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Haley Hill- SMARTBoard and its applications

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Haley Hill- SMARTBoard and its applications

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My school made a big push to have SMARTBoards in every classroom and laptops for every teacher yet I find that I barely superficially understand how to use them. I would like to research the various applications available for SMARTBoard and how they can be used for math classes.

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I have had two classes use twitter- one to post homework assignments and another to allow students to ask questions during lectures. I would like to use twitter as a way for my students to reach me for hw questions as well as potentially to blog about what we are learning in class. I am unsure what this would look like in various subjects that I could potentially be teaching. I'd like to research more how other teachers effectively make use of this social media platform in their classes.

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I see fellow teachers using google classroom to create and list assignments  and notes individualized for students, but I have not used it myself. I think it would be interesting and helpful for me to use in order for me to give my students an individualized education. I think it would be interesting to make a google classroom and research the possible uses.

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I have used Google Classroom in the past to post assignments and communicate with my students before. I would like to explore what other features and new updates Google Classroom is going to offer.

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The school I teach at brought in the Google Exhibitions last year and I felt dependent on the librarian for most questions. I would like to learn more about them to develop better lessons for my students.

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I joined the Chrome Books EDU Google page to learn more about them. I am interested in Chrome Books because the school I teach at had issues with them last year and I would like to avoid similar
issues in the future.

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I am very excited to learn about how chromebooks will enhance student learning. With my district going one-to-one with chrome books, I can teach students how to enhance their health and overall well being with with  the use of chromebooks from a very young age!

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Activity trackers are a huge part of many adults lives. Almost everyone that I know has a step or move goal and tracks it for health purposes. I think teaching kids to track their healthy decisions earlier and earlier will help it become a habit.

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Virtual Reality could a lot to a PE class. I would like to see how I could use VR to enhance learning and the overall health of students. I am interested in how to get kids moving with VR as well as teaching kids the benefits of remaining healthy, ie: not smoking, not drinking, etc.

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This is a great way to make the learning process fun for students! Everything is better when in the form of a game. I try to do this to some extent but I would really like to improve in this area. Preschool is such a crucial age and I want my students to gain a love of learning while they are young. This makes the work feel easier too.

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Because I travel to different school districts and I often have parents that bring their students to meet me at the school, I think this would help parents who don't have the resources or ability to enroll their children in preschool or drive them to the school to meet with me.

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I have always thought that this  would be a great way to engage students in the learning process. However, I am not sure whether this would work with my students or not. Because I work with children one-on-one or in small groups I wonder whether it would take away from the personal interactions between myself and my students.

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Zach Ebers - Augmented and Virtual Reality

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Zach Ebers - Augmented and Virtual Reality

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Rational: I would love to implement a virtual reality aspect to my PE class. We have an innovation room at my school that has enough phones for each student with the google cases for them. This makes virtual reality possible for one classroom at a time I believe. I would love to have a fitness type of stationary movement activity the students could enjoy while doing cardiovascular exercise.

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Rational: I do not want my PE program to be only about learning movements and skills to implement in games. I want them to learn these movements and skills as I tie them into real life situations/moments/activities that all students can connect with.

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Zach Ebers - Redesigned Learning Spaces and Innovative Learning Environments

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Zach Ebers - Redesigned Learning Spaces and Innovative Learning Environments

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Rational: This topic is all about getting students actively engaged and moving during a lesson. As a PE teacher, I'd love to open up to new was of facilitating and organizing activity for optimal engagement.

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Jessica Vinyard- Cell Phones in Classrooms

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Jessica Vinyard- Cell Phones in Classrooms

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Rationale: This is an issue I, along with many of my colleagues, have been dealing with, especially being in a high school. How can cell phones be managed in the classroom? Where should we draw the line? I would really like to explore this and see if there are ways to incorporate them that would be beneficial.

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Rationale: I would also like to learn more about virtual reality. My school has virtual reality glasses that I was able to try at the beginning of last school year at a PD day. I thought they were cool, but was not sure how to connect them to math. I would like to explore this more to see if there is a way to make this part of my class!

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Jessica Vinyard- Student Virtual Response

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Jessica Vinyard- Student Virtual Response

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Rationale: Students love to be heard and have input. This can even be seen on Instagram where people can post polls on their stories. By incorporating this into the classroom, students can hear each others opinions and I can quickly get feedback from them as well. I would like to use more programs such as Poll Everywhere and Google Forms to do this. I have used Google Forms to get students feedback some, but Poll Everywhere allows students to see each others responses which I really like and think could be very beneficial. I would also like to explore other apps and programs that allow students to give feedback in real time.

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Brittany Crow- How hard should we try to keep up?

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Brittany Crow- How hard should we try to keep up?

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Technology changes everyday! There's always a new trend, new update, and the older things are tossed to the side. One of the issues in using technology in the classroom is figuring out how hard you should try to keep up with the trends. If something is a little outdated is working, should you move on to something else, simply because its newer and what everyone at the conferences are talking about? Not to mention the strain it can put on school budgets and the process of teaching students how to use the newer technology and getting them used to it. I always like the saying, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," but it is up to the teacher to decide how to implement old versus new technology in his/her classroom.

