Google Summit Conference 2015
Many of our NBCDES Staff are attending the Google Summit Conference in Edmonton this week. The conference is tailored for using Google in Education.
As a staff, we are bringing our own experiences into the learning sessions and increasing our knowledge in order to enhance our instructional practices. We are participating in a variety of useful sessions, as we continue to hear the importance of integrating technology into educaiton
(as a learning tool, along with promoting collaboration), digital citizenship, students demonstrating their understanding in a variety of ways, teaching others, and so forth.
Your Digital Footprint
Digitial Citizenship
...students learn to use technology in a responsible manner
...students learn that they are in control of their message
One session by K. Smith highlighted the benefits of students, parents,
and teachers blogging together.
Tomorrow is a new day and even more sessions.
We are looking forward to continuing to learn!!
At the conference, we won 'Photo of the Conference'...incorporating our technology into our fun photo...
ReplyDeleteLooking great girls!
I learned so many useful things at the Google Summit. One of the most interesting things was how far reaching "Google Apps for Education" is: there were many presenters from all over Canada, a few from the USA and one from New Zealand. Wow, just to share their knowledge with us! Fortunately the presenters shared their presentation links (and together we took over 31 pages of notes), so we can go back and remember everything we learned, because looking back it's hard to remember everything.
ReplyDeleteWe learned so much at the Google Conference in Edmonton. Our heads were full of new ideas by the time we left and we had lots to share and discuss on our long drive home.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to applying what I learned to my planning and lessons. I am excited to share and teach my students and parents some of the tools available (right here in our learn60 Drive) for writing, drawing and presenting. There are some truly fun and amazing things we can do.
Learning is an exciting adventure!
I went into the conference with a few questions in mind and learning goals that I had set for myself. The presenters were amazing, as their shared their knowledge, ideas, and skills with us.
ReplyDeleteIn our Science 6 class, we do some project based work. In these projects, students are creating youtube videos, which are truly an amazing way to present their understanding and creations. We were a little worried about creating public videos and putting them out there on the web...So one question I had, was how do we share these videos with each other in our online class, yet keep the privacy limited to our learning community.
The answer: each video you make you can save as a public, unlisted, or private video. Public means anyone has full access to it, watching it and able to search and find it. Unlisted means only people with your specific video url can watch it, no one can search it and watch it. Private means only the creator can watch it.
So in conclusion, if you feel privacy is a concern, I would recommend students to save their youtube video as unlisted. If you have already created a video, you can go in and change the settings at any time, to unlisted, etc. Then when you are presenting to the class, you can share the link with your teacher and peers so that we can all enjoy your presentation. It is not available to the public.
There are many things that I learned that I am sooo excited to bring into the classroom...I bet as students you can't wait ;)
Attending the Google conference was very worthwhile. I added to my current Google knowledge ways that I can support my teaching as well as ideas I can share with my students. Going to a conference as good as this one gives me new energy to try new things, but also creates new questions for me to work through.
ReplyDeleteSince many of my students use an iPad to support their learning, I learned about a couple apps that sounded very good.
The first app is called Book Creator where students can create a book using photos, music, videos, text, narration etc. More information about this app can be found at http://www.redjumper.net/bookcreator/.
The second app that got me interested was called Touchcounts for younger students to support adding and subtracting understanding. More information about this app can be found at https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/touchcounts/id897302197?mt=8.
Taking a closer look at these two apps is on my list of things to do, however if anyone is familiar with these or would like to try them out, I would love to hear your feedback.