Blazing New Trails; Our Trek into BYOD

Blazing New Trails; Our Trek into BYOD

Session highlighted Virginia Beach Public Schools Bring Your Own Device Initiative

Three teachers: One elementary and two high school teachers 
told their story of using personal devices in the classroom.

Used Edmodo as main tool for blended learning with devices
Some resources used in class by teachers:
shmoop - we speak student
baiboard
ted.com
todays meeting
gutenberg project
infuse learning - response system
socrative.com - exit tickets
evernote
remind 101
voicethread

Links from presenters:
TodaysMeet
http://todaysmeet.com/BYODVSTE12
Acceptable Use
http://www.vbschools.com/policies/6-64_1r.asp

FAQ - Bring Your Own Device
http://www.vbschools.com/curriculum/byod/

Presentation:
http://prezi.com/y1ee534lcwmj/blazing-new-trails-our-trek-into-byod/?auth_key=d275f54cabc8bd72406271b89142011fc90e2e60

Others who attended please add comments.

Primary Students get Inspired to Create and Learn using iPads

Portsmouth Schools
2nd grade classroom--6 week project
butterfly life cycle
using VoiceThread & DoodleBuddie

Read Very Hungry Caterpillar book
watched DE streaming videos
live caterpillars--use iPads to take pics of each stage
research on the web--record 2 facts for each cycle
The Children's Butterfly Site
text to speak feature on iPad? for lower readers
Monarch butterfly www.learner.org site

doodle buddy--draw their stage, typed facts on picture, recorded voice telling about it on voicethread.

More websites:
abcya.com
kerpoof.com

Technology Meets Nursery Rhymes

Flip Camera
windows movie maker or iMovie
iPads--nursery rhyme apps, puppet pals or Art maker to create and narrate individual rhymes
Pixie--create & extend nursery rhyme
Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater....keep the form, change the content (change ending)
Keep the content, change the form (president's song sung to wheels on the bus)
Digital voice recorders
youtube

Teacher created materials books:
Literacy Centers & Activities for Nursery Rhymes

drjean.org
Dr Jean Nursery Rhymes

someone from the audience suggested using:
world book online
kids corner and learning station

Appy Hour

Sharing favorite iOS Apps

Fara from VA Beach schools shares her favorite apps

1. Pocket Universe Express - You aim your iPad at the sky and it shows you the stars you're facing.  You can put it in day or night view to see stars and constellations.
2. iCell - plant and animal cells in 3D, you can pinch, zoom, rotate, etc. to really explore.  Great way to intro and let kids explore cells
3. Geoboard - virtual geoboard.  Choose your rubberbands and place them on the virtual geoboard.  Can choose to color in the area a rubberband is surrounding. 
4. DocsTeach - works hand in hand with a website from the National Archive.  docsteach.org  Fara's sample site code is wec565 - you can pull in any document from the National Archive into any lesson
5. Flat Stanley - you can create him or her any way you like, then add your Flat Stanley or Stella to any photo.  You can open a camera within the app that will take a picture with your Flat Stanley in the picture.
6. Apples - telling time facts
7. Trading Cards - upload the image, then students fill in info to create a trading card about a fictional or real person, fictional or real place, object, event, artifact, vocab word, etc.
8. Word Mover - like refrigerator magnets of words pertaining to a particular topic that you can then manipulate.  Ex:  words from the Preamble.  You can also create your own word lists.
9. Master the Math - kind of lime Who Wants to be a Millionaire with math questions, and it collects data.

Kim from VA Beach schools shares her favorite apps

1. Animator - flipbooks
2. Toontastic - kids brainstorm a story idea, then create a cartoon by drawing or choosing a background.  There are 5 story parts, and students set parameters and music.  
3. Puppet Pals - similar to Toontastic, but you can bring in your own characters and backgrounds from your pictures.
4. Tangrams - virtual tangram manipulatives
5. Display Recorder - record yourself - video and your voice - of you demonstrating something on your iPad
6. Minecraft - virtual world where you break down things and build - can have multiple users in the same world at the same time
7. Chicken Coop Fractions - a question is posed, and you move the nest to catch the chicken's egg before she lays it so it doesn't break.
8. OhNo!Fractions - choose greater or less than, then you prove it by drawing the two fractions.  You can choose the largest denominator

Learn to Scratch

Scratch - imagine * program * share

An easy, interactive way to program and have kids program.

