Now that you have an idea of the required reading list – reconstruct the ultimate year 3 experience Grab a planning calendar from MS Office templates or Google Docs Templates (or heck, just use plain old text) and -decide which readings to keep or chop- are there any that should be added? -spread the readings [...]
GOAL – summarize all the readings in the archive (posted yesterday) and how they connect to your (collective) discipline(s)/classroom(s)/personal interests 5 minutes – divide yourself into five teams and figure out how you’re going to divide and conquer the reading workload 30 minutes – summarize using an online social and collaborative tool Return and share
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 [...]
You will be placed in teams of four and given a haiku (in french) to visualize using stop motion techniques. (You may have to use Babelfish (or Jean Pierre) to translate the haiku.) Sean will give you a brief tutorial on how to make a basic stop motion video using the tools you have been [...]
It’s time for the annual MAET Jing-Off! Here’s the challenge – as a group we’re going to create 10 screencasts, in 10 minutes! We did it last year (http://edublog.techsmith.com/2009/07/michigan-state-university-maet—its-a-jing-off.html) and now it’s time to raise the bar. We will put you into teams of 2 and you will have 1 hour to decide what the [...]
Remix culture is a term employed by Lawrence Lessig to describe a society which allows and encourages derivative works. Such a culture would be, by default, permissive of efforts to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix the work of copyright holders. Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that [...]
Congratulations on your band making it BIG! Now you need to get a cover ready for your band’s debut album. For this quickfire you will be using image editing tools to create a cover for your Band’s new album. Activities: 1 – Go to Wikipedia. Hit “random” or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first random Wikipedia article you [...]
Quickfire Challenge | Light up my Life! For this quickfire challenge the goal is to tackle issues of light. Lighting is one of the most important aspects of any visual image captured either with still or video cameras. The type of lighting you shoot in will play a major role in determining many of the [...]
Quickfire Challenge | Storyboarding! For this quickfire we will be looking at the usefulness of storyboarding. The storybaording process is a very important step in creating any type of planned video shoot. Storyboarding allows for the ideas about your video project to be expressed verbally and then put onto a visual board so everyone involved [...]
Quickfire Challenge | Capturing a Concept Video! This is the first quickfire activity for the summer…if you are unfamiliar with quickfire challenges, they are short activities (usually done in small groups) that are aimed at having students quickly tackle an issue or topic in a short constrained amount of time and produce some result that [...]
Quickfire – You be the professor, you imagine the future
Quickfire – Reading Assail
Google Teaching Academy – Quickfire
Quickfire – Stop Motion
MAET Jing Off Quickfire
Remix Reuse Recycle – Quickfire Challenge
Album Cover – Quickfire Challenge
iImage – Resources
iVideo – Editing Resources
iVideo – getting the creative juices flowing…
