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We Like to Bring It! Ideas for Bring Your Own Tech/Tools (BYOT)

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The principle goal of education in schools should be creating men and women

who are capable of doing new things,

not simply repeating what other

generations have done.

~ Jean Piaget

I want to experience

what I learn!

Gets tech cheaply into schools

Can teach digital citizenship

Relevant to their reality

Tears down the classroom walls

Supports continuous learning

Why BYOT?

Are you prepared?

Our map

SmartphonesiPodsLaptops

Media players

Cellphones

Digital Cameras

Which devices will you allow and

support?

Touch Tablets

Is the school’s Internet

access safe, secure, and

have the bandwidth to handle the devices?

Mobile Mondays

Every Monday you’re free to bring in your cell phones or smart

phones

Programs to obtain technology

Survey students & parents

about the technology they

use & how

Sign Acceptable Use Policies

Get Parents & Students on Board!

Example Questions

Use Google Forms

Address concerns

in a meeting, website,

workshop, video

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by Ruth Cohenson, @tearoof

Teach digital

citizenship!

by Ruth Cohenson, @tearoof

we are all leaving digital trails behind us, as we make our way around our individual lives.

~ Jer Thorp

How do we act online?

Create Groups

Team Leader:ensure the group is listening to Ms. Shelly when she gives the silence symbolOrganizer: makes sure that everyone participates read the instructions for all tasks Deliverer: uploads the videoReporter: presents for the group

Example Small Group

Project• Explore an animal’s habitat• Include images of the

habitat• Include bookmarked

research with an app like PearlTrees, Diigo, Delicious, Popplet

• Create a short video with the information and images you gathered

• Upload to DropBox folder

Cell phone camera by L-ines, Flickr

•Have students take pictures, record audio, and/ or create videos at home with their devices•Students get into small groups•Show each other what they did with their devices

Intro Activity: What can you do with your device?

365/215 - Mobile Learning, dragonsinger, Flickr

• Get into small groups

•Choose a picture from your mobile device•Show your teammates your picture•Tell them the meaning behind the picture

Intro Activity: Show N Tell with a Cell

Jigsaw with Different Devices

Student iPad 008 By flickingerbrad, Flickr

•Group students with different devices together•Each device responsible for an aspect of the project•If you use an app make sure 1 device has the app

Integrate web tools

that are both mobile &

web friendly & can be

accessed on various devices

Evernote App• Organize pictures, websites,

notes, videos, etc.• Some text in images

become searchable• Organize by notebooks,

tags, categories• Great for a shopping list,

creating audio reminders, workout journals, creating lesson plans, designing presentations, research, taking notes at a conference

Google Drive for the Cloud & Creating!

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LinoIt.com

Animoto

Flickr.com/account/uploadbyemail

Activity: Visual DictionaryThis Week’s Theme: At a Restaurant Task: We are focusing on actions, phrases, or vocabulary you’d find involving an experience at a restaurant.Take a photo then email the photo as an attachment to nut14nite@photos.flickr.com. In the subject line include title of your photo & add tags: restaurant1a. In the description, add where you took the photo and the phrase, action, etc. that is represented.

Focus on the tasks versus

the technology or

software!

www.schooltechnology.org Photos of elementary students using iPads at school to do amazing projects. Photo taken by Lexie Flickinger, Flickr, CC 2.0

Text Input Feature •Summarize•Annotate•Blog•Create descriptions•Write questions•Write instructions•Write poems•Comment•Argue & support•Hypothesize•Brainstorming

Audio Recording Feature•Interview•Sound bytes•Report•Podcast•Recite poetry•Radio commercials•Storytelling

Text Input •Summarize•Annotate•Blog•Create descriptions•Write questions•Write instructions•Write poems•Comment•Argue & support•Hypothesize•Brainstorm

Video Recording Feature

•Create digital stories•Vodcast•Commercials•Short clips•Animation

Image Capturing Feature•Observe and

document phenomena or object•Collect visuals for digital storytelling projects•Collect visuals to accompany research•Create a slideshow

Tips

Have flexible guidelines &

rubrics

Upload to a folder in the

cloud that’s easily

accessible- Diigo, Google,

Box.net

Include a

multimedia

presentation

Post results online when possible

Support student input & choices

Delineate specific tasks for

each role

NASA Visualization Explorer (iPad app) By NASA Goddard Photo and Video, Flickr

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