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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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Brainstorm 2020: Remaining Aloft in the Twitterverse

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Presented by Darcie Priester, Instructional Technology Resource Teacher, Manassas Park City Schools

You’ve taken flight and your Professional Learning Network has grown with Twitter. Now you’re ready to take the next steps! In this session, we’ll look at how to become an advanced user by learning about Twitter's filters and analytics, scheduling tweets with third-party apps such as Buffer and TweetDeck, and get the 411 on Twitter Chats!

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Hi! Welcome to Remaining Aloft in the Twitterverse. You can find all of today's presentation materials at the link at the bottom bit.ly/twitteraloft. My name is Darcie Priester and I’m an Instructional Technology Resource Teacher at Manassas Park High School in Manassas Park Virginia. I am also a Google for Education Certified Educator and Certified Trainer and you can find my training tips and videos on social media at mspriester_itrt and also on my YouTube channel or my blog Teaching in a Beta State. In today’s session you’re going to understand advanced features and tips for using Twitter, how you can curate resources that you find on Twitter, and grow your PLN especially through Twitter chats. If you're participating in the scavenger hunt, my scavenger hunt word is validity. Alright let's go ahead and get started.

So, the first advanced feature that I want to show you is a poll. This is an example of one that I did when my MacBook Pro died and I was asking some of my followers, “what do you think I should go with, a Macbook pro or Chromebook?” So obviously you can see here a Chromebook won out and eventually I did get a Chromebook, but it took me a little bit of time. So I want to go into Twitter now and show you how you can create a poll. A poll is great for working with your students finding out did they like last night’s homework or was there something that they struggled to understand, you could also do this with a lesson or as a quick exit ticket with students. So right here you’ve got your icon, so this is where you would go in and create your tweet, so I'm going to click on my poll icon and up here is where I can ask a question. I can say “what is your favorite session so far?” and then I can add in my answer choices so I know Twitterverse one of those choices and then I can continue to add those choices. If I need more options, then I can click on the plus “+” sign over here and add those additional options. Then I need to decide a length for how long I want this poll to remain on Twitter. So I can do days, up to a week, hours or even for just a few minutes, so I’m just going to choose 5 minutes for right now. Oh, and you also don’t want to forget, if you’re doing this for something like today’s virtual session or virtual conference, you might want to add the hashtag in so that other people can see that poll and participate in it. Then when you're ready you can go ahead and click tweet and it will send out the poll. So, I’m going to get rid of that so we can move on.

So the next part I want to go to is over here on the right hand side, this Search Twitter bar, where I can go ahead and search for lesson ideas or search for people that I want to follow, maybe I've heard of someone and read an article and I want to go search for them. So right here, I go ahead and type in any of the keywords that I'm looking for or I can go back and look at a recent topic that I was looking for. So let’s just click on Google Hangouts, and then Google (Twitter) filters this for me, so right away it gives me the top results. So these are the ones that have the most, maybe, likes or retweets so I can go through and I can see that it's again kind of filtered down a little bit more by people or I can see the exact tweets and I can search through that. I can also look at the latest ones or the most recent tweets and this is usually where I go if I'm looking for something because I want to see some of the recent things that are out there. I could also look for people so here I can look at it, like Google, one of the different companies that would be out there or I can just look at other people like Scott Johnston and see what they’ve put out there about Google Hangouts, or I could also look for photos that include the keyword that I'm searching for, or videos. Now, I can also save this search which is great if you're using this over and over again and this is something that you want to go back to. So right here on these three dots, I can go down to save search and then when I go back the next time to search, I can go all the way down to the bottom and find my saved searches and then just click on it and it will take me back into that search. Now, if I’m done with that and I don't want to use it as a saved search anymore, I can just click the trash can to delete it. I want to go back to the search bar because there's another area that I want to show you when you're searching. So over here in the right hand side I could search by people. So I could search for anyone that's on Twitter or just people that I follow. So this is great that if I'm looking for something for work, maybe I want to find something from someone who's in my area, my location. So maybe I don't want to do a worldwide search, maybe I just want to keep it closer to home and see what other schools in my area are doing with a topic or I can do it with location, as well, I can just do near me or anywhere. Now, there's also an advanced search, so I can click on this and find even more options to help me narrow down my search on Twitter. So I have where I can use certain keywords, words that maybe include certain keywords, words that exclude or terms that exclude certain words. I could go down and look for certain accounts or I could filter ones that are just replies to tweets or have a certain engagement, so ones that I could say a minimum amount of replies, or I could even search from dates. You can also find that advanced search by clicking on those three dots and clicking on advanced search that way as well.

