Class October 30 Work day

Presentation Nakiah and Josie

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Digital Citizenship Work Time

Supports here:

Directions and a model from Stephanie as a Prezi

Links to explore

Sample presentation from Mrs. Arjona and Mrs. Poling and checklist form

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Class Friday and Monday 10/23 and 26

Devo:  Sarah B

Digital Citizenship Presentation Beth Arjona and Sarah Poling

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_YF0hc7hzy7Ed9V6Eb1gCWoM2A1vhOtcDeuzcBt9vok/viewform?usp=send_form

Presentation at Nearpod   Join the Live Session  or on the app:

FZBAG

Presentation (not live)

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Show and Tell Presentations

Tessa and Hannah

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Time for smart board use, ipads, clickers, mimeo


Monday
Devo: Heather

Presentations (in this order)

Topic/Tool	Partner 1	Partner 2	link to your teaching:
12:55 pm Glogster	Sarah Cambron	Amanda Lepisto
1:05 pm Shadow Puppet Edu	Anna Boustead	Heather Logan
1:15 pm Edmodo	Stephanie Lopez	Sarah Braun	http://slides.com/slopez611/deck-1-2
1:25 pm Scoot & Doodle	Kayla Rodriguez	Julie DeJardin
1:35 pm ClassDojo	MacKenzie Flumerfelt	Liz Heathcote	Google slides shared with Mrs. Poling
1:45 pm Kahoot!	Brooke Hixson	Elizabeth Brame
1:55 pm Text 2 Mind Map	Nakiah Kimble	Josie Robinson

Class Monday 10/19

Devo: Kayla

Learning Targets:

• I can explain what a WebQuest is, when it might be a good instructional tool, and what to look for in a quality WebQuest.  
• I can use gadgets (LIKE the smartboard, elmo, clickers, matrix independently).  I've added resources and ideas to my PLN.
• I know my expert role for content in the digital citizenship presentation.  (which part of DC are you researching for your group)
• I have quality resources (here's another list from AEA)
• I know my role for the tool that will showcase our group research (making slides, infographic, engagement, curating resources)
• I'll be ready to finalize our presentation on October 30th in class.  

WebQuest Group favorite and class discussion about this tool.

Digital Citizenship Recap and Work Time. 

Vocabulary:

Curation: collecting and sorting content.  Organizing and listing the resources used.  Creating a document to share with the best search terms and to support your activities and slides with the works cited, used, or resource links.

Homework Task: Blog Post #19 for 11/20 Gadgets

Don't forget show and tell with your partner Friday!

Presentation Date	Topic/Tool	Partner 1	Partner 2	link to your teaching:
October 23  (f)	Digital Literacy (citizenship)	Beth Arjona	Sarah Poling
October 23	Chalkup	Hannah Black	Tessa Roling
October 23	Glogster	Sarah Cambron	Amanda Lepisto
October 23	Shadow Puppet Edu	Anna Boustead	Heather Logan
October 26 (mon)	Edmodo	Stephanie Lopez	Sarah Braun
October 26	Scoot & Doodle	Kayla Rodriguez	Julie DeJardin
October 26	ClassDojo	MacKenzie Flumerfelt	Liz Heathcote
October 26	Kahoot!	Brooke Hixson	Elizabeth Brame
October 26	Text 2 Mind Map	Nakiah Kimble	Josie Robinson

Blog Post #19 Gadgets and Gizmos: Smartboard Use, elmo, clickers, ipads due 11/20

Learning Target:

I can use gadgets and gizmos.
I know when, why, and how to use them well. (Good pedagogy and plan)

Task:
1) read about the types of gadgets we have in Classroom N and K
2) read the lists or explore the forums to find out how teachers are using them in meaningful ways.
3) Post as blog #19- which gadget you want to have in your classroom in the future, and three ways you want to use it.
4) Hands on exploration.  Go touch them, practice, download software and create a model lesson, use it in your presentation in a significant way.  Document this as part of post #19.  (some time in class will be given, but not very much).


