Technology Bytes Newsletter - October 2015

OCTOBER 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

October greetings teacher and admin leadership friends. So glad you have decided to tap into this month’s IEC Tech Bytes Fall edition. I am so excited to share with all of you so many inspiring “just-in-time” ideas I have gleaned from working with nationwide K-12 teachers, admin leaders and university affiliates this Fall. This Fall PO Box 188 Brownsville, MN 55919 Phone: (608) 386-2018 Email: naomi@naomiharm.org www.naomiharm.org

edition will also highlight and deliver on these ideas in sharable formats so you can transform your instruction tomorrow to make lasting learning gains for your students instantly.

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE IEC’s Inspiring PD Workshop Opportunities.............................................. 2

Connected Educator Month ............................................................................. 5

Where in the World Is Naomi This Fall? .................................................... 3

Global Collaboration Projects and Resources ......................................... 5

Self-Directed iPad Literacy Centers .............................................................. 4

The Digital Buzz Radio Show: Practical Pedagogy Practices ............ 6

K-12 Educational Grants, Contests and Funding Opportunities ...... 4

Chats with Deb: Online Discussion Tools .................................................... 6

DNA Mobile Literacy Apps ................................................................................ 5

Intel Webinars and Events ................................................................................ 6

IINSPIRING NSPIRING PPROFESSIONAL ROFESSIONAL DDEVELOPMENT EVELOPMENT W WORKSHOP ORKSHOP OOPPORTUNITIES PPORTUNITIES Visit our website for more details

www.naomiharm.org/upcomingworkshops www.naomiharm.org/upcomingworkshops

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Redesign Your Learning Space By Making Room for Makerspaces Host Site: WI Rapids School District This session will walk you through design elements to transform your classroom environment into a dynamic collaborative learning hub.

Maximizing Google Docs, Sheets and Slides through Collaborative Teacher and Student Projects Host Site: Rushford-Peterson, MN School District Immerse yourself in the beginning to intermediate levels of collaborative design and teaching strategies utilizing Google Docs, Sheets and Slides to extend mobile learning opportunities for ALL students.

OCTOBER 17

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Welcome to the Wonderful World of Makerspaces!

Host Site: Sun Prairie School District Come and explore the endless possibilities of how low tech to high tech can deliver a more personalized, relevant, passion-driven learning experience for you and your K-12 students.

OCTOBER 20 Tech Mex Tuesday: Yes, There Is An App For That Location: Tequilla’s Restaurant in Onalaska, WI This high energy after school event will introduce different iPad, Android and Chrome “Smashtivities” that will redefine classroom projects.

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OCTOBER 29 Maximizing Google Docs, Forms and Sheets to Personalize Learning within a 1:1 or BYOL Environment Host Site: Medford School District Participants will learn how to use Google Docs, Sheets and Forms for active student participation and teacher productivity and also create Gogle and Chrome App activities and lessons.

OCTOBER 30 Fostering and Modeling Effective Digital Citizenship Skills to Support Your 1:1 and/ or BYOD Implementations Host Site: Rib Lake School District In this workshop, participants will learn about essential skills for digital citizenship, how to teach students these skills, and how to create a positive school culture around technology.

NOVEMBER 17 Tech Mex Tuesday: Wearable Tech Gadgets Location: Tequilla’s Restaurant in Onalaska, WI Learn how you can make an edtech fashion statement with innovative wearable technology to inspire and personalize your learning.

NOVEMBER 19 Develop Global Collaboration Projects and Real-World Connections for Learners Through A Local Global Educator PLN Host Site: Arrowhead School District Explore the limitless possibilities of crosscultural interactions via global collaboration projects and virtual field trips!

Personalized Learning Spaces With the Brain in Mind

NOVEMBER 14-15

Hosted By Eastern Carver County Schools, MN Audience Focus: K-12 Educators and Administrators This two-day high-energy conference will empower school leadership teams to explore how personalized learning experiences directly correlate with a student’s and a teacher’s growth mindset. We will examine how personalized learning and its spaces can support a variety of pedagogical and brain-based instructional approaches. Participants will also have the opportunity to create their own personalized learning plan, through a “classroom crib” design that will motivate participants to create a personalized learning space based on sound pedagogical practices gained from the captivating sessions facilitated by well-known page Minnesota and nationally recognized educational leaders and industry partners.

Collaborative and interactive panel discussions with attending school district leaders and high school students will add additional voices to this two-day experience.

