SESSION: 285 Smackdown with Patrick Crispin

Friday 11:00AM - 12:00 PM

Patrick Crispen, Salon 3 Friday 11:00AM - 12:00 PM Capacity: 260

"Interested in participating in a Smackdown after hearing how great our Wednesday session went? Do you have a creative spirit? Love to share ideas and information? Then this session is for you! Come and join our second Smackdown of the week and claim your two minutes of fame with Patrick Crispin as facilitator. Participants will have about two minutes of floor time to share something ""techie"" that they find valuable in this exciting and ever-changing world of educational technology. With his twenty-three years of experience, Patrick is prepared to take up any remaining time with ideas and conversation drawn from his deep roots in IT. He has co-authored two classroom technology textbooks and has been a consultant for several organizations. Since October 1997, Patrick has been an invited weekly panelist on a call-in radio show on WGN Radio in Chicago. It's easy to participate-just sign up at the door! You don't want to miss this!" STRAND: Technology Operations and Concepts AUDIENCE: General Interest TYPE: Concurrent

These are all items shared by session participants. Some for educational purposes and some just for fun!

Sites shared by others in the room;

• thecolourclock.co.uk - on screen clock
• waze.com - online mapping stepped up a notch
• symbaloo edu - a more visual way to keep your internet bookmarks everywhere
• sporcle - has academic section of these brain teaser games
• Class Dojo - classroom management and behavior tracking tool, has a mobile side so that teachers can use their mobile device to track behavior throughout the class
• UDL Toolkit - Universal Design toolkit for educators
• storiesfromthecloud.blogspot.com - for young adult literature
• chefsfeed.com - best chefs in the town tell you what you should get when in their city, also available as an app
• Storybird - collaborative storytelling
• create space - publish your students work, can sell and donate money to a charity
• khan academy - over 2,600 educational videos
• RSA Animate - high profile lectures made into animated videos
• 60 second recap - visual cliff notes
• appadvice.com - daily updates on the Apple App store

Apps Shared by others;

• Show Me - like LiveScribe, but it is an app for the iPad, writing, drawings and records audio
• Jabber Pad - virtual whiteboard network
• dragon go - search online with verbal commands
• screenChomp - sketch it, record it, share it
• mobile-educationstore.com - at apps for social skills and more for students with disabilities
• Stopwatch log - helps keep data on time spent on specific self made categories
• Pearl Trees - pictorial graphic organizer with build in info from the web
• Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore - great interactive book
• Color Uncovered
• Factor samurai - math facts
• Fruit Nija
• hands only cpr
• A novel idea - plot your storyline
• TechWire - tech blog updates all in one place
• igrader - pocket grade calculator
• pop my videos - annotate videos, just like VH1's pop up videos
• Lewis Dots - for chemistry
• Moster at the end of the book - the Grover classic :-)
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SESSION: 264 The Web 2.0 you might not know about

Friday 9:45 - 10:45 AM

Leslie Fisher, Salon 5 Friday 9:45 - 10:45 AM Capacity: 400

Sure you know about blogs and you might have facebooked with the best of them but Web 2.0 brought the ability to have dynamic interactive web sites. This presentation will introduce you to some of the newest and coolest Web 2.0 sites. We will allow time at the end of the class so you can share any possible Web 2.0 sites we might have missed. STRAND: Communication and Collaboration AUDIENCE: General Interest TYPE: Concurrent

Handouts -

http://www.lesliefisher.com/handouts/web20.htm

http://www.lesliefisher.com/handouts/web_20_dnk.pdf

Suggested websites;

• Rockmelt.com - internet browser including social media updates and buttons
• Twitterfall - easily search topics on Twitter
• Coveritlive - back channel, can moderate comments
• typewith.me - Collaborative typing when invited, make a wordle cloud from everything that is typed in, time slider
• pinterest.com - create your own pin board of interests and share them out to others
• Evernote - note taking to the cloud
• Wunderlist - reminder lists, task list organization
• linoit.com - turns your computer into a big post-it note/bulletin board :-) - SO FUN for a factual project! -
• scoopit.com - pull contect from the web and places it all in one location - great idea for content intro to give to students, you can invite people to follow a topic -
• join.me - group meetings through your computer for free!
• weebly.com - easy web development
• eventbrite.com - setup events with online registration and rsvp collection
• classdojo.com - for tracking student behavior, has reporting features
• remind101.com - setup an account for anonymous texting, students will not know the number the text comes from
• gosoapbox.com - send questions, class polling and more
• smalldemons.com - takes all the details of a story and lists them on a web page, movies and books
• storify.com - accumulates articles and social media entries all to one page
• proust.com - post questions and allows friends to answer, can have text and pictures, create the book of your life
• soshiku.com - schoolwork tracker
• timetoast.com - makes timelines
• Googleartproject.com - using google map technology to create tours of museums

