images, links to other blogs and websites, and other media related to its topic. One of the distinct advantages of blogging is that it lowers the entry barrier to web publishing for non-technical people. Blog authors need to know little to no web coding, such as HTML, to maintain professional looking and content rich websites.

The following is a list of common uses for blogs:

  • provide commentary on a particular subject
  • personal online diaries
  • online brand advertising of a particular individual or company
  • art blogs
  • photo blogs
  • video blogs 
  • music blogs
  • podcasts
  • microblogging (i.e. Twitter)
  • instructional resources for education, which are often known as edublogs.
Let's focus in on the last bullet point - using blogs in education. There are countless ways that a teacher could effectively and quickly use blogs to augment or enhance their teaching. Blogs are really useful tools for sharing resources and information in the classroom, and web publishing tools such as Blogger and Wordpress allow you to manage your blog and its content with easy to use interface tools that take care of the web coding for you. They can be used as a makeshift Learning Management System (LMS) if your school does not subscribe to a service such as Schoology, Whipple Hill, or Moodle. Maybe the most important uses of blogs in the classroom are giving students the ability to share their own work, particularly writing, and teaching them how to appropriately reflect on others work and interact with people in an online setting.

The following is a list of common uses for educational blogs, but it is by no means a comprehensive or complete list:

  • learning journal
  • parent contact/resources
  • posting and collecting homework assignments
  • showcasing student work
  • message board for responsive conversations
  • classroom resources
  • learning management system (LMS)
  • class website
  • digital portfolios