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8:30-8:45 — Welcome and intros
8:45-10:00 — Teaching in a Paperless Classroom
10:10-11:30 — Connecting Your Classroom to the World
11:30-12:30 — Lunch
12:30-2:00 — The Imaginarium: Imagine the unit of your dreams and create it! (+GAFE stuff)
2:00-3:15 — UbD final project work time
Make sure you put your name and e-mail address on the sign-up sheet being passed around. You’ll be entered to win a copy of Camtasia Studio (REALLY good video editing software) or Snagit (REALLY good screen capture software). By signing up, you’ll also be signed up to receive Matt’s e-mail newsletter with tips and tricks for teaching with technology and creativity.
Also, the winner of the Kahoot! game right before lunch will win a FREE Kahoot! t-shirt!
More info about Camtasia Studio
Matt Miller (@jmattmiller) is a high school Spanish teacher at Turkey Run High School in Marshall, IN. His students engage in Spanish through educational technology regularly, including tools like blogs, digital videos and photos, QR codes, Google Voice and more. He blogs regularly at Ditch That Textbook, which is dedicated to teaching with less reliance on the textbook with an emphasis on technology and creative teaching. He can be contacted at matt@ditchthattextbook.com.
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Session slides:
Video from session: Digital Natives – 3 years later
Why go paperless?
View the full-sized image of Matt’s sketch HERE.
What does it look like to be paperless?
A lot like your class looks now! It’s definitely not a silver bullet …
Creating a website to hold everything
Matt’s suggestion for creating a class website: education.weebly.com
Matt’s class webpage: turkeyrunspanish.weebly.com
Good basic tools to make it happen
Google Apps for Education: drive.google.com
TodaysMeet: todaysmeet.com
Socrative: socrative.com
Infuse Learning: infuselearning.com
Practical advice for creating a paperless classroom
20 features of a great paperless classroom (Ditch That Textbook)
View the full-sized image of Matt’s sketch HERE.
Resources for teaching without textbooks
NBC Learn: indiana.nbclearn.com (FREE for Indiana educators!)
SAS Curriculum Pathways: sascurriculumpathways.com
Discovery Education: discoveryeducation.com/teachers
Khan Academy: khanacademy.org
Link to video in the session: Connect Classrooms Globally with Skype
GETTING STARTED CONNECTING GLOBALLY:
MYSTERY SKYPE:
FINDING SKYPE PARTNERS:
10 Ways to Start Using Skype in the Classroom: http://www.edudemic.com/10-ways-to-start-using-skype-in-the-classroom/
Mystery Location Call Roles (jobs that students can do while the call is going on): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UkFXBUyseKZN6yfVpW9Mye6hbSc8JNHl_yu3ExLanMA/edit?hl=en&forcehl=1
What is the Imaginarium? It’s kind of like an aquarium, a terrarium, an oceanarium, an insectarium. In those places, certain living things live, grow and develop. It’s a place designed to help them flourish based on their unique needs.
Teachers need an Imaginarium: a place where they can take their ideas and help them flourish.
This is a session dedicated to helping YOU create the unit or lesson of your dreams. Add creativity, technology, design or whatever you want to it to create the kind of experience your students will never forget.
Let’s get started!
Session slides
Which unit/lesson do you have in mind?
Analyze the unit/lesson you’ve picked.
Think of what you really want students to take away from the unit/lesson.
Before we touch on some ideas that could spice this unit/lesson up, think about how it could be improved.
“Teach Like a PIRATE” is a book written by high school social studies teacher Dave Burgess. The jacket of the book states: “this book offers inspiration, practical techniques, and innovative ideas that will help you increase student engagement, boost your creativity, and transform your life as an educator.”
PIRATE is an acronym for:
It also draws upon 32 “hooks” (pirate … hooks … see what we did there?) to draw students in and engage them. See them all in the sketch below. Then, find out what they mean in the PDF below that!
Helicopter rescue survivor list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w82CP2vhCoSFmJ7Ki2OHJIYEcCrBrn11tRtrqRxj4CI/edit?usp=sharing
Haiku Deck on “Teach Like a PIRATE”: https://www.haikudeck.com/teach-like-a-pirate-education-presentation-QdRVoLXaE4#
Teach Like a PIRATE Day video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOnfdjHa_AQ
Matt’s Duck Dynasty post: https://ditchthattextbook.com/2013/09/26/social-media-duck-dynastys-jase-robertson-and-my-class/
A great place to start: A veteran teacher turned coach shadows 2 students for 2 days — a sobering lesson learned
Key takeaway 1: Students sit all day, and sitting is exhausting.
Key takeaway 2: High school students are sitting passively and listening during approximately 90 percent of their classes
Key takeaway 3: You feel a little bit like a nuisance all day long.
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