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  • Teach Like a Hacker presentation at #oetc14

    I’m finally getting a chance to post my presentation and supplemental materials from the OETC14 conference!

    Presentation Link

    “Ryan is a hottie” .mp3

    “Ryan is a hottie” .m4r

    Backchannel log

    And you know, for all the flack I get about trying to promote IRC, the back channel log is the most dialogue I’ve ever seen happen in a session! 🙂

  • How to differentiate using Screencasting in a flipped classroom! #oetc14

    Presentation link

    Introduction

    • Usually used at the high school
    • Equipment
      • iOS, PC, Mac, etc.
      • Microphone
      • Topic: script or keywords
      • Media
    • Options to record
      • Screencast-o-Mac
      • Jing
      • Screenr
      • EduCanon
      • Educreations
      • Teach by Knowmia
      • Camtasia ($)
      • Snag it ($)
    • Combining technology
      • Younger students, watch videos at school while teacher works with other students
      • different types of media: pictures, videos, PDFs, etc.
    • Put the video on an iPad, place the iPad at the back of the room
    • students create own screencasts
    • distribution
      • Twitter, shortened links, qr codes, LMS

    MS examples

    • 8-12 min
    • Paper and pencil only
    • Put little secrets into the audio that the student needs to know so you can verify they watched.
    • Help when students are absent
    • Homework is not a grade; it’s a behavior.
    • Students lost lunch with their friends if they hadn’t watched videos
    • Be consistant
    • Short 3-6 question formative assessment
    • Put into one of three groups based on assessment: relearn, practice, enrich
    • “I want to know what they know right now”
    • Asked principal to co-teach by having all the students with IEPs in the grade level
    • Or use centers
    • Or team with another classroom

    Differentiated assessments

    • same standards, different levels
    • Every page is a different standard
    • five levels of questions
    • low: 1-3, middle: 2-4, high: 3-5
    • “The definition of teaching is to ensure learning.” Jim Connell
    • Don’t let students off the hook, 81% on a test means they don’t know 19%
    • students like to hear their own teacher’s voice. Can be tailored to their needs
    • Very good for students on IEPs, able to watch at their pace
    • Good for parents

    What would I do different?

    • embed video in Google form for easy formative assessment
    • Sophia – create lessons/tutorials
    • Complete Chrome lesson, get a free tshirt
    • Flipped classroom and ipad certification available

    Pitfalls

    • stick with it. There is a learning curve for everyone
    • Create a system that works for you and your students when they don’t do it

    Results

    • Teachers have started at the high school
    • satisfaction, doing the right thing every day
    • more time in class to teach and troubleshoot
    • Actually took less time

  • Record every class I teach? Are you crazy? #oetc14

    Presentation link

    • Why record your classes?
      • Originally only recorded when kids are missing, now record all
      • For when you are out
      • Most subs can follow directions
      • Remediation
      • Different examples from different classes, post multiple recordings
      • Differentiation
    • National Trail Moodle
    • If you don’t have an LMS, make a new calendar for your class and add each class as an event, linking to the video
    • Makes you a better teacher, you’re teaching to the world
    • Blended learning
    • What do you need
      • projector and interactive whiteboard
      • microphone
      • YouTube or some place to save videos
      • LMS
      • blue microphone. Mounted in most
      • other microphone options didn’t work
    • Ready to record?
      • you will have classes you don’t want to upload, then don’t upload it
      • you will make mistakes
    • Don’t use SMART default recording options
      • Use avi as default video format
    • everything is uploaded the day of
    • Long term change in routine
    • whole repository for future