Interactive White Boards:

Classroom N:  Smart Board

An alum explores and trains a teacher:  (and she will train you too!) 

1  Read this blog
2 .  and think about  her explanation of how she decided to train this teacher,
3.  and then watch the presentation.

Smart Board Resources  (if you want the software, you can plug into our board and download it.)

http://smarttech.com/us/Resources/Training/SMART+Learning+Space
http://education.smarttech.com/
http://exchange.smarttech.com/

Classroom K: Mimio
Mimio home  Whiteboard info
Community Resources-mimioconnect-

Why Teachers love interactive whiteboards....resources
tutorial on different kinds
What do I do with it? and tutorials


Elmo Document Camera
How to use it Video
Everything else- remote control, ....

home for Elmo
Elmo Lesson Plan ideas from company

Tech Primer:how to use a document camera
How do teachers use cameras?
and how else?

Clickers  (on the shelf in classroom K, software installed in K, N, and M)
Brand:  2Know from Renaissance
company success stories

An academic argument for using this gadget

Class October 16th

Devotion: Nakiah

The students will:

• review expectations for the Show and Tell Presentation 10/23 or 26 
• see a model Show and Tell on Buncee
• review expectations for the PLN development and see a model 
• review expectations for the Digital Citizenship Presentations on 11/2 and 6
• review the upcoming blog posts/tasks #16, 17, 18 (Midterm Reflection,  Quality Resources in your content area, Webinar)
• be reminded of the scope and sequence of the projects and class work  

Handouts given:

• Digital Citizenship Presentation
• Show and Tell Guidelines
• Digital Teaching and Learning Badges, Skills, Goals
• PLN checklist 

Show and Tell Model: 

Mrs. Poling’s Example:       https://www.edu.buncee.com/  Has an app for ipad, chrome, etc.

Purpose: Presentations, invites, posters (in a user friendly, graphic supported EASY interface)

Any age or class could use this.

There is a paid classroom version to set up a class in a safe social interaction set up. I didn’t explore this, but it appears worthwhile.  

Pros:

• many fonts,colors, backgrounds, graphics, animations
• these are searchable, so you can find things faster
• you can add your own but there are TONS of pre-done formats
• fast and simple creation, and MANY options
• ADA complaint- can make a voiceover and turn it into a media show.  

Cons:

• making a link or searching in youtube, gooru, or vimeo seems more cumbersome than needed
• all items are added in the top or middle and have to be moved
• many things in beta form

Here’s an explanation of how Higher Ed uses it, here’s how a teacher uses it, and of course App of the Week Review at Haiku Deck And you can use it to improve your digital footprint

Tutorial:  Create a lesson in 6 minutes or less (this is older example it’s easier now)

a handout that shows how

Features:    New features 2015

Best app of the year by  Teacher Librarians 2015

Here’s outside sources  (but they have a blog and TONS of their own real people examples on it)

• a principal who likes Buncee
• A newspaper report on it’s growth
• a teacher explains why
• Shannon Miller from Van Meter IA uses

Uses:

Vocabulary Words, Us History Timeline Review, Learn about media standards

Make stories come to life

Reviews on EdSurge, NCCE, Graphite

What I had to learn about:Gooru

What is Gooru in 90 seconds  and here’s another app of the week

So Kids could:

• make ANY presentation, poster, show and tell, book review, timeline, VISUAL you can imagine.
• share and layer there work with others
• add voices to this, and make it a movie.

Teachers can do all of the above.  But I love the ease for smart board or I can statement displays, email a buncee as your invite or newsletter, or permission slip, share your students projects…. So many

So Mrs. P's model misses the slideshow aspect, but has the content,and she showed you the examples and had you test it in class. 

Model of the start of Mrs Poling Buncee PLN from this year modeled in class.  

Group Work Time

Monday- WebQuest Discussion and Hands On Gadgets introduced.  

Blog Post #18 Webinar Assignment & Current Options Due November 30th

Learning Target:  The students will demonstrate self directed learning, and  explore an area of interest or passion by attending or watching a replay of a webinar.

