Notes:
What I Learned at ISTE 2012 : San Diego
-Mike
Park-
The Oreo Project
Using lots of Oreo cookies,
students form groups to compete for tallest stack of cookies, best design using
them, and the incorporation of other disciplines. For example, in math:
calculate the height of one thousand cookies given the height of one.
Discovery Education
New this year, however, is the
Student Center which provides the ability to manage student assignments.
[An Amusing Ap is any
application which is of interest but not worth further study]
Amusing Ap: Mad Pad which inputs
video clips and outputs an array of them.
Amusing Ap: A timer with the
option of having input sound/video instead of final buzzer: http://www.timer-tab.com/
Google “A Google A Day” to find a
google site with extra window containing a question whose answer is best found
by Googling! Input accepted, hints offered, it’s mostly a guise for a Google
ad.
Amusing Ap: Yasiv.com is a
shopping safari with an especially amusing results screen.
http://www.symbaloo.com/ is a visual display of your favorite web
addresses. An Amusing offshoot is http://Symbalooedu.com/.
For many more Amusing Aps
checkout Mike Gorman and his 108 ways to use word clouds.
Where to start for orchestrating
pictures, videos, and sound to a video production: Animoto.com
Adaptive Curriculum
http://www.adaptivecurriculum.com/us/index.html
is a free digital library of math resources as well as interactive options and
professional development components. Seems more directed to higher levels than
sixth grade.
http://mathlanding.org/ is a good resource for skill games and warm
up exercises. These folks are partnered with the math forum at Drexel
University.
Thinkport.org is Maryland’s
central site for finding acadmic resources.
Top 10 tips for going Google
When Will He Learn: ISTE 2011
suggested I use their foundation to make a website. I did:
ISTE 2012 made the same
suggestion. I should begin populating this site now...
Google also suggested: use the
“more > lab” Google tab to share docs in calendar
On Google Earth you can view
historical by date, though older shots are typically less clear.
Google still provides the option
to create and grade tests. Roger does this well.
Demonstrated was Google’s Image
search: drop pic/image to browser to search for similar images. Impressive.
This works in Firefox, as well.
Also of interest: via Google settings
(gear) you can search by reading level or file type.
Demonstrated was Google’s search
box microphone so you can talk in your search request
Did you know... You can setup a
free Google phone number for kids to text you or call you?
It can record both sides of
conversation, can send file to Google account. You can also call forward from
that Google number to a real phone. See Google Voice for the number.
Arcademics.com
We already use Arcademics.com to
provide skills development drills in the form of games online. Kids can create
either public or private games and kids can compete with others online. For
these multiplayer games, computer will fill in when there are no real
competitors. Also, computer will always temper its speed to kids work in order
to keep the kid connected. Note this site is more to help develop fluency than
for advanced topics.
Note to iPad users, there’s an Ap
(Rover) which is a browser that translates Flash products for iPad.
New offering: Division derby. 12
person game.
Note that keyboard entry is
faster than mouse input.
Check out Puppy pull which is a
tug o war. Interesting note is that the tugging power increases as game
progresses
Meteor blaster is an example of
an older module from the original game
Games are free now...but the site
is now affiliated with a for-profit company. The money will come from
Arcademics Plus which tracks kids’ history. Though it says online that the cost
is "$200 per class", the presenter promised that it’s really "$5
per kid per year"
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