Old+2011-12+Agenda+Minutes

Cohort Minutes 4/13/12
Justin showed how he taught second grade students to add music to garage band and used the website box.net to share with others.

Monique shared her gralandfrench wiki. She shared Epals, which is a community where you connect with other schools from other countries.


 * Each French student was able to speak to his/her penpal using Epals
 * http://www.youtube/watch?v= gQY1R47mUU&feature=player_embedded
 * Edmodo is like a kid's facebook, but it does not connect to the rest of the world. Kids are able to have a social network monitored by the teacher.
 * Monique plans to skype with students from other schools in her French class.

Elizabeth shared her wikispace called leddyscience.wikispaces.com

 * She added a keynote and an iMovie for each classes rainforest animal videos to her wiki and plans to send it out to parents. She used the iPad camera and iMovie to create the videos and added them to YouTube.
 * Create a table on wiki. Let the older students create their own parts and add their own information.

Monique will create a page on the wiki to allow everyone to share their own wiki pages.

Reflections about how is your teaching and your thinking changing. Ronnie wants to know what we are learning and the projects we are doing. Post projects under Exemplars.

Other ways to manage wikis
 * Set up a page called Help. Subscribe to an RSS Feed. Then students or parents can click on that to send you a message to ask for help.
 * Set up a table with everyone's name. Then, students can send out a question to the entire class. This allows the students to help solve the problems of others. Students can use Jing (Screen Capture Software) and Camtasia to answer the questions.

Digital
 * Media Fluency - the abilty to use media (music, video, etc.) Are you able to create a compelling message using different types of media?
 * Focus on the story when digital storytelling
 * Monsters inc. DVD - teaches that the story is king - instead of kids being afraid of monsters, the monsters were afraid of the kids. They changed the entire story. ex. Finding Nemo - The problem was that Nemo got captured.
 * Story Map - what happens in the story Beginning, starts with a problem, Middle, conflict, growth, resolution, solution (question answered, opportunity met, challenge met, goal met), End
 * [[image:storymap.jpg height="207"]]
 * An app called Tune Tastic teaches the students how to understand a story map and the parts of a story. It tells the students each of the elements. Students create their own by drawing it. Before using Puppet Pals, Tune Tastic provides students with the basics for story structure.
 * Story Board - a series of events, shows the action, what is taking place

Mind Mapping Tool
 * mind42 - www.mind42.com
 * History - compare characters from US History, pick a trait and find something the person said

Two-column story table
 * teach points of view of different characters, teach them how to take pictures from different angles

Three different types of images/pictures
 * close up
 * start with a wide angle/establishing picture of the scene
 * mid shot
 * Great example - YouTube - ikea lamp (music adds emotion to videos)
 * Try to take away the acting.
 * What was the problem in the video?

Discuss criteria How do we mark a movie? Post ideas on wiki
 * Does the main character have a voice?
 * Is there a beginning, middle, and an end?
 * Get the students to all take a picture of the same thing, put them all into the same folder, students can choose pictures from the same folder to make a movie. It will show that the same photo can tell different stories depending on the
 * Do all of the elements create a mood?
 * Did the use of the color of font and the kind of font add a mood?
 * Did it have a connection to the audience?
 * Did the music distract?
 * Create the rubric before you even start. Look at the narrative that there are all different points of views.
 * What are the aesthetics of the image?

Julia showed a zoomed in picture and asked each of us to tell a sentence about what the character is thinking. Then she kept zooming out and showing more of the picture and asked us to again tell what the character is thinking.

Assignment completed by the cohort Example: Marty shared an iMovie that he and Dash made at home. June 11-14 - new cohort will begin a camp with Julia Leong
 * What is the idea/concept? What are we doing?
 * What should the audience get from this?
 * Target audience:
 * Timeline
 * What is the essential question? How does teaching and learning
 * Framework
 * A role - description about what is going to happen, then you cut to the B role
 * B role - what the person is talking about, what would you use to show what they are saying?
 * Creating music and images to match
 * Collect images
 * teacher B side - how engineering influences his teaching, archival footage of a train
 * Would like old cohort to share some things they learned during the year.
 * Example: Building a website
 * How you used it
 * What advice you would give other teachers for using the apps and programs?
 * Julia would like to offer a training session on the use of Twitter

Julia has been meeting with Wyne about changes in the library.
 * Media center – a place for students and teachers to get support

Julia working with Student Council.
 * iSquad – students will be asked to work with Julia

Plans for next year
 * Half day for new cohort
 * Old Cohort will work with Julia on units and teaching lessons in the classroom

Click on the menu on the left on Storytelling to learn about other storytelling websites

April Theme Story telling Multi=literacy. 50 ways to show what you know, and how you know.

