TED Talks can be used to create customized lessons by adding context, questions, and follow-up suggestions to videos on TED-Ed or YouTube. Teachers can turn any video into an interactive lesson that can be assigned to students or shared more widely. TED was originally started in 1984 as a conference focusing on Technology, Entertainment and Design, and has since grown to cover a wide range of topics presented in short video talks.
This document summarizes various social media tools that teachers can use to connect with colleagues, parents, and other stakeholders. It discusses tools for photo sharing (Flickr, Webshots, TeacherTube), social networking (LinkedIn, Ning), microblogging (Twitter), video sharing (YouTube, TeacherTube), blogging (WordPress, TeacherLingo), and podcasting. Specific examples are provided of how these tools can be used, such as sharing photos of school events, creating social networks for special groups, or setting up blogs and podcasts. Teachers are encouraged to explore and experiment with these different social media platforms.
This presentation, delivered to undergraduate media communications students at Bath Spa University, looks at the curation and remixing of old content into new. It includes a story of how I crowdsourced a story and shared it in a variety of formats.
Digital Storytelling with VoiceThread is a tool that allows users to create, connect, and collaborate using voice, text, images, and video. VoiceThread can be used for sharing stories and facilitating discussions. It is free for educators and easy to use, requiring only a computer with internet access and optionally a microphone and/or digital camera. Users simply need to sign up for a VoiceThread account and then can start creating voice threads in three simple steps.
The document discusses how to build a personal learning network by connecting with experts and other students online through various tools like blogs, social bookmarking, social networking sites, Twitter, Skype, podcasts, and video. It recommends attending conferences, subscribing to podcasts, searching Twitter and blogs on topics of interest, exploring tags on social bookmarking sites, downloading Skype, and provides contact information for further resources.
The Networked Administrator: Leading and Learning with Social MediaLyn Hilt
For Simple K-12 Webinar
"Sometimes who you know is as important as what you know. Having a wide range of professional connections not only broadens your reach, it can actually help you learn, grow, and become more efficient. This session explores the role of the networked administrator, who, as the school's lead learner, recognizes the value and use of social media to develop professional connections, build relationships and capacity, help create organizational efficiency, and bring innovative learning experiences to students and staff.
This session is designed for administrators, teachers, educators... anyone interested in learning more about the power of connected leading and learning! "
This document contains photos credited to various photographers and encourages the reader to get inspired to create their own presentation on SlideShare using Haiku Deck. It shows photos from photographers like Kevin Dooley, Billy Wilson, Andy_BB, David Jones, Pargon, jurvetson, drhenkenstein and compujeramey. The final message is to get started making your own Haiku Deck presentation.
This document summarizes various social media tools that teachers can use to connect with colleagues, parents, and other stakeholders. It discusses tools for photo sharing (Flickr, Webshots, TeacherTube), social networking (LinkedIn, Ning), microblogging (Twitter), video sharing (YouTube, TeacherTube), blogging (WordPress, TeacherLingo), and podcasting. Specific examples are provided of how these tools can be used, such as sharing photos of school events, creating social networks for special groups, or setting up blogs and podcasts. Teachers are encouraged to explore and experiment with these different social media platforms.
This presentation, delivered to undergraduate media communications students at Bath Spa University, looks at the curation and remixing of old content into new. It includes a story of how I crowdsourced a story and shared it in a variety of formats.
Digital Storytelling with VoiceThread is a tool that allows users to create, connect, and collaborate using voice, text, images, and video. VoiceThread can be used for sharing stories and facilitating discussions. It is free for educators and easy to use, requiring only a computer with internet access and optionally a microphone and/or digital camera. Users simply need to sign up for a VoiceThread account and then can start creating voice threads in three simple steps.
The document discusses how to build a personal learning network by connecting with experts and other students online through various tools like blogs, social bookmarking, social networking sites, Twitter, Skype, podcasts, and video. It recommends attending conferences, subscribing to podcasts, searching Twitter and blogs on topics of interest, exploring tags on social bookmarking sites, downloading Skype, and provides contact information for further resources.
The Networked Administrator: Leading and Learning with Social MediaLyn Hilt
For Simple K-12 Webinar
"Sometimes who you know is as important as what you know. Having a wide range of professional connections not only broadens your reach, it can actually help you learn, grow, and become more efficient. This session explores the role of the networked administrator, who, as the school's lead learner, recognizes the value and use of social media to develop professional connections, build relationships and capacity, help create organizational efficiency, and bring innovative learning experiences to students and staff.
This session is designed for administrators, teachers, educators... anyone interested in learning more about the power of connected leading and learning! "
This document contains photos credited to various photographers and encourages the reader to get inspired to create their own presentation on SlideShare using Haiku Deck. It shows photos from photographers like Kevin Dooley, Billy Wilson, Andy_BB, David Jones, Pargon, jurvetson, drhenkenstein and compujeramey. The final message is to get started making your own Haiku Deck presentation.
This document introduces Cloudworks, a website that allows users to share, find, and discuss learning and teaching ideas by creating "clouds" of text, images, and videos on various topics. Users can create their own clouds or cloudscapes, which are collections of clouds on a specific theme. The site also enables social networking around learning and teaching through features like following other users and their cloudscapes.