Once you found those resources, how do you save them? So I'm going to go back here and find a specific tweet. So on this tweet, I want to focus on these two icons right here, down at the bottom. I don't have an appropriate name for what this icon is, I just call it the up button. But on this button, it allows me to do several things. I could send a tweet via a direct message to another user on Twitter. So this would be just a private message between the two of us, no one else would see this. Or I could add tweets to a bookmark, which is awesome, I do this all the time. When I find something I click on it and save it to my bookmark area which is right over here and when I click on bookmarks, I can go back in and see all of the different tweets that I have saved that I may want to send to a colleague or go back to, to look at it for, maybe it has an article on that I want to go back and read later on, so there’s all kinds of different things I can do with that and then if I click back on this button again, I can also copy a link to a tweet. And this is really great, especially like at my school, about half my staff is on Twitter and half the staff isn't, so if there's something that I want someone to see on Twitter I can just copy that link and send it to them an email and they can click on that link and go in and see it on Twitter without having to have a Twitter account which I think is really an awesome feature.

Okay, so now I want to get into some of the third-party companies that you can use with Twitter. The first one that I want to talk about is Wakelet. If you haven't heard of Wakelet yet, this is such a great site and it’s great for curating all of those resources, I’ve seen teachers also design lessons using this and then sending out a collection to their students that give them all of the information that they need. So I’m just going to show you real quick, if you create a new collection, this is all of the different things that you can save on Wakelet. So you can add text to make captions or headers, you can add videos, bookmarks, images, PDF’s, files from Google Drive, and tweets. Which is really cool because this is a great way for me to curate things into a collection so, back when I was over here and I was looking at those bookmarks, these bookmarks unfortunately are not searchable so if I saved something a few weeks ago, I’m having to scroll through everything that I saved to find that tweet again. But with Wakelet, I could just put it into a collection and find it within that collection. I kind of feel like it's a little bit like Pinterest. So what's really cool about Wakelet too, is that if I add this as a Chrome extension into my Chrome browser, right here I could go in and if I'm on a different site or like this presentation, I can go into Wakelet and have it come up and then save it to a collection right here and then it also adds an icon into Twitter. So right here at the bottom, I've got a “W”, so if I wanted to save this tweet I can click on the “W” and then add it straight into one of my collections in Wakelet. So it's a really great resource.

The next one I want to talk about is Buffer and Buffer is a way that you can schedule tweets ahead of time. This is really great for coaches or administrators, band directors, anything where you have an event coming up, even reminders for tests for students or reminders for them to turn something in, you could do all of this ahead of time in Twitter and schedule it to go out at a specific time and not have to remember to go into Twitter, create a tweet and send it. This way you're doing it all ahead of time. You can also do other social media accounts, so I like Instagram is another option that you can do. So once I've created my Buffer account, I'm going to select my Twitter account, this is actually our school Twitter account and I can click on this and then go into “what do I want to share?” to this account. I can also click on Instagram if I wanted to share it to both places, but for right now I'm just going to focus on Twitter. So I’m going to put in the message of my tweet, that text. I can add in hashtags, I can add in videos or images that I have saved and then let me just put some text in here. So then when I’m ready to share it out or schedule it, I can go over here and I, typically don't do “share now” because if I was going to share it right then and there, I just go into Twitter and do that. I only really use this for scheduling posts ahead of time. So I can go in to “schedule a post”, pick the date and the time that I want it to go out and then hit schedule. So let's say I want it on April 16th and at 1:45 p.m., hit “schedule” and then when I scroll down to April 16th, I'm going to see that it's right here ready to go out. So I’m going to delete this so I don’t actually send that out.

