Prezi - convert an old Power Point to Prezi!

Prezi top ten tips:

1. Use a template
2. Try a 3D background - you can change this by right clicking on any background.
3. Edit background color with right click
4. Use Text drag-apart to quickly place text.
5. Add video - media button
6. Use fade ins
7. Try out some keyboard shortcuts
8. Group multiple objects in your Prezi - command click on each of them.
9. Don't use the zoom too much!
10. Collaborate with up to 10 people on Prezi.

ArcGIS Online - Esri

Geography is:

• What's where?
• Why is it there?
• So what?

ArcGIS Statewide license is available to all teachers and students in Utah. It is a JavaScript based program that will work on any device, iPad, iPod, iPhone, Android, PC, Mac.
Without even logging in, students can enter data, view tables of data, edit maps. All they have to do is navigate a browser.

You can change symbols, filter for data, compare data and really learn to understand set theory.
Students can

• Explore
• Analyze
• Solve
• Communicate

Online makes it so easy to do this from home or school and share with parents, other students, groups.

You can search for data already in the system to going to "Search for Layers". Choose data and then select done adding layers. Try population - select the legend button and zoom in and out to see different levels of information: State/County/Tract/BlockGroup.

Add caption

This layer shows state data

Zoom in and this layer shows block groups data

 

ESRI - Earth Sciences Resource Institute is privately owned.  Each account has three levels of users: Aministrator/Publisher/Users

Introduction to ArcGIS and videos can be found here: http://esriurl.com/mappingwithago

If you want to do Online Courses you must have an ESRI Global Account. They are free!

Charlie Fitzpatrick presenter cfitzpatrick@esri.com

ESRI Education Community and more at http://edcommunity.esri.com/software/webmapping/

iPhone app - MotionX GPS will create a track as a gpx. Drag onto an ArcGIS online map and amazing.

New Excel Add-on for Microsoft Office 2010 (PC only) will allow you to take an excel document and create an interactive map inside of Excel and export as a slide to Powerpoint.

UGIC conference info UGIC.org 

Conference in Provo 1st week of April. 

C-Forum at UEN
January 4, 2013

worldbookonline.com

Worldbook for Kids is in outline form along left hand column and every article has citations in MLA format. There is also a citation builder for other formats in Worldbook Student. Articles contain trusted educational websites. More information by clicking on Worldbook Student. You can print subsections of articles. Aligned to Utah State core - right column to view standards.
Everything in their database will be going from flash based to iPad compatible in the next couple of months.

• World of Animals - compare and contrast or details of one animal including photos, videos and sounds.
• Compare Places - compare states and countries or details on one state or country again including photos, videos and safe links.
• Science Projects - left shows subsections of types.
• Games and Activities - math, science, social studies - Speech Sort, Country Sort
• Important People

Worldbook Student is a little more advanced. Shows lexile levels.

• Research Tools - Citation builder, Timelines - political leaders will print on one sheet landscape, or in a list - new version coming out in February.
• Biography Center - Inventors, Explorers, Painters, World Leaders, Athletes, Authors. Filter by interest, gender, ethnicity, time period
• Explore - Utah, USA and Canada, World, Compare Places

Spanish and French Worldbook for Dual Immersion schools!

Differentiating for Learning Styles - Multiple Intelligences Resources

http://cforum.wikispaces.com/Websites+to+Support+Multiple+Intelligences+in+the+Classroom

BLT September 2012

BLT MEETING 9/17/2012

We get good at whata we are trying to do by jumping in, making mistakes and learning from them. Jumping in is fearlessly believing that we can accomplish what we are trying to do and approaching it from the perspective of "I can do this", "this is possible" and "this can create great results".

TED talk - Atul Gawande "How Do We Heal Medicine?" His book: Checklist Manifesto
"We can't know it all. We can't do it all by ourselves.
It's pit crews that we need. " . . . and checklists.

A System needs:

1. Ability to recognize success and failure. Become interested in data
2. Devise solutions checklists and pause points
3. Ability to implement this system

Humility, discipline, team work. Making systems work is THE task of our generation as a whole. In every field knowledge has exploded and we have come to a place where we must have group success. No one person can know or do it all.

Build a check list for Ed Techs.

• Beginning of year (new teachers,
• Daily
• Each term
• CBT testing
• PD Classes
• Endorsement Classes
• Events - this is what you can expect to see over the year (Report cards, cForum, UCET, CBT,

Hard Facts - Dangerous Half Truths and Total Nonsense

Do organizations have the best people? No they have the best organization.

