Google Teaching Academy – Quickfire
Inspired by the Google Teaching Academy, this quickfire challenge is intended to prepare you to create a short 1 minute video on either Motivation & Learning or Classroom Innovation.
About Google Teacher Academy:
The Google Teacher Academy is a FREE professional development experience designed to help primary and secondary educators from around the globe get the most from innovative technologies. Each Academy is an intensive, one-day event where participants get hands-on experience with Google’s free products and other technologies, learn about innovative instructional strategies, receive resources to share with colleagues, and immerse themselves in an innovative corporate environment. Upon completion, Academy participants become Google Certified Teachers who share what they learn with other primary and secondary educators in their local region.
To submit an application to the Google Teacher Academy you are required to create a short 1 minute video to go along with your online application. This quickfire is intended to give you the practice needed to create such videos to further your professional development and to showcase your technological skills with education and technology.
Specific Assignment:
On Wednesday July 14th we will be going on a class field trip to Giverny. While on the field trip take note of what you see and experience. When touring around Giverny take note of the things that move you, think about why, and how it moves you, does it generate any feelings? (specifically related to motivation, inspiration and innovation.) In the spirit of the Google Teacher Academy, when you return from the field trip on Wednesday, you are to create a 1 minute video on motivation and learning or classroom innovation (using the artifacts you collected at Giverny.) Feel free to be as creative as you like with the video. You may use any video/screen capture tool to create the video.
Constraints:
Your video is not to exceed 1 minute (60 seconds) in length
You do not need to appear in your video but all video or images MUST have been shot by you
Any audio used must be under creative commons license.
We will pass the hard drive around first thing Thursday morning and collect the videos.