And the final third party app that I want to show you is TweetDeck. This is probably unlike anything you may have seen before. It really breaks down your Twitter account into columns. So if I go back here to Twitter, I can see, here is my home button that shows me everything in my feed. I could look at my notifications, I could look at my bookmarks and all of that is broken down into these different columns. So here's my Twitter feed right here, here are my notifications, here’s also a search bar, so I can still go in and continue to search for different items, so this is actually set to look for my school district’s Twitter chat. Now, all of these can be customized so when you first go into TweetDeck, your TweetDeck is probably going to look a little different from mine because it's going to be set to the default. I've gone in and I’ve physically moved some of these around so if I wanted to have this one column moved over here I could do that or I can move it back again wherever I want it to go. I can also delete different columns, so if I didn't want to see that particular column and I wanted to put something else in there, I could just click on this little icon right here and then click on remove, to actually remove it. So to create these different columns, I can go over here to the plus “+” sign on the left side navigation and I'm going to say “add a column”. So some of these, could be collections so that is #ISTE19 that I was moving around was actually a collection. I had done a search for tweets from #ISTE19 and created a collection and then I could save tweets into that collection to be able to go back and look at it later. I could also do a search, so this is great that If I'm looking for a particular hashtag I can just search for it and keep everything in that column. TweetDeck allows me to do a lot of other things too just besides seeing things in different columns. I can go in and add a tweet right from here, I can also schedule tweets as well, so if I wanted to go in and again let me just put in some text and hit schedule, I can pick the date and the time, and then send it out right from here, which is another great feature. And then like I said, you can also search for different things for a hashtag so let's jump into talking about a Twitter chat a little bit.

So what exactly is a Twitter chat? So this is a chat that centers around a specific topic. Now a Twitter chat is done all through Twitter obviously; it could be half-an-hour, it could be an hour and everyone follows a specific hashtag. So let's take my school district’s for an example. We have the hashtag #mpcschat and if we have a school-wide Twitter chat every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. and each week we talk about a different topic. So the facilitator will typically create different questions, about five questions, especially if you’re doing an hour long chat and at different time periods throughout that hour, they will send out a question. So for question number one anyone who's participating in that chat can respond to that question. So question one would go out and you're going to respond in a tweet with “A1” being answer one for question number one and add your response and then add in the hashtag. If you don't have that hashtag it’ss really hard to follow the conversation so you want to make sure that you have that hashtag added in so that you're able to search for everything going on in the conversation. So if i go back to TweetDeck, I created a column with that search and when I hit enter I can look for anything that comes up with that hashtag. So here I can say here's answer number four, so this was a response to question number four. I can also just look for “A1” and see responses to question number one or I could put in “Q1” to see what those different questions may have been and as you can see here's the hashtag right here. So I think Twitter chats are a fun way to talk about a topic, learn about different things around that topic and then grow your PLN, you get to meet a lot of different people through a Twitter chat and then you can follow each other. Oh and the other thing I need to mention is right here in the search, I could reply, I could retweet, I can like, I can embed this tweet, I can share, there’s all kinds of different things that I can do right in TweetDeck.

So I do want to show you some more things about some more resources that you can get on Twitter chats. So right here are some helpful tools if you're looking to jump into a Twitter chat, here’s TweetDeck, but here are some other options for you. And then, where are some Twitter chats? How do you get involved? How do you find one? So here are some popular hashtags: this one right here is in Northern Virginia, if you're in Virginia. This one is also another Virginia based Twitter chat as is the #vachat. That’s a Virginia chat as well. But there’s lots of different topics, there's one on PBL, Teach like a Pirate has one, Ditch That Textbook if you're a fan of Matt Miller. He has his own Twitter chats, but you can also find lots of other Twitter chats through these links. There’s a calendar of different educational chats that you can find.

So once again here is my information if you'd like to come back and be able to contact me if you have any questions about some of these advanced features of Twitter later on. This is how you can get in touch with me. So thank you so much for watching and have a great rest of the virtual conference!

Brainstorm 2020: Purposeful Planning for iPads

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Presented by Karen Griffin and Tiffany Cobbs, Instructional Technology Coaches, Newport News Public Schools

How are your PK-5 students using the iPads in your classroom? Are iPads a toy or a tool? Join us as we explore ways to plan for student iPad usage in the classroom. BONUS: Tips and tricks to keep students on task with the iPad.

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Karen Griffin 0:09
Welcome to Purposeful Planning for iPads in the Classroom.

My name is Karen Griffin and I have been in education for 10 years. I taught in the Pre K classroom as a teacher for eight years and I am currently an Instructional Technology Coach with Newport News Public Schools. You can also find me on Twitter @ECCITC.

Tiffany Cobbs 0:30
Hi, everyone, my name is Tiffany Cobbs. I've been in education for 10 years as well. I've experienced teaching grades pre K through eight. And I'm also an Instructional Technology Coach with Newport News Public Schools. And you can follow me on Twitter @ITCDSA

We're going to be focusing on three essential questions. The first question is what is the Triple E framework? The second question is how can I use it to plan for technology use in my classroom? And the third question is what are some grade level examples of learning goals that support the framework?

