*THING 10: WORKING WITH VIDEO | 23 Things for Digital Knowledge There are many options for watching, downloading, and sharing video online. For Thing 10 we’re looking at video platforms to compare their usability, licensing options, and accessibility as well as ways to generate your own videos. YouTube YouTube was created in 2005 as a website for users to share original video content. Since then it has become a repository for video, film, animation, art, and advertising. Anyone can view content on YouTube, and can also choose to sign up and share their own content, or curate lists of other content on the website. YouTube provides its users with two licensing options for content uploaded to its site. The second is a Creative Commons CC BY Attribution licence allowing anyone to re-purpose and re-use the video so long as attribution is provided to the creator of the video. Vimeo Vimeo was founded in 2004, and in 2007 became the first video sharing site to support high-definition video. Screencasting Try this Screencasting Explore further
Apple TV In The Classroom – The New Smart Board An iPad and Apple TV can combine to provide an advantageous alternative to more expensive, traditional interactive white boards. Guest writer and High School Principal David Mahaley is using this approach and offers his insights, and observations from educators in his school. With the integration of the iPad into the instructional environment, teachers and students have discovered many new ways in which the device can expand and enhance the learning environment. With the iPad, the Apple TV can offer a flexible, complete, and cost efficient alternative to the traditional interactive boards populating our classrooms. As a school administrator and teacher, I have explored the Apple TV and its offerings as an alternative to one of the many types of interactive whiteboards currently available to instructors. We have committed our school to issuing every high school student and instructor an iPad. Image by K.Walsh, Apple TV logo source: www.apple.com/appletv Print This Post
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Spotlight: Engaging Students with Interactive Whiteboards Discuss “interactivity”, “engagement”, and the benefits of using an IWB Identify classroom activities that can be enriched through the use of an IWB, leading to increased student engagement Provide additional resources for professional development and extended learning Demonstrate how to use the technical tools available in IWB software 1Build Your Understanding I Have an Interactive Whiteboard, Now What? 2Put This Concept Into Practice - Classroom Projects Building Acrostic Poems (16 min) Hide & Reveal (33 min) Interactive Multiplication (33 min) Saturn Flip (26 min) What’s the Moral? 3Reflect & Apply Professional Development Workbook Adapting 21st Century Skills Projects to the Classroom Workshop ePortfolio ? ActivStudio® Courses ActivPrimary® Courses ActivInspire® Courses Easiteach® Courses Epson® TeamBoard Draw Courses Mimio® Courses SMART Board™ Notebook Courses SMART Board and Notebook are trademarks of SMART Technologies, Inc., in Canada and the U.S.
*UDL and The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture In response to all of the attention given to the flipped classroom, I proposed The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture and The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture for Higher Education in which the viewing of videos (often discussed on the primary focus of the flipped classroom) becomes a part of a larger cycle of learning based on an experiential cycle of learning. Universal Design for Learning has also been in the news lately as a new report Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Initiatives on the Move was released by the National Center on UDL, May, 2012. This post describes the principles of Universal Design for Learning and how they naturally occur when a full cycle of learning, including ideas related to the flipped classroom, are used within the instructional process. Universal Design for Learning The UDL framework: Source: More about UDL can be found at: Some of the key findings of the Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Initiatives on the Move study:
*The Science Behind Stories and Anecdotes – The Principal of Change When I first started putting this blog/portfolio together in 2010, I wanted to think of a name for it. To some, the title of their blog is something that has actually held them back from starting it in the first place. They have great ideas but they can’t find that “perfect” title. It is kind of a big deal! Throwing around ideas with some friends on the title of the blog, I shared my focus on helping people embrace “meaningful change”, and hence since I was a principal at the time, “The Principal of Change” was born. #alwaysplaytheCanadiancard But what about the subtitle? That decision was actually easier. Yet, is this just a personal preference or is there something more here? According to the article, “Your Brain on Fiction” (I encourage you to read the entire article), stories can “stimulate the brain and even change how we act in life.” When we see ourselves in a story and make our own connections, ideas resonate and stick. Now all this is interesting.
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The flipping librarian One of the things I am getting ready to do in September is to help a growing number of interested teachers flip. Just in case you’ve missed it, many educators are thinking about flipping. What is flipping? Flipping the classroom changes the place in which content is delivered. If the teacher assigns lecture-type instruction–in the form of video, simulations, slidecasts, readings, podcasts–as homework, then class time can be used interactively. Flipping frees face-to-face classroom time for interactive and applied learning, activities that inspire critical thinking, exploration, inquiry, discussion, collaboration, problem solving. According to teachers Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams, considered by many the co-founders of the movement, the Flipped Classroom begins with one question: What’s the best use of your face-to-face class time? In this short video, Sams explains the rationale behind his shift in classroom practice: Does flipping work? Of 453 flipped educators surveyed: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.