FETC 2012

My experience at FETC 2012 has left me exhilarated and exhausted. I came away with so many links and so much new learning, but now I need time to sort it all out. These are my notes with links; but really, this is just a first layer of my learning. As part of the conference, I joined Edmodo where I have access to presenter notes and back channel conversations. For several workshops, I tweeted an essential idea - captured in 140 characters or less. I now see how that in itself is a valuable tool to inspire thought.

FETC Marie Coleman: presentations

Transform content presentations
Marie Coleman 

Powerful presentations should be about. 
Here is a link to her excellent collection of examples and resources.


Based on the Pecha kucha technique: 
 7 min. 20 slide max, few words, visual connection important but not obvious until explored, one photo per slide - relevant visual, 


Use CRAP (Contrast, repetition, alignment, proximity)


This is a wonderful and funny summary of her ideas (but it's not her video) 

Kamishibai video

Some tools to create audio files:
http://audioboo.fm/
http://www.recordmp3.org/


To create a trip visual: http://tripline.net/

FETC Ruston Hurley

Rushton Hurley

 http://www.nextvista.org/

Here is a full site of resources: https://sites.google.com/site/rushtonsresources/

Some points of interest from his talk: He spent many years as a H.S. teacher and only one year at jr high, but half his stories come from that year. “The cloud is safer than your own computer.” Power of audience - want it to be good, not just good enough. Power of barriers: fear and time. "fear keeps a good teacher from being great" (example: “touch me” big screen video - kids vs adults). One device is not enough. Which fits best for this job? This kid? Xpad. iPad or tablets not good for writing well. Chromebooks - good for school, in the cloud, but needs good wireless, 
"isolation a cancer on teachers forever" going away w future of Ed tech

Some of the resources he shared include the following:

·         Video 2011 in review. Link on resource page

·         Google spreadsheet: magic fill, control and pull down it finds a pattern – very cool

Collaborizeclassroom.com tool, topic library
whatisyourEduwin.com

FETC Dr. Maureen Brown Yoder

Electronic constructivism.

Dr. Maureen Brown Yoder

I have her powerpoint presentation which is loaded with a buffet of ideas, resources and links. It’s too big to post. Here are some notable resources she mentioned ( know they are not live links):

·         Gapminder.org

·         Waybackmachine archive.org 

·         Google lit trips

·         Yacapaca.com assessments and more

·         Classroom20 

·         Talklikeshakespeare.org

·         Mark burrows rewrites songs

·         Wikihow how to write a rap song

·         Voicethread make PowerPoint save as pictures. Add voice
Debate 

·         Qrcodes use on a business card. Common craft video, tattoo medical history, grave marker, (my ideas: flash cards, hand outs, letters home, Getting to know you hall decorations Attendance) 

·         Ignitelearning.com

·         Educationnation.com 

http://www.webheadsinaction.org/

FETC Kathy Schrock Info Graphics as assessment

Kathy Schrock info graphics as assessment 
Linkyy.com/infographics

Info graphics are visual displays of data and information like we see in USA Today snapshots. They fit common core standards across curriculum.

Tons of great examples @ Visual.ly 

Let's include these in science fair projects. 
Can even create a Resume infographic

Flow town 
Mint.com 
Theydrawandcook
Snagajob.com break-room/workplace

To make them, you need Good transparencies like Photoshop elements, layer based imaging programs, Sumo paint, aviary . . .

FETC Sandbox Shootout

Sandbox Shoot out notes

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John Kuglin

·         Weebly for building a web presence  http://www.kuglin.com/

·         Sliderocket.com free subscription service 

·         Qr codes 

·         http://portal.sliderocket.com/AEILA/FETC-2012

Lesliefisher.com

·         http://willyou.typewith.me/  For collaboration

·         Evernote - flash card idea
sanho hypermac to transfer info from device to device. Can send a file to a group of pc’s for example

·         Ion audio guitar apprentice frets light up to tell you how to play

·         Classdojo.com to track behaviors 

·         Scoopit.com to collect resources . Can be followed and collaborate 

·         Remind 101 to send messages without exchanging contact info.

