I’ve recommended iMovie for Project Based Learning student archiving in my tweets, blogs, and webinar discussions. With its ease of use and broad capabilities iMovie is a tool for every classroom K-12. I’ve found that students easily understand the interface of iMovie and can make movies literally in minutes. To add expertise for teachers and students I want to share some of my favorite tutorial sites.
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Sometimes solutions are right in front of us. One of my kindergarten teachers had been working really hard looking for a way to have a group of her students listen to a recording. This was an important recording she and her student teacher had made on an MP3 player. They wanted to provide it in a center. It was a truly exciting engaging recording. But there was a problem. Their listening center, many of you will recognize this style from the photo, had stopped working. Who knows why.
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I’m taking a course online Using Apps to Support UDL. I enjoyed this week’s instructional presentation focused on engagement (and mobile apps) as a one of the four UDL guidelines. It gave me a chance to reflect on my work of these last year’s in mobile learning 1:1 and learning lab environments and my passion for this learning. Engagement and access is what brought me to this work. Without engaged students we have brilliant instructors working very hard to no great end. Without access for all our work in education can never have full meaning.
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Igniting the Spark! Build, Play, Learn – Fun STEM Activities for School Year & Summer Programs
Presenter: Laura Briggs, Technology Resource Teacher, Loudoun County Public Schools, and SIGML President Elect, Professional Development Chairperson and ISTE14 Mobile Learning Playground Coordinator
Pre-registration is not required for Mobile Learning community members.
Join the webinar at the scheduled time with this link: www.instantpresenter.com/edwebnet3
SIGML Partners with ISTE/Verizon Innovative Learning Schools Program Virtual Conference with Mobile Learning Topic Tweetchats and we need you to tweet too! Gain all kinds of resources and collaborate with your PLN and SIGML for this virtual conference! Join us for Tweetchats on the topics below and share resources with our Tweetchat guests and all who participate. These are sure to be fun and valuable sessions!
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Thursday, January 9, 2014 – 4PM Eastern Time
Presenter: Susan Wells, current President of ISTE SIGML
Join the webinar at the scheduled time with this link: www.instantpresenter.com/edwebnet3
Be sure to join the Mobile Learning Explorations community:
This year my teachers are working with iPads as personal tools each day. We’d love to provide students with these tools in a 1:1 configuration, just not there yet with funding. In the meantime we have mobile learning labs for students…iPads, iPod touches, NetBooks and MacBooks. Digital Cameras too. Tech integration is alive and well and getting better all the time.
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Speaking at Wireless EdTech Conference this week. Discussing my Big3 Struggling Learner Needs:
Mobile Free Apps to help:
Mobile provides unique solutions for challenges that otherwise stand in the way of student success.
Mobile Share kicks off with ISTE 2013 at SIGML’s Mobile MEGA Share pre-conference share event on June 22nd. Take time this weekend and in the days ahead to look through your desks, drawers, baskets and boxes. Find those old tablets and handhelds, including Kindles, Nooks, iPod touches, Chromebooks, iPads, even laptops you’ve replaced with newer and faster tools.
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SIGML Mobile MEGAShare is an opportunity to collaborate with other mobile educators from across the country for a pre-conference free event June 22nd from 2-6 pm. Mobile learning is exploding around the country and around the world. No one person, school, district and/or organization knows everything in this emerging field. MEGA Share provides a forum where mobile learning educators can sit together, share and learn from each other. There will be experts facilatating collaborative share sessions with rotations, so you can attend the topics that you find most interesting. There is no charge for MEGA Share. Instead an incredible opportunity to learn from experts in the field and share your own expertise!
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