Agenda 2/29/16

Agenda - 2/29/16

10 Expectations

8:30 - 10:15 - Google Classroom 2.0:

Take some time to explore these 100+ Great Google Classroom Resources for Teachers:  http://www.coolcatteacher.com/google-classroom-resources/

• Search through the ideas
• Share your favorite from your exploration with your colleagues here
• describe both the resource/idea along with how you plan to use it in your practice

10:15 - 12:00 Lay the Groundwork for Next Year - Celebration and Visioning:

Jigsaw 10 Trends to Personalized Learning in 2016 as a way to frame our discussion

Where are we and where do we want to be brainstorm - Personalized Learning at Compass:

• in a particular course and/or unit
• in terms of comps, senior project, or independent study
• in a totally revisioned setting (a new school, a school with a small number of kids, a school with a different calendar or schedule, etc)

Making it concrete:  A Two-Gear Construct for Envisioning Blended Learning.

• in a particular course and/or unit - example
• in terms of comps, senior project, or independent study -
• Playlists w/OERs
• Learning Without Teachers, Textbooks, or Tests: A Personal Case Study
• in a totally revisioned setting (a new school, a school with a small number of kids, a school with a different calendar or schedule, etc)

Google Classroom Successes

* Push out material to kids
* Advisory tool related to portfolio work
* Know what kids are doing in classes
* Share video links
* Provide a stack of resources that are always there to go back to
* Working on student work at the same time as them
* Students can send messages to me
* Give students template in student copy and then students can share and we all have easy access
* Private messaging with individual kids
* Provide a whole bunch of choices in organized place
* Insert table as spacing for plugging in answers as this organizes them and expands as they write

Inservice Agenda 11-30-15

Compass Agenda 11-30-15

8:30 - 3:00

Today’s Goals:

• Learn from colleagues and align workflow expectations to make the Google Classroom experience for students as efficient and effective as possible
• Explore ways to connect students with local, national, and international learning opportunities
• Reflect upon, share, and plan for continued personalization
• Plan for next semester

8:30 - 8:40 Warm up

8:40 - 9:30

Management system for assignments, feedback, etc.

Google Classroom - Idea Exchange

• Coordinate workflow & expectations:
• Ryan’s list of workflow alignment opportunities (group adds ideas to list then 5 mins. to model/share each item on list).

9:30 - 10:30

Learning about cool tools and apps that could be incorporated into teaching to enhance engagement, personalization, etc.

Expert Connections

• Explore Resources
• share examples

10:30 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 12:00

Personalization:

• Personalization defined - Stages of Personalized Learning Rating Chart
• Share experiences and future hopes: Wagon Wheel

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 2:00

Proficiency based collection process of evidence &  Teachers using proficiencies to define unit and lesson planning

Proficiency tracking - Where are we?

Nearpod Interactive

Sharing Progress

Making Future Plans

2:00 - 3:00  Wrapping up Semester

Make a to-do list of tasks between now and January to move us ahead with our classes, students, and technology.

Video Curating Resources:

Search Documentary Addict

Use the Menu Bar in EdPuzzle

Veritasium

Numberphile

Crash Course - History & Science

TedEd

How to Cut & Splice a clip:  DragonTape

Chromebook: Online Tools for Common Tasks

Check out this handy resource for Chromebook apps & extensions:

Another one you might find interesting to explore for App Recommendations:

From Ronald 10/26/15

Thank you for the mini-lessons, Susan.  I have enjoyed my use of a few videos and tutorials (along with reflections or questions that I provided in the Class assignment) and have been wondering about how better to shepherd that kind of learning.  I did follow your suggestion to use the advanced search, spending most of my time (with Rick) with flash and powerpoint. There were some tech troubles that Brian helped me to resolve.

I want to ask the kids specific questions and have them use curated resources to build evidence of what they have learned.  So far, I have found that my writing the reflections or questions is my best way of having them process their thinking and learning and would love to land on sites that more effectively help process (or evaluate) their information. Ben had mentioned looking specifically at pdf's (through same "advanced search" I believe); perhaps I'll find such documents that way.

This still feels daunting, but I am hanging in there.

Using resources to expand opportunities

Feeling overwhelmed by options
Do teachers have to do some limiting of resources? Is this our adult assumption that we need to do this all this sifting?
So many materials, need to pick carefully
Interest in learning more about webquests as a format for using multiple resources (Ryan sent out an explanation)
If you put in you tube with a student interest (such as welding and Spanish), you can get videos for a kid
Final product might not be differentiated but resources and means can be
There are series/channels on youtube of same person/type that can work for diff kids and then you can get more from same channel
Probably a learning step is how to frame problems/work so kids can be the filter, not have to be curated by teacher
More worthwhile for teacher time to sift for resources for a unit vs a single class period
Need to teach kids google advanced search skills so they can search more skillfully
Look forward to future years when you have archived already accumulated resources, videos, youtube playlists, assignments, etc.