At SDCUE Tech Fair, the best one day tech conference anywhere. Here is what I attended, and links to some things to check out later.

Planning and Implementing Problem-based Learning – Cindy Jackson

• The website is amazing tons of resources…

Google Forms in the Classroom – Brooks Park

• Plan the form with the spreadsheet in mind

Google Docs in the Classroom – Dan McDowell

• import MS Office docs – adv formatting will be messed up
• you have to be willing to give stuff up…to gain stuff
• tinyurl (pick your own) goo.gl (QR code)
• templates – share…can view…File–>make a copy
• give a little…get a lot

The Digital Natives Are Restless: Tools that Captivate Students – Reuben Hoffman

• Move away from paper…put it on the web!
• Share it with the world!

The Most Effective Digital Student Projects Ever! – Dave Kootman
- linkbun.ch/aq9
- compfight

DodgePodge 6.0 – Bernie Dodge

Things I Missed…
- Instant Creativity & Assessment 100% Engagement with Mobile Devices
- The 21st Century Administrator
- Biology Concept Cartoons
- Essential Apps for the iPad
- Edmodo: Social Media for the Classroom
- Animation in Education – Web 2.0 Style!
- Use Your iPad as an Interactive Whiteboard
- iPad Curriculum Design
- The 21st Century Literature Circle

Check Out
- flubaroo.com – online grading for Google Docs
- screenr.com
- compfight
- photoxpress
- everystockphoto

Handout – Link user- ps1  pwd – cue2011

Image –> Fill–>Content Aware

Heal tool to remove timestamp spot heal brush tool

Imag – adjustments – photofilter (magenta filter) to heal fluorescent green

Move your sliders to where you like it…then back off.

More Options on Shadows Highlight

Set for -1/3 stop in general … tend to

Option – add layer adds mask (fixing vertical falloff)

Ctrl-D to deselect

The human eye can discern 6 stops

Right/Left bracket to adjust brush

Unleash your inner Spielberg

• Experience Design – XD
• Disney – masters of XD
• XD is about cultivating anticipation and desire – Kristian  Andersen
• Education = Narrative
• Narrative shapes anticipation and desire
• Why do you (the lecturer) care?…Why should I?
• Sensory and emotional cues shape narrative.
• Presentation = Production (Hollywood production values)
• Present a compelling story
• Design – content is not divorced from design
• Audio is important…They know what sounds good….and bad
• It’s okay to use music in lectures…think of the nightly news

Techniques

• Pace – | || ||| break it into acts…
• Students want 12-15 minute lectures…break the content apart
• quick – quick – slow (vary the pace)
• No more than 3 minutes on a slide …smooth the playback experience
• 2 minutes is better…
• Motion – not animated bullets or transitions
• use sparingly…but very effective when done well..to illustrate a point
• Cinematic transitions - useful in very limited ways…for tangents, or side notes…
• Space - How you lay out your slides tells a story
• people tend to view in an ‘F’ shaped pattern (search declutter image)
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• Don’t underestimate the blank screen (focus on speaker)
• Silence – It’s OK…some images speak for themselves…
• Dialog, Not Monologue – more than one person…
• Reflection – What do ### think?
• Talking Heads have very low pedagogic value…
• Hopkins uses very little video
• personal reflection – Why am I teaching this?
• Collaboration - leave (online lecture) and come back
• Embed applications – flash, calculators, simulations
• Slike Linking/Branching – remediation or different areas of information
• Assessments - leave it for an application specifically designed for assessment…and outside the lecture presentation…you’re on the web, use those tools
• Cost/Reward – expensive…but worth it
• Resources
• Presentation Zen – Garr Reynolds
• NoteAndPoint.com – great for design ideas