June Theme Social media. What is it good for?

Learn about things like Twitter and how to learn from social networks. Julia http://ericsheninger.com/esheninger?sid=28

March 20, 2012

**YEAH CONTRABAND!** Thanks Jorge for your awesome note taking. Wunderful.

Celebrations, sharing: How are you leaving a legacy?

Parthenia is using Khan Academy to work with 4th graders on a trial basis.
 * They all seem pretty engaged.
 * We reviewd the Khan Academy website and how to track student progress

1st grade (Bryan) conferences were done using iPads, iBooks, etc.
 * After a quick tutorial, the kids really took off and started teaching each other on some of the finer points, and they then became teachers to their peers...and their parents.
 * Conferences were more interactive, and the kids were more motivated to create works of which they could be proud.

Wixie also used to create student-led conferences in 2nd grade (Jessica).
 * "Don't touch their computer to help" - kids were charged with helping others by explaining them through their problems.

Technology as storage?
 * Keeps all the data available for kids to be able to share experiences digitally with parents - it's almost like being in the classroom.
 * Parents can share in experiences from recorded videos.

Filebucket
 * Just type "http://filebucket" into URL, as long as you're on the Graland Network. (Just typing filebucket might not work with some browsers.)
 * Quick and easy way to share files with students.

Justin Meeting with different teachers to create integrated plans
 * was a connection in science just made?

Monique using VoiceThread and YouTube
 * Some challenges with kids unable to use the VoiceThread website efficiently
 * Perhaps it will improve with more practice
 * Quality of YouTube videos by students has improved //dramatically//

5th grade and the QR
 * Using QR codes to go to websites to further understanding of China.
 * Share websites faster with the students

More QR
 * Attaching to posters to be able to connect to further information

Science (Elizabeth)
 * Created Keynotes on iPads that have been uploaded to Skynet..er, "The Cloud" for easy access
 * "I'm a fishy and I know it." A project by Henry
 * YouTube video on Amphibians made by students
 * [|Screen Chomp!](from the makers of Camtasia)


 * Khan is coming! Khan is coming! **
 * See Marty T. for details - first 10 to sign up can go.



New student roles: Shifting from Education 1.0 (known knowns) to Education 2.0 (unknown knowns) to Education 3.0 (unknown unknowns) Things to think about:
 * How do you evaluate your teachers?
 * What question would you ask to understan how well a school was doing?
 * Are teachers and students taking risks [to further learning]?
 * How is my child responsible for his/her learning?
 * **What is the value of your student work around the world?**
 * **Who owns the learning?**
 * **What is the new role for teachers if information is readily available?**
 * **How can you shift the responsibility of the quality of the work to the learners?**

Here is some stuff I discovered in my grad work (justin):

http://www.justinmiera.com/regis_sdcamethod.html http://www.justinmiera.com/regis_sdcareview.html

Back to School Night
 * Focus on giving curricular information online (they can always look it up anyway)and educate parents on kid survival during meeting time.

1:1 Devices
 * What's our policy? Everyone pretty much has access to an iPad, laptop, iPhone, etc.

Traditional Education vs. Digital Learning How are we engaging students so that they become better learners and take ownership of their learning?

[|Blurb] Way to publish books online

8th Grade History
 * Looking to create a legacy project
 * Make a comparison to someone famous, and see if they left a similar legacy at school
 * Parents will be able to download completed book, independent of Graland services

Review of Diigo

Books live binders effective flipping Design challenge. Read the attached. Pull a quote. Find a royalty free image to go with the quote. Post. Jump: Book, Flickr group.

"Drive" Daniel Pink Autonomy and Purpose

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 * April 13 **
 * Media Literacy **
 * iprompter **

Sharing web pages /wikis arrange for PR Candice or Web master to be there?? planning for summer sharing

June Lion??? --


 * Feb 15th **

Shape of the day Celebrations and Sharing Student-Led conferences > Wixie
 * 1st grade using glogster and wixie to help organize conferences.
 * Cuts down on the amount of paper
 * Allows family members other than those at conference to be able to see progress.
 * create a digital assignment in class, but can log in at home to continue conversations.
 * links to websites so that parents don't have to keep emailing teacher to ask what sites/apps are used in class.
 * not free, but GCDS has a license for certain grades. See Marty for details.
 * Flash driven, but that should be changing soon.

