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Brainstorm 2020

Brainstorm 2020: Two Ways to Get Into a Swimming Pool

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Presented by Evan Robb, principal, Johnson-Williams Middle School, Berryville

Through story, I encourage people to be more daring and I invite people to reflect on their past and the past I share with them to recall moments of daring and how to recapture those feelings and transfer them to new situations—ones that require daring and creativity. There are two ways to get into a pool- to dip our toes in the water or to leap...

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This presentation was originally delivered for TEDx FieldstoneDriveED in June 2019. The video is used here with the generous permission of Mr. Robb.

Brainstorm 2020: Google Tips and Tricks

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Presented by Chad Fisher, Instructional Technology Coach for James Wood High School, Frederick County Public Schools

Google's GSuite is used in many schools and is used well in most cases. This presentation shows you little tips and tricks in order to better use Google at work and at school with your students. Most, if not all of these tricks may help you keep things a little better organized in your classrooms or at least give you new ideas on how to plan lessons.

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Hello, my name's Chad Fisher. I'm an instructional technology coach in Winchester Virginia and this is my Google tips and tricks presentation. Google Drive is a great tool to use in education but one of the biggest complaints is how unorganized it can be. Let's talk about how you can organize it. So here you can see under this shared section, or shared with me section of Drive I know it can get a little overwhelming with students and staff members or even the district sharing folders with you and files with you. So my tip here is like this is my share drive right here so I have all these different files now if it's something I want to actually have in my drive so that way I can find it I can organize it you can actually right-click on the file and you can say add to my drive and when I click that it automatically is placed in my drive as you can see added to my drive and I can organize it and find the correct folder where I want to put that when you're in the file itself and I will just click on, let's go with this. So when I'm in the file itself if I want to add it to my drive you'll see the little icon up here it looks like the drive symbol with a plus sign all you do is you click that and once more it'll say added to my drive and you can click on organize and move it to where you want to be moved also if you do if you don't need to your files anymore in the shared with me section you can feel free to delete those files or folders you'll just lose access to them but the owner that the owner of the files themselves won't they won't be deleted for them so you know when you go to share with me I could go back years and find files that were shared with me and I just I no longer need them so you can delete those files if you choose to and you can see this, of course, is a little side note when you're working in slides if you have an animated gifs you can add that in there and you can see it continually animates over and over again or moves so sorting in your drive to make things a little bit easier as well some of these tips or maybe a little bit simpler but this one of course you can sort things you can do it in only specific sections of your drive it only under specific categories so when I'm in my drive like over here I can actually click the little category header's here and I can reverse the direction of those I can come over here to last modified and I can choose how I want to sort this as well this is kind of a unique little addition to tips and tricks and that is emojis we all use emojis on phones you know various places even in emails but did you know you can actually have emojis for filenames and folder names so what you can see some images here how I've done that this can actually make it easier to find those files and folders of course you can change the colors of a folder but to have emoji there really makes it stand out and not only that you know think about when you know at least when I was a kid especially in elementary school as a teacher put a sticker on my paper you know I was happy yeah typically it was only if it was something that was good so you can actually put in an emoji into a filename for a student's piece of work as well or student's paper you can get these by downloading an extension to add it to chrome this is one that I have on my chrome browser emoji for Chrome. emoji keyboard this right here and I can actually come up here and I can click on one of these and I can copy that and I can paste it right into the file if I choose to there are dozens of others if you would like to use those it's up to you to find one that you do want to use there's also a website which I really like a emojipedia.org which contains all kinds for emojis it's a kind of a repository of emojis from all kinds of different operating systems you can also go there and find more and you can see on my drive I actually have a little emoji right there for my filename now another little tip and some teachers have figured this out if you want to try to keep things organized if you create folders and you number them or put a number or alphabetize them they will appear in that order so for instance as you can see over here zero one zero two zero three so have those folders in the order that I want them and that's the way they'll appear in my drive so when I come over here you can see one one one one these are my example folders and as soon as I get to the two's it goes down here and then it'll go in alphabetical order from there this is a little tip that is really not well known surprisingly and it's built into Google drive but most people aren't aware of it I frequently get asked the question well I want to have one file in I want to have one master document and I want to have that document in multiple folders but I don't want to have to go in and fix that document every single time I need to make a change and all those folders so what you can actually do is you can select the file and you can hold down the shift Z. and as you can see over here in this gif a menu option will pop up and you can actually choose where and what other folders you want to put that folder into and they will make copies of it more like short cuts in if you make changes on one file it will change all those files one thing to be aware of though is that if you delete any the original it'll delete the copies as well the short cuts so that's a little careful consideration you have to think about so Google file stream my district uses Google file stream Google drive file stream drive file stream whatever you wanna call it works very similar it works very similar to dropbox in that so it saves your documents in kind of a new folder as you can see here Google drive file stream in gives me access on a windows or mac machine to access my drive and team drives just as if it was another drive on my computer in this case its going be my G. drive so I can open it up and go to that G. drive open it up and you can see what I see right here now this is a very handy feature because sometimes for instance we’ll have a business class that they need they need to work in word or they need to work in Photoshop or whatever happens to be and they can actually save their documents in that Google drive where we have unlimited space very easily just by going to that G drive now another feature with that is you can actually right click on that G. drive and make things offline available so it will save a copy of it to the hard drive of the computer so that way you don't have to wait for everything to sync so this is another little tip using Google drive file stream that I really like and I use it a lot and that is on a windows machine or even on a Chromebook I kind of have the set up for both of those I actually created a folder in my Google drive call downloads and what I do is I have in like Google chrome where I'm at right now I actually have my download folder selected using our that download folder my Google drive selected using Google drive file stream so anything I download on my home computer will go into that download folder in Google drive but then also when I go to my Chromebook I actually had to go back in the settings there and I made that change in my Chromebook so anything I downloaded on the Chromebook will also go to that downloads folder in Google drive now you might say why is that useful well if I'm working on something at school and I've had to download some images or some files and I want to continue working on that when I'm at home on a different computer I can still access those folders and those files very easily with no problems whatsoever and again if you make that offline available that will also help to be able to access these things a lot quicker now some Google apps some specific Google apps for instance the first one is Google keep now this is a tool that I've been using for a while especially personally I do use it's professionally as well but it is a really nice tool to be able to use and it's kind of like your own little note-taking tool Think of like an online post-it note where you can have all kinds of information and you can actually share these post-it notes with others so if I go to keep.google.com you can see it I have it set up in dark mode right now but as you can see I have all kinds of little things in here he's a little almost like little post-it notes as I said and when I go to these if I show them to you you can see you know Tyler documentation right here I can come down here I can actually put in website links it gives me a little preview what that is you know there’s just all kinds of stuff I can do with these and it's very simple to do if I click on take a note just type in something Then I can give it a title say Zoom and I can add a color if I really want to but that's not real important I can actually set a reminder and you can see all those different options right here so if I wanted to I can say pick a place so if I'm in a certain location it will actually give me a reminder time all that kind of stuff here's where I can add a collaborator I can add an image I can archive it I can add a label now labels are nice because as you can see on the left side over here I had a bunch of options bunch of notes for digital citizenship awhile back so if I click on digital citizenship it will show me every single one of my digital citizenship notes it's taking a little bit to load if I click on inspiration it'll come out with inspirational things I click on notes it'll come up with notes of some of these are automatically created but you can see I have a bunch of different labels so another nice thing about Keep is you can actually download the Keep chrome extension that will make it a little easier to work and he built it integration with slides and docs there's also an additional little short cut to keep Gmail as well the explorer tool in Google is a nice feature it's a kind of a newer version