WOW! That list is incredible and overwhelming at the same time :-/

SESSION: 240 Connecting Your Classroom to the Future: iPad Edition

Friday 8:30 - 9:30 AM

Kathy Schrock, Salon 4 Friday 8:30 - 9:30 AM Capacity: 400

This presentation takes a look at technological predictions and predicaments that have informed the direction of current instruction, and ponders a few questions about teaching for the future. How can teachers design curriculum that embeds technology in a meaningful way? What tools should the classroom technology toolbox contain? What are the management strategies to facilitate this connected classroom? You will also learn about iPad apps that can support each level of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. STRAND: Technology Operations and Concepts AUDIENCE: General Interest TYPE: Concurrent

Handouts and links -

https://sites.google.com/a/kathyschrock.net/connecting/

https://sites.google.com/site/schrockipad/

http://kathyschrock.net/ipadblooms/

Sesame Street video on YouTube - "iPogo" there is an App for that

All will follow Bloom's revise taxonomy

Remembering;

• Diigo
• List!
• Flashcards Deluxe - Quizlet integration, text to speech -
• Documents Free - lite version of office and will sync to Google Docs

Understanding;

• Tumblr
• Feedler - Google Reader and News Feeder, works with RSS feeds
• neu.annotate - lets you annotate over pdf docs
• Intaglio Sketchpad - drawing tools and mind mapping

Applying;

• QuickVoice Recorder
• Animation Creator HD
• Ustream

Analyzing;

• Idea Sketch - mind mapping
• Structuring: Database
• iCard Sort - can be turned into an outline
• Survey Monkey through Safari, no app available

Evaluation;

• Google+ - moderate conversations
• Whiteboard
• Terra Web Browser - will allow you to get around the mobile version of websites on a device, among other things

Creating;

• Animoto - digital storytelling
• splice - video editing
• Story Buddy - make digital books
• AudioBoo - Audio recording

App Evaluation Tool - on her website

Creative Commons Website - http://creativecommons.org/ - will help teachers and students work through copyright and licensing issues.

Using the ADVANCE SEARCH in Google Images you can search for only images that will allow you to use that image in a project...

SESSION: 199 iOS Birds of a Feather Session

Thursday 3:00 - 4:00 PM

Tony Vincent, Salon 6 Thursday 3:00 - 4:00 PM Capacity: 400

Sometimes it's nice not to have a pre-planned agenda! Birds of a Feather sessions are loose gatherings of like-minded people who wish to freely discuss topics of importance to them. Sometimes a guess speaker is showcased to kick start the conversations, and other times there may be an open mic with only a minimal opening statement. STRAND: Technology Operations and Concepts AUDIENCE: General Interest TYPE: Concurrent

iOS Tips

1. Activate Speak Text in Settings > General > Accessibility
2. When highlighting text, you have the option to have the text spoken
3. Open recently closed tabs in Safari by tapping and holding the + button
4. Split the iOS keyboard by sliding your fingers apart
5. Tap and hold the exclamation point to get the apostrophe key
6. Use the Reader function in Safari to make articles streamlined
7. Don’t bother quitting apps and other myths
8. No need to quit apps, unless it's a music app or GPS
9. Use volume up button to take picture on iPad or iPhone
10. On the camera, tap to focus your pictures
11. In iOS 5, use four fingers to swipe screen movement
12. To zoom in on screen, double tap with three fingers to zoom in, to move around the screen, drag three fingers. Turn on feature in Accessibility settings.

