Contribute to the #ISTE13 Six Word Story Project!

Here's My Contribution! Now It's Your Turn!

Did you attend ISTE 2013 in San Antonio? Then you must contribute to the Six Word Story Project!

Technology Director Bryan Doyle had an awesome idea for a collaborative project where attendees could capture their ISTE experience in six words and a photo. It doesn't even have to be a photo you took; just one that represents your idea.

The thing is, the project started almost two weeks ago, and Bryan set a deadline of July 12th for finalization of the project. So far, there are 19 contributions. ISTE says 18,000+ people were in attendance in San Antonio, so 19 is not a very good showing!

Come on, education and educational technology advocates - let's show the world the power of collaborative project creation! And let's represent as many locations on the planet as we can!

Bryan explains the project in detail on his blog and provides a link to the Google Presentation you can add to. So don't wait or think you'll come back to this, go read about the project on Bryan's blog and make your contribution now!

Twitter for Professional Learning #ISTE13

Photo Courtesy of @mistergoode via Twitter

On Tuesday, June 25th, I presented a poster session on Twitter for Professional Learning at the ISTE 2013 conference in San Antonio, Texas. My co-worker and usual partner-in-presentations Kim Garcia was scheduled to present with me, but was unable to due to illness. :-(

I really enjoyed the format of this "come-and-go" session, where I was able to have conversations with educators who were interested in Twitter for extending their own learning as well as the learning of their colleagues. I actually have another blog post in mind on the topic of poster sessions. Stay tuned for more info!

Meanwhile, if you are interested in resources on Twitter for professional learning, scroll down to check out the LiveBinder I put together for ISTE. Whether you are a beginner or experienced user of Twitter for growing yourself professionally, you are likely to find some helpful resources here. If you are conducting PD on Twitter for others, this collection is also a good place to start gathering resources.

I hope these resources are helpful to you! Happy Tweeting!

Twitter for Professional Learning – ISTE 2013

Alternate link to LiveBinder: http://tiny.cc/TwitterISTE2013

10 Killer iPad Projects Students Will Love #ISTE13

Notes from ISTE13 Concurrent Session

Holly Dornak and Jessica Dyer, ITS's, Lamar CISD

All presentation resources posted here:
http://icafe.lcisd.org/presentations/10-ipad-app-projects-students-will-love/ -

***Goal is to use the iPad or whatever device it might be to do higher level skills/ higher
levels of Blooms.

iPad Essential Skills - allow students to teach you if necessary!

• Spotlight Search - Kinder on up can do this with training!

• Adding Images to Camera Roll - Using camera, screen shot, Internet images (integrate finding
  copyright-friendly issues here; for example, Google advanced search)

• Taking Video - horizontal, please!

• Action Button - box w/ arrow coming out to send stuff off of iPad

• Turning in Assignments:
  
• Dongle - connect to iTunes; it acts as a USB drive

• Email - generic account or student email accounts

• Cloud Storage - SkyDrive, Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, etc.

• Edmodo

• Showbie- an app where teacher makes accounts and students can turn in
  work from iPad. Go to showbie.com for more info.

Tip: Get the App Apps Gone Free - Gives you a few apps every day. Can use about 1/3 for
education. Many of the apps recommended in the projects to follow may cost money now, but
the presenters first became aware of them through Apps Gone Free.

10 Projects:

1. Build Vocabulary - Skitch     Ex: take pictures of real world objects and label fractions, get a pic off Internet of something you've been studying (Ex: peninsula); trace and annotate.

2. Send Postcards from the Edge - Turbo Collage Lite and Postino     Build front of postcard with Turbo Collage  then make back of postcard with Postino. Can email the postcard to some one. Also send by snail mail for a fee.

3. Go Hollywood - storyboard with Stickyboard (movable sticky notes) or Grafio Lite (limited to 4 graphic organizers) or Poplet Lite. Sock Puppet, Puppet Pals, or ToonTastic to make cartoonish videos; Cute CUT (free; almost as good as iMovie) or iMovie for live video; OSnap! or iMotionHD for stop motion

4. Use Student Instructors - Educreations and Doodle Cast - teacher can record lessons for students to review or have students record presentations or their thinking when completing an assignment

5. Become Thread Heads - Voice Thread - Have students comment on content you or they post or create. Great because it can be easily shared online.

6. Write and Illustrate - Outline, Drawing Pad, Strip Designer, Scribble Press, Little Story Maker, Book Creator

7. Witness and Report - Pocket BMX & Evernote - Have student play game while other students act as reporters. When you first do this, have a game that moves slow or allows for instant replay.

8. Building a Talking Museum - Croak.It! and Scan - Students drew and wrote about a field trip. Posted on bulletin board and put a QR code next to it linked to them reading their report. Also use DropVox to record.

9. Connect to your Community - Make it real-world - FaceTime, Skype (Ex: Talk with a fireman and he/she can give you a tour the fire station. ) Also check out Skype for educators. DigitalWish and SignUp Genius will help manage project connections.

10. Get Social - Edmodo, Twitter, Blogger - Example: @Emilydrocha posts what's going on in her class via Twitter. Check your school's social media policies before jumping into this.

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Creating Digital Notebooks with OneNote #ISTE13

Notes from ISTE 2013 Concurrent Session

Helen Gooch
Instructional Technology Coordinator
Microsoft Innovative Educator
All resources will be uploaded to ISTE website by the end of the week.


Why OneNote?

• OneNote is like a bookshelf full of notebooks.
• Each notebook can have tabs.
• You can sort all of the notebooks and tabs.
• Notebooks can be shared.
• Changes can be tracked.

Allows for seamless work. Start on one device, store in SkyDrive (or SkyDrive Pro in Office 365 for business or education), and access from other devices.

When you first create a notebook, you can decide to store locally or in SkyDrive.

Can also decide right away if you want to share the notebook or not. (This can also be setup later.)

Multiple ways to put content in a notebook:

• Just click anywhere on the page and type.
• Helen uses OneNote to create quick start guides or tutorials because text and pictures are easy to manipulate. OneNote page can then be saved as a Word Doc.
• Can insert a webpage by browsing to it, and doing a screen clipping in OneNote. Crop page. OneNote automatically inserts the source of the clip.
• TweenTribune website, with high interest reading materials for young people, used as a demonstration site.
• Can insert an audio clip
• Can also insert a ToDo list.
• Can integrate with Outlook to email a OneNote page. Great trick for creating and emailing meeting agendas!
• Can attach files to a notebook page or insert a printout of an attachment - printout of attachment is nice because you can ink on it. Nice if you have general notes on PowerPoint slides - students can take notes to add details.
• Can make links to external websites or other notebooks (or sections or pages of other notebooks)
• Can insert video recording.
• Can download templates from Microsoftoffice.com

BONUS INFO: www.pil-network.com - Microsoft Partners in Learning network. Download free tools. Access tutorials.

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