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Welcome to AXIPD.COM | AXIPD.COM - Online PD

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Swivl - Video observations that strengthen and inform teachers

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How to Use - Swivl - Video observations that strengthen and inform teachers

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Easily record teacher AND student interactions for a holistic understanding of the classroom. With deeper insights, teachers are empowered to make meaningful changes in the classroom.

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K-12 Swivl Uses - Swivl - Video observations that strengthen and inform teachers

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Support a Diversity of Programs

Swivl helps schools deliver more frequent, consistent, and actionable feedback to students - even at a distance. Capture video for EDTPA and other credentialing programs. Use Swivl cloud to keep your content secure and organized while enabling deep collaborative work among peers. Whatever your program's needs, we can help.

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Higher Education Swivl Uses - Swivl - Video observations that strengthen and inform teachers

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Support a Diversity of Programs

Swivl helps schools deliver more frequent, consistent, and actionable feedback to students - even at a distance. Capture video for EDTPA and other credentialing programs. Use Swivl cloud to keep your content secure and organized while enabling deep collaborative work among peers. Whatever your program's needs, we can help.

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Support a Diversity of Programs Swivl helps schools deliver more frequent, consistent, and actionable feedback to students - even at a distance. Capture video for EDTPA and other credentialing programs. Use Swivl cloud to keep your content secure and organized while enabling deep collaborative work among peers.

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Okay, if you have been following my blog for the last month or so, you know that I have been participating in free professional development through a MOOC called Tinker, Make, & Learn, a course focused on developing a Makerspace. Well, the course ended...but not the desire to continue to build our new space. I promise I will be posting our latest make before the week's end!!! In the meantime, I thought I would share what I am learning now in a course called Humanizing Online Instruction: The #HumanMOOC.

Technically, it is a course for online instructors, but the information could apply to any classroom. Take this week for example...our topic: Establishing Instructor Presence. In an online environment, learner isolation is one of the primary reasons students choose not to continue in a web-based program, but an instructor can help combat the isolation by humanizing the learning experience. So, what does that mean? The teacher can ensure that students know that course material has not just been launched out into who knows where by a professor in a galaxy far, far away, but that a real, live person is on the other end carefully planning and teaching.

One of the ways suggested to boost instructor presence is through the utilization of video. Video allows people to see and hear you and if students can see you and hear you, they feel as if they know you. If they feel as if they know you, they are more likely to approach you. Being more of a traditional K-12 girl (not online teacher anymore), I began to think about others besides just my students that I wanted to "get to know me"...the parents being at the top of my list! I think often times parents want to support their kiddos, but they are not sure quite how to help. The same types of videos that an instructor might create for students could be shared on the K-12 educator's parent portal...just a thought:)

So, video? Yes! Think about the last email you received. Unless it is filled with emojis and exclamation marks, it is hard to read into it the verbal and non-verbal cues that one would normally recognize in a face-to-face interaction. Video is much more powerful than text alone. Even asynchronous one way video begins to feel like a conversation when students and parents view this type of communication regularly.

How can you use video to boost instructor presence in the K-12 classroom??? Here are the top 10 ideas shared by Tracy Schaelen, online instructor for Southwestern College (I've linked to some of her videos so that you can see examples):

