Closing Keynote Always Learning Kimberley Hall

Always learning...

Looking at the world through the eyes of our learners!  
Constantly learning and adapting.

Learning is not linear and we cannot control how it happens...

Disruptive technology... eg using device to capture notes can be messy...

The only thing that is constant is change... (Heraculis) and we are living in a time of constant change!

Leanring:

• Words matter
• Saying yes is very important
• Making language visible through actions and words
• Our perspective matters - how often do we step back and learn through our kids eyes?

Our perspective matters

When there is a correct answer -a must watch.... oh the power of our words....

• the process matters - sometimes the process matters more than the product
• assess the present - not the past - the power of YET!!!!!
• mindset - saying to our kids... yet - you may not be there yet - but you will get there....
• anticipate failures!  Embrace failures....
• being social matters
• collecting all the data is a waste of time!  Only when we do something with it does it matter!
• who you are learning with is important
• what am I doing to make others great? (hmmm a whole new blog post percolating....)
• teaching matters....
• how are we ensuring technology is making a BIG enough difference?
• WOW WOW WOW.... http://internet.org/  the more we connect the better it gets!!! #gafesummit

ABSOLUTLEY MAGIC closing keynote!!!! 

Telling Stories with the Youtube Editor Jim Sill

https://sites.google.com/site/mistersillytintheclassroom/editorcreate

Youtube capture

Mobile uploads - share email addresses

Free music to use for videos...

Creator hub

Creator playbook

Basic Elements of Video Production

Explore and create with youtube.com/editor

Explore the use of cc videos to cut clips from your search!

Add images, audio, to create mood, illusion, 

WOW - movie making MAGIC!!! I need weeks to play... weeks... weeks... 

Show, Don't Tell: Screencasting 101 Chris Betcher

Show, Don't Tell: Screencasting

All these notes directly from Chris' presentation...

• Prepare your computer...
• clean up the desktop, remove distracting wallpaper
• decide what you want to capture and resize windows if necessary
• close unnecessary windows
• prepare the screens, examples and files you want to use
• turn off distractions such as message popups, notifications, etc

Quick and easy, or taking your time to make a quality screencast.

Think through the story or narrative of what you are trying to create...

• Prepare your physical environment...
• find a quiet spot to record
• avoid rustling papers, squeaking chairs, barking dogs, passing traffic, etc
• use a good desktop microphone, or headset/mic set if possible
• if you include video of yourself, check for good lighting, framing, etc

Think through all of these.  Good quality mic is necessary.

• Prepare yourself...
• design the lesson you plan to give
• think about what you will say and how you will say it
• keep it short, sharp and to the point
• your lesson should be as long as it needs to be, but no longer!
• use a script if you feel you need one
• rehearse, rehearse, rehearse!

Rehearsing is very important

• Now go!
• speak clearly and articulate your words
• find a speech rate that works for you, not too fast, but not too slow
• describe what you're doing on screen and match your descriptions to your actions
• keep your mouse still unless you're actually doing something with it
• be yourself!
• Evaluate
• be prepared to do a couple of takes! It's rare to get it right first go
• watch your screencast back and evaluate your effort. if you think you can do better, do it again!

Snagit for Chrome - install app and extension

Ability to capture a screen shot and share the url to it.

Short videos, animated gifs, Longer videos go to youtube...

Challenge - 

Create a still snap, annotated

Create a simple video - 10 seconds

Screen Castify - add extension only

WOW - I need to explore this further - appears to be incredibly easy to use either...

SNAGIT app - buy $30 ish

Fuse 

https://www.techsmith.com/fuse.html 

The Next Best Thing To Being There Chris Betcher

The Next Best Thing To Being There Chris Betcher

Most of the world's information isn't text...

Google Streetview - mapping the world...  Came out of a conversation... let's do it!

Explore the features in mymaps.... hold down control or shift and move the mouse to view in and around the spot you are on.....

Explore Google Earth

WOW - check out the google maps views...  the next best thing to being there....

