Important Announcements:
Thank you for a productive year! Thank you for all your support throughout this year! We will be back with new vigor, new enthusiasm for another great year, even better than this!
Thanks to for those who filled out the form for Moodle Roll over for next year. Still I need to get the information from many. kindly take a few minutes to complete the form which is linked below:
Here is a repeat of the announcement from last week:
Moodle Roll over Information - Kindly fill out this form for your requirements on Moodle Roll Over for the year 2015-2016
Departing Staff: your Google Account Information
Here is the video on how to transfer AISC emails to your personal Gmail account. This version shows you how to automatically archive all incoming messages and bypass your inbox.
Google Takeout
Google takeout allows you to download a copy of your data stored within Google products. The one drawback is it will only archive files in Drive that you own. If you wish to have access to other shared documents, those will need to be either downloaded separately or shared with your new account and then a copy of those files will need to be created. In this video you will see how to use Google Takeout. It's worth the 5:30 min. it takes just to get an idea.
If you plan to upload all your data to a personal account, please make sure you have enough free storage. It will not upload your Google Takeout file if you do not have enough space. You are given 15 GB of free storage to share across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos on a personal account. If you are going to a Google Apps for Education school, there is unlimited storage. You can check your storage by going to https://www.google.com/settings/storage.
Here is a link to the playlist for easy access later on. (Thanks Carlina)
Technology Hotspots@ HS-AISC
Tom Myers Research Project - Inclusion of multimedia element - How can you change your research paper from a simple written assessment to a multi-modal presentation mode?
In Tom’s words:
Modern World History 2
- Back in January, each student was required to choose a world history topic that offered two different points of view. Once the topic had been approved, the research paper was to be organized around the following divisions: Introduction (with thesis), Historical Background, Perspectives, Historiography, Individual Perspective, and Conclusion.
- The student was expected to apply a multi-media component to one of the divisions mentioned above. He or she was encouraged to be creative and use a multi-media format that would enhance the overall quality of the assignment.
- As you might expect, the quality of the multi-media component varied greatly from one student to another. Several students took the time to create a multi-media format that added creativity and depth of thought to the topic being researched, while others used it to duplicate what was already written in the body of the paper, thus not adding anything of value in support of the student’s thesis.
- In the future, it would be beneficial to offer a series of mini-workshops that would expose students to new multi-media formats and encourage them to take a risk in their use.
- As it turned out, a variety of multi-media formats were used such as Prezi, infographic, tiki-toki, piktochart, and padlet. Rather than take a risk and try something new, most students fell back on what they already knew (understandably) due to the struggles they had over meeting deadlines associated with the research project.
- Ms. Geetha’s contribution was to add the multi-media criteria to the rubric and assist in the scoring of this component for students in all three classes.
- The links below are representative of students’ work at the Modification/Redefinition level of the SAMR model.
Cool Resource and Tool/s:
Favorite Tech Tools For Social Studies Classes:
Draggo | Bookmarking Tool suitable for students. |
Explee | Video Scribing and project creation tool for students |
MackinVIA | free database of primary sources with the “backpack” feature, which allows students to save books or excerpts that they want to come back to and can be great way to keep track of research materials |
Recite.com | Helps students to type in a quote and create a stylized version |
CK-12 Flexbooks | Lets the teachers create their own content or look at high quality content that’s already added |
Tubechop | easy way to cut Youtube videos. Short url is created for the sorter videos which can be shared with the students. Helpful for making units shorter and crispier. |
For More........ | http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/05/21/favorite-tech-tools-for-social-studies-classes/ |
I was reading an article titled “Using Technology to Help Students Show Their Thinking” by Dan Gorden (Link). In this article, Mark Hammons, the educational technology coordinator at the Fresno County Office of Education, shares a great short tip for us to use in classrooms:
THE Journal: What would be an example of a strategy you’ve adopted to allow students to show their thinking process through technology?
Hammons: One way we’re doing this is through screencasting. For example, students will have two minutes to use an online manipulative to explain their thought process. This means that teachers don’t have to take valuable class time having everyone give a miniature presentation, and it allows them to see the individual thought processes of students, particularly those who don’t typically raise their hands in front of class. I’ve had a lot of teachers say they now know their students in a way they couldn’t before when those kids were so closed off in the more public setting.
--Have a great summer!!--
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