Task:

1. Choose at least 2 webinars to attend.  
2. Watch and participate in the tweeting, chatting, or feedback, if possible.  
3. Post on your blog, post #18 Webinar 

• Share 3 things you learned at each webinar
• Share an observation about how you learned via a webinar. (did it work for you,were you distracted, will you do this again?) 

Options:

TL live: October 19th  @ 7pm  (you can also view previous sessions at the bottom of the page, Sept 19th was Student Voice)

Graphite Webinars- 1st one October 21st  @ 3pm CST on Digital Citizenship being interactive with nearpod  (several each month and recordings of previous ones).

edWeb  Live Option:  October 26th @4pm

SimplyK12  Live Option:  October 28th 12-3:30pm (3 sessions) for Elementary (Comics, Qr codes, story telling or digital content)

THEjournal Live Options and you can view old webinars


If you want to do it on your time:

Shannon Miller sessions online

Getting Started with Genius Hour (a 25 minute webinar recorded) (with links and resources to extend)

Or a 4 part course in 20% time

Blog Post #17 Teacher Resources for your focus due November 9th

Learning Target: The student will find quality resources for their content area, discipline, or grade level to add to their PLN and have ready for lesson design, field studies, methods courses, and ministry opportunities.  (these should be people using tools, teaching, or posting, not tools)

Research or revisit links from class and make a list of people, blogs, organizations, groups, or companies that you find value in.

So I've found I revisit:

PBS education
Smithsonian
Shannon Miller, Van Meter Voice
Graphite and Common Sense Education
FreeTech4teachers

Don't share that you want to use nearpod, or kahoot, or padlet as a resource-- FIND real people, groups, or ideas for YOUR age level,content, future classroom.

So I'd share these links and explain why I find them worth following, how they help me, and what I might find there.

Post:

• 5 links
• 5 reasons why these links are helpful now or in the future

Blog Post #16 Midterm Reflection due October 23rd.

Learning Target: The student will self assess, share their mindset, academic growth. learning, and plan to earn __ grade by the end of the semester.

What grade have you earned thus far and why?

Midterm Reflection

Please post a blog reflection (or email me directly)  about your grade and investment thus far...  this is not a I've earned an A because I've posted everything.   Look at this list of questions below and post a well thought out reflection about your own growth/learning, and your hopes for the rest of the semester's growth.  

 I think your response will have three key areas  to discuss:

1)     Effort/Growth/Investment in my own learning

2)     Share your growing learning philosophy and where technology fits

3)     Goals, sites, exploration

Here are some questions or ideas to help you know what to share!

Growth/Effort/Investment

·         How are you growing in this course? 

·         How much time have you invested? Effort? Is your work and time worthy of the three credits you will earn?

·         How are you using class time? Are you listening and attentive, or surfing on your own thing, or caught up in nudging your friends and exchanging glances/comments? 

·         Are you thinking critically? Are you synthesizing? Analyzing? And pushing your learning?  (see the letter grade examples and share where your thinking fits.) 

·         And what’s your plan to do better? Or maintain your current level of investment?

·         My posts are grammatically correct and error free.  I’m representing myself well with my blog.

·         Then what grade you believe you are earning, or your plan to push ahead and improve to earn a ___. 

Learning with technology theory

·         What have you learned about teaching/learning philosophy, and how does technology make learning more effective? (We’ve introduced bloom's taxonomy, problem based learning, engaged learning, flipped/blended learning, and some quality tools.... )  as well as how technology can reach and teach at an academic level, but also impact your dispositions and add skills. 

·         Have you gotten to a novice level in your teaching theory foundation and can you see where and how technology might fit?

·         How has this course changed your views? Expanded your understanding?

·         What concepts, ideas or tools are you wondering about?  

·         How does technology and digital learning affect your spiritual life?

Goals, sites, and exploration

·         What have you discovered as we move on and show/tell/test tools, sites, and blogs?  

·         What are you internalizing?  What do you want to use?  

