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Love that you include choice, engagement & exp
@alicebarr Love that you include choice, engagement & exploration. Adding what works for teaching Ss to supporting Ts = good practice!
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What does Russian President Vladimir Putin admire
What does Russian President Vladimir Putin admire most about Americans? He tells @CharlieRose: "Their creativity and their innovation."
Saturday, September 26, 2015
Weekly Links (weekly)
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Professional Development: Try 1 New Thing
40 minutes during faculty meeting
For my intro, I put together a short page of resources. I asked teachers and staff members to look over the page and experiment. They had 30 minutes to play. I then asked them to choose 1 thing to try for the next month. At the end, I asked for a couple of standouts. Rowcall, Desmos, Lucidchart - (taking a bulleted list and making a mind map), and organizing Google Docs were highlighted as particularly useful. They loved having the choice of tools to explore.
I am going to a follow up at the next meeting and see which tools and addons staff are using. I have long loved the concept of trying just one thing to see if it works with students and then building upon it. Of course, we always want to think of purpose first.
The timing of our trying one new thing has synced with EdTechTeam's #onenewthing Twitter contest. Maybe teachers will tweet their new learning!
Saturday, September 19, 2015
Weekly Links (weekly)
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How to Incubate Creativity in School Through Making and Discovery | MindShift | KQED News
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Creativity Resources - Google Docs
A7: Great opportunity to encourage creativity with #GAFE and 1 of these https://t.co/5e7VEoLfj5 #gafechat
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A5: Take. Pictures. Of. Every. Experiment. If Goog
A5: Take. Pictures. Of. Every. Experiment. If Google Photos is on for your district, the pics will magically appear in G-Drive. #gafechat
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A6: Emailing MS Word files to their teacher... Ok
A6: Emailing MS Word files to their teacher... Okay, not really. :-) #GAFEchat
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Paris Landmarks - Final - Google Fusion Tables
A3: Example of using a Fusion Table with Maps https://t.co/4PapzPBNy9 #gafechat
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Improving Writing and Research with Google Apps by Kasey Bell - CA #gafesummit 2015 - Google Slides
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7 important YouTube Tips for Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
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http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/nli0531.pdf
This guide provides a practical approach to creating communities of practice (CoPs) based on experiences working with corporations, nonprofits, associations, government organizations, and educational institutions.
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How to Design a Classroom Built on Inquiry, Openness and Trust | MindShift | KQED News
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20 Google Apps activities for classroom innovation | Ditch That Textbook
Saturday, September 12, 2015
Weekly Links (weekly)
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Student Guide to Collaborative Google Slides | Teacher Tech
"Student Guide to Collaborative Google Slides"
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SearchReSearch: PowerSearchingWithGoogle Text Lessons (and slides! and videos!)
"PowerSearchingWithGoogle Text Lessons (and slides! and videos!) "
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Anna Vital - How To Think Visually Using Visual Analogies Most...
"In this grid I organized analogies from the abstract down to the more detailed. I grouped them by similarity in shape. The goal is to enable you to quickly see the possibilities and “try them on” your information. With time you’ll be able to do all of this in your head. But for now this is a shortcut. "
Monday, September 07, 2015
Professional Development: Creative and Innovation Thinking
We have been working on updating the ways students will demonstrate school wide expectations in our high school. During our back to school inservice, I co-led an activity around Creative and Innovative thinking.
Activity:
As a YHS student, you will
- Communicate effectively;
- Exhibit personal responsibility, civic engagement, and global awareness;
- Work independently and collaboratively;
- Demonstrate critical, creative, and innovative thinking;
- Develop understanding through inquiry, research, and synthesis.
- Introduce Website
- The 30 circles activity
- Teachers chose an article from this list and read it.
- Group people together by article. Using the Coffee Talk protocol, discuss and gather feedback.
- "It was difficult to see a rubric on creativity and not think of it as an assessment tool, but rather a guideline to define creativity."
- "I appreciated the opportunity to think about how another educator thought about assessing creativity."
- "The importance of brainstorming and the many ways that can manifest itself in the classroom. Students still need practice brainstorming and creating their own original ideas. I also was intrigued by the 5 minutes at the start of class spent in silence. I have spent the summer wondering how I would change the start of class and had consider a minute of silence."
- "Keep discussing this as a group--Betsy's got some GREAT ideas! We need more discussion and more sharing of ideas, rubrics, examples of assignments, etc. "
- "Keep the readings and discussions going!!!!"
Saturday, September 05, 2015
Weekly Links (weekly)
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top Influencers this week! Have a great weekend :)
#FollowFriday @chrislehmann @alicebarr @ski626 top Influencers this week! Have a great weekend :)
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The Teacher’s Guide to Using YouTube in the Classroom | Edudemic
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@alicebarr no! Thank yoU! #gafechat
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Thanks for sharing this Best thing ever
@LISDTechie Thanks for sharing this #gafechat Best thing ever
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