juco teachers w/ f2f and online both…
- show little ice breaker movies while you set up
- put students into groups…use deck of cards to put people into groups.
- need four per group…move singletons/pairs into groups of 4..
- pass out toolkit, 3 minute timer to decide what to do/read directions, 20 minutes to DO, 3-5 to discuss/reflect/decide how to use in my classroom/subject
- box w/ directions….
- Reflection…use related vocab to subject area…change the relationship…..Accounting transactions….hardware/software…use as Quiz or a review–each answer without looking at the other answer –steps, problems, short answer to a discussion,
M&M ideas…each color means something/requires the answer to a question…you decide what each color is–a concept, skill, problem
Acrostic Self-Esteem Activity….use vocabulary words from class, review, etc.
goal is always to have students active in someway…
Everyone’s a Liar: 2 facts and 1 lie (which one is the lie–discuss to determine)
Comma Challenge: sentences in an envelopes….determine the comma rule that applies….vocabularly, proofreading rules, …use arrows to identify the rule???? Use post-it tags rather than cut-out arrows.
Back drawing….draw a shape with your finger on the first person’s back in a line person to person….do with proof marks…sports things???
Getting to know you….paper bags, covered with items/pictures from magazine and determine/introduce classmate the bag belongs to…but can do it with accounting principles, skills, etc. Need enough materials for everyone.
BeQueath: name, describe, give, hope, and then a script to read the pieces together/aloud!
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- http://www.turningtechnologies.com/responsesystemsupport/downloads/
- $600 to purchase Turning Point clickers and software….
- bought with Perkins Grant software
- questions, click, show results…
- Instant feedback
- great for sped students or ELL students in integrated class!!
- user timer at the end to close polling and re-ask introductory/formative questions as summative at the end of the lesson!
- 32 – 45 in a case…Different types…with a USB receiver
- e
- participant scores tallied at the end of the lesson/questions…use for participation scores
- can set number of response tallies shown, also who responded fastest!!
- great to use for testing knowledge of keyboard shortcuts!
- great for ACT practice..time!!!
- administration love it
- chunk questions by State Standards
- add a final ppt slide with standards listed for the questions….to reference session data!!
- convert a powerpoint slide into a Turning Point question!
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Practices in Entreuprenership: two periods/one semester (foods and business) …1st and 2nd order
- one course learns the cooking/baking skills
- other course learns the business/marketing/Entrepreneurship skills
- open on Friday mornings
- during the semester the class runs
- opens from 6:50 to 7:50 a.m. (school starts in 7:30)
- located in the concession stands
- can start in faculty cafeteria…then move to new locations as business grows
- students back M-H in class / management with business person
- teams of 2-3 manage and marker for the week
- arrive by 6 a.m. on bakery days to set up
- clean up by 8:20 a.m. (end of 1st hour)
- currently 15 entrepreneurs for 2009-2010 year
- @ 2nd hour meet in business class to reflect on who things went…Friday after work, hold a business meeting.
- Rotate shifts on bakery days
- barista
- clerks
- managers
- assistants (make pre-order deliveries)
- sanitation (@ least 3)
- Chemistry of Foods–cooking and science, two periods, earn sanitation license
- Reflect and improve each week
- creative and flexible w/ business decisions
- not immoral/unethical, illegal, factually incorrect, then you can try it
- entrepreneur of the week!
- Teacher generated idea…things people want!
- start small, build over time—scone and coffee for a $…has grown since!
- class chose name! Logo and name and color are all marketing decisions made…name stays, logo changes…mission statement remains!
- 4 school years, $95 to $509 from year one to year four!
- increase product lines…cappuccino/hot chocolate machine, big coffee canister, 2nd cash register, time clock for workers and are paid in points!
- class size 15-20 with a few drops every year
- merchandising every year!
- travel mugs
- t-shirts ($10)
- services…Pre-orders, catering, special events, staff Thanksgiving desserts, school events–math PI Day, Jazz Feast
- holidays….Decorate, ribbon cutting, play-off cookies,
- weekly promotion decided by the management team for the week–holiday, event, etc.
