05/27/2016
It’s Friday, May 27th, 2016 and welcome to
TechTalk4Teachers I’m Tom Grissom, and I’m Cindy Rich. Welcome to
TechTalk4Teachers the show about teaching and learning with technology. This time
we talk about our upcoming edcampEIU that will be happening on June 21st.
We also have a special guest, Lisa Dallas, talking about the Padlet app for classroom and online uses of this tool. We wrap things up with our Technology
Picks of the Week this time featuring Virtual Reality.
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Show Notes:
edcampEIU
Coming June 21, 2016
on the campus of Eastern Illinois University
edcampEIU website:
https://www.eiu.edu/edcampEIU/
edcampEIU Registration Page:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/edcamp-eiu-tickets-25145482816
edcampEIU Registration Page:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/edcamp-eiu-tickets-25145482816
edcampEIU Twitter account @EdcampEIU
edcampEIU hashtag #edcampEIU
edcampWF
edcampWestFrankfort
coming July 11, 2016
edcampWestFrankfort website:
edcampWestFrankfort Twitter account @edcampWF
edcampWestFrankfort hashtag #edcampWF
Special Guest, Lisa Dallas discusses Padlet
1. Book
Reviews/Interactive Story Telling: highlight favorite quotes, ask
questions, discuss characters – AND/OR a story and ask students where it should
go next. Students can type their ideas into the Padlet. Take student ideas and
continue story
2.
Topic
Summary: Useful for any subject from
math to earth science, Padlet can help teachers summarize a large amount of information
and present it in a visually pleasing way. Educators can put in text, photos,
graphs and other learning tools and share the image with students before a big
test or discussion. -
3.
"Thank
You" Wall: Have you had a
speaker come in recently to share his/her knowledge on a particular subject. sending
a group "thank you" note. Each student can post an individual message
4.
Questions
Board: Students can access a
"questions" board 24/7 and anonymously post questions.
5.
Opinion/Forum: Educators can post a particular topic or
issue, and students can post their opinions on the subject. This is a great
building block for teaching students how to write opinion pieces or persuasive
essays. -
6.
Bell
ringer activity — Ask students what they remember from the previous day’s
lesson. The ensuing page should summarize what still needs to be taught and
should serve as a good place for students to review content.
7. Collaborative notetaking/ Notes to peer presentations / staff meetings — While listening to a
presentation/meeting, students/colleagues can work together to add notes to a
Padlet to produce a resource they can refer to later.
8.
Event
planning — If you’re planning a class party or a field trip, all of the
information can go on a Padlet, including photos of the destination, a list of
who’s bringing what, links to pertinent websites and more.
9.
Living
webquest — Webquests have been static webpages that included links to sites
and questions. They often didn’t change. Students can create a living webquest
where new links are added continually. You can create questions at the end of
the activity to the links available at that time.
10.
Exit
ticket/ Student Reflections on
Learning/ Check In to Check Out — What did you learn today? What didn’t
make sense? What questions do you still have? Students can answer those
questions and refer to it later.
11.
Class Communication/Document
hub — Upload important class files to a Padlet so students can go there to
download them any time.
12.
Let
Students Showcase Their Work – digital portfolios, creating slideshows, or
producing videos to display all of your students’ best work on one page
13.
Thinking
Maps/Flow Maps
14.
K - W – L
Chart on a topic: What student Knows/
What they Want to Know / What they Learned Students post notes under each section
15.
Digital
Posters - Assign students a topic and have them create quick digital
posters as summaries for review OR as a presentation. Then, share the links
with the whole class for a pain-free, classroom-wide study guide!
16.
Build a
matching exercise - have students rearrange the photos and text to solve.
17. Group research: students search online
for other examples of the topic they are researching
18. Video & Topic link-show video
posted on Padlet and allow student to comment and expand the topic
19. Parent Forum – Classroom link
20. Walking Field Trip - through the
building/museum with their devices. Students were to use their device to take
pictures of various elements of art that they had been learning about -
texture, space, line, etc.
References:
Technology Picks of the Week
Tom’s Pick of the Week
Samsung Gear VR Googles
http://www.samsung.com/us/explore/gear-vr/
Cindy’s Pick of the Week
Google Cardboard
https://vr.google.com/cardboard/index.html
Lisa’s Pick of the Week
Yellowdig
https://www.yellowdig.com/
That wraps it up for Episode 189 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show
notes this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU
ITC website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment of suggestion please send an
email to techtalk@eiu.edu of leave a
comment on our TechTalk4Teachers blog. Until next time, I’m Tom Grissom, I’m Cindy
Rich, and I’m Lisa Dallas. Keep on Learning!
Keep on Learning,
Tom Grissom, Ph.D.
@tomgrissom
