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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Tellagami App Used For Breakfast Bytes Promotional Video

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The Tellagami app was used for promoting tomorrow's Breakfast Bytes.
Tellagami app was...

easy to use
adaptable to my creativity
sharable

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I also added this to the "Creation Apps on iPad".

Lunch N' Learn: Rethinking Slides Using Google Presentations

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Today's part three of three Lunch N' Learns focuses on Google Presentations as a tool that can eliminate the noise and focus the signal on staff presentations.

Many teachers have used the Effective Google Presentation Tips for Students prior to having students create presentations. Consider looking at these prior to making your next Google Presentation.

Five Words On A Slide
Tools > Research > All Google Features On Side Of Presentation
Insert YouTube Clip
Snipping Tool To Get Images
Text Box > Fonts
Arrows > Shapes > Lines
Single Most Important Piece of Advice --Stop The Bullet Point Madness

Effective Google Presentations Consider Showing To Students

Word Focus is critical! Do NOT put what you say on the screen. Eliminate ALL the words so that people will listen to your passion and energy instead of reading your words.

Inserting An Image Consider rethinking the way images are presented to your students.

Google Presentations With Speaker Notes By making a few simple clicks, you will never miss an important point, while your audience views a Focused Message!

Effective Examples

I am thankful for the many teachers who have shared their "this is my new presentation because of Lunch N' Learn" See how one teacher has changed her presentations. She also commented, "students do listen more when they are not racing to write down all the words on my presentation slides."

3 of 3 Part Series
Part 2
Part 1

*Inspiration For Lessons - Resonate Nancy Duarte
*Resonate Is Now Available Free Online

Google Groups For Informational Text Discussion

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Mr. Anderson, Anatomy Teacher at PHS, wanted a means for online discussions of informational text. The Google Groups has a number of great features that allows it to not distract learning, but only to enhance it.

Usable on the iPad in Google Chrome
Chromebook & Laptop User Friendly
No need for additional username & password as we are a Google Apps For Education school
Threaded conversation allows for quick replies to students or teacher
Able to upload documents (informational text) for analyzing

View Mr. Anderson speaking of the process and see students using Google Groups...

Setting Up Google Groups - Video Tutorial

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ITLS Standard: 2 and Skill 2B

CMS 4 Schools Profile Update For pulaskischools.org

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To update your profile on our Pulaski Schools website, follow the directions below. If you want to watch how to do it, the video tutorial is below as well.

Thank you for doing this!

Log Into CMS4Schools

Click on "Edit My Profile"

Change Title
Change Phone Number
Change Profile Picture
Change Bio
Add Links To Other Digital Documents

If you have a CMS4Schools Website

Click "My Navigation Builder Home"
Edit Webpages

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Promoting Optional Technology Training For Teachers

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A colleague in the education world, @helpreaders , is starting his schools version of Lunch N' Learn or Breakfast Bytes. He wanted to know tips for making it successful. Since we have conducted these over the school year and started year two, I thought I would outline successful strategies to include while conducting optional tech tool tip sessions. We have Lunch N' Learn every Tuesday for high school teachers and Breakfast Bytes every other Thursday morning for middle school teachers.

Play music as teachers enter! Make it as festive and non intimidating as possible! Food a few times throughout the year.
Choose a topic to begin that they already have...Google is a great place to start! Our topics from last year are located here.
Create something that you can send to teachers so they can follow up on their own. Blog posts serve as a great tool for this.
Promote the crap out of it! Send Google forms once in a awhile with choices of topics. Most votes for a topic is the one that is discussed. Plan ahead for this!
Personal face to face interaction with teachers inviting them is THE single best way to get people to attend.
Post, tweet, and brag about teachers who attend!

Of course videos like the one below are a great help as well. This is our 2013-2014 promotional video for the middle school Breakfast Bytes.

Google Plus+ In Education Lunch N' Learn Breakfast Bytes One

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Google Plus is an application that our school district has enabled for staff only. One teacher stated, I made time for it (Google Plus) because teachers were posting so many great resources and conversation."

Why would you want to use it?

Professional Learning Network
Meetings
Hangouts-Video Conference Calls (Up To Ten People)
Sharing Your Screen For Tech Help
Learning From Educators From Around The World
Study Group With Students (If students have personal Google Accounts)

Give Me This In A Picture

How Do I Get There?

What Are Circles?

I would like to know more!

Really, I haven't had enough Google Plus! Please Give Me The Complete Guide!
HERE IT IS!

Chad Kafka & Jennifer Magiera Explanation
Help! Johnny Circled Me On Google Plus

Adding PCMS Breakfast Bytes Calendar

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>Get Link To Calendar (Only Pulaski Community School Employees will have access)
>Paste Into URL (website on Chrome)
>Lower Right Corner Find (Google Calendar Button)
>Click on the Button