Chrissy Hellyer – 1:1 in the Elementary Classroom

My first session on Saturday was with Chrissy Hellyer, who is an amazingly dynamic presenter and her Kiwi accent simply enhances her charm 🙂

Her session included a lot of showcasing of examples of using computers/devices/tools in the primary classroom, and I have already added the Fotobabble app to my phone and played with it a little since this morning!

 

Below are my notes as-is, however I will be thinking and reviewing things further as soon as my brain has recovered from the intensity of two days of

 

 

Chrissy Hellyer 1:1 in the Elementary Classroom

What are we hoping for?

TAIL standards – on wikispace in bands

Effective Learners, Effective Communicators, Effective Creators, Effective Collaborators, Ethical Citizens

tech helps you tackle the ‘global’ part of the standards/expectations

not a skillset, it’s a mindset
trivia quiz – attention-focusing activity

if you need to password protect it, it shouldn’t be online

tools, uses, tricks, applications, examples

Wordle getting-to-know-you exercise, analyse word frequency – does your wordle show the heart of your story? put up with story to be the advertisement; list of expectation, collaborate on google docs and make a wordle; blog
also http://tagxedo.com

Dragon Dictation and Voice Assistant – programs to convert oral to written text

Wallwisher – some quirks eg can’t save an arrangement, but screen capture and go
two stars and a wish; before and after reflections; showcase wall

Chrissy puts everything on the class blog, only url the kids have to learn, then everything being used in class is linked via the blog.

Tom Barratt – Interesting Ways series

Buy Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds by Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis

Jen Wagner – entry-level global projects

The power of Twitter and learning networks

Google – one stop shop – collaborative writing, surveys, presentations, drawing??

Train two people to be experts, they train two, etc etc

Digital desks…?  Haiku instead of Teacher Dashboard

fotobabble (has app) children record reflections over a picture; can’t export so play and screencapture each file, then add to personal eportfolios; class account with one username and password; have to teach a naming convention

prezi – starting to use it as an eportfolio

introduce new tool – everyone sandboxes and plays around, then do speed-geeking “did anyone find a way to do xyz?” person who answers becomes the expert

Big Huge Labs – go-to site for visual literacy; make a jigsaw of a picture, put up on screen and do the “what is this??” gradual reveal; magazine cover “what you need to know about Mrs Teacher”

Record voiceover in Powerpoint

Photopeach for slideshows with music already there; no audio but great for powerful storytelling; no download, but embed, or screencapture if you want the file; next level up is adding comments eg peer review
example shapes in the real world – Kinder/Grade 1 took digital pics, adults helped upload images, add captions; year 2 version captions show greater understanding of elements of shapes, and some comparisons
do a lot of planning beforehand, checklists to help them prepare for the task; the more effort before looking at the tool, the better the end will be (do I have a picture? is it clear? is it blurry?) write the script, do storyboards all the time

book trailers

grasp-task – backward by design

give feedback to app/tool developers

www.youblisher.com good substitution tool for producing online magazines (issuu, scribd)

Go!Animate  good cop/ bad cop digital citizenship
(Voki, Xtranormal)

Pinterest visual bookmarking

audio recorder 3.2 (Mac only) use it for keeping running records. good for basics – record and go, M4A file, compatible with pcs and macs, but can’t edit without exporting it to Audacity or something. Good for little kids

Voicethread takes everything one step further into global collaboration
uses as tutorial tool – kids each demonstrate their technique eg of solving a sum

Tips: ovenmitts for experts!!! (keeps fingers off the keyboards)

down or around – for putting down laptop screens or turning around to remove screen distraction just for a minute or so

experts chart – 2 or 3 before the teacher

choose the right tool for the task

resist the temptation to do it all – play with the go-to tools, get comfy with them

flexibility