of what they used to have built into a lot of Google's apps so the explorer tool you can find it in docs you can slides you can find it sheets the explorer tool is actually this little box down here when I hover over top of it it says explore if I click that you can see it pops up over here and I want to do is just do a search on whatever topic I want to look up and you'll be able to see your options over here so you can actually find out all the information you need over on the side and when I click it it will actually open up what I want to find I can find images I look at Drive I can do all that just by looking at this the version history is what I call the ultimate undo so if I were actually wanting to look at the version history I can click on file and version history and see the version history or you can also click on all changes saved in drive and then we'll open up a different window and in just a second and there we go and you'll be able to see any changes I've made and when I've made them and I can expand that by clicking this little arrow off to the side over here and it will actually show you the individual changes as they occur but it is great because if a student or students are working on a project and you don't want them to or one of them says well you know Hey I did this I did that and you suspect that that student has not done those things you can actually go to the version history and see what they've done now this example right here may not be the best because I've worked on everything but if it were several students those different little boxes right here we show up in different colors you would see the students names beside them this is kind of a unique little tool you can create your own dictionary and you actually do it all the time more than likely when you're working in Google or Google docs or any of the other apps but what happens is if there is a certain term or word that Google doesn't recognize or and you get really bothered by it constantly trying to correct you you can actually go in and add your own personal dictionary very easily so what you do is you go to tools spelling and then personal dictionary another window will appear here we go and I can actually type in whatever I want for a new term and I can add it so that way if Google picks up while I'm typing that I misspelled a word and I actually want that word it will no longer tell me that it's incorrect this will work in slide docs and sheets this is something that's very different and that is interactive slides we're making interactive slides and in Google slides and it it's it's kind of a workaround in order to be able to use slides in an interactive way so what you do is you actually go to master slides and that is under view you go to master and what you would be able to do is you create a background that you know there certain objects in that background that can't be moved no matter how much you touch them or click on them and then you would add in other objects over top of that so what I mean by that is this so I can't click on it and I'm clicking right now I'm trying to draw around it I can't click on where it says dog but I added this picture of a cat and I can drag it around so under the master slide I made a blank slide right here and I put the word cat dog bird car Google Microsoft apple so the idea is I can click on these other images then and I can drag them around so if you did this with students you could actually use Google classroom have or make a copy for each student individual students and then you could have a matching type of thing like this or some something similar and you could have the students drag things around they can not click on any of these terms over here no matter what I do I can't select these because it's in the master slide and then I got out of the master slide I went did a bunch of Google searches found these images and now I can go ahead drag these where they need to they need to be It’s a neat little trick that does work so in Gmail you can actually create tags or labels for your Gmail and they can be color coded if you really want them to so what you do is you come over here to your email and I could come down here and I'm gonna find this email that I sent myself as my example and right here sendt this to myself as an example I can come up here and right here where it says labels I can click that and here's all my labels or I can create a brand new label and I can give it a name I could nest it under another topic if I want to or this is kind of like the main you category I'm gonna leave it as the main category when I click on create now you can see where says example in this over here now expanded there's my example one if I hit those and you can see when I click that it only shows me that one I can change the color of it to one of the predefined ones and you can see it also change that and right there so when I look at it in my inbox if I scroll down look right there there's my label now the labels also kind of create folders so if I wanted to if I go back in here and I said I want to move it to my example folder it will actually disappear from my inbox but anytime I click on example it will appear filters are a way to automatically do things in Gmail so if I really wanted to as an example I can come over here to that same example email click on the three little dots and I can say filter messages like these now I'm gonna say it's from me any emails coming from my personal email address I can have it do a certain thing but let's say I get automated emails from IT and it's there those emails are just telling me some passwords or whatever and I don't want those cluttering up my inbox because I get them very frequently so I can have subject because it's always the same subject I could type in that subject get rid of the from now anytime I get an email like that it will go it will follow these filter rules but in this case I'm just going to say anything from my personal email address I'm gonna say I'm gonna create that filter and I'm going to choose what I want it to do it so I want to say it should apply this label and I already have that example one so if I click on example right there it will automatically apply that you can see some of these other options so if I get a lot of so you know I get a lot of emails from businesses that are trying to sell me their services and some of them I have no interest in and they don't really apply if I really wanted to I could say just delete it I can say never send it to spam and it's going to be deleted it I can come down here and have a certain category if you use categories in know I have all these different options I can have forwarded for really wanted to then what you can do is you click this box and it will automatically do whatever you have set up up here to any existing emails in your inbox and all you do is click on create filter this is another handy feature in email are your Gmail so if I come back to that email right here and maybe this instead of saying this example right here the email was actually requesting a time to work with me maybe it's a teacher in my building I can actually click the three little dots click on create event it will open up a new tab with my Google calendar and I can go ahead and change my dates my times I can put all this in here I can come over here and you'll see that it will automatically fill in one of my guests is well me and if I don't want that I can just get rid of it and I can click on save and it will automatically add it to my Google calendar did you know that Google has its own digital whiteboard it's called Jamboard now this is going to have to be turned on by your district Google administrator but if you wanted to use this I Jamboard actually is or was Google's attempt at making something like interactive smartboards and they still have them but they're very expensive but they have allowed use in the educational sector of just the software itself it does work very well so Jamboard I come over here it's just jamboard.google.com and you can see I have two already started I just click the plus sign over here give it a second or two and it comes up with the actual jamboard so it's just a white screen and I can come over here and I can draw things whatever I need to do I can erase things if I hold down over here I can choose a different tool a different color I have several options I can use a laser pointer and you can see how that kind of disappears I can add images if I really choose to I have all kinds of options can do sticky notes that will appear on the screen so it's a really nice tool to be able to use if you need a digital whiteboard and it does save just like all other tools in Google automatically a couple other things Safe searching so when I'm searching something in Google especially in images for instance this is something to be aware of so I just did a search for remote learning if I click on tools down here you can see a couple different options I would advise you looking under usage rights when I'm searching from home it automatically defaults to not filtered by license I recommend using one of the bottom two options I usually I go with this one labeled for non-commercial reuse with modification so what that means is I'm not going to sell it but I might modify the image this one just not going to sell it I like to use these so if I click on this one now it changes my options and you can see what I get there are other options at the top here I can also choose a certain size if I want to go with a certain color I can do that if I need to type they're just all kinds of other things but this is the main thing right here you really don't wanna get in trouble with copyright Account security this is something that honestly I need to check more often and I think all people really should check this kind of thing and that it can be found if you just go to any Google page and you click your icon over in the upper right corner manage your Google account and you can check all kinds of different things so security issues found you can so you can check that right now if you really wanted to you can see how much storage manage your data and personalization you can actually do a privacy checkup there’s all kinds of options here but if I go under Security, for instance, I can see I have two-step verification on and have given access to these tools And these devices now this is another feature that's kind of important so if I go in here I can see all the devices that have access to my account and if there's one I don't recognize I can always go into it and I can delete it so if I click over here I don't recognize this device I can say sign out whatever it happens to be there we go
now that device will no longer have access to my account so as an example of this at one point I was presenting and I left that college and I totally forgot that I had signed in I think it would actually be able to come in here and I could sign out of that device even though I'm not there I could sign out of it here and that way that device will no longer have access to my information
so I hope you have enjoyed this presentation on Google tips and tricks
if you have any questions please let me know otherwise my name is Chad Fisher and I appreciate your time today thank you very much

