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Hello- Here is a website that I enjoyed exploring. It is fun to use animation in the classroom. Making short movies by building characters, such as; a historical figure for social studies. This is one of my favorite sites I have discovered. Enjoy! http://www.teachthought.com/uncategorized/50-animation-tools-resources-digital-learners In the spirit of technology, I found some new devices that could possibly be helpful to an educator or special needs student. This is a website that promises us the newest technology, up to the minute... Samsung Gear S2, a round-faced smartwatch with a rotating bezel (and a few missing pieces) (Credit: Will Shanklin/Gizmag). "Silent Guitar, which offers a choice of modeled simulated tones or piezo-sourced sounds routed to headphones or an external amp. It doesn't have its own amp and speakers built-in and there's no Lineage-like smartphone integration to mix in some digital effects. ( PAUL RIDDEN OCTOBER 9, 2015).
Please add some more if able! Thanks, until next time- enjoy your day. Here is a resource; https://www.google.com/search?q=flip+classroom+concept+image and another... 10 Free Resources for Flipping Your Classroom By Amanda Ronan on March 2, 2015@amanda_ronan What is Flipped Classroom?When a classroom is "flipped" the delivery of instruction happens outside of the actual class meetings. Instead of using classroom time for a lecture, the flipped classroom is used to reinforce, practice, and analyze the subject matter at hand through the use of a bank of interesting, challenging in-class assignments intended to assist in the assimilation phase of learning. Students do homework in class, where the teacher can watch over and guide them, and answer any questions. Class time can also be used for debate, demonstration, discussion, and review of specific concepts. ~ Jane Nickles from http://bubblyprofessor.com/?s=flipping+the+classroom (Links to an external site.) inShare112 Thanks to the folks over at Khan Academy, alternative modes of delivering classroom instruction are all the rage. We’ve got face to face models, labs, rotations, online-only, self-blend, and of course, flipped. While there are numerous ways to implement a flipped classroom, the basic components include some form of prerecorded lectures that are then followed by in-class work. Flipped classrooms are heralded for many reasons. For one thing, students can learn at their own pace when they’re watching lectures at home. Viewing recorded lessons allows students to rewind and watch content again, fast forward through previously learned material, and pause and reflect on new material. During traditional face-to-face class lectures, students spend so much time trying to keep up while taking notes they often miss crucial information. Students who watch lessons at home, then come to class prepared to do creative work. The time spent face to face in a flipped classroom is reserved for engaging in thoughtful activities like labs, group discussions or individual inquiry. Classroom time becomes a workshop where instructors serve as coaches and advisors to help clarify information, facilitate individualized learning plans, and monitor progress. Sounds amazing, right? It can be—but only when implemented thoughtfully and strategically, with an ample amount of resources to help you make this big shift. Our Teacher’s Guide to Flipped Classrooms, is one place to start, as it will give you a solid grounding in the principles and mentalities a flipped classroom requires. The following 10 amazing (and free!) resources will further ensure your flipped classroom is as successful as can possibly be. 10 Resources for Your Flipped ClassroomContent Banks: The quickest and easiest way to begin flipping your classroom is to use prerecorded videos that someone else has already made. There are plenty of great resources for video lessons out there! These are a couple of our favorites: 1. Crash Course: This series of videos created by Hank and John Green is published by PBS Digital Studios. Courses such as world history, U.S. history, chemistry, psychology, literature, astronomy, and U.S. government are available online. These engaging videos feature live teachers on screen, animations, photos, and historical documents and have been viewed nearly 150 million times. John and Hank Green offer a compelling, conversational style of instruction where they make jokes, use sarcasm, and treat the viewer like a friend. 2. Eduvision by FlippedLearning Network: The goal of the FlippedLearning Network is to help teachers learn about and implement successful flipped classrooms. This site offers videos for both teachers and students—videos from The Flipped Learning Conference act as professional development for teachers, while content videos ranging in disciplines from AP Biology to history to AP Calculus are available for use with students. Each of the videos within one subject area are delivered by the same teacher, so, for example, each Chemistry video features the same person on screen, allowing your students to get comfortable with his or her presentation style. While there is some premium content on the site for sale, hundreds of the videos are free.Resources to Create Your Own Lessons: After some time using other people’s content, you’re going to want to start making your own. Doing will mean that you can tailor the instruction to your specific classes and students. A few great options include:
Reference: Ronan, A. (2015, March 2). 10 free resources for flipping your classroom. Retrieved from http://www.edudemic.com/10-resources-for-flipped-classroom/ PowerPoint