- students present to PR/Activities decoration
- cart on wheels for supplies needed weekly
- Giving back…organization @ school “Magic Closet” for helping those in need in the distract
- Make the kids be involved in the numbers…control of numbers, create charts, analyze sales figures
- Where do the profits go—back into the business…show students what the lack of profts would be with salaries included!
- Pastry cart and coffee makers are a must for the food!
- Mascot to generate business! Run down the hallway in costume
- website,
- Future: eventually a true Connections class!
- two teachers for period with 40 kids
- rotate kids in and out of kitchen and “office”
- Business side:
- develop business plan
- fresh ideas to start the year..brainstorm and get the way out ideas down (3-4 pages of ideas)
- team work stuff…activities to build!
- Market research…get to know staff/teachers
- Rotations
- create a rotation charts…code necessary events…
- semester long project to do…build time into rotation
- then business stuff always gets down
- add a “make up week” to rotation
- task list to complete
- all do different, all plenty to do
- Entrepreneurship: Ideas in Action (by Southwestern)
- accounting software
- $700 budget for ingredients
- deposit made daily
- teacher at register
- Students are paid w/ free t-shirt, @ cost merchandise, 50% on pastries/coffee
- interpret sales graphs, survey data, interpret break point analysis, cup and product testing (cups, etc), coffee experiment–test out variations on amount of coffee and filters; cash register and change counting simulations; payroll card and entrepreneur time cards–use to approximate business cost
- a lot of work!!!
- scheduling
- class periods
- conflicts
- common planning
- paperwork intense–stay organized, keep up
- student buy-in for early morning/arrival time/finish time
- you have to do a lot of the accounting work…use good accounting software because you’re the final eyes~!!
- selling to students–legalities! competition w/ cafeteria! Cannot be in same vicinity as cafeteria if it’s food! Minimal nutritional value items canNOT be sold; use some of cafeteria vendors is a must
- ELECTRICAL–make sure the school’s electrical service can handle the equipment, especially if it’s professional grade, and accessibility to outlets.
- equipment/supplies/stock to keep up with the demand
- early morning
- lab space, computers and kitchens
- need continual access to computers for promotional, marketing and business needs
- storage space
- Admin support and community involvement, requirement, promotions
- Great way to meet staff! Bring people together!!!
- Establish activities account and accounting week.
- Have first week a practice week
- start your scrap book early! sell self and keep track of visuals
- seek grants, get Sam’s clubs card, tax exempt letter, looking for good t-shirt printers, establish vendors, summer curriculum time
- know your resources
- Family Consumer Science, art for graphics on menus, web design
- Thank like crazy…handwritten thank you letter, left-overs to bakery
- Rolling Meadows was who Schaumburg modeled after!
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Web 2.0
- USTREAM.tv 1,000,000 pieces of video-many live; space shuttle, political venues, games, etc. Can we put up out own H.S. football games. Started in 2007; military families connect with service personal
- free log in; click “Broadcast Now”
- other person/viewers: log in and search for key word
- FREE
- classroom use: teleconferencing, interviews, etc. presentation skills for teleconferencing, lectures for absent or homebound students;
- can record/save so available on USTREAM tv for watching later; privacy settings;
- can do distance presentations with shared/passed control
- bundle camera with books–buy at Walmart; other tools–chat, etc.
- Wordle.net
- Bing.com MS new search engine
- features? famous pic of the day; hover over search results (orange dot) to preview…similar to_______?
