| We remember 10% of what we read, 20% of what we hear, 30% of what you see, 80% of what you experience and 95% of what you teach others. (Dale Edgar-Cone of Experience. With that in mind I'm having my S.W.A.T. (Students Working to Advance Technology) students creating tutorials for other students. This week we worked on tutorials for iMovie and Keynote. To do this we connected the iPad to a MacBook Pro, Quicktime for the recording, and a USB headset. I gave simple directions for this process: Pretend you are explaining this person who has never used the app before. We did one practice round, and the common feedback for each group was to remember to say what step they were on and why, for example "Now we are going to add titles.... to do this..." We didn't write any scripts, or come up with any elaborate introductions. What amazed me was the amount of student reflection that took place during this process. The students reflected and redid parts they felt were not correct. The students assisting gave appropriate feedback and worked together to complete the tutorials. I was happy with the process and so were my students. |
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This week 6th grade students went to California to see Hearst Castle. They learned about the publishing millionaire William Hearst, but more importantly, they learned about the Artwork and architecture that fills the grounds of this California State Park. This directly relates to Greek civilizations which they are currently studying. To watch a recap of the visit: Click Here I have started a book study with the ISTE EDTech Coaches network. This is an interesting experience. We are given a set of questions to answer during the week for the next five weeks. The most interesting thing about this is that its all done via Twitter. In our Tweet we list the question number, response and include the #ETCoaches hash tag. Also, we are encouraged to respond to other readers post. I'm not sure I have an opinion of how this is for a book study, I will post again in a few weeks when I can offer a better opinion. If you are interested in joining the book study and trying this program here is the link: http://community.iste.org/community/calendar/event-description?CalendarEventKey=3fa4e448-8129-4442-b26f-56b4a293ca1a&Home=/communities/community-home/recent-community-events 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 Today students had a visit from Bill Harley, the author of the book “Night of the Spadefoot Toads”. Mr. Harley lives in Massachusetts, and with the help form Skype, he talk to Tyrone students from the comfort of his kitchen. Mr. Harley entertained students with stories of how he came up with the idea for book, and answered several questions. The students had a great time. “If you spend an hour a day writing, you will write your life’s work”. To see a shorten video of the talk with Mr. Harley: CLICK HERE |
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