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#Neotie2015 Northeast Ohio Technology Innovators in Education Conference

2/28/2015

Tweet we got on Monday. Glad to see this:)

Hello and welcome to Beachwood. Mike and I are looking forward to today's presentations. Links and slide shows are below for our presentations. Follow us on twitter at @garthholman and @professormike1

Feel free to travel all over the website as we present or follow along with us as we take you on tour of our classrooms.

Autonomous Mastery Learning

Fun Formative Assessment

Agenda:
1. Join PearDeck
2. Understand how it can be used to change teaching and learning
3. Play a quick Kahoot on the session

Fun Formative Assessment: click here to join our PearDeck.

Kahoot: http://www.teachersfortomorrow.net/home/another-formative-assessment-tool-kahoot-provides-a-gaming-format
Tutorial to build a PearDeck see this link: http://www.teachersfortomorrow.net/home/can-peardeck-change-teaching-and-learning-maybe

Zaption Session

Click here to create an account. This link will provide you with a pro version for 60 days to text and will revert to the free account then.

Agenda:
1. Five minute overview: What is Zaption?
2. Create your accounts
3. Built at least one Zaption for use next week with your students.
4. Leave a link to your live Zaption as a comment to this post.

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Teaching remotely with #googlehangouts and #peardeck

2/24/2015

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I have been helping out a friend who is doing some work with local libraries and teachers. The class ties together three locations in Summit and Cuyahoga counties in North East Ohio.

If you live around here, you know we are having a very cold winter. Resulting in hundreds of schools being canceled daily due to below zero temperatures, with wind-chills -20's to -30's. As you can imagine that has impacted this class as teachers are home and not able to make it to classroom locations.

Last Thursday we tried something I thought would work and it did. We sent an email that informed the teachers they could stay home for class and join us remotely if they wish. Out of the three classes with a total of 19 students we had 8 come to the classrooms while the other 11 joined from the warmth of their own home. We streamed the hangout (that tied the three classrooms together) over youtube and pushed out a join code on the feed and classroom website for Peardeck.

Those that joined remotely could hear us speaking and open a new tab to see the pushed presentation in Peardeck. These remote students could answer questions in Peardeck and I as the presenter in Akron then shared my screen and they could read all other student's responses. After the 1 hour and 30 minutes class, we had 129 interactions.
I will point out, that on the "exit" pass several of them had one common complaint. Which was that they could not ask a direct question without us pushing them that option in peardeck. But overall is was a big success. At least I think it was. Have a warm safe week. Garth

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Dublin Literacy Conference

2/21/2015

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Thank you for trenching through the snow and attending the Dublin Literacy Conference today.

I have included screenshots of today's Peardeck so everyone can refer back to it later.

The best part of the day was seeing and hearing the students talk about the different tools they have used throughout the school year. If you have any questions about the tools the students highlighted please feel free to contact me in the comment section, on twitter @DMSArmstrong or email [email protected].

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#Oetc 2015: Autonomous Mastery Learning

2/12/2015

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Mike, Garth and Travis during Autonomous Mastery Learning.

Mike and I would like to thank all of you for showing up at 8:00 AM. We were both surprised and happy with how many people came out to hear us talk a little bit about Autonomous Mastery Learning. Below the images are both presentations we did at #Oetc15.

I need to include a few things.

1. We ran out of Zaption 60 Day free Pro Cards, so click on this link and make an account. It will upgrade you to the pro version. http://www.zaption.com/reg/garth60

If you got a card you can share the link with other teachers in your building. Tweet me with any questions @garthholman

Here are other posts on Zaption and a Tutorial.
http://www.teachersfortomorrow.net/home/learning-with-youtube-zaption-changes-that

2. Lots of tweets were sent to Mike and I about "PearDeck" Here the posts and tutorials about Peardeck.
http://www.teachersfortomorrow.net/home/can-peardeck-change-teaching-and-learning-maybe

http://www.teachersfortomorrow.net/home/peardeck-to-teach-45-students-150-mile-apart

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Lazy Sunday afternoon and a Chromebook

2/1/2015

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Just another Sunday here at the Holman household. Cassidy wanted to use the Chromebook to do some writing. I knew she would get on her google docs and write creative stories: Page after page of stories. However, when I walk around to see the screen I saw her doing research on the native people of early Ohio. She had four or five documents on Ohio Natives.

I took a deeper look. To my surprise she was working with two other 4th graders on this research. They are using google docs to collaborate, research from the web and learn content.

Cassidy, spent 15 to 20 minutes reading each of her google docs to my wife and I. I am very happy to see this happening at her school and hope she is learning much more then who these early natives were, but learning how to work with others to achieve results that are bigger then each could achieve alone.

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