Set Up and Management Suggestions

1. Classroom Dos and Don’ts
2. AirWatch and Absolute Manager - Push apps and manage multiple devices
3. Under parental controls, turn off the ability to install or delete apps
4. iSwifter, Puffin, Photon web browser are all Flash workarounds

Accessory Recommendations

5. List of accessories Tony Vincent uses
6. Germ Guardian UV-C Light Wand for sanitizing devices
7. Grid-It for organizing cables and accessories
8. VGA switch from monoprice.com
9. Stylus 3-pack from Amazon.com from $1.43 + free shipping
10. Zwipes microfiber clothes

App Recommendations

1. ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard for iPad
2. Noteshelf "handwritten" notes
3. Print n Share in conjunction with "we print" to networked printers
4. Airprint Activator
5. Mobile Mouse (has Lite and Pro versions)
6. Splashtop, TeamViewer, iTeleport (used to see computer screen)
7. Mighty Meeting (presentations)
8. Tap Forms (databases, tech inventories)

SESSION: 178 Web Tools for Collaboration

Thursday 1:15 - 2:15 PM

Tony Vincent, Salon 5 Thursday 1:15 - 2:15 PM Capacity: 400

Not only is collaboration an important life skill, but it can have a positive influence on student engagement. Web-based tools can enable collaboration among students in the same classroom or among students anywhere in the world. Experience terrific and free tools that can fuel productive collaboration through text, voice, discussion groups, whiteboard spaces, mind mapping, and presentations. STRAND: Communication and Collaboration AUDIENCE: General Interest TYPE: Concurrent

Collaboration is one of the 4Cs of 21st century learning. The 4Cs include critical thinking, communication, creativity, and collaboration. Collaboration is the act of working together on a common goal. Not only is collaboration an important life skill, it can have a positive influence on student engagement.

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills says that mastering collaboration skills requires the ability to work effectively with diverse teams. It also requires the ability to "be helpful and make necessary compromises to accomplish a common goal."

Our Collaborative Documents

1. Linoit board for “What are some tasks you’ve had students work on collaboratively?”
2. Scribblar whiteboard for collaboration skills
3. Popplet with diagramming tools
4. Prezi collaboration example
5. Google Spreadsheet with benefits and drawbacks of web tools
6. Google Doc for productive collaboration
7. Posterous discussion for what you’ve learned at GaETC 2011

Collaborative Sticky Notes

1. Linoit - Works with iPad-teacher has more control when logged in.
2. Wallwisher- Made for teachers and students. Can be glitchy.
3. Corkboard.me - Simple to use. No teacher controls.

Collaborative Whiteboards

1. Scribblar

1. Twiddla
2. Scriblink
3. Cosketch

2. Board800
3. FlockDraw
4. Aww - Works on iPads, tablets, and smartphones

Mind Mapping

1. Popplet - Online and has an iPad app (Tony’s example) (requires login for collaborating). App is not free
2. MindMeister
3. Dabbleboard
4. Cacoo
5. Diagramo
6. Bubbl.us

Prezi

1. Up to 10 collaborators on one Prezi.
2. Click Invite to Edit under the Meeting menu when Edit mode.

Google Docs

1. Share a document so that students don’t have to have an account.
2. 
3. Epic Google Docs Presentation Animation video on YouTube.
4. List of the Interesting Ways Collaborative Slideshows.

Discussion Boards

1. Set up a Posterous Space to allow comments (example tonyv.me/g2011)
2. Edmodo
3. nicenet.net
4. Collaborize Classroom

Skype

1. Connect with other classrooms using education.skype.com.
2. Read about preparing to Skype with another class.

Powerful Learning by Linda Darling-Hammond has lots to say about collaboration.

SimliarSites might just help you find a better alternative to a site you already like.

Make any software collaborative by sharing one screen with Join.me.

SESSION: 137 Students as Mobile App/Game Creators

Thursday 10:45-11:45 AM

Chris Thompson, Georgia Tech

Salon 4 Thursday 10:45-11:45 AM Capacity: 400

This session will present a rationale and methodology for incorporating mobile app/game design and creation into any 6-12 classroom. User-friendly tools and subject specific examples will be discussed and demonstrated along with preliminary results from pilot activities.

STRAND: Creativity and Innovation AUDIENCE: Instructional PK-12 TYPE: Concurrent

www.ceismc.gatech.edu

johnmcdonald@walkerschools.org - teacher using this in his classroom in Walker County

SUCCESS STORY...

Bubble Ball - created by a Utah teenager! Beat out Angry Birds as the number 1 downloaded free game in the iTunes store!

1 million downloads in less than a week!

