Education 3.0

notes from ELN meeting - speaker Mark Osborne

Seven Survival Skills 

What would you list as being the most crucial skills for this generation?

Tony Wagner 'Global Achievement Gap'

1. Critical thinking and problem solving (problem finding)

2. Collaboration across networks and leading by influence

3. Agility and adaptability

4. Initiative and entrepreneurialism

5. Effective oral, written and visual communication

6. Accessing and analysing information

7. Curiosity and imagination

10 expectations of students - Big Picture

10 Expectations that students have of their teachers to improve their learning

1. Relationships - does my teacher know me well enough and help me form relationships

2. Relevance - is learning connected to my likes and interests and world

3. Time - can I learn at my own pace and go deep and broad

4. Timing - does everyone learn the same thing at the same time or in the order that suits them

5. Play - do I have opportunities to explore, make mistakes, tinker and make guesses

6. Practice - can I engage in deep and sustained practise of skills I need to learn

7. Choice - do all students follow the same path or do we have real choices

8. Authenticity - is my learning recognised as valuable by my family and community

9. Challenge - is there appropriate challenge that is high and meaningful

10. Application - am I applying what I am learning in a real world situation?

Watch this great visual.

http://youtu.be/K96c-TGnSf4

James Lengel’s features of Education 3.0

• students work on problems worth solving
• students and teachers collaborate productively
• students engage in self-directed research
• students learn how to tell a good story
• students employ tools appropriate to the task
• students learn to be curious and creative

QR Codes

The following are instructions written by Sarah Wallace from her QR Code Techie Breakie session last week.  Thanks Sarah for your great session!

QR Codes

Search for a YouTube video.

Click on ‘Share’ underneath the video. A URL will appear.

Click on it once to highlight it blue, then ‘command c’ (copy)

Go to http://www.qrstuff.com/

‘command v’ (paste) in the Website URL box.

Click on ‘Download QR code’ on the far right

Click on ‘OK’

The code will now be saved in your Downloads. Go to ‘Go’ – ‘Downloads’ (at the top). If you can’t see ‘Go’ click onto your desktop once. Your QR code should be at the top of your Downloads.

Drag it onto your desktop

Open a new Word document and drag and drop the code from your desktop onto the Word document. You can now add a title, picture and explanation of the code, etc.

Print it out and add it to your classroom wall for children to scan with the iPads.

See ‘Staff Disk – QR codes’ for examples and to share with other staff. Please save your document with the name of the book, site or theme for easy reference.

Children can scan the QR codes using the app ‘i-nigma’ or any QR Code reader or scanner app on the iPads.

Term One PD

In Term One 2014 the eLearning Team have provided numerous opportunities for PD for the staff.  On Teacher Only Day in January, we had a whole staff session providing differentiated PD for staff on Google Apps for Education.  Basic instruction in Google Docs and Gmail was available for those wanting to learn the basics.  A bit more advanced was available for those who were already familiar with the basics and were ready for more.  A session on how to set up a Google site and a blog was provided for teachers ready to explore using these tools for sharing their students' learning and classroom activities.

Throughout the term, extra PD has been provided on Friday mornings before school.  These sessions are run by the eLearning team each taking two weeks to share their knowledge on an area of eLearning.  Attendance at these PD sessions is voluntary and available to any staff who are interested. Also during the term there have been two after school sessions provided for teachers who would like to set up a google site and blog.

Notes and instructions for most of the sessions have been posted on this PD blog and can be found by searching the labels.

Creating Google Sites and Blogs with Cheryl

Teachers learnt how to set up their own google site with links to resources, websites, photo galleries and a class blog.  They have also learnt how to blog from their ipads, smart phones and computers.

Getting Googley with Ryan.  

Google basics and more.  Learning how to put our documents in folders, work within gmail, create google docs, presentations, draw and much more.

Going crazy with QR Codes with Sarah.  
Learning how to create QR codes and link them to websites such as Youtube movies, books, authors, theme etc.  The resources the teachers make are being collected on our Staff Disk to be shared with all of the staff.

