PHS Autos - Building A Library of Skills

Students are starting to creating their video library of skills using images, video, and voice over.  Essentially, students are critically thinking about the steps to accomplish a task (in this case it was a brake job), creatively thinking about the content and how they want their video to be viewed, and sharing it to the world!

We really want students to choose the tool that they want to create with based on what they think their skills.

Here's the presentation of tools:



View some of the final products:

Student 1

Student 2

Google Drive Videos Now Able To Embed In Google Slides

Been waiting for years!  Now students don't need to upload videos to YouTube.  We can stay in Google Drive!  So thankful!



*Not available on the iPad, yet!

Flex Mod Feature - Course Phasing

I was asked by our assistant principal to create updated videos that help others to understand the features of a flex mod schedule.  Two years ago, we created a series of videos called "40 Seconds With Flex Mod" which asked a question and got an answer.  This was created to inform students and parents while we prepared to enter the flex mod schedule which was eight months away.

We started the flex mod schedule in the fall of 2015, and we felt it was time to "tell our story" as it pertains to our unique schedule.

The process for completing the video started with filming of the three phases of the course.  I used the S1 Shoulder Pod iPhone Mount, an iPhone 6s Plus, MacBook Air, iMovie on a Mac, Canva, and YouTube.

The Process:

• Determine the meeting times of Chemistry for an entire week.  We always think of courses in weeks and how it looks.
• Capture video from Large Group on Wednesday using the S1 Shoulder Pod and iPhone
• Capture video from Small Group on Thursday using the S1 Shoulder Pod and iPhone
• Capture video from Lab on Friday using the S1 Shoulder Pod and iPhone
• Transfer video into three different folders on the MacBook Air utilizing AirDrop (amazingly fast and efficient)
• Import video into iMovie and edit
• Confirm names and spellings of students in movie via Chemistry teachers
• Create a YouTube Thumbnail in Canva
• Upload the video into YouTube (two places: PHS YouTube and my YouTube channel) and add a customized YouTube Thumbnail

Making a video takes time!  Everything does!  However, the tools are present that help the process to be efficient.  Hopefully, the final product(s) can be something that transports a viewer to the experience and walks away with a better understanding of the subject.  You owe it to your learning environment to "tell your story".  I look forward to seeing what you produce!

I would like to publicly thank Mr. Manning, PHS Media teacher, who I've had the fortunate opportunity to spend many hours creating videos so that we can tell our school's story. He has truly taught me so many video producing skills in the past five years.  I really didn't know what I didn't know!  However, that's the beautiful thing about a high school.  In a sense, it's a village or city with every profession who has a master trades(wo)man.  There is always someone who knows something about something.  And as teachers are always willing to do, they help people understand how to make, fix, or create something.

Submitting Audio or Video Student Assignments in Canvas App

Insert Video Into Explain Everything Setting

We are inserting video into Explain Everything.  It's important to have one setting checked correctly.

Flex Mod Blended Learning Recording Tools and Options

Some teachers have requested technology tools that will aide in providing video resources pertaining specifically to content material.  These video recordings are ideally less than five minutes and will be viewed during student Personal Learning Time (PLT).  This is referred to as a Flipped Classroom.  Personally, I don't believe a complete flipped classroom is an idea that will work for the majority of content areas in a flex mod schedule. However, a blended classroom environment can be a perfect fit.  About two years ago, I taught a two day workshop on the Flipped Classroom Learning Experience.  Many of the resource from that will be helpful during this preparation phase.



