Technology Bytes Newsletter - March 2015

I NNOVATIVE E DUCATOR C ONSULTING ’ S

TEC HNOLOGY BY TES

“Inspired Technology Leadership to Transform Teaching and Learning”

M ARCH 2015

INNOVATIVE EDUCATOR CONSULTING’S

TEC HNOLOGY BY TES Naomi Harm, CEO ◆ PO Box 188, Brownsville, MN 55919 ◆ (608) 386-2018 ◆ naomi@naomiharm.org ◆ http://naomiharm.org

Greetings and Happy March, PO Box 188 Brownsville, MN 55919 Phone: (608) 386-2018 Email: naomi@naomiharm.org www.naomiharm.org #naomiharm

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The winter and cold seems to be coming to an end as we begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel and look forward to a nice sunny day and a warmer breeze. We can certainly be hopeful!

The Innovative Educator Consulting team is getting set for new and fun adventures throughout the region during the month of March. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out where we will be and we hope to meet up with many of you at WEMTA in just a few short weeks.

Last month in Tech Bytes we shared out several exciting changes IEC has in store over the next few months. We shared our new iOS and Android apps (You can click the icons to the left for download) which allow a much better digital playback on mobile devices. As of March 1st we are very happy to announce that we unveiled our BRAND NEW WEBSITE with a fresh new look and style that also is much more user friendly when using a mobile device.

Be sure to stop by and check out www.naomiharm.org.

We hope you have a wonderful March!

The IEC Team

INSIDE THIS ISSUE IEC’s Inspiring Professional Development Workshop Opportunities ........................................................................................................... 2

Digital Learning Day - Learning & Innovating ............................................ 4

Where is Innovative Educator Consulting .................................................. 3

Intel Engage Live Webinars .............................................................................. 5

Googly About Google..............................................................................................3

The DIgital Buzz Radio Show: STEM Mobile Learning Studio ............ 5

Resource Roundup ............................................................................................... 3

Chats with Deb: Applications for 2 in 1 Devices and Book Creator App .................................................................................................. 5

An Eye on the Globe ...............................................................................................4

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Show Me The Money: Grants & Contests ................................................. 4

I NSPIRING P ROFESSIONAL D EVELOPMENT W ORKSHOP O PPORTUNITIES REGISTER ONLINE AT: www.naomiharm.org/register Enrollment is limited to 30 educators so register early to save your spot!

March 17

April 7

Redesign Your Classroom Learning Spaces and Make Room for Makerspaces Host Site: Baraboo School District

Gearing Up with Google Apps and Creating Engaging Student Projects with Chromebooks Host Site: Iowa-Grant School District

This session will walk you through design elements to transform your classroom environment into a dynamic collaborative learning hub. You will also experience insightful, fun and problem solving activities to create a classroom corner makerspace or full fledged library makerspace center where computing meets tinkering and design.

March 25 Creative and Engaging Mobile Assessments for Active Learning Host Site: Mauston School District

In this workshop, teachers will create engaging mobile DNA (Device Neutral Assessments/Apps/ Activities) with Chrome and iPad Apps, and web 2.0 resources to collect data, and use this feedback to check for student understanding during the instructional process.

March 26 Redesign Your Classroom Learning Spaces and Make Room for Makerspaces Host Site: Iowa-Grant School District

This session will walk you through design elements to transform your classroom environment into a dynamic collaborative learning hub. You will also experience insightful, fun and problem solving activities to create a classroom corner makerspace or full fledged library makerspace center where computing meets tinkering and design.

Come explore the wonderful world of Google and Chrome Apps to create engaging digital projects with Chromebooks. You will be immersed in intermediate levels of collaborative teaching strategies and activities of how to best use Google and Chrome Apps to extend mobile learning opportunities for all of your students.

April 15 Student Driven Action Research Experiences with Moonshot Thinking Host Site: Mauston School District Allow your students to shoot for the moon through personalized learning research experiences. This workshop will empower you as an educator to deliver a driving force of curiosity, problem solving and inspirational learning for each and every student in your classroom.

SUMMER TECH SPLASHES Summer Tech Splashes are just around the corner! Contact Naomi if your school is interested in being a host site for a Summer Tech Splash professional development event!