Photosphere app - WOW - how can we use this?  Share a view - creative writing....  allow learners to compare and contrast where they went on holiday... 

Hold the camera in one spot - make sure you travel around the camera - not the other way around...

Virtual tours of school - use constellation mode to link views together...

Making more and more of the world explorable...

The Google Cultural Institute:
Art projects
Next best thing to being there... explore art works....
Use pegman to explore the actual artwork in situ in the gallery... complete with details about the artwork....

Exploring history, allowing for personalisation of learning journey, 

Allows for comparing of works....

Personalisation of learning journeys...

Explore world wonders - allowing learners to have actual visual of areas...

Interactive curated content!  WOW!

ANZAC https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/u/0/browse/gallipoli?projectId=historic-moments 

WOW - so much to explore... 

Searching online - the essential literacy skill for the modern day student Kimberley Hall

Search - as a key role!
Our kids are getting better are finding stuff!  How are we supporting them to get better at discerning....

Have the tissues ready...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHGDN9-oFJE 

Searching well - you should find what you are looking for in the top two results...

Voice search:

Are we ensuring that we teach searching by voice.

Conversational search.

Use voice search to assist with spelling.

Allows overcoming spelling barriers.

Google search by voice on phone!!! Woohoo!!!

In Chrome - searching in the Omnibox - url bar

Using the onmibox:

Define: to use as a dictionary

Automatic calculator

Conversion - eg lbs to kg

Set timer 

Search for person, place or thing - you now get a knowledge graph! Google is trying to give answers to things you haven't asked yet! Google is accumulating the wealth of information frequently searched...

Knowledge graph down the right side is well worth exploring!

Advanced search - to allow for searching for images that you are able to use....

Searching - using - is the same as not...

Make sure you leave no space between the -and or the +and

~searches your word and similar terms

Actually teaching learners how to use advanced search!

Empower learners to validate sources... eg educational sites....    .edu

Filter by file type....

Search 1980...1985 search for date range

Explore the ability to search image by colour, by size, ... Really important for us to share this with our learners...

Highlight any word in a search - drag and drop to tab bar and it will search this term....

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/

http://www.agoogleaday.com/ 

Google books - check this out..... WOW

https://books.google.com/ngrams 

https://news.google.com/newspapers?hl=en  - use to allow learners to search... disasters, comparing events.....

http://www.google.co.nz/trends/ 

Absolutely BRILLIANT Session.... Thanks Kimberley!!

Keynote A World of Possibilities Chris Betcher

If everything is already working... why change it?
Why integrate technology?

What to do when you meet with resistance... start by asking the learners...

1980s arrival of technology in the classrooms...
1990s internet! Change again - visionary educators grappling with the possibilities.

Technology should be like oxygen, should be invisible necessary and its just there...

Technology removes friction:
eg airbnb, uber, elance, connecting people with people, with needs etc  The internet has at its heart - finding a way for two people or things to connect in a way that wasn't previously possible....
eg - the demise of record stores and video stores...

Remember schools... are we at risk of becoming irrelevant? Are we ready for the changes necessary to ensure schools are still relevant?

We have so many options for learning now...

 A curious kid with the internet can learn anything they want.

How hard is it to do something... 3
How hard is it to do something well.... 9
The difference between the 3 and the 9 is where we come in... Feedback, interaction, feed forward, reflection, this is the non-technical support that goes in to make the difference...

Mark Prensky's idea of nouns and verbs... 

We get the kids to do the verbs....
We get really hung up on the nouns... That is not our job!
Our job is the verbs...

Eg compare.... photoshp, youtube, google sheets, pic collage...

The verbs are the what matter..... the nouns are simply the HOW!

Kids need the support of a wisdom voice!  That is where we come in!  Our job is to do the 'quality control'... 

Keep doing the verbs - we do that well!  

