The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Product Review: Features, Lesson Plan Ideas, and Tips From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Adobe Premiere Rush is a simple to use video creation tool that includes powerful camera features, video editing, and publishing features. Video is the modern essay. Here’s how.

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User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

Final Reflection: Learners reflect on the process in a way that works best for them – blogs, photo essays, video recording, podcast, sketchnotes, illustrated ebook. For example, students can write a blog, create a photo essay with a caption, record a podcast or video, do a hand-drawn or online sketch, create a comic.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Read information about this landing and watch related videos: [link]. NASA updates a “teachable moments” blog on their site and has an excellent overview of the teachable moments that will come with the Perseverance Rover Landing. Resource: [link]. Learn about the Instruments on the Rover: [link].

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

You can find some videos online on YouTube. Lindsey: What I did was I told them, you’re going to have a chance to learn anything that you want to, and then we watched a video from Kid President about how the world needs you. I have a picture of her to document that she was folding along as she was watching this video.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

But you know, I found that I create so many of my videos, my curriculum, everything that I have. Let’s start watching the September videos. And it wasn’t long before they were refining and refining and refining their videos. But they don’t all have to be your own videos. There’s no point in kids listening to lectures.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

So you can put in things like video, and the video can be videos taken from YouTube so the video can actually be created by somebody else. Like your videos, you have to later go into Flipsnack and put your videos in but the basic content can be created in slides and then uploaded as a pdf to Flipsnack.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 6, 2015

Since creating our school’s makerspace in November 2013, I’ve seen a small revolution start to grow within our elementary school and also across our district. This past year has helped to give our maker movement stronger momentum with the addition of school sponsored clubs (multi-grade makers club and Lego Robotics).

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 13, 2019

Video-Based Instruction (Flipped or In-Flipped Learning) My students receive in-class video instruction because I don’t like to give homework. So we use the “in-flip” method of teaching, which means that students are watching the videos in class. Edpuzzle lets me turn off skipping.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. Learn more at coolcatteacher.com/guide. Listen Now. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher. Drones in the Classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Make books, send the link to parents and even include audio and video. This is a perfect idea for special ed teachers and parents who want to use today’s show and make books Book Creator will let you record audio and video AND share the link with parents. That would explain what that is.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 12, 2018

As you can see in the video below from my VR China trip, it really looks like I shot the video in China. Participants are also encouraged to include photos or videos to prove their case. As the students take turns experiencing the 360 video, they also look at different things. The same thing happens in virtual reality.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Getting Started in Metaverse: Use this Metaverse Studio tour video to get started whenever you’re ready. The instant feedback, ability to create multiple paths (or branches), embed videos, 3D characters, websites, and even 360 experiences make this tool immediately interactive and usable for students.

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User Generated Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Recently I facilitated a simple machines leading into Rube Goldberg machines lesson with my gifted elementary students. As a group, learners watched the following video and reviewed the following webpage on the Smartboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvOmaf2GfCY. There is a game-like atmosphere. Simple Machines. v=fvOmaf2GfCY.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

It allows you to take photos and videos of what you are seeing. And it also has, within the apps, the ability to take photos and to take videos. So you can actually video and document what it is that you are seeing through the augmented reality. So some of them just put a lot of videos and pictures and clips in.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

And it’s using video, which seems like it’s a really native platform for them right now. With Book Creator they can include pictures, they can include video, drawings, text. Like FlipGrid video is so much fun. Just short videos in class, or short labs, even lectures where there are just a couple of points being made.

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User Generated Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

I have the privilege of working with gifted kids at two elementary schools with over 80% Hispanic students. See Halloween Wars: An Interdisciplinary Lesson with a STEM, STEAM, Maker Education Focus for more about this. For the past two years, I did Halloween Wars – based off of the Food Channel show. What is Day of the Dead?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 23, 2018

You can take that step and share your Valentine either live or with video messaging so that you can learn about each other’s community. So even if you’re not very comfortable with holding a live conference call via Skype or Google Hangouts, the cool thing about Flipgrid is that you can record video messages with your kids.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Students created holiday scenes that they filmed and shared via video using 3D Bear. So, for example, as you can see in the simple holiday theme below, students “decorated our room” in AR as they were learning the features and tools of 3D Bear. What Else Can You Do With 3DBear?

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 5, 2019

You can find some videos online on YouTube. .” In Passion Projects in Kindergarten and First Grade , Lindsey says, The students have generated their wonderings and from there, we have started to look at “What does research look like? What does it mean?” We’ve created a list of the different ways you can investigate your questions.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Hannah’s experience reflects the innovative ways educators across the country are drawing students into the Maker movement. Get Inspired by Videos About Student Makers. Barrett Elementary School second graders —designed their own pyramids. Jakob Sperry —created GyRings , a fidget widget for people with ADHD.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Wednesday, November 12th at 7pm ISTE Webinar: Maker Movement: Pathway to Innovation for STEM Learners , Give students the power to learn by making. The maker movement fosters a mindset and culture that can create a profound shift in K-12 STEM learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 3, 2018

So all of this type of discerning and analyzing information for the best method to convey — whether it be via a picture or a video. We do an introductory safety montage video for the kids, and then we get them to say the phrase, “Watch out for flying drones.” I broke my own rule, which is, “Watch out for flying droids.”.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2018

Parker Elementary School. When he began to play the video game that he just created—-to see him smiling from ear to ear—brought tears to her eyes. PD After Hours Earlier this year, Hackensack Public Schools hosted its first edcamp at Nellie K. Carela whispered to me that that was the first time she has seen a spark in him all year.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Make books, send the link to parents and even include audio and video. This is a perfect idea for special ed teachers and parents who want to use today’s show and make books Book Creator will let you record audio and video AND share the link with parents. Take a video or take a picture.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2018

Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. I use this tool when students are making Scratch video games for them to record their games and explain their scripts. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

In Loudoun County, Virginia, fourth-graders from Goshen Post Elementary School took up the challenge personally. To create compelling video arguments, student teams interviewed experts in economic development, researched state history and geography, and even wrote poems to sing the praises of their region.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 21, 2017

This fun, visual tool lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners. To learn more about Stephen’s revolutionary program, see this powerful new two-minute video via Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. They’re doing awesome things to drive inquiry based learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Like a regular video game or program, it can ask you to input a name that it will call you throughout the experience. There’s a curated list of tutorial videos from teachers about how they are using this tool, but here are some of my favorite highlights. Tutorial Video about Programming in Metaverse – Richard Byrne (5:07).

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

The elementary school might evolve. In 2013, most elementary schools are simply diminutive high schools, with a balance of reading, writing, mathematics, geography, and other “core” skills, while character training supplements academic work. They could be a shrinking, niche demand for some forms of certification. Which is bad.

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