Reasons for creating video resources for students:

• Science - Demonstrate lab instructions for viewing prior to class
• Math - Graphing calculator instructions for settings
• English Language Arts - How to start a research paper
• Social Studies - Project requirements
• Foreign Language - Grammar rules
• Physical Education - Game Rules and options for personal fitness time
• FACS - Instructions for cooking/baking/prepping
• Business - Spreadsheet formula set up
• Agri-Science - Instructions for labs
• All Subjects - answers and reflections

Tools For Recording Screens and Educators

Screencast-o-matic

SMART Notebook Video Recorder

Storing The Video

Google Drive

Everything YouTube

Organize YouTube Per Content

VideoNot.es For Reviewing The Presidential Roles

Last April, a Lunch N' Learn session focused on VideoNot.es.  The incredible tool that allows questions and comments to be synced directly with specific times in a video.  Following the learning session, one of our high school English teachers utilized this tool for implementing an assessment on her SMARTboard.

What makes our teachers fantastic is there willingness to learn something new when it hits them, "There must be a better way!"

That's exactly what occurred when Mrs. McCumber wanted to have her students analyze the latest Presidential State of the Union address from the perspective related to content in her class.

VideoNot.es allowed her to focus on "Presidential Roles" that occurred during the speech.  While it did take some time to review the one hour speech, it took mere seconds to find the exact spot in the speech in which she wanted to focus on.  Simply click on the time that you would like to view in the note and the video corresponds!

From a technical stand point, VideoNot.es saves all the notes in Google Drive.  This allows for sharing and easy access.  A newer feature is the integration with Evernote!  An additional feature is the speed of the video and how that can be adjusted.  This could be used in analyzing science experiments or sporting clips.  It would be great if the VideoNot.es could be embedded into a site or blog.  As it is now, only a link can be obtained for sharing.

View the Speech and Mrs. McCumber's notes.

Impact On Students:
Critical Thinking:   Analyzing anything requires a thinking process.  While Mrs. McCumber did the critical thinking for this activity (breaking the down the speech), students could do the same thing in an upcoming learning experience.
Collaboration: Since VideoNot.es is synced with Google Drive, students can analyze a video as a group.  Simply share the VideoNot.es with group members giving them editing rights.

Movenote To Invite Teachers For E-Mentoring Program

MOVENOTE UPDATE: A Google Extension (app) is available.

Our middle school counselor, Nicole Gerth, wanted a tool that would provide information and a personal touch when inviting staff to become involved in our E-Mentoring program.  In the past an email was sent out with a presentation.  With the inclusion of a recorded video and the presentation, a personal touch was provided!

Consider using Movenote for your next Screen Cast.

View The Example

Movenote: Send video with Gmail

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Impact On Students:

Creativity:  Students can create written scripts which would force them to limit the words on the slide and increase the context of spoken word.  The creativity can also be encouraged through the video shot that would take place and the visualization of the presentation.

Citizenship: As Movenote would like to be interactive, replies are available.  Students need to focus on constructive replies that will be available on the world wide web forever.

Critical Thinking: Students and staff need to concentrate on the flow of the presenation and the words that correspond with the presentation.  Many times we hear people say, "I know what I am doing, but I just don't know how to explain it."  Critical thinking skills are need to explain the information.

G Drive (Green) App For Downloading Video From Google Drive To iMovie

Saving video to an iPad from Google Drive was not possible until I found a solution courtesy of one of our IT people, @kenwestphal.

Collaborating with multiple students on different iPads or taking video with an iPhone or iPod was a difficult task because the Google Drive app only allowed downloading of images for use in iMovie.  Using the G Drive (Green) app now allows for videos to be imported into iMovie once the video is uploaded to a student's or teacher's Google Drive account.

If students are recording video using an Android device, the video will need to be converted before G Drive will import it into iMovie on the iPad.  We use Any Video Converter.

G Drive (Green) App
Google Drive App

View how it works!  Don't forget to have students log out of the G Drive app.


Video Link

SLATE 2013 Screencasting With iPads

Video Link

Looking forward to a great session tomorrow!

View The Presentation

United Streaming and Opposing Views

Informational Text for the Common Core State Standards can be printed text but doesn't always need to be.  Opposing Viewpoints is a great resource for printed text in various forms, while Discovery Education is a great resource for visual informational resources.  See what both of them bring to your classroom.

