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There’s a ton of great stuff out there on Youtube (and some rubbish…) Create your own Youtube channel to curate and share video content.

Tips:

• Link to presentation notes
• gets icons from Nounproject
• Remove adds from videos with Ad Block plus
• Teach Youtube with what you like/dislike with editing recommended videos (Three dots->Not Interested)
• Manage your viewing history.
• Turn on Restricted mode (bottom of home screen) to manage content (recommended for Primary school teachers. This can be managed school wide through the Admin console. Also, you can give teachers the ability to ‘white list’ blocked videos.
• Search for a channel by using ‘,’ in the search (ted, channel) is the only searching the channels.
• Search for a playlist by using ‘,’ in the search (emotion, playlist)
• Add someone else’s playlist to your playlist
• Share playlists via QR codes

Cross the river – each team has 2 pieces of card and have to get from one side of the room to the other. Solutions include throwing the papers back, cutting in half, piggy backing. The point was that combining exercise with learning enhances the learning.

Creating culture on purpose in your learning environment. What type of culture was created in this commercial?

Teachers should model the behaviour of the culture they want in class. For example if they are trying a new tech tool and it is not working properly, rather than give up and move on, they should role model risk taking and problem solver.

Tool  – Video Not.es – allows you to jump straight to a part of a video.

50-60 days for something to go from needing discipline to be a habit (dieting, regular blogging, exercise)

The Apple Think Different campaign (including print images)

Elements of Design – Quick reference:

A chance for some of the presenters to wow the audience with quirky tips and tricks.

1. Bitmoji: App and Chrome Addon. Include in Gmail’s as well.
2. Corgiorgy: Make your own by uploading GIF’s and add Youtube music background
3. Linewize: yawn
4. Google Tips posters: nice
5. MyMaps: Using the draw polygon feature, we can see Australia is bigger than Greenland
6. Colour picker add on and Paletton to select matching colours.
7. Omnibox: Add different search tools to Chrome’s omni box. Search GMail, twitter, Drive, Youtube.

Plus one more – copy a list of names in http://primaryschoolict.com/random-name-selector to select a random name!

A good ‘hands on’ session starting with a quick overview of using Google Draw to create infographics. Here’s the link to the presentation. Had some time to complete a drawing representing my PLN including resizing icons, adding images through search, connecting shapes and publishing. Here is the result:

Also had a great tip for creating family trees (my students do an Ancestry unit where they have to include a copy of their family tree). This link is a how to for using Google Sheets to add the data then insert a chart which looks like a flow chart. Use the = sign in Column B to indicate ‘son/daughter or’, insert a chart, un-tick all options and choose organisation chart from the chart type. Sweet…

I’ve followed Richard Wells for a couple of years and particularly like his use of graphics to explain education related concepts and issues. It was great to get along to see his presentation – here is a link to presentation.

Notes:

• NCEA is the leading world assessment system
• Vuja De – (as the opposite of Deja Vu). Growth mindset. What’s in front of me isn’t necessarily what I think it is. Heaps more resources including this link.
• Man draw – Michael Mcintyre

• Get out of the habit of providing really good resources.
• Kids choose to live in places where they fail often (Gaming). They don’t avoid complexity
• Finished with a quote from Adam Grant’s TED talk – Fail often, fail early