Create Interactive, Media-rich Digital Timelines with Tiki-Toki
Remember the timelines you made in school? Mine were always sad, one-dimensional affairs that mostly required me to copy information from a textbook or the World Book Encyclopedia. Tiki-Toki reivents the traditional presentation and allows the composer to layer video, text, and images on a visually stunning interactive timeline. While these features certainly making viewing and sharing student work more enjoyable and interesting, the real value is in what teachers ask students to do with the assignment:
Tiki-Toki gives users one timeline with the free account, which is all you need to get started. Summer Tech Workshops for Teachers
I've fielded several requests for a summer tech workshop (when teachers finally have a clear head and have the luxury of thinking about new projects), so I'd like to offer some workshops the day after school ends. On Friday, June 20, I'll offer a series of workshops that will cover a few different topics. Teachers may choose to attend as many (or as few) as they'd like. Each workshop will give teachers the opportunity to experiment with new digital tools, discuss implications for teaching and learning, and begin planning classroom approaches. At the moment, I'm considering the following topics:
Teachers will receive contact hours for participation. Participants will reconvene next school year to share what they've done in their classrooms. Interested? Have requests for other topics? Submit this non-binding form to give me a rough idea of how many colleagues I can expect to join me on that day. Quick Tip: Using Zoom Gesture for Presenting
If you’ve ever presented anything with your LCD projector, you know how useful it is (or would be) to zoom in on a detail you want to emphasize. Zooming in and out during a presentation is as simple as pressing a key and using a two-finger scrolling gesture. To set this up, first open System Preferences and access the Accessibility menu. 1. Select the Zoom menu.
2. Make sure the "Use scroll gesture with modifier keys to zoom" box is checked and select the key you want to associate with this zooming feature (Control is the default and works well for me. 3. If you usually use your Apple TV, choose "Picture-in-picture" as the zoom style. (You'll need to adjust the size of this window to suit your tastes -- I make the window as large as possible. You may want to make further adjustments in the More Options menu.) MSAD 75's 6-12 Diigo Feed
For more information about Diigo and the Mt. Ararat 6-12 group, see this post from a previous newsletter.
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A Snapshot of Student Technology Use on Digital Learning Day
Working on vernier graphing, Mohamed Kebbie, Lauren Grant, Kristin Sullivan, and Alison Nolan use Google Drive to collaborate in Donna Dionne's chemistry class. To celebrate Digital Learning Day, I asked 6-12 teachers at MSAD #75 to email me blurbs describing how their students were using technology that day. Here are just a few of the ways our learners leveraged their laptops and devices on a single day in February: Students used technology to...
Considering I didn't hear from some busy educators who regularly engage students in learning with digital tools, this is an impressive list! Thank you to the following teacher contributors: Sandy Bickford, Christine Delrossi, Bree Canland, John Dever, Donna Dionne, Brenda French, Jason Knight, Christy McAllaster, Candace Meyers, Kaili Phillips, Doreen Swanholm, Emily Vail, Lisa Walker, Ryan Woodside. Sites to Explore
A Document to Help Educators Teach Digital Citizenship in Small Doses
While teachers generally agree that students need to learn digital citizenship, it isn't always clear how or when to teach it, and adding more items to an already packed curriculum seems impossible. The key is to tackle the subject when it naturally arises in the classroom. If students are going to interact on the classroom social network Schoology, for example, it would be appropriate to spend part of a period talking about digital footprints or effective, appropriate online discussion. To make this task more manageable for MSAD #75 educators, the Learning Commons has begun crafting a list of resources that "pair" with particular learning opportunities. It may also serve as a place to find materials for using extra advisory minutes effectively. This list will evolve as we add topics and resources, so bookmark the page and return from time to time. As always, the Learning Commons staff is always willing to help you develop digital citizenship lessons for your particular teaching situation. |
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