Vtfest

Friday Session 1

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Apps

iWeb. Pdf iBooks. ePub office 2nd. Good reader. Story kit

iWeb. Builds web sites. Dreamweaver. Makes downloadable PDF. Open in iBooks and save to library of books. PDFs are organized as iBooks.

No more text books. Make pubs instead. Specific to students. Contains table of contents. Can be in drop box. Students can highlight and paste notes. Upload pics, movies ,voice and text. This must be on a Mac. Students can create their own books for reports or other writing pieces.

Good reader. Opens all kinds of files. Connect to google server. Dropbox and others. Can open and annotate on it as needed by students. Shared folders. And many tools can be used. Once u flatten the work. The layers aa become one and cannot be edited again.

Offie 2. Suite like micro office. Upload pics. No double spacing. Not fully functional. Can open from google docs. Pages does not connect to google docs. Things are evolving. Double space will come out in January. It is live. Can collaborate but not as good as google docs. 1kid could shut it down.

Most apps cost drop to 50% when over 20 purchases.

Pages is the way to go. No discount.

Story kid will share. But cannot watch on the iPad. All done on iPad. Share on web but not on iPad. Down load and read others books. Picture voice and movies. iPhone iPad app.

Case called. I pearl case on amazon.

Draw cast app. Photo appeal for kids to draw over. Import picture. Draw over. Select background. And save.

Instagram. Picture editing tool. Put filters. Add effects. Create albums. Share over net.

I movie 4.99 app. Screen shots. Record voice and video. Imagery is easy. Titles, sound control, split,  transitions.

Showme interactive whiteboard. Can export. Take pic with camera bing it in and draw, record, and create a multimedia piece. Share or personal with link. Keeps in cloud. Advantage is the use of white board.

GarageBand. Not free. Add additional track. Or edit tracks. Cannot rerecord an mp3.

Sessio 2. Dave Hanson.

Harnessing. Power of google forms.

Bit.ly/vtforms. Web site for presentation on google forms.

What kids know about a topic or what ur teaching. Before they leave do exit ticket. See what they learned.

When select create new form. Spread sheet. Can be assigned sharing permissions. Can take and copy one column and put in wordless to create a cloud of frequency of learning. Can see summary of responses. Create graphical charts. Who is in the room or demographics of nature. Bar graph is used for type of questions. Ono to one becomes a classroom clicker.

Left side. Go to presentation.

Spreadsheets contain forms. Create survey. Share it and in rel time it will fill the spread sheet. 7 types of questions. Based on previous question you can have them go to a different form. This is a treed form. Just changed. Now says create form. It will give u a URL address to acess spreadsheet. Collect the user name for form. This will add security. Distribute URL of live form. Make a qr code for form. Bit.ly is a URL is a shortened. Continue the brainstorm during the day. Homework submission quizzes data on subject. Behavioral data. Track interventions. Place marks in google earth.

Problem of thr day. Testing concept over time. Use function on spreadsheet.

Spreadsheet magic. U can take other forms that work for u.

Kids can go back and edit their answers.

Templates for kids on web site     to submit finite answers. Formulars are created. To check and grade quiz. Gt to formulars. Create. From template. Public. Look for students and teachers. There are thousands. Complete with formulars. Once u hit the create button. The form is urs. Get the URL. Now u can edit. U can reorder qs. Add qs. Publish responses. For all kids can see results.

Session 3 Bit.ly/vtfesttools

Web 20 tools.

Issuu is another app that makes presentations into books.

Tool box. Kid pics. Sorting through net tools is like drinking from fire hose.

Needs for tools Need to be easy to set up and maintain. No student email accounts.

Classroom account. Students use with supervision

Bubbl.us. Brainstorming. ,does not allow multiple login. Limits to three. U can export as jpeg.

Start here. With a bubble. Classroom rules Rules of v Constitution. Project responsibility Map relationships traits in literature

Exported. As jpeg png Saved to free account Embedded to website

Time toast. Www.time toast.com Timeline site. Can add information and pictures. Has a text view that puts info in row. One account. Multiple logins Images and text Embedded in other places

Dipity

Used for dots 2 May be more appropriate at high scoop or middle school level Can add movies. Timeline tool Must name specifically

Glogster. Took away accounts. Must pay. How many blogs can u make

Bpworks.

Session 4 Kathy. Moviemaking