Karen Griffin 1:21
So the why behind this presentation kind of revolves around how we got to this point. This year, our Pre K classrooms in our district updated technology, from desktops, to iPads. And also almost all of our schools in the district now have access to iPads in the classroom or on a shared STEM cart. And so as Instructional Technology Coaches, we really wanted to find a way that teachers and students could utilize these new devices but still maintain the focus on the learning and not just the tool.

Tiffany Cobbs 1:58
So the book that kind of led us on this journey is Learning First Technology Second by Liz Kolb. And basically it introduces the framework the Triple E framework that helps teachers engage students in on-task learning and provides effective strategies for using technology. It summarizes case studies to guide appropriate tech integration and gives a lesson planning template to show teachers how to effectively frame technology choices and apply them in instruction.

Karen Griffin 2:36
So the first component of the Triple E framework is Engagement. And Liz Kolb in her book defines engagement as students becoming active, social, and focused learners of the content goals.

When we look at measuring what engagement looks like from that definition, there are three questions we want to consider. The first question is- "Does the technology allow students to focus on the assignment or activity with less distraction?". One example that I see a lot in the pre k world is students are using Starfall. And while Starfall is a wonderful resource for learning activities, it can be distracting for students. Teachers need to incorporate some instructional strategies while using this app to keep students on task. The second question asks, "Does the technology motivate students to start the learning process?". An example of this might be the Number Frames app by Math Learning Center. This helps keep students focused and it gives them choices for manipulatives and how they want them to look on the screen itself. And it's got that voice and choice giving them the ability to choose what they want it to look like.

it to look like.

And the last question is, "Does the technology cause a shift in the behavior of the students where they move from passive to active social learners"?. An example of this might be the ChatterPix Kids app, where students become active learners as they are the creators and the sharers of the content in the app.

Tiffany Cobbs 4:23
So our second component of the Triple E framework is Enhancement. Enhancement means using technology to add value to student learning.

So to measure enhancement, our first question is "Does the technology tool allow students to develop a more sophisticated understanding of the learning goals or content, those higher order thinking skills?". An example of this is the Nearpod app. And Nearpod offers those higher learning skills such as asking questions, organizing and communicating ideas, expressing opinions, reflecting, investigating collecting data, and creating shareable content. Our second question under enhancement is, "Does the technology create supports or scaffolds to make it easier to understand concepts or ideas?". An example of this is the Flipgrid app. Now with flipgrid currently, our ESL teachers are using that app to help our ESL students speak correctly and learn the English language. So they may do a video of the students saying certain words and then playing that back so the students can see how their mouths are forming the words and how it looks to say those words. And then the third question under enhancement is "Does the technology create paths for students to demonstrate their understanding of the learning goals in a way that they could not do with traditional tools?". An example of that is Seesaw. The Seesaw app allows open-ended tasks and allow students to use tools to do those open ended tasks, such as voice, video and the drawing app. So they independently document and explain their learning as it's happening. And the teacher can provide that consistent feedback.

Karen Griffin 6:53
The third component of the framework is Extension and it's defined as something that needs to be authentic; involving real connections to everyday life. And essentially, the tool needs to be able to create a bridge between student learning and student lives, and also enhance those skills for everyday living.

Tiffany Cobbs 7:16
So how do we measure extension? The first question we look at is "Does the technology create opportunities for students to learn outside of their typical school day?". An example of this is Google Classroom. So with Google classroom, students can connect outside of the school learning day by accessing learning materials and assignments, so some learning materials could include anchor charts that a teacher has done in the classroom. The students then have access to the same anchor chart outside of the classroom. The second question under extension is "Does the technology create a bridge between students school learning and their everyday life experiences?". So we have two example apps for this question. The first one is the Google Hangouts app, which allows students to take tours of a facility that they may not have access to, such as a science lab, or a mechanic shop. The second app under this question is Zoom. And Zoom allows students to have the ability to connect to real life experts and experiences to build the connection between learning and real life.

The third question under extension is "Does the technology allow students to develop skills that they can use in their everyday lives?". An example app for this question is, Codespark. So Codespark provides project based learning that develops skills such as innovation, technology skills, life and career skills, collaboration, and problem solving. So an example of students using this app include students creating a game. Once they create that game, they share that game with other students, or other people that they would like for them to play those games. And it's shared on a secure platform.

