Journey in to World of PortablesPortable Readers, iPod/iPad

Marcia ObukowiczCESA 9 AT consultantmarciao@newnorth.net

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Navigating Educational Change

Working with the new “compass”

Educational Practice Cooperative VenturesGo Global

Alternate Formatsfor Knowledge Acquisitionand Presentation

Tools ConstantlyChange and Improve

Educational Practice

Building a digital presence to connect with students (Flexible format for multiple needs)

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Flip Learning: Front ending, student prep and the change in classroom practice. (Teaching the skill of life long learning)

Digital Flexibility: How many ways can Sleeping Beauty be presented? (Creating access for a variety of learning styles)

Sleeping Beauty

http://en.childrenslibrary.org/

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=23521

http://storynory.com/2005/12/16/the-sleeping-beauty/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIXucBeFTAs

Story Chime

Format Flexibility

• If text is digital, it can be – Resized– Re-colored– Re-spaced– Repackaged into chunks– Converted into audio files– Delivered through a variety of portable

devices like iPads, MP3 players, Androids, Kindles etc.

If content is delivered digitally

• Text can be paired with– Video information (background knowledge)– Web information– Online interactives– Digital Field trips– Audio support– Accept notes that are audio or written– Recorded lessons can be stopped andreplayed

• And the instructions don’t change

If content is delivered digitally, portable and with wifi/web access

• Resources are where you are

• Resources and references are a click away.

• Can be carried to any location and be accessible to the knowledge and support streams of the internet.

(Science and Phy Ed)

Educational Practice

Modernizing our lessons to fit today’s tools,

Modernizing our tools to meet today’s lessons

Back ground Knowledge

Vocabulary

Real world connections

Collecting data onsite, crunching the numbers later

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Moving from the Knower of Factsto the User of Facts

If Everything Works!

Some Common challengesCharging upSyncingHome Base computerUploading and tracking Assignment Turn InsPaperless mind setEmailTech support

And then we go portable…• http://inventorspot.com/articles/kindle_nook_sony_ereader_product_comparison_rep

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What does this device need to do?

Issues with the basic readers

• Book availability and licensing

• Audio

• All they do is deliver text

• Lock and Load

Android Vs. iPad/iPod

• WiFi access and speed• Finding apps• Purchasing apps• Managing apps• Tool function:

Multiuser vs. individual target• Email and printing• Syncing and power up

• These are really cool devices

• They will be a part of our future.

• They were designed for individual use

• They require an infrastructure

• Using only one app at a time

Yes they are cool but…..

What will we do with them to impact learning?

Using the iPad/iPod• Word processing and audio notes:

– Pages– Evernote– Audiomemo

• Web Access – Safari– Realtime data: Instapaper– References like dictionary .com

• Video Capture– In iPad 2 video camera 2 way – Student reading samples– Action replay (Phy ed, Music, Language)

• Multimedia interplay at the desk– Sizing, Orientation, Videos, music– Watch Flash activities, many web page

interactives don’t work on the iPad.• Integrated organization:

– Evernote • Access Features:

– Adding pictures– Adding video– Voice over

• Tools– Red/green– Yes/no– Ruler– Time timer– Counters – Dice– Interval timers– Convert units– Weather– Google maps– Dictionary.com

• Engagement and practice• Recorders• Voice feedback

– Dragon• Communication• Voice recognition• AAC

Free vs. Paid

• Managing the devices

• Understanding the home base computer and syncing

• Room for Experimentation

Working with Content Specific Apps

• Engagement and practice

• Reading: iBook, Kobo, PDF Reader, read me stories, story chime

• Organizing: Mind meister

• Writing: Dragon, NeoJulie

• Notetaking: audio memo

• Student response, poll everywhere, polldaddy, eclicker

iTunesLook for educator

options

Search tool

Go to home

http://freeappalert.com/ http://momswithapps.com/

Resources:

• iEAR http://www.iear.org/

• Autism epicenter: http://www.autismepicenter.com/

Flip Cameras

• What is the goal for this video?– Always keep this in mind

• Captures moments in time

• Narration, storytelling sequencing or action

• Edit to the best• Watch for By catch• Mac or Windows

Consider

• Establishing ground rules for use of taped materials

• Permission to video tape– Other students (Opt out rather than in)– Teachers– Sharing video with parents and family

• Managing Accidental Capture:– Human nature– Establishing trust

The Flip Camera

On offUSB

zoomRecord

PlaybackTrash

Port for connecting to TV

Charging

• We did the initial charge

• Some flip cameras charge by attaching to the computer

• For best battery long life: – Charge but don’t always leave device

plugged in– Short clips drain the battery less than long

extended video

Tips for Flip Cam Use• Get permission from parents to ensure all students are allowed

to be filmed and use cameras.

• Google “classroom uses and flip camera” for ideas

• https://docs.google.com/present/view?pli=1&id=dhn2vcv5_6tv55j7g9

• Tutorial before use. Cuts down on how to use it issues!

• Give guidelines. Start with small projects.

• Buy a tripod decreases shaky videos!

• Delete videos after uploading to computer- camera only holds 60 minutes of recording!

