Today I received notice that I was accepted to the Apple Distinguished Educator program! I applied for this program back in February. I will be attending training over the summer and I’m part of a world wide group of educators that I can tap into for ideas and resources. I feel very lucky that to be part of this community.
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New courses have been added to the Harper Woods iTunes U Site. As I work with staff on great technology activities, I post lesson plans, tutorials and student examples of completed assignments. To check out the iTunes U site: Click Here
Apple has a new program called Apple Teacher. The Apple Teacher site has self paced PD that that covers iPad basics, macOS basics and the new coding programs from Apple. The Mac and iPad trainings have 8 badges. Most cover the core productivity and creation apps (Pages, Keynote, Numbers, imovie and Garage band) but there are 3 trainings that review basics, workflow and creativity. I found all of these activities to be useful and informative. The creativity and workflow gave me some great ideas for the classroom! Once you earn eight badges in one area, you get the nifty logo to display on your website, blog and inro-slides for PD. I completed that macOS and iPad badges, I'm going to work on coding next! If you are interested in starting this program, check it out here: Apple Teacher Tyrone Elementary School in Harper Woods Michigan is an upper elementary school with grades 4th - 6th. Tyrone has about 300 students and has 100% participation in the free and reduced lunch program. Tyrone Elementary applied for the Apple TRIG grant in October of 2016, and was notified of its award in November. In December, the Tyrone Trig Team had the first meeting with Apple representatives. We turned a cold December morning into a productive one. Gabriella Meyers, our Apple Education Executive, started the meeting with a an activity to help focus the team on what we hope to accomplish with the training grant. Each team member used post-it notes and markers to do a "brain dump" on what we would like the classrooms at Tyrone to look and feel like after the training. The post-it notes were then placed on the door, and the teams used an app called "Post-It" to capture the groups post-it notes onto their iPads. The Teams then worked collaboratively on the devices to sort all of the ideas into groups, and name the groups. We then had a discussion on how the groups looked and what are building needs are. One key concept that stood out to everyone was the idea that we want teachers using technology to teach, not using the technology for activities after the traditional instruction. We closed with discussions of how the training would look and feel, and started our collaboration on setting goals for the training. The training will start shortly after we come back from the holiday break. |
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