Kindergarden
 * using wikispaces to create a page to keep parents in the loop
 * made an ibook with pictures from the Kindergarden Rodeo - yee haw!
 * calendar links to videos

YouTube
 * 8th grade math has a flipped classroom model - videos created by Mr. Chavez and have been voted as "entertaining" by Phil Hickey, so he's got that going for him.
 * All feedback has been positive in that time is better managed at home and students come to class ready to work on math problems

4th Grade Science
 * using iPads for research which allows them to dig deeper into topics
 * Researcher, Note-Taker, Publisher, Tech Support roles were created for kids to share the technology effectively when working on a project
 * using diigo to share bookmarks
 * CRAAP - Currency (date of website), Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose. Need to have at least 4 out of 5 in order to decide if website was valid.
 * being more thoughtful researchers as opposed to just "googling" for answers
 * some are making iMovies and using GarageBands to present their findings

3rd Grade
 * creating wiki for students to link their work
 * each student has their own page, and they will learn how to peer edit and leave positive feedback

5th Grade English
 * using wiki (Writers Block)
 * Activity was creating a Melvin Bubble book ( a book about themselves or a character) using Keynote
 * this specific assignment had them use 4 types of punctuation and the work was more authentic than just doing worksheets to drill the idea

Other notes:
 * Set up how-to's as a pdf so that all people can access the files.
 * TitanPad used similar to google docs but it's real-time collaboration
 * Here is our link to our test titan pad
 * http://titanpad.com/rT1OrULa9r
 * [tinyurl, bit.ly, splashurl] all shorten the url [or create a QR code]so that it's easier to share a link.
 * You can use QR codes for a scavenger hunt, link to math problems, etc.
 * QR for back to school night? Attach curriculum to website - create QR code - save paper, and talk about meaningful things during that time

Voice Threads Dave Ehbrar [|http://voicethread.com/?#q.b2516793.i13335987] Comment about, and contribute to, topics through Time was given to play around with VoiceThread Powerpoint should upload fairly seamlessly - **Upload as a PDF to minimize issues** Invite people in order to have them leave comments - don't just email a link to the file. Jake D. shared his voice thread on the Progressive Era.
 * webcam (Skype)
 * Podcasting
 * voice
 * pictures
 * etc.

Cloud Computing Shared folders for students to upload work to - Marty and then

Storage and Sharing/Publishing Spaces Dropbox idrop

Wed Feb 15th Whole cohort meeting.

1:00 – 1:45 Parthenia Williams, 4th Grade – GN 208 worked on iPads, math apps, time lines, projecting iPad, hardware set up 1:45 – 2:30 Jennifer Rawlings, Kindergarten - HW107- Whys of wikis, 2:30 – 3:15 Bryann Nourse and Jess Ross, First and Second Grade - HW 104 story birds, eol, 3:15 – 4:00 Wyne Cler, Librarian in the Library- Diigo groups for gr 5 History china project. live binders, how to leave a legacy with students creating research repositories. Research process, building a web presence, building a library web site that is interactive, Kids creating books, planning for library, what are the goals. __ Thurs, Feb 16th __ 7:15 – 8:00 Gates Invention – Gates Lab 8:00 – 8:45 Elizabeth Leddy, LS Science – HW1 8:45 – 9:30 Kelly Viseur, Spanish – HU3 9:30 - 10:15 Justin Miera, Music – JO 83 10:15- 11:00 – Kimm Lucas, 5th Grade English – GS5 11:00 -11:30 – Dana Pease, 3rd Grade – GN223 11:30 – noon – lunchtime for Julia 12:15 –4:00 Meet with Librarians in the Library 4:15 p.m. off to the airport

Jan. 11,2012

Shape of the Day Sharing, celebrations. What have you been exploring? What questions do you have? Where are we at with wiki's, social bookmarking, collaboration? Possible topics for discussion: Web literacy - searching strategies - Julia Creating Flipped classroom - Whys and hows. Camtasia!
 * Music department has been working on integrating appleTV into concerts.
 * LS using "Book Creator" on ipad app to create an ebook about Dr. Seuss
 * 2nd grade library created fairly tale ebook on laptop
 * (Drag and Drop videos used through Photobooth)
 * 2nd grade science using ipads to enhance recycling units with iMovie
 * Student-created wikis in 8th grade history: political platforms.
 * control has been given up, but Jake seems OK with the output from the students.
 * Kids can use common computer to upload work and sentences in 5th grade
 * FL using wikis to create a digital portfolio of work (individual pages per student)
 * Lots of video segments created by students, or searchable videos to strengthen understanding of material
 * Quality of work improving as they know work is viewed by others.
 * Are there any sorts of concerns?
 * Giving up control to students
 * Parents assuming published work is polished work
 * Ronni wants us to be creative and take risks so that we can try something new.
 * Don't worry about failure because you'll be better for it in the long run.
 * Not changing where they're going, just changing how they're getting there. The road less traveled?
 * Jorge is using a barebones flipped classroom model for a unit in math. Videos from youTube are used, as well as website (khanacademy.org) to monitor student progress
 * Higher achievers flying, lower achievers getting a fair amount of in-class support.
 * Assessment results so far are similar, but class time and home time is much more structured
 * Instructional on how to use Camtasia to capture work that you do on your screen.
 * An example of how to create a discussion using sandbox.
 * Make sure to blow up your mouse.
 * Editing features are pretty sweet!
 * Participants then made, and shared, camtasia videos on a wikipage. Hilarity ensued!

