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June 2011 posts

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

ISTE iPad Resources

Need to check with my co-presenters to see if I can upload our slides from yesterday's sessions. In the meantime, here are a few assorted files in various formats. They will appear in the widget below as soon as they finish uploading.... it's taking awhile on the ISTE 2011 network.

Please let me know if you have any questions about the various workshops and presentations I've made at this year's conference! Thanks... it's been a ball.

 

Posted by Lucy Gray on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 08:32 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Sunday, June 26, 2011

Get Googley in Education - The Latest Resources from Diigo (weekly)


Posted from Diigo. The rest of Google in Education group favorite links are here.

Posted by Lucy Gray on Sunday, June 26, 2011 at 08:30 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Leadership for Mobile Learning Resources (weekly)


Posted from Diigo. The rest of Leadership for Mobile Learning Initiative group favorite links are here.

Posted by Lucy Gray on Sunday, June 26, 2011 at 07:32 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Mobile Learning Finds (Apple iOS) (weekly)


Posted from Diigo. The rest of iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch Users Group group favorite links are here.

Posted by Lucy Gray on Sunday, June 26, 2011 at 06:30 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Saturday, June 25, 2011

Apple of My Eye: Resources Catching My Attention (weekly)

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Posted by Lucy Gray on Saturday, June 25, 2011 at 07:36 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

iSummit 2011 Materials

My stuff for iSummit....

 

Download iSummit_search

Download Isummit_youtube

Download ISummitGlobal

 

Exploring YouTube - iSummit 2011
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Beyond Search - iSummit 2011
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Going Global - iSummit 2011
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Posted by Lucy Gray on Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 03:08 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Sunday, June 19, 2011

Plant Digital Content

SciQ - Download SciQ on iTunes.
Both of my kids are consumers of digital content and have access to a plethora of a devices that play this content. Henry (age 8) has an iPod Touch, Julia (age 12) has an iPhone, and we now have 2 iPads that we share. Our iMac is set up in our living room and is the main hub for our downloads. It's not unusual to catch one of my kids curled up in a chair in front of the computer as if it were a TV.

I've also found that my kids get resistant to trying apps and videos that I download for them IF I try to watch or play with them. If it's my suggestion, it just doesn't hold as much weight with them as if they found it on their own. So, the discovery approach works much better with them. I find content related to their interests and what they are studying in school, and put it on our various devices. At some point, they are likely to stumble upon this stuff and then they dig in to explore. 

Henry, particularly, is very into watching educational videos. For instance, he loves watching National Geographic produced content on Netflix which we have set up on our Wii, our iMac and on our mobile devices. He also loves Smithsonian Kid videos download from iTunes. In fact, a few years ago, he declared he wanted to see the golden lion tamarin monkeys who live in the National Zoo and were featured in one episode. We recently fulfilled his dream and visited them in person on our recent trip to Washington, DC. The one thing that I've wanted to instill the most in my children is a love of learning, so when they get excited about things like this, I feel like I'm doing my job.

A few months ago while searching iTunes for science content as I'm working on a project aligning digital materials to an existing science curriculum, I downloaded a few episodes from iTunes from a show called SciQ. I've never seen this on TV and apparently it's provided the Smithsonian. I haven't actually watched an episode yet, but Henry found a bug episode today and was enthralled. He called me over to watch a segment on hissing cockroaches who are used to drive robots; it was fascinating and hilarious. The host's personality as well as the editing make this a very engaging show, and I thought I'd take a minute to recommend it here. You can buy the entire series of videos or rent individual ones in standard definition; I'm buying individual episodes in higher definition as I think Henry will watch these over and over again.

In terms of classroom use, think about set up a center in your classroom where kids can watch videos such as these. Use a multi-jack headphone splitter such as Belkin's Rockstar so that multiple kids can plug in and watch from the same device. Also, if you're looking for free resources, check out the Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman (also TV episodes are available for purchase) and Dragonfly TV podcasts.

Posted by Lucy Gray on Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 10:23 AM in Parenting | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Get Googley in Education - The Latest Resources from Diigo (weekly)


Posted from Diigo. The rest of Google in Education group favorite links are here.

Posted by Lucy Gray on Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 08:30 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Mobile Learning Finds (Apple iOS) (weekly)


Posted from Diigo. The rest of iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch Users Group group favorite links are here.

Posted by Lucy Gray on Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 06:30 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Saturday, June 18, 2011

Apple of My Eye: Resources Catching My Attention (weekly)

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Posted by Lucy Gray on Saturday, June 18, 2011 at 07:37 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Sunday, June 12, 2011

Get Googley in Education - The Latest Resources from Diigo (weekly)


Posted from Diigo. The rest of Google in Education group favorite links are here.

Posted by Lucy Gray on Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 08:30 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Mobile Learning Finds (Apple iOS) (weekly)


Posted from Diigo. The rest of iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch Users Group group favorite links are here.

Posted by Lucy Gray on Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 06:30 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Saturday, June 11, 2011

Apple of My Eye: Resources Catching My Attention (weekly)

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Posted by Lucy Gray on Saturday, June 11, 2011 at 07:37 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Minot Google Days: Educational YouTube Videos #gdminot

Educational YouTube Videos.

 

I'm in the midst of a rewarding week working with North Dakotan teachers at Google Minot Days, a conference organized by technology director Craig Nansen. Tomorrow, my workshop participants will be taking a deep dive into YouTube, exploring two main uses of YouTube: 1) as a content curation tool (using personalized YouTube channels) and 2) as a content publishing tool. With the first objective, we'll be building a Google spreadsheet of useful YouTube videos and channels. 

 

For the second activity, they will be charged with making 1-2 minute videos and publishing them to YouTube. I'm giving them suggestions for topics, and I'm secretly hoping that they will create This I Believe videos using education as a theme. I used this activity during an independent school workshop a few years ago, and it proved to be pretty engaging for the participants.

 

At any rate, if people out there in social media land want to contribute a video suggestion or two, we'd love to have you participate. Use the link above to access the form and you'll be able to see the results in this spreadsheet: http://goo.gl/A6Stm

Thanks!

 

Posted by Lucy Gray on Tuesday, June 07, 2011 at 10:42 PM in Professional Development | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Sunday, June 05, 2011

Get Googley in Education - The Latest Resources from Diigo (weekly)


Posted from Diigo. The rest of Google in Education group favorite links are here.

Posted by Lucy Gray on Sunday, June 05, 2011 at 08:30 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Leadership for Mobile Learning Resources (weekly)


Posted from Diigo. The rest of Leadership for Mobile Learning Initiative group favorite links are here.

Posted by Lucy Gray on Sunday, June 05, 2011 at 07:32 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Mobile Learning Finds (Apple iOS) (weekly)


Posted from Diigo. The rest of iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch Users Group group favorite links are here.

Posted by Lucy Gray on Sunday, June 05, 2011 at 06:30 AM | | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

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Saturday, June 04, 2011

Apple of My Eye: Resources Catching My Attention (weekly)

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Posted by Lucy Gray on Saturday, June 04, 2011 at 07:37 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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