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EdCampNH Notes
Posted on August 16th, 2012
Yesterday an Oxbow colleague and I spent a couple of hours driving to Concord NH to attend EdCampNH. This was our first edcamp. I did not know what to expect. A lot of sharing of ideas, apps for education and making connections. There were many fantastic people presenting. There was one guy @dancallahan who was one of those admirable people bubbling over with ideas about getting kids to produce using tech.
There were a couple of professors from PSU who did a gig presenting about paperless teaching with College level students. One of them shared an iPad app called iAnnotate It is a $10 app that lets you import different formats and then write on them, leave audio comments etc and then export the original along with your notes as a PDF. What a great idea for giving feedback on electronically submitted work from my online students! Getting a stylus and buy the app has set me back $23 but I think it will greatly improve what I do.
I’m making this post for my future self. Below are the notes I wrote down. Note to future self: Don’t forget about these ideas.
Session: Teaching online with online text.
Notability hand writing
Evernote
Rivervalley CC instructor shared:
A form for online students to keep track of course website log in.
Login for Moodle http://moodle.vsc.edu
User
Pass
email account used
Login for MML http://mymathlab.com
User
Pass
Course ID
Email account used
Login for Wikispaces http://biometrika-vol-13.wikispaces.com
Username
Password
Email account used
Web based video 5-7 min limit.
Use analytics to adjust what you’re offering students as learning vehicles.
LTI Learning tool interopability
Session: IPad ED
Dan Callahan Burlington, MA
What is a good app?
Pages +
Drawing Pad
Skitch for iPad and Mac
Explain everything
Showme
Screen
Persuasive essay screen cast
Use the Camera! it is what makes an iPad great. (Now should I have students make Paperslides or just make screencasts?
iMovie on iPad is a great tool.
Need some sort of video creation app
Book creator
Creative book builder
Notability for annotation
Dotepub.com turns link into ebook
Subtext group commenting on a document.
Socrative clicker software. (Installed on my iPad, check it out.
Session: Paperless class
They are not using Moodle/Bb. Class wordpress blogs.
Dropittome
Dropbox for kids to turn in work
Naming convention for files
Providing feedback on electronic work:
iAnnotate PDF reader writing stylus etc. if big help is needed you can do a screencast jing 5 minute limit. Software now has embedded.
For every 10-12 pages of reading the students have to tweet a thought about what they ate reading. class hash tag.
Tweetchat for cancelled classes or for help nights.
Storify archives tweets.
Google docs template to story tweets.
Session: Smack down
Brainshark.com
iAnnotate app $10
Book2cloud google
Daily lit.com
Mendeley research reference listing
Youblisher.com
Xtranormal.com
Esri.com/mapping-for-everyone/
Info graphics
Visual.ly
Easel.ly
Infogr.am
Songza
Isle of tune
ways to share device
Appletv $99 projector with hdmi
Airserver
Reflection