CONFIRMED LOCATIONS Blue Earth, MN -- June 7-8 Google Tech Academy

Wisconsin Rapids, WI -- June 11 Summer Tech Splash

Iowa-Grant, WI -- June 16-17 Summer Tech Splash

Madison, WI -- July 8-9 Get Your Google On Tech Camp

>> SATURDAY EVENT <<

April 18 Personalized Learning Collaborative: Get Your Google On! Host Site: Monticello School District

Come and explore the endless possibilities of Google Apps for Education and how you can deliver a more personalized, relevant, passion-driven learning experience for you and your K-12 students.

April 27 Creative and Engaging Mobile Assessments for Active Learning Host Site: Kenosha School District

In this workshop, teachers will create engaging mobile DNA (Device Neutral Assessments/ Apps/ Activities) with Chrome and iPad Apps, and web 2.0 resources to collect data, and use this feedback to check for student understanding during the instructional process.

>> ONLINE WEBINAR SERIES << (Available for 1 grad credit)

April 9, 16, 23 & 30 Creativity In the Mobile Classroom This course will explain and demonstrate the the development of creative thinking skills through a personalized, mobile learning environment, and will help teachers transition to a personalized learning environment with background research, planning strategies, and suggested technology apps and online tools.

Keep watching our website for more workshop offerings as they become available. www.naomiharm.org/upcomingworkshops

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G OOGLY A BOUT

We have a wonderful line up of Spring sessions and some are occurring on Saturdays to meet your PD learning timeframes. Checkout all the upcoming events here.

March 4-6

G OOGLE

NCTIES

Naomi will be representing IEC at the North Carolina TIES conference working with administrative leaders, K-12 educators and students on topics of personalized learning, classroom redesign, and brain-based teaching & learning. Naomi will also be the closing keynote for this technology conference.

Stay up to date and learn from the North Carolina edtech conference through Twitter with the Twiiter hashtag #NCTIES15.

March 22 - 24

WEMTA

March brings a whirlwind of PD opportunities to collaborate with the IEC team members, as we will be presenting at WEMTA 2015 with a mobile makerspace green screen event and four innovative learning sessions.

RESOURCE ROUNDUP 5 Apps for Making Movies with Mobile Devices Browser Based Tools for Creating Audio Recordings Create and Distribute Flipped

SCIENCE FAIR - DREAM BIG IN ORDER TO CHANGE THE WORLD

The 2015 Google Science Fair is a science and technology competition across the globe open to all individuals and teams ages 13 to 18. See how you can enter the competition. See past examples and learn to inspire your students to dream big to change the world. 2015 Google Science Fair is now accepting submissions (Due May 19th) Here are some tips to remember and support your creative endeavors: How to Enter GEG Tri-State G+ Community represents educators and administrators passionate about Google for Education. The community members maximize, showcase and share essential Google tools and resources they utilize within their GAFE teaching and learning environments to inspire student learning.

Shake Up Learning: Google Cheat Sheets eBook for FREE- $9.99 Value Google Drive Update: Incoming changes back to Shared with me Force Make a Copy for your Google Docs

Lessons with EdPuzzle

Google Slides for Stories, Quizzes and Games

10 Free Resources for Flipping

Search Publicly Shared Google Documents

Your Classroom What to do when your Chromebook is offline Epic Padlet Wall of Science/STEAM Resources Recess For High School Students page

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Home Depot- Get Hands On Kids Workshops

Customize Your Google Classroom Theme Google Doc Speech Recognition Add- On Additional Add-Ons for Google Docs, Sheets, and Forms

AN EYE

ON THE

GLOBE

Global Marathon Webinar is a free, virtual event uniting women in engineering & technology worldwide! The events run March 9-11. Check out the link provided to see featured speakers and agenda topics that may be of interest to you.

Global School Network offers an area to participate in existing projects and to create your very own. Give it a try and search out the “Projects Registry” to view current and future k-12 global collaboration projects.

Projects By Jen has just opened registration for the next Global Project: St. Patrick’s Day 2015 Grab a box of Lucky Charms and join classes around the globe March 16-20. Be sure to check out her various projects as they always include standard connections, as well as ways to collaborate with other participating classes around the globe. Jen does a great job sharing the data collected by participants and providing it back to perfectly implement a classroom discussion based on the real-world data findings. Tie in some fitness by counting your steps and contribute to the Walk Our World Project!