- image search—single page of results; can refine search by size, layout, style
- video search–live preview on results page; limit video search; safe search on by default
- news: stories and maps of city
- Web 3.0: What I’m looking for…
- mapping services
- opentable.com to make dinner reservations
- Google latitude
- Glympse.com
- specified amount of time
- notify others where I am
- shoot a glympse on a timer…e.g. 30 minutes
- send a weblink via text/e-mail
- ToonDoo.com
- free log-in
- create a cartoon…FREE
- use stock background/characters or edit/create your own
- Bald guy @ bottom allows the edit and creation of character
- save/post/share online with unique weblink
- Cuil.com (gaelic for Knowledge)
- search engine from former google employees
- new layout
- drill-down technology
- hover over terms for preview
- rated the top academic search engine
- Google.com
- translates sentence/words but also entire website
- LiveMocha.com
- learn a language
- match you up with a user at the same level trying to learn each others language
- match up with headsets or live webcam
have CENGAGE send the next 30 apps …
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New Boards
Speakers: make sure the speaker button is powered on when board is connected to laptop.
embed video…
Promethean Planet
www.prometheanplanet.com
create user id and password
user forum and blog for teacher information
Professional Development area….
look for what it means to create a good flipchart: Flipchart Fundamentals
ActivLearning,
ActivTips–watch/subscribe via iTunes!
Resources:
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- Lessons=already created flipcharts
- Resource Packs=components to build your own charts
Hover: close to the board but not touching!!
need initial training to know language
ActivInspire handles votes and Expressions better.
multi-media not quite as strong
.flp (flipcharts) will open in Inspire
ActivStudio on Atomic Learning http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/activstudio3mac
Use Help Menu on ActivInspire
go to Promethean Learning http://prometheanlearning.com/us/ for free tutorial on Inspire
Inspire: Camera Tool
Test questions…Self-Paced wizzard
Register Devices:
from Browser…choose Voting…select type of device (vote, expression, slate)
Can register up to 500 devices to hub. But devices can only be registered to only 1 hub at a time.
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- Charlene Chausis–Adlai Stevenson HS cchausis@d125.org
- Meg Ormsten
- Define that term…..
- systematic approach to information sharing and decision-making
- Rick Defore is the father–former Super @ ASHS…conference each summer regarding this
- Solution Tree is the site
- Richardson’s 10 Big Shifts
- challenge for teachers
- challenge for leaders
- We have same curriculum/assessment but different styles
- Technology supporting a PLC–RSS, blogs, wikis
- SMART Goals
- Will Richardson’s Blogs, Wikis, etc….READ
- collaboration, active participation, individicnzluded learning, etc….
Shifts:
- Open Content
- teachers and 24/7 learning: http:// k12onlineconference.org (search online archive) Open Content for PD
- social, Collaboritive Constrution of Meaningful KNowledge ”do your own work” replaced with “share you knowledge”…see Apples participating in challenged based learning…can we get teachers involved…two week curriculum…gotta figure this out
- Teaching is conversation, not lecture: students are active participants in their learning
- Know “Where” Learning…not what the answer is but wher to find it
- Readings are no longer just readers ”Web is a printing press for the masses….!!!!! Wikispaces are free for educators…cat discection wiki @ ASHS…each section did their own…became a competition…
- The web as a notebook: Online publishing opetions…make paper writing less and less important…let’s get everyone going!!!! Move TurnItIn from plagiarism to commenting and peer-editing!!! Moodle
- Writing is no longer limited to text: audio, video, music, digital photographs online. Prove your knowledge–as opposed to writing a paper…SchoolTube.com upload Video Yearbook…
- Mastery is the Product, Not the Test: trend towards electronic online digital portfolios: trend towards electronic online digital portfolios…Stevenson no longer does class rank and is piloting no grades next year rather portfolio and standardized based. Contest for graduation speech
- Contribution, Not Completion as the Ultimate Goal: Audience has become global…Flat Classroom Project, Illuminate (online session for online learning–managed by two–discuss and type)
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- Teachers as Change Agent…don’t wait to be TOLD…just DO IT
- Change is Complex..
- individuals work out own meeting…
- 5-8 opportunities to learn new concepts
- three to five years to implement and sustain!!!!!!!!!
- Teachers as Content Creators…
- gonna use it, gotta do it!!!!!!
- if you use, you’ll develop similar learning strategies and styles similar to their students!!!!
