How a Tablet Can Make You a More Effective Teacher

How a tablet can make you a more effective teacherBy: Vicki A. Davis Teacher, IT Director @ coolcatteacherwww.coolcatteacher.com

There are so many ways tablets can help you in your classroom. Here are some practice tips and tricks that highlight tablets and their uses in the classroom. This webinar walks through the use of Office Mix, Onenote, PowerPoint and other key resources.

Think about that:

...you cant just drop new innovations into classroom and hope that the instructor will invent effective ways to use them. To fully utilize a new teaching technology, you often need to invent new teaching practices as well. ~ John Seely Brown, Visiting Scholar, Uviversity of Southern California

IN TODAYS SESSION

1. Practical Examples

2. Screenshots

3. My Hardware- Microsoft Surface Pro v.1- Lenovo M9oz Think Center running Windows 8 64bit with 8GB RAM i5 processor (I have 22 of these in computer lab)

4. Resource Links

5. Multiple Ways to Do the Same Thing

6. A Sneak Peak To Something Exciting!

OUTLINE

1. Understanding the 21th Century Schoolhouse

2. 9 Key Ps for Digital Citizens

3. 50+ Practical Ways to Use Tablets To Level Up Learning

THE 21ST CENTURY SCHOOLHOUSE

YOU: THE 21ST CENTURY TEACHER

BRICKSCLICKS

1. Face

2. Voice

3. Body Language

4. Your F2F Persona - How you interact - How you dress & look - How you organize & teach

1. Face

2. Voice

3. Body Language

4. Your Online Persona - How you interact - Your avatar - Your profile - How you organize & teach

ESSENTIAL FOR TABLET SUCCESS

1. Fast Boot

2. Extended Charge - Is powerreadily available

3. Use a common language- Devices On! , Devices OFF!

4. Easy to Project Anyones Tablet As Needed5. Easy to Share Files From the Tablet to Anyone

6. Multisensory Materials

7. Good WiFi and Internet

8. Individual headphones for each student

9. Durable Cases

10. Loaner Devices

7 WAYS TABLETS CAN MAKE YOU A MORE EFFECTIVE TEACHER

1. It Helps You Manage Your Online Persona

2. It Helps You Capture and Share More Easily

3. It Helps You Connect Your Students to Each Other

4. It Helps You Connect Your Students to the World

5. It Helps You Manage Your Online Places

6. It Helps You Create and Share Powerful Ancillaries

7. It Helps You Stage Complete Learning Experiences

Remember!

1. Online behavior has Offline consequences

2. Multitasking is a lie

3. Blocking is not an answer

9 KEY PS FOR SAFETY & SUCCESS

1. Passwords

2. Privacy

3. Personal Information

4. Photographs

5. Property

6. Permission

7. Protection

8. Professionalism

9. Personal Brand

HOW TO DO IT?

#1: Create a place online to teach

#2: Learn to screencast

#3: Learn the principles of Flipping even if youre not flipping

#4: Create a place for students to connect

USING SNEAK PEAK.OFFICE MIX

THINGS YOU CAN INCLUDE IN OFFICE MIX

1. Screencast

2. Audio

3. Externally produced videos

4. PowerPoint slides

5. Quizzes

6. A video of you as you talk

#11: Students can create tutorials to help others to use software

#12: Create A Shared Collaborative Notebook For Your Classes

#13: Record Screencasts Using One Note

#14: Use One Note To Capture What You Write On your IWB Into The Notebook

#15: Use One Note To Capture, Share And Work Together On Notetaking

BOOKMARKING

#16: Use Social Bookmarking (Diigo) To Share Students Research In A Group

#17: Use Social Bookmarking (Diigo) To Share Students Research

#18: Look At Research Patterns Using Tag Cloud

#19: Use Social Bookmarking (Diigo) To Annotate Student Web Pages

#20: Use Social Bookmarking To Track Research

#26: Takes Documents Everywhere

#27: Essential Skills To Teach Students About Cloud Documents

#28: Teach Students To Collaborate In Real Time

#29: Convert Documents Made In Anything

#33: Improve Assessment: Kahoot

#34: Improve Assessment: Socrative

#35: Improve Writing : Builds A writing Community Through Blogs

#36: Improve Writing: Encourage Interaction & Peer Review On Blogs

#37: Write Blogs Without Internet Access

#41: Connect Your Students To A Wider Audience: Microblogging

#42: Improve Engagement: Connect Your Classroom Via Twitter

#43: Summarize Learning: Use Fake Tweet Twister on Classtools.net

#44: Summarize Learning: Use Fake Facebook on Classtools.net

#45: Use Mindmaps To Prewrite / Brainstorm

#46: Help Students Create Infographics

#47: Teach Students About Graphics And Readability

#48: Connect Students Globally

#49: Mystery Skype

#50: Let Students Draw And Create

#51: Always Pick The Next 3 Things Youre Going To Test. Make Time Every Week To Learn From Your PLN (Personal Learning Network).