Karen Griffin 9:40
So the Triple E measurement tool asks those questions for each of the components and offers the ability to score it so that you have a measurable way to evaluate the tool you're using and the learning goal that it applies to. So essentially those nine questions that we just went over, you're going to score each of those answers anywhere from zero to one or two. So if Yes, it does meet that component, or that question that's worth two points. If it's somewhat meets the criteria of that question, then that might be a score of one. And if it does not meet the criteria of that question, it would be a score of zero. So analyzing your results, if your score falls between 13 and 18 points, that's a green light, it meets all three components of the framework. If you score seven to 12 points, you're kind of in that yellow zone, where you meet at least two of the components, but teachers can also add instructional moves that better leverage the technology for student learning. And if you score six or below, that's like a red light, you generally only meet one component and usually that's the engagement piece. You might want to look at the connection between technology, the instructional moves and the learning goal, most likely, it's low. And you might want to reconsider if technology should be used for this lesson. We're going to pause for just a second here. And we're going to give you our scavenger hunt word. So the scavenger hunt word for this session is REFLECTION.

So we want to go over some grade level examples of what this could look like, applied to lessons or goals. And we're going to start with pre K. So in pre K, we looked at a learning goal of students will identify letters and produce letter sounds. The technology tool we're going to be using is ChatterPix Kids. And you can also supplement that with iMovie with teacher support. What the students were doing here is they were going on an alphabet scavenger hunt where they had to take a photo and Chatterpix use the recording feature to tell us what letter it is and what sound that it makes. We gave that a score of 11 as it meets two of the components of the framework, engagement and enhancement, and it also somewhat meets a few of the extension, but not all of them. In Kindergarten, students had a learning goal of classifying things as living or nonliving. And the technology tool they used was Seesaw. They went on a scavenger hunt around the school and they were looking for pictures of objects in the environment. And they wanted them to choose two pictures and identify them as living or nonliving. And they were going to be posting this to Seesaw. They were using the microphone to record their reasoning behind it, you know, is it living or nonliving? And how do you know? We gave it a score of 17 as it meets all three components in some way.

Tiffany Cobbs 13:07
Our first or second grade level example is our learning goal. Students will describe how characters and a story respond to key events using cause and effect relationships. Our technology tool for this lesson is Nearpod.

And the framework score is an 11. It scored an 11 because Nearpod was kind of in that yellow zone because it lacked extension of the learning goals. So for this lesson students listen to or they read a short story with a partner. Following the story, students will describe at least two cause and effect relationships from the story.

An example from grades three through five is students will create a PSA on the water crisis in Africa, and the importance of water conservation. So the technology tool we use for this lesson is the internet browser, Google Docs, and Flipgrid.

This lesson actually scored an 18 on the framework, because it met all three components of the framework. So in this lesson, students research a topic related to the water crisis in Africa. Next, they create a script using Google Docs and this is all done in groups of three or four. Then they will create a public service announcement using Flipgrid.

So we wanted to wrap things up with some closing thoughts. So our first closing thought is the learning goals. So the learning goal is more important than the technology. Our second closing thought is the Triple E framework. So this is what will guide you as you are planning a lesson. And then our last closing thought is on instructional strategies. Instructional strategies can better leverage technology tools that do not meet all criteria of the framework.

Karen Griffin 15:36
We'd like to give some credit to SlideMania for the presentation template you see today. All of the images of the app icons were found on the Apple App Store. And of course, we use the book Learning First Technology Second by Liz Kolb to demonstrate the Triple E framework and apply it to instructional planning.

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Brainstorm 2020: Google Expeditions: From Consumer to Creator

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Presented by Scott Lewis, Instructional Technology Coach, Frederick County Public Schools

This session will walk you through how to cost effectively use Google Expeditions in the classroom and then will show you how to create your own expedition using Google Tour Creator.

