Mindlab session 7 - twitter, blended learning and leadership

Edpuzzle.com - add comments and questions, trim video, add questions, add audio

Can retrieve answers to questions and know who is logged in 

Nice little online piece of software - easy to use, like the additions of adding audio and asking Q's during the videos set 

Blendspace - can be blended for students and teachers

Make it for filming skills for staff 

used previously, children like it, a little time consuming to see and select enough to fill 6 spots 

gets faster as its used

 example http://ithinklaingholm.blogspot.co.nz/2015/11/the-time-is-now.html

Todaysmeet.com - online meeting and discussion space

Reignited my Twitter life - always been a listener to various people: @Queen_UK [humour],

@JeremyClarkson [humour], @ICT_MrP [education], @leecrockett [education], @kjinquiry [education], @julianclary [humour], @1stanwalker [music], @adamlambert [music] - listened for many years to these guys - so much so their tweets get sent as text messages so I never miss one of theirs, lost my online interaction with Twitter sometime ago...reigniting my twitter life again after today's session

 

Distributed leadership:

All people able to lead in diff ways

Enabling distributed leadership via digital technologies

Opportunity for you to lead - provide better feedback, provide better support, provide creativity, PD

leaders lead from where they are at

Collective intelligence - crowds solve problems

Samr - goal is not redefinition all the time

Never a set way all the time

Provides opportunities for creativity 

Values diversity - wicked problem - how do we value diversity 

Broad visions

Inquiry cycle 

Systems change

No idea how to do that - trust to try and see what will happen

Mindlab Session 4 - Evidence based Learning and Stop-motion

Evidence based learning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=62&v=W4eiIPA8ZcM

It's not just using data on students to affect teaching.

Brain Gym is not effective...

What is graphical evidence..?

Skills need to be the priority.
http://www.evidencebasedteaching.org.au/robert-marzano-vs-john-hattie/

ITSC 2010 - Apple Conference

Cool to meet new peops [Lorraine on left and Belinda on right] and old buddies [Mary] love being at a geek fest!

Just some random notes on the learning gathered from ITSC Auckland 2010:
First up Apps on a Mac

TextEdit - free app on a Mac

• will speak text [speech option under edit tab]
• copy and paste block of text - use speech option for children to hear text
• useful to pronounce words they don't know
• listen to their own text and hear how it sounds
  
• useful for researching options
• more useful tips here and here
  

QuickTime Player [Snow Leopard]

• screen recording inbuilt - demo here
• audio recording inbuilt
• utilize experts in class to quick demo 'how to's' and upload to a resources page

iPhone/iPod touch Apps

• for current use can only be bought and used on 5 devices [this may change]
• utilize the iTunes store apps search - educational and fun [need an iTunes account]
  
• easily syncs to devices, but apps stay part of library

iTunesU

• Universities and Schools - lessons etc can be downloaded for free - also Beyond Campus

Second up useful Web 2.0 apps

• Memiary - Record up to five memories of your day and make them memorable forever. Memiary is the weightless pocket diary - cool for listing 5 things ch'n have learnt each day
  
• Weebly - free website set-up and blog options - possible usage for E-portfolios online?
• Telescopic Text - text editor - demonstrates how a simple sentence can be extended into a creative story including description and developed punctuation
• Chogger - a comic strip creator, can add own photos or drawings also
• Fotobabble - talking photos for adding to blogs or twitter etc example from ITSC

Check out this blog for other links from the Conference too ITSC2010

Quote for learning: Some people skate to the puck.....others skate to where the puck is going to be... Wayne Gretsky