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What inspires you? Get to know Alma Thomas, (b. Columbus, Georgia; lived and worked in Washington, DC, 1891-1978), an American artist and educator known for her signature painting style using bright colors and patterns inspired by nature. She became a full-time artist late in her life. Born in a time of horses and buggies, she lived through big advancements in technology, such as the space race and moon landing. Her art was inspired by the nature she saw outside her home studio, and awe for the exploration of our vast universe.
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A KINDERGARTEN SMORGASBOARD GOPRO VIDEO: MORNING MEETING

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It has finally happened!!! Mr. Greg got a GoPro camera!

So, what's a GoPro you ask? It's the little camera that you see mounted on drones and cars and bicycles and now...kindergarteners!

I bought my GoPro at Amazon! (Click the picture to see for your self!)

So today, I strapped the GoPro onto my pal DogPound for our morning meeting. When I asked him mom if it were ok, she said was a little scared for ME! DogPound says: "Oh, whatever. Now I get to be the videographer!"

It is quite eye opening to see your teaching from the true perspective of your students!!

Now, remember...a 5 year old is wearing the camera...so hold on tight!

Also, turn your volume up. The sound is low. I'm still figuring this out...

So, today was our first day back from our spring break. This is our normal morning meeting routine, so this is what a "typical" morning meeting looks like for us! Because typical and kindergarten totally go together!

What do you think? How would you like to see me use the GoPro in my classroom? Leave me a comment and share your ideas!!!

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A Kindergarten Smorgasboard GoPro Video: Morning Meeting | The Kindergarten Smorgasboard

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Howdy! I am Mr. Greg from The Kindergarten Smorgasboard. My real name is Greg Smedley-Warren. I have been teaching for 11 years. I spent a year teaching fifth grade, two years in second grade and am now in my 9th year in Kindergarten. Kindergarten is my passion and my calling but honestly, that wasn't how it started.

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#DoNow w/ GoPro Project--by Sara Layton | OER Commons

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This resource introduces the DoNow project in conjunction with the GoPro challenge. It explains how to implement this curriculum into a language arts classroom (virtual, bricks and mortar, or blended), with an overview, detailed plan, assignments and rubrics, and other resources.

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A Day in the Life of Teachers | Edutopia

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We gave several teachers GoPro cameras so we could watch a day unfold.

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4 ways a GoPro can boost your campus profile

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New case studies, innovative faculty reveal GoPro cameras aren't just for sports enthusiasts.

3D printers, digital signage, educational video games-there's just some technology that, while not vital to day-to-day campus operation, helps boost student engagement and communication, and ultimately makes your campus stand out from the competition.

Enter the GoPro camera. Often reserved for cool YouTube videos about extreme sports or creepy videos of cheerleaders hula-hooping, innovative institutions looking to technology as a branding and marketing tool are now using GoPro cameras to highlight campus life, build international brand awareness, enhance student campus activities, and even enrich lab work.

"In the past few years, [our Materials Science and Manufacturing] course has received negative feedback from students complaining that the lab sessions were 'boring' and 'repetitive,'" explains Sara MsCaslin, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Tyler. "The goal of [using technology in the course] was to make use of GoPro HD Hero2 action camera kits to stimulate student interest in the lab material, increase their understanding of material failures, and improve their technical communication skills."

According to McCaslin and co-authors of a recent case study, the GoPro did increase student engagement and technical skills communication.

Including the results of McCaslin's case study, here are four ways your institution can benefit from GoPro camera technology:

1. To gain career perspective: Most of today's college students want to know that the courses they're taking are relevant to their future career field, as well as be certain in their choice of career. According to Lisa Tossey, social media community manager and editor for the National Marine Educators Association (who's also a doctoral candidate at the University of Delaware, studying educational technology with a focus on marine science), a GoPro camera can be used to help students gain perspective in their career.