  • 2 nerds and 700 girls with Chromebook #oetc14

    • Double wrap
    • St. Joseph Academy
    • All girls catholic school
    • Four principals in 5 years
    • 5 year plan, limited tech use at the beginning
    • Helps to have Someone who is knowledgable and flexible.
    • Techretary
    • MCPc helped set it up
    • Analyzed current group of equipment reservations
    • Worked with Higher Ground to print logo on bags
    • Alright, what are you doing?
    • $100 tech fee per year (not a Chromebook fee)
    • It changes the way a classroom works.
    • Special loaner bags
    • Worth Ave. for insurance. $30-$34 per year
    • CPR Charge, plug it in, restart

    Thanks! Shameless plug – look at our article in the WSJ! http://t.co/QD4XbRKYMK
    about a minute ago by Kyle Laauser

  • Kevin Honeycutt’s Keynote #oetc14

    • Do you want to find the best teacher in a school? Find the one that’s in trouble.
    • “I don’t like laptops…I don’t know what the kids in the back are doing”…”Well get up!”
    • “Why don’t you give up? It’s too late for them, teach the younger students. NO!”
    • “Are we killing the next Steve Jobs?”
    • “You don’t learn unless you do something!”
    • Empowerment comes from being trusted to attack learning according to your own strengths.
    • Cereal box presenter. Amazing.
    • Killing education by the process of il-lamination.
    • Kids should be sharks, not filter feeders
    • Fixed action patterns
    • The Coming Jobs War Jim Clifton
    • The first thing we do is amputate their digital limbs at the door.
    • I teach kids, do you have a product?
    • What is the Clovis point today?
    • Shapeways,com
    • Maker movement
    • Open World Project
    • Our Open World Project
    • Dad, kids are going to judge this project by what they google of me.
    • Music on iOS
    • Stop judging kids on what they can’t do.

  • Stop just talking about 21st century skills, it is time to be doing #oetc14

    My random notes from Stop just talking about 21st century skills, it is time to be doing.

    • Presentation
    • Ditch the “turn in the assignment product & get a final grade” model and move to a “continuous collaborative, editing, improving process” model.
    • It’s not cheating it’s collaboration; almost everywhere, except schools, will expect them to work with others- to solve problems, brainstorm, create opportunities, edit & proofread, share and instruct & learn from one another.
    • Tons of links for using search engines and teaching how to search.
      • Use the first search to find keywords that will help you narrow
        your search
      • Use control (command on Macs) F to search for words on a page.
    • Media literacy – Evaluate sources
    • SearchFindKnow.com
    • Moving toward flipping/blending/hybrid class.
    • Teach above your head
      • You you feel you are completely comfortable and in control, you
        are preparing your students for your past and not their future.
      • Go outside your comfort zone
      • Independent study with Arduinos
      • Self directed learning
    • personal.psu.edu

  • How to differentiate using Screencasting in a flipped classroom! #oetc14

    Presentation link

    Introduction

    • Usually used at the high school
    • Equipment
      • iOS, PC, Mac, etc.
      • Microphone
      • Topic: script or keywords
      • Media
    • Options to record
      • Screencast-o-Mac
      • Jing
      • Screenr
      • EduCanon
      • Educreations
      • Teach by Knowmia
      • Camtasia ($)
      • Snag it ($)
    • Combining technology
      • Younger students, watch videos at school while teacher works with other students
      • different types of media: pictures, videos, PDFs, etc.
    • Put the video on an iPad, place the iPad at the back of the room
    • students create own screencasts
    • distribution
      • Twitter, shortened links, qr codes, LMS

    MS examples

    • 8-12 min
    • Paper and pencil only
    • Put little secrets into the audio that the student needs to know so you can verify they watched.
    • Help when students are absent
    • Homework is not a grade; it’s a behavior.
    • Students lost lunch with their friends if they hadn’t watched videos
    • Be consistant
    • Short 3-6 question formative assessment
    • Put into one of three groups based on assessment: relearn, practice, enrich
    • “I want to know what they know right now”
    • Asked principal to co-teach by having all the students with IEPs in the grade level
    • Or use centers
    • Or team with another classroom

    Differentiated assessments

    • same standards, different levels
    • Every page is a different standard
    • five levels of questions
    • low: 1-3, middle: 2-4, high: 3-5
    • “The definition of teaching is to ensure learning.” Jim Connell
    • Don’t let students off the hook, 81% on a test means they don’t know 19%
    • students like to hear their own teacher’s voice. Can be tailored to their needs
    • Very good for students on IEPs, able to watch at their pace
    • Good for parents

    What would I do different?