Movie Making How to’s

• Anticipate action• Keep clips short if possible• Watch out for shaking, too much movement,

audio• Remember you can edit so bad sections can be

clipped.• Consider the need for audio like commentary,

running narrative, clear voice. • Consider good props. • Using zoom in/out

Editing

• Open the USB

• Plug into computer

• Open the Flip share software

File New: create 2 files one for video, one for fun thingsSaving on the computer vs. exportingRaw data vs. finished product

Movie making starts with clips

• Process:– Make your clips– Make photos or upload photos (jpg)– Adding other videos: (kind of complicated)– Edit clips into a whole movie using magic or

full length options– Add credit, music and save – Save on Flip or other

Making Clips: Click on the scissors under the video on the right to edit the movie

Move slide barsto edit.

Save videos clips

Name them for easier edits later

May want more than one video clip from the source file,

Magic Movies

• Walks you through the process

• Credits

• Music

Importing other files into flipshare

• FlipShare ONLY recognizes the following file formats for Windows:         

• • .mp4 (MPEG-4) • .wmv (Windows Media Video)• .avi (Audio - Video Interleaved), and• .jpg for photos

• For Macintosh-based computers:• • .mp4 (MPEG-4)

• .mov (QuickTime Movie), and• .jpg for photos

Import/ Export

• File Menu• Export to a flash drive or the hard drive. • Could load to the iPad.• iPad supports:

– MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;

– Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format.

Converting file formats• Save as new file types

• If you need conversion: www.zamzar.com

iPad: Uploading Video

• Drag to iTunes of the home base computer or email to the device

Live Scribe Pen

• Integration of audio and writing– Notetaking during a lecture – Pencasts– Syncing to online cloud storage– Home retrieval

Time to Play

• Find a friend• Get a portable

– iPads: – iPods– Flip Cameras– Live scribe pen– Kindle

• Try it out

• Report back ideas you have for using this tool with students.

Need more support

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG6tLSuk1no

• Cheat Sheet:

• http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/flip-video-for-dummies-cheat-sheet.html

Flip Ideas

Center Stage

Author’s ChairPuppet Show

School PerformancesShow and TellOral ReportsSocial Stories

On the Scene Reporting• Lunch Room or

Playground Responses• Ask a teacher• Guest Speakers• Grandparent day• School Events• Science fairs and career

days• Post concert• After role playing or

during a simulation.• Reaction Cam

Interviewing

• The author’s chair

• How to do a math problem

• Book reports on fiction or science fiction

• Ask an “expert”

Roving Lunch Reporters

• Asking students what’s happening• Going well

• How are they doing on lunch noise

• Example: recycling and reduction of food waste• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuQCr-r_2eE

Visitor Highlights

• School tour for new students or new visitors

• Classroom tour for sharing with students from other schools

Virtual Fieldtrip

• When a student is going to an interesting place http://vimeo.com/2813756

Point of View

• Attach camera securely to the handles of a bike, a baby stroller, hard hat to see the world from different view points

• We did a great one of these with a student in the wheelchair out with his family, capturing the responses of folks to him and then having

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEVpJF04i2g

Capturing Learning

• Field trips (use for sequencing or review later)

• Science experiments• Social Studies

Dioramas• Puzzle solving:

capture group solving strategies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCXv23vm4iE&feature=related

Take it outside

• Explore nature

• Explore close up

• Track weather– Weather Cam

• Capture Clouds

Signing or Language

• Kids learning to sign or use a new language can use video clips to practice

• Post these at the website

Make a commercial

• For a state being studied

• For a book just read

Trailers for the school Play

Filming Movement

• Plays

• Music/ concerts

• Phy Ed activities for digital portfolio of “improvement”

• Playground interactions

Video Alphabet

• Kids color a letter, hold it up and say it as part of an alphabet video

• make word family letters, use students as the manipulatives and video the result for sharing and replay

Blue Background/ add a cool background later

• Let children video themselves in front of a blue background.  

• Put the video into authoring software, add an authentic background image, add chroma-key filters and watch your pupils travel back in time!

Classroom Management and Support

Digital materials can be shared through email or web!

• Quick teacher how to’s• Directions for a project (Power of repeat!)• Student how to’s• Sharing lessons that were missed• Capturing student interactions• Catch them GOOD

Quick Capture of Group Thoughts

Motivator for task completion

• Convey their results to the rest of the class.

• Those with work completed vie for “cameraman”

• Think DIGITAL PORTFOLIO

Videoing interaction

• Open Sustain and Close

• Behavior Triggers

• Leave the tape running, what do you see

Sharing Work/ Feedback

• Assessing peer work from another class or school

Sending the Chicken Soup

• Sharing wishes, missed activities to kids out sick. Can email home or post at website.

Class Promotion

• At parent teacher conference time

• At open houses

• Lighted Schoolhouse

• Web share

• Board Meetings

Videotaping: Find a partner

Find a partner and video tape them answering these 4 questions

1. How are you planning to use this video camera and the videos you make?

2. What excites you about using videos with your students?

3. What concerns do you have?

4. 2 things you hope to complete this weekend.

A little poll

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