This document contains photo credits attributed to various photographers including harold.lloyd, Enokson, Create-Learning Team Building & Leadership, Leo Reynolds, Teemu Mäntynen, Sandeep Murali, fd, bobtravis, LexnGer, and Darwin Bell. It encourages the reader to get started creating their own Haiku Deck presentation on SlideShare.
Is social media just a fad? Is it a threat to education or can it actually benefit education? For more info, contact me at www.noahlomax.com
Note: The "blank" slide (4) is the video "Social Media Revolution 2011" accessible on YouTube.
Padlet is an online bulletin board that allows teachers and students to interact in a fun and educational way. Users can sign up for free using their Facebook or Google accounts. The dashboard allows users to view the latest posts from those they are connected with on Padlet. Individual profiles store the bulletin boards, or "padlets", that each user creates. Padlets function as collaborative spaces where photos, videos, files and web links can be added. Teachers have moderation controls over padlets, including editing posts, password protecting, hiding or making boards public. Notifications also keep users informed of new posts. The document discusses using Padlet in the classroom to openly discuss lessons and interact with students to reinforce learning.
The document describes 10 activities to get students moving with an iPad:
1) Audio recording, video recording, photo capturing, note-taking, scanning, geolocation, texting, and augmented reality activities like recording animal sounds to guess the animal.
2) Creating videos encouraging peers to visit favorite places like the library.
3) Object identification games where students capture clues on their iPad and swap to guess the object.
4) Geocaching activities where students capture and follow audio, video or photo clues on iPads to find a location or prize.
5) Guess Who games where students capture clues about themselves or others on their iPad.
This document contains a series of photo credits from various photographers including greglobinski, NBCCSue, acroamatic, Leonard John Matthews, Ed Yourdon, kenteegardin, Philip Taylor PT, and DonkeyHotey. It ends by encouraging the reader to create their own Haiku Deck presentation on SlideShare.
Designing your online or blended learning courseClive Buckley
This document provides guidance on designing effective online and blended learning courses. It emphasizes that online learning requires a different approach than traditional classroom teaching. Existing classroom materials and strategies often do not directly translate online without modification. The document suggests utilizing the affordances of technology to create interactive and collaborative learning experiences, such as forums, authentic projects, and time-sensitive activities. It also stresses the importance of community and facilitating engagement in the online environment.
Social Media Driving Licence 7 - Sharing and caringCJBS smdl
Here are the slides from Week 7, part of the Social Media Driving Licence.
Please note that much of this session involved hands-on/live demo elements which are not covered in these slides.
This document introduces Cloudworks, a website that allows users to share, find, and discuss learning and teaching ideas by creating "clouds" of text, images, and videos on various topics. Users can create their own clouds or cloudscapes, which are collections of clouds on a specific theme. The site also enables social networking around learning and teaching through features like following other users and their cloudscapes.
This document contains photo credits attributed to various photographers including harold.lloyd, Enokson, Create-Learning Team Building & Leadership, Leo Reynolds, Teemu Mäntynen, Sandeep Murali, fd, bobtravis, LexnGer, and Darwin Bell. It encourages the reader to get started creating their own Haiku Deck presentation on SlideShare.
Is social media just a fad? Is it a threat to education or can it actually benefit education? For more info, contact me at www.noahlomax.com
Note: The "blank" slide (4) is the video "Social Media Revolution 2011" accessible on YouTube.
Padlet is an online bulletin board that allows teachers and students to interact in a fun and educational way. Users can sign up for free using their Facebook or Google accounts. The dashboard allows users to view the latest posts from those they are connected with on Padlet. Individual profiles store the bulletin boards, or "padlets", that each user creates. Padlets function as collaborative spaces where photos, videos, files and web links can be added. Teachers have moderation controls over padlets, including editing posts, password protecting, hiding or making boards public. Notifications also keep users informed of new posts. The document discusses using Padlet in the classroom to openly discuss lessons and interact with students to reinforce learning.
The document describes 10 activities to get students moving with an iPad:
1) Audio recording, video recording, photo capturing, note-taking, scanning, geolocation, texting, and augmented reality activities like recording animal sounds to guess the animal.
2) Creating videos encouraging peers to visit favorite places like the library.
3) Object identification games where students capture clues on their iPad and swap to guess the object.
4) Geocaching activities where students capture and follow audio, video or photo clues on iPads to find a location or prize.
5) Guess Who games where students capture clues about themselves or others on their iPad.
This document contains a series of photo credits from various photographers including greglobinski, NBCCSue, acroamatic, Leonard John Matthews, Ed Yourdon, kenteegardin, Philip Taylor PT, and DonkeyHotey. It ends by encouraging the reader to create their own Haiku Deck presentation on SlideShare.
Designing your online or blended learning courseClive Buckley
This document provides guidance on designing effective online and blended learning courses. It emphasizes that online learning requires a different approach than traditional classroom teaching. Existing classroom materials and strategies often do not directly translate online without modification. The document suggests utilizing the affordances of technology to create interactive and collaborative learning experiences, such as forums, authentic projects, and time-sensitive activities. It also stresses the importance of community and facilitating engagement in the online environment.
