TRY IT ON MONDAY
Thank you to our presenters and participants for attending this year's TIOM technology workshops. A special thank you to host school, The American School in Japan. Prizes of 5000 Yen Amazon gift cards will be awarded by May 13th for participants' post-conference online collaboration! Workshop and roundtable discussion descriptions are also available on NING. Keep an eye out for the next TIOM at Tokyo International School in April 2013. Links from presenters will become avaliable shortly.
Please feel free to view three of our sessions below or on our USTREAM channel from our April 21st Try-It-On-Monday technology workshops.
Sarah Sutter speaks on google sites for student e-portfolios. Student e-portfolios can be used to highlight what students know and are able to do in a class, or across several classes throughout their educational experiences. Portable, cloud based, easy to add media, documents, and share with teachers and parents, Google Sites provide a powerful space for students to highlight their learning. With visual, audio, video and written examples of their learning, students can reflect to further show their own understanding of what they have learned, how they have overcome challenges, their triumphs, and how they may approach challenges differently in the future. This workshop will show examples of student portfolios for individual classes as well as a template and examples of 4-year high school comprehensive portfolios. We'll get you up and running with an outline as an example for your students; bring examples of student work (or mocked up work) to use to get a feel for how it might work (audio, video, photos, documents, etc). The focus will be on middle and high school students, but you could also create this site as a class site if you are working with younger students. Additional tutorials and resources will be made available online.
Jim Erwin speaks on the flipped classroom. Come see how you can "flip" your classroom! No matter what your subject is you can use screencasts to enable your students to be very well-prepared for class and then do their practice assignments with you during class time. We will look at specific examples from various classes and hear from teachers about why this is such an effective strategy. Plus, we will look at how students are using screencasts for their projects and class work.
Greg Brunton speaks on teaching, assessing and communicating with digital photography in the classroom. Digital cameras are an affordable way to integrate technology into the classroom and they can be used for a lot more than just taking yearbook photos. Digital photography can help with teaching, assessing and communicating. In this presentation you will see a range of simple and affordable ideas for using digital cameras in your classroom. For example, digital cameras can be used for guiding class discussions, photo scavenger hunts, portfolio entries, student self evaluations using web cam videos of presentations, weekly photo newsletters (most popular), a document/manipulative camera and more.