For example, in 2011 REEF, a SCUBA diving community that works to contribute to the understanding and protection of marine populations, joined with collaborators to develop an education program.

The program includes curricular materials and classroom lessons, as well as "meet the scientist" and "live from the field" sessions, in which GoPro cameras were used. They worked in collaboration with educators and students, and with funding from the Disney Worldwide Conservation Program, they piloted the program during the aggregation field season in 2012.

Another education project that uses GoPro cameras is Project Aether, which launches high altitude weather balloons in collaboration with institutions to teach students physics concepts, experimental research skills, and to make space exploration accessible.

Watch a Project Aether weather balloon lift a payload package composed of GoPro HD cameras, GPS tracking devices, and other science equipment:

( Next page: Increase engagement; campus branding)

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4 ways a GoPro can boost your campus profile - eCampus News

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New case studies, innovative faculty reveal GoPro cameras aren't just for sports enthusiasts. 3D printers, digital signage, educational video games-there's just some technology that, while not vital to day-to-day campus operation, helps boost student engagement and communication, and ultimately makes your campus stand out from the competition. Enter the GoPro camera.

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Teacher: How a GoPro Got My Students Excited to Learn

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Technology in education continues to astound teachers in classrooms across the nation. With new gadgets such as 3D printers and Chromebooks, educators can bring a whole new level of teaching into their schools.

For Charles Moseley, technology and TV production teacher at Switzerland Point Middle School in Fruit Cove, FL., the GoPro is his classroom's special gadget. In 2013, Moseley pulled out the GoPro he purchased in 2007 to use in his eighth grade technology and TV production classes and found great results, according to his article on eschoolnews.com.

"The first thing I did was dust off my old GoPro, purchase a remote control car, and a bag of adhesive mounts," Moseley wrote. "The TV production students started using the remote control car and my old GoPro to drive around school and film different events. I am not sure what was more exciting for the students, to see themselves on the morning announcements or to have them jump in front of a remote control car running down the hallway during class change."

Moseley said that the setup worked for a while, "but as with any type of older technology, there were limits."

I had to find a way to get a new GoPro that had Wi-Fi capabilities, so the entire production would be simplified. Significant time was spent looking for ways to upgrade our equipment and I had my eyes set on a GoPro Hero 3 Black+ camera. After meeting a sales rep for GoPro at FETC 2014 and entering an education contest, I won a GoPro Hero 3 Black+ with accessories for my classroom. In a matter of days the GoPro started to reshape my technology classroom in many positive ways.

Moseley said that he started with the basics with the GoPro: pictures.

"What middle school student doesn't like to see their picture posted on the morning news show or on the school's website?" he wrote. "Simply taking pictures of students in class working on group projects and posting them on our class Edmodo pages started to create interest and excitement. Students would use the camera during class to take pictures for projects and presentations, not only for my technology class, but also for their academic classes."

Moseley wrote that training students to use the GoPro was easy, and they were soon eager to get to work.

"This was a win-win situation for both students and teachers," Moseley wrote. "Students were having their work featured on the morning news show and seen by 1,260 peers, this improved self-esteem along with the quality of student work. Teachers were having incredible projects turned in for their classes, as well as student created content they could use for both review and for flipping their classrooms."

Read the full story and comment below.

Article by Kassondra Granata, Education World Contributor

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Education World: Teacher: How a GoPro Got My Students Excited to Learn

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Technology in education continues to astound teachers in classrooms across the nation. With new gadgets such as 3D printers and Chromebooks, educators can bring a whole new level of teaching into their schools. For Charles Moseley, technology and TV production teacher at Switzerland Point Middle School in Fruit Cove, FL., the GoPro is his classroom's special gadget.

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GoPro is Not Just a Toy! It’s an Education Tool!

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GoPro is Not Just a Toy! It’s an Education Tool!

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Video is a medium that students respect in schools. It provides alternatives to linguistic expressions and it is "real world". The expression of emotion can take various forms and video photography and music provide necessary avenues for cognitive expression.

