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#FutureReady Empower Students as Creators It’s Not Too Late for a Back-to-School Selfie Adventure This is the best time to connect with students and getting them to connect with peers as part of a community. Get students to talk about themselves by presenting selfies they have taken as part of a mission you have sent them on, maybe it’s about books they read, activities they have participated in, places they’ve been, or other experiences. First, get students to watch the video, Around the World in 360° Degrees, and reflect on it. Then show students the sample teacher selfie adventure. The next slideshow is a Google Slides template (better yet, let them design their slideshow and topics) for students to use for uploading their selfies. You can set this template to transition with slide timings of 20 seconds. The idea is to get students to share their completed selfie missions in a 6 minute, 40 second presentation or Ignite (explained on the next page) presentation 5 minute presentation. Present to the class or in small groups. Selfies are an important part of your students’ digital identities. Their selfies help them humanize their digital experience. With this activity we can get students to transform their selfies into meaningful adventures with them at the center stepping out of their comfort zones and exploring the world around them. Adapted from Tech&Learning
This G+ community provides the opportunity to engage and connect with others inside the Parkway district. We have a lot of innovative things going on in the district and want to provide a space to share experience, thinking, and innovative ideas with each other. We will also post a variety of professional learning opportunities, resources, tools and other events that you might find interesting. We encourage you to share and post your thinking and ideas here and contribute to the collective knowledge of innovation in Parkway. Click here for more info.
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#FutureReady Empower Students as Creators Make IGNITE Presentations with Students!
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Library Card Sign-up Month Banned Books Week Each September, librarians, teachers, and students celebrate their right to read and fight censorship by observing Banned Books Week. World Smile Day (Oct 7) Cyber Security Month (Oct) Take the pledge to make Digital Citizenship a National Priority Teen Read Week Oct 9-15 teenreadweek.ning.com National Friends of Libraries Week Oct 16-22 bitly.com/Jnyt77 Media Literacy Week highlights the importance of teaching children and teens digital and media literacy skills to ensure their interactions with media are positive and enriching. Oct 31-Nov. 4 November is Picture Book Month International Games Day Nov 19
Take students to a new Google presentation dimension through an IGNITE event. When students create an Ignite presentation they get only 15 seconds per slide and 5 minutes total (20 slides). Ignite presentations are interesting since they are literally on any topic—you might have one speaker talk about making chocolate truffles while the next one discusses the math of songs! How fabulous is that? The other wonderful thing about Ignite is they often are recorded and posted to YouTube, meaning you can show many of them to students as examples! Some of them even show the timer at the bottom so students can see when the slides will automatically advance. These videos are a great tool for teaching students about presentation skills, and I will share some of my favorites later on.Pecha Kucha and Ignite both create an interesting framework to use with students while they learn about different presentation techniques, though the question remains: should all student presentations be live? Educators are not always aware of the myriad tools out there that allow students to create pre-recorded, interactive presentations. In addition to being much more comfortable for students, this type of presentation offers the ability to give more feedback. Adapted: Techout your class eBook - Amy Prosser
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“Creativity is a Wild Mind and a Disciplined Eye.” ~ Dorothy Parker
#ParkwayReads Recreating Your Favorite Book Using Scratch. Scratch is a programming language designed for students and is setup to work well with student narratives. Scratch has online tutorials and communities. A few ideas for using Scratch: ● ● ●
Recreate a scene from their favorite book Create their own adventure where students change the ending of the book Advanced coding: students create a mystery with clues found and riddles solved See related article at www.slj.com August 2016
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#FutureReady Curate Digital Resources & Tools
Google Hangouts on Air is now YouTube Live
#FutureReady - Curates Resources & Tools STEM - Science Resources to Use and Share Computer Science Unplugged – CS Unplugged is a wonderful collection of free learning activities that teach Computer Science through engaging games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons and lots of running around. The activities introduce students to underlying STEM concepts such as binary numbers, algorithms, and data compression, separated from the distractions and technical details we usually see with computers. Tynker – Along with great programming opportunities, the Hour of Code activities are designed to teach students computational thinking and the basics of computer programming. Students solve each puzzle by programming visual code blocks to achieve a goal. Accelerator Nation – It is time for you to bring aerodynamics to life in your STEM Classroom. You and your students can dive into hands-on aerodynamics experiments and dynamic STEM activities that support core science lessons in force, momentum, and speed. Along with the main link… check out this special area for teachers National STEM Video Game Challenge – You and your students will enjoy this site inspired by the Educate to Innovate Campaign to promote a renewed focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education. The National STEM Video Game Challenge is a multi-year competition whose goal is to motivate interest in STEM learning among America’s youth by tapping into students’ natural passion for playing and making video games. Tech Museum of Innovation – Check out these challenges available from an amazing museum. While you are at the site check out all the other possible resources that might just work for your classroom. Tech Rockets – Students ages 10 to 18 can create a Tech Rocket account and gain access to amazing tech courses. These include Python, iOS, Java, Minecraft, 3D printing. Each course contains lessons, support materials, and interactive challenges. Students can even gain points and badges along the way. From Tech & Learning
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Google moved its Hangouts On Air live video-streaming service to YouTube on Sept. 12. Users of Google Hangouts On Air will now use YouTube Live.
Easy Shortcut to Share a Preview Copy of Google Docs Super easy shortcut to share published versions Google Docs, Sheets and Slides! There is an even easier way to allow others to preview Google Docs, Sheets or Slides. Instead of going through the sharing settings, or grabbing the shareable link, simply change the word, “edit,” in the url to “preview.” No matter if there are characters after the word edit or not, this should work. (Note: This shortcut is still respective of the sharing settings of the document, so enable viewing rights in order for this to work. Also notice this gives you a preview version that looks different than the “published to the web,” version.) www.shakeuplearning.com
Include Video Feedback in Google Forms Use the "Go to section based on answer" feature in Google Forms to provide video feedback based on how a student answers a question. Click for more details.
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Save-the-Date #MizzouEdCamp October 15
Contact Information Bill Bass Innovation Coordinator: Instructional Technology & Library Media Twitter: billbass
Amy Johnson Digital Learning Specialist Twitter: ajohnson106
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