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id412089940?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6

Native Apps Coding Tools -

• Apple xCode
• Airplaysdk.com
• RunRev.com
• Rhomobile.com

Non Coding Tools -

• gamesalad.com - free app for iPad that lets you create your own apps!!!! http://gamesalad.com/download/latestCreator
• http://stencyl.com/ - free program download that will allow you to create your own apps. http://www.stencyl.com/stencylworks/overview/

Web App Creators-

• iBuildapp.com - free
• BuzzTouch.com - free
• appMakr.com - free - uses RSS feeds

SESSION: 121 iOS Apps

Thursday 9:45- 10:45 AM

Leslie Fisher, Salon 8 Thursday 9:45- 10:45 AM

Capacity: 260 It's that time of year again! We will take a look at all of the new great iOS applications that were released this year as well as reviewing some of the "greatest hits" of most popular apps. Educational Apps, productive apps and just plain ole fun apps will be discussed and discovered. If time remains we will have a share fest talking about some of your favorite apps! STRAND: Technology Operations and Concepts AUDIENCE: General Interest TYPE: Concurrent

Handout - http://www.lesliefisher.com/handouts/iphone_apps.pdf

iOS 5 Tips and Tricks -

• From the locked screen - double tap home button to reach the camera and the music controls
• Screen shots - hold home button and click the power button , the picture will be taken and placed in your photos list
• Locking screen Orientation - Double tap home button twice, slide all the way to the left and choose the lock orientation button
• Notification Center- all now sow in one area by swiping down from the top of the home screen
• Twitter - integration from almost any app
• iCould - all iOS devices sync and will backup to the iCould
• Safari - Multi-tab browsing

App Searching -

• Appsfire - http://appsfire.com/
• Appshopper - http://appshopper.com/

Apps to checkout -

• SaiSuke - Calendar - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id289228987?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6 - helps by color coding your your events and caendars instead of showing as a dot on your iPhone
• Evernote - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id281796108?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• JotNot - $.99 - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id307868751?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• Adobe Reader - Free - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id469337564?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• SoundNote - $4.99 - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id364789577?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• Wunderlist - Free - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id406644151?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• DropBox - Free up to 2 GB - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id327630330?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• Photon - FLASH Web Browser - $4.99 - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id430200224?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• Jump Desktop - $14.99 - remote desktop access for mac or pc - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id364876095?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• Word Lens - app is free, each language dictionary costs $10 - allows your camera on the phone to be a translater of signs - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id383463868?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• Google Translate - Free - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id414706506?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• Inkling - Free - previously released textbooks made for the iPad - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id379351586?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• iStudiez Pro - $2.99 - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id310636441?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• NewsRack - $4.99 - stores RSS feeds - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id288815275?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• Screen Chomp - Free - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id442415881?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• Flipboard - Free - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id358801284?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• Zite - Smart Magazine - Free - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id419752338?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• Ocarina - $.99 - turns your iPhone into a pan flute - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id293053479?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• Audio Boo - Free - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id305204540?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• ABC Animals - $1.99 - entire series - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id292402752?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• i Write series - words - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id307025309?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• Toontastic - $1.99 - create comic strips - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id404693282?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• Mathboard for K-6 - $4.99 - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id373909837?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• Math Pro - $1.99 - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id340780974?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• Lobster Diver (series for math) - Free - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id416577542?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• Mitosis - Free - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id348184626?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• The Elements - Free - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id295150660?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• 3DSolar System - $3.99 - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id464932956?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• NASA - Free - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id334325516?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• Milly and Molly Series of books - $.99 each - many to choose from
• Danny the Dragon meets Jimmy - includes sign language - $2.99 - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id383272257?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• Shakespear in Bits - translates bits and pieces - Many to choose from - Free to $7.99 depending on the writing - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id372459429?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• BrainPop - FREE - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id364894352?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6
• National Geographic World Atlas - $1.99 - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id342272934?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6

QR Codes - Make a schoowide scavenger hunt

• create your own - http://qrcode.kaywa.com/
• Readers - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id474902001?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6

Square Reader - device wich allows your iOS device to become a credit card reader. GREAT FOR FUNDRAISER at school!

https://squareup.com/

Tips and Links - Extras I learned this week...

These links are all extra items I learned at the GaETC conference, through Twitter feeds from the conference and those at the conference and more!

I will add to this list as the conference moves forward :-) I can't wait to check these all of these links out!

Here goes...