How are you stretching and even expanding how you think about your digital literacy by the exposure and resources in class and in your work outside of class?  

WebQuest Class 10/9 Blog Post #15 due 10/16

WebQuest  (due 10/16 as Post #15)

Learning Target:
As an altidutnist, technophile, affliator, efficiency expert, I can review 5 WebQuests and complete a chart explaining the strengths/weaknesses of each, and will be ready to share with my group on October 19th.  

Directions:

Step one:  (1 minute)  Go to your age appropriate page:

Elementary WebQuest   OR   Secondary WebQuest

Step Two:  (10 minutes) Create the worksheet table on your blog Post:  (10 minutes)
your Worksheet answers.  You are doing steps one and two today.

Step three: (35 minutes)  Look at the 5 WebQuests (set a timer- 7 minutes per site) (

Step four: (15 minutes) list what the strengths/weaknesses are. (make memorable notes since it will be a week before we meet).  (20 minutes to complete and document what you saw)

Step five:   (5 minutes) list which site is best and which is worst AND 2 reasons for each why on your blog.

Post Blog #15 on your blog!
( from the WebQuest page we will do steps 3,4,5 on Oct 19th) 

Digital Citizen Presentations November 2 and 6

Expert Groups

Sharing Content Products:

• Theme Document (poster, infographic, brochure)
• Engagement tool (kahoot, poll everywhere, socrative,...)
• Presentation online tool (comic book, podcast, animated, book, flipsnack, ...)
• Source Curation (share how you found quality resources and share at least 4 sources via pinterest, symbaloo, padlet,)  

Presentation Content:

• examples of what this means for primary, middle, high school (and home if different)
• definition of your elements
• share key vocabulary (and define)
• theme or slogan of your presentation
• real life lesson example 

Full Checklist HERE and handed out in class

MODEL (and Mrs. Poling/Arjona will present another full model on 10/23)

Example Prezi (focused on young elementary) (similar project but done alone and with slightly different requirements, but gives you a model to build from!)  

Thoughts about the presentation- key concepts:

My approach to the project was teaching primary teachers how to teach the foundational concepts of Digital Citizenship to children in their early elementary years, when they are just learning about the online world, the internet, cell phones and other digital media. It’s really relevant to me partly because my daughter is in kindergarten (and is needing to learn these concepts) and also because this is the age I enjoy teaching the most.

For me, it was a really enjoyable exploration of many videos and articles and curriculum. In the end, the resource I will probably go back to time and time again is Common Sense Media. I really appreciated the straightforward curriculum they provided about this topic as well as the relevant videos.

I had pretty much concluded that there were five main concepts that I wanted to teach young students and this is how I had laid it out:

A good digital citizen is…

1. respectful of others and themselves

2. wise with private information

3. careful when something doesn’t feel right

4. brave when they see or experience bullying

5. balanced in how they spend their time online

Then, as I was looking for one last video to complete the prezi (and only really had some final text and the audio tracks to complete), I came upon this YouTube video that pulled it all together. Not surprisingly, it was also from CommonSense Media and contained all the resources I needed even to do my audio tracks and add in some great visuals! I was pretty excited because it was such a simple way to teach these concepts all in one song with super cute characters. My daughter loved the song and was “singing” along the first time she heard it even though she didn’t know the words. :) I’m sure we’ll use it again as I start to teach her these concepts at home. I’d like to do some of the activities and worksheets with her this summer since I think it will be a fun and useful enrichment activity for her to do on the break.

Obviously because I’ve chosen very young students as target group for these learning skills, there is still a wide range of digital citizenship topics that I could still learn more about. However, I’ve been downloading much of the free curriculum and watching videos at CommonSense Media (for older students) and so the learning continues in this regard. With so many different resources out there, it can be somewhat overwhelming to know where to begin. And yet, it’s really amazing to find one site that has everything that I’m personally looking for: videos, curriculum (teacher guides and worksheet booklets), parent guides and great articles on a variety of topics. My takeaway from this project is that site, and it will be an important part of my PLN as well!