Brainstorm 2020: Awesome Annotations and Note-taking for Digital Natives

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Presented by Joe Marquez, Education Strategist, Sons of Technology

Learning how to read, take notes and annotate text is an important skill all our students need to truly understand stories, articles, and website. Digital annotation is a skill which our students need to be taught and learned over time to master. Come learn with us all the ways to annotate and take notes on any digital medium such as pdfs, websites, and documents with easy to use and free tools available to you. Annotation has never been this FUN!

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Joe Marquez here I just want to say thank you so much for letting me be a part of your amazing event hopefully the things that I showcase to you today you can use tomorrow in your virtual and remote environment and also once we're back in the classroom face-to-face with your students I want to showcase for you today some tools that I helped you through visual learning styles for students and when I'm talking about visual learning I'm talking about having the kids be able to create a visual and vocal experience while they are learning your particular topic or completing your particular assignment and these can be used cross-platform their device agnostic and they can be used in any subject from English to history to science to math so I just wanted to show cases for you because I find these tools very very very important and they complete all 5 C's of Education creativity collaboration communication critical thinking and my favorite sea of all cheap right because we all know that we don't have all that money to be on all these different products and today I'm going to show you how to do these with some extensions that we have here in our Google environment and I do hear that since the Microsoft Edge is now chrome-based a lot of these extensions will be available and that Microsoft Edge environment as well and so I will be calling out when were using these extension but just a quick rundown for this first part we're going to be looking at Mercury reader awesome screenshot and doulas super simple highlighter note anywhere talkin comment web paint and immersive reader and I'm going to be calling out each time we're using a different to I'm and I'm going to show you what it is used for and we're also going to be looking at how we can app Smash meaning take a few of these different extensions these different apps smash them together to create a really great diamond and project for our students so first thing is what if you send your students to an article like this one on NASA nine reasons we're grateful to live on Earth and you ask your students to annotate right on the website traditionally that wasn't possible in the past but now we can do it with all the extensions that I want to show you is mercury reader doesn't have a lot of ads that pop up in a lot of things that will distract from the student reading but a lot of other articles that you may send your students to will have those pop-ups Mercury reader takes away all of the junk and only leaves what is important about the article from recruiter is a little rocket ship right at the top and when you click on it it will convert the page into only text that is important to the article that leaves all the fluff out and leaves that text right there for you a really really need tool now what if you ask your students okay I want you to Circle parts of the article that are important I want you to highlight parts of the article that are that that are meaningful and so we do this with a another tool called webpage so when I turn webpage on it allows me to have a pencil like environment and I can change the color to whatever color I want let's say I want blue and now I can come in here and I can undermine parts of the article that are important I can Circle parts of the article that are there I can leave myself little notes by typing right off to the side I can come in here and I can actually grab a shapes to call out certain paragraphs that are important I can come in here and I can grab pretty much anything that I want and when you don't want it anymore you can turn that off and when you turn it back on all of your highlights are still going to remain there so that's a pretty neat tool to be able to use right off the text and if you wanted the students to be able to turn this into you you can actually take a screenshot of this right there and you can actually download it to your device and students have been either upload it to Google classroom or they can upload it to other places that I'm going to show you in a minute so they're really great routine and a really great tool to utilize when doing those articles online the only downfall to this is when it will if I do have to scroll down farther that the the and rotations don't follow it and that's because this is like an app on top of a nap and they don't really work well together if you do want the annotations to flow with the article then you are going to want to turn Mercury reader off now let me show you what I'm talking about going to turn Merkury here's that article that we were traditionally talking about I'm going to click on the web page and I can still do the same highlights and under lines and circles and everything that I could do earlier but now if I scroll the webpage follows it which is pretty great. So what if you want to highlight don't like so we're doing all of our digital invitations but what if now you want your students to be color I mean truly highlighting it that's why I like another tool called super simple highlighter whenever you're interacting with text you don't actually click on the extension up at the top you just highlight the text you want to interact with and then you right click and so rights are you see I have a super simple highlighter and so if I want to highlight is red for important like this is the fire I can highlight it red and it does that for me now let's say this part is a part that's really important to the character of this article I can come in here and I'm going to let's say we call that and so you can have your class created highlights and you could have what your colors represent and you can have those representations right here on your web article and the great thing about it is once you're done highlighting all these different parts of the article with all your different colors for all your different purposes then once you've done that you can come up to the top and actually click on the light purple silver highlighter extension and it will give you a rundown of every highlight that you've left on that article pretty pretty neat done digital highlights but now what if we want to leave ourselves a little notes that's what I use the tool nodes anywhere and there's two different reasons what is it just because like I highlighted is red because why the kids come back and they forget why they left that highlight they can leave themselves note I left this because they can leave all of these notes around here for all the different purposes I'll click on it again here's the green one blah blah blah blah so now we're leaving little bread crumbs of why these parts were important so I to me that's really really neat and essential because we always ask our students to a note 8 and read an article and do all these things and then maybe Class end or time time is up and we have to come back to it the next day and then recall what we were doing the students are always been my experience for get why they left highlights why they did those under underlining so being able to leave little notes to themselves is incredibly important and if you have a little who who aren't very good at typing I more or you know the students would rather hear their voice he was indeed little tool called talking common the talking, extension is up here at the top but you don't use that button and automatically creates a brand new button on the right side of any website that you're on so if you want to leave yourself a note all you do is click on it and then talk so the reason that I highlighted this section green was because I felt it was a very important part that explain