• Both resources work great on laptops, Chromebooks and iPads through the Chrome browser.  This would work especially if the teacher is projecting a video they have on their account.  A challenge does occur when a teacher would like students to watch the video with a log in.
• Paid version of Discovery Education app is available on the iPad
• All resources look great on a projected screen

Opposing Viewpoints Information

United Streaming (Discovery Education) Information

Art Teacher Present In Content Area Via Video

I really appreciate Mrs. Hoffmann using the power of technology to meet the needs of teachers and students to understand new concepts.

From Sara Hoffmann, Middle School Art Teacher

It seems to be a common theme among teachers that they want their kids to know how to draw PEOPLE either correctly or cartoonish.  So I did a step by step for figure drawing video...the quality is a bit better and I'm getting better at editing too.

We teach figure drawing as a 7th grade project in art, but now art is an elective in 7th grade...so not everyone gets to learn how, so this is great that they can learn quickly through my video.

Promotional Video Lunch N' Learn Year 2

Creating a promotional video for our Pulaski High School weekly Lunch N' Learn provided me with a great opportunity to use a technology tool that I learned about at the Apple Distinguished Educator Institute in Austin.

Final Cut Pro X provided me with so many eye catching graphics that no other program has provided me.  I decided that I would use the great people of Pulaski High School to promote our Lunch N' Learn.  I recorded as many people as I could saying, "I'm there!" using my iPad 2.  I then used the fantastically efficient Photosync app and Mac client to seamlessly and efficiently transfer the video clips from my iPad to a Mac wirelessly.  I imported the different media clips into Final Cut Pro X and combined them with the amazing graphics that Final Cut Pro X provides.  I decided that the best song for this video would be OK Go's Here It Goes Again! because it's our second year! Through the sharing options that Final Cut Pro X provides, I was able to easily upload it to my YouTube channel.

The entire process of recording, editing, and producing took just under three hours.  I am thankful that I am able to use Final Cut Pro X and look forward to finding more features and uses for this amazing production tool.

The promotional video is being sent out this morning to over 80 high school staff members as tomorrow starts year two of our wildly famous (ok, just famous) Lunch N' Learn.  I truly appreciate the energy and enthusiasm that our staff brings to these volunteer learning sessions.  Our staff also did a fantastic job of demonstrating their unique personalities when stating, "I'm there!"

Awesome!

Flipped Classroom Learning Experience Day 1

I was blessed today to spend hours with seventeen teachers who want to get better!  Our motivation for getting better was the opportunity to learn about the flipped classroom.  I incorporated and modeled many tools that teachers can use as I thought modeling would be a great method for introducing and learning philosophies, methods of, and tools to produce exemplary flip classed environments.  Below are the complete presentations and resources that go with them that were used today!

History Of Flip Classroom

• Provided a great beginning to what a flip class started out as and where it is going.
• Introduced todaysmeet.com as a viable tool for communicating with students
• Slide six was an Evernote that was created with Clearly Chrome Extension app
• Slide eight provided a two minute video of the founders
• Slide nine provided four minutes of multiple examples of Flipped Class content

Addressing A Need In Your Classroom & Possible Solutions

• Incorporated iTunesU Flip 101 to introduce three types of a Flipped Classroom
• Traditional Flip
• In-class supplement
• Challenged Based Learning
• Introduced Flipgrid.com as a viable way to gather video assessment or reflection

Names Of People Who Are Using Flipped Education

• Thankful for so many people willing to share their knowledge and their questions
• #FlipClass twitter stream was introduced
• Flippedlearning.org learning community introduced
• Used Google Forms to acquire reflection on articles that participants found interesting
• Also used music during the reflection time...once three songs played, reflection time concluded

Tools Teachers Can't Live Without

• Created "Turn In Folder" for participants...participants were the students
• Google Drive became a clear cut favorite as a work flow solution
• Provided numerous free and paid canvas creating tools
• Provided numerous free and paid screen recording options
• Additional iPad app resources were introduced and demonstrated
• Video hosting tools were introduced and explained
• Participants used the "Turn In Folder"to provide reflection on resources
• Provided four (4) options for FREE Cloud storage of videos

