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Notes

From: http://www.montaguacademy.org/downloads/files/solo.pdf

• SOLO – Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes. Developed in 1982 by John Biggs.
• Each of the steps has a hand signal
• Link to presentation
• Qualantity (Quality and Quantity of information)
• Critique protocols: would be great for Inquiry presentations

By Chris Harte

• Add the +teachername or +studentname to tag people in Comments in Docs
• Copy and paste a list from Google sheets into Google forms to create a choose from list question
• Austin’s Butterfly

Kimberly ran a session yesterday on writing so there is some cross over with tools that are useful for reading. She made a great slide deck (link here) that has explanations and links.

• Voice typing on Google Docs (only works on Chrome) – will only do punctuation unless you tell it. Can use different language inputs so would be useful for Spanish, Japanese etc. Suggested to get a set of headphones with microphones.
• Read and Write for Google Chrome. This Add on will ‘read’ text back to you. The web page version can also read text from a screen shot. The Premium version is free for teachers by going to this site to register.
• Readability Add on for Chrome. This will remove all the extraneous information from a web page. You can then share this uncluttered page with students.
• Google Dictionary Add on: After installing, by double clicking a word on a page it will give a pop out with the definition.
• More time teaching, less time tech-ing.

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!