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DEEP Learning Day 2

3/23/2015

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Keynote by Sean Thompson:
*Book- The End of Education
*"We can take ourselves out of the role of consumers and become producers ourselves."
*Obsoledge- obsolete knowledge
*"Yea, but" vs. "Yes, and"
*"Innovation happens when it's time for it to happen."
*"Never stop learning, creating and sharing." Sean Thompson
(Photo on left taken by Sean Thompson in his DEEP Dive session.)
"Link everything to everything." Sean Thompson
Making Videos with Wes Przybylski:
*Keep videos ~2 minutes
*Enable collaboration
*Use social media
*Students can make iMovie Trailers ending with questions for class discussion
*Screencastify
*Make or Take? Doceri for making math videos
(Multiply grade level by 1.5 for recommended length of instructional video time)
*EDpuzzle- like Zaption but seems way better because it records the response data and organizes it for you
Subjective-Type Assessment with Davis Apas:
*Subjective-Type Assessments refer to assessments that do not have objective right/wrong answers
*Proposed effective method for assignment work flow
1. Prepare Starter Template
2. Distribute with Doctopus
3. Check/Mark/Comment with Goobric

Question for thought- In light of the fact that I believe in leveraging the social, collaborative nature of learners, what benefit does Google Classroom add that student blogs or websites don't? Is it not just as easy to require students to post their learning/assignments on their blogs? Don't blogs allow students to choose the format that they believe is best?

Deepen Your Digital Footprint with Sean Thompson:
*Sean's website with great resources
*PDF Book: Deepen Your Digital Footprint
*My underused platforms for professional sharing: Slideshare (PPT for Mac or PPT), Vimeo
*Sharing is caring
*Storify, paper.li, list.ly can send out regular updates from your Twitter feed
*Find people who are using Twitter well and follow people who they follow
*YouTube Channel: seansensei8 for IB or Tech categories
*Slideshare is easy to embed into your blog
*Scribd presents documents cleanly
*Twitter- learn how to use hashtags and follow people with similar focus (chekc out pleggio)
*Google+ is great for posting work: Circloscope can let you add people in batches, BIG for easy hits
*Pinterest- use for sharing creations and curating
*Rebel Mouse helps attract traffic to your sites
*Track your traffic on TweetsMap
*Mention Map shows who you are engaging with on Twitter

What is Making? with Glenn Davies:
*Copying is innovating
*Making helps with the motor skills kids are losing
*Heidi Hayes Jacobs- 21st Century Skills talk on TEDx
*Invent to Learn by Gary Stager- talks about why, what and how of making in schools
*Make Space by group from Stanford
Thought- The line of thinking that says we need to give students real problems supports the suggestion that PYP Central Ideas give students a statement instead of a real problem or essential question-driven unit of inquiry.
*Genius hour- guiding questions, research, share
*Design thinking- powerful for making and planning
*Ideo website has many resources
*Imagination Foundation has another design plan
*Glenn's design plan: Play, Question, Research, Share
*What will happen if. . . ? -this is real hypothesis
*A Whole New Mind by Daniel H. Pink

A Google Integrated Classroom with Vaughan Pope:
*Google Education resources
*One great example: Google Search Lessons- this might be helpful to library teachers as well as homeroom teachers when teaching effective search skills
Question for thought- What is the benefit of going through the work to set up a Google Classroom vs. a Wordpress blog like we currently have?
Google Ninja makes Google Apps training available for free

Applied Learning from DEEP Dives:
Powtoons- Animated videos for teaching or learning
Flixel- Living Photos
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DEEP Learning Day 1

3/21/2015

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Top tidbits to keep for further investigation:
*Storify and Flipboard- organize Twitter hashtags into a list or magazine view.
*9 Elements of Digital Citizenship
*@bagmonster on Twitter for activism against disposable plastic use 
*Pacific Tree Octopus
*Museum of Me- organizes your Facebook data into a museum view to give a peak into your digital footprint
*Powtoon
*Fractus Learning Articles link
*Brian Kennedy on Visual Literacy: TED speaker and Museum Curator
*Visual Literacy Boot Camp Deep Dive
*Kirby Ferguson: Everything is a remix
*Free Fonts: Font Squirrel is great
*The Noun Project
*Clipart- CC Search
*CC- Flickr

Tips:
*Change text size on Mac: command +/-
*Make a copy: Google Doc links can be shared in a way that those with the link are prompted to make a copy. 
Just copy the link in the document you are editing and change the end of the link part that includes "edit#" to "copy" and share the "copy" version with others.
Example: 
Change- https://docs.google.com/a/example/edit#
To- https://docs.google.com/a/example/copy
*Eye dropper/magnifying glass to snip color from another part of your image
*Use Keynote for future presentations instead of Haiku Deck because it allows for more manipulation
*Fonts for screen: Futura and Tahoma are great (but not for printing)
*CRAP/CARP- Principles of design: contrast, repetition (of style), alignment, proximity (white space)

Quotes:
*"Using three crappy images is 3x as bad." -Sean Thompson
*"Visual Literacy has its own vocabulary."
*"Poor alignment is probably the biggest cause of bad design."

To Do:
Play around with ThingLink, Pages or Piktochart to make this learning more accessible for others!

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Head in a cloud of ideas

3/20/2015

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Website, Presentation and Infographic all ready to go!

DEEP Learning kicks off tomorrow morning and I am pleased to say that my plan worked. By choosing to present on an idea that I have been experimenting with for months, I pushed myself to finally publish a conclusion. While I am sure that this is still the beginning of my mission to change reflection into a word that can be valued and enjoyed, it has been a thought provoking journey so far. Thank you to all the creative brains who have listened to my ideas and pushed me to grow already. Here we go 8am start tomorrow!

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