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WHERE

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WORLD IS NAOMI THIS FALL?

(FRANCE, OREGON, MINNESOTA

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WISCONSIN)

This Fall season has opened up the doorway for many amazing opportunities of travel and presenting once again. Many of you ask me frequently “Where has your work taken you this month Naomi?” And my answer this time includes the following….

October 12-20

PRACTICAL PEDAGOGIES CONFERENCE Toulouse, France

I will be a featured speaker at the Practical Pedagogies Conference in Toulouse, France. Topics being presented include Makerspaces, Design Thinking and Classroom Redesign On A Budget. We were just informed of an amazing art and music festival that will be taking place while we’re in Toulouse, with an umbrella sky project in the city center known as “Walk On The Pink Side Festival”. We are so excited for this event to be taking place.

November 3-10

to meet so many amazing educators who I am now proud and honored to call my dearest teacher friends. They have truly transformed my educational outlook and presentation delivery on how we, as educators, are impacting and contributing to the growth mindset of each and every one of our students. From a facilitation perspective, I too have changed up my delivery of instruction to offer a more personalized

Portland, OR

approach to ensure each attendee feels valued,

PERSONALIZED LEARNING SPACES WITH THE BRAIN IN MIND Chaska, MN

I am a featured speaker at the “Personalized Learning Spaces With the Brain in Mind Conference” in Chaska, MN presenting on classroom redesigns on a budget, creating a personalized brain-friendly classroom environment, and empowering students with personalized selfdirected mobile learning activities.

December 7-9

and facilitation adventure, I have the opportunity

GLOBAL INTEL EDUCATION SUMMIT

I will be in Portland, Oregon as a facilitator and attendee at the Global Intel Education Summit presenting on “Design Thinking of Realizing Your Passions” and “Critical and Insightful Reflection To Make Change.”

November 14-15

With each new national or international travel

S CHOOL L EADERS A DVANCING T ECHNOLOGY IN E DUCATION Wisconsin Dells, WI

I am a featured speaker at SLATE (School Leaders Advancing Technology in Education) on Wearable Technology, Technology Leadership, Classroom Redesign and K-12 Makerspaces as a collaborative team event with Deb Norton, Velvet Holmes, Robin Hosemann and so many more great teacher friends!

and has the opportunity to interact with the highest quality of carefully planned resources to support their instruction to impact student learning tomorrow in their classrooms.

Thank you national and international teacher friends for inspiring me to take more risks and do great things every day in my trainings, keynotes, webinars, and workshop sessions. You have empowered me to see first hand the importance of being more mindful of creating personalized learning experiences to meet the needs of the individual learner. #TogetherWeAreBetter

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SELF-DIRECTED IPAD LITERACY CENTERS O SMO G ENIUS As if Play Osmo could not get any better, Numbers has just been released as the latest addition as a math app and tangible number set. Osmo now is being boxed and called Osmo Genius which includes Numbers, Words, Tangram, Masterpiece and Newton. Osmo Genius kits can now be purchased for $99.00. Please note, you can also buy a kit and then gift a kit to your favorite school or elementary teacher so it is 2 for 1 right now!

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Tiggly is an early learning system to combine toys with specially developed apps which interact with the tangible toys and an iPad surface. Tiggly enables parents and early childhood teachers to bring this critical component of early learning to the “digital sandbox” today's kids inhabit. Current special of “Buy 1 Give 1” is now being offered and I could not pass up this opportunity for my 2year-old grand daughter Madelyn Ann- at $29.95 and gifted a set to the Alma, WI school district’s early childhood program. This learning tool is a literacy game changer for all children ages 2-7. I just found out as of Friday, Target Stores and target.com is now a reseller at the cost of $29.95 for each set, but they do not offer the “Buy 1 Give 1” currently, so you are much better off going through the Tiggly website for the best “Buy 1 Give 1” offer.

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K12 EDUCATIONAL GRANTS, CONTESTS AND FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

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Wonder League Robotics Competition: Space Mission Edition Signups for the first ever Wonder League Robotics Competition are now open! This event is for kids ages 6-11 to solve real-world science and technology challenges with their Dash & Dot robots and the new Wonder app! The theme of this year's challenge is Space Exploration!