why the Earth is a very special home planet for us to click on that green button and give you this link you only want to copy did you see at the very end it has this little option where it says voicemail you don't want to copy that part so you copy the last letter before that and all the way and then control C to copy that they were going to click okay and once we done that we're going to paste that right in there if you want to ask you when you come back and you want to listen to that voice note you double-click and I go to that part of the website and then it plays the reason that I highlighted this section green was because I felt it was a very important part that explains why the Earth is a vet so it left that voice note for me right there on this note anywhere option very great way to incorporate voice into your digital inking and a highlighting right off of any website that you have a really great tool and a really great purpose does a couple different ways that you can actually take this and have your student showcase it to the rest of the class or to yourself one is by utilizing a pic the picture taking option right here what you take that picture you now have the entirety of what you were working on you're going to click download I'm just goes right to your computer or device that you're working on I love to use a slide snap template for my students to showcase the work they're working on right now now a slide stamp template is for a snapshot in learning of what they are doing right now so in class if you were having your students work through this after about 10 minutes you can say stop take a snap and put it in your slides map template so I can review it so they would just take that screenshot they would come back over here and notice it can be done digitally or physically but we're going to go ahead and place that writes your word says Place image I'm going to right click where it says Place image I'm going to replace it with an item from my computer it's going to be my screenshot and I can definitely move it around the best fit part that I wanted to showcase right there and so now I have a snapshot of what I was working on next I would have my students type what they have learned I learned... And then they would come over here and they would bring an emoji over the top of what how they felt while reading the article if the article was difficult they would bring over the angry Emoji if they had to come if they were confused by the article they would put a confused emoji and this is for you to teacher because as you're going through these the Emoji will tell you which students got it and which students are frustrated and then finally they can add a video I would recommend utilizing screencastify and we're going to be coming back to screencastify quite a bit for this visual learning technique and so what I would do is I would have my students come right over here they would click on screencastify I would have it record my desktop make sure the microphone is turned on and select to record going to go ahead and choose the screen but Mr Marquez went ahead and gave me this article to read it was the nine reasons we're Grateful Dead live on earth I really love this article because the Earth is one of my favorite planet and not only because it has Wi-Fi if you notice I highlighted this section and red because blah blah blah blah blah and then I did this section and green because blah blah blah blah and then this in Orange because blah blah blah blah blah recording they would hit stop sharing it automatically renders right here for your students it renders for the students and automatically saves to their Google Drive now once it is downloaded to your Google Drive You're Gonna Want the students to click on copy shareable link now this isn't to grab the URL link it's to make sure that the video itself can be viewed by anybody looking at the slide snap so now they go back into the slight snap and right there where it says place your video you're going to click insert video from my Google Drive and whatever video was placed there most recently I'm going to select this one cuz this is the one we just recorded and hit select the video has now been placed on my slidesnap I'm going to resize it and fit it right here over that video section and now not only do we have a visual of what are students completed not only do we have any emoji that recordes what are students are feeling not only does it have text on what they did but also their voice and a video of a run-through of how they approached it this can be done for any subjects imagine using this for a science review you are teaching them a particular subject particularly and they take a picture of what they've done explain why it was important and then also a video of what they've done imagine this word in English class as a chapter review or a book review and then finally imagine this for a kasturi class of a battle review or a general review it's something that can be done for every subject that you can think of now I highly recommend using this how does electrons flow through a light bulb and a battery to create light well after you know teaching them and having them go through maybe a fit activity on this they would have to come in and sketch what they've done and then tell what they did it was adopted by the edge of protocol Field Guide sketch until template created by Jon corippo and Marlena Hebron fantastic resource if you're looking to get ideas that utilize technology in the classroom you may be asking though how do you see if what the students are doing or how how can you tell that the students are on the right track or how can the students explain this to the rest of the students the first answer to your question is has the teacher you can click down on the schedule until and see everybody working in real time and allowing the teacher to actually see in real-time what the students are drawing and if you notice a particular student is getting off track or not quite getting it you can easily go by and help that student there's another step that you can take like to incorporate video you can incorporate the video directly in the Chambord because video at the moment in the web-based version is not an option but there is a workaround with this and that is through flip now in flipgrid I created a topic called a grid snap very similar to a slide snap but the difference is you're going to actually bring in the content in to a flipgrid to complete your snap all you do is click on the plus button and then login or your student login with their Google account once they are logged in they can then begin the project the first thing they're going to do is they're going to go back to their sketch until they're going to click on these three dots in the upper right hand corner and they're going to select same frame as image it's only going to save the one frame that the students right here are working on what's that frame is downloaded to your computer you could then go back into the flipgrid and you're going to select photo sticker that just means image to our flipgrid for my device I'm going to select the sketch and tell that I just downloaded and click open what's a click open discussion tout will be inserted right on top of your flipgrid you will then enlarge it for the students to be able to tell what they've done what's the students have placed it in the place where they would like it they didn't click record so today Mr Marquez was asked me to work on a sketch until to tell you what I learned about light bulbs in this light bulb I saw that the electrons actually flow out of the negative end and then go through the light bulb and complete a circuit and coming back into the positive end of the light bulb this create an electricity Circle which allows for the light bulb to light up that's what I learned thank you so much for listening to my grid snap on the light bulb and students within hit next they can watch it they can edit it they can cut out the beginning they can cut off the end of my clicking on the actual item I'm perfectly happy with what I've recorded I'm going to click next that can record a selfie of himself I would recommend they actually select a frame from their image next move it over so that they can see