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Adventures, Tools and Resources

1/8/2019

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Choose Your Own Adventure

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image: http://nickbullock-climber.co.uk/2011/08/16/the-frumious-bandersnatch/
With the new Black Mirror: Bandersnatch​ getting rave reviews, (So I hear: no TV reception where I live & no broadband to stream anything) I thought that it sounded an awful lot like "Choose Your Own Adventure".  Since many of your younger students have probably never made their own choose your own adventure story, it seemed a good time to review what is out there to do this.
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Sylvia Duckworth has an excellent presentation on using Google Slides to create your story. You can access her work here. Sylvia has built a wonderful set of resources; check out her web site for more.  Alice Keeler has directions for this as well. If you're looking for a Dragon Quest, try following Eric Curts' directions here.
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Another option is to use a Google Story Speaker add-on. This is fun, gives you a template to start with. The caveat- you need to have a Google Home device.

Google Forms is a great option to try. Justin Birckbichler  shared a template to do this with his class. You should check out his blog post for the whole story.  Sylvia also has agoogle doc with step by step directions for this type of story.

Wes Fryer worked with teachers on this at a VT workshop. You can get the templates and a lot more information on his blog post. 

New Tools 


Steve Wick sent out a 12 Days of Techmas to occupy all of your spare time over the holidays. If you didn't get a chance to check it out: Here's the link

I finally watched all the new Ditch Summit videos. I liked most of them, but I learned the most from Tony Vincent's presentation.  If you missed it- maybe Matt will put it up again next year, but thepdf with his links is still online. He has lots of great, really practical ideas you can use. My favorite links: Draw your own Illustrations, and somewhat a complementary resource to the Noun Project was the link he shared- Visuals for Foreign Language.

Jen Giffen produced a series of sketchnotes to go along with the Ditch Summit. You can see themhere.  Full resolution available here.  But here's the one from Tony's presentation, since it was my fav. Thanks for sharing your work Jen @VirtualGiff!
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New Resources Available

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  • Looking for indigenous films?  A whole catalog is available here from CBC Arts, put together for Canadian Film Day. 

  • A whole slew of books, films, etc. was just released from copyright on Public Domain Day !  Read more about it here.

  • Wondering about Edumatch? Learn more about it here. "The mission of EduMatch® is to connect educators around the world, along similar topics of interest." You can get a free copy of the book from the links on this page. 

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  • This last one is a gift from my favorite librarian in the world- which is saying something, since I sincerely think most librarians are really information Goddesses- Joyce Valenza. Joyce shared this on the SLJ blog just before Christmas.  There are lots of links on here that are new to me, and I hope are available to our school. Thanks Joyce! 

Random Video

Not really random... this was shared with me recently by a friend as we talked about immigration.  I found it really interesting, maybe you will too. 

Simulated dendrochronology of U.S. immigration (1830-2015) from Pedro M. Cruz on Vimeo.

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Moonshots and More

1/2/2018

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Moonshots... anyone?

Moonshots in Education
Image CC: By Rebeca Zuñiga
I recently read an article about Esther Wojcicki's work, watched a few of her videos and then saw that there is now an actual Moonshot in Education movement, a little like the  20% time that many of you have heard about. One of the primary goals is to give students agency in order to help prepare them for the real world.  This really resonated with me as several of my colleagues were just talking about this today- allowing students to make decisions, to work collaboratively on real projects.  The Washington Post recently ran an article about the skills Google was looking for in their employees: same skills that Esther is promoting: "Project Aristotle shows that the best teams at Google exhibit a range of soft skills: equality, generosity, curiosity toward the ideas of your teammates, empathy, and emotional intelligence. And topping the list: emotional safety. No bullying. To succeed, each and every team member must feel confident speaking up and making mistakes. They must know they are being heard." You can learn more about her work, her goals and maybe sign up to get more info and resources here. 
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Accessibility

H/T to Leslie DiChiara for sharing Hillary Goldwaith-Fowles' article: Digital Does Not Equal Accessible.  As more districts incorporate digital tools into the mainstream student population, we often get the impression that the tech or the digital access will magically cure all.  Needless to say digital ≠ accessible. OER ≠ accessible.  UDL ≠ accessible automatically. Check out this wonderful article and all the crowd-sourced comments to help bring this issue into focus for all.
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​Diana Benner down in Texas has published the first in a series of articles on accessibility on chromebooks.  Nicely categorized, features a short list of chrome extensions to check out. If you are looking for a more complete listing, or other options, check out Eric Curts' work here.

#Ditch Summit report

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I ended up binge-watching all 9 hours of Ditch Summit on a couple of those frigid days of the vacation week.  As usual, it was worth my time.  Two of the presentations really stood out. My favorite as far as potential gold mine of resources was Jon Corippo's EduProtocols: What They Are and How They Can Impact Learning. You can get in touch with Jon on Twitter: ​​@jcorippo. He has so many great ideas to help streamline your workload and get more time with the students.  You can get a quick synopsis from the notes Matt Miller provided.  The other presentation I really enjoyed, although I have to say just picking 2 is hard, was Tanya Avrith and Holly Clark's presentation on Technology and Pedagogy. "How can we use technology to amplify great teaching instead of just putting technology on top?" Contact them: Website: ​hollyclark.org  Twitter: ​@HollyClarkEdu & Website: ​tanyaavrith.com Twitter: ​@TanyaAvrith. These two amazing women are doing the work, not just talking/writing about it, and it shows in the way they approach the topics and in their solutions to the problems we all face. Here's the quick synopsis from the notes Matt Miller provided.  

Storytime from Space

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I saw this site referenced the other day and thought it was the coolest thing!  Astronauts are reading/videoing children's books from the International Space Station.  You can learn more about it here.  Here's a short blurb from NASA: "Story Time From Space combines science literacy outreach with simple demonstrations recorded aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Crew members read five science, technology, engineering and mathematics-related children's books in orbit, and complete simple science concept experiments. Crew members videotape themselves reading the books and completing demonstrations. Video and data collected during the demonstrations are downlinked to the ground and posted in a video library with accompanying educational materials."   You can read more about the research involved in this project here.

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