• All Conference Handouts - JACKPOT!!!!! Now I just have to have time to go through all of them! http://gaetc2011.wikispaces.com/General+Sessions
• https://www.smalldemons.com/ A Storyverse. A place where details touch, overlap and lead you further
• http://www.waze.com/download/ GPS Navigation with social media reporting
• http://gosoapbox.com/ controlled digital space, designed to improve student engagement also gives teachers assessment
• http://www.symbaloo.com/ Helps users in managing favorite sites and services. Shows up like big app icons
• http://remind101.com/ Text messaging for teachers Teachers never see students phone numbers. Students never see theirs
• videolicious.com Great iPad app that lets you record a 50 second video clip including photos and share it online
• itunes.apple.com/us/app/coin-bo… Turn a photo into a coin!
• Want to make some QR codes? Check out this site. - goqr.me fb.me/17qh3SPUP
• Linoit.com looks good for online collaborative research sharing
• Typewith.me has been updated. It now works with the iPad! Yes!! Also, they added Wordle support and more active logins
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SESSION: 98 General social network tools vs. collaborative web 2.0 edu platforms

Thursday 8:00 - 9:00 AM

Tim DiScipio, ePals Salon 5 Thursday 8:00 - 9:00 AM Capacity: 400 Significant differences exist between general mass market web 2.0 tools and school-based web 2.0 collaboration platforms, designed for K12 safety and use. Examples and case studies are provided in this important visionary talk directed at school and district leaders. The lead presenter is a pioneer in school web 2.0. The second presenter was ed tech director in Miami-Dade, the nation's fourth largest district. Learn critical questions, issues, perspectives and insights to help you increase student learning through digital collaboration tools designed for K12 use. Deployments of social learning media across an individual school to the International Baccalaureate (140 countries) and New York City (1+ million students) are shared. Student safety and policy management aren’t available in Facebook or other general market tools, so here’s how to use social learning tools. STRAND: Communication and Collaboration AUDIENCE: General Interest TYPE: Concurrent

http://www.epals.com/

Free and subscription-based usage

Other educational tools available...

- gaggle

- schoology

- edmodo

- echalk

How long will it be until FERPA laws catch-up with schools that are using mass market social networking sites like Facebook and/or Twitter? http://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html

What are Mass Market social networks NOT good for in Educational settings?

- Safety

- Being on Task

- Easy Access - blocked in many schools

- Students under age 13 - age of consent

- Archives

- Storage

- Give up personal info to future advertisers

- District/School deployment - upload entire school at one time

- Not curricular in function

- require outside 3rd party applications to completed tasks/projects

General Social Network tools...

- Not policy managed or enabled role based permissions

- Usage can easily put students names and schoolwork with teacher comments out on the open web forever

- No support, training, professional development team

What kinds of communication and net skills are students acquiring going from nothing directly to Facebook????

VERY INTERESTING POINT, maybe this would help us teach students the correct way to use these networks in a secure environment when they are under the age of Facebook.

Why schools use ePals -

- Safe platform

- connected to domestic and foreign classrooms

- single sign-on for all areas

- Home to School connection

- Store and Share content

- Policy Management

- Teacher supervised

- Designed for K-12

- School-safe desktop, everything on the same page

- Humans that check profiles and school accounts created to be sure they are who they say they are

- Social interaction through a classroom project - writing pen pals, book studies, online projects and more

- embedded language translation for when you collaborate with international classrooms

- content is customizable

- Assessment available

ePals Students - Learning Space combines...

- Tools - email, blogs, wikis, shared portfolios and media galleries

- Schoolwork/documents - word, PPT, files and rich media

- Contact Groups - school, teacher, classmates, partner classes (simulate friends and groups in Facebook)

ePals Teacher Space...

- Allows teachers to moderate all activity

- Save and share documents

- File storage

- Calendaring

SESSION: 75 - 750 Million Users: Should We Use Facebook for Education?

Wednesday 3:15 - 4:15 PM

Joe Terantino, Kennesaw State University

Salon 1 Wednesday 3:15 - 4:15 PM Capacity: 260

The purpose of this session is to discuss the potential of using Facebook for educational purposes ranging from schools to universities. The presenter will review some noteworthy projects based in the Facebook environment. There will also be a discussion of the advantages and pitfalls related to utilizing social media in educational settings. Participants will leave with a better understanding of Facebook, its tools, and how this social media fits into the overall realm of education. Fanatical Facebook fans and objective dissenters are welcome!

STRAND: Research and Information Fluency AUDIENCE: General Interest TYPE: Concurrent

Session Handouts -

http://gaetc2011.wikispaces.com/Joe+Terantino

Is it our responsibility as educators to teach students how to use Social Media appropriately?