Ways to publish student work
 * If you want to scan photos of student drawings, a suggestion is to use felt pen instead of crayon because it shows up better.
 * CamScanner App is also pretty cool

Next time we will explore "Voice Threads" http://voicethread.com/?#u2288805.b2551101.i13532945

November 16, 2011 Present: Marty T, Jorge Chavez, Jennifer Rawlings, Elizabeth Leddy, Kimm Lucas, Justin Miera, Jake Dresden, Kristin Ryder, Kelly V, Parthenia Williams, Bryann Nourse, Jessica Ross, Dana Pease, Monique Lathrop, Wyne Cler

Why wikis? Place for collaboration, add resources, add lessons plans, classroom management, it's free, encourages & increases student involvement/ownership. Philosophy is not for the wiki to be a "teacher" page but a "classroom" page. Join wikispaces.com: create username/password for wikispaces Join gralandtech.wikispaces.com How to add a Page to gralandtech.wikispaces.com Current Pages on gralandtech wiki: Home, Apps & Programs, Cohort Roster, iPad Lesson Plans, Minutes, Ways to use the iPad in the classroom How to add Link, File, Widget, Table Save, save, save! Practice: add an app to the gralandtech.wikispaces.com

Ideas for Classroom management: Have students add homework assignments to wiki Create a table with class/students: keep track of homework Add pdfs (of a worksheet), images, youtube, etc. Use your wiki as a "living" textbook.

Fun stuff: Glogster EDU: create interactive online posters Glogster EDU Wikis are easy (just like Sunday morning) and efficient! Skype an Author Skype an Author epals ePals Encyclopedia of Life Encyclopedia of Life How to sites: lynda.com Lynda atomiclearning.com Atomic Learning

Concerns: Autonomy issues with creating wiki pages for our students vs. Whipple Hill vs. push pages, etc.: will our wiki pages need approval? Follow a format? Creating push pages is sometimes too time-consuming. Who are we? Is Graland progressive? Is Graland traditional? Are we both? Can we be both?

What is the purpose of using technology? not to control build better people learn how to learn path

3 options w/technology: quit complain innovate

NAIS "Schools of the Future" report NAIS Schools of the Future

What structures are getting in the way of global learning? assessment schedules need more opportunity to team-teach (here at Graland) no time for specialists to meet w/class room teachers (here at Graland) philosophy may conflict with Journeys curriculum (here at Graland)

Web Literacy: Students learning how to search for information is as essential as reading and writing.

Let's give more ownership to our students: let them teach us what they are learning. Students then can create/complete assignments that leave a legacy.

Can we replace textbooks with ebooks? inkling.com Inkling High Tech High High Tech High Life Long Kindergarten Life Long Kindergarten

Diigo: online social bookmarking site Diigo Delicious: another online social bookmarking site Delicious

Tags to use when we are bookmarking on Diigo:

graland (everyone uses this to tag first) gralandk (for sites for Kindergarten) graland1 (for sites for 1st grade) graland2 (for sites for 2nd grade) graland3 (for sites for 3rd grade) graland4 (for sites for 4th grade) graland5 (for sites for 5th grade) graland6 (for sites for 6th grade) graland7 (for sites for 7th grade) graland8 (for sites for 8th grade) gralandvapa (for vapa) gralandfl (for foreign language) gralandlib (for library) gralandscience (for science) gralandmath (for math) gralandenglish (for english) gralandwell (for wellness) gralandpe (for p.e.) gralandhistory (for history) gralandls (for lower school) gralandms (for middle school) gralandgates (for Gates)

Download diigo app on your ipad.

How to create an ePub. Download apps: iBooks Goodreader