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

Here’s what I attended:

1. Specialized Google Research Tools That Are Powerful, Easy, and Free
   Mark Wagner 

   Resources

   Info

2. Open Source, Open Content, and Web 2.0 : Why They Matter So Much
   Steve Hargadon 

   Info

3. Clicks and Mortar Schools
   Joan Coy and Wanda Dechant 

   Info

4. Training Teachers to Teach Online
   Joy Lopez 

   Info

5. How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns
   Michael Horn – Friday Keynote 

   Info

6. Digital Goonies: Adventures in Web 2.0
   Jim Holland and Susan Anderson

   Workshop Links 

   Info

7. Oh, the Things You Can Do with Google Spreadsheets & Forms
   Tammy Worcester 

   Resources

   Info

8. WonderPoints: A Structure for Engaging Curiosity about the  World Outside Your Classroom
   Bernie Dodge 

   Info

9. Classroom in the Cloud: Google Tools Education, Haiku LMS, and District Integration
   Robert Craven and Michael Morrison 

   Info

10. Curriculum + Photo Projects = Memorable Learning
    Burt Lo 

    Info

11. Photshop CS5 for Photographers
    Michael Johnson 

    Info

12. Unleash Your Inner Spielberg When Developing Online Lectures
    Brian Klaas 

    Watch

    Info

13. 1201 Calc Resources You Can’t Live Without
    Jo French & Rob Banning 

    Resources

    Info

14. Getting Geeky with Google Apps
    Chris Walsh 

    Resources

    Info

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)
• 
• 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

www.tammyworcester.com

Training and Handouts –> CUE Conference 2011

I didn’t know (or I’d like to remember)….

• publish as web page
• create second sheet
• shorten Google URLs
• Sort by date function? – Would save cutting and pasting
• Summarize text data submitted by MC question
• Submit assignments (links)
• Use as a ‘cllicker’ replacement
• Change color with rules – create drawing (pixel picture)

www.digitalgoonies.com – Workshop Links

What Teachers Make

Check out

• www.messagehop.com – slideshows w/ animated text, embedable
• xtranormal.com – dialog converted to a animated robot movie, embedable
• slide.com – slideshows from flickr accounts, export ppt slides w/text no music… embedable
• mixbook.com (merge with scrapblog) – Make books with images…online
• onetruemedia.com – w/ music, similar to animoto
• animoto.com/education
• picnik.com – online image editing, intgrates with Flickr
• pics4learning.com – images for educators and students
• openclipart.org – available clip art, all public domain
• photopeach.com – captions…even quizzes; story mode and spiral mode
• dropmocks – drag photos to the web from a URL
• google.com/squared – table view of searched info (try dinosaur, or planets)
• timetoast.com – timelines
• spicynodes.org – create concept maps on steroids
• myfakewall.com – build a facebook page for a historical figure
• ad blocking plugins … investigate
• slideboom.com – powerpoint online; embed
• voki.com – create talking characters
• edu.glogster.com – embed lots of stuff onto a page…cool…
• vocaroo.com – record audio online
• linoit.com – virtual bulletin board (wallwisher)
• titanpad.com – collaborative writing online
• tagxedo.com – Wordle, but better
• livebinder.com – questions and URLs in a
• wikicards.net – index cards, great for pre-writing
• quizlet.com – online flashcards, with games, cool

CUE 2011 Opening Keynote – Michael Horn innosightinstitute.org

Video to be posted on cue.org

Why do successful organizations fail?

• Technology improves faster than our lives change. It overserves us.
• Disruptive Innovation – can serve the non-consumers (not as good as the best, but attainable by the masses)
• Example – Digital Equipment Corp. – missed the boat on personal computers (The death of the mini-computer)
• Disruptive Innovations – the personal computer (very poor at first…but attainable by the masses); Transistors replacing vacuum tubes
• Yesterday – GM, Dept Stores, Xerox, IBM, ATT, State U, Sony DiskMan
• Today – Toyota, WalMart, Dell, SWA, Microsoft, Cingular, Communnity Colleges, Apple iPod
• Tomorrow – Chery, Internet retail, Blackberry, Linux, Skype, Online Universities
• Sony – hearing aids to pocket radios to portable TVs
• We all have different learning needs and goals at different times
• Howard Gardner – Multiple intelligences
• Conflicting mandates in the way we must teach vs The way students learn — We force everyone to move at the same pace…
• The answer…modularity
• How do we make it happen? We need to change the industrial model.
• (**idea – one math class…multiple teachers…peer tutors…self-paced)
• Prime areas of non-consumption – credit recovery, drop outs, AP/advanced courses (25% don’t offer any advanced courses)
• Looming budget cuts and teacher shortages are an opportunity.
• The substitution of on thing gor another always follows and S-curve
• By 2019 50% of high school courses will be offered online.
• This could be too conservative…we need a student-centric system
• 27% of HS students took an online course in 2009
• Majority of online learning (actually blended learning) takes place in brick and mortar
• Check out ‘Conspiracy Code’ students conduct 10 missions … not for all, but for some…
• Practical Implications: From seat time to competency-based;

Understand

• growing field
• milenial generation
• cyberculture
• online program design

Learning Management System

• Moodle, Blackboard

Virtual Class Tools

• Eluminate
• Wimba
• DimDim

Document Sharing

• Google Docs, blogs, wikis

Books

Paloff & Pratt

Buiding online learingi communities

Lessons from the cyberspace classroom

jlopez@shschool.org

cyberculture and online learing

Identify

Create

Specialized Google Research Tools - Mark Wagner

http://www.edtechteam.com/cue2011/search

• No Googler will be more than 150 feet from food…cool!
• You can write on the walls!
• 20% time – time to work on what you want. Transferable to schools?
• Use quotes…minus sign…advanced search-teaches while you type
• From advanced search: Date, Usage rights – find free to use, share, and modify
• When tech makes cheating easy…change the assignment
• Gar Reynolds – presentation ed
• Advanced search – reading level
• Latest feature shows updating twitter feeds
• Wonderwheel –More Search tools (shows related searches)
• Timeline — More search tools (shows timeline with docs that contain the dates)
• More operators: define:####  calculations  site:#### – to search specific sites  site:ac.jp to find academic-japanese sites

Killer Research Tools

• Google Books – books.google.com — add to library — add text file of ISBNs of books.
• Google Scholar – peer reviewed journals, trade mags, etc.  Killer feature: Cited by (find the newer info) – don’t wait for grad school to do research!
• Google News – organizations…not blogs;  (**idea – big screen monitors with Google News…) Create custom section… Your own newspaper!
• Google Blogs – trending info
• Google Alerts – find articles … your own research staff

** Newsflash — We need to do a better job teaching our students (and teachers) to search for information.

Clicks and Mortar Schools – Google Doc

Every session attended gave me new skills, insights, or just a different point of view. Here’s a look at my day:

• Digital Storytelling Using Scratch – I’ve never taken the time to play around with Scratch. Now that I have…I think I’ll try using it with my students.
• DodgePodge 5.0 – Check these sites out! Some really amazing stuff. Where does Bernie find these gems?
• Google Forms – Though I’ve used Google Forms quite a bit, I got a few questions answered and saw some great classroom applications.
• The Ultimate Teacher Website – Teacher sites made easy…well done! How about…this?
• Facebook Nation – I would have never thought of a Facebook page for my classes…now I have…and in the words of Frederich Frankenstein…IT COULD WORK!
• Google Earth Tours – Got a great resource and re-energized on one of the ultimate educational tools

Others I wished I had attended…

• Motivate the Millennials: Tech Project Templates
• Amazing Video Tutorials Using Adobe Captivate