I thank the wonderful words of iPadsammy, when he said "you know these apps might not be exactly related to education, but I think they are powerful." This was at the TCEA Region 7 event two weeks ago.
What I found was how much fun and interactive Vine and Soundtracking are. If you have not experimented or played with either app. Go ahead and download them now and just check them out,
Vine - is basically like Instagram but it allows you to film 6 seconds and it is a stop motion video. It is best to think of short conceptual videos that are fun, arty, silly or just straight up real. This app can be great for catching in the moment events and help bring the social networking platform to a more interactive experience.
Soundtracking - is basically like Instagram but it allows you to play one song from your playlist or online account to any cloud service. It is pretty cool, because you can share music quickly and see what others are trending on. I like this because this becomes a more visual and quick response version of Soundcloud.
It has been interesting to watch mobile apps evolve, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Pinterest all serve a purpose and are very helpful in various ways.
But now when you think of short videos - Vine should pop into your head.
Then when you think of quick ways to share songs - Soundtracking should tickle your ears.
My Class did an awesome job practicing the Smule Guitar App. We performed "Stand by Me" by Ben E. King this week at the McClendon Elementary Talent Show.
iMovie is easy to use and is revolutionizing the classroom with Flipped instruction and in class projects that can sythesize lessons quick and easy. Plus the teachers and students feel confident and ecstatic to share their creations.
Here are 13 ways to use iMovie in a School
thanks to Eddapps.ca for the info.
Documentation: Use the camera and microphone to record student work and performances. You might record students reading, to track progress, video record a student playing a short riff in band class, or record a performance in Phys.Ed, or pretty much any other course.
Peer Feedback: Use video as a great medium to get students to begin to provide each other with feedback. Watching in pairs or small groups can become a catalyst for powerful conversations.
Self Reflection: Students learning to be self aware and provide self-feedback is one of the most effective things we can teach our students. They can watch themselves doing some sort of performance (as described in Documentation above), and give them some structure or checklist to follow.
Creating Movies: Youtube is the most popular and powerful search engine for kids, it is how they communicate. Students also should be learning how to create movies so that they can be active participants in the media. iMovie makes it easy to include elements such as text, transitions, visuals and music; all elements that make the medium a powerful one.
Create Pecha-Kucha Presentations: Pecha-Kucha presentations are becoming more popular due to their time efficiency and engaging characteristics. The 20×20 (20 slides/images for 20 seconds each, with oral descriptions) presentation is made easily in iMovie
Story Telling: have students tell personal stories and turn them into digital stories using pictures and images from their classroom and their lives.
Photo Essay: Photo-essays are powerful ways to convey messages through visuals and text. Students can easily add text-based-slides to iMovie using another app called iMovie Extras.
Microscopy: The camera in the iPad works perfectly for recording through the optical piece of a light microscope. You can easily take video of live specimens under a low powered microscope.
Field Trips: Field trips / Field studies are great, and students can use the iPads video recoding/editing capabilities to document the experience so that they can bring it back to the classroom.
Creating Instructional Videos: We learn best when we teach something: students can quickly make instructional videos using iMovie and the iPad, by recording them selves and their peers, and cutting the moving into a logical sequence of instructions.
Slow Motion Analysis: In imovie, you can easily scrub through video clips in slow motion at an appropriate speed, frame by frame. During a physics experiment, science demo, or Phys.Ed. class, students can record and then slow down footage to find out exactly what is going on.
Create Animated Films: By using iMovie in conjunction with other apps such as Animation HD or iMotion HD, students can create beautiful stop motion or animated films, stringing together various short clips, adding voice overs, sound effects, and music.
Professional Growth: Even as teachers, we can be using iMovie to learn. Record yourself teaching lessons, and create short edits from your recordings to document how you teach, reflect on your work, and share with other professionals what you are doing and how you are doing it.
I will be presenting "Cloudy Collaboration" tomorrow at Region 10's Technology Conference.
Please stop by to learn about using Google Docs live in class or in faculty meetings. Also I will cover Socrative, Evernote and many other great cloud based tools to use.
This is for my Master's Class portfolio at Dallas Baptist University. I have collected 9 movie quotes to help symbolize or embody some of the themes of each of the nine Texas principal competencies. Let me know your thoughts...
#1 - The Wizard in The Wizard of Oz,“Back where I come from we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got, a diploma.”
#2 - Scarlett Johansson in We Bought a Zoo,“The secret to talking is listening.”
#3 - Morgan Freeman in Lean on Me,“This is an institution of learning, ladies and gentlemen. If you can’t control it, how can you teach? Discipline is not the enemy of enthusiasm!”
#4 - Geoffrey Canada of the Kipp Academy in Waiting for Superman,“Instead of a national curriculum for education,
what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.”
#5 - Richard Dreyfuss in Mr. Holland’s Opus,“A teacher has two jobs; fill young minds with knowledge, yes, but more important, give those minds a compass so that knowledge doesn’t go to waste.”
#6 - Jack Black in School of Rock,“I’m a teacher. All I need are minds for molding.”
#7 - Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness,“I’m the type of person that if you ask me a question and I don’t know the answer, I’m gonna tell you that I don’t know. But I bet you want, I know how to find the answer and I will find the answer.”
#8 - Sean Connery in Finding Forester,“Do not hire a someone who does your work for money, but someone who does it for the love of it.”
#9 - Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Minds,“I will keep my classroom safe for you to learn, there are no victims in my classroom?”
Here is a great piece of learning about Trailblazers in education and what it means for the K-12 Classroom. Best decision is to let teachers and students decide the learning :) They will care more about it!
I found this link to all of Google's Apps specifically integrated for the Chromebook and the Classroom. If you try any of these out let me know what works best for you :)
It was a very engaging and informative look at the man. He is seen as the most important inventor since Thomas Edison. It is incredible see how many things he was involved in besides Apple, inc. I mean his investment in Pixar and every other invention is mentioned in this riveting doc. Highly Recommended!
This intrigued me... especially the part where they mention the Nexus and Google's lack of working with the users along the way. I am curious if you have had any issues with Google Hardware products?
My chromebook rocks and is currently working just fine for me :)
This is a solid list of ideas, links and multiple reasons to commit to a Google Doc lifestyle... The opportunities are endless and this platform is not going anywhere...
I am a firm believer in using Twitter to teach, share and learn. Read this :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2013/mar/13/twitter-transform-learning-higher-education
Our family had a wonderful time at the DMA - Dallas Museum of Art yesterday. The general collection included a traveling exhibit by Loren Mosley from Austin, which was incredible.
The new open education resource portal is a great thing to investigate for collaborative learning.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/transitioning-to-open-educational-resources-andrew-marcinek
