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Matt’s Media Tips 12-17 Ok - just where have you been? I know, I know - two weeks have gone by and no Matt’s Tips and Tricks! I apologize for the break in continuity. I was on the road for the past three weeks in-a-row and somehow time just got away from me. But I’m back...from outer space...sorry “I Will Survive” just popped into my head for some strange reason. So without further ado, let’s get back to it! We’re right in the middle of the holidays and many of us have been giving and receiving gifts, wrapping up new ones, and gearing up for some quality time with friends and family. So this week I’d like to give you a few things to put into your virtual instructional stockings. But here’s the thing. Everything that I’m going to share with you in the space below is from our community. They’ve all shared their resources with you by becoming DEN Stars and uploading their work to Discovery Education. Consider them their gifts to you. I found them by clicking on the DEN Assets link found in the lower left hand corner of your Narrow My Results box under the BY SOURCE section. Here are a few of my favorites: Lindsay Hopkin’s QR Code Presentation in both PDF and PPT. Check out this cooler than cool presentation that will provide you with everything you every wanted to know about QR codes. She reveals just how fun and easy they are to create and include in your instruction. I also love Lindsay’s Using Twitter To Summarize activity. It uses tools like Twitter and a Faketweetbuilder to summarize an encyclopedia article on the Boston Tea Party, summarizing the important events, then rewriting the events as tweets from the perspective of Samuel Adams. Nancy Sharoff’s Beat the Teacher (RTF File) is a variation of Making Words by Patricia Cunningham. Over the years she has modified and streamlined the process. The lessons are on
individual sheets which students cut out (no more losing letter tiles!), the fact, as the teacher, she plays just as hard with her kids to win which lends just the right amount of competition to the game. Last year, her students (2nd grade) earned 324 points! That meant they came up with 324 MORE words than she did during the course of the game. And they earned a pizza party at the end of the year! Susie Austin’s Digital Poetry Guides includes Rubrics (XLS) Handouts (PDF), Photostory Tips (PDF) and Podcast instructions (PDF) to help you and your students create digital stories and poems. What a great toolkit to have in your bag of tricks! Carleen Beard’s Virtual Museum includes great ways for students to create layers /organization of their information. Whether you want them to describe various topic items, compare and contrast items, show cause and effect, etc, they simply creatively "create floors" for each item they wish. She includes walk-through videos and links to more resources. Deborah Thonus’ Nine Finger Multiplication Trick is an easy to use and understand video that demonstrates how to multiply by nine using just your fingers. Allison Shook’s Math Resources for Common Core Grades 6-8 is a link to a fantastic Livebinder full of materials to support implementation of the common core curriculum in mathematics for grades 6-8. Ruth Manlandro’s Washington D.C. Virtual Field Trip includes a lesson plan and rubric around a challenge - planning a visit to our nation’s capital. Students have to research and gather information on the many monuments, museums, and other attractions to visit in Washington, D.C., create a travel brochure, project a budget and more. Max Brook’s The Digital Classroom - It’s Everywhere! includes a PowerPoint that explores how educators AND their students can use Discovery Education’s video, imagery, audio, and more to explore their curiosity and deliver that “a-ha!” moment. We'll also examine how Discovery Education’s interactive Builder Tools can be used to easily customize lessons that allow students to process information through multiple modalities 24/7 from any web-enabled device, anywhere! And last but not least I wanted to leave you with a specially created holiday card for you. Please click here to access and enjoy! http:// corporate.discovery.com/holiday-card/2012/ I wish you all the very best of holidays and a happy new year! Matt Monjan @monjan
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I’ve been playing around with lots of different note tools but this has got to be one of my favorite FREE resources out there. This thing has all the bells and whistles for, again, none of the cost.
PAPERPORT Notes By Nuance Communications
From their site: PaperPort Notes is a digital note taking tool for the iPad that is transforming the way people create and share information. Now you can combine documents, web content, audio, typed text as well as hand written notes into a single document that you can easily organize and share with anyone.
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1/8
8pm 9pm
Creativity in the Digital Classroom: On this webinar you’ll learn about a wide variety of tools that allow students to express themselves and publish to a global audience.
1/9
4pm 5pm
Techbook Admin Webinar: Learn to use the tools and features of My Admin to support successful integration of Discovery Education Science Techbook. This training will cover: Navigation of the My Admin Site, Managing User Accounts (students and teachers), Managing Student Access, Running Usage Reports
1/10
7pm 8pm
Siemens We Can Change The World Challenge Overview: Using the fundamental of project-based scientific inquiry, K-12 students are given the tools to identify an ecological problem, research it and determine how their green solution can be replicated by other communities that face similar challenges.
