The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 8, 2020

Milestone 6: Oral presentation to Potential “Movie Goers” Students will present to an audience of peers. Milestone 4: Photograph Students will take photographs using three-point lighting techniques to accurately portray the mood and genre of the film project.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

They are using time to research and create a presentation of what they know. How do they generate their wonderings? Another person in our classroom really wanted to learn how to speak Spanish. Are they presenting these presentations to each other to share it, or how does that work? I love that! Lindsey: Yes.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 22, 2021

Furthermore, we share how to design lessons with a personal interest to engage students who struggle to engage. Presently, beginning in January 2019, Mitch became US COO of 3DBear, a Finnish EdTech company that uses Augmented Reality to motivate students to engage and learn deeply.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 5, 2019

They are using time to research and create a presentation of what they know. Mark says , “The project is a week-long experience with eighth-graders who try to solve a real-world global problem basically in four days, present their solution to an outside group of adults who then judge their performance.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2016

Each two-page routine includes tips and suggestions on how to get started. AbD has now expanded this Oakland Learning Community into a national learning community of maker-centered educators in a variety of formal and informal settings. offer more maker-related professional development experiences for educators.

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The Daring Librarian

APRIL 13, 2019

You can take baby steps into the Maker Movement. I'm not 100% sold, even after 7 years of talking about the Maker Movement, that it's something that's here to stay and not just a fad. Big or small, lavish or little, it's all about the maker mindset. Now.having said that. WARNING: Controversial Opinion Ahead.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

She has authored three books on how to integrate technology into the elementary music classroom. She has presented many sessions on the topic, including four keynote addresses in Texas, Indiana, St. Amy Burns’ Bio As Submitted. Burns has taught PreK-grade 4 general music for over 20 years at Far Hills Country Day School.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 29, 2016

I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. The idea behind the Maker movement includes allowing students to imagine, envision, create, innovate, play, learn in a formative manner, experiment, collaborate, share, and most of all dream of possibilities. 16 Resources to Build and Support a Maker’s Culture.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 13, 2019

How To Start The School Year By Building Relationships Lesson Plan Idea: For example, I kick off the year in “Masterpiece Theater” (the name of my classroom) by having students create a masterpiece in Play-Doh representing something that’s essential to the masterpiece of their life. I want them to join Google classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

I’ve also seen it used as presenting a business and marketing plan for everything from graphical advertisements and kids making commercials and embedding that information. Vicki: Ok, so how can a teacher get started with FlipSnack without getting overwhelmed? How to get started. Students absolutely love it. Vicki: Cool.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 25, 2019

I will be providing five workshop and one FETC Featured Presentation. I promise you will find some great information coming your way …So Sign Up Now and please pass this on with a retweet! $W021 | Making Makers Mainstream … Connecting Curriculum Standards and the 4C’s. I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations.

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User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

Some makerspace activities may be focusing on how to use the resources available and may not be connecting the activities to the curriculum or around a real world problem. The educator can assist learners in the interview process including how to develop interview questions. Please join us! We welcome any comments, ideas, or questions.

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My Island View

JULY 5, 2017

Public education is a common experience for most Americans, which is why so many people often feel that they have the answers to how to fix what they perceive as a broken system. We should not bore them with dry lectures, poorly presented on Power Point. Presenting mounds of data without real context will be wasted.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 18, 2016

I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. As you are probably already aware, there is a growing Maker Movement across the nation. In fact, you can see Maker Spaces finding room to serve the surging Maker population in both small and large towns alike. Check out my Booking Page.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2018

I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. FETC 2019 – How does Orlando in January sound for an educational conference? I will be providing workshops and featured sessions on STEM, PBL, Inquiry, Maker Space, and Computational Thinking! I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2018

Jacqui Murray shares how we can encourage an improvement in writing using technology. These creative ways will help you think about how to help children, particularly those who struggle with handwriting and typing. Screencastify is the screencasting tool I recommend for Google Chrome and Chromebooks.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Big data, open spaces, employability, utilizing maker movements, balancing innovation and accountability, privacy, collaboration, closing the digital divide, personalized learning, and navigating the hostile political climate were just a few of the concerns the audience members brought up.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Our schedule is shaping up, with special presentations from Judy O''Connell, Michelle Luhtala, Patrice Bryan, Darcy Coffta, Matthew Winner, Sherry Gick, Jennifer LaGarde, Britten Follett, Ross Todd, Shannon Miller, and our preconference co-chair, Joyce Valenza. How does your library manage digital collections? Learn more here.

