So, my students are winding up their collaborative projects that I have posted about previously, click here to view. The last couple of days students have made a a concerted effort to finish up the projects. Students have been staying after school, using my open door policy by coming in during their study halls, lunch periods, or any other free time, and asking questions after hours via Edmodo. While I admire their efforts, I believe that if they started out this focused on the project, there would be no need for as much effort now. I do realize that the dreaded, state mandated, standardized tests were last week which created a different atmosphere for the start of the project. Being entrenched in the holiday season and weekly threat of “SNOWMAGEDDON X” from the local weather forecasters has added to the ongoing list of distractions for this project.
Month: February 2014
Digital Housekeeping
Yesterday, I was reflecting on some of my notes from PETE & C last week. I am trying to round out my digital footprint from strictly “Techno Geek” stuff to adding more of the “Social, Non-Educational Me” stuff. In the process of reflecting I noticed that my iPhone is running out of storage space. Upon further review, I had over 380 new pictures that were not uploaded anywhere for safe keeping.
Since I was off from work, I decided to do some “Digital Housekeeping.” I opened up several photo apps on my iPhone and began uploading the images to the appropriate websites. I keep my family photos on one website, they are locked down as private; there is nothing inappropriate on the site, I am just more comfortable not sharing EVERYTHING with the world.
I also uploaded a bunch of images to my Flickr account. This account has all of the images labeled with the Creative Commons Reusable with Attribution license. I place many generic, everyday photos of things I come in contact with here. I make my students search for open source and resusable images when creating projects for class. It is my belief that I should give back to the system and add images for others to use.
All images sent to Flickr also go to my family storage site, there is an overlap, but storage is free, so why not take advantage of the space. Once I upload images, I am working on keeping only my favorites on my device. This will free up Gigabytes of space on my phone and allow me to record many more family moments and general interesting events I see. I need to do digital housekeeping on a regular basis and I still have a long way to go with pairing down the images on my devices.
My PETE & C Story
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Sweet! You can build and display badges in a WordPress plugin! Nice deal! #pete2014
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List of elementary apps used http://ow.ly/3h9wR0 Enjoy! #PETE2014
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Backchannel with us! RT @lorisheldon: Blogging to Meet the Common Core Standards with @krishenning https://sites.google.com/a/springgrovesd.org/google-maps/home/google-sites … #pete2014
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Decisions is a GREAT FREE app to get kids to learn how to make decisions. Check it out. #Pete2014
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http://Collaborizeclassroom.com can make a discussion board for your class if you can’t use Google+. Create after class conversations #pete2014
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RT @blutz01: Check out the 60in60 resources from #pete2014 see all 3 presentations at http://www.60in60.info !
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I did @Gallagher_Tech ! You were one of the best presentations at #pete2014 🙂
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I’m at @Aroogas Grille House & Sports Bar Hershey (Hummelstown, PA) http://4sq.com/1og1H8G
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I’m at Hershey’s Chocolate World (Hershey, PA) http://4sq.com/1dF8Qqm
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Instead of sending a weekly newsletter how about doing weekly updates with students and videotape it! #Pete2014
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Will your students like or hate that you missed three days to attend #pete2014 do they think you’re unique?
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“You don’t get to be bored, because of all the awesomeness around you.” #pete2014
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Half of your happiness comes from genetics 10% from circumstance so we control 40% #pete2014
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Enjoying #pete2014 and the keynote going on right now by Dean Shareski! The question of joy!
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“Rigor- condition that makes life difficult. A tremor that causes a chill. Why is this used to describe education?” #pete2014
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Archived Virtual PETE & C video session are now up on site #pete2014
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Come to Cocoa Suite 5 at 9:30 to hear about our district technology standards, iPad pilot and library redesign! #Pete2014
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Waiting for Dean to Share(ski)… #pete2014
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@jgates513 I am sure your preso will still rock. You are tops at what you do!
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We HUGELY under-estimate: 1.The capabilities our young people. 2.The capabilities of our technology. 3.What an education could & should be.