What is a GoPro

Go Pro is the world's most versatile camera, which, in the words of the founder and CEO, "helps people capture and share their lives' most meaningful experiences with others- to celebrate them together. Like a day on the mountain with friends is more meaningful than one spent alone, the sharing of our collective experiences makes our lives more fun".

You might think of GoPro as just for action sports, but this handy little recorder is great for a variety of purposes - it mounts anywhere (which makes it perfect for hands-free video) but most choose a chest or head mount to create a true point-of-view-experience for the viewer ("10 Flipped Classroom Tools...", 2014).

My Experience with GoPro

My co-worker and I have been using a GoPro to promote our recruiting company, Canadian Academic Adventures. To this point, we have posted two videos on our website, one for the Winter and one for Spring, with the goal of representing all four distinct seasons in Sault Ste. Marie. It is work in progress!

Because we have had so much fun using the GoPro, we have become very curious as to how to extend this technology effectively into the classroom. Being able to view the class through your students' eyes is something that teachers rarely have a chance to do!

GoPro in the Classroom

Whether you're flipping a classroom, recording a lab demonstration, sharing review notes or a study guide online for your class, or just taking part in a video conference, you want a high-quality versatile webcam like the GoPro ("10 Flipped Classroom Tools...", 2014).

The GoPro is lightweight and non-intrusive. It has a picture mode as well as diverse video modes, which allows students to select from a variety of frame rates and angles specific to their project or presentation (Moseley, 2015).

GoPro Application in the Classroom

As we were searching for interesting examples of GoPro in the classroom, we came across the following stories.

The first is a post of a teacher using a GoPro in his language learning class at Nagoya University of Foreign studies where he had his students analyze and reflect on different perspectives on how people learn. He had many positive outcomes of using this device including the ability to record instruction, capture teacher/student behavior, and view the class from the student viewpoint.

Another interesting blog post is a teacher using GoPro as a tool for learning observation, in which he easily completed several videos using time-lapse footage and interval shooting. He then compressed the video into one-minute segments for easy viewing using Camtasia software.

To get an idea of the range of other applications GoPro can have for your classroom, please check out GoPro in Educational Showcase or GoPro in the classroom. Other interesting links are ISKME, an independent, education non-profit organization, which joined forces with GoPro to host the ISKME GoPro Learning Challenge to inspire creativity inside and outside the classroom using GoPro cameras and Common Sense Media and GoPro which embarked together to put GoPros in the hands of teachers passionate about helping students use video as a learning tool.

Final Thoughts

Based on the above innovations, teachers are using GoPro in a multitude of different ways both inside and outside the classroom. This technology empowers both the students and the teachers to develop new perspectives on the world, to collaborate, and to have fun with their learning!

Resources

Kindt, D. (n.d.). First impressions from recording in the classroom.

Iskme GoPro learning challenge: Education's digital media uprising. (n.d.).

Moseley, C. (2015, January 27). How a GoPro got my students excited to learn?

O'Brien, M. (2015, January 4). On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, a GoPro to film class widely.

Tossey, L. (n.d.). Gopro in education showcase.

What should I do with my new GoPro? (n.d.).

Wilson, A. (2014, June 26). Announcing our GoPro pilot video contest winners.

10 flipped classroom tools you've never used, but should (2014, December 23).

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by Tyler Pollard Video is a medium that students respect in schools. It provides alternatives to linguistic expressions and it is "real world". The expression of emotion can take various forms and video photography and music provide necessary avenues for cognitive expression. What is a GoPro Go Pro is the world's most versatile camera, which,...

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GoPro's genius discount grows larger. The wearable-camera maker styled itself a media company when it went public in 2014, but even its hardware business is suffering job cuts as sales fall short. Success is even harder than usual when - as at Snap, which fancied itself a camera company - the boss wastes time and resources chasing whims.