that it's their sketch next and here if they wanted to they can actually in the title just type a little bit about what they've done they can put an actual link to the sketch until every single page has its very own unique URL copy that and they can actually paste that right into the flipper and then they would submit their video and congratulations it has been completed and so now the sketch until that the students will be there are going to be right there in your fridge that now there's also another way you can have your students use flipgrid and the sketch until or any jamboard right out of liquid as well instead of actually downloading an image and uploading it that you can actually record your screen directly out of liquid to do that once again make sure they are login to their student account and then they would begin their recording but this time instead of selecting the record button and then uploading the image you're going to select these three dots for video options and then select screen recording then you're going to start recording your screen can ask what's cream would you like to record I'm going to record this screen that we are on going to go 3 to 1 and then I jumped to my schedule until so mr. Marquez asked me to talk about my schedule and tell if you would like to actually use annotations in your screen recording with flipgrid we're going to go back to one of the tools that we learned at the very early recording and that is our web page you can actually utilize web page right out of your sketch until and incorporate it right in here so you can then right over talk about everything that's going on in your sketch until and when your students are done all they would do is Select stop sharing notice it automatically places that right in the flipgrid they're going to hit next once again take a selfie or I want to recommend selecting frame there we go next and now you have the same option of placing in the link and then submitting your video and now as you can tell we have both of the ways that we are presenting our sketch until right and flipgrid fantastic way of incorporating visual learning and voice and choice all in one location now isn't that a great app Smash another way to incorporate flipgrid in a fun way in your classroom to Showcase what students know is through what I call a grid mask a grid mask is taking an image that is masking part of the video in flipgrid to create a whole new experience I want to show you our daily Prophet grin mask I created this in a Google draw or a Google Drive and the first thing I did is under file I went to pay set up and made sure that I'm set to white screen of 16 by 9 then I went ahead and created my daily Prophet mask and all I did is I I looked up png's for daily profit and then I brought them in so notice each of these is its own individual PNG now this is the part that's going to be static in our grid mask the part that the students are going to participate in is this space right here but we need to actually remove it so we can see through it so what I do is I take file and I download this as a PNG I didn't go to a great bedside called Pixlr and I'm using their brand new editing software called Pixlr 100% free and you never have to log into it I'm going to go ahead and load my image that I want them to see and I want that to be my daily Prophet grin mask once it's there I want to delete or remove this entire section that is blue so I'm going to click on my scissors and the magic cut out and all I'm going to do is select the blue boom now it's gone I'm going to go ahead and click save make sure it is a PNG and then I'm going to select download and there it is as the teacher I took that download and actually put it in to my grid mask topics of my students didn't have to go through that entire process but I do have to tell you if you wanted your students and make their very own it's easy for them to do and it's easy for Pixel X to remove that so they absolutely could create their very own now if we want our students to use the grid mask all they would do is start our grid they would once again log in with their Google account to the topic and before they start recording what they're going to do is they're going to bring that picture picture and they're going to include that daily Prophet PNG that we just created I'm going to extend it for the entirety of the screen that's why we selected 16 by 9 so it fits perfectly and if you know anything about the daily Prophet from Harry Potter it is not color it is in kind of grayish black and white so I'm going to select the disk crystal ball and I'm going to turn it into a gray recording and then what I'm going to do is hit record so what I learned from our science experiment is that it's not magic it's science and what we did was we incorporated a chemical reaction by using baking soda and vinegar which created CO2 coming out of the top it's an amazing scientific discovery it is not not magic I don't care what you say and so they were going next and once again I highly recommend selecting frame there we go and if next and now we have our daily Prophet grid mask right there for them to use now there's lots of good masks that we have created and you're going to get access to every single one of these all of the all of the Google slide templates that that I've shown you and even more you're going to get access to all the bills and you're also going to get access to all of these grid masks that we created one of my other favorite grid masks is the ticket for the Tik Tok I don't really have to remove any of the background all I do is I actually create a black background to put all of the items that Tik-Tok has the Tik Tok username the how many likes the comments the how many times it was Cher the music coming out of the students can then come in here and they can change up what they like to say right up there and all the icons right there and then what I do is I delete the background and then I'm going to save this as a PNG and once again for the students I went ahead and Incorporated that Tik Tok mask right there for them to download when they want to use it they just hit the record button and they make sure they log in with your Google account and once they are in there going to upload that mask the same exact way we did it for the daily Prophet they're going to click on the add custom sticker they're going to add it from there item right here and there we go we make it big enough to cover up the entirety of our flipgrid and look it's just like a tick tock screen and another great thing is if you want the students to add more text they can add more text right up here right up to the side with the text option right here really great way to incorporate more things that can even add more emojis but once again it looks just like Tik Tok right we have our recordings right over here we have everything that they need right up here just like you wouldn't have talked in the record hello everybody I want to tell you what we learned about in class today right here in my Tik Tok and they hit record that next they do what they did once again I would definitely recommend a selector frame it next and next and as always it is now completed and there you go the Tik Tok flipgrid response is now right there in our flipgrid topic so these are some really neat and great ways to get students to think about presenting things in a different way and I know I showcase for you that I was creating all these grid masks but the great part is when students can go in and make these good mess you can receive some really great YouTube topics and end for all of my Microsoft friends out there I want you to know that these all can be made in Microsoft PowerPoint online as well so even though I'm showing it to you being created in a Google slides and Google drawings it can all be treated in the Microsoft environment as well you would just save this PowerPoint slide as an image and then you would still take it in to your Pixlr editor and remove that image right there so it can be made in any platform that you are using and the last thing I wanted to showcase for you is a great great great flipgrid workflow called the chapter check the chapter chat allow students to be able to chat about a chapter a chapter