Going google:

• Support learning
• Simplicity
• Self sufficiency
• Choice
• Increased space
• Reduce costs
• The web is the future

Stories from the classroom:

Learn to search:

• Teach search as a skill
• Be a detective
• Search to answer questions
• Search to satisfy curiosity
• Make search a challenge
• Teach search using voice

Search task challenge

How are we using search well?

Much easier if you start with a picture to force a mystery search.

Managing data and graphing results with Sheets.  Collaborative compilation, analysis of data. 

Learners collaborating on Google slides - speed of which data can be gathered is increased.  

Google Earth - geotools.  Explore earth!  Technology allows a richness that simply isn't available unless you are there.

Adjectives - describe, add an image, caption and attribute.  Write why you think this picture is a great image for the adjective. Powerful use of technology... explore this more for use with schools

Learn, unlearn, relearn... real quick!

Use technology in ways that important things richer, enriches great teaching, teachers are more important than ever...

Scary - maybe!  

But if you're a real teacher, how can you not be inspired by the possibilities....   Chris Betcher!!!

Awesome keynote!!!!

Check out this fabulous link...
http://room5hss.blogspot.co.nz/2014/07/enraged-fun-way-to-engage-discussion.html 

Sharing the GAFE MAGIC....

Capturing some of the MAGIC today via @kiwiallana live blogging....

Gafe-Summit workshop: Making Slides Come Alive - Allanah King

Gafe- Summit Workshop: Google to Engage writers - Kate Bodger (Bamford School)

Gafe-summit: Workshop - using iPads and Blogger for maths - Kate Bodger

Gafe-summit Workshop: Getting going with Google Drive - Kimberly Hall

Awesome Allana!  Thanks for sharing the MAGIC!

Using Google Apps for ongoing feedback and goal setting Wes Warner

https://edpuzzle.com/ 

Have a student and a teacher account, able to select videos..... able to crop....

Able to wipe the audio track... using the microphone icon

Use audio notes - click on the track - add your audio note - the video is paused to allow you to add a note... Really draw attention to a section!

Allows you to add quizzes... with the ? icon

Allows marking of open ended questions and adding comments...

Explore the power of edpuzzle further...

https://www.plickers.com/ 

App downloaded to phone...  a great way to start a session... 

Flubaroo - well worth taking time to explore and use...

Screencasting - 

Peer buddies reviewing each other's work.  Learners pairing up, learning from each other and creating learning artefacts...

Awesome opportunities to be explored further... 

Play. Solve. Achieve... Learning with Games Kimberley Sutton

Play. Solve. Achieve... Learning with Games Kimberley Sutton


Minecraft

Portal

Epic Citadel

Night Zookeeper

Sploder

Spaceteam

Kahoot

Taking the gaming, using as writing motivation!

Kahoot account created - explore uses for this in our future sessions

Improve reading and writing in your classroom with Google Kimberley Hall

Improve reading and writing in your classroom with Google Kimberley Hall Room

bit.ly/hallreadwrite 


https://www.youtube.com/user/Google  videos to watch...

http://goo.gl/4bjgiX our shared writing document...

Changing a specific detail to heading1 - then add table of contents and all of the heading 1 details will become table of contents.
Building a journal of writing over time...

eg Dating work - Descriptive writing 14-4-15 change to heading 1, refresh and you have a journal of writing over time...

Use research tools to explicitly teach and model the use of images that are free to use, share or modify....

Commenting on a doc... click comment, put in a + then an email address and that person will receive an email....

This could be very useful for us on our team meeting notes... If someone is absent, we can tag them in a comment for things to catch up on...

Critique protocols...

Giving comment only access automatically turns on suggesting mode....

Using draft back app to play back the writing process - getting learners to play back their work and look at how they craft their sentences... a powerful tool for learners to look at the ways they learn and the approaches they should take....

Kaizena - app and addon - add voice comments to docs

Slide 16 - LOADS to explore...  

Bodaciously Awesome Presentations with Wes Warner

What we are learning:

• tips and tricks using slides
• pear deck - what is it? how can it be used in class

How will we learn it

• Practical/hands on
• Don't forget to add comments to the slide deck
• and tweet what you've learnt @I_teach_ICT

Deliberate acts of facilitation...