What are your view on this??? Throughout this room I am sitting in we are split in thirds... Definitely yes, Definitely NO, on the fence.

Pros -

- engaging

- fast mass communication

- alot of information at your finger tips

- its where they are

- Interactive

- collaborative

Cons -

- Not being used appropriately/student conduct

- student safety/security

- too much exposure

- access - not all students have accounts

- privacy

- permission

Examples of use...

- School Pages - really only to get information out

- Teacher Sites -

- documentation of a project,

- some allow for student responses - a social studies teacher posted a house bill and had students respond what they felt it meant or would do

- photos of math solutions to be posted for students to review, students are able to ask questions about the solution

- Student Centered Work -

- Sample Facebook Pages - created as a character of a book or from history being studied

- Writing Assignments - describe photos they post

- Case Study

Other Ideas of how FaceBook can be used in the classroom -

- Follow new feeds

- share book reviews

- poll your class

- establish pen pals

- keep up with politics

- create groups

- schedule events

- student role playing

- collaborative projects

- start a movement

** All projects must be carefully planned! It is only a tool to be used. No one technology is THE solution.

**Describe a clear policy for student conduct**

He will post his class/school Acceptable Use Policy as an example. Will post on the conference Wikispace along with the SlideShow.

Alternatives to using Facebook -

Edmodo - http://www.edmodo.com/

Toonti - www.toonti.com

Dippo - http://diipo.com/

SESSION: 63 - Project Based Learning in Hand - mobile devices in the classroom

Wednesday 1:30 - 2:30 PM

Tony Vincent

Salon 5 Wednesday 1:30 - 2:30 PM Capacity: 400

Schools are discovering that handhelds like iPod touch and iPad make great learning tools. In fact, handhelds can play a big part in project-based learning. Not only do projects motivate students because they use exciting mobile technology, but they also lend themselves to student voice and choice. Be inspired to bring project-based learning into your classroom, learn strategies for creating effective driving questions, and see how an iPod touch or iPad can play a role in the the planning, investigation, and presentation of projects.

STRAND: Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making AUDIENCE: General Interest TYPE: Concurrent

Handouts and information - http://learninginhand.com/gaetc

Project Based Learning -

- Collaboration

- Communication

- Critical Thinking

- Real-world reasons

- Extended period of time

- Answer a driving question

- Share with others what they have learned

Ideas and Apps to make this happen with Mobile Devices -

- Rubrics ahead of time - http://rubistar.4teachers.org/

Save the file as a pdf and then add to iBooks on the mobile devices.

- Good Reader App - $4.99 - holds pdf's but also allows you to write on them to take notes or highlight.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id363448914?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6

- Sonic Pics App - $2.99 - Mobile video editing with still pictures and audio

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id345295488?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6

- QR code readers and Creators - Free - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id467262573?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6

- Idea Sketch - FREE - mind mapping app for mobile devices. Much like Inspiration.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id467262573?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6

- Evernote - Free, but accounts need to be created for each student. This will sync to their account and can be accesses from the internet,

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id281796108?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6

- Atomic Web Browser Lite - Free - will allow tab browsing on iPod Touch and iPhone. iOS 5 will allow this to happen with iPad already

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id355513788?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6

- Comic Touch Lite - Free - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id306608970?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6

- Strip Designer - $2.99 - to create comic strips on iPad, will create pdfs

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id314780738?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6

- Comic Life - $4.99 - works very much like the computer version which our kids are farmiliar with already.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id432537882?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6

- Story Kit - Free - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id329374595?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6

- Puppet Pals - $2.99 - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id462134755?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6

There is a free version as well, but with the paid version you can make any photo or picture a puppet to use.

- eBook Creator - $3.99 - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id448273828?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6

- Songify - FREE - Creates a song from anything you read and record

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id448273828?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6

SHARING

- Voice Memos - iPod Touch and iPhone, built in to the iOS

- QuickVoice Recorder - Free for iPad - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id284675296?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6

- GarageBand - $4.99 - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id408709785?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6

Today's Meet - http://todaysmeet.com/

Create a back channel for your class to send ideas, questions and more! Easy and FREE

http://todaysmeet.com/help/backchannel

Have you ever thought of using Amazon for a book review project???

What a great real-world experience for students! The entire world will see the review and it may even help them decide if they want to buy the book.