1/14
7pm 8pm
HS Science Techbook: What does it look like in my classroom? During this session we will answer the million dollar question - what does the High School Techbook look like in my classroom? We’ll walk through the model lessons that are an essential component of the techbook, discuss strategies for using the 5E concept view for lesson planning, and more!
1/15
7pm 8pm
What’s the 4-1-1: Digital Literacy: Join us as we share 4 Strategy Spotlights, 1 educational program, and our monthly trending topic of Digital Literacy.
1/15
7pm 8pm
Discovery Education Social Studies Techbook: A Tool For Teaching Today’s Students: Experience the latest offering from Discovery Education designed to bring Social Studies instruction to the 21st century. Learn how to bring social studies alive through the use of digital media, primary and secondary sources and interactive tools.
• Quickly take typed and/or free hand notes • Leverage Dragon voice recognition to capture your ideas and notes simply by speaking • Convert scanned documents from the camera or photo album into editable text using the Nuance OmniPage Cloud service • Leverage powerful annotative tools to quickly mark up documents • Never miss another detail by adding audio page by page within your notes
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• Combine full documents, individual pages, content from the web and notes into a single document. • Powerful search, copy/paste, reordering and bookmarking tools allow you to quickly navigate your notes while staying organized Here is a link to their download page
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Miss a week? Catch back up here! 2012-2013 School Year Archives evaluate and explain data by 11/26/2012 Content Collections and Curation Tools - 10/15/2012The Digital Decoder Part two of two explores how to use Discovery examining three different sites Oh My! This week I explore the many Education and six other digital that create infographics. Sock different types of content collections that resources to help students predict, Puppets, an iPad app that is are found within Discovery Education. re-state, and make connections to animated by your voice, is also We examine a few practical ways to use the text that they are reading. explored. these collections and check out Pocket, We'll also explore a free mobile a free mobile app for curation as well! Opening up Closed Captions. app called Fotobabble that lets 9/4/2012 Check out all of the new and 11/19/2012 ‘Tis The Season to Share and be add narration to your pictures. enhanced ways to stream Thankful. This week I review the new captioned content. We’ll also features and functionalities of the My 10/8/2012 The Digital Decoder. Part one of a two part series that explores how continue to explore the back-toContent and QuickList tools. I also to use digital resources to assist school webinars and play with explore slingNote, a mobile app that struggling readers. We’ll also EasyBib, an Android and iPad greatly enhances your mobile browsing explore Audioboo, a free mobile app that makes citing reference experience. app that turns your mobile device material a breeze. 11/13/2012 Making Math Magic Happen: This into a roaming podcasting machine Back to School Review. Check week’s edition is dedicated to making math a not-so-scary subject, engaging 10/1/2012 Getting Quizzy With It. Everything 8/27/2012 out some of the major you ever wanted to know about enhancements made to and meaningful. We explore songs, creating a Discovery Education Discovery Education over the interactive media and a very cool Quiz and more - including an easy summer. We'll give you a Mathmateer Free mobile app. step-by-step guide for embedding chance to weigh in, showcase a 11/5/2012 It’s a Date! Five Unique Ways to Use Web 2.0 content into a Quiz! We’ll new back to school webinar the Calendar: This edition explores how explore a unique mobile app called series and highlight Nearpod, a the Discovery Education Interactive Stack the States as well. very cool classroom mobile app. Calendar is being used in new and unique ways. We'll also examine 9/24/2012 Five free tools from DE plus one that’s too cool for school. We’ll Capzels - a free interactive timeline tool also explore links to even more and mobile app and list a whole host of free resources and then play with a upcoming webinars free mobile app, Sketch Nation 10/29/2012 A Hauntingly Good Edition. I highlight Studio, that provides a simple some of the not-so-scary things that I game design/creation platform. learned at the recent Discovery Downloading Closed Captions Educator Network Fall Virtual Conference. We'll also check out a host 9/17/2012 Explore how to download closed captioned files and manipulate of great webinars and a very cool their text on both a PC and Mac. iPrompter app. We'll also examine the 10/22/2012 Get Your Game On! Explore how to use TechChef4U app that links to the Discovery Education games to many education apps! Finally, in engage students. Robert Nay a 10th this edition, I provide links to the grade game designer will share his story Best of Matt's Tips and Tricks and his insights into the game design webinar resources. process. Finally, we'll check out Aurasma, a free augmented reality app 9/10/2012 In-the-know about Infographics. This edition highlights the new that works on both Droid and IOS 2012 election material within DE. It devices. also dives into different ways that you and your students can
Miss a week? Catch back up here! 2011-2012 Archives 7/19/2012
Sneak peek at the back to school enhancements. Roadshow app.
