After really enjoy the GAFE Summit last year, I was keen to register and head back to Albany Senior High School to get some more ideas and meet some more interesting educators. Unfortunately I was too lastminute.com and missed out on the allocated spaces. Hoping to get put through on the waiting list, this never happened so instead of 2 days in Auckland, I spent 2 days in a caravan in Whangamata on holiday!
Being the nerd that I am I kept track of the twitter feed #gafesummit and still managed to pick up a few new ideas. Here’s a laundry list:
1) Button logos of Google apps and Twitter – useful for staff presentations.
2) How to – add Favicon’s to a Google site
3) Geoguessr: an online game where you are give a Google street map image and asked to place a pin on where in the world you think it is.
4) Canva: Sign in with your Google account and use this online design programme. Has a great start up tutorial and a heap of free to use images and fonts. Choose from a variety of templates including presentations.
5) My Maps: Google has supercharged the ability to customise a Google map with layers, polygons and more. Click here for some lesson ideas, here for a ‘how to’, or here to see how Greenland ain’t as big as it seems in Google maps. Or if you need a break, use Google maps to check out where Johnny Cash has been (everywhere, apparently) or where James Bond has been. Also related is using Google Earth Tour Builder to help tell stories.
6) Peardeck: Kind of like a Kahoot but with a shared slideshow. Students put in a code to get your slide show on their device, you can add interactive’s to ask for answers to questions etc and Peardeck and collate these answers or show individual answers.
7) Make better student present better presentations. Here are 10 strategies you can teach to students (no more PowerPointlessness!)
8) Badges: making and using badges to motivate students and serve as ‘stamps’ in a ‘passport of learning’.
9) Youtubepure: watch Youtube clips without distractions like ads or recommended videos.
10) Sketchnoting: you may need some artistic ability for this but they are an effective way to organise your thinking or present information. Here’s a link to ‘how to’.
11) Staff working with Google apps: A teacher shared her experience with improving GAFE implementation with staff
12) Be more dog….
13) Evolution of the desk (Link to source)
14) Questions…..
15) TED talk – all 1956 (and counting…) in one spreadsheet that updates as more are added.
16) Visible learning at Point England School: a great example of a school integrating a range of Google apps to make student learning visible (Learn, Create, Share).
17) Modern Learning Environments: A teacher’s perspective from her change from a ‘traditional’ to a ‘modern’ classroom.
18) Albany Senior High School Impact project: This was something I learned about at last year’s GAFE Summit and this link provides more of the detail. In some ways it was the inspiration for the Pergo et Perago project that we are doing in the Inquiry programme.
19) Holly Clark: The twittersphere was abuzz with tweets on Holly Clark during the summit. In particular her workshop on questioning and keynote on the second day.
20) DocAppender: This is an add on to Forms which allows you to aggregate individual student information from a form into an individual Document. Here’s a video.
21) Edpuzzle: add multiple choice questions to video. Easily edit videos and for students not to skip.
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