Hand write up WALTS 

http://bit.ly/presentwes

Start with good visuals...

Backgrounds....

Add extension... colour picker to choose same colour from an image...

Edit Master slide - 

Slide, Edit Master

Even add a gif to your slide master

http://makeagif.com/SaX_RW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INscMGmhmX4

Cropping images and masking images to add a new look... explore this more...

Explore image options, and transparency...

Really looking forward to creating some pretty MAGIC looking slides....

Exploring Peardeck

So many options....

GAFE summit Opening Keynote

8:30 - 9:30am Keynote- All Right Stop, Collaborate and Listen with Suan Yeo

A new and open world for learning

Top three tech trends in 2015

Connected life platforms are emerging

• Wearables
• Smart Homes
• Connected Cars

Mobile shapes the 'internet of me"

• Smartphones (1.3B in 2014)
• Time on phones > TV/Laptops
• 1 in 5 Google searches are location related...

The Speed of life gets even faster

• "Go Pro" Lifestyle
• TLDR; Twitter/Vine/Snapchat
• Virtual Assistants - OK Google

Access versus Ownership...

Computational Thinking

The next BIG frontier is the MIND

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUhflgWvvoo 

Training computers to mimic certain conditions..

What do you want to be when you grow up or what problem do you want to solve...

Third time in two weeks this edtalk has been recommended...
Take time to watch it!
The key to success - grit?

What question did you ask in school today? Using this approach to empower your learners to dig deeper.

Thinking is far more about the questions than it ever is about the answers....

"Thinking is not driven by answers but by questions!"

The average four year old asks 400 questions a day...

Children are born inquisitive, do schools kill creativity?

Googleable versus non-googleable questions... research, consult with peers, interact....

How are we re-thinking the ways we teach?

Learning must be FUN! Have we ensured we have kept the creativity? The love for play, creation, must be inherent in what we do!

Great teachers MAKE A DIFFERENCE - showing the journey, the workings,

"There is one thing software will never do: replace teachers. Even the most self-motivated student needs guidance and support. But software can play a crucial role, for example by connecting teachers to each other"

http://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon/

Well-designed classrooms can boost learning progress in primary school pupils by16%, new research reveals 

Start with education as the goal

Technology wave is not slowing down - it is only getting better...

Chromebooks... growing HUGELY in the education space...

Bringing equitable computing to the next 1 Billion users... Originally began as a 20% project at Google - look where it is boing now....

Affordable chromebooks - and chrome sticks....

Google [X] projects?

Google fibre

Google self drive cars

Google loon

Antishake spoons for Parkinsons sufferers

Contact lens to measure glucose levels....

What are we doing in education to encourage our learners to look beyond where they are, ask the questions, look for problems to solve???

Knowledge is not about knowing facts, it should be about creativity and problem solving.  Give problems, give freedom to hypothesize... Learner driven pedagogy!  Emotions are the basis for learning.  Make sense of a new situation explore, change mindsets, embrace learning process, setting the foundations for lifelong learning and reaching for the sky.... transformational...

What a powerful start to our #gafesummit here in Christchurch... MAGIC....

What is my "X"?  What are the problems I am trying to solve with my schools, my clusters, my journey???

GAFEing it in Christchurch!

GAFEing it in Christchurch!

I am incredibly privileged to be attending my third GAFE summit this week.  In 2012 I attended the Auckland GAFE Summit, and last year I attended the Christchurch one in my role with CORE. 

Learning from these two past summits continues to inform and shape my practice, both personally, and in my facilitation role.  With that in mind I am incredibly excited about this week.  I have spent considerable time reviewing the sessions to select those that will really assist me with where I am at in my Googleness, my facilitation role, my inquiry and the direct needs of my principals and e-leaders.

Sharing the Google love:

I intend to live blog my sessions, as I capture the MAGIC, and to share the journey…