Session 6: Draw All About It
Speaker: Jessica Miles, Canesha Wrathall
This session focused on using Google Draw to enhance students learning. I was inspired right away with a suggestion for a thinking map project to go along with the book, James and the Giant Peach, which my students are currently reading. There were a lot of great examples of students creating thinking maps in the Google Draw tool to demonstrate their learning on a particular topic.
Speaker: Jessica Miles, Canesha Wrathall
This session focused on using Google Draw to enhance students learning. I was inspired right away with a suggestion for a thinking map project to go along with the book, James and the Giant Peach, which my students are currently reading. There were a lot of great examples of students creating thinking maps in the Google Draw tool to demonstrate their learning on a particular topic.
Session 7: Rock Star Lesson Design
Speaker: Jon Corippo
I was grateful that the Google Drawing session ended early so that I cold go get a seat for Rock Star Lesson Design. I knew Jon would be a popular speaker, and the room was packed. Fellow teachers were standing and sitting wherever they could.
WOW! That is all I have to say about this presentation. It really got me thinking about my everyday teaching practices such as popsicle stick, and thumbs up / thumbs down.
Jon is an engaging speaker, and had this whole room of teacher engaged and laughing for the entire 2 hour session. If you get a chance to hear Jon speak - GO!
My mind is spinning with ideas about how I can transform my lit circles and engage students in meaningful research in which they are in the driver seat of their own learning.
Speaker: Jon Corippo
I was grateful that the Google Drawing session ended early so that I cold go get a seat for Rock Star Lesson Design. I knew Jon would be a popular speaker, and the room was packed. Fellow teachers were standing and sitting wherever they could.
WOW! That is all I have to say about this presentation. It really got me thinking about my everyday teaching practices such as popsicle stick, and thumbs up / thumbs down.
Jon is an engaging speaker, and had this whole room of teacher engaged and laughing for the entire 2 hour session. If you get a chance to hear Jon speak - GO!
My mind is spinning with ideas about how I can transform my lit circles and engage students in meaningful research in which they are in the driver seat of their own learning.
Session 8: You Can Be Code-er-iffic
Speaker: Laura Purington
Coding was definitely a big topic at CUE this year. There are so many resources available to teach coding to students. Laura had a variety of free coding resources to share, including tinker, code.org and scratch.
Coding is a great way to teach students how to think and problem solve. Students must plan, execute, and revise to get the end result they want.
Speaker: Laura Purington
Coding was definitely a big topic at CUE this year. There are so many resources available to teach coding to students. Laura had a variety of free coding resources to share, including tinker, code.org and scratch.
Coding is a great way to teach students how to think and problem solve. Students must plan, execute, and revise to get the end result they want.
Session 9: Can I Use That? Teaching Creative Commons, Copyright & Fair Use
Speaker: Gail Desler
For the last session of the day, I chose not the most "fun" topic, but a very important one. When I was younger, I got all my research from print media. My teachers taught me how to cite and create a bibliography. Today, information is so easy to get, and comes in a variety of formats. It is important to understand what acceptable use is and how to determine what images, videos and music clips are available for use.
In our classrooms, we are protected to an extent with Fair Use. We can use material in our classroom for educational purposes. In past years, when things stayed within the classroom, there wasn't a whole lot to worry about. However now with so many classes going online and students posting material in blogs and publishing to a wider audience, we need to be careful.
Google has helped us by including advanced search tools to finds images that are in the creative commons, and available for us. We must teach our students to give proper attribution to resources that they use in their work - or better yet, encourage them to create their own original material.
Speaker: Gail Desler
For the last session of the day, I chose not the most "fun" topic, but a very important one. When I was younger, I got all my research from print media. My teachers taught me how to cite and create a bibliography. Today, information is so easy to get, and comes in a variety of formats. It is important to understand what acceptable use is and how to determine what images, videos and music clips are available for use.
In our classrooms, we are protected to an extent with Fair Use. We can use material in our classroom for educational purposes. In past years, when things stayed within the classroom, there wasn't a whole lot to worry about. However now with so many classes going online and students posting material in blogs and publishing to a wider audience, we need to be careful.
Google has helped us by including advanced search tools to finds images that are in the creative commons, and available for us. We must teach our students to give proper attribution to resources that they use in their work - or better yet, encourage them to create their own original material.
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