Other great resources mentioned: 

• Sugarsync online cloud storage crosses device platforms
• Aircassette 
• Virtualeternity.com
• Qrvoice.net record message or qr code
• Tripod sunpak prop for iPad 
• Green screen chromakey
• Smellit 
• Pogoplug your own cloud
• Icyte saves a site active forever. Sign up free as a teacher
• Stratalogica 
•  Ipevo chopsticks styli  
•  Elgato for transferring video to digital 
• Visual.ly
• ·         Stroome edit and remix and publish on social media
• ·         Live minutes for video conferencing
• ·         Big marker video conferencing
• ·         Minus.com for iBooks
• ·         Eaybib -backwards searches
• ·         Vizlingo - pulls in images to match words
• ·         YouTube video editor search creative commons and manipulate
• ·         positr post pics from close by
• ·         Idownloader.com
• ·         Dropitome for dropbox

FETC Heidi Hayes Jacobs - Keynote

Heidi Hayes Jacobs

Keynote speaker Heidi Hayes Jacobs: don't just tweak; strategically replace one component at a time. #fetc

Curriculum 21
http://www.curriculum21.com/
New technologies are creating new genres. Tools impact learning. We need to select the best forms for the right purposes. (Example. prezi good to start something, not sustain it.) We have a “tsunami of new tools” but it’s hard to know how to do it well. Don't just jump into the tool; understand how to improve the learning. Upgrading: strategic replacement. 

She is against reform- that's just tweaking things- need new forms. Every textbook is dated. “Paper is over” No more binders! Upgrade a component in each unit, Dump a faculty meeting; instead have a session about what you can do on your laptop, make every teacher make one upgrade (oral presentations are a low point). Why aren't we doing our own Ted talks for p.d. Why aren't our students?

Curriculum mapping - a live book - standards /curriculum/lessons updates immediately.

5 trends

·         Social production: Wikipedia considered reliable

·         Social networks: curriculum21.com  - clearinghouse, ap to be released

·         Semantic web

·         Media grids

·         Nonlinear learning

Tools and ideas:

Vocabgrabber create own word lists independently. 
Gapminder
Create a Voiceover for a museum trip
Jacob burn center - new media literacy framework 
Note taking - create their own text messaging system for notes
Social studies, create trailer to use next year for pre teaching

FETC Meg Ormiston: Lights, Camera, Engagement

Meg Ormiston: Lights, Camera, Engagement

Wish we could have our own multimedia boot camp modeled on Meg Ormiston's presentation #fetc 
 
She provided many examples of creative projects. Some examples include these:

·         Google earth station - create tours (compare contrast Paris and Washington), example: Underground railroad.  Olympic venues, google lit trips, tripline.net, google sketchup YouTube channel, 

When searching in Google include letters "kmz"  in search

·         Sketchup: project spectrum: download floor plans from library of congress, build the buildings on those blueprints. 

·         Audio: studycast. Audioboo, recordmp3.org , soundboard (not classroom appropriate, but great resource), hub for 5 earbuds rockstar by belken 12 dollars, 

Tips and stuff:

·         Flickr- downloads largest images

·         Hunger games trailer - email to get a copy. She'll Put it in public drop box and send the link. 

music science video Glucose, sugar sugar. Great hook btwn images and concepts. Sciencegroove.com & mr. Lee (for elementary science)
Flocabulary songs, 

FETC Michael Wesch

Michael Wesch: anthropologist

Inspired by Michael Wesch to create classes where kids are free to fail, to love and to wonder. #FETC

Before this keynote session, I hadn't heard of the anthropologist Michael Wesch but I did know his work. We’ve been shown his video gone viral about web 2.0 and the one about disaffected college students in America? What these walls say - video made by students in collaboration. And Web  2.0 - video of history of text.  Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
A Vision of Students Today




He has given a TED talk. I strongly recommend you check it out. 

An outline of what I found interesting in his talk:

·         Walk through history, 1200 years

·         2003 first viral video: Numanuma, connects in new ways

·         Heading to ubiquitous communications

·         Importance of writing to facilitate change

·         Move kids from knowledgeable to able to find, sort, create, evaluate . .  Knowledge.

·         More than teaching skills, Must inspire wonder, Ex: video of snow in New Zealand

·       Wonder and curiosity correlate with happiness
Great teachers can inspire wonderful questions like how different can humans be? Range of human possibility (same: raising pitch at end of question. why? Mammals do it, Hi pitch question invited connections, embrace vulnerability, quest for mastery
Need to feel safe to do that)

·         Stories of journey in papa new guinea. Open to losing yourself to be open to learning.

·         Empathy Today less empathy, encapsulated society. Numb ourselves to pain and joy. Creates a cultural inversion - express desires but achieve the opposite. From wonder to whatever

·         Media mediates relationships. “Whatever”

Need true freedom to learn in quest for mastery.
Freedom to fail (60 tries for skateboard trick)
Freedom to love

http://ericwhitacre.com/the-virtual-choir Music collaboration