Activity 15 A digital Story-A Walk around the Web

Today enjoyed the rerunning of the web 2.0 as i reviewed all that I learned.  I built a Prezi- getting easier but for some reason, I could not edit my paths :( as I had wanted to have some check appear.  I think the future of teaching is Flipping the classroom which I think will be helpful in matching your teaching to Danielson.  I also enjoyed flubaroo and I think I'll be using Socrate and Piazza. A Walk through the Web 2.0

Activity 14 K12 Online Conference

Well here are two very interesting webcasts.  I must say that I bought the book- Flipped Classroom.  It seems to me that the future of apps and education is in "flipping".  Flipping changes the 19 century model of education to a more contemporary model of education students in the Web 2.0 era.

The Flipped Class for Administrators

Presentation Description: Flipped Class pioneer Jon Bergmann as he explains tips for administrators as they consider implementing flipped learning into their schools.
My Notes
Flipped Classroom is learner centered (interesting bottom up approach). Best use of class time is what is usually done at home- 
Is Flipped all about the video?

• It is the active use of the classroom not the passive lecture learning.
• Allows for direct instruction\
• People may not sit in nice neat rows
• classrooms tend to be noisy
• personalize the learning-think about eCommerce, get anything you want at Starbucks

the book  

Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day 

Some links

• Flipped Learning NonProfit: http://flippedlearning.org
• Flipped Network NING http://flippedclassroom.org
• Jon’s personal blog page: http://flipped-learning.com

Beyond eLearning: Online Teaching Platforms

Key ideas from the Online Lecture
Content is broken down by groups- Images, Games, Simulations, etc Can create clusters of content.
Credits and experience points- level up

Presentation Description: What can platform technology do for eLearning? Platforms are what multimedia creators use to distribute their content to a user-base. In a learning context, platforms are also used to track and analyse the behaviour of users, in order to understand precisely how content is being consumed. In this talk, Dr. Jeremy Friedberg of Spongelab Interactive discusses the concept of an online learning platform – a system that goes beyond eLearning and helps to stitch together the multiple, and often fragmented, parts of the teaching process. Following discussion of how platform technology fits into the classroom of the future, a tour of Spongelab.com offers an example of an online teaching platform built for personalized education. 
Spongelab A Platform  Get to the web site  "Stitching "

My notes

Games are data collection tools, games can foster engagement and be motivating. Ed games need to balance intrinsic and extrinsic rewards. Check it out a t 12 min.   Platforms stitch the information together. Community develops the lessons.  Connects to content Management systems, works on multiple platforms.

Can check on how students use the data, how long they are online- success rate compared to classmates, how students change over time.:

Activity 13 Web 2.o more tools

My padlet wallWeiland's Padlet Wall for Summer

 My Flubaroo Quiz   Flubaroo Quiz on Evolution

My Socarte quiz 910198   use this number to join room and take quiz

How do you see yourself rolling out some of these tools in your class?

Padlet- Not sure how to use this but maybe it might make a interesting student presentation.  Students in a group could post material to the wall.  Along these lines, it might also be used to create questions and answers- Day 1 students post questions, Day 2 each student needs to answer a question?  

I see many uses for Flubaroo in the class- especially useful for "flipping the lesson"

Socarte- can be a great exit slip- "now everyone take out your cell  phone" and answer 2 or 3 questions before you go. it is easy to create a few questions- doesn't take the students to long to complete and the quiz can be shared by other teachers

Activity 12

I really enjoyed this animation lesson from PhET's  http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/gene-expression-basics . I made a Google form and flubaroo doc using the site- Check it out Gene Expression Lesson   It will make a great review or intro assignment.  I've also used a few ted ex videos

see Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria "talk" to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. The find has stunning implications for medicine, industry -- and our understanding of ourselves. Ted talks Bonnie Bassler  I also found the same talk within TEDED  Teded Version of Bonnie Bassler  I've also shared this TEDED talk with Biology team Members How Pain Relievers Work  

I've review Kahn Academy and made a lesson a while ago.  I used this story from KA 

khanacademy mitosis.  I also flipped this KA video Introduction to Cancer Biology kahn Academy

Activity 11 Creative Commons

Creative Commons Quiz Yea team!

 Here is a image that I found searching the creative commons.http://www.thingiverse.com  and we made broken heart .  Now I am constantly fighting my students to include citations when they use images in ppt!.  It is an uphill battle.

 I also  first encountered CC when I started with my MakerBot.  I was searching

But the key point was in the description  see below.

PLA Heart Gears for Replicator 2 by whpthomas

Many of us have been frustrated to discover that the pins for emmett's Screwless Heart Gears are not PLA compatible. They are too stiff, and in my experience, attempting to force them in can crack the pins and damage the piece itself. So I set about trying to design some alternative pins for PLA. My first attempt was to make flexible end tabs, but…

Published: Dec 20, 2012 on Dec 20, 2012
License: Attribution - Share Alike - Creative Commons"

Activity 10 My broken Heart

My broken Heart   A fun little diversion from Animoto.  For some reason I did not get the "educator version"
This was pretty easy to learn to use.  I'm not sure that I would watch a bunch of these- kind of skimpy on words but by twitter standards- twitter is a novel compared to Animoto.

Try our slideshow creator at Animoto.

Activity 9 Volki

  So I made a Voki and sent my Voki out by twitter.  For some reason I can't get my voice to stick to the Voki.  I recorded it and saved it but when I try to publish it-it can't find the voice.  I tried the computer microphone and the phone in service.  They all save it but can't connect when i publish.  This might be a cool way to introduce a lesson.