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Bubble Pop Multiplication – An Exercise in Multiplication Practice http://wp.me/p2XL8j-uU
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Still looking for the session rescheduled from yesterday – Poetry and Peer Teaching with FaceTime. Anyone know? #Pete2014
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Most creativity dies quietly but some rebels. We send these kids to detention.
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Three Powerful Google Drive tools for Teachers. Kaizena voice comments are amazing, feedback students need. http://zite.to/1ltkvio
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Me, my breakout session at #pete2014 and what the drone saw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FijFEYAHsNk …
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@jbrinson21 Your students rocked their preso, so glad they were chosen. Students need platform to voice their successes. #pete2014
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One more set of 10 more app creation tools: http://tinyurl.com/q3op9wt
#pete2014 @SrtaLisa glad to return the educational favor; web 2.0 dues -
@tiutmcclain Any time, glad I could be useful.
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@theboobot + QR codes = library book review challenge. @amackley, for book speed dating activity? #pete2014 #edtechchat
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Free until you go to market, Unity 3D app maker, more intense creator http://unity3d.com/ #pete2014
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Another app maker, https://www.yoyogames.com/studio #pete2014
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Mac based app design program http://www.stencyl.com/ #pete2014
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@jbrinson21 Give kids topic idea, they blog and comment on at least 2 other posts. Students enjoy exercise, lose stress. #pete2014
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@jbrinson21 have kids blog about one thing awesome every week, no rubric, just let them write and reflect. #pete2014
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Sometimes you do not reach all of your goals, but you grow from your failures, not everyone is perfect. CBL lesson #pete2014 @jbrinson21
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CBL allows students to put skills learned earlier in school to use in real world situations. Ties it all together. #pete2014 @jbrinson21
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Tweet & RT for a chance to win a FREE seat in online course Collaboration in Digital Classroom http://cliu.org/Page/631 #iu21intel #pete2014
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CBL allows students to self-reflect and realize learning is “more than a grade.” #pete2014 @jbrinson21
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CBL has students work with professionals in the community, they learn what is needed to be successful in real world, #pete2014 @jbrinson21
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@jbrinson21 Kelsey’s Christmas may be another type organization they could help out, https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004501743387 … #pete2014
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Students learn to adapt learning while working through CBL, sounds a lot like learning life in a real world setting. #pete2014 @jbrinson21
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Are you here in Hershey? Join us tonight! https://www.facebook.com/PAECT
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60in60® Top 100 of All Time (via http://www.smore.com ) https://www.smore.com/cxqz-top-100-of-all-time … #pete2014
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CBL creates a “collaborative support system” between students. #pete2014 @jbrinson21
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CBL helps make students aware of their community and its needs. Pushes positivity. #pete2014 @jbrinson21
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CBL, students must make sure goals are achievable, it is part of the learning process. @jbrinson21 #pete2014
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CBL students explaining their projects and WHY they chose them in Empire A, #pete2014 @jbrinson21
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CBL allows for projects to be continued year to year, #pete2014 @jbrinson21
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Challenge Based Learning: Overarching concept:
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“@anderson28: @alytapp Select all text (in any program) – Go to services – Add to itunes as a spoken track.” Useful! #pete2014
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Design flyers to spread the word online | Smore http://bit.ly/15NZg0a Another great resource to Make It Stick! #pete2014
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Empire A, Challenge Based Learning, @jbrinson21 students presenting this session. #pete2014
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I’m at SNL @pete&C (Hershey, PA) http://4sq.com/1fUfETH
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FAP, fixed action patterns, embedded learning codes in us. @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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Ion Allstar iPad Guitar $35 on Amazon. The resources keep flowing @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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Voiceband, app to turn voice into an instrument. Available on iOS and Android platform. @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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ishred, pocket guitar, and a harmonic app being modeled. @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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I got to be a robot wrangler, thank you @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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Make Magazine this month discusses drones. @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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Effective Tech Ideas? Come & Get ‘Em!
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My 4th graders wrote, published, and sold a Lulu book & donated over $600 to Haiti relief @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014 The power of an idea.