LEARNING & INNOVATING Digital Learning Day, although we are beginning to focus on digital learning each and every day, is back in it’s 4th year. It is a celebration that reminds all of us the importance of always being a learner, stepping outside of our comfort zone, and trying something new. Each year we focus on implementing strategic classroom technologies that effectively support and grow student learning. Even though we celebrate on this special day, think beyond a days message and consider how this could be a focus of quality student instruction each and every day of the year.

Here are some additional sites and resources to help you make the most out of your Digital Learning Day rollout in your school or district:

SHOW ME THE MONEY: CONTESTS & GRANTS AASL SChool Library Grants Apps For Class Mobile Challenge

About Digital Learning Day

How To Win Corporate and Foundation Grants for Your Tech Projects

Lesson Plans, Digital Tools, and Resources

Grant Wrangler

Wisconsin’s Digital Learning Day Resource Page

Innovative Teacher and Teacher Team Grants PBS Kids Writer’s Contest

Add Your Celebration Here 2014 Digital Learning Day Highlights Digital Learning Day Resource RoundUp from Edutopia Digital Learning Day Facebook Page

Target Foundation Grants This Big List of Educational Grants and Resources The Journal Grant Listing

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INTEL ENGAGE LIVE WEBINARS Intel Engage offers monthly webinars that are FREE. Tap into these inspiring and insightful webinars created by and led by K-16 teachers.

Many free tech prizes are also given away during these webinars for attendees collaborating on the trivia challenges related to the content of the webinar being presented.

Click here to view and register for all upcoming webinars.

Thinking Critically With Data Wednesday, March 11, 2015 4:00:00 PM CDT 5:00:00 PM CDT How can critical thinking skills prepare students to think analytically in our global, knowledge-driven world? In this webinar we’ll explore Thinking Critically with Data, an engaging professional development course for teaching critical thinking.

Engage 1:1: Activating Student Voice Thursday, March 12, 2015 7:00:00 PM CDT - 8:00:00 PM CDT Participants will be introduced to Verso, a web-based app designed to establish new learning partnerships between and amongst students and teachers. Participants will gain access to a bank of resources for use in the classroom along with a range of examples from schools.

Intel Teach Elements: Inquiry in the Science Classroom Wednesday, March 25, 2015 4:00:00 PM CDT - 5:00:00 PM CDT What is scientific inquiry and how can it be implemented in any science classroom? In this webinar, we’ll explore Inquiry in the Science Classroom, an engaging professional development course for designing inquiry learning experiences.

Connecting Virtually March 31, 2015 7:00:00 PM CST - 8:00:00 PM CST Intel Teach Live welcomes Jessica Anderson as she focuses on breaking down the four walls of the classroom and connecting virtually. She will address building digital citizenship skills through the use of social media in the classroom, web conferences (via Google Hangouts), and virtual and collaborative projects.

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THE DIGITAL BUZZ RADIO S HOW March turns the corner and brings us a blast of Spring March Madness to the radio show.

Join Naomi Harm and the Intel Engage Digital Buzz radio show and learn about the latest and greatest STEM mobile learning studio opportunities to recreate in your classroom to allow your students “making moments” and make the most of March! Naomi will also be broadcasting live from #NCTIES conference this month, so tune in to the live and archived radio shows with interviews from edtech national leaders March 4-6, 2015.

Click here to listen to this radio show broadcast and tap into the resources shared within this months broadcast.

C HATS WITH D EB “Mrs. Norton’s Neighborhood” This month on Chats with Deb, we learn about several applications to use on 2 in 1 Devices. In this post Deb shares 5 creative apps to tap into to support classroom learning.

Click here to review Deb’s overview of applications to use with 2 in 1 Devices.

In Deb’s second post she shares the importance of designing, creating and publishing digital books with students using the Book Creator app. Book Creator allows students to infuse audio, text, images, and color to personalize each page of their story.

Click here to watch this Chat with Deb to see how the Book Creator app works.

Please tap into the many insightful posts that Deb has to share through Deb’s Blog: Sharing Technology

We hope March provides for you a wealth of opportunities of inspiration, happiness and gratitude! #TogetherWeAreBetter from the Innovative Educator Consulting Team!