The company's portable cameras are popular among snowboarders, sky divers and mountain bikers, but its media partnerships and attempts to launch action shows never amounted to much. GoPro shut down those efforts in 2016. A bid to crack the drone market hasn't fared any better. The firm now says it will exit that business, blaming competition and a hostile regulatory environment.

While GoPro chased those dreams, competition in its core business of making portable cameras grew ever tougher. Asian rivals caught up on quality while cutting prices. And the emergence of waterproof smartphones with quality lenses and better editing software has caused some customers to wonder why they need a separate camera at all.

It's one thing to turn a good idea into a thriving business, as GoPro's founder, Nick Woodman, did with small, rugged cameras for action sports. But one success hardly guarantees another, no matter how clever the vision. Snap, for example, has seen features like its disappearing messages, face filters and story format copied by Facebook. And the company's camera glasses have proved to be a dud, prompting it to take a $40 million charge against inventory last quarter.

Investors now attach a hefty discount to the idea that Mr. Woodman can produce a string of hit products. GoPro stock is down more than 90 percent from its peak. It doesn't take a genius to see that knowing your limits can be more valuable than trying to defy them.

Robert Cyran is a columnist for Reuters Breakingviews. For more independent commentary and analysis, visit breakingviews.com.

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GoPro HERO 4 | AMAZING THAILAND TRIP | Travel

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The Battle of the Nations is one badass sporting event, there's no two ways about it. Contestants wear full medieval body armour and beat the living snot out of each-other using metal weapons, all in the aim of winning the international historical medieval battles world championship.

Admittedly, I initially passed this sport off as a bunch of renaissance geeks running around pretending to fight each-other, but boy was I wrong! This Bad Boi is a full contact sport in every sense of the word, with no stage reenactment battles organised at the championships.

The battle was first held in 2009, and has been held in Europe in April every year since. In 2013 the international meet showcased teams from more than 22 countries, and unsurprisingly there were 170 reported injuries, 16 broken bones and eight people taken to hospital.

It's fair to say the sport is completely unsafe.

Nevertheless, there are a bunch of categories (along with a few rules here and there):

Triathlon Duel- fights 1 vs 1. Three rounds with the use of different weapons.

Professional fight - fights 1 vs 1. The category consists of three rounds of three minutes each, pre-selected weapons are used.

5 vs 5 - the group battles "5 vs 5" are the most active kind of combat. A team fights against a team on a hard bordered list field. A fighter is out of battle if he falls down. There are 3 bouts in a battle until a team wins twice.

Royal category - a mass battle "21 vs 21", when up to twenty-one fighters representing a country fight on the field at the same time. There are six reserve men. A fighter is out of battle if he falls down. A battle continues until the men of only one team remain standing on the lists, so their team wins.

All vs all - are the largest mass battles. All men (including those not included in a national team) of all participating countries come to the lists. The participants are divided into equal groups, but in such a way that the representatives of one country are in the same group. There is a battle, a fighter is out of battle if he falls down, points are awarded to the national teams which are among winners.

Essentially this barbaric contest is the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) with armour and weapons. Fights play out much like the Medieval Times scene in the Cable Guy, and are not for the feint of heart. Competitors tend to be a little on the serious side, but I guess it comes with the territory, and as entry-level armour will set back the average punter about $3000 I don't blame 'em.

For a greater insight into the event - check out the US team in the video below:

If this crazy sport is up your alley you can always get in contact with the State Coordinator and start your journey towards the next Battle of the Nations!

Elliott is the creator of MagChild.com & captain of "The Slam Hunks" (a casual, yet successful, inner city basketball team). His anointment as captain was due to his striking good looks and all round hunkyness, along with his complete disregard for modesty.

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Badass / Crazy Sport - Battle of the Nations - MagChild

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Educators + GoPro: What Does Love Look Like?

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Educators + GoPro: What Does Love Look Like?

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Educators + GoPro: What Does Love Look Like?