6/11/2012
Fun things to do over the summer with technology and media. Mustacheme app is featured.
5/21/2012
The ins and outs of Digital Storytelling. Digital Storytelling Web 2.0 presentation and apps
5/14/2012
Who Knew We Had News? Find an additional set of free Discovery News videos, the Video Yearbook, video almanac, and great webinar information. Roadshow App for playing back videos on-demand is reviewed.
5/7/2012
4/30/2012
4/23/2012
My Five Favorite Summer Resources. We explore five free interactive sites that parents, students, and teachers can use over the summer. We’ll also explore a free translation app for mobile devices. Getting Your Game On. Finding great games, simulations and more within Discovery Education. Back-toSchool Sneak Peek Webinars announced. Futaba Classroom Games for Kids iPad app explored. Getting the Point with PowerPoint and Keynote. Learn how to trim audio & video in PPT and save both PPT & Keynote presentations as images to embed in Web 2.0 sites. 2 Screens and Joinme mobile presentation apps explored.
4/16/2012
It’s all about the Theme. We’ll explore several different ways to find unique thematic content. Three most voted upon stories revealed. Studyblue mobile flashcard app highlighted
4/9/2012
Scratch and Pop. Six-Word Story finalists revealed. Links between Discovery Education and
4/2/2012
3/26/2012
3/19/2012
3/12/2012
2/27/2012
Scratch.mit.edu, Popplet.com and EduTechr mobile app explored.
1/18/2012
Mi Content es Su Content. Bookmarking and sharing your Discovery Education content across your school and district, two great contests, and two text-to-sign mobile apps
In a Class of Their Own Setting up Discovery Education Classrooms, Discovery Education Live Webinars, Quizlet App.
1/9/2012
Building out the New Year Five of my favorite things you can do with the Discovery Education Builders, Rover App for DE Students
12/19/2011
Special Holiday Edition 13 Tips from Educators around the US and Canada, Videolicious App
12/12/2011
50 Ways to Use Discovery Education Tips and tricks galore iSwifter - Flash for iPads
11/28/2011
What I am Thankful for Building out your PLN Wordspree and Math Acorn Apps
11/14/2011
Things I Stole From the Community DEN Tips, Four really cool tips you can do with Google. TED and Animoto apps
11/7/2011
First Six Weeks Aggregated
11/4/2011
Creating an “iCenter" How to create an ePub using DE videos. Spirit of Innovation Challenge
10/24/2011
Spooky Edition Digital Storytelling, Web 2.0 Piqua City Community Night, Crazy Pumpkin and Halloween Card Creator Apps
10/17/2011
Stick it to IT Collaborative Note Taking Site Educator Spotlight - Jennifer Everett, ToonTastic and PuppetPals Apps
10/3/2011
Opening Up Closed-Captions Closed-Captions for Macs and PCs, 10 FAQs Customer Service Receives
9/26/2011
Common Core, Web 2.0 and DE Three cool sites that integrate nicely with Discovery Education. Administrator Spotlight - Molly Hay!
9/13/2011
Can you Hear what I’m Writing? Embedding an eReader into your Writing Prompts, Getting to know Discovery Education SCIENCE
Can You Picture it? Learn how to create a six-word story using iPiccy.com and Discovery Education. Digital Story Challenge! MeeGenius Audiobook app for mobile devices. Audio Book ‘em Dano. Eight simple steps for creating an audiobook using iTunes and any computer (Mac/PC). Molecules mobile apps. It’s All About The Sharing. Uploading, sharing and accessing your own content within Discovery Discovery Education. Cel.Ly app polling device via any device. Teacher Center Treasure Trove of Resources. Interactive Calendar Atlas, STEM Connect explored. Socrative App (student response).
2/13/2012
Special Valentines Issue - Things I love about Discovery Education. Five Minute Preps, Images,Coaches Eye App
2/6/2012
What did you say? Closed Captioning on an iPad? Getting Closed Captions to play on your iPad, GreenScreens on iPhone/iPad with GreenScreen FX app
1/30/2012
1/23/2012
Let’s Give Them Something To Sing About Differentiated Instruction Using Songs, First Student Media Contest of the Year, ShowMe and Educreations whiteboard apps Meet the Faces of Discovery Education Get up close and personal with the Discovery Education on-air talent, special student webinar series, Story Kit app