Learning about Visual Notetaking from Giulia Forsythe <div class="greet_block wpgb_cornered"><div class="greet_text"><div class="greet_image"><a href=" rel="nofollow"><img src=" alt="WP Greet Box icon"/></a></div>Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to <a href=" rel="nofollow"><strong>subscribe to the RSS feed</strong></a> for updates on this topic.<div style="clear:both"></div></div></div> (cross-posted from PlayingWithMedia.com) In the process of writing and finalizing the chapter on “Visual Notetaking” for my forthcoming eBook, “Mapping Media to the Common Core,” I found Giulia Forsythe‘s blog page “Visual Practice” and her WONDERFUL presentation a year ago for the 2012 University of Mary Washington Faculty Academy. Giulia Forsythe at Faculty Academy 2012 from umwnewmedia on Vimeo. Keys to Drawing by Bert Dodson Do you take visual notes YET?
Primary school iPad use potentially positive for boys - study Using iPads in class in primary schools could help boys to engage more, indicates new research. According to a study by researchers at the University of the West of Scotland, the iPad may positively influence pupils’ engagement and has a particularly encouraging effect on the boys in the class. The study focused on a group of 28 pupils in a Scottish primary school, which was made up of 10 girls and 18 boys. Lead researcher Dougie Marks of University of the West of Scotland’s School of Social Sciences said of the potential of the findings: "Given the growing concern over how well the education system caters for the needs of boys, implementing this sort of technology in schools would appear a valuable endeavour."
9 Tips For Teachers Who Just Got iPads I’m often amazed by the power of the web. From Twitter’s role in shaping professional development to what a simple post on a site like Edudemic can do. This post is one such example . Holly Clark ( of EdTech Diva fame ) posted an article on Edudemic that caught the eye of Richard Wells in New Zealand ( of ipad4schools fame ). Richard whipped up a fabulous visual that you see below. It shows you just how powerful technology is. The iPad is being handed out to hundreds of thousands of students at a time . If you just got an iPad then congratulations! The below tips are just the, um, tip of the iceberg. Note: You’ll probably want to click the image to enlarge it.
A Comprehensive Guide to Content Curation Depending on your point of view, content on the internet can be a vast collection of treasures, a cesspool swimming in filth, or a big pile of gold specks mixed in with an even bigger pile of dirt. My guess is that most people lean towards the last one, giving rise to content curation, the process of finding the gold among the dirt, as a very popular online activity. At its most basic, content curation is the process of finding, organizing, and presenting content from the flood of information and media that inundate the web by the second. Content curation isn’t about creating new content, just like a museum creator has no hand in creating the artifacts she decides to put on display. It’s not about indiscriminately collecting content (that’s aggregation, like what an RSS reader does), either, just as a museum curator doesn’t simply point to any object in a warehouse when deciding which artifacts will be included for a particular show. There are many ways content curation happens online.
105 pupils, 105 iPads and a multitude of applications - Primary Comment:Last Updated:5 November, 2011Section:Primary Classrooms at a Greenock primary have been transformed by a shipment of tablet computers On the first day of the 2010-11 school year, teaching changed forever for the staff at Cedars School of Excellence in Greenock. While the teaching staff had been looking forward to the benefits of immediate access to internet resources and word processing for all pupils at all times, they did not predict the impact the iPad would have on all parts of the school day. “I thought it would be very useful for reward time and little apps; I didn’t think how big a part of teaching it would become,” says Andrew Jewell, head of middle school. His colleague Fraser Speirs, the computing teacher, conceived the idea to make Cedars the first school where each child would have his or her own iPad. “The problem we had,” says Mr Speirs, “was that we had a lab with 12 computers and 12 laptops, and teachers wanted to teach with more technology. ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
iPad Apps for School | The Best iOS Apps for Students and Teachers Research on the Go with Mobile Devices Posted by Shelly Terrell on Friday, November 8th 2013 From the Cool Sites Series and Mobile Learning Series “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” – Gustave Flaubert This week I am in beautiful Atlanta, Georgia, presenting at the GAETC conference. I had six sessions which you can read about here, Slides Download these slides! My Favorite Resources Find all these apps and bookmarks in this Pearl Tree, Cultivate your interests with Pearltrees for Android Challenge: Use one of these resources or ideas and share with me how the experience went with your learners. iPads and iPods in Education This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. @Ideas_Factory The blog of Julian S. Wood. Privacy Policy for www.ideasfactory.me If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at skyblue_jules@talk21.com. At www.ideasfactory.me, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. Log Files Like many other Web sites, www.ideasfactory.me makes use of log files. Cookies and Web Beacons www.ideasfactory.me does not use cookies. Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on www.ideasfactory.me send directly to your browsers. www.ideasfactory.me has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers. If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options.
Global Tagging and Evidence of School Improvement I was first introduced to global tagging by John Sutton about 6 months ago and thought this was worth sharing. A really detailed blog post by John (certainly worth reading) can be viewed here. If you have a Multi Site blog, with class blogs set up, you have some additional power that you might not have come across. You probably know about tagging, but if you don’t, tagging posts is one of the most useful things you can do to blog posts. However, there is a powerful plugin out there – WordPress Multi Site Global Site Tags. One thing I have tried to do with my blogs over the last 4 years of blogging is to take as many pictures as possible of children showing the characteristics of effective learning. Once you have the global Site Plugin installed, head to your widgets section on your homepage dashboard, locate the plugin as shown in the picture here: Drag it over to the sidebar and you will be able to evidence the once un-evidencable!
Help Them Brainstorm! 50+ Tips & Resources Posted by Shelly Terrell on Friday, December 20th 2013 Included in the Digital Tips Advent Calendar and part of the Effective Technology Integration category “An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.” – Charles Dickens Brainstorming is an important process that students should do frequently so it becomes a ritual they continue throughout their lives. Students need to get into the habit of spending time with their thoughts, fleshing them out, and discovering the best way way to feed their inspiration. Storyboarding Storyboards are useful when integrating multimedia projects such as making movies and various digital storytelling projects. Graphic Organizers Graphic organizers help categorize and organize thoughts and ideas to make connections the way the brain does. These are some of my favorite tools and resources: Free Brainstorming Mobile Apps I’ve listed a few brainstorming apps but my personal favorites are Popplet, PenUltimate, and Educreations.
Home - The iPad in Primary Education iPad Teachers - iPad Teacher Guide The 5 Cs in Education: What If… Sketchnoting in the Process After my sketchnoting workshop at Miami Device, I was asked to record my process of CREATING the sketchnotes. I used Airserver to mirror my iPad display to my laptopUsed Screenflow to record myself sketching the main points of the presentationUsed Screenflow to speed up the recorded footage from 30+ minutes to 2.5 minutesExported, then imported into iMovie to add credtits and music This was the first time doing a screencast this way for me…there are a few kinks that I still need to work out (how to NOT record the screenflow toolbar). [The sketchnotes created in the video below were NOT created live, but AFTER, I had created the slide deck already} Here is the slide deck for the presentation Related Sketchnoting and Yet Another Dimension Experimenting with sketchnoting as note taking and as visual summaries and slide design has been an area of intense interest for me over the past six months. 24. In "Collaboration" Evolution of Note Taking: New Forms Note taking is a big topic among educators.