at a time and everybody can see each other's inside one of my favorite chapter chats to do is in The Outsiders and one of the reasons is because in The Outsiders two chapters have no names so it's a great activity if your school is reading The Outsiders to have students look for artifacts or look for reasonings within every chapter on what the chapters name should be and they should be bringing in learning artifacts or things they've collected as the reading to be able to Showcase what they're chapter name should be now I love chapter chats because it actually make sure that students are free planning everything out they can't just do things on the fly so they have to critically think on what artifact should I bring what parts of the chapter are important how am I going to put together this chapter has yet to prove what I am saying next is communication how am I going to communicate am I going to use digital ink am I going to use images I'm going to use sections of the chapter that's also very important another one is collaboration because you may have to work around with the rest of your class what did you get out of this chapter what are you doing for this so it really allows for that and then finally creativity cuz it's super creative the way students will put these together and one of the things I love to give my students in a chapter chat is a grid mask chapter chat so it allows kind of like a picture and picture the students face to be there but also a whiteboard area for our students to work on it so let me show you what I'm talking about so I'm going to go ahead and click on Plus in our check and adjust like with the rest of our grid mask we've been working I'm going to click on the sticker and I'm going to add the chapter chat sticker I specifically for this assignment so I'm going to go and click here and bring it in bring us all the way to the bottom so like I said we're going to be bringing in artifacts from The Outsiders noticed over here we have a whiteboard space to bring everything in and then we have this right here as the picture in picture so the student is still part of this and then down here below you can put the title or maybe the chapter title you want so a lot of cool different ways that you can be utilizing this so I'm going to bring me and somebody learning artifacts that I collected along the way if somebody go to click on this and bring in some more stickers to overlay on top of my stickers so that everybody can be on the same page I'm going to go ahead and Shrink this down a little bit and bring this right over here the next thing I want is maybe a paragraph out of the chapter that I read to kind of give some points on what I should be bringing in so I'm going to be doing this over here right out of here's the chapter so here's the book The Outsiders and maybe I want to bring this paragraph in right here for my students to be able to look at this first chapter out of the out to grab part of this paragraph I'm going to use an extension called awesome screenshot it does a really good job at taking screen capture I'm going to select this particular area so I want to bring in this part of the chapter there might be some information here that I want to be able to Showcase to my fellow students there's the chapter right there I'm going to go ahead and click download to my computer right here say it right there excellent I'm going to go back into my chapter chat and I'm done going to bring that paragraph in a right there as once again another sticker so now we have our paragraph right here and we noticed we have more room for more so we can keep bringing more things in so now that our students have set this up I'm going to go ahead and click on my drawing tool and then hit record so 3 to 1 hi I'm Joe and I want to talk about chapter one out of The Outsiders and what I want to do is I want to make sure you know that this part of the paragraph right here is extremely important and this is the cover of the book and then here's the name of the book The Outsiders and I want you to know that this part of the book right over here the oldest brother soda he didn't really resonate with me because he was too older the person I did like in this entire book was a character called Ponyboy I'm going to click pause for a second cuz I think I have a pony boy picture there we go there's Ponyboy bring this down here then I'm going to start recording again make sure I click on my pin so I can annotate so pretty boy here was one of my favorite characters cuz I really related to him because this this this this the best I really wish Ponyboy was here to tell us a little bit about himself and then I pause and remember how I showcased for you that we can bring we can remove these spaces in flipgrid to allow for kind of this picture and picture you can do the same thing with images so I did the same thing I brought in this image and I put this shape right over the mouth I took that into our Pixlr right here and I removed the mouth and then that turned it into a another grid mask so if I bring the sin and now we can do this now this is going to be interesting I'm going to go ahead and click photo sticker add custom and let's bring this Ponyboy in right here I'm going to go and make him a little bit smaller bring him right about there, took my head a little bit the match and there we go and sign up Ponyboy is going to tell us a little bit about yourself so yes I'm Ponyboy and I really was part of this book and I feel glad that you liked it that I did this blah blah blah blah blah blah blah thanks a lot his self you have this Pony board right here and if you want to move anything out of the way you can just drag it off to the side and it's gone there's one thing you do have to make sure your students understand is if they click anywhere on this it'll remove everything and it didn't really removing it just brought this image to the front everything still back there but there's no way to move this back again you can't like right click it and push it back so just be aware that your students might do this so they do they would just have to bring everything that get again but it is a great way to allow our students to be able to Showcase what they know in a fun and Innovative way and for all of you Math teachers out there it doesn't have to be chapter chat it could be problem chat and they can have their face right here and then just use this as an online whiteboard with their face still here because I know that the Whiteboard here is a great tool but there's no way to see the students face and then sometimes don't want their face to be shown but I love to see my students and I love to have my students be able to talk about it so this kind of is at a way to bring in a digital whiteboard that you can with your face still here so if you don't want to call it chapter chat because you're not the English teacher you can definitely call it problem chat or math math chat do whatever you want but it's a great way to have your face here in the students can they come over here and just be part of the points right there this was one of my favorite things to do to Showcase all that visual learning I'm so excited that you guys were able to learn with me today and and collaborate with me today if you loved any of the stuff if you're watching this little I like the stuff I want to know more we do have a YouTube channel that you can't is the sons of Technology YouTube channel which you can click and see right here and you can definitely go there it is at youtube.com sons of technology and everything that I showcased her for today I've step-by-step guides on every single thing that you will need to recreate everything that I showed you and if you want to contact me directly feel free to reach out to me on Twitter at jomark n70 send me a an instant message and we can definitely chat to see how you can create this visual learning style with in your classroom to really stoked creativity and collaboration with in your classroom walls thank you so much for everything you do thank you so much for learning with me today and thank you so much for being an amazing educator I know you are tired hands that life of every student with in your classroom thank you so much and have yourself a wonderful day

