High Techpectations

Announcing the First Virtual Summit Featuring Google for Education

Very excited to be developing a new form of Google Summits along with Steve Hargadon and CUE! We just announced to today the CUE Learning Revolution Online Summit Featuring Google for Education. We're hoping to bring the magic of these summits to educators who are seeking more professional development around Google apps, particularly in areas of the US and beyond where access to face to face events is not necessarily practical.

This two day event will take place on September 6 and September 7 from 9 AM to 6 PM GMT-7 using Google Hangouts on Air. Steve Hargadon and I usually run our global ed conference around the clock, and eventually we want to do that with this conference.  However, we're keeping things manageable for our first summit and thus limiting the hours. We do realize this is not necessarily convenient for educators around the globe, but keep in mind that all the sessions will be recorded and available indefiintely. The cost to attend and view sessions is $40 for both days and this includes a CUE membership. 

Google Certified Teachers, Google Education Trainers, and Google Educators are invited to sumbit proposals for this event. Below is a digital flyer that I hope you will pass along to potentially interested colleagues!  

 

Waukegan Google Mini-Conference Materials

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Exploring Instructional Uses of YouTube - Waukegan from Lucy Gray

 

Lucy's YouTube and Search Materials for #GAFEsummit #Illinois

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Exploring Instructional Uses of YouTube - GAFE IL Summit from Lucy Gray

Beyond Search - GAFE IL Summit from Lucy Gray

#METC13 Presentations

 

Please download my slides and/or PDF copies of slides from Box.net or view them on Slideshare. Let me know if you have any questions or comments!

 

Beyond Search at #METC13 from Lucy Gray

Exploring Instructional Uses of Multimedia from Lucy Gray

Modernizing Education at METC from Lucy Gray

 

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Lucy's Slidedecks for the GWE at iSummit

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Friday 5: Recent Google Finds

Friday 5: April 20, 2012  Recent Google Finds

I’ve been prepping for various conferences that are coming up in the next few months and in the course of updating my presentation materials, I’ve found some useful and intriguing Google related resources.

Enjoy,

Lucy

Some example of teacher created site using Google Products:

Vernal Ponds Projects
https://sites.google.com/site/vernalpondsproject/

Good example of using Google Sites to support student learning.

Science Notebooking
http://www.sciencenotebooking.blogspot.com/

This is an example of how one teacher has used Blogger to document her work with science teachers.

A recent Google collaboration:

Nelson Mandela Digital Archives
http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/

Google was instrumental in making this great site happens. A great repository of primary source material!

Two practical Google tool tips:

Using Google Docs Self-Grading Quiz as an Exit Ticket
http://d97cooltools.blogspot.fr/2012/02/googledocs-self-grading-quiz-efficient.html

Using QR Codes in the Elementary Classroom and Using QR Codes to Create Them
http://insidetheclassroomoutsidethebox.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/ways-to-use-qr-codes-in-the-elementary-classroom-and-using-google-docs-to-create-them/

Find the Friday 5 on:

Google Groups: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/friday5
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/friday5edu
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/Friday5Edu

Exploring Instructional Uses of YouTube - ICE 2012

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Custom Search Engine

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Prepping for a YouTube Presentation

YouTube - ‪elemenous's Channel‬‏.

Next week, I'll be presenting with a slew of others at Google Days, a professional development event produced by Craig Nansen's school district in Minot, North Dakota. One of my session's will focus on YouTube, a service I've utilized for awhile, but never really demonstrated for educators. I'd like to add a creative slant to the presentation (which I'll post here when I'm done) and I need YOUR help. 

Above you will find a link to my channel, which I mainly use for bookmarking videos that I like and might use in my work. I also subscribe to many other channels as another way of garnering great videos and resources to support my work. My own videos aren't particularly useful; I wish I had more time to become a better producer of content. 