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0:00[Music]
0:05welcome to Google expeditions from
0:07consumer to creator
0:10I'm Scott Lewis and instructional
0:12technology coach for Frederick County
0:14Public Schools today you'll learn how to
0:21create and guide your own google
0:23expedition will define AR and vr look to
0:33see who can use google expeditions what
0:36you need how to create your own and
0:38answer the question of what if I don't
0:39have equipment augmented reality means
0:43to superimpose images into the real
0:45world around you and virtual reality is
0:47an immersive simulation of a 3d
0:49environment
0:54as you can see from this list Google
0:57expeditions is not just a history
0:59resource you can look at cell structures
1:02explore math concepts create technical
1:06writing look at careers attend concerts
1:11visit museums look at body systems visit
1:16language specific cities the only
1:20constraint is your imagination and what
1:23360 pictures you can find
1:31so your next step in creating a google
1:33expedition is to go to tour creator URL
1:37for that is right up here it's a our VR
1:40google.com back slash to our Creator
1:44once you get here you're gonna go down
1:47to this purple rectangle it's this get
1:49started and you're going to click there
1:50so that brings you to your main
1:53dashboard you can see all the tours that
1:56you've created up to this point I want
1:59you to go over and click the plus sign
2:01right here new tour and that will bring
2:06you to basically your cover page view
2:09the introduction of your tour creator so
2:14to have this tour go into google
2:17expeditions it has to have a couple
2:19things it has to have a title it has to
2:22have a picture and it has to be
2:24categorized so I'm going to title this
2:26and then I'm gonna go in and select an
2:29image I'm going to go into my drive
2:38you
2:41and one of the problems with uploading
2:44these pictures you have to be really
2:46careful with a size and the orientation
2:48of a notice at the top of the Sphinx has
2:50been cut off right here you can fix that
2:53by actually going in and cropping the
2:55photo but again for what we're doing
2:57right now that's really not too
2:59important so I said you need a title you
3:02need a picture and the last thing we're
3:04gonna look at is category so you have
3:06all of these different ones to look at
3:09I'm gonna go into history and then we're
3:13gonna click create though our first stop
3:15right here is the add scene so it's
3:18gonna bring us to the Google Maps
3:20integration and to a creator works with
3:24the 3d portion of Google Maps so it is
3:28going to filter 360 and 180 degree
3:32pictures they've been crowd-sourced into
3:36Google Maps so we're gonna search and
3:38I'm gonna put a sphinx in and you notice
3:42you have to really start being specific
3:44because it'll just take you to the first
3:46things that it sees that are close to
3:49its initial landing site which so we
3:51have the Sphinx at Giza desert so we're
3:53gonna pick that and it will bring us
3:56there and if we look over here I
3:59actually brought up a really good
4:00close-up picture of it sometimes it does
4:03and sometimes it doesn't so a couple
4:06things that you can look at you notice
4:07that peg man has brenton brought over
4:09could manipulate peg man around by left
4:13clicking and holding on it and once you
4:16do that that basically highlights all of
4:19these different pictures or different
4:23views that people have uploaded onto
4:27here so I'm going to choose that right
4:29there and the final thing I'm going to
4:32do is click on add scene okay so the
4:37first thing that I want to do in here is
4:39just double check and make sure that my
4:41starting view is okay so my object of
4:44this is the Sphinx and my starting view
4:47is right on where I want it so I don't
4:50actually want to change it but if I was
4:52going to change it I bring my curve
4:54down here and click on set starting view
4:57and what this allows me to do is to
5:00rotate this around so I can see the
5:06different angles and then you would
5:09click Save so the next thing is you want
5:12to title your scene ok a lot of times
5:16you'll also get the subheading right
5:18here usually that has to do with the
5:21object that you brought in and also it's
5:24always a good thing to have a
5:25description here oftentimes the credits
5:27here will give you no credits to whoever
5:30took that picture in this case it really
5:32didn't you can also add in scene
5:36narration so you can record into this
5:38and talk about it you can also bring in
5:41music and the final thing that you want
5:44to do into a scene is add multiple
5:48points of interest and if you're viewing
5:51the expedition through virtual reality
5:53these points of interest are what shifts
5:58that learners attention and really
6:00causes them to turn and focus on what
6:03you want them to be focusing on at that
6:06point so I'm going to click on here and
6:07I'm going to add one and it goes right
6:10here in the center of this and you can
6:13actually move them around so I want to
6:15bring this over to the Great Pyramid
6:20which is right there ok since out of the
6:25Great Pyramid and I have a little
6:26description here now also you can type
6:30in or not type in but you can add in
6:35audio and then you can also add in
6:39pictures to go along with this so I'm
