Digital Citizenship in Blended Learning

While attending the Building Student Engagement in Distance and Blended Learning Conference this week in North Battleford, I had the pleasure of presenting "Digital Citizenship in Blended Learning" to a large group of teachers. The presentation was very well received and contains a number of resources for teachers looking to incorporate digital citizenship into their blended learning environments.

I have shared it here in case you find it helpful:

One tool that I used throughout the presentation is called Mentimeter.  This is a great interactive tool that can be used for formative assessment throughout a lesson or engage an audience during a presentation. It is very customizable and user friendly. I also really like how you can export your results in different formats, making it multi-purpose.  Here is the collective word cloud that we built to define digital citizenship:

2015 RCSSD EdCamp Smackdown & App Smash

During today's RCSSD EdCamp, Katia Hildebrant, Kelly Christopherson, and I closed the morning's learning and sharing by presenting an "App Smash Smackdown".  Here's a list of apps we shared:

Joanna's Apps:

IFTTT (IF This Then That):

• Make social media and the web work for you by creating "recipes" such as "If I post a photo to Instagram, then post the same picture to Twitter".
• Platforms: iOS, Android, Web
• Link to find it: IFTTT Website
• Classroom Connection: If This Then That - Automate Routine Tasks 

DIY (for Kids)

• A safe place for kids to learn and share in a monitored social network that allows for parent and educator access. Earn badges for skills mastered.
• Platforms: iOS, Web
• Link to find it: DIY Website
• Classroom Connections: DIY for Kids - Do Challenges, Earn Skills

ChatterPix and ChatterPix Kids

• Students can record themselves speaking using pictures of their choice.  Make an inanimate object have a voice or make your pet talk.  Might help reluctant talkers to express themselves through the talking picture.
• Platforms: iOS
• Link to find it: ChatterPix Website
• Classroom Connection: Kids Create Talking Pictures with CatterPix Kids

Katia's Apps:

Touchcast:

• This app allows you to record a short video and then layer interactive widgets over it to integrate live socialmedia streams, photos, maps, and other multimedia.  The person watching the video can interact with the widgets while still remaining in the video.
• Platforms: iOS, Windows
• Link to find it: TouchCast Website
• Ideas to get started: Add Interactive Elements to Videos with Touchcast

Aurasma:

• Make augmented reality work for you. Scan your picture come to life on your device.
• Platform: iOS, Android
• Link to find it: Aurasma Website

FreshGrade:

• Build online portfolios to showcase student learning and reflection.
• Platform: iOS, Website
• Link to find it: FreshGrade Website

Kelly's Apps:

Thinglink:

• Create virtual reality images to share what you do.
• Platforms: iOS, Android, Web
• Link to find it: Thinglink Website
• Classroom Connections: RCSDedcamp AppSmash 2015 Thinglink

Pearltrees:

• Curation and annotation tool for mixing and sharing your work and anything from the web.
• Platforms: iOS, Android, Web
• Link to find it: Pearltrees Website
• Classroom Connections: Kelly's Pearltrees

Voxer:

• Communicate with others via voice and text anywhere on any device.
• Platforms: iOS/Android
• Link to find it: Voxer Website 

Bonus apps:

Backdraft

• Pre-write your tweets and live tweet during a presentation or event. Great for ensuring links and other information is correct without having to do it on the fly.
• Platform: iOS
• Link to find it: Backdraft on iTunes and Purdue's News about Backdraft 

Hootsuite:

• Manage and monitor your social media presence across more than 35 popular social networks in one dashboard.
• Platforms: iOS, Android, Web
• Link to find it: Hootsuite Website

ShowMe:

• A simple app that allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. Can be used by students to demonstrate understanding and can be used by teachers to create flipped lessons.
• Platforms: iOS
• Link to find it: ShowMe Website

Evernote:

• A productivity app that allows you to organize all of your projects in one place. From writing lists and notes, to curating resources, to recording audio to sharing your work on the fly through presentations, Evernote is a multi-platform tool to keep you organized.
• Platforms: iOS, Android, Window, Mac, Web
• Link to find it: Evernote website
• Classroom Connections: 6 Uses for Evernote in the Classroom

Skitch:

• A photo editing app that works with your Evernote account. This app allows you draw and write on your pictures which can be handy if you are trying to annotate a screenshot and give instructions to students.
• Platforms: iOS, Mac, Windows
• Link to find it: Skitch Website
• Classroom Connections: Protect Student Privacy by Using Skitch

Source: iappreciateteachers.com

Orientation for #ETMOOC

I was excited to get started with #ETMOOC this week. I love exploring, discussing, sharing and learning new things with my colleauges. One of the most exciting things about participating in this massive open online course is being able to participate along side my colleagues, not only online, but in my school too. We did the orientation together during our lunch break yesterday.

To get the learning started, I decided to try a new tool I saw someone share this week called Haiku Deck. It is an easy way to add some visuals to any blog post or presentation. I downloaded the app for free on my iPad and easily created this short presentation to try it out. Great way to put words and pictures together! How do you think you could use this tool in your classroom? I think the possibilities are endless!

