This document provides 10 tips for teachers to save time and reduce stress while improving student outcomes. It recommends using digital tools like Wunderlist, Dropbox, Google Forms, and Weebly to stay organized, streamline tasks like instrument lessons and data entry, assess student work digitally, create a central website for resources, and flip the classroom by creating instructional videos. It emphasizes taking an incremental approach to integrating technology by focusing on one or two tips at a time.
8. 1.
Act On It - NOW
Pass it on - NOW
File it - NOW
Throw it away - NOW
9. Wunderlist
✘ Cross platform including
Browser
✘ Review what has been
completed
✘ Email/Print
✘ Repeatable
File IT
Ugly Yellow Folder
✘ For transitioning
schools/from paper to
digital
✘ One place for all paper -
in a drawer not on your
desk
✘ Reviewable - start of the
school year, report
specifics, prizegivings
10. 2.
Keep track: of those cool
videos that you get sent
or that cool article
about music advocacy...
42. Free for up to 15mins
It works
Add-in for Chrome Browsers - so
works on any platform including
chromebooks
43. Demonstration
Normally when doing a ICT demo in class
● Plugged into the Network
● Checked Prior the peripherals work
● Plan for a Plan B
● Check Background Processes
(eg Syncing)
45. Digital planner
Time Audit - time in/time out
✘ Time spent preparing planner for the year
✘ Physically writing in
✘ Creating a scheme - duplication
✘ Changing when classes are missed
✘ Keeping track of relief
✘ 1 Term option - same program
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47.
48.
49. “If you always do what
you’ve always done,
you’ll always get what you
always got.
50. Original Learning
Outcome?
Book in some time right now to put
in place/review/research 2 tips
from this session
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Editor's Notes
I’m Busy - you’re busy. In my talking to music teachers - from primary to tertiary - some are very busy. My tips today are what works for me, and I’ve taken from what others have shown me.
MY HOPE FOR TODAY _ MY LEARNING OUTCOME - that you will take at least 2 tips away that you will actually use tomorrow. That you will take 15mins to plan how you are going to impliment it. Some are not ground breaking, some are.
I play in 3 ½ bands, perform locally and nationally.
Have padlet open!!!
Relatively easy to follow three of those - Act On IT - setting time aside to read email and have time built in to be able to respond to them.
iPad - show wunderlist.
Physical - show yellow folder.
Two main functions I use - clipping websites and articles. Others - audio note taking, pen on a digital paper. Sharing notes with others. Can be offline too. Premium level for large file uploads per month.
Chrome - Friends don’t let friends use internet explorer - less issues.
Previously, physically fill out a form, then take about 3 days to enter into a spreadsheet, with spelling errors, other errors - like trying to hire a guitar. Start of the year is busy, wasn’t until about week 5 or 6 that lessons could start.
Get students to enter the details in -
How do you receive student compositions? How do you store them? Issues with printing, (and cost), emailing gets lost - clogged up email inbox. USB issues, loose sharing rights the next year - accounts deleted. MY STUDENTS COMPOSITIONS ARE COMPUTER BASED, KEEP IT DIGITAL - searchable.
Free for Google School domains. Google Classroom - 20mins with a 5min video. Playing around. 5mins delivering to the PFA staff.
Microsoft Teacher Dashboard - Preloaded classes for $500NZ. Potential for quite advanced things. Clunky, less intuitive, pushing and pulling not quite time-saving. These are just two examples. Other will emerge
As we are transitioning from google docs, moodle over to Microsoft 365. Needed a central place. The changeover wasn’t really all sorted at the end of last year - I do my planning and prep in nov and dec - once the year starts, I am too busy. Decision as a Performing arts faculty - once they come into our block - a consistent message, go to the weebly.
Weebly is free website - template. Quite easy. Spent time looking at old wordpress - a bit more powerful but not needed. Wanted it outside of google domain - due to managment decision to move away from google.
Mashed courses - trades, work experience, clashes on timetables. Absent teacher…….Internal Staff PD - Digital Moderation
11:25 am NO LATER - Dropped hard drive, looking for the right cable, munt the power lead. Have to have the harddrive with you. I’ve dropped a 1TB HD. If it’s in the cloud, it can be shared - privately or others add to it - Eg RAPs description
Eg showing nick the new yr 11 teacher - changes to state-central moderation
Can’t rely on generic PD from your school. Often sole charge, or only teacher in that specific area
LOOK AT THE TIME - SEE HOW much time I have. 11:30am no demo, earlier yes demo.
LOOK AT THE TIME - SEE HOW much time I have. 11:30am no demo, earlier yes demo.
Add into on student computers - and networked computers
If it saves me time, effort, money, improves student outcomes - then I’m in.
Business as usual - only works for a few years. The don’t change, but the students to - historical reasons - old students, old programs.
That you will take at least 2 tips away that you will actually use tomorrow. That you will take 15mins to plan how you are going to implement it.