TECHNOLOGY TRENDS and IDEAS: MAKE TECHNOLOGY WORK FOR YOU

Personalized Learning Environments Blended learning Game based learning Natural User Interface Augmented reality Tablets

Trends

Collaboration

Connection

Sharing

There is to much work to be done to do it alone.

Online bookmarking Bookmark websites, you tube

clips, .pdf's Highligher Add notes Organize bookmarks Share bookmarks

DIIGO: What is it?

Save bookmarks online so they don't get deleted every time you update your browser or OS

Share resources with content or

grade level partner or with the whole school

Share resources with students Highlight the part of a document

that you want to remember Add sticky notes to the

bookmark

Diigo: What can it do for you?

How to Create a Diigo Account

Organize your tasks Record lesson plans Share lesson plans, and other

created documents

Wunderlist

Create a workspace Create tasks and notes Share with colleagues, friends Keep tasks and notes about the

tasks organized

Wunderkit

Go to : http://www.6wunderkinder.com/wunderlist/tasks/

Wunderlist

Click on the

George Couros, "Create, Collaborate and Learn."2011

PRODUCTIVITY TOOL

CREATIVITY TOOL

CONTENT APPS

iPAD AS AN ACADEMIC TOOL

To share with a student who was absent As review with all students To share with a colleague To share with grade level peers in other independent

schools As an Archive

Create Your Content

Take something you know how to do and explain it so someone else in your group.

Video a demo of how to do what you do

using the iPad. Post the video to YouTube.

Create an Educational YouTube Video using the iPad2

How to Create an iPad video and publish to YouTube.

write a short script select camera from iPad press the record button

Example

How to Create an iPad video and publish to YouTube

How to Create a YouTube Account

Create Book Trailers An Alternative to traditional Book Reports

Collaborize Classroom

Connect with Students Screencasting using the IWB

Produce a lesson to share with students Socratic Seminar using the Internet

Use the socratic method in online discussion

Fall Workshops

Google Earth 6.2 Rocks Google 4G: The Best of Google Tools Using Technology in Learning Centers Creativity and Productivity with iPad2 *Workshops will be offered on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 3:30-4:30

from September through November. Some workshops will be one hour and some will be two one hour workshops run on Wednesday and Thursday of the same week.

More Fall Workshops

How to Create a YouTube Video and Publish it to YouTube

http://youtu.be/FFB42OxJx88 How to Create a YouTube Account http://youtu.be/ZBbLhq3wWKc

Links to YouTube videos

OnGuard Online

CommonSense movieclips.com

Other Links of Interest