Today I had the opportunity to speak to the entire freshmen class about their Digital Footprint. The purpose of the presentation was to address The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of using social media. I started the presentation with focusing on all of the good things Nashoba is doing online. I highlighted the our Athletic Director @nashobaAD and school newspaper The Chieftain Press @Chieftain_Chat. I then moved on "The Bad" and talked about our unpleasant experience with Yik Yak last week but show the positive tweets that were sent out to show that does not represent our school. Lastly I moved on the "The Ugly" discussing Sexting and other bad choices that students sometimes make. I wanted to make sure students were aware of the consequences of their actions. Our school resource officer addressed the students along with a representative for the Worcester DA's office. When preparing for the presentation I struggled. I didn't want to lecture on the evil of social media. I use social media as an educator and wanted students to see the value of contributing to the Nashoba Community. At the same time, I wanted to make they realized there are legal consequences for bad choices. The students were a great audience and hopefully the presentation gave them something to think about. Here is the link to Prezi Presentation and published below.
Friday, September 26, 2014
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
How to Create a Captivating Presentation (Science and English Interdisciplinary Course)
Interdisciplinary Course with Science Teacher Mrs. Doyle and English Teacher Ms. RochaLesson 1 with Mrs. Doyle
- Trading Card for an influential person
- Introduce Google Classroom for collecting pdf files
Present to class on presentation techniques and tools.
Getting Students to create an engaging presentation and show creativity can be a difficult task. It's easy to put all the words on a slide and read the slide to the class but it's not very engaging! Here are some tips and a blog post to help prepare for your presentation:
1. Tap your enthusiasm
2. Get to the core of your message.
3. Tell a captivating story.
4. Wow them with words.
5. Create stunning slides.
6. Keep it simple.
There are several tools that you can use to create an interesting presentation.
- Google Presentation (incorporating YouTube Videos into the presentation
- Prezi
- SlideShare
- Infographics (example http://piktochart.com)
Here are some example that I will show the class:
Prezi
- http://prezi.com/qobiqjkuv8k3/the-plague/
- http://prezi.com/wp7tbn87xjsp/the-plague-and-hiv/
- http://prezi.com/0yqvqr8tv5xk/the-black-plague/ (turn sound off)
- Teacher Assignment on the plague http://prezi.com/oabtabt2uetl/the-black-death/
Powtoon
Infographic - (example http://piktochart.com)
Poster Example - http://www.themarysue.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/outbreak-infographic.jpg#geekosystem
Sunday, September 7, 2014
Getting Started with Google Classroom (and Grading)
Google Classroom has been released and so far the results are good!
I have been able to easily how teachers how to go to classroom.google.com, join as a teacher and create a class. I had a preview over the summer with a few teachers but not really able to check it out until this week in school with several classes. I am impressed with how easily and seamlessly it integrates into Google Drive by creating a Class Folder with each course students are invited to by teachers. When showing students the new icon under the Apps Menu and the link classroom.google.com. I had them join as students, provided them the class code.
We started with a basic exercise posting a question "Tell me something about yourself" as an assignment with a due date. The questions appeared on the student class site. Students created a google doc, responded and simply click the turn in option. The teacher was delight to see the list of students, with links to their email and view what students had turned the assignment in. We quickly assigned points for the day for the assignment.
I then posted a YouTube video link with an overview. of Classroom.
I then had students access their Google Drive and locate the Classroom Folder and assignments. A few of students had already activated other classes and had could see three of their classrooms. The interface and process is very easy to use.
Now, I only wish Google would streamline some other options such as grading without having to use Add-On's. I wouldn't be surprised to see more classroom features integrated this year. The timing is great, teachers are looking for a way to streamline their work and Google just gave it to them.
I tweet out some benefits of Google Classroom over the weekend and plan to meet with more teachers next week.
Back to school and new options 3 Different Things You Can Do With - via
I worked with a few teachers to use Google Forms with the Flubaroo
Add-On to create Pre-Post tests for our DDM's.
I also provided them the link to my blog post along with the video below.
Next Month - We will explore using Google Classroom with Doctopus and Goobric (Andrew Stillman has updated for classroom here) for online grading with a rubric.
Or watch this review Doctopus + Classroom + Goobric = :)
by here by Jen Magiera
These enhancements and direct usefulness in the classroom should have more teachers embracing #GAFE with these new features!
I have been able to easily how teachers how to go to classroom.google.com, join as a teacher and create a class. I had a preview over the summer with a few teachers but not really able to check it out until this week in school with several classes. I am impressed with how easily and seamlessly it integrates into Google Drive by creating a Class Folder with each course students are invited to by teachers. When showing students the new icon under the Apps Menu and the link classroom.google.com. I had them join as students, provided them the class code.
We started with a basic exercise posting a question "Tell me something about yourself" as an assignment with a due date. The questions appeared on the student class site. Students created a google doc, responded and simply click the turn in option. The teacher was delight to see the list of students, with links to their email and view what students had turned the assignment in. We quickly assigned points for the day for the assignment.
I then posted a YouTube video link with an overview. of Classroom.
I then had students access their Google Drive and locate the Classroom Folder and assignments. A few of students had already activated other classes and had could see three of their classrooms. The interface and process is very easy to use.
Now, I only wish Google would streamline some other options such as grading without having to use Add-On's. I wouldn't be surprised to see more classroom features integrated this year. The timing is great, teachers are looking for a way to streamline their work and Google just gave it to them.
I tweet out some benefits of Google Classroom over the weekend and plan to meet with more teachers next week.
Featured Launch: Google Classroom
Back to school and new options 3 Different Things You Can Do With - via
I worked with a few teachers to use Google Forms with the Flubaroo
Add-On to create Pre-Post tests for our DDM's.
I also provided them the link to my blog post along with the video below.
Next Month - We will explore using Google Classroom with Doctopus and Goobric (Andrew Stillman has updated for classroom here) for online grading with a rubric.
Or watch this review Doctopus + Classroom + Goobric = :)
by here by Jen Magiera
These enhancements and direct usefulness in the classroom should have more teachers embracing #GAFE with these new features!