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In my intro video, one of the tech trends I wanted to explore further was how to make note-taking and studying more interesting. GoodNotes is one way to do that! You have to have an iPad to do it, but it is an app that allows you to write handwritten notes, annotate PDF documents, search easily through notes that have already been taken, and convert the handwritten notes to text. You can also use iCloud to sync the notes across different devices so students can take them with them, drag and drop other documents, texts, etc.,  and even use presentation mode to turn the notes into a presentation. This is a very interesting tool to keep note-taking and studying a little more fun and accessible.

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Rationale- Videos are often good ways to switch up the ways lessons are taught and to capture student attention. Sites like VideoAnt and EdPuzzle allow you to choose/upload videos and add-in annotations, questions, etc. You can add-in notes or questions anywhere in the video you'd like. As the students are watching, the video will pause and they will see your notes and questions. With EdPuzzle (not 100% sure with VideoAnt) the video will not continue until the question has been answered. I think this is a neat way to have students make sure they're paying attention and getting something out of the video and keep from just sitting there and having their minds wander or go to sleep.

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Cindy Gray- Digital Citizenship/ Deconstruction

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Cindy Gray- Digital Citizenship/ Deconstruction

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Rationale- It is obviously important to teach our students how to behave online. However, the trends seem to be focusing on not just the golden rule, but ripping down the digital curtains and walls that deceivers hide behind online. The trend is to teach our students how to look deeper into intent and reveal the lies and false information being fed to them. This really interests me and I can see where it is a beneficial skill for every student to possess.

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Rationale- It seemed that everywhere I looked the posts had GOOGLE in them. I very familiar with Google, and have been using Apps for Ed since the beginning, but now the push seems to be to streamline what we do with Google, and to maximize the effects. It makes me want to read the articles just to see what trick or application I am not using to it's fullest.

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Rationale- I chose this trend because it was also a main part of the focus of our learning this week. As a curriculum and technology committee team member at my district I need to be able to bring to the table ways to expand our professional development. Our jobs as educators continue to expand in time requirements, and the need to connect to find solutions increases as well, leaving with time constraints. Therefore, we must look digital to continue our learning to keep up with changing society and pedagogical needs.

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Rationale- I chose this trend because it is something I had never heard of before this class. I am interested in learning more about this trend to see if I could make it work in my world. I would want to know if this is something that could be modified to fit our level to be age appropriate or if I am thinking just way too far out of the box. Is that even possible?

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Rationale- I chose this trend because I am becoming more familiar with Google but if I can go even further in my classroom with it would be amazing. I know there are aspects of Google Classroom that I have not learned yet and would love to research more on how this would look in a Kindergarten classroom.

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Rationale- I chose this trend because it seems like it could possibly work in my classroom with more research on my end.  Giving the students the material through video would benefit them and the parents as well.  When the kids are at school we could work more on applying the information through small group learning instead of direct instruction.

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Rationale - I chose this trend because coding is becoming such a big thing. Some of my students (5th grade) have mentioned they would like to do coding as a job once they are older. I want to prepare them for the future, where more and more coding jobs are being created, so I would like to research how I can use coding in a math and science classroom.

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Rationale - I chose this trend because I had tried to do a flipped classroom in the past, but it did not work work. After exploring my PLN resources, I found several ways to do a flipped classroom rather than the traditional video method. I would love to research this more in an attempt to flip my classroom again.

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Ashley Caviness- Augmented Reality in the Classroom

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Ashley Caviness- Augmented Reality in the Classroom

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Rationale - I chose this trend because it is something new that one of my teacher friends mentioned to me. After she told me about this trend, I began to research it a little more for my PLN. I feel like this would be difficult to implement, but would love to see how other teachers use AR in their rooms to get ideas to use in my room.

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Dr. Fox - Virtual Reality in the Classroom

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Dr. Fox - Virtual Reality in the Classroom

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Rationale - I chose the trend because I've been learning a lot about it lately and seeing it everywhere in the journals I subscribe to. I cannot imagine how this would actually look in my classroom, so I want to research what others are doing and how it impacts student learning.

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Cindy Gray- Sketch Notes (Love these things!)

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Cindy Gray- Sketch Notes (Love these things!)

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Rationale- I guess I had not really paid attention to these before this weeks lesson. I really like the concept of using the verbs in the trend to complete the artwork. For example, the garden sketch note in this weeks lesson about growing your PLN (grow). AS i looked around I found so many more of these that I started to formulate lesson ideas around them. I found one that was a "board game" that featured different products, and the step was based on the complexity of learning that product. I also found one that was "The Power of I Don't Know" and led teachers through the steps of not being the sole source of knowledge in the classroom, but how to use that phrase to lead students to knowledge. I have used art in my classroom for many lessons, but never thought about it for notes. This is a great idea that may help reorganize how I structure my note process.