• Treat talent as something that everyone can earn, not that just a few people own.
• The law of crappy systems trumps the law of crappy people
• Wisdom is the most crucial talent (growth and learning over time)
• Encourage people to be noisy and nosy - it promotes wisdom

Thin Client Pilots - Canyons District

In an effort to get computers in the classroom, Canyons District is piloting "Thin Clients". A thin client is simply monitors that run off of one virtual server which acts as the hard drive. One virtual server can handle 180 work stations or "thin Clients". We have installed 4-5 clients per classroom in several grades in Altara and Oakdale Elementary Schools. (Weber District has additional experience with Thin Clients.)

Advantages:
Over time this should equate to a great savings for the District. Not initially.
Cost: Monitor - $160 Thin Client - $480 Server $$$
Usable life extended to 7 to 10 years
Easy to make mass changes to image
Operational cost and support is centralized
Students login using their credentials and save to their Active Directory accounts.
CBT's (Computer Based Testing) can be administered through Thin Clients


Disadvantages:
Thin Clients run only Windows and there are problems running cross platforms with all the Macs in our elementary schools.
Students login using their credentials - not easy for lower grades.
Issues streaming large files across network.
In order to do CBT's we will have to move thin clients from classrooms to a central location for a period of time.

CMAP in Richfield

Learning GPS in Richfield. Creating core curriculum connecting GPS to the community. Ray Montgomery GIS Administrator for Sandy City had some great ideas for us. Here is the website for the CMAP Course through UEN>

C-forum - Nebo District - March 25

UTIPS - Alpha stage - will not work on IE - upgrade to Google Chrome at least.

Open Office for Kids
Writer (Word), Calc (Excel), Impress (PowerPoint), Draw
13 languages available in many environments apple and pc, FREE
Disk image for MacOS
Educational fonts w/ lines
User levels Beginner, Medium, Expert - Simplified interface and can toggle back and forth between levels.

Nebo is installing in all Elementary School labs this summer. Will run on machines as old as 2006
Open Office .org saves files as .odt or .pdf
http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/Main_Page
Central Region District - All schools have joomla site and all teachers are asked to create and keep up a myuen page.
Carbon School District went to Gmail. Teachers starting to use calendar. Very functional - conversation feature is the best.
San Juan - Rural Schools - Google Docs and forms and office went to gmail. Josh Decker created an observation form in numbers for the ipad.
Google Help site created by Nebo. Monument Valley is using iPods - about a year behind Kearns.
Salt Lake District - All went Gmail and google docs. All teachers have ipads, stem teachers and students have ipod touch. 10HP Netbooks are one to one and they STAY in the classroom - All title I have netbooks primarily used for Utah Write in 5th grade.
You Tube - teared access. Just opening up Facebook. Using Canvas
Alpine District - Trying to move to gmail for 2 years. Should happen before next fall. Skyward. Smart phones/hand held devices usage 600 1st year to 1300 to 3000 (one out of 2 devices will not be owned by the District) $18 to have your device on our network. Looking at 9000 devices - how do you collect $18 from each user? We expect 60% of students will be packing a smart phone or android. Processor on the handheld is better than machines he gave teachers 2 years ago. What are we going to do when it gets here. 4-6 years EVERYONE will have a web device. If they bring it on the property they lose privacy.
Carl: iTunes university - setup teacher account - Using pages to create epub books.
Jordan School District - Bingham High School - one using netbooks, ipads, laptops. Very time intensive for teachers. Wanted to see cost savings of paperless - no texts, no papers, and they want to see which one is working the best.
All students at Kari Sue Special needs have ipads. Doing great differentiation. 39 teachers doing in home instruction.
Going to Google Docs - Google Apps Set up a domain for their school. Go through UEN brokered google so that kids have exclusive rights to their material. If you go directly through Google - material belongs to google. If you use a google doc to write a book, they own half. USE THE AGREEMENT BROCKERED BY UEN.
Davis - Netbooks - Dell does the image $320 Intell tablet PC "Classmate" - they may work a deal. Piloting and want to open a new junior high with one to one device. Training involves not just teaching the teachers how to use the device, but teaching the teachers how to teach using one to one devices. Went with Google apps district wide. Teachers and students have gmail. Docs, calendar, mail, employees chat.
Creating DESK modes. They are assembling resources for teachers Trish - online curriculum (student out for a week - they can get on). Looking at Blackboard to house it.
Alpine Facebook - after about 15 minutes every student was saying - don't open it up - save us from ourselves

Alpine Experience: Smart phones you can get 45 on an access point - netbooks 17-18 - do not know why????

You can turn Google Surveys into tests using Flubaroo
Flubaroo - embed answer key in a Google Form (survey) and it turns it into a test.

Typing 15 cents per student - Typing Pal Online
Brainpop will be offering state wide pricing. If you want this trial extended let Rick Gaisford know.
Democrasoft - Start a discussion, comment and vote etc. very collaborative.
Classroom 2.0 can create your own page.

Nebo data apps created to share testing information.