Questions You Won't Ask In Person

• Utilized Google Forms for students to ask questions; questions and answers will start Day 2
• Homework
• Bring content from participant's class to start planning a lesson
• Participate in the #Flipclass chat on Monday night from 7-8 Central
• Reflect on the #Flipclass chat using Google Document & the "Turn It In Folder" 

Flipgrid - Student and Teacher Video Response

Flipgrid NOW AVAILABLE ON iPAD

UPDATE: 4/18/2017
Flipgrid started charging for their service, however, they do allow one "grid" for free at a time.  This presents a new opportunity for teachers to utilize this tool for feedback from students or anyone.  No "code" or "password" is needed by the students or teachers who want to add to the grid.  Additionally, text and videos can be added to the question of the grid to help participants understand the question.  Finally, assessing the students is so easy with built in assessment tools provided by Flipgrid.

I created a grid which allowed teachers to quickly state what "drives them nuts".  Listen to what they say or add to the grid!

VIEW THE GRID

5/16/13
Flipgrid allows for questions to be written by the instructor.  Below is a question that I wrote.  I was able to create a video board of responses.  The board can be public or private which is password protected.

Students or teachers can respond in a simple video format.  First they must provide a snap shot of themselves.  After that, they allow the program to use their camera and record their response to the question.

The final piece is the moderation.  The instructor can watch the videos prior to them being available for others to view.  Once approved, members who have the password to the video response board can watch other members responses.  They may then "like" the video.  The responses can be sent out as a link, embedded, tweeted or sent to Facebook.

All of the videos can be placed separately or as a continuous slide show.

VideoNot.es For Assessment In High School English

One of the best aspects of being a technology integrator occurs when a teacher implements a technology tool that I present during a Lunch N' Learn.

Yesterday, Mrs. Kim Noe, high school English teacher, utilized the perfect tool, VideoNot.es to play on her SMARTboard for assessment.

View how she used it!

Teacher's First iMovie Creation

Sure, there are plenty of movie creating apps and web tools that teachers can use, but there are not many with a 5-10 minute learning curve with so many options!

iMovie on the iPad is the option for quick, effective, and stunning video productions for staff and students.  Today, a teacher shared with me her first iMovie on iPad creation.  The one minute movie provides a great audio, visual, and text description of her students' learning experience with oil spills and there clean up!

Thank you, Mrs. Wojcik for showcasing the wonderful, learning opportunity through an iPad creation app.

Many Students Taking Video To Google Drive To iMovie

Problem:

• Create a video from the perspective of students to showcase "A Day In The Life of a PHS Student"
• Many students shooting different video
• How to put it all together

Solution:

• Students take video on whatever device they have, i.e. iPad, iPod, Cell Phones
• Upload to Shared Google Drive Folder
• Download video clips to iMovie on MacBook
• Chose MacBook because majority of students had iDevices & didn't want to convert video clips
• Create iMovie from all clips on MacBook

My example following the exact procedure above.
*Yeah, the video is corny - it was meant to be that way.

Movenote Add Video To A Google Drive Creation

Movenote is a quick way to add video/audio to a Google Drive document, including Docs, Presentations, & Spreadsheets.  The Movenote can be an iPad app as well.  Sharing options exist!

Simply find the Movenote app in the Chrome Store, connect to your Google Account, and start adding valuable content to your documents.  Need a teacher example?

More Movenote Information
Send Movenote Via Gmail Feature



Example


iOS App Example Once published, viewers can reply via text or video.  Great for class discussion!

Computer How To Video

VideoNot.es For Syncing Google Notes With Video

Prior to show the technology tool, I used the whiteboard for low tech description!

Video Notes: Streamline Online Research
Video Notes: Simple way to make, store, and share notes of online videos
Video Notes: Great tool for taking notes

VINE IT: https://t.co/jBBvAzySxj