- Grown Up Digital
- if we use them, our brain “re-wires”
- GOTTA PARTICIPATE!!!!
- Teachers as CONNECTORS
- model strategies
- connect students to primary sources
- invites scholars from the world to comment on student work….network, network, network…SKYPE…alright Les, why no Skype…tell me again…Les you need to come to these things and re-think….we need the Admins on board…Acceptable Use Guidelines, not Acceptable Use Policy…Faculty and Students sign off on the same policy–no spamming, no commercial gain, no porn and gaming. No specific tools are named…ASHS filters porn and social networking….everyone seems to let YouTube open…why can’t we????????? MaryAnn Bell from Texas clarifies filtering MA BELL on Twitter…
- Teachers as Coaches
- Model the Skills — students responsible for their own performance
- Similar to a coach — and players on a team
- e-zine…Let’s create an MCHS yearly e-zine…why not…a big overview of all things cool we do!!! Music performance, Poetry, research, photography/art work, yearbook
- Teachers as CollABORATORS
- Teachers need to see themselves as learners — not just with each other but with students as well
- no longer can teachers pretend to know everything.
What are the essintial skills required to address these shifts?
- strong pedagogical base; management of chaos and change,
What technology will be required to address these shifts?
PLC’s
- What do I plan for?
- What do I monitor?
- What do I model?
- What questions do I ask?
- How do I allocate resources?
- What do I celebrate?
- What am I willing to confront?
- How do I respond when students are not learning?
- Am I consistent and persistent?
- What are some of the things we are great doing?
- What should we stop doing?
- What are the things we celebrate?
- We know building level leadership is critical for creating and sustaining PLC’s. What actions are necessary in our role as the building leader?
KEY
What do we want to start doing? What do we want to stop doing? Experiment!! Commit to continuous improvement!!!! Mastery Manager is critical component of reflection on data…
TED.com Sir Ken Robinson book The Element
Yammer is personal “twitter” for just our company
EtherPad really real-time collaboration….shared white space for …like a google doc without the invitation.
- Where am I now?
- What are my expectations for my schools?
- Where do I want to be next year?
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Big crowd. Should have brought a with crew with me.
Clarence Fisher–SnowLake Manitoba
glassbeed@gmail.com
remoteaccess.typepad.com
twitter.com/glassbeed
virtual is not the same as real…to whom does that message need to be delivered?!?!?!?!?! Hummm…
is the world flat or spiky? Freedman or Florda…..
action should be in the classrooms…not about the tech person/administrators…remember that Les and powers-that-be!
Next door test…do I want those kids, 10 years from now, living next door to me? Love that idea! I have some yes, some no….And not only the “smartest”, etc. But I want adventurous, fun, smart people who get ourside and do things but can take a trip to the city and are happy to come home. Bring the best togther.
How do we connect to the world ourside our walls? how to create the connections?
CafePress.com Brand the classroom…magnets, buttons, etc. Hey Wes, you need to “brand your classroom” for your business class! What about those magnets Debbie created? Those supplies would be cheap cheap cheap. Create a digital identity. Share everything on flickr/twitter….
classrooms do not have to be space that people think they should be…why not a coffee shop feel? Social availability rather than spatial proximity. How are students socially available to others in other places…in way larger spaces! Think in new ways…not about teaching harder, but teaching differently. Think outside in ways we’ve questioned…let go of what a classroom “looks like” and what “activities are acceptable in them” Experiment! Education is an industry that’s on the move.
Voice…”you dont’ have to be a rich old guy from New York to have a voice anymore” …until now, we had lost our voice and now we’ve got it back with Twitter, blogs, etc. But how to make it happen….how do we convince the powers that be? What are the checks and balances so the school doesn’t end up liable? We cannot fight with our clients–our parents, our kids, etc. Gotta get used to changing…how do the kids insist on their voice?
- Clear out the clutter of ed-tech: Society won’t change to meet us, we must change to meet society.