6:42gonna add in a picture because when I
6:46click on this and bring them around to
6:49this it's going to show this picture and
6:52the cool thing about this is you can
6:56actually you manipulate this so you can
6:59make it bigger you can make it smaller
7:01or you can move it around to kind of fit
7:06what you want it
7:08fit and be able to see if you were going
7:11to have multiple scenes and I would
7:12always recommend having multiple scenes
7:14with this the next thing you would do
7:16would be to add scene okay and what this
7:21does is again it starts that process
7:23from the beginning so the next step in
7:28the process of creating your Google
7:30expedition is to publish your tour so to
7:33do that you're gonna bring your cursor
7:35up to this blue publish button and
7:37you're gonna click on it so this brings
7:40up this small little dialog box where
7:42you're going to see your title you're
7:44going to see it has one scene and then
7:47you either have the choice of making it
7:49unlisted or public and it all has to do
7:53with the visibility of this tour so if
7:55you're gonna guide this to or using the
7:58same Google address or Google Account
8:01that you created it in and you don't
8:04really want it published to you have the
8:07rest of the internet you can click
8:10unlisted however in my case the account
8:14that I use to guide Google expeditions
8:19in virtual reality with headsets is
8:22different than my Google address so I'm
8:26gonna click on public because I want to
8:27be able to search for this tour and the
8:31last portion of it is I'm gonna click
8:34publish so the really cool thing about
8:39this is that you can view your tour
8:42without using virtual reality headsets
8:46or even Google expeditions so for remote
8:53learning opportunities like where we are
8:55right now in teaching remotely this is a
8:59good opportunity when I introduced to a
9:03creator to third graders what we did is
9:06since I had a limited amount of headsets
9:08and devices we would show this the two
9:13were that the student was guiding up on
9:15the smart board so the rest of the class
9:17could follow along with the tour while
9:19that student was guiding it
9:21so that's always a good thing to do Plus
9:24this you know gives you an idea of what
9:28your tour actually looks like so the
9:32next step in creating your google
9:34expedition is you have to search for
9:36your published expedition within Polly
9:39to get to the site you have to go to
9:41Polly Gulf calm and this is an important
9:45step and it's that intermediate step
9:47that you have to do because if you don't
9:51go to this website and actually discover
9:55your tour and share it with gulick
10:00google expeditions you won't be able to
10:04guide it within virtual reality
10:07so I'm going to go up here and I am
10:11going to type in the title one thing to
10:14know is it can take some time for your
10:17tour to become discoverable within Polly
10:19so just be patient I'm gonna go here and
10:23we're gonna click on it and you have a
10:28couple options right here you can take a
10:31look and kind of preview what that tour
10:34is you can come down here and like it
10:37what liking it does is it sends it to
10:41your library and makes it searchable
10:43within your library in Google
10:45expeditions another key feature right
10:49here if you click on the share button
10:51you can share it directly to Google
10:54expeditions so the next step is to
11:01access Google expeditions app once you
11:05do that you're going to access my tours
11:10in your library you're gonna look for
11:13your tour and then you're going to click
11:14on that tour
11:21once you do that you're going to
11:23download your expedition after you
11:29download your expedition you are ready
11:30to guide good luck and have fun so to
11:35get started what exactly do you need
11:36well you need at least two devices one
11:38to guide and want to join the expedition
11:40good rule of thumb is to have at least
11:43one device per two to three students you
11:47need a Google cardboard viewer per
11:49device it's not essential but it does
11:52make the experience more immersive some
11:57things to consider you need to look at
11:58your Wi-Fi network you need to make sure
12:00that all of your devices can access the
12:03Wi-Fi and they have to be on the same
12:06Wi-Fi because this is a peer-to-peer app
12:11so your Guiding device needs the same
12:16needs to be on the same Wi-Fi as those
12:20devices joining the expedition cost you
12:25can have this be as cheap as you want or
12:30as expensive as you want cardboard
12:33viewers can run anywhere from six
12:36dollars to ten to fifteen dollars you
12:40can buy virtual reality device bundles
12:44from Best Buy bundle for 15 devices is
12:47ten thousand dollars so it really
12:50depends on the money that you have
12:52available and what you're willing to
12:53spend here are some ideas for
12:57integrating Google expeditions into your
13:00classroom
13:00[Music]
13:02all of these links can be found in the
13:04handouts that will be distributed and
13:07attached along with this video thank you
13:12for joining in today if you have any
13:13questions or need any assistance please
13:15reach out to me on twitter at scott
13:18lewis ITC or you can reach me by email
13:21Lewis s at FCPS k12
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