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Here is a You Tube video; https://youtu.be/9GorqroigqM, Watch it! Upcycling Textbooks, an organization that encourages followers to rescue those mildewing textbooks from the back of the classroom and turn them into something new and cool. Like, for instance: Cathy: @UpcyclingTxtbks The organization’s admirable mission is to rehabilitate the textbook as a learning tool – just a different kind, and one that can be used in conjunction with a move towards a much needed streamlining of learning materials into the digital format. If you have old textbooks you’re no longer using, haul them back out to the front of the room, get out a big pair of scissors, and let the kids have at it. Whether you take a moment to brainstorm ideas first, or simply let ideas come together as they go, kids will have a ball folding and taping and reshaping, until they’ve made, oh, I don’t know, the coolest textbook-fedora-necklace-bow-tie-plant holder around. You could also give students art supplies, and have them draw on textbooks to illustrate what’s on the pages, whether directly or at the emotional level: Make sure to upload student pieces to the Upcycling Textbooks site or share them on the project’s social media accounts so that your students can see their textbook creativity featured on a worldwide stage. The site also features tutorials, so getting started is a breeze! 2. Trace the Life of a Product you’d think that young children, who may still be developing their object permanence, would be the only ones who assume that products magically appear in front of them without much happening to make it so, but adults are pretty bad at grasping the concept of the industrial production process as well. And how many of us are guilty of throwing items in the trash or recycling bin and never thinking about them again? In truth, the life of a product is most often a fascinating one, with the potential to teach students not just about where the objects that surround them come from, but also about the way our economy and marketplaces work as a whole. One great place to start in teaching this is the podcast Planet Money’s t-shirt project. On the site, students can trace the entire life of a t-shirt, from conceptualization and design to picking out the right materials abroad to working with manufacturers to shipping it to consumers. There are numerous podcast episodes tracing this journey as well, which would make for great listening on the school bus. For a more environmental angle, students might enjoy the 21-minute documentary, The Story of Stuff. Here, students will trace the life of a product, and will therefore see the true impact of each item they buy. From here, you might ask your students what problems they spot along the way, and have them brainstorm ways to fix them. Either of these activities would work as the setup for an upcycling project, as students will be motivated to make new use of the old objects that surround them, thereby interrupting the path to the landfill. 3. Throw a Class Yard SaleWith strapped budgets to contend with, educators try their best to reuse old materials as much as they can. But every classroom will need to get rid of items at the end of the year. It just so happens that this coincides with a more general yard sale season, meaning that many students’ families will be looking to clean out their homes. Together, that could make for a great class yard sale (though I would suggest items should be offered for free) and school wide upcycling project. Gather items on the sports fields, and have kids pick out whatever they need to create their most creative imaginings. You’ll be giving old items new life, getting those ancient clunkers out of your classroom, and making art that will truly spice up the school hallways and student homes. Not feeling the yard sale option? No worries. Just make this into a “How Many Ways?” project. Take your students on a spin through a good upcycling Pinterest board, have them bring in a few objects from home (or you can collect some on your own), pile materials on the floor, and let them go for it! 4. Make Your Own Class ThroneUpcycling individually is fine and dandy, but how about collaborating on a class project, like making a class throne to place up at the front of the classroom? This could be used to encourage students who are usually shy to come to the front of the classroom to offer up their knowledge or answer questions. Alternatively, you could place an upcycled chair into a reading nook, and rotate who gets to sit in it when. You better bet they’ll be motivated to read when they know they’ve got their upcycled leisure chair to look forward to. 5. Write Blackout PoetrySeveral months back, teacher Sherry Fisher let me in on just about the coolest writing project ever: blackout poetry. The project is much like it sounds: students take old textbooks and blackout the majority of the words, leaving just the few they want for their poem. This activity can be done on its own, or as a way of demonstrating deeper understanding of a text. You might, for example, ask students to blackout their favorite page from the Shakespearian play you’re reading, and to do it in a manner that reflects the emotional tone of that scene. (Cathy: @SMMFisherImage courtesy of Sherry Fisher and her students) 6. Organize the Classroom Many educators are familiar with upcycling because they’re already using it as a way to organize their classrooms. Just take a look at a few of these great ideas from Pinterest. An old sweater adds some new life to a crayon-storage can. Tin cans with their bottoms cut out are mounted to the wall and used to store worksheets or magazines. A dishrack holds picture books. And the list goes on. In ShortTo say that the “possibilities of upcycling are endless” wouldn’t just be cliché, it’d be redundant – because, really, creating endless possibilities with everyday objects defines what upcycling is. This means upcycling is a great lesson and even more fun not just for the kids but for you, too. And it just so happens, there are powerful lessons to learn about environmental stewardship, industrial production, and creativity along the way. Please share with us your greatest upcycling ideas, projects, and photos in the comments below, and by pinging us on twitter! All made from recycled materials. References: The Regents of the University of Michigan. (2014). Practical guidelines for using technology tools in classroom teaching. Retrieved from http://www.crlt.umich.edu/gsis/p4_3 This is a great resource to use for classroom ideas. Photo credit: Fedora & Tutorial Aygul Idiyatullina (Separate Fedora image: Craig Joiner Photo Credit: Succulent Literature – Chrstina Ferguson Photo Craig Joiner Photo Credit: Bow Tie – Etsy Artist Judy Maranger Photo: Maria Abraham Masks – Mika Tanisaki, Photo Maria Abraham Photo Credit: Beads – Mika Tanisaki Levy, L., & EDUDEMIC. (2015, September 22). Turn textbooks into art & get creative with upcycling. Retrieved from http://www.edudemic.com/textbook-upcycling/ |
AuthorWriting this blog has been a very informative and definitely entertaining. I am moderately computer savvy, so this has helped to expand my technology skill-set. ArchivesCategories |