Brainstorm 2020: Mixing and Remixing With #GoOpenVA: Ten Ideas for Using OER

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Presented by Karen Richardson, Executive Director, Virginia Society for Technology in Education; Jean Weller, Virginia Department of Education

#GoOpenVA, Virginia's repository of Open Education Resources (OER), offers a wide variety of materials for teachers and students from complete textbooks to individual lesson ideas. Because they are "open," users can use them but also, and here's the powerful part, remix them to meet their specific needs. This presentation will show how remixing can open opportunities for student creativity.

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hello this is Karen Richardson the executive director of the Virginia society for technology in education as one of the founding members of the brainstorm conference I'm excited to be part of this new version with new partners and the scene limitless learning my presentation today is going to guide you in navigating and using open education resources available through Virginia's go open V. a repository I am gonna take a different approach today from the typical click through tutorial kind of thing there's lots of them out there you're very well done so if you want to learn the technical aspects of doing what I'm doing today you can certainly use those
tutoriales to search and learn how to search and share but I really want to focus today on the why question why should I just go to Google why should I just go to another education site rather than this repository and I think the the focus of here today is to help answer that question I think one of the most powerful pieces of open education resources is that ability to read next them and remix them easily so you could take something you can change it and and then re share it out and then I think that's what educators do really really well is that taking changing and then sharing again also have some ideas of things your students can do with that we are resources
you want to follow me on Twitter I'm with she Richie actually if you want to call me on the internet who which you Reggie the slides will be available to you so all the links that I'm that I'm clicking on through go open V. A. will be available and then of course the go open a website is simply go open V. eight dot O. R. G.
let's do a quick review though the we are open education resources refers to free digital materials that can be used or modified by others and that's the really important part for teachers that means that this video or lesson plan you found on the internet can be adjusted to meet your students needs or aligned with our standards of learning Virginia has been a leader in this area and they go open V. a portal that had been in the planning and preparation stage for several years opened to the public in January twenty twenty this website encourages Virginia educators and learners to create share and use digital resources with the end goals of providing equitable access to learning materials and supporting new approaches to learning and teaching if you are a K. twelve educator in Virginia you qualify for that free account and you can use the contact information on the website to learn how to set that up
what makes so we are work or open education resources work is the way that their license I'm not going to do a big lecture on copy right here there's plenty of presentations out there I've put one together for the website as you'll see but the important piece of this is that traditional copyright is very restrictive and and while you may be able to use something in terms of showing an image to your class you're not gonna be able to take that image and make changes to it or take that textbook and make changes to it it's very restrictive the creator owns all the rights and they must grant them to you after you've asked permission
educators do you have a little bit of wiggle room through fair use but again it can be messy and confusing on the other end of the continue or public domain resources these have no restrictions at all Hey are either old anything created prior to nineteen twenty four or they might be government produced materials they're all available to use with no restrictions at all if you when you get a copy of the slides if you click on that resource button there it takes you out to a list of all the things that became available that were created in nineteen twenty four
but we needed something else so in between is what's known as creative Commons and this is fairly new maybe ten fifteen years old this licensing allows creators to make modifications to the traditional copyright to let users know exactly what they may or may not do with their materials truly open materials allow users to not only access and use but remix and re publish and that's what we're going to be focusing on today so let's go head out to the website minuscule out of my slides here I will head out to the website I will go ahead and show you the slide of the ten ideas that we're going to be talking about for using go open V. eight and again these are all linked to yours so when the presentation is over you can come back to the slide and see those links that I shared with you so welcome to go open V. A. again I am logged in everything I'm doing today does require an account let's see some of the things that you can do so in a very timely manner the Virginia decided that one way that they could use go open BA would be to encourage school divisions to share their various school closing plants so they put together what are called curated collections so these are resources all related to a topic in this case the future topics are instructional resources that school divisions have been putting together extended closing resources for administrators as well as information about professional learning for teachers and if we click on that one you'll see how things are shared so if we scroll down here we'll see that this digital learning strategies for E. learning can be remixed and shared some resources tell you that you can do anything you want with some as well and you'll be able to to re mix and and re use some so the nice thing about these are that other schools and school divisions can see what other school divisions are using and then be able to read next those items to create their own plants
another way
that we can help another way that the materials on this site can help is sherry lesson plans teachers do a lot of this and so that's a great way for teachers to use that so here's a lesson plan I found it's actually really an instructional strategy called the honey comb our best and and the nice thing about these plans you can really Tinker with them so the teacher who shared this resource and you can see her names down here her creative Commons licenses there but it's a really an instructional strategy and when we do the resource will see that she put it together specifically for novels that she teaches in her classroom so the rationales there and then when we go and click on the sample activity will see that she talks about how to use this activity with Frankenstein or the picture of Dorian gray two novels that she's teaching well I may not teach those particular novels but I maybe want to go ahead and use the set up that she has put together so I simply click the remix this resource button it goes ahead and opens a copy of it for me in my account and then I'm able to make edits to it if I would like to so for instance if for the sample activity I don't want to do Dorian gray I'm late teach Romeo and Juliet so I can change Dorian gray to Romeo and Juliet and just to a quick edit bear
and then I'm gonna have to decide what items I'm going to include on my honey comb card which characters and then which teams and my going to include once I'm done with that I can go ahead and save it out once it's reviewed it can be published and now I've been able to add it to that particular lesson plan and extend its use for other teachers
one simple way you can contribute to the go open repository is by adding
standards to various resources so for instance in our list yep luster to mathematics websites has lots of good resources but most of them are not aligned to Virginia so I've been working on aligning some of those you can see I added in one alignment here but it's very easy to do I just click the align button it opens up this screen for me and then all the Virginia standards show up so I can go down here to mathematics because this is a mathematics plan no I put in grade one but I bet the slow simply could also work for great too so I choose great too this is about measurement and geometry and then I look down through V. actual standards
and in this case once we get to second grade were actually using standard measurements I standard shows up I click add selected tag
and now I've added two standards there's lots of resources and go open that could benefit from people going in and aligning them to the Virginia standards that's a great way to re mix them so they're more useful for all of us
there are open textbooks are available as well in fact that was one of the early uses about we are was to pull together lots of open resources to create a free text book for people they may like this one be hosted on another site so I found it through go open but it's actually hosted here you'll see at twenty Bucks
