Culture of Performance

I'm in my first session on computational thinking. There is a rising ninth grade student presenting her work. It would be great if we had a teacher/student presenter pair from SAAS for an upcoming ISTE. I'm hearing about Scratch and it sounds pretty interesting. Anyone have any thoughts or experiences with it?

The Collective Brain

MadPad: create movie file can put it to music with iPhone or iPad. Each student can contribute a word or part of file and then a movie collage is compiled. (might be a lot of work/time for little benefit, but engaging and fun...would need to think about a meaningful use) Class Dojo: enroll students and then give positive and negative "marks" to monitor student behavior. Gives behavior summary for kid and for class overall.  Could kids give positive feedback to each other?  Along the lines of 'catching kids doing good'. Good use for iPad.  Photodcpeach.com.  Take images and makes video for you.  Can embed quiz questions! Also look into creating fake iPhone texts (create historical dialgue) and movie trailers. Have students create text or trailer.

Digital Storytelling 2.0 with Joe Diaz
Our task was to use Animoto, PhotoPeach or ?? to create a story with an opening shark theme -- in 20 minutes.

I used PhotoPeach and came up with this quick story:
http://photopeach.com/album/n3lo4l#

Discovery-Understanding by Design

Ideas: Use images or sounds to spark conversations, to pre-assess and determine prior knowledge. "What do you see/hear?  What do you know?  What do you wonder?" Media Intro:  Give them something to focus on when watching a video--clap your hands when you hear specific words  Media Activity:  3truths and 1 lie. Predict then confirm through video and discussion  Flip the Classroom: Lodge McCammon. http://tinyurl.com/lodgesample Make flip cam one take videos and upload Voicethread: have students post and listen/view their peers' contributions Resources:   Blabberize.com Glogster: multimedia poster   http://edu.glogster.com LiveBinder:  livebinders.com Howard Gardner's New Book: Five Minds for the Future Discovery Resource:  Khan academy type videos math overviews and explanations (Chelsea & Jacque)

Graphic Design for Positive Change w/Jeff Larson 
We are learning to create posters using Adobe Elements 10, a simpler version of Photoshop.

• how to constructively critique another's piece
• how to pitch an idea
• understanding the audience for the product
• how to work with layers to add objects
• Using a preloaded project, we rearranged and recreated a poster on creativity.