Let’s Get Social
Central Middle School!Jan. 24th 2013!
Greater Victoria SD 61
Making the best use of the iPad and social media in the
classroom
Shape of the Morning!!
9:00 iPads/Apps!9:30 Explore Time!
10:00 Break!!
10:15 Social Media/Blogs!10:45 Explore Time!
11:00 Finish!!
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Dave ShortreedCoordinator of Educational
Technology!Greater Victoria SD 61!
@mr_shortreed www.daveshortreed.com
Tweet to #sd61learn
Team Work
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Working_Together_Teamwork_Puzzle_Concept.jpg
Overarching Goal
What is best for kids? How do we develop significant and engaging student learning? How does it improve student success?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Archery_target.jpg
Sir James Douglas Elementary, 1912
What should classrooms as learning spaces look like?
What structure suits innovation and creativity?
Teaching with the end in mind (with learning
intentions)
http://blog.williamferriter.com/2013/07/11/technology-is-a-tool-not-a-learning-outcome/
“how a small suite of apps related to annotating, curation, and image, audio, and video production that [can] support a diverse student performances of understanding”
(Daccord, 2013)
http://ipad4schools.org/2013/10/23/the-one-ipad-classroom/
@iPadwells
All notes sync with evernote.com accessible from any computer
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Notebooks for each student
http://www.teachthought.com/technology/10-brilliant-examples-of-sketch-notes-notaking-for-the-21st-century/
Sketchpad
syncs with evernote notebook
DEMO
Student Creation Apps
iMovie
Keynote Telecast
Tellagami
Path On
Educreations
Educreations
Show your understanding Photograph, record stylus and narrate Export onto educreations.com
@mrdemedeirosGordon Head Middle
TouchcastGreenel And Graynel
Greenal and Graynel - Live news report on green screen
@mrdemedeiros
To use technology to connect with the environment.
$1.99
@strawvale Strawberry Vale
Explore Time
With your neighbour: !
1. Choose one app, build an idea 2. Make a plan to use it 3. Share it out
Share out
Please share the outcome of your explore time?!Thoughts? Ideas? Inspirations?
Collaboration and Innovation
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Farm_silos.jpg
Our district has become smaller!flatten structures
Industry of Relationships
All levels of education!Social media as a connector to ENHANCE
face to face relationships!!
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What is your professional online presents?
sharing stories/ideas/resources raising awareness reflecting and connecting bringing people together facilitate change
Social media can be used for:
Why Twitter?
You are the filter, curator, creator of the resource View personalized headlines
Share with purpose Design with intention
Twitter is not
to follow famous people the news, an unfiltered mess of a waste of time see what people are eating sunsets/sunrises
http://www.flickr.com/photos/verbeeldingskr8/3638834128/
Twitter as a Professional Learning Network
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pedromourapinheiro/3110300295/
for developing professional learning networks for collaborating for sharing stories/resources for problem solving for educational leadership for modelling digital citizenship
Educational Technology people Senior management/administrators/teachers Anyone looking for Professional Development
Twitter Timeline in Education
Signing up and reading Collecting and curating Sharing others resources and ideas Sharing your own ideas/reflections
Twitter Growth plan
Spoon into the waterfall
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Visit when and what you want
Focusses your audience Tailors your conversation Focusses on a topic Filters information and location Examples: #bccurric, #sd61learn, #sd61slm, #bced, #bclearns, #anxietyined
Another language
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@Handles
People who you want to credit
Connect with
Notify/Reply
Break Time
Karley - Share you experience How does your Professional online space impact your practice?
taleoftwoteachers.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dkuropatwa/4766403166/
The Virtual Classroom
How do you talk about digital citizenship?
Virtual Classroom - Blogging with students
Kidblogs Grade 3-8 !
Wordpress Grade 9-12 !
Edublogs
Foippa
Anything hosted outside of Canada requires parent consent !
My collection: http://daveshortreed.com/informed-consent/
Kidblogs Example Heidi James @h_james18
Colquitz Middle School
http://kidblog.org/MrsJamesFamily/
Public Blog Informed Consent
free everything pending review
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See what the world thinks not just me
Steven Toleskis @knowledgequest_
Margaret Jenkins Elementary
Edcamp for kids blog
http://kidblog.org/EdCamp4Kids/
Explore Time
Your Task: 1. Look at Twitter, sign up or start to explore 2. Look at setting up a professional blog or class blog