At any rate, I'm curious as to how others are using YouTube for educational purposes. YouTube is blocked in many schools, but that shouldn't stop educators from utilizing this rich resource in the classroom. Help me encourage others to re-think the use of YouTube by offering your tips here in this blog, by filming your thoughts and posting to YouTube (don't forget to post the link or email it to me), or by just sending links to your channel or your school's channel. 

Try out YouTube Labs, Video Editor, or these other YouTube partner tools to create a clip on how you use YouTube and I'll put your short story in my presentation. You can also just record using Photobooth or a web cam of your choice. It doesn't have to be long or fancy... 

Here are some questions that I have:

• Do you have a YouTube channel? How do you use it mainly? Link?
• Does your school have a YouTube channel? Link? 
• Do you use YouTube in your classroom? How? 
• How do you harvest YouTube videos to use in the classroom?  
• What channels do you subscribe to?
• What's the best educational resource in your opinion on YouTube? 
• What's the funniest video you've seen related to technology and/or education?   

I'll be sure to post the slides for my presentation here along with all the relevant links, so that you can use the material in your own professional development efforts.  

 

New Google Custom Search Engines and Handouts

For the upcoming Chicago Tech Forum, this week I developed a handout and a Google Custom Search engine devoted to finding iOS resources. I culled my collections of links related to iPods, iPhones, and iPads to identify the best resources and moving forward, I plan to keep adding to this. The search engine is designed to search most of the web sites listed in the handout, and I'll be adding to this as well. If you're looking for a particular topic related to using these devices in schools, this engine might help you refine your search and higher quality results.

Additionally, I updated my High Techpectations Google Custom Search Engine and created a handout of education starting points. It only searches web sites that I consider to be of high quality.

With both of these search engines feel free either link to their start pages, add them to your iGoogle pages, or embed their codes in your own web sites.

Fun for Kids & Adults: A Google a Day

A Google a Day.

A couple of things to note on the search education front. First and the most fun is Google's new experimental feature called A Google A Day. Test your search skills with a new puzzle each day. This could definitely be used with middle school kids and up to show them that search is a process that involves critical thinking. The answer link not only shows the answer, but describes the path.

Secondly, Google's search guru, Dan Russell has a new search education site where you are looking for educational materials, webinars and classes related to effective searching.

Finally, I stumbled upon this CNET article that describes Google's continued interest in educating people about search, and it sounds like there will be more to come in this area along the lines of A Google A Day.

Thought these resources were worth passing on. Keep on searching!

Presentations from #D219Tech

Below are my slidedecks from District 219's (Niles North and Niles West High Schools in Skokie, IL) technology conference. These topics have been a staple of my repertoire lately, but every time I present, I tweak the slides just a bit. Most of the things I mention are hyperlinked and will lead you directly to the resources. For instance, in the Google preso, the bullets are linked, but I didn't underline them all for esthetic purposes.

Thanks to Guy Ballard and team for a wonderful day. Great to catch up with fellow Illinois educators and to catch David Warlick's fabulous keynote. He paints a picture of current shifts in learning and as always, I'm impressed with his talent for telling the compelling story. I wish every educator and parent in the country had the opportunity to hear him, so that perhaps we all would be more on the same page.

To those who attended my sessions, thanks for your comments and input. Please stay in touch and join the Global Education Collaborative!

D219 Conference - Google for Educators Overview

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D219 Conference - Social Media Tools for Personalized Professional Development

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District 219 Technology Conference - Going Global

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District 219 Technology Conference - Beyond Search

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ITSC - Beyond Search

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My many, many slides for my Beyond Search presentation tomorrow. I swear this is a hand-on session! Download the presentation from Slideshare or the PDF from Scribd and follow along. Links in these documents should be live.

We also will be creating a search scavenger hunt on this Google Doc. Feel free to add your own items for this.

 

 

Beyond Search - ITSC Conference

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ITSC Beyond Search

Presentations for #CECA2010: Connecticut Educators Computer Association Conference

Tools and Resources Supporting Effective Search

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Going Global: Preparing Students to be Citizens of the World

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Social Media Tools for Personalized Professional Development

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