GarageBand workshop

Last night was our our Kaikohekohe Clusters Term 3 Tool-kits.  This continues to be a great opportunity to connect with other professionals from within our cluster and across a wide range of year levels and experiences.  Last nights tool-kits included;

Although there weren't a huge amount of tool-kits the tool-kits on offer reflected our clusters current needs and also offered opportunities for professional growth for everyone.  Kaikohekohe Cluster ROCKS!  

On Friday afternoon I got the call from the amazing Raewyn, asking me to run a tool-kit on GarageBand.  So in between having 3 sick kids, doing GST returns, and trying to catch up on MIT bits I also created a presentation to use for this Garage band workshop.

Below is a link to an 'answergarden' brainstorm that anyone who is reading this blog can add their ideas to (for the next week).  It asks the question "How could we use GarageBand in our classroom?"

At the end we had a bit of fun together recording us having a conversation about who we were, what we were doing and why we were in the GarageBand workshop.  Will upload this over the next few days.  

Thanks to all the attendee's

Please make sure you share them to me - I would love to hear your personal & classroom creations!

Digital Storytelling

Session 7 - Lindsey Wesner - Digital storytelling

This was a really exciting and innovative session focused on story writing. This session fitted really well with my MIT inquiry and I can't wait to get back to class to try some of these things out.

LOTS of playing around with. I am extremely excited about adobe spark - a story telling tool. as it works on iPads as well - So perfect for in Team Maunga!

Socrative

Adobe spark

Can use on computers … also can use as part of Adobe Spark Video APP (on ipads…).

Story spine

Good for icebreaker - Teaching children what makes a good story - fun

Six word stories

(alternative version of 14 word stories)

With 6 words you can say - so very much

Combine 6 word stories with 6 shot videos.

Book creator

This is now available on chrome

PBL in a digital world

Session 5 - Kimberly Hall - PBL in a digital world

(lots of links from to other sessions in the top drop down menu).

Ultimately it doesn’t really matter which model of inquiry you use - but consistency within a school is key. It should be similar - and the process need to be similar to encourage collaboration …

Start with a challenge or question that we are wanting to delve into - must be one that has depth and also one that is something that people want to find out about . - see doc for collated list of things you can do.  

Google Feud

Hyper docs

Answer garden

Live word cloud - collaborative - Screen

Plant a seed (idea) and watch it grow

Really cool - Love it !

Major setting to change is the spam - turn it on (defaults to off). - If you change this to on, you automatically remove some questionable responses/words getting through.

Change discover-ability to hidden rather than public - due to it being used in an educational context.

Inside search

googles inside search -

Search for a person place or thing

The bar on the right of a google search seeks to answer the next logical question that you will ask next - e.g. it answers questions you haven't yet asked.

A great place to broaden understanding of a person place or thing - links connections that you may not have already had.

Padlet

recently updated

Lots of new bits - can link record add photos ...

(comments can also be added to individual stickies).

Terms of use require us to directly supervise children's’ use of this tool - Permission and use from under 13 year olds is OK if supervised.

I loved revisiting this as part of creating my presentation for yesterday. Loved how you could also use your own background image - to personalise it more.

Canva

Make things that look beautiful. - including certificates, posters … Vouchers …

Piktochart

Rewordify

lots of opportunities for our readers.

dotEPUB

an extension that will take a website and convert it into an e-book.

Wikiwand

converts ugly wiki information into something that looks nicer to read - install the extension (downloadable to chrome).  But only works on wiki

Read and write

link to free version for teachers - takes 24-48 hours to authorize premium access.

Premium tools - fill in the form and you get it free.

This can also make a word list with word, definition, picture and place for notes

Highlights can then be added directly to a document (with links back)

Can simplify a webpage to make it accessible to everyone!

TAKE AWAY IDEAS!

So many cool things to use back in my classroom.  Its more a question of where will I start, but we need to start somewhere ... SO here is my plan.

Answer garden - for whole class Inquiry

Canva - for both class and MIT Inquiry

I liked the sound of dotEPUB so would like to investigate this further