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Beaver 1:1 Chromebook Roll-Out – Train-the-Trainer Workshop

Aug 102014

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This is an exciting time in Beaver County. It will be amazing to see just what you, your teachers and students can accomplish with 24/7 access to Chromebooks, Google Drive, the Internet, and the World. We have a LOT to cover today – here’s our ambitious agenda. All of the information and resources we will cover today are accessible from the presentation below:

1:1 iPad Classroom Solutions for Crimson View Elementary

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Aug 082013

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Today we’ll get you up to speed on your iPads and show you some amazing things you’ll be able to do in your 1:1 iPad classrooms. I’ll include links to everything we discuss today below, as well as a PDF and PowerPoint version of my presentation. The plan for today includes:

Cover the basics to get everyone on the same page
Presenting from your iPad: How to control and project your classroom computer, and how to project your iPad screen using Apple TV
Screencasting – creating learning objects with some cool interactive white board type apps
Creating rich media projects like narrated slide shows, picture- and full blown eBooks, and full movies.
Classroom quizzing and formative assessment with free web-based tools
Finding good places for educational apps & media

1-1 iPad Classroom Solutions PDF

1-1 iPad Classroom Solutions PowerPoint

Here’s the presentation from a similar session at the Rural Schools Conference in July, using Google+ Hangout On-Air (YouTube Video).

Apps, links and resources for each area above:

Presenting
- Splashtop Personal & Desktop Streamer
- Doceri & Desktop Server
- Apple 30 Pin to VGA adapter or Lightning to VGA adapter
- Apple TV
- Reflector & AirServer
Screencasting
Rich Media Projects
- SonicPics
- Animoto (Sign up for a free Educator Pro account)
- Scribble Press
- eBook Magic+
- iMovie
Quizzing and Assessment
- InfuseLearning
- Socrative – Teacher app and Student app
- Nearpod app
Educational Apps & Media
- App Store ‘App of the Week’ – Look for it in the ‘Featured’ section of the iPad App Store
- Provo School District Core App Alignment
- Apps4Edu from UEN
- My 60 Educational Apps in 60 Minutes Prezi
- Kearns iPod Touch Initiative Wiki
- eMedia videos from Pioneer Library
- iTunes U
- Khan Academy

Media Management Magic with Mmm… Plex!

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Feb 062013

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Plex is a free server system that shares/delivers media to other computers and connected devices within your school network. Plex can be set up on almost any computer in your school that has sufficient storage and speed to serve media to your teachers/students.

Take a look at the presentation below to learn more about how to set up and use Plex as a media server for your school.

Or, you can download a PowerPoint version of the presentation here:

Media Management Magic with Plex PPT

Links included in the presentation (links open in a new window):

Plex Website
Get Plex Apps
Main Plex Help Center
Plex Media Server Help
Plex Media Manager Help
Download Plex Media Center desktop apps for Mac & PC
Download Plex Apps for Android, iPad (iOS) or Windows Phone (mobile apps all cost $4.99)

Ideas for using Plex in Schools:

Easily manage educational videos from eMedia
Easily add and distribute videos, audio files, podcasts, iTunes U content to teachers desktops with the Plex Media Center or to teacher/student iPads with the Plex app ($4.99)
Great place to archive and distribute student videos, photos, podcasts
Access online content ‘Channels’ like YouTube, TedEd and others

Assessment in Utah, UTIPS Core, and eMedia at Fillmore Middle School

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Nov 292012

Thanks for your time Thursday to discuss what’s happening with assessment in Utah, UTIPS Core, and eMedia. Please review the recording of our session below if you have any questions or missed any or all of the training. As always, please let me know if you have any specific questions!

Web Tools for Online or Blended Classes

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Nov 162012

In our smaller districts, educators are in a pilot where they are providing upper level courses to both students in their classroms and to students in other schools across the district, using a high-end video conferencing system. This first year has been a tough go for many of them, so we got them all together to share their successes and failures. We took some time showing them how to use Canvas and the benefits of doing so, as well as some strategies to be successful with working with distance-students.

After hearing from these teachers, I showed them a few tools and services that were out there that could potentially help them out. Here’s the list:

HippoCampus– a repository of free educational resources for use in online courses from providers such as NROC, Khan Academy, and interactive science simulations from PhET
eMedia – Accessible through the Pioneer Library, eMedia is like Netflix for Utah educators with educational videos and other resources aligned to Utah core areas and grade levels.
Information on how to setup and use the International Keyboard options in Windows
Socrative – Free online web-based student response system for quick quizzes that can gather student responses??from anywhere they have a computer, laptop or any web-enabled device. Once you sign up for an account, students will access your quiz questions by going to http://m.socrative.com & entering your room number.
Poll Everywhere – Also a type of student response system, also free to educators, but allows students to respond to questions or vote with a text/SMS message from any cell phone (standard text message rates apply for responses). Poll questions can be embedded into a PowerPoint slide show as well.
Paperless Workflow for Google Docs – I briefly talked through the basics of this, but with a little time setting this workflow up for you and your students, it really does make a paperless, distance classroom a reality. Here’s how it’s working in other schools. If you are curious, here’s the basics of getting your students set up.

What’s New In Pioneer Library?

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Feb 242011

Today, we’ll explore all of the amazing resources available to you and your students, from school AND at home, through Pioneer Library from UEN. We’ll keep the information here very brief.

Bookmark this page as a quick guide to Pioneer Resources by topic or category. Teachers and students can access Pioneer from home by heading to http://pioneer.uen.org, using pioneer and search as the password to login. The password changes once a year, but you can always head back to the Pioneer main page from school to see what the current password is.

Once we have completed our tour of Pioneer, you may want to partake in the Pioneer Library Scavenger Hunt that you can use or adapt for use in your school or classroom. All that I ask is that instead of doing the last section on the Visual Thesaurus (which is not in Pioneer any longer), that you explore another section of Pioneer NOT already included in the scavenger hunt and write 3 of your own questions of resources or information to find. I’ll compile these questions, and add it back to a MASTER Scavenger Hunt, which I’ll include here for your use later on.

The New eMedia – Getting You Good To Go!

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Apr 142010

eMedia??is still the first place to look for thousands of educational videos available for teaching Utah’s core curricula, but it has a new look and feel and may look a little different to you. The new interface is much easier to navigate and is designed to get you the educational video content you need quickly!??eMedia??is accessed through Utah’s??Pioneer Online Library,??along with a wealth of other great resources.

There are??a few things that MAY need to be updated to get started??and successfully use eMedia in your classroom on your computer. There is also a??Getting Started Guide??to help you with some of the most frequently asked questions.

Audio Book links and resources:

– Audible.com

– Audible TWiT2 Offer

– Lit2Go??- Free audio ‘books’ from the Classics in chapters that you can download for free from iTunesU