- pedagogy–absolute primary
- Inspiration and pedagogy should be synonyms. Underground digital apprenticeships==kids are getting what they need (picnik)…this is a concern–not because of the learning but because kids go to the web before they come to the school. We should be giving it to them. Dangers of institutionalized learning is that is institutionalizes our kids—tech tools allows us to customize for our kids…woohoo for messy learning! Get past the message from on-high..embrace the messy learning, rip it apart, put it back together into something different. WikipediaVision Can see knowledge advancing and changing which means it can also be WRONG. Publish first then edit–throws the writing process into chaos…but that’s okay…really, our kids publish to us first and then edit. Think of the classroom as a studio…lots of customization–master with apprentices…think of painters. Creativity is a national resource. Create or die!! Outsider may feel lonely but also be more productive–allowed to create. Wordle fun. Fun to take blogs or e-mails or discussion boards…and Wordle it…like one we did…was terribly insightful…Daytum collects simple data on e.g. blog posts/topics.
- tools
- least interesting, most interested: If a parent offers a $1000, we take it. If a student brings his/her laptop to school from home, we turn them away! We need to figure a way to allow them to bring their devices and be connected…how do we get past ownership, liability, etc. Want to kids how to make choices…have each kids have iGoogle account and start with feeds suggest and add…Afrigadget, world changing, the Nata village blog….RSS feeds!!!!! Gotta get those WC teachers doing it…Scratch, PHUN (3D physics sandbox) –struggle with the content …tinkering with things is a valuable idea….lots of freebies–what do you really need to pay for???? How to get around the “no go zones” What to do with filters?? Who do we think we’re fooling????? Whatever is blocked they get at home. Beyond, Porn, let it go!
- curriculum
- negotiated in a classroom among learners. Giving kids standards goals and ed-tech tools can help them and us get there and track their progress. Not going to reach all 60 standards! What’s your passion. More importantly, what are yours students’ passions? How are we helping these kids connect to their passions. Thommy’s passion–he gets online for his hunting things. That’s his thing–we need to embrace it…truck and goose calls! So get that page
- Kids are hyper-connected: 16% rising to 60%…how do they see themselves? No info-overload as much as filter-failure.
- my main job as a teacher is to connect kids to their information…what they need, when they need..Different from the “just in case” curriculum…rather we need “just in time” learning…Global hookups…conferencing and round-tables…
- Tackle big ideas……
- unanswered questions
- preparing students for life not work: good citizens, not good workers
- ethics: gotta teach it in the building….copyright to citizenship
- Informational infomatics: finding patters in and through information–Google searches
- How does information spread in the classroom? Why do which ideas take hold.
- The whole world is listening….how doe we spread the good things…we risk becoming a sideshow and jump through the hoops we need to…need to get used to being a field that is on the move
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Practice with Layers….
Locking object to a page?
- right-click ….edit > lock
- see tutorial flip chart for practice/demo with spanish translations and numbers
Design Mode allows you to move everything / Presentation Mode for testing but need additional steps for locking and unlocking
Action Objects
- can add these actions: counds, web links, movies, turn flipchart, open docs (200 actions!)
Sharing FlipCharts with Actions:
Wordle.net
iSquint
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- Questions from Day 1
- Pre-Test Mods 3&4
- Mod 3 Overview, Tools, Examples
- Lunch
- Hands On Activity
- Math Power Tools
- Questions for Day 2
Anything you add to the Tools you must delete by opening the tool store and dragging the icon back to the toolstore…even though you add application to the Palette by dragging from the Applications file
Consider using COLOR to direct students’ attention…e.g. blue = x axis; green = y axis
Use the Camera tool…but carefully so there is not confusion with the actual desktop and the picture taken
with camera…take area picture….then double click on the image…double click on the image…and choose Transparent to see through…..click the color you want to see through…
- The Extra Strip on the Left Side of the Tool Palette are called “User Defined Buttons”
To pull a word or phrase from a text box, highlight and drag to the flipchart
must figure out the resource library issues…RE-INSTALL all shared assets files!
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