On Wednesday, January 31, 2018 our Pulaski High School Marketing Principles class experienced a thirty minute interview with an Ohio University School of Business Honors Student. Brock Reisler (BrockReisler.com) has developed a positive personal brand through his website. He is featured on the Ohio University Honors page. He also secured a 2018 paid internship by November of 2017 after sending 400 emails to colleges and university athletic departments throughout the United States.
As a teacher, this was a great way to utilize
Communication (with "experts" outside of our school)
Create content as we recording the entire hangout
Critically thought about the content that Brock presented to our students as they are going to be creating a personal brand
As a father, I am so proud of the responsible young man that Brock has become. I liked one of the things Brock said in the interview: "Everything In High School Matters" ~Brock Reisler 1-31-18
Watch the interview conducted through an event on Google Hangout!
I'm a huge fan of "Common Craft" type of videos. Students will be creating "Common Craft" type videos completely on the iPad using their creativity and some tools. Since 2012 our students have created "Common Craft" type videos, and we have progressed with our tools. I look back on my first explanation video and we definitely can improve. I feel we are!
The Timeline App is a tremendously easy app (or website) to create timelines. So many of the timeline apps are extremely expensive. This app allows for three different options for organizing events:
Date
Time
Event
A timeline that graphically represents related items or events in a sequential order and displayed along a line can be another method for students to "show what they know".
Exporting Options are as a JPG or as a PDF. Collaboration is also possible as a "file" type .RWT can be emailed or Airdropped so that students can add their portions to the group timeline. View the steps.
A few students and teachers in our school have dabbled in creating with the tremendously popular Book Creator App. Currently, our Civics students are experiencing our school's first full implemented Book Creator App learning opportunity.
The Civics instructors created templates to assist students with the gathering and publishing of information. With the great features of "open in" and "combining books", both found on the iPad, the workflow was efficient.
Finally, students collaborated with their group to create a final product which was published to Canvas for easy evaluation.
The templates were placed on Canvas and students easily "opened" them in Book Creator to add their information! SEE THE TEMPLATES
The presentation below was given to the students in a 10 minute time frame. Each slide represents features of the Book Creator app that will help the students create a quality product.
In collaborating with the Spanish II team of Mrs. Van Gheem-Rottier, Ms. Sampson, and Ms. Slasarek, we developed a digital workflow in which students will be creating written stories based on a template created in Explain Everything.
This stemmed from the template that Mrs. Vertz created. She wanted students to focus the majority of their time on working through the process and not creating all of the pieces needed in the process.
Explain Everything's "export a project" option allows for "guided creativity" from teacher to student.
In this project, Spanish II students will be showcasing their creativity and language using the Spanish language by creating a digital legend. Their goal is to use the "preterite and imperfect tense" to create a story about the characters, setting, and plot of their choice. Only text will be used - no audio.
I finally understood and completed the entire workflow for creating and producing a podcast to iTunes!
I made the intro and exit music in Garage Band on the iPad. (Starter Book) I made the art work in Canva on the iPad. I recorded the actual interview on the iPad. I uploaded it to Google Drive where it can be produced into an MP3 on the iPad.
Here's where the entire process on the iPad could stop and people could listen to it via the Google Drive Folder.
However, that's not officially podcasting. I needed to get it to a host, I chose Soundcloud for now as it allows three hours of free hosting. See the product. After that, I connected with iTunes Connect. This is the official "housing" area of all iTunes podcast accounts. I used my iTunes account, completed all of the information, and waited 24 hours for Apple to approve. Now, you can find my podcasts on iTunes OFFICIALLY!
UPDATE: Once the Soundcloud app is installed, use the Garage Band's "sharrow" to produce the podcast directly to Soundcloud. No computer needed.
MY GOAL: Interview as many Raider Strong employees as possible which will help promote the GREAT people that work in our district.
Consuming quality content using Environmental podcasts found on iTunes
Critically think about what makes an exemplary podcast both from a technical stand point and content stand point.
Collaborate with experts on YouTube or in the community to develop a passion for an environmental issue that is important to them.
Create a series of three podcasts that directly relate to the environmental issue that they want others to know about.
While all of the creation can and will be done on an iPad. Our students will spend time in the library downloading their podcast from Google Drive and then back up to Soundcloud. We will also use their Pulaski iTunes account to establish an official Podcast account.
I'm thrilled at the final results and can't wait for our students to experience the thrill of podcasting!
UPDATE: [June 2, 2017] Students really did a great job, and had fun doing it! They created unique "entry music" to their podcasts along with rich content.
UPDATE: [February 1, 2018] teacher asked for no frills step by step directions. Read Them
Some of them can be found HERE. All of them can be found HERE if the permissions are correct.
Today, Mr. Jeff Braun came into my office with enthusiasm and stated how he used Notability at a track and field clinic over the weekend. He said, "When the clinic showed the PDF version of the clinic notes, I said 'Hey, I could put that into Notability!'"
He shared with me his clinic notes. The presenters notes are completely annotated with Coach Braun's notes!
Success! For the coach and for the athlete! VIEW THE NOTES
Today I team taught with Ms. Thut. The Biology team, Mr. Anderson, Ms. Thut, and Mrs. Vertz, created the lab and the slides of an onion that students were to analyze. In the past, students would look through a microscope and then recreate the drawings of what was viewed.
