Video: Creating rosters in Class Dojo

Here's a link to a video on how to quickly and easily create class rosters in Class Dojo.  You WILL need to pull a blank spreadsheet from Infinite Campus in order to do this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXq0tRv4fXQ

Powerpoint: Technology as a Vehicle for Change

Slides from a presentation by Sara White at our last building technology committee meeting. 

Kristen DiCarlo's notes from the METC

Here are some notes I took, websites I learned about and sessions I went to.

Session I Capturing their Future

Best at North for:  Career classes, personal finance, other business courses, special ed

-make what you are teaching relevant to the students’ lives

Websites referred:

1.       https://getkahoot.com/

-A game-based classroom response system

-Free to use

2. http://missouriconnections.org/

                - A career program that is free to use. Contact guidance to get more information about login (they are the admins for our school)

3. http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/

                -a place to record videos to upload to your website, schoology or other site for your students to assess

                -great to use for the flipped classroom or flipped assignments

Session 2: Getting the Most of your Assessments with online resources

Resources Quickly discussed:

1.       Google forms

2.       Socrative.com (Instant feedback)

3.       Edmodo (great for common core)

4.       Understanding the Google classroom

5.       Kahoot

6.       Discovery education (teachers rarely use this for videos, but there is also a quiz section)

Session 3: How Google saved my Back-True Stories from a Paperless Classroom

-I wasn’t overly impressed with this session. She talked more about online portfolios (which I don’t use) than anything Google related

Here are some portfolio sites:

1.       Yala.com

2.       Jimdo.com

3.       Sites.google.com

4.       Weebly.com

5.       Wordpress.com

6.       Instructables.com

Session 4: Enhancing Writing Through Multimedia Projects

MY FAVORITE SESSION BY FAR!!! HE WAS AMAZING!!!!

1.       One of his biggest projects he does with his students is 6 word stories (inspired by Ernest Hemingway)

See it here:    http://lhstv.weebly.com/6-word-stories---6-shot-videos.html    and here are the instructions: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/six-word-story-six-unique/id846218165?mt=11

2.       He focused on digital storytelling

a.       Conveying messages through video

b.      Digital media production

c.       Sharing stories

d.      Accomplish in any subject matter

e.      Video with sound and animation

f.        OR just use still videos with music

3.       It doesn’t matter WHAT app you use

4.       Enhance writing through:

a.       Scripting

b.      Storyboarding

c.       Blog reflections

d.      Comments

5.       Have students publish—you can use kid blog if you are worried about putting student work out there

6.       It helps students compare visual language to the printed world

7.       How do you assess a video??

a.       Accuracy of information portrayed

b.      Analysis of subject matter

c.       Clarity of visuals and sounds

8.       IMovie is the app he likes best

Session 5: Google Classroom 101

1.       This was a great session and useful for our school since we are transitioning into a “Google School”

2.       Their entire slides can be found here: Goo.gl/eyX7Hv, so I won’t go into all the notes that I took.

I am willing to sit down with anyone and help in any way that I can for any of these apps that I learned from yesterday.

Kristen

Video: Setting up Trackers in Mastery Connect for 2nd Semester

Consult this video on how to set up your trackers in Mastery Connect for Semester 2.

Link: Free Graphic Organizers for Studying or Organizing

Free graphic organizers

Traditional Learner vs. 21st Century Learner

Link: Five Fantastic, Fast Formative Assessment Tools

Five Fantastic, Fast Formative Assessment Tools

Link: How To Create A Test That Grades Itself Using Google Forms

How To Create A Test That Grades Itself Using Google Forms