re mixing this isn't really an option unless I decided to do it on the wiki books website but when I scroll down to the bottom of the page I see that the text is available via a creative Commons license that means that I can take any of the text in here copy and paste it into my own new book I know we tell kids they're not supposed to do that but in this case that's one of the beauties of we are I may only want one of the chapters maybe I'm only interested in the meat multimedia and virtual resources and I want to take that text and edited to make it easier for folks to get to where I want to turn it into an infographic or or any of those sorts of items I can grab that text and then I can paste it into the authoring tool acco open VA
many of the resources that are shared are just actors standalone resources so fat is a from university of Colorado boulder provides lots of interactive simulations that you can use they do have their own lesson plans on the site but they may or may not be open the way that go open VA sites are so what you can do is use the authoring tool
to build a lesson plan around that particular item so for instance I took it and began to put together a lesson plans for teachers or a lesson plan for teachers that then they can share with their students it tells you exactly what to do tells the students what to do it gives them some ideas about things to do at the website and then it links out to that particular resource you'll notice that there's a student view when I go into edit it
I can also here's what I added I've added my resources to it I could attach a Google doc if I wanted to but then I can also add instructor notes to it so I can say to teacher here's how I did this you might want to play this up and so on and so forth so essentially I'm taking a resource and I'm building a lot out of Virginia lined lesson plan around that particular resource
one of the ways that resources and materials are shared is through content providers so one of the content providers is the Virginia museum of fine arts and it has a new collection that includes African American artists linked to historical documents and literary works so this is been shared on the site and it comes from the Virginia museum of fine arts and you'll notice it's already lined to Virginia all the good stuff is happened well when I scroll down there's a comment from one of the teachers and says this is a good selection of resources but the teacher has to do a lot of heavy lifting to figure out how to use these resources so one of the things that you can do it is as it says right here you can remix these resources so I can open this up in my own
authoring tool
then I might add in eighty is for using this particular item so it drops in the whole resource to me and originally this did have a few ideas listed down here for classroom use but I could edit those and particularly potentially add to them as well but I can also create an actual unit around them and create instead of just having the idea I could actually create a lesson plan around that idea so maybe I want to use it as a conversation starter as as the creator here I could go in and put in those very specific lesson plan ideas and then see the teachers from doing all the heavy lifting again this is why remixing can be really useful to you
one of the other providers for go VA is actually one of my favorite resources on the web called the digital public library of America or G. P. L. Hey and they put together a variety of exhibitions around topics so for instance this one focuses on women aviators you'll notice this one doesn't have any kind of remix button with it again here's one that has been aligned yet that be a great way to help but when I go out and look at the resource I notice it's got lots of photographs within it's got some text about it and any of these could then be used as the basis or a new particular assignment so for instance if we want to look down I I just love some of these pictures that are here these women aviators we might tell some stories about them this photograph even though it says it has a copy rate out it also has a creative Commons you could use this photograph as the start of a story about queen or perhaps other ideas about doing some research into these women or writing a short story about what it was like to be one of these women so you can use this site as a starter for larger ideas but again I could see this site into my particular items and then create a plan around it how would a teacher used this website with their students
another way we use the web a lot is to look for images and I created a guide to finding these openly licensed resources so this is one I created from scratch I opened it up in the authoring tool and I started putting in my materials and if we go and look at the resource you'll itself you'll see so again a little bit about copy rate how to find public domain materials and hello how creative Commons fits in and then how to find creative Commons materials I when you click on each of these they'll take you to that particular section of the site
it's got that remix button right there so guess what if you have additional resources that you want to include you could certainly go ahead and re remixes and add your own resources as well feel free
now for last two ideas cell I've got all these resources I know I can make lesson plans on them not all these images that what can we do with images besides just decorating slides with so I have two ideas for you to end up here today a couple years ago two thousand eighteen for some reason in March I decided every day I was going to make a postcard and a day and that was going to combined open resources along with tax guess what they're call now neat in many cases although you'll see mine are more
honest to goodness postcards but here just a couple samples of things that I did it so here's one where I took a couple of public domain images ones of birds here's one of Emily Dickinson and then I combine them together with one of Emily Dickinson's poems again she wrote these a long time ago the poem itself is in the public domain as well actually sent this book card to quite a few people I really like it here's one where I took one of my own pictures and then I added to doodle on top of it to create a photo
here's another one with poetry I found this image called the seven of tentacles and then I included large here's part of March your on it
this one I just thought was fun it's a play on the fourth and fourth from the digital public library of America it's an image of a calendar for March
this is a fun one with flying to the moon I added in the airplane there and so on and so forth so lots of opportunities for taking copyright friendly images adding some text to them during March I did one for Saint Patrick's day I celebrated several other holidays of course it was women's history month so that was why a lot of them focused on women as well
and then my final idea for day actually came from Tom Woodward he's currently at Virginia Commonwealth University and this was an idea for making historical selfie basically you take an image of a person mostly but it could be a place and you turn it into an instant message Instagram style of host so we had this idea we had created a few of them and I went ahead and used to go open A. as the place to actually create the lesson plan again I started this from scratch I used the open author tool that's part of the website and I was able to put in the lesson plan itself so I've got morning goals I've aligned it to Virginia's studies I've given you some ideas and then here's the sample that I made of Scott making it to the South Pole and realizing that they were not the first people to to appear there so lots of great ideas I used two different images here one of the ten and then one of Scott I added the hashtags and in it is kind of a story on to itself and I think it's something that
that I think students would really appreciate doing you of course can grab my lesson plan it's cop that read next button there maybe you don't want them to create a self you want them to create a website for someone or a Facebook account for an historical event how would something like the American revolution be covered now if there were bloggers and Instagrammers and and and those sorts of things so we could take that simple idea of the historical selfie and remix it with other ideas as well yeah ten ways of interacting with the go open be a repository I'm hoping it will help you other teachers and your students to use the open education resources so just as a reminder you can find the slides at golden G. A. ideas from Bentley and the go open via a website is go open V. eight dot O. R. G. I hope I've got some creative juices flowing and that you'll take some time to explore go open VA.

Brainstorm 2020: Authentic Learning! Technology Can Help With This!

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Presented by Tim Taylor, Instructional Technology Supervisor, Shenandoah County Public Schools

Authentic learning helps students understand the real-world connections to what they are learning, they are more likely to be engaged and less likely to question the significance of classroom learning. Technology helps to bridge the gap between the classroom and the real world by providing access to information in a variety ways and through different perspectives. We will look at examples of authentic learning experiences and the way technology can support these experiences.

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