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 31, 2017

This allows learners lots of choice in how to demonstrate their understanding of a new concept. One student created a village that teaches how arrays are used to store data, using chickens and pigs in a series of pens. Students then present their designs before a panel and answer questions. Building to Demonstrate Learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 19, 2017

To expand their knowledge, they had to assemble a library and know how to find books in it. We need to teach people how to think. I can have shingles popping off my roof and a hammer and nail sitting on my kitchen table, but if I don’t know how to get on the roof and hammer in that nail, my roof is going to leak.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 15, 2017

How to update Google Streetview Images. And so like my kids took these images that they collected inside and outside our building, and they actually presented and shared at the International Society for Technology (ISTE) this year, which is really neat. They presented with Google Expedition’s team at the Google booth.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

His room is presented in horror-movie fashion, with dim lighting and discordant music, and the toys are all in pieces, as Sid dismantles them and remakes them in his own crazy way. It feels more like an inventor's workshop, but Sid's room is presented very sinister like. He's a real inventor.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2018

We have fifth and sixth-grade students in a middle school setting who are working on how to save the bees. They’ve worked very diligently to build their own beehives offsite, and they collect data and manage that data to try and learn how they can help save bees and spread what they’ve learned to the wider community.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Here’s how. Teach Camera Use and Shot Composition First, before teaching video making, Adobe Premiere Rush can teach students how to compose a shot. When students first open their device, a simple tutorial teaches them how to use Adobe Premiere Rush and gets them started. It uses film that was preloaded in the program.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Learn how students are teaching each other drone piloting and other examples from Albemarle County, Virginia with Superintendent Pam Moran. Jennifer gives you a description in simple language, a screenshot of the tool in action and then a play button that takes you to a video about how the tool works. Drones in the Classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2018

So, for example, here in Maine, we have one that provides free summer training to teachers about how to better integrate food production into their classroom. Being aware of where our food originates and how things are grown – this is an important part of just life literacy. Many states have a statewide Ag in the Classroom component.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 23, 2016

Of course, there is still Flipped Learning, 1 to 1 Programs, Blended Learning, Maker Movements, Genious Hours, SAMR, Learning Targets, 21st Century Learning, the 4C’s, Personalised Learning, Digital Textbooks, and OER! Students will be able to collaborate on a presentation that provides what they have learned in their own words.

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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 23, 2016

This is discussed in Framing and Frontloading Maker Activities where I go in more detail how to frontload or frame the maker activities: Using and Reviewing Essential Questions. It helps both the educators and learners to set purpose and intention for the making activity prior to actually doing it. Using Scenarios.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 30, 2017

He gave us great practical ideas about how to make every day STEAM activities and how to easily integrate it into your lessons. She has presented in various school districts. Chris Woods — he is @ dailystem on Twitter – and he’s done our chat a few times. He is an expert in STEAM and STEM and science. Carol McLaughlin.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 26, 2014

We will have a full day of crowdsourced sessions on Thursday, September 18th, where we could use your help in supporting our presenters. There is a full schedule of amazing sessions on game-based learning topics, and volunteers will be able to connect with these outstanding presenters. How does your library manage digital collections?

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 24, 2018

Whichever model your school uses to teach kids how to write, I always boil it down to the “Tell ‘ems” method. There’s a big aspect of current events, and kids making an argument, presenting themselves, public speaking. How do you help them get ready to shoot? How do you help them get ready to shoot? Storyboarding?

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

We need to teach students WHEN to divide, not how to divide. After her death in March of 2009 I decided to see how I could use my expertise to help busy educators and parents hone their skills and knowledge. It focuses on book summaries that present the main concepts of important books in about 15 paragraphs.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 8, 2017

I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. Embracing a Maker Culture can take the standards in our curriculum and make them come alive as students practice the 4 C’s, venture to the top of Blooms, and experience the real depth found in Webb’s. Are your students aware of the assessment and how to perform?

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Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

We started out with an introduction for each expert presenter (here is our slidedeck with presenter info and resources we referred to during the session.) It quickly became evident that our communal thinking could be divided up as: Support: How do I go about starting this? Whole School Curriculum Ties.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

PINBALL WIZARDS bow down to Saint Joseph Notre Dame High School’s STEAM club, which presented their very own hand-made pinball machine in the Maker Faire expo hall this weekend. COMBINE CRAFTSPEOPLE AND ASTRONOMISTS and you’ll likely arrive at the Chatbot telescope maker’s workshop at the Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland.

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User Generated Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

I have been working with ASCD for the past few years to publish my book, Learning in the Making: How to Plan, Execute, and Assess Powerful Makerspace Lessons. Below is an except – Chapter 5: The Role of the Educator as a Maker Educator. It has finally been released for sale!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2017

The opening keynote speaker ended his presentation with a charge for all in attendance: “I hope that makerspaces don’t become an edtech fad that goes away as quickly as it has risen to popularity; I hope you all can figure out how to do it right.” So what is the “right way” when it comes to using makerspaces?

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