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https://www.ponoko.com/ allows you to create and outsource 3D printing, don’t rely on single printer. @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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Create an afterschool club to get things started, it does not need to be called curriculum. @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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We need to get kids inventing and making things again. @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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@kevinhoneycutt giving verbal list of must read books for educational ideas. Need to find list on website. #pete2014
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Augmented Reality resources are available from @TechMinock at http://www.twoguysandsomeipads.com/ #pete2014
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says #pete2014 Kevin Honeycutt is passing around his Google Glass in Crystal A! http://tinyurl.com/myhk7x9 http://plurk.com/p/jpsj1g
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@kevinhoneycutt connect with him via FB, he will Skype in to talk w/staff and admin. #pete2014
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#pete2014 the problem with a hashtag trending is all the bloody spam. Ugh.
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Crystal Ballroom A, extended session w/ @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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Start by changing lessons you hate, small steps. @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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Keynote at #pete2014 was excellent! Kevin Honeycutt was truly great, what a tremendous message for all of us!
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“We should find ways to let kids be famous” @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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Don’t just use Sketchup in art. Have students create a scene from a poem or history or your own house #pete2014
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Stop teaching technology and teach with technology. #pete2014
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@mrmartella Google Sketch up has 3D models for science already made up.
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Teaching 3 dimensional concepts on a 2 dimensional surface is counter-intuitive. @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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“@tlandrydtsd: I don’t have to know how to use it to allow it. Become a tradigital teacher. @kevinhoneycutt #PETE2014” #twtduq
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It is okay to learn beside your kids #kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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Stop teaching technology and start teaching with technology. @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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How thick is the Photoshop manual? How can God get his word to his people in fewer words than Adobe? @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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“We are killing kids by process of elamination” @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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Start a revolution with me. Break into every classroom and burn every file cabinet. #pete2014
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“Stop living down to people’s expectations” @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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“We are dying of humble, we need to tell our stories” @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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Accept all kids…. You may make a difference in someone’s life! @kevinhoneycutt #PETE2014
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Don’t buy the veneer. Scary kids are hiding something. #pete2014
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Perfect is the enemy of done, @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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“Don’t wait until you’re good, just do it. Do it now, or you’ll never start.” #pete2014
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Flip your classroom….archive the lecture and do something meaningful in class! #pete2014
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Teaching juvie is just like teaching staff development. @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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I didn’t know “No Child Left Behind” meant “No Child Left Untested.” @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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He ran into a passionate history teacher and is becoming a history teacher. I hope I can emulate that. @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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Most good school innovation dies of domestic violence. @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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“Speaking is writing with your mouth” @kevinhoneycutt #Pete2014
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Meet the kids where and how they learn. @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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I sat in empty front seat they weren’t smart they were following the code, next right answer is next dark black word in book LOL #pete2014
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Use Skype and Google Hangouts to bring in FREE experts to talk w/students. Use IWB as a window,not a posterboard. @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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every kid deserves a front row seat…every where I’m standing is the front row #pete2014 @kevinhoneycutt
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Retire if you like your chair too much! @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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Invite parents to view student Google Docs when they research. @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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Invite kids to help us, makes kids learn without realizing it. @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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Having a secret online life breeds sociopaths and politicians. #pete2014
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Your digital legacy is everything everyone can google about you forever @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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“Digital Legacy” tweets and likes are forever, think before you click. @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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Never drop to others’ level, stay above the fray and meanness. @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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You have to meet kids where they are. KevinHoneycutt #pete2014
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Kids are connected, so we need to connect and constantly learn too. @kevinhoneycutt #pete2014
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Hybrid learning key component of Sec of Ed opening remarks at #pete2014 To learn more consider attending a Hybrid Learning session today
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Win a FREE seat in our online Intel Teach course. Visit http://www.cliu.org/Page/631 to enter. #pete2014 #petec14 #iu21intel
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#pete2014 direct link to sessions eval and act 48 credit request https://www.peteandc.org/asc_login.cfm
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How many former CFF Coaches are in the house? Keep on representing!! #pete2014
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#pete2014 Gamification and Flipped Instruction moved to Tuesday 10:45 Cocoa. Come Play! http://youtu.be/LrAWby8Ecyc
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Just checked in and heading to lodge soon. Looking forward to #petec2014