Incredible iMovies with Rebekah
Teachers will learn how to use their iPads and the iMovie app to create exciting movies that document students' learning.  Once the teachers are familiar with how easy it is to make a movie, they will be able to share this with their students so that their students can produce their own movies to share their learning.  Movies can easily be uploaded to Youtube and shared with parents and the global community.  Linking our Youtube movies to a QR code will enable us to share our learning around the school.  We are excited about the potential available with this eLearning tool!

Going Green screen with Mellini
Our school has a green screen and video equipment that is currently used by the news team.  Any staff who are interested in trying it out with their students are welcome to attend this session to learn how to use the green screen for their own productions.

photography with students

Just read this cool article and wanted to save it somewhere for future reference.

http://langwitches.org/blog/2014/03/15/iphoneography-photo-challenges-ideas-literacy/

Adding photos to your Google Site using Picasa Web

On your Google Site where you have a photo gallery or photo album tab,  this is how you add a photo album that will look like these on my google site.  Some people do have trouble viewing these on an iPad or iPhone.  If anyone knows the fix for this please let me know.  They are viewable on computers and android devices.

Go to www.picasaweb.google.com .  If you are logged in with your google account, Picasa will open into your account.  You now need to make an album.  Choose 'upload photos' and create an album.  It is important to have the album set to share/view publicly.

Always look for a pencil to open the editing screen.






Select 'public' to make sure your students and parents can view the pictures.

Once the album is created, go back to your Google Site Photo Album page.  Click on the pencil to edit the page.  When you are in the typeable work area, give your photo album a title and then click 'insert' and go through the menu options to Google+ > Photo Album.  (this is where the magic begins!)

Your picasa web albums will show up and you just have to select which one you want and it will drop into your google site page.

Once your album is on your page you can edit the size and layout by looking for this toolbar below the album.  You must still be in the edit mode on your page.  Once you've clicked 'save' the album shows up.  To edit it you have to go back to the edit mode of the page by clicking the pencil.

Here are your options for your photo album size and layout. I have my new albums at extra-extra large and then change my old album to medium.

Good luck!  Have fun!  Shout out if you have any troubles or ask a buddy!

Adding photos to your blog

Here are two ways to add photos to your blog.

1.  Go to your blog on a computer.  Write a new post.  While you are in the compose mode, click on the 'insert image' icon in the tool bar.  From here you can choose your photos from your desk top, iphoto, or wherever you save your photos.

Once your photo is inserted into your post you can change the size and location by clicking once on the photo.  

  

This brings up a tool bar that allows you to make the choices for your photo.  Play around and see what looks best.  You can preview your post by choosing the 'preview' button in the top right of the screen.

2.  Use your phone, ipad or ipod.  You will need to have the blogger app which is available free.  You can use photos on your mobile device to post to your blog.  When you first open up the blog app you will be prompted to enter your email address that is linked to your blog.  Your blog is now connected to your blog app and you won't need to set it up again.  If you have more than once blog on your account, there will be a drop down box available when you open the app for you to choose which blog to post to.  

Follow the simple steps on your app - they are all laid out a bit differently but are pretty straightforward to use.

Once you've written your post you can save and publish it or just save it to view, edit and publish later from a computer.

Google Doc Templates

1.  Add a document to the school’s template gallery for teachers to access

2.  Google - “Google Drive templates” to find our school’s templates

3.  When owner makes changes to template it is always updated for users.

4.  To access template, users open a new document and click on ‘new > from template >’ which opens the templates gallery for user to choose from, create own document and work in or they type 'google doc templates' into the search bar as shown above.

PD blog Emailing

Testing emailing a blog post. Learning at ELN meeting with Mark Osbourne.

How to:
Go to settings on your blogger dashboards.
Click on 'mobile and email'.
Add secret word into box where blogger has given you an email address to email posts to.
Save - you now have an email address that you can email a blog post to.  Save this address into your contacts on your gmail and/or phone.

You can choose whether to publish posts instantly or to save post to drafts so you can check before posting.

You can email movies to your blog using this whereas you can't use your ipad or iphone blogger app to upload a movie to your blog. (I haven't tried this, but others at the session said this is so)

Learning about google sites and blogging

Now we know how the kids feel when we throw a lot of information at them in a short period of time.  Six new bloggers up and running!