Haiku Deck: #ETMOOC

Haiku Deck is the best application for creating presentations on iPad

Making Your Library Googlicious

A joint presentation by Joanna Sanders Bobiash and Terry Pon, Regina Public Schools
RPSD, RCSD and PVSD Teacher-Librarian Professional and Learning Day
Regina, SK - October 25, 2011

Here is our presentation. (link) Please explore the links in the presentation and provide feedback using this form.

Wrestling with Assessment in the Digital Age

STF Conference, Finding our Way IV: Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability
Presentation by Joanna Sanders Bobiash and Erik Van Dusen

Here is our presentation from today's workshop about using digital tools for assessment. (Presentation Link)

IT Summit Presentation - The Effective Integration of Handheld Devices into the Classroom

This week, I'm attending the two-day Saskatchewan IT Summit in Saskatoon. It is a great opportunity to meet with, hear from and discuss the integration of technology into the classroom with educators from across the province.

This morning, I will have the opportunity to present my experience about the integration of hand-held devices into my teaching. Here is an embedded copy of my presentation for those of you that are interested.

Effective Integration of Handheld Devices into the Classroom

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The two YouTube videos that I will show during my presentation are included in the slideshare. I am also showing this CNN video about the ongoing debate about the usage of cellphones in schools:

A presentation to North Battleford French Immersion Teachers

Today, I had the pleasure of presenting to the French Immersion Teachers in North Battleford about how to find resources online and how to share them with each other. The goal of my session was to provide some insights and tools to teachers to make it easier to work together. Often we are spending our time searching for the same things. It is not always easy to find the best resources to support our new curriculum. Why not work as a team to accomplish this task? Work smarter, not harder!

Here is a copy of my presentation (in French):

La recherche et la collaboration

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Here is the video I shared during my presentation that explains how Diigo works:


Diigo V5: Collect and Highlight, Then Remember! from diigobuzz on Vimeo.

Cool Tools for Successful Collaboration

This morning, I had the pleasure of co-presenting with Erik Van Dusen to high school teachers from Winston Knoll, Balfour and Thom about ways that we can use online tools to share resources and collaborate.

Despite working for the same school division, Erik and I have only met a few times in person. We have had many interesting discussions and shared many resources online through Twitter. In the expanse of a few short months, he has become a valuable member of my PLN. Our presentation itself is a great of example of how the tools we presented today can easily be used for online collaboration by anyone. In fact, our entire presentation was built online using Google Presentations and discussions were had using Twitter to finalize what we were going to say and how we were going to present it.

We gave the same presentation three times as the teachers from the three schools were organized into similar subject groupings. It was really interesting as an outsider from the elementary level to hear about some of the innovative ways teachers at these three schools are integrating technology into the classroom.

Unfortunately, if you didn't attend our presentation live, you missed out on our witty dialogue. But fortunately, if you would like to view our online slide-deck and see what we talked about, please check out one of two options:

A link to our presentation built using Google apps with easy to follow links: http://bit.ly/iejumk

An embedded version of the presentation here for your viewing pleasure:

Cool Tools for Successful Collaboration

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Talking about Google Sites

On Monday, April 4, I will be sharing some of my experience with Google Sites with the Teacher Librarians in my division. Here's the guiding presentation I will be using, however, most of it will be hands-on and live demo from my sites' menu. There are some good links here if you want to learn more about Google Sites.

Link to the presentation in Google Presentation Format (easier to follow hyperlinks): http://bit.ly/hzYnYd 

I'm also embeding it here from Slide Share if you just want to view the slides without leaving my blog: 

TL Session on Google Sites 04-04-2011

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Presentation to DMTH Class at the University of Regina

Today, I was invited as a special guest to make a presentaion about the integration of technology into the teaching of Math. Here is my presentation that I made (in French) to the 3rd year undergrad students in DMTH class at the University of Regina. Hopefully the students found it useful and discovered some new tools or ideas to add to their tool kits.

 The links for this presentation are located here: http://fur.ly/4dog 
 
Here are the slides from my presentation:

DMTH Presentation - Maths et Technologie

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Here is the poll we started out the presentation with:

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Please leave a comment with your ideas, tools or resources for integrating technology into math instruction.

My Presentation at the Saskatchewan IT Summit 2010

Today I had the pleasure of presenting at the Saskatchewan IT Summit. The title was: What if dreams did come true? What to do when technology in the classroom is no longer a barrier.

Sask IT Summit 2010 Workshop Presentation from Joanna Sanders

I also created a wiki to use during my presentation: http://itsummit2010bobiash.wikispaces.com/

The theme of my presentation was collaborative learning. During my presentation, I shared the inquiry process my class used to develop its collaborative video and proposal that ended up winning one of 15 Best Buy's Best in Class Awards in 2009. Participants were then asked to collaborate themselves to come up with their own plans or ideas for incorporating new technology into their classrooms to improve student learning.

I decided to present at this conference because I have been asked by a number of people to share some of the methods and processes I use in my classroom to guide inquiry projects. I also decided to have an interactive portion to my presentation by asking the participants to engage in a discussion and envision how to spend a large amount of money on technological tools to improve student learning in their classrooms. When applying for grants and large prize amounts, it can be a bit overwhelming to envision how to spend large amounts of money and really justify how it will be impacting student learning. What better way to get ideas then to share experiences with other colleagues.

I hope the participants left with something new and I want to thank them for letting me share my story with them.