1) Use video on your website as a greeting prior to the course beginning - think about the anxiety this could alleviate! It is a great way to welcome new parents and students and for them to "see" you before arriving on the first day of school.
2) Conduct a course tour via video. This is especially helpful at the beginning of the course so that students and parents can see how to navigate through the online environment associated with the class. You can demonstrate how to access grades, see the syllabus, find class notes, and turn in digital assignments.
3) Use video to introduce a new unit of study. Whether teaching online or in a traditional setting, peaking a student's interest is key. It could be like a movie trailer of sorts that gets students excited about what is to come. It also provides an entry point for parents. If parents see where you are going, they can get involved, read up on the topic with their child, share resources, pull images and videos, and help connect the dots for students. Dialogue can changed from, "How was school today?" to "Tell me about ______. Did you get to the ______ yet?"
4) Make announcements using video to personalize messages and allow viewers to see facial expressions and hear the instructor's tone of voice.
5) Use video to provide feedback on student work thus allowing you to make the same type of comments you would make normally, but with much more detail. Ms. Schaelen suggested using props with numbers on them, so that a student can quickly find the markers before each comment. Feedback video should be kept unlisted to ensure privacy.
6) Create "how-to" videos. This particular video is for students and shows how to find and use video feedback.
7) Make a video to introduce a research assignment, major project, or special event in the classroom.
8) Use student created videos to demonstrate understanding, add to an electronic portfolio, peer tutor, or build resources for those needing extra support.
9) Video a guest presenter. As a high school teacher, I want my students to connect with college admissions counselors. On several occasions, an invited counselor could visit only one of the 6 classes I taught; while I was happy that 25 students heard from the admissions counselor, I found myself wishing that ALL of the kids could benefit from the information. Video would be a perfect way to capture and share the guest's visit.
10) Use snippets of video from various locations throughout the course to allow students and parents to get to know you even better. Consider sharing video from your latest 5K, your weekend excursion, or something you saw that you thought was interesting.

Why? "Showing" is powerful. Videos help students and parents build a personal connection with the instructor and make content, announcements, and details accessible anytime and anyplace (everything I believe in!!!) So, I guess the question I need to ask next is "What will I video today?"

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10 Ways to Use Video to Boost Instructor Presence in an Online Environment

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Okay, if you have been following my blog for the last month or so, you know that I have been participating in free professional development through a MOOC called Tinker, Make, & Learn, a course focused on developing a Makerspace. Well, the course ended...but not the desire to continue to build our new space.

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Solo 8Plus Hardware Overview & Software Installation

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Welcome to AXIPD.COM | AXIPD.COM - Online PD

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ActivInspire Orientation M1 V1   Install and Register

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Overview: What can you do with Chrome Browser? - G Suite Learning Center

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2.1 Identify which account you're in 2.2 Create Chrome Browser profiles 2.3 Set your homepage and startup page 2.4 Import and manage your bookmarks 2.5 Sync Chrome Browser settings to your Google Account 2.6 Manage personal data 2.7 Turn notifications on or off

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Are you ready to get your Google DRIVEers license? It won't take long for you to be a Google Drive master! Some of you might remember the floppy disk where we would store our files to bring them from one computer to another. If not, I am sorry you missed this fascinating part of technology history:) They were basically equivalent to our now a day flash drives AKA jump drives but with much less storage and reliability.

Let's think about your use of a flash drive. You are able to save files and organize everything in folders. If you no longer wish to have a document, you can delete it. You can even share these files with a colleague. One flash drive might have everything from photos to documents to pdfs to PowerPoints.

Google Drive takes this technology to the next level! It is your flash drive in the cloud! Google basically opened up their servers AKA computers for easy storage of our digital life. Not only can you store and organize files but you can quickly share them and even make copies with just a click. You are also able to quickly add docs, slides, forms and more from right there in your Drive. Are you ready to dig a little deeper into Google Drive?

The following video will quickly introduce you to the basics of Google Drive starting with logging in. In less than ten minutes you will know how to sign in, creating and organizing folders, uploading and download files/folders, share files/folders, color code folders, making copies of files, and the difference between my drive and shared with me.

One of the most used buttons in Google Drive is the blue NEW button on the left. Here you can quickly create and add a new doc, slide, form (or more) directly in your drive. Did you know some apps will even attach directly to your Google Drive? After installing, all you do is click "new" and more. Your app will appear in the list alongside other GSuite tools such as Drawing.

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Are you ready to get your Google DRIVEers license? It won't take long for you to be a Google Drive master! Some of you might remember the floppy disk where we would store our files to bring them from one computer to another.