With this learning opportunity, teachers took pictures of onions under a slide and provided them to students via a Notability note creation. In this way, teachers are able to see students analyzing the slides via "mark ups" in Notability. Students will return the lab via Canvas to the teachers.
I was able to support Ms. Thut while we helped students get set up for the first time.
Following copyright rules IS very important. As a contributor to the world wide web, I have created and published over a thousand videos and written over a thousand blog posts. I don't want people copying what I have spent time writing or creating and calling it their own.
In addition, students continue to create more and more as one example is that of students creating Spanish children's books. Unfortunately, we can't share the books beyond our classroom walls, because we focused on the process and students used "any old image" from the web. Of course, many are copyrighted by other creators.
At just the right time I caught a video from Tony Vincent at Learninginhand.com who demonstrated how he creates images using Adobe Draw on the iPad. Personally, it was just the right tool I was looking for as I had wanted to create an image of myself for web purposes for a long time. It might be hard to understand, but I'm not a GREAT artist. It's not my strength! The tutorial by Tony Vincent taught me how to create my own images.
It's with that information I created a number of images for use in a number of areas all of which can be found on www.clayreisler.com
Which brings me to the reason for the post. I will be sharing the Adobe Draw app in our next Lunch N' Learn.
As a side note, I'm on a MacBook Air and am interested in learning and creating more with Keynote. So many educators, including Sean Junkins, use Keynote to create many images. My only hang up with Keynote was how to share it. I'm so familiar with the sharing options for Google Slides that I could probably click all the right buttons with my eyes closed and get the presentations on my blog. With a little research, I found that creating in Keynote and exporting the Keynote as a PPT to my Mac was the first step in getting it to Google. The next step moved me to upload the PPT to Google Drive and, just like that, I had my Keynote sharable via Google Slides. I was also able to insert Tony's YouTube video after the Keynote was in Google Slides.
Now, you know!
After introducing this to teachers, our United States History Team introduced this tool to their students for use in a current project, Civil Rights Memorials. A student stopped by the library today, and I helped her with using both Adobe Draw (which she uploaded to her Google Drive) and Google Draw to make the items below. Look at the smile on her face!
As far as implementing it into a classroom, a set of cards were made using a two column table in a Google Document with Arial Font 18.
Students (as many as can fit in a comfortable circle) need to have a device with Chrome (or Safari or IE) so that game players can find the necessary items on the card. The directions from Game of Phones fits perfectly for Game of Chromes. In an educational setting, the educator may not create 100 cards. As an example, I created only 20.
From one of our World History teachers, Mrs. Schartner, I acquired the information from an upcoming unit, The French Revolution. I created interesting cards for the first Game of Chromes.
To introduce the concept, I will be playing some questions from "Game of Phones" with our staff at Lunch N' Learn tomorrow. Join us and bring your Smartphone! Don't have one, join us any way! You'll be glad you did!
The Lunch N' Learn topic for March 18 will focus on new tools that could improve the productivity of staff and students in Google Docs. We'll demonstrate how to search, obtain, and implement the "Add-Ons" so that they can help with productivity and creativity.
Creating info graphics could be very easy with Piktochart.com (This will be expiring. Please travel to http://magic.piktochart.com/ to continue using the great tools from Piktochart!)
The Infographic below was created in 30 minutes with NO prior Piktochart.com experience!
It's Finals Week, teachers have a great deal on their plate. If a break from correcting exams is needed, sit back and learn something. The idea for the Lunch N' Learn started when this list of TOP 7 YOUTUBE CHANNELS FOR SUBJECTS WAS FOUND.
Considerations When Using YouTube:
Short Clips 3-5 minutes; clip longer? consider breaking it up
I like these apps because it provides a way to culminate a unit or brainstorm ideas. Students can also take pictures of their work completed on paper or in other learning atmospheres and develop them into beautiful visually appealing creations. These apps can also be used to get people's attention. They are eye catchers!
TOP 5 Picture Apps
1. PicCollage Probably my favorite because it was the first one that I used.
Text, Clip Art & Photos
Free, but in app purchases available
Rearrange & Enlarge or Shrink Objects
Access photos directly from the web
2. Phoster Absolutely beautiful final poster products
iMovie continues to be a quick and creative tool for our staff and students. As part of a unit, students created compassionate videos pleading the teacher to grant them the fictitious money to help the people of a certain country.
As one student put it when asked how they like iMovie, "It's really easy to use."
Fantastic as it really isn't about the tech tool, it is about the content.
Mr. Krause, Mrs. McCumber, and Ms. Wilcox informed me today that he would like to complete Common Craft type videos on the iPad because, as he states it, "I like the explanation aspect".
I immediately thought, "This could be a great opportunity to create the entire video on the iPad."
I chose a drawing app, specifically Draw-n-Share Lite because of its paper feel, and it was free!
I also chose Explain Everything because it is the tool that best provides a canvas. I thought of Lee and his "four 750 watt bulbs" that he uses for shooting video. We don't have that! Explain Everything removes the additional equipment that is needed while still providing a great production canvas. View the process!
I also liked Explain Everything, because I could write a script for each slide, thus stating clearly what was to be spoken on each slide. I used Evernote, but any tool, including paper and pencil, could be utilized.
With ONLY one hour into the project, I was able to make the following Producing Muscles In Plain English.
In one week, I look forward to viewing what the students create.