Getting Started with Scratch

Two Albemarle County teachers (Jon - middle school), and Erica (Elementary) hold Coder Dojo classes after school where kids come together to learn Scratch and make programs. Here's their presentation on SCRATCH

Main components:

• Palette of COMMANDS - 1st column on left
• Scripts/Costumes/Sounds - 2nd column
• SCRIPTS for Sprites
• Stage - view window with background
• Sprites - characters/components
• Start & Stop - button on top right that allows you to preview

Kinect2Scratch - You don't need an Xbox, just the Kinect bar and this software, and this software will record movement so you can use Scratch to make interactive games that respond to your movement. 

Sample cards (shown in the presentation) for kids to use for practice available for download on the Scratch site.

Check out the Scratch Project site to see some of the many projects others have made.  Neat stuff.

Being Smart with SMART

Dr. Michael Rossi
mrossi@vicom-corp.com

works best when you have response in class EVERYDAY!
-taking roll/attendance
-continuous formative assessment for understanding
-ask questions on the fly
-when kids don't have clicker in hands, they know they dont' have to pay attentioin

How to avoid turning your back on students when at the board...& how to maintain engagement

To erase or not to erase: (don't turn your back to erase & waste valuable seconds or allow disengagement)
simply just add a blank page
at end of class, convert handwriting to text & save
OR use the Clear ink icon--not a default on the toolbar

Imbed Browser or webpages in pages Notebook 11
Insert
Internet Browser
Pin it! (if you don't pin it, it will default to the smart page browser) then save file
If you use dual page...you can drag items from web browser to new page

Single touch board? How to make it more interactive...
options: add wireless computer mouse, add smart slate, your iPad & iPhone (doceri free app for iPad) allows you to navigate in the room & use your iPad) (reflection app--$14.99 needs port opened for iPad to work through network)

Notebook Express or Viewer--free download from smarttech.com

Page Recording (located in properties tab)
recording begins when pen hits the board; stop recording
play/pause for discussion...for playback

Linking Resources to Save Time
-link to a web page
-linking to a file on this computer
-link to an attachment

Have you Heard?

**Personal Note: This session was not what I expected from the title; but so many other people got up & left once he did the intro about this session being about audio enhancement products that I felt bad & couldn't leave.

Here's a few things I noted:

sound decreases 6 dB every time distance is doubled
there is an app for sound decibel reading

audio enhancement products--infrared devices
adding microphone system to teacher; speakers installed in ceilings and in back of room
amazing results in achievement!
most kids reported that they liked that the teacher didn't have to yell
great for classroom management

Keynote: Learning to Speak Native for Dummies--Steve Dembo

Is there any music inside a piano? Learning is not in the device!
Simply instruments....

You tube videos (inservice on how to navigate the reading of a book)
-from a student perspective--spoof
-from 12 mo old perspective--expected results

Interactive textbooks online--organized by topics

Cubelets (robotic building blocks) http://www.modrobotics.com/cubelets-kt06
other one??

Blogging with Kids--building blocks/stepping stones for building online digital citizenship
Writing, public speaking, creating video, etc
"aiden dembo--DEN blog network"

Embracing publicity online...

College Confidential forum

If digital immigrant educators really want to reach digital natives...they will have to change. ~Marc Prensky
JUST DO IT!

opportunities are changing!
crowdSPRING--logo design online; Judson applying for a job--creatively

Gaming online

University applications--video submissions online
master marketers online--expressing yourself appropriately online
showing off fantastic things going on in classrooms online

Resum Up

delivr.com--easy QR creator; edit frequently to match content & change site where QR is linked.

Imaginality

Comic books--hidden treasures when you put iPad over pages
Aurasma (free)
have kids turn physical textbooks into ebooks by creating interactive pieces