    • embed video in Google form for easy formative assessment
    • Sophia – create lessons/tutorials
    • Complete Chrome lesson, get a free tshirt
    • Flipped classroom and ipad certification available

    Pitfalls

    • stick with it. There is a learning curve for everyone
    • Create a system that works for you and your students when they don’t do it

    Results

    • Teachers have started at the high school
    • satisfaction, doing the right thing every day
    • more time in class to teach and troubleshoot
    • Actually took less time

  • Getting ready for the Ohio Educational Technology Conference #oetc14

    My presentations are…. Well, let’s say there are slides and an outline, but they will never be finished. I will be constantly tweaking until I present, and then I’ll have presenters remorse afterwards of missed opportunities. 🙂

    Monday I will be presenting Teach Like a Hacker in room C213-C214 at 2:15. You too can hack, come! For those that can’t attend, I’ll be posting my slides tomorrow and the chat room will be open the entire conference (chat room is also accessible over IRC, server is talk.eduk8.me, channel is #tlah).

    Tuesday is a big day with the ALTconference, OETCx. Come and watch the keynote with your fellow OETC participants. It’s a different experience being able to hold conversations while watching the keynote. I’ll be presenting an Ignite style FRED talk that afternoon which will be exciting since it involves Star Wars.

    Join 1,486 others that follow my tweets @mr_rcollins. Other important accounts are the @oetcx, the @OhEdTech Twitter account, my website, the OETCx website. The conference hashtags #oetc14, #oetcx, and my session hashtag #tlah.

    If you see me, be sure to stop and say hi!

  • No software, no registration video conferencing

    appear.in is a video conferencing platform for up to 8
    people. It doesn’t require any registration or software installation. The
    organizer visits the site, creates a room (without needing a registration), and
    shares the link with participants.

    Looks pretty cool!

    via: MacDrifter

  • The loopback interface is very important

    This is more of a note to remind me how to fix it next time, but it could come
    in handy for others in the same situation.

    I restarted my virtual private server this morning, and after it came back up I
    noticed none of the websites would load. The server runs
    Varnish as a front end to all the websites,
    and all it was doing was throwing up 503 errors and guru meditations. This means
    that varnish can’t connect to any web server. The websites on the host are
    served by nginx and apache. I double checked that they were running and that
    they were on their correct ports with netstat -tulpn:

    tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8008            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      391/apache2
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:88              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      12365/nginx.conf

    Ok, everything is running, why won’t it work!! Next is to try to telnet to the
    servers:

    telnet localhost 8008

    That’s odd, it never connects. Let me try it from my computer (IP address
    obscured. Why? I don’t know, it seems like a good idea :-).

    telnet 75.255.255.255 8008

    It connects right away. So for some reason, the server can’t connect to other
    services on itself, even localhost. After some searching I came across a post
    that mentions that sometimes the loopback interface doesn’t come up. I check:

    root@vps:~# ifconfig
venet0    Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          inet addr:127.0.0.2  P-t-P:127.0.0.2  Bcast:0.0.0.0  Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP BROADCAST POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:32802 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:35269 errors:0 dropped:52 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:10716892 (10.7 MB)  TX bytes:25360227 (25.3 MB)

venet0:0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          inet addr:75.255.255.255  P-t-P:75.127.3.166  Bcast:0.0.0.0  Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP BROADCAST POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1

    I’ll be a monkey’s uncle, the loopback interface isn’t up! A quick sudo
    ifconfig lo up     and I am back in business!