Social Media Driving Licence 7 - Sharing and caringCJBS smdl
Here are the slides from Week 7, part of the Social Media Driving Licence.
Please note that much of this session involved hands-on/live demo elements which are not covered in these slides.
12. “Customizing" a video allows you to turn a video into a lesson that can be
assigned to students or shared more widely. You can add context, questions,
and follow-up suggestions to any video on TED-Ed or YouTube.
Over the last two days at the conference I have noticed some recurring themes: sharing, student-centered approach, the importance of critical thinking, the use of authentic materials, and the idea of learner autonomy.
And as I was listening to some of you present and mention these concepts, I realized that all of them are relevant to our topic today.
MARGARITA
Welcome everybody, let’s talk about TED talks.
Let me tell you a few words about my personal experience first.
I have been using TED talks in tertiary classrooms for several years now, since a student of mine sent me the link to one of the talks, which is still one of my favorites, Benjamin Zander’s “Classical Music with Shining Eyes”. Since that day, I have been a great fan of TED.
Well, we always look for ways to integrate English into our teaching and into the lives of our students.
So, although Ted.com is not specifically designed for English learners, we strongly believe that it is one of the best learning tools for ESL students.
I always encourage teachers to use TED talks in the classroom for a variety of reasons. Let’s just mention a couple of them: it is authentic material which provides students with the context within which the English language can be used, and to help them gain a different perspective on a variety of issues, change their attitudes and spark their minds.
Dimitris is, among others, also a Social Media Officer at TEDxThessaloniki. We met, we talked, we shared insights on a variety of issues and we realized that this cross-disciplinary dialogue and collaboration can give birth to/generate new ideas worth sharing today with you.
For those of you who have no idea what TED talks are, here is a brief overview.
And here Dimitris, the expert, will say a couple of words about TED.
DIMITRIS
Quoting from ted.com „Our organization TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. Meanwhile, independently run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world.
Our Mission: Spread ideas
TED is a global community, welcoming people from every discipline and culture who seek a deeper understanding of the world. We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and, ultimately, the world. On TED.com, we're building a clearinghouse of free knowledge from the world's most inspired thinkers — and a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other, both online and at TED and TEDx events around the world, all year long.
In fact, everything we do — from our TED Talks videos to the projects sparked by the TED Prize, from the global TEDx community to the TED-Ed lesson series — is driven by this goal: How can we best spread great ideas?
TED is owned by a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation. Our agenda is to make great ideas accessible and spark conversation.”
MARGARITA
My dialogue with Dimitris helped me realize that my lessons do not have to look like this any more…
But they can look like this and be available online, can be shared, on the TED Ed platform. And my students, and not only, can have access to them at any time.
With Dimitris’ help, we are going to go through the process of creating this kind of lesson together today, and we are going to do it from scratch.
Let’s first have a look at what the TED Ed site looks like and what purpose it serves
Dimitris – what is TED Ed
What is a flipped classroom?
What videos can be flipped?
My lesson can look like this and be available online, can be shared, on the TED Ed platform. And my students, and not only, can have access to it at any time.
We are going to go through this process together, from scratch.
Margarita
Here’s what’s gonna happen here today:
You will watch a short TED talk of our choice, and as you watch each of you should come up with at least one multiple choice, or an open-ended question.
After the viewing, Dimitris will show you the step-by-step process of creating an online lesson, i.e. the process called flipping a lesson, starting from logging in on the TED Ed site to sharing your lesson with the students and with the whole world , and viewing your students’ results after their answers to your questions have been submitted online.
We picked Angela Lee Duckworth’s talk “The key to success - Grit” during which the speaker talks about having passion and perseverance for long term goals. ”Angela Lee Duckworth, an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, studies intangible concepts such as self-control and grit to determine how they might predict both academic and professional success.” It is 6 minutes long.
AND THEN DIMITRIS GETS ONLINE, SIGNS IN TO HIS ACCOUNT, AND STARTS FLIPPING/CUSTOMIZING THE LESSON.
DIMITRIS
Let’s see how it works then:
1 – sign in
2 – upload the video from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H14bBuluwB8
3 – introduction (Let’s begin – here you type your lesson description “You are going to watch a talk by Angela Lee Duckworth, an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, entitled “The key to success - Grit”), think (multiple choice or open-ended questions), dig deeper (additonal resources, project ideas), discuss, and finally (leave students with your final thoughts and something to ponder)
4 – preview
5 – finalize, share with students (you are going to type in my email address; or maybe two addresses just in case)
We open the notification in my email and show them what the lesson looks like when a student opens it on his/her computer. If we have time left, we type in answers and show them in what form the results appear in the instructor’s account.
Let’s have a look at the teacher view with ss’ scores.
Time for a little bit of inspiration
Before we go, we would like to show you a powerful talk by the late Rita Pierson who spent her entire life in and around the classroom. A must watch for every educator.