It was an amazing presenting and learning experience for myself and 120 other professional educators! I truly appreciated the opportunity to present, but more importantly the opportunity to learn from all of the enthusiastic and passionate educators!
My keynote presentation centered around a title of Individual, Incorporated.
After presenting the keynote, I was provided the tremendous opportunity to conduct six different learning opportunities for teachers.
Sifting Through The Massive Amounts of Information Using Flipboard
As a person who has always taken a great deal of pictures at sporting events and educational settings, storage and organization of these photos (and videos, but we are not going to talk about videos today!) has always been an issue. Sure, school Google Drive accounts have unlimited storage, but many of the photos that are taken pertain to family and friends. Of which, you may not want in your school account.
A relatively new Google Photos option of unlimited storage (if correct image quality settings are established) is an amazing option for storing or backing up photos from mobile devices and computers.
People obviously use an assortment of photo sharing/photo storage options, join us for Lunch N' Learn or browse the presentation to see if Google Slides meets your photo storing/sharing needs.
About a month ago, Snapchat was introduced to our staff in a Lunch N' Learn. I have continued to use it in many ways. It was a great "quick tool" for annotating a process! While an iPad can be used, I utilized an iPhone.
Another example is utilizing video. The video has black bars on the sides because I used a an iPhone to video. I used Snapchat because of the quick annotation.
Seniors, as YOU ARE preparing yourself for your adventures past PHS, we would like to remind you that your Pulaski Google Account will be Deactived on July 1, 2016. Please follow the below steps to share any necessary documents or copy things to your own personal account. Please see someone in the HUB if you have any questions or concerns!
Deactivate Date for PHS Senior Google Accounts: July 2016
Give “Owner” rights or “Share” any Google Documents to those that need that document next year (ex. Docs for a school club or organization)
We are recommending that you share documents with your club advisers. The instructor or student that you share the document with will need to "make a copy". This will allow the new OWNER to have full access. Please talk to your club advisers or come to the PHS HUB with further questions.
Use “Google Takeout” to download all of the Google data that you need
Some of the Google Data you can export/download
Google Mail
Google Contacts
Google Drive Documents
Google Calendar
Bookmarks
More!
Create a “Vacation Responder” to inform others that your email account will be deactivated on July 1, 2016 and to contact you at your new email address
This is especially helpful if you are working with colleges.
Save Google Contacts that you want to save - if you didn’t use Google Takeout
Save Google Emails that you want to save or forward those emails to your personal Google account - if you didn’t use Google Takeout
As readers of iPaddiction know, the Goody Triathlon is ONE OF THE BEST things I do during a school year! I am blessed to use my technology talents to create and update the website. It's amazing that four years ago we completed everything through email and snail mail. Now, every piece of communication is through the website, Google Forms, and images/video!
I'm also able to help capture the day's accomplishments through images. In the past, images and video of race participants and mentors were taken on an iPad, dropped to iMovie (on the iPad), and uploaded to YouTube. All of this needs to be done between 9:30 A.M. and 1:00 P.M. Last year, rendering the video and uploading the video was almost not accomplished. I also wanted to have more up close and personal "smile" pictures. I changed tactics and tools slightly. I used a Nikon D5300 camera on loan from our Art Teacher, Mr. Sperduto. This had a 200 zoom lens on it which allowed me to get close enough to see smiles of accomplishment.
I removed the SD card from the camera and dropped the images into iMovie on the Mac. I had all of the title pages, bumpers, transitions, and music set so that only the images needed to be "dropped in". I also didn't render the movie and upload it to YouTube. I simply "played the movie" in iMovie. This saved me a GREAT deal of time! As you can see, over 300 people were able to view smiles and accomplishments from the day BEFORE leaving!
The Goody Triathlon is an amazing accomplishment for the participants who overcome so much to complete a triathlon! Thanks to the technology, I was able to capture the accomplishments!
Our students have conducted interviews with people in their families. To enhance the papers that have been written, students will insert images with captions utilizing Google Drawing.
On Computer Tutorial
Important Items:
Insert Google Drawing within Google Doc
Add Image (from Google Drive)
Add Text
Adjust Text with Font, Size, Color
Save & Close
Wrap Text
Adjust Picture in Document
On iPad Tutorial
Important Items:
Google Docs App
White Pencil In Blue Circle (edit documet)
Plus Sign
Image From Photos (or camera) (Download from Google Drive to Camera Roll)
Place Cursor Below Image, Center, Add Text For Caption