The challenges will be released on Oct 19, and all teams will have until Dec 1 to submit their video solutions. We have some super awesome, super secret prizes up our sleeves for the winning teams! Your kids will sharpen their coding chops while having the time of their lives. Tell their friends and school to recruit their team today! PS - be sure to show your kids the Scroll Quest in the Wonder app. There, they will train for their mission and get a leg up on the competition!

O CTOBER D EADLINES : Lowe’s Toolbox For Education NEA Grants for Educators and Leadership Student Achievement Grants Walmart Community Grant Samsung Solve For Tomorrow Contest

D ECEMBER D EADLINES : Youth Garden Grant WEMTA Grant Herb Society Grant For Educators Meemic Grants for MI WI and IL

A ND M ORE : All About Photos Contests For Amateurs Big List of Educational Grants Bright Ideas Grants Composting Council Art Contest Donors Choose Fund For Teachers Get EdFunding Get To Know Outdoors Contest Grant Wrangler ITEEA PD Grant K12 School Grants Student Cam Contest Student Competitions The SPARK Grant Finder This is awesome - lots of local grants for schools!

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Whale Tail Grants Wisconsin Essay Contest for HS Students Wisconsin YES Contest

CONNECTED EDUCATOR MONTH

DNA MOBILE LITERACY APPS

The Connected Educator Month (CEM) initiative networks educators and education stakeholders through connected professional learning experiences worldwide. Over the past three years, millions of educators and others around the world have participated in hundreds of professional development and other educational opportunities, offering highly distributed, diverse, and engaging activities to all stakeholders at all levels.

I am always searching for mobile apps that are designed to work on any OS or any device. I refer to the term DNA as “Device Neutral Apps/ Assignments/ Awesomeness.” Some of my favorite apps that make my all time favorite top 10 list of DNA’s include the following: Book Creator

Padlet

Educreations

Popplet

Google Keep

SnapGuide

Haiku Deck

Socrative

MoveNote

Symbaloo

Led by the American Institutes for Research, Powerful Learning Practice, and Grunwald Associates LLC, the initiative seeks to create a more fully globally connected, evidence-based movement that fosters collaboration and innovation to transform professional learning and effect educational change.

Their key goals in service of this vision include: • • • • •

Expanding the reach of CEM by growing a global coalition of education stakeholder groups and partners Documenting and communicating the measurable impact of CEM and connected education Acquiring sufficient resources to achieve year-round sustainability Influencing the way professional learning takes place in and out of schools Fostering collaboration and innovation within and between education stakeholder groups and partners

For more information of how to be come involved, tap into this free starter kit.

Also, check out the daily activities and participate at the level you feel most comfortable with. When it meets your schedule, listen to the many archived radio shows from passionate educators.

The Twitter hashtag to follow all the updates is #CE15. Check out the latest great educational shares of ideas from teachers from around the world that are making a difference in education!

GLOBAL COLLABORATION PROJECTS AND RESOURCES CIESE Global Projects

Teacher’s Guide To Online Collaboration Projects

Flat Connections - Global Projects

The Global Read Aloud

Four Steps For Jumpstarting Global Collaboration Projects

Online Student Collaboration Resources

Global Collaboration Projects

The “Pumpkin Seed Project”

Global Education Project Global Monster Project Global School Network Kid World Citizen iEarn: Learning With The World

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The October Digital Buzz Radio Show will be coming to you live from Toulouse, France on October 15-16. Naomi will be interviewing lead teachers from several countries and sharing out “Practical Pedagogy Practices” focused on student collaboration, problem solving through design and hexagonal thinking, authentic mobile assessment strategies, redesigning classroom learning spaces and wow worthy learning moments from international presenters. You can follow along on this learning journey virtually through the Twitter hashtag of #PracPed15.

CHATS WITH DEB This month Deb is sharing some online discussion tools and their uses with extensions of some great creative challenges.

Titan Pad - A Student Discussion Tool Creativity Challenges

B LOGPOSTS : Trends in Visual Storytelling Memes - Creative, Funny and Intuitive

Google Instructional Tools: Let's Get Ready to EXPLORE! October 27th at 6PM CST Join Vanessa as she welcomes special guests, Google Certified Teachers, Cindy Lane and Howard Martin as they give you the opportunity to explore and interact with Google Chrome Extensions and Google Maps.

Gaming in the Classroom: The Good..The Bad... You Decide November 17th at 6PM CST In November, guest speaker Doug Adams will highlight successful integration strategies for bringing Internetbased games into your curriculum.

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