Mike and Tom talk about their year, conference, projects, and initiatives. We also have an interview with Gabriel Rivera, IET Director for Bassett Unified School District where we discuss tech help, district 1:1, and some big projects coming up in BUSD next year. College Signing Day video link: https://youtu.be/wzMyP0_i1CE
The year is winding down, and you can almost hear the sounds of summer calling. The waves on the beach, the ice clinking in the glasses of your beverage of choice, and the distant sounds of tunes coming through someone’s Bluetooth speaker. I look forward to this time of the year, it means I get to do the 3 Rs that teachers are really looking forward to: Relax, reflect and read.
When we first started two years ago, we were showing teachers and students how to use creation type apps. Which was great until they wanted to show their creations to an authentic audience outside the classroom. In the past, we have had to show our teachers how to first download their content from the app and then how to upload to a hosting site like Youtube ,Vimeo, their own teacher site or we even showed them how to make our district LMS public for sharing. Then they had to embed that content from the host onto their own site.
Displaying student projects has now been made a lot easier and straight forward for teachers thanks in part to companies who create these apps and have started to host the content for free. YEAH!
These app creator have stepped up they game and invested in the server space need to make using their apps a lot friendly and more sharable for the end user.
And by doing so the companies have also removed some of the challenges of sharing content by creating custom URLs and QR codes for teachers and students to use to view or share their creation outside of the app.
In some cases, these companies have condensed or completely removed many of these steps.
For example Adobe Voice, Pages and Post https://spark.adobe.com/about/video
PicCollage https://pic-collage.com/
Thinglink https://www.thinglink.com/
Padlet https://padlet.com/
EdPuzzle https://edpuzzle.com/
Microsoft Office365 apps like Sway and OneDrive
Google Apps GAFE
Dropbox
Failing to plan is planning to fail-adapted Ben Franklin Link to article: Inc. Article
What is the 5 Hour Rule? Take 5 hours a week to into deliberate learning.
What Franklin did
Got up an hour early to read and write
Setting personal growth goals and tracking them
creating a club for “like-minded aspiring artisans and tradesman who hoped to improve themselves while they improved their community”
Turning ideas in to experiments
Having morning and evening reflection questions
We can all find an hour. Somewhere, especially over summer break.
Can an hour a weekday improve my teaching and learning that much?
Oprah and Bill Gates and Warren Buffett think so.
Core concept: Empty space, creating slack. This gives us breathing room, thinking time, creativity, contemplation, and planning.
1. Plan your learning
2. Deliberately practice (lesson plans, play with tech, practice a skill)
3. Ruminate: thinking is hard work. set aside some distraction free time to let your mind work it’s magic. “Shower Moments”
4. Set aside time for learning- I read at least an hour a day to help me learn and grow. There are so many resources out there, and with twitter, the content grows quickly. Use time to sort through and filter all that info.
5. Solve problems as they arise- great time for springing into action to solve problems and smooth the way later on.
6. Do small experiments with big potential payoffs- new lesson delivery ideas, new
Episode 41- Finishing Well and Summer PD oppotunities
How do you stay motivated during the last month of school, how to avoid throwing in the towel?
1. Stay Focused.
2. Relationships Still Come First.
3. Grow Yourself.
4. Check Your Goals.
5. Celebrate.
Summer PD opportunities
CUE- offers several choices for PD over summer, from Rockstar camps and LDI/BOLD/Leading Edge Certification. All the details are on their site. check out cue.org for details.
District Symposiums and PDs- great way to help out with team building and lesson planning.
Edcamp- www.edcamp.org Another great, free format way to get some great inspiration for next year!
EdCamp Conejo (thousand Oaks) May 4
EdCamp Santa Maria-May 13
EdCamp Natomas-May 13
EdCamp Salinas May 20
EdCamp Voice (voxer) July 7
EdCamp Fairfield FSUSD-August 5
EdCamp EduMatch (online) August 5
@CaseyNeistat Vlog recommendation-online bullying of creators of YouTube videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iQ8BGw13So&t=312s&spfreload=10 Season Three Episode #20 published April 24, 2017
How did I get to where I am now? Funny you ask. I had to submit something just like like that for my CSULB Masters of Ed. and Administration program. Here is that statement.
My educational philosophy started forming around the time I started high school. I attended St. John Bosco in Bellflower, and it was at that time that I started to see the different teaching styles present in the faculty. I had never experienced such a wide range of teacher styles before, having come from a K-8 private school with only one class per grade level. There was no difference from one class to the next because the same teacher taught it all. Moving into high school, I had seven teachers a day, most with a distinct teaching style. It was a marvel, and it really made me want to come to school and be able to learn so many different ways.
Strategies and tools for talking when the stakes are high. Includes how to prepare for high stakes conversations, how to make it safe to talk about almost anything, transforming unpleasant emotions into power dialogue, and how to be persuasive, not abrasive. Great read and indispensable for leaders and coaches.
Teachers month by month handbook for empowering students to achieve. Great read for coaches and teachers. Broken down monthly to help you grow and gradually incorporate growth mindset into your students. Pick it up over summer and be ready to start implementing when school starts!
Great gateway into sketchnoting. Explains the Why and How, with some awesome examples and even a workbook to help you get started with ideas and uses for this great new tool. Good for anyone who wants to go deeper with learning and note taking. It has really made me more attentive and focused at even the most boring sit-and-get meetings.
More about doodle theory and how doodling created better thinkers. It covers doodles and infodoodles, and there is practice space and classroom applications as well. Fun and quick read.
Google Chrome Browser Extensions
Turn Off The Lights JR Ginex @gochemonline Tustin Unified saw it on CUE 17 youtube channel
ly Unleash the power of the link
OneNote Web Clipper-saves anything on the web to OneNote It allows you to organize and edit them.
Point is a quick way to share and discuss what you find online Point allows you to send and discuss webpages with others. from CUERockStar Vista last summer Sara Boucher @msgeekyteach
On the show: Tom and Mike go over their cue experience, we talk about sessions we attended, resources that were shared, our experience as first time CUE presenters, and we finish with the Manic Minutes from the conference. Thanks for listening!
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The year is winding down, and you can almost hear the sounds of summer calling. The waves on the beach, the ice clinking in the glasses of your beverage of choice, and the distant sounds of tunes coming through someone’s Bluetooth speaker. I look forward to this time of the year, it means I get to do the 3 Rs that teachers are really looking forward to: Relax, reflect and read.
There are several reasons to start podcasting, from tackling a certain issue, getting news and information out quickly, replacing a blog or journal as a means for reflection, or just having fun with friends around a microphone. But each journey is unique, and finding that path may take you to some out of the way places!